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Serious question or debate. In her book she claims that she did not know about the horrors of the Nazis, such as the holocaust. How could this be? I think it would be impossible for Hitler to never have discussed genocide in any official way in a meeting or in correspondence.

In any professional or government organization there are meeting minutes kept. I would think it would be impossible for Hitler and his subordinates to never have discussed plans for genocide, or the status thereof, in any meeting. This was a significant part of their plans both in military conquest and in retreat. So who would have been taking the meeting minutes? Who would have been distributing the minutes or filling them?

Also, in communication, with subordinates, Hitler would have dictated to a secretary the content, who would then officially write them up. There had to of been correspondence on genocide. I mean after all, the Nazi party declared several places Judenfrei to the press, so we know this was communicated about in an official capacity. If not Traudl, then who?

I know a head of state would have had multiple secretaries, so if Traudl only handled lighter and more mundane things, then who would have handled the rest?

Decided to upgrade. My LC9S Pro has never been 100% reliable and there’s no good lights for it anyway. Might still keep the oldie in rotation for deep concealment.

In the past year I have really been getting into reloading and shooting .45 ACP since I got an MC Operator and USP 45. In the past I have loaded and shot large amounts of 9 mm reloads from my Glock 17, Beretta 92FS, and USP9, all with great success. I have a beautiful load using Armscor 124 GM FMJ pills and 5.3 grains of CFE Pistol. SD is tight and I’m getting 1155 FPS which is great since it’s inline with my Gold Dots. There’s almost no fouling from these loads when I shoot.

Anyhow, on to the .45 ACP. I created a load using Armscor 230 grain FMJ pills over 5.7 grains of Win 231 at 822 FPS, a great clone of the mil spec loading. I worked this loading up using my M1911A1 (that flew with the Blue Diamonds, very nice). This gat has one of those chrome lined barrels that the navy was putting in them in the 1990’s. I didn’t get much fouling in this barrel, probably because of the chrome, so I loaded up 2000 rounds.

Now time for the nightmare. I got my MC Operator and started operating. It’s a slick pistol, probably my favorite, and I love shooting it under nods. There’s just one twist, the thing was fouling worse than anything I’ve seen. It was getting to the point that after a couple hundred rounds the grooves were filled with what looked like tree bark and accuracy was falling off.

I thought that the barrel just needed to be broken in since the rifling was so sharp since it’s a semi match grade barrel. Cleaning this barrel took hours. I would soak, and scrub with a brush, then with a chore boy, then scrub again, all barely making any progress. I did this for 1500 rounds, rinse and repeat. I got a USP and thought that I wouldn’t have a problem since it has polygonal rifling. Well fuck me, that thing clogged up too. Then I got to thinking, what if it’s lead!

Yes, lead, that old cold bitch of a metal. But how was I getting lead with FMJ rounds? I thunk and think until I drew a hypothesis. What if the powder burn is scorching the bare base of the bullet and ablating lead which then is depositing on the barrel walls? Well there was only one way to figure out if this was lead or carbon. I loaded my same load up for 200 rounds, save for one change, using 230 grain Speer TMJ bullets instead of the old trusty Armscor bullets. Well I shot 100 rounds of those out of my MC Operator today and lo and behold, there was minimal fouling. A few scratches with the bronze brush and six patches later and that bitch is clean. It must be an ablative lead coating after all!

Well, before I did this test I loaded up 2,000 more of these problem pills so I have to live with colossal lead for a while unless any of you cool dudes know an easy chemical way to remove the lead.

Drink more beer, luv ya all!

Sure, it may be a small thing to complain about having a defective round, but it’s even more annoying when you call, they offer to send you new ammunition, and then they ghost you for more than a week so far.

It’s been a few years since I’ve done this. Truck is on deck next.