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There is two kinds of X-ray lead. The stuff in the walls of older hospitals, and dentist foils. X-ray room lead is harder than pure. It comes in between 7 and 9 BHN. Dentist foils are as hard than wheel weight. Somewhere between 12 and 14. I've used them to harden my bullets. I prefer to use...

A lot of recycling centers won't sell pipes or xray room lead. Here in Southern Idaho finding lead pipe is only possible if you know a plumber. I'm pretty much over scrounging lead. I just order from RotoMetals.

Most wheel weights are zinc and steel. If you do happen to find some that's lead it's going to be very hard. Most will run 12 BHN maybe harder. The old days of stick on soft lead wheel weights is long gone. Lead pipe is quickly becoming extremely difficult to find. I turn zinc wheel weights...

You can't remove alloy. You can skim dross until your pot is gone.

Colors in lead don't necessarily mean it was too hot, in means its pure. Dross on pure lead has colors. If alloy gets too hot it gets frosty. Pure lead can not turn frosty. I don't worry about getting lead too hot.

If I see a store locally that has ingots I take my tester in. I tell them I will test it all and mark it accordingly. If it's 5 bhn I will give 2 bucks a pound. Between 5 and 8 I give 1.50

This is IdaJo. She is the worst bird dog I have ever owned. But she is also probably the best family dog I have ever owned.

Availability is a solid reason to change.

I was going to say add heat. In my video with a stuck nipple. I show that I heated it up but I was testing the heat by touching it. It really doesn't need much heat to get stuff like this out. I would get the new BP that uses a socket and leave it a #11 cap gun. It's legal in mmorestayes that...

As low as the deer population is now, we are also battling CWD. The state will probably reduce deer population substantially to reduce the risk of CWD. Hell they put poison in our river and killed every sturgeon in a 6 mile stretch because of quagga mussels.

We unfortunately lost this battle. There were a vocal group of whiners that claimed lead bullets only crippled game without killing it. I wrote letters and sent pictures. But the vocal whiners won. I warned them that this would result in less opportunity. But they couldn't see that...

At the dairies I shoot for the pigeons land in the cow manure and have wet feet as the go into the ceiling. I shoot hundreds of pigeons with my air rifle. I wouldn't eat them for anything. But the one dairy makes ice cream and bottled milk. I get free milk and ice cream.

I have a CZ455 17HMR. It's a great rifle. The trigger was awful. I put a timney trigger in it and it's a great rifle. I got a Bergara BMR 22lr and put a vortex Diamondback tactical 6-24x50 FFP scope on it. That trigger is 2.5 pounds as light as it will go. I have to be honest. The Bergara...

Back in May and June I had a blood test done. I've been watching my PSA slowly increase for about 15 years. During covid everything was shut down and so I kind of didn't think about it. I went in for an appointment with a skin doctor and she wanted me to do a blood test before we started her...

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A lot of solid info has been shared. If it were me I would drill a hole in the crack at the leading edge to stop the split. Then I would use a dremel to hog out a couple horizontal spots across the crack. Fill those with epoxy and use a dowel in it to tie it together. Then I would glass bed...

I have both sights. Well kind of. My Williams FP is on my knight mk85. The Lyman 57sml peep sights are on all my sidelock rifles. For hunting I prefer the Lyman 57sml. It has a button that allows for very fast sight settings. The Williams with the Gib Lock screw is a solid set up but much...

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I have to add. The hood on the 2020 is way too high. It blocks view of the road or trail right in front of the truck. On technical trails with rocks the hood will impare vision. The quick sloping hood of the 88 is far better. Even the hood on my 4RUNNER is lower and it has the fake air intake.

I had a 88 xtracab for 30 years and my 20 SR5 with an ARB front locker and a high output compressor. The 2020 SR5 is by far a better 4WD than the Xtracab. That front locker is amazing. That said, if the xtracab had air conditioning I doubt I would have bought the 2020. That old 88 never let...