I normally write my daily postings the night before. The article about pulling bullets was written Friday night for Saturday morning. After I wrote the article, around 2322, I decided it was time for bed. And got distracted on the way there.

The reloading press was right there. I had warmed up the scale before starting the article. So I sat down and reloaded the bullets I had just pulled.

Per the Hornady manual, 14.5gr of Alliant 2400 under a 156gr HDY GTX. Success!

Today I did a test firing. The .357 Mag was an afterthought.

This required more digging. I cannot find the crate or ammo can that should be full of powder, nor can I find the can or crate full of 30-30 brass.

I do find the 30cal can labeled “30-30”, I open it, hoping to find cases. Nope! Instead, I found the mother load. Two boxes of bullets. Old bullets. A couple of plastic ziplock bags labeled for 30-30. A bag with a single case ready to reload.

The bottom half of the can was full of loaded, ready to use 30-30.

Using the instructions I got from the owner of boxes for ammo, I started backing them in nice white boxes. 6 boxes, 20 rounds each of 30-30. I don’t need to reload any 30-30 today!

I took the Marlin 30-30 with scope out to try to zero it. Not a lot of joy there. I need to do it again. Since I was taking the 30-30 out, I took the Ruger GP100 with .357 Mag loaded up. Fired off the cylinder. Perfection. All the cases ejected as they should. No sighs of over pressure on the primers, and I’m below max load.

The 30–30 Marlin punched my shoulder harder than I expected. It didn’t zero. I’m not sure what is going on there. My Winchesters, firing the same loads, do an outstanding job of ringing steel and punching holes in paper, exactly where I want. Iron sights and all.

Sunday I need to finish digging through the reloading room. I know there is a couple of cans of powder in there. I just need to find them.

When you make a mistake, own up, do the right thing.

I didn’t do the right thing. The right thing was to pull all the bullets for the hot loads I made. I didn’t want to because it is a bit of work, and I’m lazy. It should be safe to unload them through the R92.

Lazy, safe, reloading do not work. You have to be careful, you have to do the right thing, every time.

I have two or three powder throws. I do not use them. The consistency I was getting with them wasn’t good enough.

The two presses I have are both Lee presses. One is an OLD single stage. I like it. I don’t use it. At this point, my main complaint, using it to deprime, is no longer an issue as I use a different method. The press I do use is a Lee Turret press.

When I started using it, I used it as a turret press. Everything was all setup and I could crank out the rounds quickly and easily. First I would deprime, then clean the cases in a wet tumbler. From there, it was time to run it through the turret press.

Put the case in shell holder. Handle down to resize the case. While the handle is down, place primer in the primer cup. Handle up to insert the primer and rotate the plate to the next station. Handle down to flare the mouth, throw the powder charge. The Lee charger is semi-automatic. As the case presses into the die, it causes the charger to throw one charge. Handle up, place bullet in the case. Handle down to seat the bullet. Handle up to move to the next station. Handle down to crimp the case. Remove the cartridge, put the case in the shell holder, repeat.

Today, I use the turret press as a quick change plate. There is a universal depriming die, sizing die, mouth flare, bullet seating+crimping die. I rotate the plate to the die I want, then use it like a single stage press.

Which brings us to how I do it now. I have an automatic powder measure. You input the weight you want, press the “drop” button. The machine twists a trickle tube until the scale reads exactly the weight you wanted.

It takes just a few moments to throw the charge accurately. I have a standalone powder charger stand. I have just the base in it. This gives me a big enough target that I don’t need a funnel. I hold the case mouth against the bottom surface, pour the pan into the top and the case is charged.

The pan gets placed back on the scale for the auto-throw. Once it stabilizes, it will start throwing the next charge. While that charge is being thrown, I’m putting the case in the press, putting a bullet on and seating it along with the crimp.

Not as fast as a progressive, by far. Not as fast as just using the turret press. But it is the way I do it today.

So back to pulling bullets. I have a collet puller which hasn’t worked for me. Instead, I use an inertia puller. Put a round in the puller. Hit it on a hard surface a few times, the bullet pops out. It works, it just takes more of an effort than I like, as a lazy person.

Now that all the bullets are pulled, I can reuse the bullets and put the correct charge in place.

Thank you to everybody who told me I was being a dumb ass. I was. Your gently chiding was enough to make it clear I needed to do the right thing.

This is what I was thinking of:

Since the video, they did discover that the SLAP rounds that he was firing were not military surplus. That they were way too hot and the cause of the exploding 50 BMG rifle.

Things are getting better. I have a few rounds to be pulled. All the “hot” rounds have been put in a safe place, and I’ll pull them tomorrow.

There have been a couple of horrific opinions issued by the courts in the last few weeks. I’m going to be looking at more of them.

