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Originally Posted by fit4kris
Good Lord! Those are cannons! I got the DE to venture from my Glock collection. It was a good price and looked dead sexy. And shooting it, well, it's amazing. I haven't played with many big bore rifles or handguns, or curious or relics for that matter. Although I did have an Enfield Jungle carbine chambered in .308 vs the British .303 round...Right now the safe just contains an AK, a little over half a dozen Glock's and the DE. I try to splurge when I can and since I am selling the Fit, I guess I am going to have a little more cash laying around.
About the gun/car nut comparisson, I think it is a power thing! I dunno. But I envy you loading your own...I can dive head first into my car but too nervous to load my own rounds. I keep thinking I would miss something.
Take it easy...good hearing from you again.
kris
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Moderator Tool and others will probably feel called upon to remind us that this is a forum for discussions about the Honda Fit, so go ahead and remind us---
You have enough mechanical ability to be completely safe making your own ammo. It's just as silly to pay through the nose for off the shelf retail ammo as it is to pay $100.00 an hour to have your oil changed and wheels rotated by some shop schmuck. And the cost to feed your .50 cal. pistol must be enormous. The retail cost of a reloading machine, bullet and powder scales, powder, primers, and everything else involved would almost be paid by your savings one one box of rounds for the DE. Once you get the hang of it, 50 rounds would take you about 10 minutes to make manually, or 5 minutes with automated equipment. But that DOES take time away from mods and track time for your car(s).
Regarding car and gun addiction- they are pretty much hard-wired into male DNA. My dad was a Buick mechanic before enlisting in the Army in 1942, became a weapons tech, then cross trained in the Air Corps to get his own B-17 to fly. I come by my own mechanical skills though both DNA and family teaching, then school and decades of professional experience.
BTW-
The 20mm "Mini-guns" that fire thousand of rounds per minute on aircraft and Bradley vehicles were developed by a G.E. employee with a gun fetish. He owned an original 19th. century Gattling gun chambered for .45-70 Gov't., and one bored afternoon, replaced the crank handle with an electric motor. After completely obliterating the cinder block wall at the back of his farm, his invention was modernized and became standard armament on the "Puff the Magic Dragon" C-130's that rained fire from the sky over Viet Nam.