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7 Revolver Fails

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C'mon folks. Whacha say? Let's take back the English language.

It's not a fail. Fail is a verb.

It's a failure.;)

I'm also pretty sure those were not GUN failures. They were handloading failures.
 
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C'mon folks. Whacha say? Let's take back the English language.

It's not a fail. Fail is a verb.

It's a failure.;)

I'm also pretty sure those were not GUN failures. They were handloading failures.
Thank you, Alpo. If we can retire the words "fail" and "random" as they are currently used I will die a happy man. Well, not happy...but less miserable, at least.
 
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Good reminder to give reloading your full attention.

I guess that's part of why I like progressive presses...it makes it a little harder to put a double charge in a case.
 
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And to think I just copied and pasted the title from the article. SO that makes the author and me make the same spelling error.

I had to sleep during spelling class as I was up all night watching westerns on tv.
 
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That revolver in the picture probably decided to commit suicide given the shame that disgusting red dot brought XD Figured it'd kill three birds with one bullet! Destroy itself and end the misery, destroy that red dot, and injure the owner for being an dufus for picking that red dot! ;3 I guess the liberals were right! Guns do have a mind of their own!!
 
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Y'all are starting to remind me of an old commander I had once upon a time. I was stationed at an Army Reserve unit in Nashville, TN, the commander was an English professor at Belmont University. Every time I took a document for him to sign, he would use a red pen and circle grammatical errors, punctuation, and spelling. I was glad to see him go at the end of his three years!
 
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Good Grandma or Bad Grandma, that is one revolver that I'm glad I wasn't holding when it went "kaboom!". Owie!!!!

George - I once had a boss much like yours - an LTC over at Presidio. He used to go over my reports with a fine-tooth comb looking for errors. He didn't seem to care WHAT I'd written in those reports - he only cared that the military format and punctuation were correct. When he retired, he called me at my office and admitted to me that he was "intimidated" by meo_O. Heck - I was scared to death of HIM and really, really dreaded his telephone calls:eek:.

I wasn't trained in Administration - I was trained as an Instructor and as a Helicopter Repairman and Crewman. Typing up DFs and Reports were new to me. That LTC was brutal. (I did get pretty good at it because of him.)
 
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L'il is an abbreviation for little, as in L'il Abner, or Sam the Sham's L'il Red Riding Hood.

Lil, without the apostrophe, but with an upper case L, is short for the girl's name Lily.

lil, with a lower case L - no clue.
 
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I'm guessing you have an I phone, as my Android does not do "auto correct".

It does, however, "suggest" words. I'll type AND, and it suggests and and android and Android and Andy, etc. If I like any of the suggestions I can touch it, and it pops into my sentence. I don't HAVE TO use any of the suggestions, though.

Also, I can go into SETTINGS and turn that "suggestion" thing off.

Can't you turn off "auto correct"?
 
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Mine is a windows phone. it does make suggestions, but also automatically chooses it's first suggestion if it doesn't like the word you typed. very annoying, and I've found no way to disable it.

And yes.. lil in lowercase.

I HAVE found out that the phone will handle spanish as well, and will auto correct spelling, etc. I type in spanish to a couple friends, and the phones ? dictionary? apparently does handle it.. perhaps even better than english.
 
#29 ·
Mine also has the Spanish keyboard as an option. I activated it so I could type Spanish letters, like ñ, and occasionally I will accidentally have it on ES (español) instead of EN (English) and I'll look at my suggested words (helpful if I'm not sure of the spelling) and think, "What the hell is this thing doing?"
 
#31 ·
I had a Grandmother that would constantly correct our usage of English when she came up from Florida to Minnesota for the summer. It used to drive me nuts!

"The proper way to say that is NOT 'me and Jimmy'...it's 'Jimmy and I'..." and so on.
She could also watch the first 5 minutes of any Who Dunnit TV drama and tell you who did it. Drove us all nuts. "Grandma, STOP! I want to watch the show and not have your usually-correct predictions ruin it for me!"

She was a smart woman. And had her Bachelors in 1927, a rarity for women back then.
 
#32 ·
Back to the blown up gun. A good friend of mine two years before I first met him had a Ruger Super Blackhawk blow up on him with hand loads. He was loading on a Dillon 550 with H110. It was a mystery to him because H110 is spherical. You can't double charge a case with out over flowing it. It took six months of me loading a hand gun for him with random loaded/unloaded chambers to get him to learn not to flinch.
 
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Yeah, H110 kinda fills the case anyhow in a normal load...and on a Dillon? Heck, I peek at every charge,(just like a good Bridge Player, one peek is worth two finesses..) Not sure how that could happen unless they slipped in another powder.
 
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