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  1. 8 minutes ago, davidg said:

    If its a small two lane ramp and you are dicking around hogging the center, I will back my boat and truck down close enough that you can't walk between the vehicles and launch before you realize whats happening.

    See, I go the other way here. If somebody is taking their half out of the middle, I pull down to where they know I'm waiting for them to GTFO, and then I just sit there with my truck idling (kinda loud diesel) as to hopefully add to their stress level/shame a little. Usually it does, as I can detect a quickened pace and more tense communications among their crew. You can almost hear the Yakety Sax...

  2. 3 hours ago, davidg said:

    I always let one of the kids or my wife pull the boat on the trailer.  They drop me off to get the truck then pull back out and wait away from the ramp.  By the time I've got the trailer backed in and hop out of the truck, they are 50' away, idling right toward the trailer.  Once it hits the bunks a little goose on the throttle to slide it up a couple of feet and I attach the strap and winch the last 2 or 3 feet.   they will kill and trim the motor and we are off in about a minute and a half.

    This is definitely my preferred method. And reverse it for launching; everything and everybody but me in the boat, plug in, switches on, ready to start before we back onto the ramp. I back the boat down the ramp, unstrap, wife backs boat off trailer and waits for me away from the courtesy dock, pulls up when I'm back from parking the truck. On and off the boat ramp in 2 mins or less. If the trailer parking area is empty and I know she won't have a problem pulling into an easy spot with the truck/trailer, sometimes she parks the truck and I use the time idling the boat to fill ballast bags.

    I can't stand folks that back their boat onto the ramp (especially during busy times) and then have a 5 minute fire drill loading ice chests, boards, bags, etc. onto the boat. We saw some folks doing that shit in a late model Wakesetter last weekend, which solicited a nice eyeroll and commentary from my wife. Now that I think about it, my wife talking shit about other folk's boating techniques is kind of a turn-on. So maybe I like folks clowning around on the boat ramp? Deep thoughts...

     

  3. 375 WBY Reloading update:

    Shot my 86.5 gr loads today, and the velocity was a little better than I expected, about 2850 FPS. My standard deviation was about 11, so not great, but I can live with it. Here’s the data:

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    Worked on dialing in the scope, and took some shots at 200 and 300 yards, but the ballistic turret application calculated values over-compensated for the drop and my shots were a little high, so will need to figure that out empirically. Conversely, maybe I just wasn’t shooting straight. To be honest, I don’t like shooting from a lead sled, next time I go out I’m putting a bipod on and getting prone and seeing if things get better.

    Also of note: had a gusty 90 degree crosswind of 10+ mph and it didn’t affect the POI much at all at 300 yards.

    I think the load will work, I just need to work on shooting skills more at this point.

  4. Excellent work, Brew..  I’m just chillin’ on mi barco.  Going to sail up to Ventura Harbor tomorrow morning and the fam is going to meet me there.  Have lunch at Brophy Bros and sail back.  Mother’s Day brunch up here Sunday.  No place on earth I’d rather be.



    I, for one, take comfort in the fact that SB is out there taken ‘er easy for all us sinners.

    See y’all on the water

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  5. Friday night reloading recap; say hello to my lil friends:

     

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    That’s about 50,000 ft-lbs of potential energy. Kinda wild. Discretion being the better part of valor, I dialed back to an 86.5 grain load for this batch, which should give me about 2840 FPS MV. My rifle has liked that velocity with other ammo, so just need to get some time to shoot some groups.

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, troph said:

    Got up twice, fell another dozen times lulzmao... will get back up again. Foot pic for hollywoodcolt... happy Friday bitches !

    Looks like a great first day! Beautiful boat! Lots of space too - is it a 23'?

  7. 12 minutes ago, GSU&UT said:

    Could almost use its own thread, but fucking parents of the year right here. Cheetah's are still big enough to fuck you up man,

    The dude running to the car leaving the lady holding the kid on her own is fucking shameful. Dude needs to look in the mirror and evaluate his priorities.

  8. Anyone have experience with repairing a flex spot in an aluminum deck? It's inaccessible from underneath. It flexes and "pops" when you step on it. Scares my pet redfish away. Right behind the trolling motor too.

