The Hellions - it's not what you know...

A few years back, I got invited to join a small group of gaming/weapons/military/GURPS enthusiasts in an online forum called the Hellions. I posted about them once, I think, but thought it was time to give 'em all a big fat public thank you and kudos. They helped me tremendously on several books, including all the WWII stuff, GURPS SWAT, and more. Those books wouldn't have been the same without them.

Anyway, one of them recently stated that we were "just a bunch of guys hanging out." That may be.

But this short exchange on the forum today made me realize what an amazing wealth of information is available when you have the right friends:

would someone now have a .454 cartridge lying around you could weigh for
me? I still need the thing's WPS for HIGH-TECH . . . Thanks!

Less than an hour later, this reply shows up:

My uncle Robert says his Magtech 260gr JHP weighs 26.94g on his postal scale, plus or minus 0.06g based on the five he weighed for me on the phone.

Okay, I know very few of you out there reading this care about that piece of information, but the fact that I'm part of a group of guys that can answer that sort of question that fast is very cool. What's even better, is they're all great guys and though they're scattered from New Zealand to New York to Europe, I'm proud to call them friends.

Thanks guys. :)