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Just back off a mallet stroke at a time until it'll open without the mallet and you're there...  DF Thank you sir! I believe you're on to something there! Anything short of that, you're leaving something on the table... 5% is way too far back from the brink, er I mean edge...  DF
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Anything short of that, you're leaving something on the table... 5% is way too far back from the brink, er I mean edge... DF By God, a man who thinks like I do!
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I like to move up until I need a rubber mallet to lift the bolt. Then I back off 5%.
j/k Just back off a mallet stroke at a time until it'll open without the mallet and you're there... DF If you use a cheater pipe it will work with bolts or with single shot levers 
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I like to move up until I need a rubber mallet to lift the bolt. Then I back off 5%.
j/k Just back off a mallet stroke at a time until it'll open without the mallet and you're there... DF If you use a cheater pipe it will work with bolts or with single shot levers You'd need a torque wrench on your cheater pipe to measure foot pounds of resistance, thus indirectly, pressure for your soon to be published article on the subject. DF
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A well-known custom gunsmith I used to know said that as long as he could Instant Glue new primers in the fired cases, he figured pressures were OK!
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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A well-known custom gunsmith I used to know said that as long as he could Instant Glue new primers in the fired cases, he figured pressures were OK! Thanks for the tip John.. 
It's a great life if you don't weaken..
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A well-known custom gunsmith I used to know said that as long as he could Instant Glue new primers in the fired cases, he figured pressures were OK! Thanks for the tip John.. +1 Hadn't thought of that... DF
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Somebody here once mentioned seeing a guy at the range who was oiling each round before chambering and then using a block of wood to hammer the bolt open after each shot. It was the only way he could make the speeds he was looking for. I recall the teller of the story mentioning that he moved far away from that guy's shooting bench. Darwin at work again?
Now with even more aplomb
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John,
I love your signature line. It SO describes my life in general.
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Glad you like it!
Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, a lot of my "real life" IS obsessing about rifles. As a matter of fact I'm going to spend the afternoon toiling away in my loading room....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.”
John Steinbeck
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nice when your vocation and avocation are the same!
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nice when your vocation and avocation are the same! +1 Count that as a blessing. DF
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nice when your vocation and avocation are the same! It can be. In a previous job I was in the bush all week. Then the weekend came, and it wasn't much fun to head back out into the same forest. I wanted a break from that. A lot of jobs are like that. We go into them because we enjoy it. But when you are doing something because you have to, often it isn't fun anymore. I expect JB doesn't get quite the kick out of reloading as some of us do for example! 
Anybody who seriously concerns themselves with the adequacy of a Big 7mm for anything we hunt here short of brown bear, is a dufus. They are mostly making shidt up. Crunch! Nite-nite!
Stolen from an erudite CF member.
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I hear ya. I told my hunting buddy if he had to work as hard for a living as he does hunting, he'd be complaining. He agreed.
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No offense, but I've never wanted my avocation and my vocation to be the same.
Can't tell you how many guys I've talked to/counseled that have been in the same business for 30 plus years and are bored to tears, wanting to chuck it all and do something different.
I've always been of the opinion, that if you'd rather be doing something else, then it's a job. Never wanted one of those, only and opportunity. Consequently I've never had one.
I'm sure many of you have friends that ask you to load ammo or do trigger jobs or glass bedding, zero a rifle and numerous other tasks that are gun related. Many will offer to pay. Same with making sausage or jerky. I refuse to do so.
If I take money then they have a claim on my time. Hunting and shooting are too important to become an obligation. I'm 60, have had several different careers. I've pretty much become bored with each after about 10 years or so.
I've been hunting for 54 of those 60 years, and reloading and collecting firearms for 20. I am more enamored of these avocations as the days go by.
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nice when your vocation and avocation are the same! +1 Count that as a blessing. DF And probably could add vacation in there.
The Mayans had it right. If you�re going to predict the future, it�s best to aim far beyond your life expectancy, lest you wind up red-faced in a bunker overstocked with Spam and ammo.
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nice when your vocation and avocation are the same! +1 Count that as a blessing. DF Amen Brother, Amen...if only I could break into the tiny, competitive world of firearm manufacturing I'd gladly work until I died.
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I've never gotten bored with what I'm doing, probably because my writing career has varied somewhat. When I started out in my 20's I mostly wrote about equally on hunting and fishing, not firearms. It wasn't until 20 years later that I started writing about firearms, and in the meantime there was some side-tracking into Western history.
Even when I eventually phased out of fishing and more into firearms, there's an incredible variety of firearms writing that can be done, not just the basic division into rifles, shotguns and handguns, but optics, handloading, etc.
So far I haven't gotten bored at all. To the contrary, the biggest problem is figuring out how to do so many interesting things!
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No offense, but I've never wanted my avocation and my vocation to be the same.
Can't tell you how many guys I've talked to/counseled that have been in the same business for 30 plus years and are bored to tears, wanting to chuck it all and do something different.
I've always been of the opinion, that if you'd rather be doing something else, then it's a job. Never wanted one of those, only and opportunity. Consequently I've never had one.
I'm sure many of you have friends that ask you to load ammo or do trigger jobs or glass bedding, zero a rifle and numerous other tasks that are gun related. Many will offer to pay. Same with making sausage or jerky. I refuse to do so.
If I take money then they have a claim on my time. Hunting and shooting are too important to become an obligation. I'm 60, have had several different careers. I've pretty much become bored with each after about 10 years or so.
I've been hunting for 54 of those 60 years, and reloading and collecting firearms for 20. I am more enamored of these avocations as the days go by.
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GWB
Well said sir; I may have to reevaluate my reasoning regarding the relative merits of getting paid to do what you would do as a hobby anyway.
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I've never gotten bored with what I'm doing, probably because my writing career has varied somewhat. When I started out in my 20's I mostly wrote about equally on hunting and fishing, not firearms. It wasn't until 20 years later that I started writing about firearms, and in the meantime there was some side-tracking into Western history.
Even when I eventually pheased out of fishing and more into firearms, there's an incredible variety of firearms writing that can be done, not just the basic division into rifles, shotguns and handguns, but optics, handloading, etc.
So far I haven't gotten bored at all. To the contrary, the biggest problem is figuring out how to do so many interesting things! There once was a tome entitled "Do what you love, the money will follow", You sir are blessed! Count me as a fan since, well.......... ![[Linked Image]](http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e129/glenn1221/DSC04744-1.jpg) before that. When you left, I did too. Best GWB
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