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Rather interesting stats on handguns and CCW

Actually..no I havent. They are still in the container sitting on my To Do shelf. Along with a shitload of other stuff.

I cleaned out my reloading shop..and kept finding die sets I never remember having purchased. That stroke....shrug. Im up over 453 different die sets and an additional dozen duplicates so far and yesterday I opened up one of my brass cleaning tumblers..and found at least 10 die bodies. I vaguely remember buying a coffee can filled with rusty dies from someone at an estate sale down in So. Cal about 4 yrs ago..I think these are them. I found one die set in there that I needed best as I can recall....219 Donaldson..so bought the whole can for $15. Shrug

Its starting to cool off rapidly now..so its about time to get a bunch of ammo loaded and ready for the range/hunting. I just came in from putting up some light fixtures in the welding shop at 12:15 am..and its down to 68F...so we are on the way to California desert winter.

Ive already cleaned out the range bags, polished up the spotting scopes and loaded the targets and the staplers.

That medical issue I had in 2009 screwed things up rather nicely and I didnt shoot for over a year. Having the reloading shop turn into a catchall didnt help and the stroke sorta kinda put a fine polish on everything. Shrug

Now Im back to normal..twitch...gurgle..spaz...and Its time to go shoot again. Ive shot a few times, just to make sure I hadnt lost the ability...and while Im a bit rusty...it came back pretty quickly...so Im good to go again. Same with archery. I used archery to get muscle tone back in the right side of my body after the stroke...and its time to put it to use. Though for the life of me..I cant figure out where one of my Oneida Eagle bows went. Maybe I sold it, or loaned it out and didnt record it...shrug. Bothers the shit out of me actually. Finding stuff I dont remember getting is good..kinda like Christmas..but losing stuff...bad news....shrug

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner
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If you find a good CHEAP used Chrono someplace..keep me in mind.

Mine disappeared with the guy I loaned it to after the stroke. Shrug

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

GACK! that should be "53 different die sets"

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

Often as bad is the guy with police or military experience who has heard and believed every old wives tale about guns, but "learned all about guns in the service".

My favorite was an ex US Army, then reservist, who insisted his M16A1 was made by Mattel. He didn't realize this was just an old joke.

David

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Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

General Motors made em too.

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So did Harrington & Richardson

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

There is a chance that Mattel did make the pistol grips for a very few rifles, but their claim to fame is use of far different plastics.

There were a number of makers of the various parts and pieces that its entirely possible a run of parts was made by people other than Colt, Hydramatic (General Motors) and H&R

Shrug...who knows? I see lots of claims both ways with little evidence one way or another.

" Mattel through a contract with Fiberlite developed FM8130 (glass fiber filled) for use in chopper blades in the then developmental AH-56 program. At the time Colt was still using Fiberlite FM926 (cotton fiber filled). Fiberlite made Colt aware of FM8130 even though their NDS with Mattel meant they were not supposed to talk about. Due to the incredible strength of FM8130 Colt went direct to Mattel and awarded them a contract for handguards after getting approval from RIA for the material change (RTA 508-51 18 March 1965).

Later Col. Yount of the TCC would get field complaints from the 101st that the buttstock on their XM16E1 rifles were not up to the task of checking for soft spots on the armor of their M551?s. Again Colt requested a material change (RTA DCRB-DH-0018-24 20 April 1967), Mattel was given another contract.

Mattel?s FM8130 plant was destroyed during the April 68 riots and all records were lost. Only reason I know about it is that a Hasbro executive I met at the Hilton (he sells chem. light chargers and grid squares to Rock Island) told me about it, he use to work for Mattel."

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

Yep, I'd like one too but, I would be chasing the numbers. I know I can get the results I want without one but attaching a number to the great loads makes them easier to reproduce with other components. But, different power curves with different powders or primers may yield the same number on the chrono but not the same results. So many variables! I try to limit them, not expand them. Don't forget I'm only working with pistols. Rifles would be a whole new ballgame for me.

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Tom Gardner

Not all, but Mattel was a manufacturer.

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Tom Gardner

I saw several marked Mattel, while in basic. We had a bunch of them from various manufacturers, since they had been shipped back to the US from Vietnam for complete rebuild while they got our brand new rifles. Due to a change in the cycle time for basic, they didn't have time to rebuild them and we got junk that most people couldn't hit a target with.

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Michael A. Terrell

Oh..yeah..thats right. And indeed..they are a completely different world in many aspects.

About the only pistol loads Id care to chrono are from the Contenders. Shrug.

Anyways..run across one...let me know. Ive got rifle data to work up.

Gunner

"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination." --Voltaire

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Gunner

The only people I know who chrono their pistol loads are USPSA shooters who want to barely make major power factor.

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rbowman

The DOD took Stoner's rifle then changed everything that made it work well. Gee, imagine that!

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Tom Gardner

The DOD has no imagination. ;-)

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Michael A. Terrell

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