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Hey King Arthur, the crickets were taken over so I thought I'd come back in. Yeah, I just wanted to mention, during the range today I recently acquired a Garmin radar chronograph, so it lets us determine the velocity of our bullets that we're shooting, and that's helping with the reloading process. So I mentioned that we're doing ladder tests, and I just wanted to elaborate a little bit on that. So with a ladder test, we'll take a load like, let's just say, the 7mm Remington Magnum and start that. We'll use the brass, put a primer in. We'll load that to a certain amount of powder, gunpowder, and crimp a bullet on there. So we'll fire like maybe 5 or 10 one powder charge. And then what we're doing is we're bumping it up. We're going to use the same bullet primer, cartridge, or brass. But we're going to bump that powder charge up by like maybe 4 tenths of a grain and shoot those. And then another set bumped up another 4 tenths of a grain. What we're trying to do when the rifle fires and the explosion happens in the chamber, it creates a vibration in the barrel. And so basically what we're trying to do is we're trying to, just by trial and error, we're trying to find a combination, find the correct powder charge that will basically null out that vibration and give us the most accurate cartridges. So anyway, I need to leave here in about 15 minutes. So let's keep the crickets at bay. Good job, King Arthur. Thanks for running the net. K0OBX back to you.