There have been a few wins. The 11th Circuit has vacated the opinion of the 3 judge panel and is currently planning on hearing the 18-20 yo aren’t a part of The People en banc.

The 2nd Circuit is still dragging their heels. The 7th Circuit hard testimony and is not going into wait it out mode. The 4th circuit still hasn’t made up their mind if they are going to follow Bruen and declare Kolbe bad law.

I’m still looking for dana950 and OldNFO to contact me via email.

Have a fantastic weekend!

The comments are open to everybody.

Judge Benitez is hearing this case. I believe there are a few other cases he is hearing as well. Earlier this month there was a hearing. He has now set the schedule for the trial on the merits.

This is the point at which he will hear all the evidence, decide which are “facts” and from there he will issue his opinion.

On June 30, 2023, judge Benitez set a hearing date of July 17, 2023, at 1400. He issued the following order:

The state responded with:

The state isn’t willing to tell the court, in writing, before the hearing what their arguments and evidence are. They are reserving that for the day of the hearing.
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Kubernetes (k8s) is a tool for running containers on a cluster with a high level of redundancy.

Consider the case where you have a website that must be up all the time. You containerize the website. This adds a gigantic level of security but still gives you great flexibility.

The site is running just like it is supposed to, and you decide it is time to upgrade. You “rollout” the next version of the software. The new software is deployed, it starts running and is fully functional. The K8S cluster then changes some internal routing, and all traffic that used to go to the old container now goes to the new container.

When all traffic to the old container is done, the old container is terminated. Total downtime, zero.

Now it does work this way, MOST of the time. There are a few complexities to this which can cause issues. Your website consists of three parts, the “assets”, the “software”, and the “database”.

Since the database is running in a different container, there is no issue on the rollout of the website.

The software is part of the container. No issues there.

The assets, though… Those live on disk. The new website container must have access to those assets.

K8S resolves this through a Storage Method. A storage method is just away for you to describe storage that exists outside the container and which persists even if the container goes away.

The reality is that the data exists on the “node” and the container must access the node storage. Some types of storage are all network and K8S has the tools to use it straight out of the box. Other storage methods are just ways of exposing the node’s file system to the container.

Consider these three methods, SAMBA, MS Shares, and NFS. All three of these methods are pure network based. You have some sort of server that serves the files over the network. K8S attaches the file systems directly to the container. Since the actual data exists back on the file server, it is possible to have multiple nodes access that data at the same time.

Now consider an iSCSI target. There is a file server that is serving that target. That target is exported as a block device. Think “hard drive”. When you attach it to a node, it is as if you had plugged a new hard drive into that node.

Once that block device is plugged in, you can do other work with it. Not as it is. You first have to format it format c: for Windows users or mkfs /dev/sda for Linux people.

This is fine. Multiple nodes can attach the same block device. If one node formats the block device, the other nodes see it as a formatted drive that can be mounted.

Unfortunately, this will lead to data corruption. Most file systems are not designed to be modified from multiple hosts at the same time. There are only a very few file systems that are capable of running across multiple nodes at the same time.

This is the issue we are currently having with Linode. We request an iSCSI block device from Linode. This is provided for use as a “persistent volume”. When a container needs access to a particular volume, it uses a persistent volume claim.

To access that volume, K8S tells the node to mount the device. The node then allows the container to mount that part of the file system. Because the file system is single use only, the PV can only be mounted on one node at a time.

To access that PV on a different node, the current node must detach the PV. The container must move to the other node, the other node must mount the PV and only then can the container access the data again.

On Monday, a node attached the PV and then died. It did not detach the PV. K8S instantly discovered that GFZ was down and started a new container on a different node. The new node asked to attach the PV. The old node was dead, so didn’t say a damn thing. For 6 hours it sat like that until we destroyed both the new and old node and got a new new node, at which point everything started working again.

This happened because Linode forced an upgrade of our K8S, and it did not go cleanly.

On Tuesday, we upgraded K8S again. This time the new nodes all came up. Unfortunately, the node which GFZ was attempting to run on refused to attach the PV. Once Linode had looked at the issue, we kicked that node hard and it all started working again.

We need to have something that provides reliable, robust, multihost access. The answer is something called “ceph”. That was my fun for the day. Learning enough about ceph to allow us to migrate to using it for our persistent volumes.

B.L.U.F.More of analysis of the horrid opinion offered by Judge Karin Immergut out in Oregon.

I’ve since learned that she spent most of her career, before becoming a district judge, working as a prosecutor for the government. She was actually a prosecutor for the ATF. OF course, she found a gun infringement constitutional.