    I have a local shop that'll weld on aluminum. I just need to know what to tell those boys to do. Weld another piece on top of it? Something else?


    I don’t know much about aluminum boats, but have you got a pic of the offending area?
  9. 30 minutes ago, Jhawk said:

    The CEO of dicks ... an idiot.

    I think the CEO is the son of Dick (founder). I don't know how much stock the family owns, but it may effectively be "his" company to run into the ground, which, yes, he is doing. Somewhat related: Chick-fil-A is by my estimates shaving close to a billion in revenue by not opening on Sundays. The patrons would be lined up out the door at that place at 12:30 on Sundays. We should have a "Stupid Business Decisions and Idiot CEOs" thread. 

  10. On 5/8/2018 at 7:13 AM, troph said:

     


    It goes in the water this Friday I’m told!! Taking the day off... so yes ... very soon!

     

    Hey Troph I know you said you weren't much on trailering;  make sure the dealer's guys take the wheels off your new boat tomorrow before you go hauling up the lake

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  11. 22 minutes ago, davidg said:

    Isn't the 375 Wby basically an improved 375 H&H?  Why not use 375 H&H as starting loads vs extrapolating from a 30.06?  I haven't compare the specs on both 375s but one would think that almost any 375 H&H load would be within maximum of the Wby.

    No reference has published 375 H&H data for the newer slow burning powders that I wanted to try (Superformance, Reloader 26). Regarding both Superformance and Reloader 26, Hodgdon and Alliant only have 12 chamberings of published loads for each. This doesn't really make sense if you're a powder maker trying to get more information out there to help folks select powder. I think its probably for several business reasons:

    • Corporate attorneys want to limit published data to limit liability.
    • There is seemingly a lot more profit margin in Magnum ammunition than small stuff, so it wouldn't surprize me at all if the major ammo manufacturers in the Magnum market contract with their powder suppliers to not publish load data for the powders/chamberings they are making.
    • Specifically, I read somewhere that Hornady had an agreement with Hodgdon to limit published load data of Superformance. Hornady sells "Superformance" 375 H&H Ammo, so I imagine Hornady doesn't want their recipe published. (Reloading the exact Hornady Superformance 375 H&H load would cost you around $35/box, versus buying their ammo @ $70 per box)
  12. 10 hours ago, Sam Lin said:
    Any signs of pressure on the primer? Not a definitive check, given different primers and different pockets, but it's one additional data point.

     


    The 90 grain load looks like it flattened the primer a little, but no cratering around any of the firing pin indentations

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  13. Very interesting stuff, but there ain't any elephants or rhinos in West Texas though.
    What bullet weights & brand?



    Yeah, but if a 150 grain bullet at 2900 FPS is good, then a 270 grain bullet at 2900 FPS is good-er.

    All shots were Barnes LRX 270 grain.
  14. Reloading endeavor range report:

    Made it to the ranch and shot my progressive 375 WBY loads:

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    Everything went great. No issues from my first ever handloads and the velocity numbers were a nice surprise. Success!

    There aren’t many published loads for 375 WBY, and those that are published seemed like they used faster burning powders than what would be optimal. I ended up trying a powder I thought might work well, but the closest cartridge it has published load data for is the 30-06. I extrapolated the 30-06 data to the 375 WBY. That might have been a little risky for my first attempt, but everything I read lead me to believe it would work fine. The last couple loads were compressed, and the bolt handle seemed just a little tighter when I opened it after the highest load (which I almost didn’t shoot because I was comfortably over my target velocity), which might indicate a little too much pressure. Here’s the data. Next I think I’m going to work up some loads around 2900 FPS and check grouping, then adjust from there if need be. Also need to shoot from the sticks and make sure the recoil hasn’t become ridiculous.

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    Also, I used Caldwell’s phone ap, which is a handy way to automatically log the data, especially when you’re shooting groups:

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  15. Rolled up about 10 progressive loads. Hopefully I’ll have some time to swing by the ranch tomorrow and chronograph them and see what the speeds look like. Definitely going to be watching for overpressure signs.

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