Which vendor did you choose? So many choices.

I ordered from here. https://www.mainelobsternow.com/buy-lobster-online

 

I’ve got maybe 10,000 rounds. Is that enough?

For a nice day's shooting -- actually a pretty nice day.

The last time I counted I had a little over 50,000 rounds of all the various calibers. Sadly, I haven't been able to find the time to do any serious shooting for many years now, but when we had our Annual Blow Up the World Party and BBQ I would often go through between 8,000 and 12,000 rounds (a lot of that was letting other people shoot my guns, but then I wasn't counting the rounds I put through other peoples' guns, either). Those were sunrise-to-sunset shoot fests. At one time I figured out how many rounds for each caliber I would like to stock and the total came up to a number that was close enough to just call it 100,000. I have no idea how many rounds I could reload with the stock I've got -- though I would want to test all of my powder before I trust it as most of it is now about 30 years old or more.

 

https://thehill.com/changing-americ...s-sparks-panic-as-flu-poses-greater-threat-to

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the flu causes up to 5 million cases of severe illness globally and kills up to 650,000 people annually.

“When we think about the relative danger of this new coronavirus and influenza, there’s just no comparison,” Dr. William Schaffner, professor of preventive medicine and health policy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told Kaiser Health News. “Coronavirus will be a blip on the horizon in comparison. The risk is trivial.”

 

I’ve got maybe 10,000 rounds. Is that enough?

You should be OK.

Ron

 

You should be OK.

Ron

It’s a single-shot bolt action. So yeah, that tends to spare the ammo. I’ve only got a hundred or so shells for the 12-gauge. That’ll go a lot faster.

 

Have you actually MADE usable gunpowder? If not, don't count on being able to do so just because you have a chemistry book. Getting usable powder takes far more than having the right ingredients in the right proportions. So, again if you haven't, go do it and research or figure out what you have to do to get it to actually work.

Yes and actually I believe most of this is in jest, like no kitchen should be without an anarchist cookbook. My stash of powder runs pretty deep for what I load.

Ron

In other breaking Corona news just got a call from my neighbor. Her mom is in a nursing home and the word is out they refuse entry to anyone who is not immediate family of the residents and if you as much as sneeze or cough they immediately ask you to leave even if you are family. Guess I won't be joining her for any mom visits.

Ron

 

I remember the days when you could buy saltpeter and sulfur at the drug store so yes I have made some pretty bad black powder during my misbegotten childhood. More smoke than boom and buring eyes from the sulphuric acid caused by the sulfur smoke and tears combining.

 

I remember the days when you could buy saltpeter and sulfur at the drug store so yes I have made some pretty bad black powder during my misbegotten childhood. More smoke than boom and buring eyes from the sulphuric acid caused by the sulfur smoke and tears combining.

Yeah Potassium Nitrate (Saltpeter) and Potassium Peregrinate in 1 Lb containers at any drugstore along with sulfur. The latter was used to make flash powder. Any art supply store would sell you powdered aluminum. So much for the old days. Potassium Peregrinate was popular for cleaning pipes and plumbing.

Ron

 

Here's a very interesting article about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and how governments' censorship exacerbated said crisis.

"The most horrific symptoms really were you could bleed not only from your nose and mouth, but from your eyes and ears," Barry said. "People were turning so dark blue from lack of oxygen that, in the book I quote one doctor writing a colleague saying that he could not tell white soldiers from African American soldiers."

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cor...ank-pages-amid-toilet-paper-emergency-2191830

The paper NT News's front page also posted a message which reads, "We've printed an eight-page special lift-out inside, complete with handy cut lines, for you to use in an emergency."

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cor...ank-pages-amid-toilet-paper-emergency-2191830

The paper NT News's front page also posted a message which reads, "We've printed an eight-page special lift-out inside, complete with handy cut lines, for you to use in an emergency."

Darn it!
How to avoid the paper cuts my tender parts?

 

Where's the Sears Roebuck catalog when ya needs it.

 

Yeah Potassium Nitrate (Saltpeter) and Potassium Peregrinate in 1 Lb containers at any drugstore along with sulfur. The latter was used to make flash powder. Any art supply store would sell you powdered aluminum. So much for the old days. Potassium Peregrinate was popular for cleaning pipes and plumbing.

Ron

I think you mean "permanganate" (MnO4)^-2. Not that it changes your point at all.

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/cor...ank-pages-amid-toilet-paper-emergency-2191830

The paper NT News's front page also posted a message which reads, "We've printed an eight-page special lift-out inside, complete with handy cut lines, for you to use in an emergency."

Darn it!
How to avoid the paper cuts my tender parts?

 

I think you mean "permanganate" (MnO4)^-2. Not that it changes your point at all.

I kept looking at thet and had a bad feeling. Yes, you got it.

Ron

 

I think you mean "permanganate" (MnO4)^-2. Not that it changes your point at all.

I keep potassium permanganate and glycerin in my survival kit as a handy incendiary and it also works great to ignite thermite. I used to get it at pharmacies, but no place seems to carry it any more. You can still purchase it online with little hassle. I've never heard of it being used as an ingredient in homemade gunpowder, particularly along with saltpeter and no charcoal -- I would have thought that it would have been used in place of the saltpeter. Back in my youth I always worked with charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur. Got some stuff that burned very well, but never anything that would have made a decent propellant (though I never tried it so perhaps it would have surprised me). In the years since I've read about some of the techniques used to make black powder and have always wanted to try them to see if I get better results.

Even if I could make good black powder, I don't have many firearms that I would want to use it in. It would probably function okay in the large caliber handguns, but I don't know how well it would do in the rifles that are designed to operate with very high chamber pressures. Then there's the cleanup -- I don't particularly like the idea of black powder residue in the actions of modern firearms.

I have no feel for how difficult it would be to make small batches of usable smokeless powder -- rifle powders (at least back when I was doing a lot of reloading) are nitrocellulose based and pistol powders tended to be nitroglycerin based.

 

Well I still have both my hands and eyes so I wasn't very good at making it. Now nitrogen tri iodide...

 

We used the potassium permanganate for making flash powder, the stuff in firecrackers. It burns like black powder, very fast unlike today's smokeless powder used for loading cartridges. Yeah it's amazing I still have my sight and all my digits.

Ron

 

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-08/coronavirus-elderly-frail-people-at-risk

On Sunday, federal officials reiterated that message.

“If you are an elderly person with an underlying condition, if you get infected, the risk of getting into trouble is considerable. So it’s our responsibility to protect the vulnerable,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on NBC’s Meet the Press. “When I say protect, I mean right now. Not wait until things get worse. Say no large crowds, no long trips. And above all, don’t get on a cruise ship.”

 

Pretty easy to say. Have you lost anything as a result of this? Sometimes something booked months in advance gets cancelled and people can lose some serious money. Helping out is one thing, taking a finical hit personally is a different thing all together. How's your investment portfolio looking lately? Losing any money as a result of paranoid and hysteria?

Ron

Yes, that’s a possibility. Plus, I had scheduled the start of a hospitality and tourism company. Guess who has to eat the interest on a 400k loan?

I not only have to fight the federal government for a return on my savings because some dumb politicians think my savings account is an entitlement, my livelihood is threatened because public health is being treated as an unnecessary expense. I think the US government can recoup their investment by opening a pandemic treatment facility at Mar a Lago!