I read stuff written by living poets
These guys ain't my contemporaries
Their constructions are as heartfelt as mine, to be sure
However,
their couching is exquisite, delicate, sophisticated and artful
Not at all like my homemade, amateur weld, I Beam backyard
projects
The schooling apparent in their renderings is applaudable
Me, well-- the sincerity of what is presented is not my defense
Hell, I'm more about removing defense
Negating the value of boundaries via exposing their gossamer
material
That sort of thing
Wut da fuk duz dees meen, mon?
Fer 'xample, 'olmes-- take shootin'
le's break it down to the bullet
De average Joe gonna buy his self a box a factory made .40
Guaranteed big bangs for your bucks
Round was invented by S&W in 1990/result of the 9mm failing at
the '86 Miami shootout
Most trigger twitchers don' know/don' wanna know all that
schmack
Me-- I gotta work at the root of what is
So, after I click "publish" on the blog thing off to the right of where
these letters are appearing
I shall return to old t shirt wiping the outside of some .45
Colt cartridges that are piled at my feet
Hand made stuff
Personally poked out the used primer, ream brushed the flash hole
shiny, pressed in a fresh cap to a depth of 1/64 from face
Dropped enough Trail Boss to launch the bullet out the barrel at
about 790 feet per second
Put in aforementioned bullet, a creation of melted lead (800
degrees) that was poured into a wood handled steel mould (Keith
style/250 grains) which, after cooling, was grease groove thumb lubed
with a concoction of Crisco, candle wax and olive oil
before taking its place atop the inch and a quarter
long powdered and primed case
then
rotated to the last press position where the brass is roll crimped
into the other groove
At the end of all this activity it is a good idea to remove schmeckel
that is on the outside
Neatness counts
Back in 1872, when this critter made its debut, it was usin' Black
Powder as a propellent
Thus the large casing
These days we have other colors of powder and we don't need all
that space to get the original speeds (crowdin' a 1,ooo fps)
So why does the round still exist?
Maybe 'cause some folks are still usin' 100+ year old Cowboy guns
and this is what fits in 'em
Maybe 'cause some folks are usin' just built last year guns and this
is what they were built for
I dunno
I just figger I can't see ignorin' somethin' that ain't failed to down
varmint, venison or villian yet jes' to experiment with the new kid
on the block
So
y'all continue to dance educated like on that shiny linoleum
I shall continue to shuffle upon the earth, thank you kindly
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