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Post by susieqz on Nov 28, 2019 22:23:46 GMT
thanks. i'll give you a full report after i test it. adjusting the hilt will be no problem. i have all of daddy's tools. i know about wood, less about metal.
i may still want a klewang, but now i can take my time.
you know, the same thing happened with guns. got myself a .45. those big rounds produce tons of recoil n wrecked my elbow. i ditched that n finally got A S&W 15-4. a nice heavy 38spc with recoil i can handle.
so, i gotta go thru this kinda thing with any weapon. i gotta stumble around blindly until some kind people come to my aid.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 28, 2019 23:24:27 GMT
i may still want a klewang, but now i can take my time. you know, the same thing happened with guns. got myself a .45. those big rounds produce tons of recoil n wrecked my elbow. i ditched that n finally got A S&W 15-4. a nice heavy 38spc with recoil i can handle. Nothing says that you can't have more than one sword. Have you considered reloading your ammo? Not only can you adjust your load to suite it will save you tons of money. Casting bullets, if you start considering that, might be more of a problem now. I’ve been out of the business for a couple of decades and things were changing at that point. But when I started over 60 years ago casting material was easy to come by. Most any place that did tire work was more than glad to sell wheel weights, some would even give them away. Printing companies still used print presses with linotype. That was the best stuff. Junk yards were also a good place to visit. It was also possible to with the proper back stop to dig up the bullets and remelt them. Much of that was changing when I stopped. A big advantage is that it is possible to load to suite and this especially worked well with a piece with fixed sights when sight adjustment was not possible I could make some adjustment to the impact point by adjusting powder charge, bullet weight and to some extent shape. Little squib loads had their place. Years before CCI came out with their .38 shot shell I was making my own with #000 capsules, shot (and I could change the shot size), and gas caps. And continued doing so, I never purchased their .38 shot cartridge but did like their .22 shot shell. Now I’m afraid if I walked into a drug store and asked for 50 #000 capsules at best I’d be refused at best and very possible have the Narcs visiting me.
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Post by susieqz on Nov 29, 2019 1:12:11 GMT
you know, i looked at reloading. i still have a book around. one of the reloading outfits made it look like all you had to do was fill the hoppers with stuff n just stand there pulling a lever. i could do that. plus, the guys at the s&w forum were really pushing reloading.
then i found out you spend all your time testing, testing n retesting. that's just too finicky for me.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 29, 2019 1:17:31 GMT
then i found out you spend all your time testing, testing n retesting. that's just too finicky for me. I found that far from the truth.
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Post by susieqz on Nov 29, 2019 1:22:46 GMT
you have a machine that will load a couple hundred rounds reliably?
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Post by pgandy on Nov 29, 2019 1:35:51 GMT
Nothing left. I'm out of the business.
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Post by susieqz on Nov 29, 2019 1:47:07 GMT
do you still shoot? i mostly do bullseye, but i'm working on point shooting now, since people say it can't be done.
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Post by pgandy on Nov 29, 2019 12:39:39 GMT
Not shooting now. It's is not popular here and I suspect very expensive with much red tape. It is difficult enough just bringing a sword in.
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