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August is a good time te be tuning up for fall...how many rounds have you fired Lowell ?
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Exactly JOe, those barrels get SMOKIN hot and you may suffer second degree burns on your shoulders and arms... but that's okay, that's what's practicing is all about.. "endure the pain"!!!
All the best
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Lowell, I've been living with you here long enough to know that the wonderful world you inhabit vicariously or otherwise could not be changed if the price of lead became that of gold.
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You want to see hOt...shoot some Black Powder...I shot a couple of rounds of skeet last week with Black....the barrels were so hot a guy lit his cigarette of the side the barrel.
Early Saturday morning I shot 25 sporting clays...a round of skeet....25 wobble trap it wasn't too bad.
Later in the morning I shot two rounds of trap with another SxS hammer gun and you could've cook an egg on the barrels.
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King last I checked the price of lead doesn't effect a key board.
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I took inventory of my ammo. Almost everything is in good supply including Pepto and TM,  but I'm down to 15 'Original Brenneke' cartucce cal. 12br/67mm. 
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Sheer alchemy King - sheer alchemy!
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I'm off on the glorious 13th (12th is a Sunday)to walk-up grouse in Scotland. Hope there will be some grouse to walk up.
Also hope I don't expire in the heather like old Lord Ripon from over exhertion! I'm not used to walking up hills in 30 degrees of sunshine.
Our partridges are excellent and pheasants even better. We have had a good rearing season and looking forward to seeing the birds embarrass the guns come late September.
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August is the month for re-daubing the 5-gal. drywall buckets with camo paint for use in the dove fields and making sure the hardware on the rail skiffs is solid and well-anchored. In a fit of efficiency I fled the 90+ degree heat outside over the weekend and attacked my gunroom for the Phase I cleanup. Wound up throwing hundreds of cardboard shell boxes away I know I'll never use because the only thing I reload any more is 28 ga. With the price of 12- and 20-ga. promotional ammo at the end-of-summer clearance/pre-dove season sales approaching less than $2.50 a box it makes no sense whatever to reload these gauges any more. So far as global bans on lead shot I think it ain't gonna happen - as long as Rem, Win, Wally World, Bass Pro, Cabelas and the other mega-makers can offer this fodder at those prices, they know the locals will be lined up 20-deep when the doors open. Its the same old shell game (pun intended) as with the global oil market - squeeze us at the pump till they realize we just don't give a damn and will keep driving anywhere we want. At a small gunshop in DE over the weekend I looked out over at least a 7-mile backup of traffic approaching the DE Memorial Bridge. The wife remarked that the SUV's and their ilk outnumbered the economy passenger cars over 2 to 1. Damn the commodity market; we will drive and shoot till we drop. KBM
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The reoccuring nightmare of running out of ammo has ceased for a while. I bought out a sporting clays shooter that called it quits. 25 cases along with my current stockpile should last a few weeks.Plenty of low pressure loaded,I've put the reloader up. Seven miles to the club doesn't take too much gas.Hot summer nights & clays under the lights....oh yeah!
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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