When it really happens: SHTF...

[Ovidio]

I’m not allowed to... We can have max. 5 kg of powder. But they’d also count my rounds and assign approx. 30 grains per rifle round and maybe 3 or 5 for handgun calibers. That’ why I never keep more than 4 kg.
When ignorants can write laws...

[fjruple]

For us reloaders and bullet casters, is it nice say, "If I need 1,000 rounds of 5.56mm/.223 Remington I can go in the basement and knock out 1,000 rounds in several hours." I have a saying, "The lack of your preparation in times of trouble does not constitute an emergency on my part."

[Aragorn243]

This is when you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that something is purely political.

Governor restricts crowd sizes at sporting events which has crushed commercial events and really harmed the mental health of school age children who while they may compete, can have not spectators including their family members watch them.

The State Congress passes a law nullifying the governor's dictate, he refuses to sign it. The State Congress holds a vote to over ride the veto and enough members of the governor's party change their votes to no which results in the over ride failing.

The Governor is sued to declare his dictate UN-Constitutional. It goes to the State Supreme Court which has a majority of the Governor's party sitting on it. They decline to overturn his dictates.

The Governor is sued in Federal court and the judge declares his mandate unconstitutional.

The Governor requests a stay from the judge until he can appeal. He is denied.

The Governor court shops and finds a Federal Court that will grant him a stay.

So the Governor's mandate prohibiting gatherings for sporting events is put back in place after being gone for two weeks. The Friday it is put back into place is largely ignored by every high school in the state as they already handed out tickets to parents and families.

Sunday, two days after the Governor got his wish to have his dictates put back in place, he reverses himself and allows sporting events to be held based on their capacity. Which is EXACTLY what the judge had ordered, the Legislature had passed and what the schools and commercial venues were doing in the first place.

It's enough to drive you nuts.

And last evening, I got to watch our transgender Health Secretary tell us all how wonderful Pennsylvania did their job compared to Florida and Texas. Neither of those two states fully shut down and both opened back up fairly early. We are still shut down in many areas, entertainment, restaurants, bars, etc. Florida did recently surpass us in death rates, Texas is still below us. But that is with they up and running at near normal. Neither sent covid patients into their nursing homes.


Now the Governor of neighboring New York has once again stripped the Mayor of New York City of his ability to regulate Covid restrictions. They both plan to restrict religious groups under threat of arrest and the takeover of their places of worship along with closing schools in certain neighborhoods.

[Ovidio]

We're starting to restrict the freedom of people again.
They even get to the point of strongly suggesting to wear the face mask also at home...
At the moment, it is not clear if we have to wear that damn thing always when outside, or only if we have people around.
If we go walking or jogging, or make sport, it is not necessary.
The government criticised Lombardy for making two special Covid hospitals, then other northern regions followed, while in the South, especially Campania (Naples and surroundings), the local "Governor" played the macho and the strong man all the time, but never moved a finger. Now, his region is full of infected and he has not made a single new Covid bed since March. And Lombardy, as always, is taking his ill citizens...
I'm really tired of all this crap. I dream of good communication and of the use of some brain by those in command, but it seems that it will not be the case, again...
The only consolation is that elsewhere it doesn't seem to be better under this points of view.
We had a real lock-down, the only ones. Two months detained at home, like nowhere else in the civilised world (I don't count China. There you have no rights), and I'm not willing to let it happen to me again.
The anarchist I always suspected in me is getting stronger day by day.

[Aragorn243]

Some group was actually plotting to take out the governor of Michigan. Oddly, I'm only hearing this on the radio news. Nothing on my news sites. They interviewed her and she was rather freaked out and didn't understand why anyone would do this. I'm not baffled at all but I do find it strange that the leader of this effort wasn't from Michigan but an East Coast state. The governor of Michigan is admittedly about five times worse than my governor here in PA. Michigan is a large state that has a heavy population in the south and around the lakes but almost no one in the upper peninsula area and she treats the entire state like it's all the same one unit where everything is the same. Locking down the low population areas when they don't even have Covid cases. She's also violated to may of their rights she's been sued and has lost several times yet she rewords her directives a tiny bit and puts them back into place only to be struck down the next day. She should be removed from office

[Ovidio]

Sounds familiar...

