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Let us know when you get the manufacturing process worked out and I'll start saving my 22LR hulls.  You might get some help paying for your equipment if you want !

You thinking 60gr neighborohood ?  Soft lead explosive-tip mabby ?

Well, so far we have established that a lot of us old codgers currently reload already.   We also have a subset who used to cast and reload, but have stopped over the years.

We haven't seen any of the newer people asking any questions, though.  
Nobody has said "I want to reload XX for my xxxxx nor has anyone asked any interesting questions.

So, I'll ask one.   Anybody ever hollow pointed some milsurp lake city FMJ open bottom bullets?   Anybody ever beat the "open bottom open top gas blowby" issue and still get some sort of expansion upon meat strike?

Not to do with reloading but I came across a Davidson Limited Edition 10/22 this afternoon at a local gun shop. Beautiful Laminated Stock and stainless steel barrel. I held it and couldn't put it down. My wife was with me , guess what? Its my Christmas Present from my wife. I love laminate stocks. I'm old fashioned and like wooden furniture. I have a M77 308 Compact with laminated stock and stainless barrel. Its my favorite alltime gun.I had a 10/22 I bought about 3 years ago ( gave my 1976 model 10/22 to my son in law) because it was on sale. It had a plastic stock. I never fired it because I didnt like carrying it around and I sold it for what I gave for it. I had to get another 10/22 because I have seven BX25 mags LOL. Now if I could just find a wooden stock for my Mini 30. I've heard you could modify a Mini 14 stock to fit a Mini 30  but my eyes arent good for working with close tolerances. I've got my plastic AR and Sig 522 and I can live with that but when a rifle has the shape of a rifle I want wood.

Laminated stocks should be tougher than regular wooden stocks because of the glue (maybe epoxy) bonding the different layers. I doubt if I have any wood problems out of a 22 LOL but my laminated stock on my 308 has held up well for years and looks like new. I know a plastic stock will probably shoot better because its pretty much impervious to weather changes but I'm not a great shot and I probably couldnt tell the difference anyway. I dont shoot anything more powerful than a 308 since I cant hunt anymore and I'm just an old fart that prefers wooden stocks.

i shot alot of black powder, so i really love a wooden stock. i have some polymer stocked rifles. they just dont compare with my black powder collection. i really love the old thompson center rifles. i can hardly pass one up for sale at a decent price. they made some beautiful rifles before the plant burned down. now they make mostly polymer about a year ago i found a t/c renegade with a presentation grade stock in unfired condition. some day ill fire it. right now im just content to let it hang in my livingroom.

Thanks for the offer WD. That means a lot to me. I can climb a stand and sit in it. I dont have the strength to skin the deer and process the meat. Its pretty hard to skin a deer if you've lost over half of your body strength. It takes some strength to skin a deer, at least more than I have.There use to be a guy about an hr away. All you did was shoot the deer and take it to him. He would skin, gut and process the meat into hamburger or sausage or steaks and put it into small vacuum sealed bags for $75. Those vacuum sealed bags would last in the freezer for years. I've got a friend checking for me to see if the guy is still in operation. The last deer I took to him I killed it with a headshot from my 17HMR at 150 yds. Its illegal but I just wanted to see if the gun would do it. It was a 5 pointer and he hit the ground and never kicked. Blowed his eyeballs out. I was on my way to call in some coyotes and I saw him. My wife has cut up several deer for me to make jerky but with her babysitting our 2 year old grandchild and her part time work schedule she just doesnt have time. I've got a real smoker that runs off wood and people use to beg me for my jerky. I know a company that has around 6 deer practically fenced in on around 4 acres and somehow wild dogs are getting under the fence. and killing the Bambi's. They told me if I could, take the deer and the dogs. If the deerskinner is still in business I'll drop em. Got a camera in there and since the acorns are falling there's one fat 8 pointer in there. There's so many deer around here you cant hardly ride anymore safely. I've carried caskets of two friends killed by deer on  motorcycles. A lot of them are dying off because of black tongue. That means the season is too short. I'm an animal lover, have several pets including squirrels. Have a flying squirrel that eats outta my hand everynight but I'll shoot a deer anytime , season or not as long as it is not a doe with a Bambi. I always ate the meat, I dont like to waste one of God's animals unless its a killer coyote, which there's way too many of them around here. One biker was killed by a deer less than a half mile from my house and I live in the city limits. I used to hunt on one guys land and his daughter was killed by a deer while driving a car. Must have come through the windshield. I told him one day about letting a small doe walk and he got up in my face and told me (not in a nice Christian way) I had better not let anything walk again. He hated deer with a passion and I could see why. I got so used to eating deer hamburger I dont even like real hamburger any more. The deerskinner knew just exactly how much beef fat to mix in and to me it made better soup and chili than the real stuff.

I've got a very large steel chain fall equipped A frame and a backhoe, skinning is NO problem. Retired preacher across the road was a USN butcher and then a civilian butcher.

Major concerns covered... so when should I expect you...