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I am a self-taught hunter from an urban background, which is probably why I suck at it! None of my family are into hunting or shooting really, but my father was willing to indulge my interest by buying me a couple air rifles from age 10 and letting me shoot in the back garden. After that, I...

I think it depends on the level you are at in your career when you start. I did my MBA when I was lower middle management. I knew a lot about supply chain and product development, but not a whole lot on anything else. The modules on those topics were tick box exercises, but I got quite a lot...

I generally agree with your point, but with a caveat. Having people properly educated in useful subjects are one of the biggest assets a country can have. Hard science, engineering, medicine, law, finance, computer science, math. All create enormous value and go a long way to securing the us...

Lol. Someone has spent too long in the darker recesses of the internet...

The Seiko 5's are easy enough to adjust if you want more accuracy. You'll need something to pull the case back, but Youtube has tutorials and they're cheap enough that it's no great heartbreak if you cock it up. Plus there's no water resistance to speak of, so no worries about that either. The...

For whatever it's worth, my views are as follows. At this juncture, I am resigned to the fact that no matter what, the next 4 and a bit years will be a complete shit show. Either we have Biden continuing to utterly and completely run the country into the ground as he has in this term, or we...

Not my industry, sadly. All stupid American Standard units, at least for the US sites. At least the Canada facilities are metric. An absolute nightmare to deal with when trying to scale recipes, or move stuff between sites, or work out tank volume to number of packages, or do engineering...

Land Rover huh? Yikes, I'm sorry for your loss.

That seems like a very reasonable 'experience' to justify a watch purchase to me. Graduated college, first big boy job, that's a big milestone. I've bought watches for both of those reasons and I'm sure I'm not alone. Perhaps not a cool story, but important to them, which is really all that...

There are no new battery operated Omega's these days. All Omega specific mechanical movements. They did make a few entry level quartz models in the 90's though. I'd agree that Rolex is more flashy, or at least more recognizable for the most part.

My take as a Rolex and Omega owner. Omega makes watches that are at least as good as Rolex, if not marginally better. Similar quality of construction, similar if not better movements, similar if not better accuracy, equivalently good case design (excepting maybe the Submariner which is arguably...

My experience is that Rolex don't even want you then, unless you're likely to be spending millions or can be a 'brand ambassador' for them (whatever that means). I played their silly games for my Milgauss. Went to the store, looked at the piece, said I'd take it. "Oh no, that's the show...

Yup, pretty much how they do business. Artificially limited supply, stupid hoops to jump through during the purchase experience, requests that you buy cheaper / less popular models if you want a specific piece, stupid wait lists and an absolute refusal to even put you down on the list half the...

Polymerization, evaporation of lighter hydrocarbons, water absorption (especially in ethanol blends like you see at most US gas stations). Maybe you can get longer than a year if you have a sealed container with a stabilizer, but crack it open and the clock is ticking. In practicality, 1 year...

The points above are worth considering. No fuel station in America will function if the power grid is out. No fuel station will work if its electronics are fried. If they do work, well, the gasoline is delivered to them by tanker trucks. They won't work either. Neither will refineries... Your...

I think people badly underestimate the sheer scale of the impact of something like an EMP pulse. People think in terms of their own house. No TV, no phone, no internet. But if you pause to think in terms of supply chain, things get really really bad. As an example, I work for a company that...

I'll take this as a serious question. The usual caveats. I am no military man, nor do I claim in depth experience. I expect @Red Leg can jump in to expand on or correct my points. However, I do know that Iran is a country of nearly 100 million people. They have a relatively rigid...

There's probably some stuff, sure. Better HS education, better grants and incentives for those going into STEM courses at Universities, some political pressure on colleges to offer more of those courses through financial incentives like tax breaks. Plus of course better education to college...

There are quite a few foreign nationals at a lot of the big tech firms. They're big companies, and the demand for skilled coders is higher than US institutions alone can meet right now. Some will have moved from foreign business units, Europe say, or Asia, some will have been hired from...

