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You fellows have carved out,....maybe I should say RE-carved the legend, when it comes to slicks. Watching ya'll do this over the years has been a treat, for this dedicated fan of the grooved greaser.
Tempting , this whole PP slick game,....and I'd venture the LONG range edge.
You say Potterfield's loose at the seams,....hey, I'll buy that, I can't watch that "Rolling Block Build" of his without cringing, wincing and ducking.
GTC
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-- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain
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I never did understand why he bought Fajen, and then shut them down very shortly thereafter.
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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Greg twisted tails are something that came along, much the way drilling out flash holes to marginally safe diameters and using magnum primers came to us. Well intentioned, but mislead information from the past.
Even in the original Ideal handbook they tell how to properly wrap a bullet, describe the various thicknesses of paper etc.. In some ways its so very sad that we have urban myth stuff that has become the way the light and the truth, when in actual fact it's just wrong....
the most expensive bullet there is isn't worth a plug nickel if it don't go where its supposed to. www.historicshooting.com
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I watched Potterfield load ammo for a Roller on one of the TV hunting shows for a white tail hunt in south Texas. One of those ranches that had huge deer everywhere.
I thought I was going to see a proper deer shot with a proper rifle and a proper cartridge. Instead, late in the day, after a couple of blown chances, they finally got on one dumb enough to stand still long enough for Larry to get ready to shoot. Potterfield handed the roller to the guide and borrowed an available bolt gun because the deer had walked off enough that it was too far to shoot with the Roller. The distance? 140 yards. With a bolt gun.
I couldn't believe it. A fraud, and a shot that was a gimme. Broadside at 140 yards, and he can't shoot a Roller well enough to kill a deer at 140 yards? That was the day I quit buying anything from Midway.
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Well, at least I have something on old Larry, two hundred yards, with some greasers as well though. I STILL can't roll to save my life...  ![[Linked Image]](http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc437/jorgeIg/sharps_zps4d31ca1e.jpg)
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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I watched Potterfield load ammo for a Roller on one of the TV hunting shows for a white tail hunt in south Texas. One of those ranches that had huge deer everywhere.
I thought I was going to see a proper deer shot with a proper rifle and a proper cartridge. Instead, late in the day, after a couple of blown chances, they finally got on one dumb enough to stand still long enough for Larry to get ready to shoot. Potterfield handed the roller to the guide and borrowed an available bolt gun because the deer had walked off enough that it was too far to shoot with the Roller. The distance? 140 yards. With a bolt gun.
I couldn't believe it. A fraud, and a shot that was a gimme. Broadside at 140 yards, and he can't shoot a Roller well enough to kill a deer at 140 yards? That was the day I quit buying anything from Midway. Haven't bought anything from them in well over 10 years. Just drifted over to their on-line "Catalogue" and checked out "Gunsmithing Supplies" What a screwed up debacle, and complete dog's breakfast ! Check out the hodge podge layout for simple drill rod blanks,.... Link: http://www.midwayusa.com/bars-rods-fasteners-and-adhesive/br?cid=19821&pageNumber=4HITF is one supposed to find what he's looking for , FAST ? GTC
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I'm more than satisfied with cutting my own from this homemade contraption..an old case,a bolt for the plunger..works great.. ![[Linked Image]](http://i809.photobucket.com/albums/zz14/Arch48/IMG_2190_zpsaffa99c7.jpg)
You better be afraid of a ghost!!
"Woody you were baptized in prop wash"..crossfireoops
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Woody, that "device" is pure genius! 
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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"Dog Breakfast"!!!! Roflmao!
I'm gonna remember that one Greg!
Learned a lot from this thread. Interesting!
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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The fact that Potterfield and Co. would expect somebody to scroll through that mess to find a stick of material that they need NOW is a reflection of something,....I'm not sure just what.
Sloppy, and vaguely disrespectful of one's patrons ?
GTC
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Hmmmmm...interesting. Though when I made the cookies thicker I got a sight bulge in the case. 
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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You may get a slight bulge in the case IF.....you compress the powder with the OPW in place! This normally can happen when shooting 'greasers' because the powder...with a healthy charge...has to be compressed more so as to facilitate seating the bullet to proper OAL!! For heavy compression...don't compress with the OPW in place!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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I never did understand why he bought Fajen, and then shut them down very shortly thereafter. Is a head scratcher that. Fajen did some nice work back in the day.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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We DREAMED about building the sporters of our dreams on Fajen wood.
I did, anyway.
GTC
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I was just about to order a custom stock in fancy wood, when he shut it down. Just boom. dunno if he wanted the land, or building, or what. Didn't even have an clearance sale on the inventory.
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I was just about to order a custom stock in fancy wood, when he shut it down. Just boom. dunno if he wanted the land, or building, or what. Didn't even have an clearance sale on the inventory. There was a sale of the entire inventory... an auction that went into the night. Thousands of stocks and blanks sold for pennies on the dollar. The original Reinhart Fajen shop was located in downtown Warsaw (you could walk in and sort through the stocks to find one you liked... there were many local people doing stock work in those days). Midway built a factory between Lincoln and Warsaw for the stock business and even built an airport which is now the Lincoln/Warsaw airport. There is some other business in the building now. If a person could have been at the auction with a LARGE truck and say a hundred thousand $$$ and had a place to store them, they could have made a lot of money selling stocks... in the long wood room I saw blanks marked five and six hundred dollars selling for as little as $35 to $40.
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