It is pretty clear that the judge was picking and choosing experts, facts, and testimony to get the conclusion she wanted. This is clear from the following:

The EVIL gun lobby wants this, we can’t accept their testimony. How about the fact that Everytown, Brady, and a dozen other groups all pile on when there is a Second Amendment Case? Should their testimony be discounted because they have been a plaintiff in several Second Amendment challenges? Maybe the judge should disallow Paul Clement from representing Second Amendment plaintiffs because he’s been involved with several Second Amendment challenges?

Does she really think that all these anti-gun people don’t make money from litigating? I’ve looked at some of the tax filings for some of these groups, they seem to spend significant amounts of money on the administrative and executive salaries.

What is she talking about? That most people don’t buy extra magazines for their firearms? Technically, I guess that is true. My M1 Garand came with zero enblocs. I think I have over 50 of them now. All but a few loaded. My PC-9 came with one magazine. I’ve never even loaded it. I purchased 6 Glock magazines to feed it, and then purchased a Glock with a couple of magazines.

My first AR-15 came with two magazines. One was 5 rounds and the other 10. None of the other AR-15s came with magazines. I don’t know how many magazines I currently have. I still have one 5 round mag, and one 10 round magazine. I do have a few 20 round mags, but most of my magazines are 30 rounds.

It does not matter why The People decide to purchase extra magazines or if they just use the magazine(s) that come with their guns. They have decided that ammunition feeding devices with more than 1, 5, 7, 9, 10, or 15 rounds is what they want, those purchases are protected under the Second Amendment.

The judge is incorrect in how she categorizes these anecdotal incidents. They are examples of people using their arms to actively defend themselves. They were using those arms for lawful purposes, such as self-defense, by possessing them. They prove The People chose these arms in common use today for lawful purposes.

Conclusion

I’m now behind the curve, here are a couple of YouTube videos that go into just how bad this opinion is.

I might come back to this, but with multiple issues with the k8s cluster resulting in a full day of ClusterFuck and then another 30 minutes of minor CF today. I have not had time to do any more wading through this swamp.

On the wall of the living room is a display rack. My family got it for me for my birthday. It has an American Flag motif and holds four rifles and has a small cabinet at the bottom for ammo and other accouterments.

On the bottom is a Henry Golden Boy in .22LR. Squirrel gun.

Above that is a Rossi R92 in .357 magnum. Raccoon rifle.

Above that is a Winchester ’95 in 30-30. Deer rifle.

At the top sits a Henry in 45-70. Bear rifle.

The .22lr is mostly a showpiece. It is fun to run, but it is not my go to for taking squirrels. The R92 is the rifle I’m most likely to pick up when things go bump in the night. The 30-30 is too big for small game. The 45-70 is there for when it is needed.

The 45-70 is firing +P rounds. When the first round hit the 8in steel, it knocked the plate off the chains. The 30-30 is firing cast bullets, and I’ve not had any luck with the new mold. I haven’t made the time to cast, and it is too freaking hot to do casting right now. I did source 300 Hornady FTX bullets, so I’ll be loading some rounds up shortly.

Which brings me to the dumb. I’ve been shooting cast bullets out of the R92 loaded over 5 grains of TiteGroup. Nice load. In .38 SPL, 5gr is a +p load behind a 125GR HDY XTP, which is what I loaded up over the weekend. I only shot it out of the Ruger GP100. It did what it was supposed to. Felt pleasant in the hand.

Subsequently, I went to load up some .357 magnums. I checked my notes a few times, wrote down the recipe. Double-checked here and there. Did one final check and then started loading 158gr Hornady XTP over [REDACTED] grains of Alliant 2400. Loaded 50 rounds. Went out to the range and sent 5 rounds down range.

Nice punch. Recoil was there. It even left a small ache afterward. It made the steel ring and swing. Then I cleaned everything and was getting ready to shut down for the night when it occurred to me to check another number.

Yep. The amount of 2400 for a 125 gr XTP was what I put under that 158 gr XTP.

Yeah, those rounds are hot.

I checked the primers for over pressure. There might be some signs, but nothing really stands out.

Today I decided to check the loads out in the Ruger.

Now that was a kick. It RANG the steel. When it hit the box with the spatter target on it, the box jumped. Lots of energy being transferred.

I should have stopped the first time I tried to cock the hammer and the cylinder didn’t want to rotate freely. A little help, and it rotated into position for the next shot.

After we were done, I went back in and went to dump the cylinder. The cases didn’t fall out. That’s ok. I’m told it happens. I pushed on the ejector rod. Nothing. The cases didn’t even budge a little bit.

In the end, I took to tapping the ejector rod gently until the cases ejected.

The pressure was high enough to pressure from the cases to the cylinder walls. Those rounds are not going into the revolver again. They are far too hot for that hand gun.

I’m torn. What I should do is pull every round. What I want to do is just send them down range through the R92.

Do as I say, if you make a hot load and you know it. Don’t mess around, just pull them. You can save the bullets. So what if you lose a bit of powder.