Originally Posted by
Omega45
Mike,
I commend you for trying to help your feathered friend here. His postings are absurd and irrevelent to the topic. BH209 can be measured by weight or by volume.
I honestly thought he said exactly that... it can be either way. And I say it is not necessary to weigh BH, which it isn't. It was engineered to be thrown into a volume measure. Will your loads be more consistent weighed? certainly but for hunting - really not necessary.
Trying to scare someone shooting a Pro Hunter questioning his load? Since he brought up the pressure testing........the sabot is your savior, it blows first to save you. Just because you do not want to measure it that way its still acceptable. Ever see conversion tables for T7 or Pyrodex to weight? Then he throws up pressure traces or testing......I have talked to Don at Western Powders enough to know his take on things. I am one of the safest shooters out there when it comes to firearms!!!
I am not sure that he was trying to scare anybody - maybe save the new guy a little money as a beginning shooter and let him work his way up to the more advanced techniques.
Personalities and the conflicts that evolve from these forums are sometimes awful, but you in your profession you would certainly no more about that than I...
I am not the best content reader in the world but I do not remember him saying your loads were unsafe... I certainly do not and I guarantee you Lee would not think 105 grains of BH in a TC would be dangerous. In my mind he was wrong about the 100 grain limit and he should go back and look at a current manual. Although it is possible that in the old days TC followed Hodgdon's 100 grain recommendations - so he might have read that along time ago.
And I would agree from what I know about you and your training - safety would always come first.
Did you happen to read the Encore manual? I posted a link for you.
I did - in fact it is on another tab right now, but the differences between the the Pro Hunter and Omega is so slight not worth mentioning.
I try to stay out of your business when you post.
I do not know why you would do that... differnt opinions can be healthy as long as they are not conflicts.
I have did a pretty good job keeping my fingers from typing until you opened up a can of worms here. Completely absurb. You need to start your own site like Randy Wakeman. Maybe your groupies will follow you over there.
Sorry! I did not mean to tread on your site or your thread - guess I was mistaken as I thought this was an open board and an open forum. Did not know I had a groupie - i always assumed people on here were open minded independent thinkers.
I can not imagine you could lead many of these guys anywhere... in my mind they are like farmers... prioud, independent, and able to make their own decisions.
I would also think on a open forum you would expect to get the good with the bad - something again I think you deal with everyday.