I have been to places - including those occupied by hippos and elephants, with occasional nightly visits of lions in the tents.

Round of choice in all those National Parks was the 60,000 PSI .458 Win Mag with 500gr solids, flying above 2000 FPS.

Even a very stout 10mm with hardcasts is a challenge on Grizzlies, and you will have to make up with that 15 plus round magazine and hope the animal doesn't get to you.

10mm is decent in the lower states. In Alaska, I'd indeed carry a .500 revolver.

Grizzly Ammo with the 200 and 220 Hardcast is very popular for Alaska Trail ammo in Glock 20.

Grizzly Ammo with the 200 and 220 Hardcast is very popular in Alaska for Trail Loads !

I also use the RCBS carbide pocket uniformers for Large & Small primer pockets.
That became a necessity when dealing with military staked/crimped primer pockets and even some cases with smaller than standard sizes.  They do an amazing job but mine are set at standard pocket sizes.
I hated having crushed/damaged primers especially with supply and cost.
I even changed the way I seated primers in the military and or staked/crimped primer cases which has serve to install primers without damage.

I have used REM 7.5 BR Small Rifle primers in my Fed Nickle Small Primer Pocket Brass with excellent results for my 45 Super loads at 800 FPE with 250gr XTP on Longshot 9.8 gr.

I prep the primer pockets the first (re)load with the RCBS 90375 Case Prep Center and their carbide pocket uniformer that allows to set the seating depth of the primer.

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Quote from: crockett on August 19 2025 11:50:22 AM MDTWhile that instance was indeed decent and made sense, I don't trust the machinery behind it. Replying to that question with a "yes" will remain on your medical recorder forever.

The reason I liked how my son's doc did it is the question wasn't "do you own" it was "do you have access".  Better diagnostic, and less actual information.  But I do see and agree with your point.

Quote from: crockett on August 19 2025 11:50:22 AM MDTIt only takes one new law and this can be used to strip you of your rights for good. In some states, that's already in place for temporary actions.

Our current CIC as illustrated repeatedly that you don't even need a new law.  Just ignore the courts.  I know I am the odd man our in the gun community, but his actions are the examples of why we say we need a second amendment - a government that ignores the rule of law.  We may think the laws that are being ignored are dumb, but they are still the law.  And granting the executive de-facto ability to ignore due process and established law is a very, very dangerous precedent.

And for those ruminating on a response that non-citizens aren't entitle to due process, riddle me this:  without any due process how do we know they were non-citizens? Due process is about validating the claims of the authority.

Quote from: crockett on August 19 2025 11:50:22 AM MDTJust one reason why I avoid going to the doctors. And when I go, I tell the doctor what I need.

I don't disagree. The lack of trust is justified, I am sad to say. 

And without that trust both you and society are compromised.

Illegal aliens do get due process and always have. Many of these federal District Court Judges are activist judges that are themselves violating the Constitution and have been slapped down by the Supreme Court many times. The last one being these idiot, corrupt District Court Judges issuing decisions that to affect the entire country. Such as that idiot judge in Hawaii who issued injunctions for the entire USA outside of his jurisdiction which is only applicable to the geographical area under 9th US Circuit of Appeals. Now the Supreme Court has ruled that these District Court rulings don't apply outside of their geographical areas of their District.

I started my career with I&NS and retired in 2014 and illegal aliens always got due process under the law. But, under the law not all aliens are created equal. For instance, citizens of Mexico (because it is a contiguous country) can request Voluntary Departure back to Mexico or they can request a hearing before an Immigration Judge (Removal Hearing). It is their right under the I&NA. However, an alien from a country that has Visa Waiver agreement with the US who violates his conditions of entry does not have the right to a Removal Hearing because he agreed to conditions (abdicates his rights in the US including the right to a Removal Hearing if they violate the conditions of entry) in order to receive Visa Waiver status to entry the US without the requirement of a Visa. Deportation for such a status violator is immediate deportation and no other process as he has previously waived his rights to get the Visa Waiver status. That said, we also have treaties with certain other countries where we have to notify the country's embassy or consulate in the US, whenever we arrest any citizens of that country as do they for our citizens. I've made plenty of those notifications myself. I've also had to explain to some local police departments that they have to do the same if they arrest and charge a citizen of a country that is part of the treaty. 

I've heard that dumb refrain that our immigration system is broken. Well, I have to say that part of it is broken and needs to be fixed. That is the refugee/asylum system which makes it easy for many illegal aliens to commit fraud like the vast majority of the illegal aliens that entered the US during the Biden Open Door policy. Somebody that understood this was Vice President Dick Cheney in the Bush administration when he made a comment about illegal aliens from Haiti that were flooding our shores and falsely making asylum claims. His comment was simply, if they are in fear for their lives and have to leave Haiti to survive, then, instead of getting onto rikety home made rafts and dangerously sailing across shark infested waters, why don't they just walk across the border into the Dominican Republic? 

Quote from: The_Shadow on August 19 2025 07:08:03 AM MDTNone of their business what you have one way or the other...
Some Dr. offices that don't have a "No Gun" sign, I am conceal carrying. Those that do have the signs I don't!

In Texas the law prohibits carry of firearms into hospitals, clinics, courts, jails, and other specified places, regardless of whether or not the location has a sign prohibiting guns. Now there are other locations (bars, malls, etc) where they do require a sign that is specified as to the wording and size of the sign to prohibit carry of firearms on those premises and equates to a trespassing warning if you are caught. Unlike the hospital and clinics locations that are specified as crimes, not simply trespassing, for entering with a gun.

I haven't seen a primary care doctor in 22 years and just started seeing going to a new clinic on recommendation of my healthcare insurance plan for older people. I started last December. They have not specifically asked me about guns. But, they have had me answer questionnaires about depression and suicide thoughts which I never have as well as cognitive and memory testing. No issues at this clinic and the doctors seem pretty good. They never ask about guns and I don't volunteer irrelevant information either. 

The reason that I stopped seeing a doctor was because I was on statins for high cholesterol and they drew blood every 3 months. I always had issues with needles and especially blood draws since I was a teenager. They would try to draw blood and none would come out and they would twist the needle which hurt and then after about 10 seconds my vein felt like a vacuum cleaner was trying to suck the vein out of my arm and hurt like *@$!! and I'd have to tell them to get that needle out of my arm. Then they'd want to put it back in the same arm and I'd say, no, you're going to the other arm. This would happen every time and after a year I stopped going. But at this clinic the nurse actually knows how to drawn blood and it was almost painless. Insertion of the needle was painless, but, it took about 2 minutes to draw 5 vials of blood and it got a little painful after the first minute and I could feel the needle in the vein. But, even that wasn't anywhere near as painful as the other clinic twisting the needle in the arm trying to find the vein and leaving it in till the suction started to get very painful.   

In 10mm Auto with AA9 powder I always use CCI 350 primers and heavy dose of powder for 1250 fps in G20 with 190gr / 200gr bullet