Ahhh... Andy... why wouldn't I respond? What sort of an "Aha!" moment was that supposed to be, anyways? You did post this to me in your previous response, remember:
Why not send Bill Ferguson an e-mail to confirm that's what he says
Doesn't that almost guarantee a response?So I did as you asked, posted what he responded, and that's what I get from you? If I couldn't get a response, I assume your position would have been "See... nothing". Is your comment supposed to be some sort of a "Do you still beat your wife?" kind of thing?
I'm glad you were amused. Now here's what amuses me:
- You neglected to mention that all of those responses on the Cast Bullet List validated what I have said here - not your point of view. I'm glad you found that amusing, although hopefully it would have been more educational.
- Although you apparently troll the cast bullet list as an invisible subscriber, you didn't feel up to arguing your point of view on this issue on the Cast Bullet List - on this occasion or any of the previous times it has been discussed. You certainly had the opportunity to argue your beliefs there among the real experts. I suppose there is a big difference between being trying to be a big fish in a small pond here at Gunputz and trying your luck on a forum dealing solely with bullet casters, not a few of whom have been into precision casting for years.
One thing you won't have to worry about is somebody telling you you shouldn't be discussing that because it's harmful to do so.
Most impressive credentials. You were talking earlier about dropping names - does that include dropping degrees as well?
Glad you feel you know it all - although you did post this earlier:
So just to be clear: Zinc melts at 785 F unless it's floating on molten lead, then it melts at 604 F?
If you did indeed know it all, why the confusion on your part as to how zinc can get into molten alloy at temperatures well below the melting point of zinc? Pity you felt above putting your oar in on the Cast Bullet List and posting your opinions there instead of watching silently in the background while people were talking of solid antimony entering molten wheelweight - antimony having a melting point almost 400 degrees higher than zinc.
But again, the problem with posting on the cast bullet list is there's a large difference in the readers there and here on GunPutz, isn't there? Let's face it: there you're dealing with people whose central interest is bullet casting and competing in cast bullet benchrest competition, not a few of which have more years of bullet casting than you've been alive. Not quite the same audience to impress, is it Andy?
Feel free to post that up on the Cast Bullet List Andy... I'll watch for it. Start with the ones actually participating in the benchrest matches - they at least can prove they meet your criteria of leaving their desk. I'll look forward to that discussion. I don't know your username there, but it will be obvious enough when you make your appearance.
Thanks for your opinion. Particularly when it's coming from the guy who not so long ago was criticizing another user here for being critical of others who had a different opinion on an issue.
Now here's my opinion.
Guys like you are a real disaster. You have a narrow minded dogma that you cling to. You won't test that dogma of yours on a specialized list such as the Cast Bullet List where there's a large body of established experts to defend your dogma against. There, when these issues are being DISCUSSED (not condemned as something harmful to be spoken of) you just sit silently in the background - even when most of the discussion disagrees with your personal beliefs and you claim to have the degrees to understand all of this.
Now sitting in the background and clinging to your dogma isn't the disaster. What is the disaster is when you decide as you have done here: to appoint yourself the arbitrator of what should and shouldn't be discussed regarding bullet casting.
You apparently feel entitled to decide what concepts or issues your average bullet caster is intelligent enough to understand and what should and shouldn't be discussed. If you personally don't think it's appropriate, if it doesn't agree with your dogma, then you want others to stop discussing it. You want to declare them harmful, because they don't share your opinion on issues.
Simple disagreement is never enough for guys like you - although you can certainly fault others who are intolerant of views other than their own. No, those that disagree with you should just shut up so your personal approved belief system is the only one in sight. Sort of like the Obama approach to politics as it were.
It doesn't matter what the issue is, even if the subject were something entirely outside of casting or shooting, the attitude that you should be the one to declare what should and shouldn't be discussed and what people should and shouldn't be aware of is, quite simply, wrong. And that is my opinion on the matter.
Alternately - and worse - all of this is simply your attempt to be a big fish in a small pond. Here on Gunputz, there are relatively few bullet casters, and fewer yet who are doing anything approaching precision casting. In the land of the blind, the one eyed man has a chance to be king, and perhaps all of this is simply a play to be the big fish in the small pond by quashing all disagreement with The Rules as set out by you.
Either way, guys like you are a disaster in the making.
So now, we both know why each thinks the other guy is harmful. I will suggest to other readers that they can take both of us out of the equation by joining the Cast Bullet List and Forum. Not only does that eliminate our personal opinions/biases, but it provides access to people who have far more expertise in bullet casting than both of us put together.
And yes Andy, I will always place a higher emphasis on advice and information passed on by people like Bill Ferguson than on what people like you - or me - have to offer. If I have a question on physics I'll keep you in mind, but for metallurgy, I'll take the advice of the metallurgist any day.
Particularly when that metallurgist has been casting bullets longer than you've been alive.
Finally, thanks for the opinion that I should stop discussing what you don't feel is helpful, but until you're appointed moderator of all issues dealing with bullet casting, I'll post what I feel like on the matter.
with me. I wouldn't get into this if they paid me 
