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  • Don McManus
    Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
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  • 320090T
    Not hookers and idiots?
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  • jimdeere
    Harass and interdict.
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  • 11b6r
    Jim Deere nailed it. Type of fire mission for mortars/ artillery. River crossing point we know gets used at night, but we have no observers. At irregular intervals, lob a coupla 3 rounds of HE in there, just to keep them honest.
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  • He Dog
    Herrington and Ichabod, little known former gun makers. ;)
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  • fatcat458
    H&l are the sizing dies used for cast boolits. Lyman makes and sells H&l dies for their 450 sizer/luber tool.. RCBS also makes and sells them for their Lub a Matic sizer luber tool
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  • 320090T
    Jeez, what words do the letters stand for?
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  • us55840
    Hillary and Idiots.

    :lol::lol:
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  • Sam06
    If you are referring to artillery fire it means Harassment and Interdiction fire.


    You pick a place where the enemy is thought to be and fire mortar or artillery rounds at it usually unobserved to harass and maybe kill the enemy. It is not done very much anymore but was very popular in VN.
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  • 320090T
    No, I mean the H&I reference to a sizing die used for cast bullets.
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  • babun
    Left over names from the old Ideal catalog.
    You could order a "H-89xxxx" part or a "I-76xxx part"
    "H&I" dies named from the old Ideal catalog. The body is part "H" and the cylindrical stem is part "I".
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  • bustedknee
    Harrington & Ichardson?
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  • babun
    If you want to see how sizing was done a long time ago, here is a rebuild of a Ideal sizer.
    On the 2nd page "Instructions to use" picture the last paragraph notes the "H" and "I" sizer pieces.
    Those 2 pieces are what you changed for different sizes.
    https://www.artfulbullet.com/index.php?threads/lyman-ideal-45-lubesizer-manual-and-cleanup-instructions.2308/
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  • fatcat458
    Great babun... ''H'' is simply the boolit sizing die and ''l'' is the punch that pushes the boolit thru the sizer... H and l were simply
    lettered designations of parts for a LYMAN 45 luber/sizer... Been casting since the 70s and never knew what H&l stood for..
    Never too old to learn .. Thanks.

    458..
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  • babun
    You are welcome.
    I must have shot about 27 gagzillion 148gr wadcutters thru my S&W52 midrange gun and about 58 megazillion 185gr semi-wadcutters thru my Colt goldcup .45.

    But I never got into casting my own.
    Don't know why??? Maybe it was too easy just to buy them by the 1000"s and load them.
    Watched, help, others smelt lead for bullets, just not me.
    :o
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  • 320090T
    Glad I wasn't the only dumb one here. I've been casting since the early 80's and never paid attention to it.
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  • Warbirds
    Harley & Indian.

    They used to be American made Motorcycle companies.
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  • mark christian
    11b6r wrote:
    Jim Deere nailed it. Type of fire mission for mortars/ artillery. River crossing point we know gets used at night, but we have no observers. At irregular intervals, lob a coupla 3 rounds of HE in there, just to keep them honest.


    Now that was interesting. I doubt I will ever call in a fire mission...but who knows? ;)
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