Hello, TimeNutters-- Mike Monett said:
It is refreshing to see such sweet innocence. For most of us, those days are gone forever. Your problem is you only have one clock. As soon as you get two, you ask a very simple question: which one is right? But that only makes things worse. That question leads you over the edge and down the slippery slope that brings most of us to this forum. The same thing happened to Tom, and look at how many clocks he has now. Right now, you don't have enough clocks. The only real solution to your problem, is to get another TBolt:) -------------------------- Just ducked out of my cave to let you know that you are a troublemaker. Get another T-bolt... Right. --Just what I need... another techno-addiction. As far as "sweet innocence" is concerned, I lost all I ever had when I jumped head-first into bench-rest rifle competition 15 years ago. You have your addiction-- I already have mine in the never ending search to find the magic combination of details that produce the holy-grail of a 10-shot half-inch group at 400 yards... For what it is worth, I am up to my kiester in the pursuit of long-range bench-rest rifle accuracy. I spend most of my free time trying to come up with subtle ways to better last week's tight shot-group I got with my bench-rest rifle with the diamond-lapped, air-gaged Krieger barrel. I weigh and sort each boat-tailed projectile to the nearest 0.1 grain, I check every handloaded cartridge case for neck concentricity and runout error. I weigh and match all my cartridge cases, I weigh each boat-tailed Berger benchrest grade bullet. I weigh each powder charge to the nearest 0.1 grain. Every primer pocket is cleaned and inspected and every primer flash hole is swaged for uniformity. I set my wind flags out and carefully analyze the vagaries of every little zephyr that wafts over the 400 yard space between me and my target. After all of this, I am only half way down the list of details I pay careful attention to, but you get the idea.... Hey-- do I look like the kind of guy that would get sucked down the slippery slope of paying attention to any kind of activity that would require attention to microscopic subtle technical details of some arcane art in order to advance my capabilities by one-half of one percent (such as paying attention to ADEV, MDEV or close-in phase noise??) Not me... Now, if you will excuse me, I need to prepare for next weeks shoot by spinning each of these projectiles on my ultrasonic testing instrument and testing for uniform concentric jacket thickness... Cheers!! Mike Baker WA4HFR Gainesville, FL _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.