As someone in the US on an L1B (basically the same as H1B but for intracompany transfers) I can assure you, there are many controls in place to promote the hiring of Americans for those positions and more often than not, the H1B is only approved when the company can prove without reasonable...

If it makes you feel any better, I've never spent time in any country where the locals don't think that the end is nigh...

So turns out that some snakes have arms. Small arms, but arms all the same.

You are Elmer Fudd and I claim my 5 dollars...

I always wonder why the OSHA trainings at work as so basic and common sense. Then I remember that there are people on this Earth who consider Looney Tunes to be instructional videos...

N560 is probably too slow a powder to be a good match for 375H&H. That's probably why you're using so much powder. I'm assuming burn %age is a little low as well. I used N150 with success in my 375. N140 or N540 would also be good Viht options to explore. N560 would work well in most overbore...

Viht stuff is more popular in Europe I think. A lot of folks, including myself, used it back in the UK as it was cheap, readily available and REACH compliant. Over here in the US it seems less common, possibly due to less favorable import duties or supply vs domestic stuff or something. Either...

It's worth remembering however, that Putin is not Stalin and this is not WW2. Putin's grip on power is not nearly as secure, his government is not nearly so stable or united, his population has much better access to information and the tools necessary to make their displeasure clear, and in...

You're looking at it correctly IMO. The things you're trying to balance are pressure (velocity), case fill and burn rate. Some very ballpark figures for you: Good burn: 95%+, ideally 99%+. Good fill: 80%+, ideally 85-98%. Anything above 98% is a (potential) compressed load risk depending on...

Divorced, beheaded, die, divorced, beheaded, survived. But think of all the mother-in-laws. The horror...

The bloke had 6 wives. I think his caution was merited...

In response to your points, I don't think it's necessarily an error of logic, but it is certainly a limitation of experimental design. This is by necessity a simplified (and therefore flawed) model. There are certainly uncontrolled variables here that may, probably do, actually yield a non...

I think you're confusing the number of shots in a group with the need to shoot all the shots at once. You don't have to shoot strings to shoot a group. It's perfectly valid to do your 10 rounds, or 20 rounds at a rate of 1 shot a day. Still a group. Possibly better really, cold bore shots are...

As a rule I try and do at least 7, ideally 20. As @BourbonTrail notes, 30 is more statistically valid than my 20. 50 is even better. Ultimately, the more shots you fire, the more true a picture of accuracy you 'see'. This is intuitive; firing extra shots never makes a group smaller, it can only...

Hello folks. I've been meaning to put something together on this topic for a while as it's a persistent blind spot within the shooting and reloading community. @Shooter375 s recent thread on crimping finally gave me the incentive to put words to forum. Not calling him out specifically, just the...

I would say that 1.5-2" is more than good enough for your use case and thanks for being a good sport about my post. No offence intended and sorry if it came off a bit snarky, just a personal bug bear of mine! You've actually inspired me to do a thread in the reloading forum on this topic, so...

With respect, and I hate to be that guy, but your experiment is not able to make any claims about comparative accuracy and especially isn't able to claim 'significant' differences either way. As a guy with a decent working knowledge of experimental design and statistics it physically pains me...

Where were these guys at the Battle of the Bulge? Oh yeah, they couldn't get Airborne...

Heavy infantry...

Art is a matter of perspective...

That's a dam shame... This is the internet and you my friend made a spelling mistake. Therefore all of your points are invalid...

There's Norway that AH is a safe space. Oslo, that joke was terrible...

Can't claim responsibility for these, just cross posting from a UK stalking FB group I'm in, but they are quite amusing! The author is either doing a Part III, or a 'Stalker's and their rifles' one next.

But wait, there's more! Usually the sequel isn't as good as the original, and yet...

Heh, thought I'd find something spicy for my 666th post!

This made me giggle. UK specific, but still relatable. Tin hat firmly in place!

I like 'Hello God, is that you?'

I think that's a little unfair really. Most countries have a sweeping reputation for quality of manufacture, usually based on the products people interact with regularly at the time they form their opinions. People's opinions on Japanese cars for instance vary from cheap crap to extremely good...