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The Hobbit Hole XXXVI - O! Water cold we may pour at need...

Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

See also: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net

Web page for our moot reports and troop support information!





TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: SuziQ

The lefties on my fiber arts board have bought into the rumor that baby #5 is not hers, but rather her oldest daughter’s. They claim to have a timeline all worked out and photos showing a bit of tummy pudge on the girl. Can a public official fake a pregnancy in this day and age? Why would a public official risk even trying? Ack! Leftist freaks.


5,181 posted on 08/31/2008 3:52:22 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Lil'freeper; SuziQ

What’s even more disgusting is the lefties who are celebrating a killer storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast again as the Republican convention is ready to begin. Michael Moore, a former party chair and lefties all over the blogs.


5,182 posted on 08/31/2008 5:06:23 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (McCain-Palin '08)
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To: Corin Stormhands

So does that mean the lefties are rooting *for* global warming? I’m sooooo comfuzed.


5,183 posted on 08/31/2008 6:50:25 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: Corin Stormhands
No one at the RNC has called me yet, but I have the solution for the Convention vs. Storm thing: Turn the convention into a telethon of sorts. Have people call in and pledge money, tag the request onto the end of every speech, then send it all to the charitable groups that will go in after the storm and help clean up. Show the compassionate principles in action.

But I'm still waiting for the RNC to call and ask what I think.

5,184 posted on 08/31/2008 6:53:08 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: 300winmag; Squantos
Good gracious! ...one heck of a crimp on those 7.62 NATO rounds! Do they chamber well in the SASS?

I wonder how the manufacturer gets this crimp? They must use a tool that simply squeezes laterally around the case neck, instead of pushing the cartridge "in-line" like with a bullet seating die used by most reloaders.

We've pulled bullets from ammo like this before and they're pushed inward at the crimp so much that it MUST affect accuracy at several hundred hards. There is NO WAY the bullet is even close to being concentric after that! But for a couple of hundred yards, it's "probably" acceptable accuracy.
5,185 posted on 08/31/2008 7:14:42 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: 300winmag; g'nad; Ramius

Morning Winmag - nice job on the forend. I like the look alike digicamo look. Harris Bipod? Looks like you’re all set.

A SigSauer P-226 Conversion kit for .22lr followed me home. Did a runthrough last weekend and found it to be quite acceptable. It’s not without its share of teething problems, mainly being the slide not locking back after the last shot and the firing pin hitting the rim of the chamber and in a only a few rounds it can be peened over and that’s the start of the permanent FTEs. So the drill is one snap cap in the magazine right off the bat and then load your 9 or 14 rounds of CCI mini-mag and you’re good to go. Second teething problem is the apparent incompatibility of the conversion kit to pre-1989 models of the 226. The factory doesn’t have either of those ‘warnings’ anware in the literature or on the website. Still all in all I’m satisfied with what it can do and I like shooting it, ‘nuff said.


5,186 posted on 08/31/2008 7:21:42 AM PDT by osagebowman
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To: Rose in RoseBear
Gosh...that's strange, all of my computers only have funny little "/" marks just before the full path to the mounted partitions (even on the SAN arrays :-). After all, one soon runs out of drive letters!

Yuk, yuk, yuk! :-) (don't shoot back! I'm trying to be funny. :-)

...hope you're having a good weekend! :-)
5,187 posted on 08/31/2008 7:24:05 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Overtaxed; Bear_in_RoseBear; Rose in RoseBear

Good Morning - Had a long walk last night and a similar one this morning. Overtaxed, LSA and I had a spur of the moment mini-moot last night. We rendevoused at JackStax and proceed to do serious damage to a big plate of lamb ribs. We toasted to all who couldn’t be there with us and figured up the last time we were there for dinner was with you guys last summer. Where the heck did the time go.

Well, this ain’t gettin’ it done. But in other newzz..Some more prep work for the painters who are showing up wednesday. Although the paint had faded, it hadn’t peeled so were going with the same painter again. He’s an older fella has an assistant and that’s what he does, paint houses.


5,188 posted on 08/31/2008 7:30:04 AM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman
He’s an older fella

OB, dear,

he's younger than we are :)

LSA

5,189 posted on 08/31/2008 7:35:30 AM PDT by osagebowman
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To: osagebowman

Mmmmm......lamb ribs.....

For today I’ve got the lamb rib option, steak, hamburger, or short ribs for thegrill.

