Well, I now have enough .45 and .223 loaded to do a test run. I’m a total newbie at this, and I think I’ve done everything right (I was extra careful and weighed every round). I hope to make it to the range tomorrow or Wednesday to see how well they work.

If all goes well I’ll crank out a few hundred rounds of .45 to use at the next fun steel shoot, and start working on figuring out a decent round for the WAHTF rifle I built.

I’ve turned the google ads back on, lets see if they can show anything relevant. I went through the links and removed all the old broken ones. I guess Its been quite a while since I visited some of those sites.

I ran across this post over at Pass the Ammo via GunBloggers.com. I made what I thought was a fairly reasonable reply to the posting.

Later in the day I wanted to check out the rest of the site, and noticed that my reply was missing. I was pretty sure I’d done it right, but anything is possible. I happened to have it open on the laptop so I re-posted it this morning. Its gone again. Now, this doesn’t really bug me that much, I don’t have any ‘right’ to have my comment posted, but I do think that silently deleting opposing viewpoints gives the false impression that everyone agrees with you.

update It ends up that my post was the victim of an overzealous Askimet spam filter! Spammers certainly have made it harder to manage comments on blogs these days, and Askimet usually does a reasonable job of things. Sorry to Pass the Ammo for thinking the posts were being dropped on purpose.

So, I give you my original comment:

Please don’t.

I felt the same way in 1992, and by voting for Ross Perot helped hand the country over to Bill Clinton.

All through the primaries I swore I would not vote for McCain this time around.

But I have to act like a grownup now. The economy is sliding into a recession, people wrongly blame the Republicans for that. We WILL have supreme court judges retire in the next 4 years. Congress will likely be under democrat control. Bush has already tipped us over into the nationalization of banks and the use of public funds for private benefit. Obama will only make this worse.

If you vote for anyone but McCain you will be helping to hand the country over to the socialists, and once they reinforce their hold there will be no turning back. This is a turning point in the history of the United States. Can we survive as a nation of Free Men?

He has setup a (very recent looking) backup of TheHighRoad on a new server under the domain thehighroad.us while he fights for control of thehighroad.org

My login worked fine, and it even remembered my last login date correctly.

HatTip to Snowflakes In Hell

Tomorrow is my last day. I suppose the bright side is that now I should have time to learn how to use my new reloading setup in-between surfing craigslist for jobs.

Anyone need a Linux geek/sysadmin/software developer who is fluent in C, Python, PHP and a bit rusty in Perl? I’m a reliable telecommuter as well, no need to pay for me to relocate.

Email me at editor here at libertynews.

Pretty much sums up how I feel about the whole lot of them.

H/T to Sith by SithWest

The High Road, one of the largest pro-gun websites has been hijacked by its hosting provider. The hosting provider, Derek Zeanah owner of WellBuiltNetworks.com, was asked to change the domain registration from its original owner, Rich Lucibella, to the forum’s actual owner and moderator Oleg Volk. He instead changed the ownership to himself and locked out many of the admins who disagreed with him.

Background by an original moderator

Mr. Lucibella says:

At no time was I aware that Derek was acting as anything but Oleg’s personal agent. Had I been aware that Derek was acting for his own benefit I would never have transferred the domain name to him. It is my position that Mr. Zeanah had fraudulently misrepresented himself to me. If he persists in publicly hiding behind my statements, taken out of context, I will have little choice but to join this legal fray, recover the domain name thru the courts and pursue Mr. Zeanah for my legal fees.

Here is Oleg’s request for support and an Update from Oleg where it appears that Derek Zeanah has also hijacked Oleg’s Armed Polite Society forum as well. At this time it is in maintenance mode and still pointing to the same server that hosts The High Road forum.

This Derek Zeanah guy gives IT people a black eye. His job is to host the site, not try and steal it from its rightful owner. He has a hosting company, wellbuiltnetworks.com, and if you are a customer of his or thinking about becoming a customer I’d look elsewhere. Unethical behavior like this is bound to carry over into the rest of his business dealings.