Random Cool Tricks

Here's a trick I don't want to see on my firing line.
Last weekend Ii learned that .308 Winchester will fit in a 6.5 Creedmore chamber. Fortunately for the shooter, (and me, since I was right behind him) it headspaces just deep enough to dent the primer without firing. A couple thousandths of an inch of fouling, or a slightly long firing pin, and it'd be a bad day.

Best to develop habits like I have with shotguns. I never mix 20 and 12 Ga shells in my vest. Too easy to drop a 20 in the chamber of a 12 Ga and have a barrel obstruction.

You might swage the 7.62 bullet down in the 6.5 bore, but why take the chance.

 

Too painful to laugh that hard.

 

Once or twice I pulled in on the wrong side, gassing up my Mom's car. Gas cap on the "wrong side". But NEVER did it repeatedly.
I miss the old designs where the gas cap was under the rear tag.
A buddy with a '57 Chevy used to play with young gas jockeys at full serve stations. They never could find the old Chevy' s concealed gas cap. Under the tail light.

 

Unbelievable ,,, and she's next in line to control the world ,,,

 

USGI M1 Garand en-bloc clips and AK-47 stamped receivers share a similar hardness. Best described as "hard as woodpecker lips."

I've made these two round clips, but it's a challenging job.

 

Reminds me of the blond joke:
Two blondes are walking on opposite sides of a river. the first blonde yells out, Hey How do I get to the other side of the river? The second blonde thinks about it for a moment, then yells back. You are on the other side!

 

Re:#555. Don't know about the '57 but the '56 Belaire (and LaGuna?) definitively had the gas cap under the passenger's side taillight.