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Sour Dough Balistics

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Please excuse the mess. Wife and grandkid asleep next to kitchen on the couch.

The small lodge pan is great for a sandwich loaf and a good test loaf size instead of making a round boule twice the size.

That little white bowl scraper is worth its weight in gold when you figure out how to work your dough in a bowl while it's still sticky and not get all messy.

The homade funnel is ok my good one that fits the ball jars is dirty but keeps things from being a mess and the insides of the jars clean so you can see progress.

3x5's recipies get rubber bands and let you mark starter beginning height. Plastic spoons are easier to clean.

NEW From Zermatt Arms - RimX Actions

Just an FYI...

I just got my replacement bolt parts from Zermatt today. I have a 35XX serial # that was galling right away on the bolt. Zermatt said parts were arriving this week. I haven't installed it yet, but I should know soon if this fixes the issue.

Mine shows up tomorrow. Also serial 35XX.
Going to run it Friday and Sunday and get at least 1000 thru it.

Night Vision Drones: Changing of the Guard

What are people using these cool toys for? Just curious. They look like fun.

Mobile ELR target camera.
Checking my shingles, fence lines, trust passers, cattle, etc.

Finding target critters in the still of night. I’d say with all the gear we have, helmet mounted or otherwise, we find majority of our sounders and loan bores with a drone.

They’re crazy useful and fun.
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1911 carriers step inside...

I still have a Baer Custom Carry to run through its paces. I like the configuration of the Baer stingers but (personally) have been apprehensive purchasing one for myself due to how Les builds the compact models. The Concept VII is damned attractive though and the only thing I'd spec differently would be a single side safety (but don't know if that'd still be a VII at that point)

-LD
Their model numbers are stupid. But yes, the Concept VII is a great carry gun. I plan to send it to Wright Armory for carry cuts and an optic cut....at some point
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Bartlein Barrels Update

Hard work, loyalty, going above and beyond, sacrifice, etc goes both ways! Not to mention appropriate pay (ahem) for the level of effort or risk taken (including the risk to the marriage, kids, and other relationships).

Biz owners should realize that many, many, many firms offer none of these things to employees (but nonetheless expect them in return); employees who can often be dismissed at a moment’s notice in the USA at will (whim? Lol).

Let’s take a large corp example, say, in finance. Low level, non-managerial worker makes $150,000; CEO makes $16m. Worker to CEO pay is 1:107.

Worker:CEO ratio of 1:107
Hours worked/week: 40:4280?

I’ll stop the comparo there, but you get the drift. One can think about this in terms of autonomy, choice of work hours, vacation time, whatever metric you want.

So, if you expect an employee to care almost as much as the biz owner, you need to go way, way, way above and beyond the typical employer’s effort & compensation (material or otherwise).

Or you sift and sift and sift for those suckers who will kill themselves for you, if for no other reason than for a pat on the back.
Go take the run of the mill upper management at Tesla and see if he can create space-x

Take a branch manager at Chase and see if he can run JP Morgan like Diamond does.

Take anyone in Google and see if they can run it like bezos had.

Rude to say and some people just won’t admit it..the reason a CEO makes 1-107..is because he’s worth every worker bee X 10.

If not every company in every country in every market makes the same mistake and is purposefully throwing money at people who don’t deserve it.

And no CEO works 40 hours.

Thunderbeast RR end cap adapter group buy - 338 ultra and magnus

What I mean is, you put the adapter on and leave it on and remove the brake as you want off of this adapter. So if you remove the brake, you’re still left with a flat end cap. Benefits being better performance on smaller calibers and better performance when you have the brake off and just have a flat cap.
Why would you think you would get better performance with the brake off?