Today is inauguration day. A sacred day that every American should hold dear. This is a culmination of our democratic process that proves our system of government is the only government where our citizens choose our leaders from the best choices available and in no way could be manipulated by outside forces to sway the outcome in their favor.
There is no room for argument that the two best choices to lead this great nation are
- A lifelong politician who is bought and paid for by China, gets his family lucrative overseas business deals by abusing the powers of his office, who wants our Federal Reserve to prioritize income equality over job creation and curbing inflation, and who will appoint only LGBTQ+ PoC to cabinet positions regardless of qualification.
and
- A wealthy reality TV star who can't keep his mouth shut when he should, claims to be pro-2A but wants to take your guns first and have due process later and also bans mechanisms for shooting guns faster than your finger can pull the trigger even though it's still your finger pulling the trigger, reminds us who is our greatest ally, and played the victim game until the very end.
Surely this is result of a purely democratic selection process and in no way was orchestrated by the rich and powerful as a way to maintain control of the lowly citizens.
carry on friends, ask some gun related questions while I continue to live in willingly ignorant bliss.
Does anyone have experience with making cut shells? No matter how bad things have gotten over the last year I have always been able to find birdshot at my local grocery stores. Birdshot is cheap to manufacture, not considered lethal by most, and shotguns are one of the few things our new president hasn't talked about outright banning.
I've watched a few tutorials on making cut shells but was wondering if anyone here had experience with their reliability, accuracy, pattern, etc.
Iraqivet8888 and and I think Taufledermaus have some tests with cut shells. Taufledermaus has a multitude of videos on unconventional shotgun loads and wax slugs and have ballistic tests on them.
I haven't made cut shells, but have made a few wax slugs. I chickened out and never shot them though after I saw a video of someone's barrel blowing up shooting them. People talked about it and attribute it to low wax/shot heat in the production process not making a firm bond to the shell and allowing the projectile to slide down the barrel if tipped down and causing a kind of odd powder burn and overpressure kinda like a squib. Anyways, I know that cut shells are cheep, quick, and simple, but they can cause higher barrel pressures and more stress on your barrel since you're forcing the the additional thickness of the hull down the barrel. I'd stock up on birdshot, make wax slugs when you have the time, and cut shells when you don't. There's only that one instance I know of with that guy having problems with wax slugs. I've thought about making an induction heater to heat the shot inside the shell just enough to melt wax so you could just drop the wax in till it's full and make wax slugs faster and easier.
Went by my local academy today. Even the shotgun shells are now cleaned out, even the expensive duck hunting non-toxic shit that's $30 a box. Went by the Wal-Mart across the street and same story: not a box of ammo in the store. Went by Dicks just to see...and nada there as well. Even the shotgun shells are gone now.
With talk of secret police forming, reeducation camps, etc. from the non-enlightened thinkers on the left people know what is coming. I think they knew last year when things really hit the fan.
During the Obama years I could easily walk into a Walmart down at the farm and pick up a 100 round box of shotgun shells and go shoot clays.
Talking with the guy at the counter one of the things he was saying is that while the ammo factories are up and running 24/7 that they are doing so at reduced capacity because of COVID limiting them to 25 - 50% capacity of the building.
And some more instructions: https://youtu.be/iaEV5NxxFv4
They should stop fucking around with that reduced capacity shit and make ammo at full speed. We are going to need it.
Maybe implement business sense amd purchase more building space since the desire for ammo is clearly not receding.