Decisions, decisions!


5,190 posted on 08/31/2008 7:40:40 AM PDT by Overtaxed (My reality works for me.)
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To: osagebowman

Heh... funny LSA!

Good morning. We made progress yesterday getting things organized for the garage sale. NOW we’re ready. We needed that. If the weather’s good, we’ll do it next weekend.


5,191 posted on 08/31/2008 7:52:46 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: Lil'freeper

It just screams desperation that they have to stoop to such extremes to find ways to attack her. I mean...it’s preposterous.

If that’s really all they can manage, they must be hurting.


5,192 posted on 08/31/2008 8:24:36 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton

They’re just jealous that their veep pick is so dull.


5,193 posted on 08/31/2008 8:40:45 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: RosieCotton
Quantum Sheep Poetry and the Sheep Poetry Generator. Made me smile.
5,194 posted on 08/31/2008 8:50:22 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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To: osagebowman
Woo Hoo! The Pile is hot! Now we're cookin' with gas!

I'm getting an updraft from the compost pile.

5,195 posted on 08/31/2008 9:31:55 AM PDT by Overtaxed (My reality works for me.)
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To: hiredhand
Good gracious! ...one heck of a crimp on those 7.62 NATO rounds! Do they chamber well in the SASS?

Maybe the photos don't show it well, but that's just gentle crimp into the bullet cannelure, just like reloading dies can do. Match ammo just has a friction fit, but these rounds are designed for abuse in MGs and rifles. The rounds are NATO-spec, and marked so. I had no problem at all with them in the M1A, but I know they're not up to match standards, and were never intended to be.

I have antique ammo with the case mouth staked to the bullet, and some with a three-piece horizontal crimp at the case mouth. That had to take a special crimping die.

5,196 posted on 08/31/2008 9:35:03 AM PDT by 300winmag (Deterrence is an activity, Destruction is a profession)
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To: osagebowman
Harris Bipod? Looks like you’re all set.

"All set" in the sense of having all the pieces. Not "all set" because I still have to lap the scope rings, mount the scope, and set everything up. At the rate things are going, that might turn into a winter project.

5,197 posted on 08/31/2008 10:01:30 AM PDT by 300winmag (Deterrence is an activity, Destruction is a profession)
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To: Lil'freeper

Whoa...did they call you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2071858/posts


5,198 posted on 08/31/2008 10:05:05 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: 300winmag
Every time I've tried to put a crimp like that on .308 ammo using RCBS dies, I end up pushing the shoulder back. I can get a small bit of crimp (measurable with a dial caliper), but not like the one in your photo! The die used by the manufacturer must have supported the casing just at the shoulder and below. We've even tried two stage crimping where we seat in one operation, and then crimp in another separate step....same bad results.

Generally, we do NOT crimp. For starters, it creates the requirement that each and every casing be the same length and case neck thickness can affect the degree of crimp. If I'm going to go to THAT much trouble, then we'll load for accuracy and sort...weigh...trim cases, case mouths, spin bullets...trickle propellant charges...the whole nine yards!

We've seen the three part crimp! Those were the bullets that were way, WAY off axis! We used these for testing a .308 subsonic round and these particular bullets weighed 147gr. These bullets key-holed the target practically EVERY time at 50 yds. Hornaday 178gr A-Max bullets did NOT. Granted, the whole subsonic "thing" is wet-finger science and there is a lot wrong about spinning a .308 bullet at such low velocities... but those three crimp bullets really do poorly past 300 yards even with full strength loads. We fired a string at a target only 200 yards through an STG-58 that we have here and one of my boys (an excellent marksman) was able to keep all five rounds on an 8.5x11" piece of paper. Then we used an accuracy reload using 150gr FMJ-BTs. He put these all inside of "about" 1.5 inches.

I would imagine that you wouldn't want to fire these out of the SASS unless it was absolutely necessary.
5,199 posted on 08/31/2008 10:08:36 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: Lil'freeper

Heh...cute! Did that get posted on your yarn board?

Speaking of which...I have two nieces on the way! I should make ‘em each *something*, though likely I’ll cop out and use this one again:
http://www.crochetpatterncentral.com/patterns/bubbles_baby_blanket.php

It’s kind of thick unless you use lighter weight yarn, but a nice size for packing around. I’d need some nice colors, though. Mmm...excuses....


5,200 posted on 08/31/2008 10:09:17 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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