Neanderpundit

Thought I had gotten a warped rotor, so tonight I picked up the Sploder and discovered that the left front wheel bearing was only attached to the rest of the vehicle with the gossamer fabric of fantasy. So I went to get a new one, the THIRD i have installed on this vehicle. (Two lefts, one right) I bitched at the Autozone guy, who looked it up and said “You know, you changed that last four years ago” which means about 170,000 miles. Guess I got my money’s worth.

Pathetic, really, that I have done this so often that I was able to do the replacement without even putting my reading glasses on; it’s a 32mm socket for the hub nut, a 10mm wrench for the t brake caliper, a 15mm wrench for the brake frame and the bearing housing, and I put in the ABS line strictly by feel.

I been doing this shit too long.

A lot of libertarian/conservative types out there are hopeful about the state of the union based on the current gallimaufry of political stupidity among the left. Some are even smug, believeing that Republicans will run the table, next election.

Nazzo fast Guido, as Herr Alger is wont to say.

The Dems will retake the house and senate and the Won will retain his office, and do so by a wide margin, and they won’t even need to cheat to do so, and I’m gonna tell you how.

They’re gonna make dopesmoking legal. Yes, it’s really a states rights issue, but that hasn’t stopped them before, and it won’t now. They’ll figure a way to do it, and anyone who opposes it will be shouted down by hemp wearing patchouli scented hippies.

me, I could give a shit, but this is how it’s going to go down. There is nothing else that will restore their flagging poll numbers and they know it.

no, I did not say a bullet. Where was I? Oh, yes.

If you shoot a cartridge- say, like a steel cased Silver Bear 7.62 x 39 that you happen to have had stuck in a target, and you manage to hit the primer, from, say, 50 yards distant, with a really accurate match rifle, it does not explode, as you’d think it would, it merely blows the primer out, and the powder burns as it exits the primer holes, and the bullet might try to move out of the case a bit, and the exiting gasses push it forward kind of like the round from a Gyrojet. And the end result looks like this:

Also: High desnity polyurethane foam is a GREAT target base for 22’s. You can shot the hell out of it, and it sort of self-heals up to a point. Not cheap, but if you can lay your hands on some surplus stuff like I did, free, you can stretch it out on your target uprights and staple or pin targets to it easily.

Update- We have a ruling:
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A cartridge is the whole kit and caboodle – case, powder, primer, bullet. Technically, you take a 120mm tank round, that’s a cartridge. Take a semi-separate loading round like the 105mm artillery rounds, and those are cartridges, too.

Shell, like clip, has morphed over time. While the M1 Garand and the WWII GI are where clip morphed into magazine, artillery is where shell morphed into cartridge…

Originally, it applied to explosive artillery rounds. “Shot and shell.” Where shot was solid, and shell’s exploded.

Then we developed breechloading guns that used cartridges, but because they fired shells… the terms morphed, just like clip meaning magazine, and for the same reason, really.”