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03-31-2024, 03:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-31-2024, 03:36 PM by Gusso.)
Even though I'm pretty good on my supply of powder, I just ordered another 24#. 16# of Vihtavuori N135 and 8 of N140. I'm going to be buying bullets next. I figure Biden might do something really stupid if he gets reelected, so I'm preparing myself to have enough components until I'm dead.
If you're a fan of Vihtavuori powder, Whidden Gunworks has good prices (no sales tax collected either).
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I only load for Mosins. For 200 gr cast bullets, I use 18gr of 2400. I have some Lapua 123gr FMJ that take 50gr of VV 135. I use VV140 for heavier bullets. I'm about to order 1000 Lapua 200gr D-166 bullets. Very expensive but I found a place in Austria that has them for about 70% of the cheapest American company.. I'll check out Zero.
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I wished I lived in a free state with plenty of places to shoot.
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I thought you were going to move out of MD when you retired?
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I annealed some brass today for the first time ever! Seems easy.
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(04-05-2024, 12:54 PM)dave Wrote: I thought you were going to move out of MD when you retired?
That was the plan, but my mother's health has taken a turn for the worse. So I have to stay local to make sure she makes it to all her doctors appointments. There is nothing more important to me than family. I promised my father before he died I would never put her in a nursing home. So, I'll sell my place and move in with her if I have to.
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Sorry to hear that..
My sister and I took care of Mom until she passed last May but we had to put her in a nursing home for the last 7 or 8 months when she needed 24 hour care..