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

She should be removed from office

You mean Creuella DeVille?

[browningautorifle]

I'm not willing to let it happen to me again.
The anarchist I always suspected in me is getting stronger day by day.

Good luck with this one, I don't envy you but understand. Be careful too...

[Ovidio]

I'm non violent, so I'll take the consequences, but I'll keep following sensible rules.
Face cover when I meet people, otherwise I'll walk without. I respect the fear of others and also am convinced that a face cover is really helpful. But not always and in any situation.
If I go to the city, then I'll keep it on on busy central streets. But as soon as I'll see the street empty...away with it. Under the chin or hanging from an ear, but not suffocating me further.
I have always been someone who follows the rules and pays for the others who don't.
At this age I'm starting to not like it anymore.
I gave enough under that point of view. I don't need to be educated by anybody.

Apart from that, Thursday I made a quantum leap in my reloading.
Since I'm shooting quite a lot lately, and also a lot of handgun shooting at that, I was getting fed up with the manual dosing of the powder using my Lee dippers. Soo much time...
So I went to my local gun shop and bought a wonderful Lee Perfect Powder Measure. The cheapest dosing system on the planet.
AND IT JUST WORKS GREAT!!!
I loaded 50 9x21 and 50 44M for target shooting in the same time I would have needed to just dose the powder in either of the 50 pieces.
That is including the adjustment and the checking of every fifth load at the beginning of both calibers.
What a wonderful improvement.
I'm not yet convinced that I want to use that thing for rifle loads. I like to be extremely accurate with them. I even check each and every round for length...
But for those small loads it has definitely convinced me.
I'm already making a small chart noting the powder and the depth the small measuring plunger sits at for each load I use, just to cut on set-up time next time I'll get back to reload one of the already tested calibers.
Tonight I'll make another 50 9x21 and adjust the powder measure using that data. That should bring me very close to the desired load, if not directly there.

I already see my friends making jokes over me for buying a Pro 1000 some day... The guy who used only the manual loading systems from Lee...Hammer and dippers....and manual scale.
They told me that the powder measure equals to me going from handwriting to a mechanical typing machine, while the world is already at the dictation software. But that gives them hope to win me into modernisation.

[CINDERS]

Ovidio just be sure with your H/G loads (Infact any reloads) your above 50% case capacity that way if you do muck up and double charge a round the case will over flow.
I have a pic somewhere of an 44Mag S&W stainless with the back strap blown clean off and about half the cyliner blown off as well from a user who said to the cops handing it in he was shooting reloads.

As far as Covid goes Sydney has had new cases eastern states are still struggling with this thing the politicians are plucking money from goodness knows where to keep stuff going but none have stood up and are taking a pay cut Why The Frig! would they.
Rumours are abounding about our states locked boarder and it is a pre-empt for possible cessation from the rest of Australia as this has been twice tried before and defeated as the country relies on our minerals and gas to keep the engine running.
I voted twice for sucession but as stated it never occured we will see it looks like down the track, our premier wants to keep it shut till possibly April or June 2021.
Then as we see all over the planet with Covid we also have the knuckle draggers and evolution rejects here that defy logic and flaunt the law wasting valuable police and armed services time with their antics and anti-mask rallies.

Look guys who knows where this is gunna end I fear a global collapse of the monitary system leading to a depression worse than that of the 1930's and after WWII we may then find ourselves in a barter system for food and water etc.
We have no gunpowder down here in the S.W nor projectiles nor primers infact I heard a story they are buying up over east and shipping it back to the USA nothing would surprise me.
My wife and I hedged for a few years we have lotsa barrels, pills, primers, powder, cases for all our rifles so are comfortable shooting for about the next 4 years straight by which time all will be right again.
Look after yourselves and family try to avoid the knuckle draggers when you are out, but if you end up with a hood ornament then the gene pool will be a better place...........Cheers.