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if feinstein is for it i am automatically against it

  Low-information voters--- after their EBT cards are cut off when Bernanke bankrupts the country. Ever heard of a place called Greece? :whistle:

some pitting in the cylinder and barrel is meaningless.   As long as the cylinder locks up you are GTG.   Try small loads, 15 grains or so and work it upwards until you get accuracy.   I have a steel framed '58 Pietta and it is a shooter.  I use 20 grains and have shot as much as 35 grains from it.  Use grits to get the ball closer to the edge of the cylinder and cover it with Crisco.  Fun as heck to shoot.

It'll never happen but wouldn't it be nice to run the Mason Dixon line all the way across the country.  Hippies can have the Canadian bacon side and we'll take the burrito border.  No civil war to settle it, just segregate and see what happens.  

I am pretty excited about the new 1911 I will have in the next couple of months. It will be mine before August 12th The SRP 5 inch is new in the carboard box, single side tac safety, No front cocking serrations, 1.5 inch grouping, 30lpi mainspring housing ( no longer available from LBC)Plain rear sight, front sight was installed by John Harrison It his Gold Bead, it is coated in Bear Coat (no longer available by LBC) and I ordered Black Gunners grips for it as it will be all blacked out. I had another SRP and it is one of the best 1911 pistols I have ever owned, i foolishly parted with it so i just had to have another one but this one should be really special I am looking forward to it and after I receive it I will do a range report and post pictures.

Hello everyone, I was surfing the web looking for a Tennessee firearms forum and I think I found it. I currently live in Clarksville and was looking for local perspective on all things firearm related.    

This answers every question you've ever had regarding self defence calibers......... :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2_kHtCKEwQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The only loaded firearms in my house are a single shot 12ga way up high, and if I am carrying my 1911, when my wife feels like a person at the door could be trouble she loads her .38 with a speed loader on hand. Usually the rule in our family is if you keep it loaded, it's with you personally.

This is just horrible. When my brother brings his kids over(once a year  :shake: ) I always put my guns away. They have spent a lot of time around firearms but I'm still not taking any chances. It's just not worth it.

Been having a little problems with one of my sig 1911 22's. so, today I took the msh off to replace the MSH spring and couldn't get it back together. Then to make things worse took the other one apart to see what I was doing wrong. Two hours later and two drinks, I remembered to decock the hammer and had both guns back together in 5 minutes I guess when you get old you lose two things. The first is your memory and I can't remember the second ;(

Very tragic, I hate reading or hearing stories like this. "Daddy what is this?" right before the gun went off bothered me a little, by the age of 4 all of my kids were familiar with what firearms were, how dangerous that they are if mishandled & instantly knew never to touch one without asking for permission first. IMHO every single child who is old enough to know/understand what "dangerous" means should be taught about firearm safety, even if the parents are not gun-owners & have no plans of ever owning a gun. And no I'm not blaming the parents, not at all, I am just upset that stuff like this happens seemingly all to often, when some of these incidents could be potentially avoided by properly educating young people instead of fear-mongering them into being curious about something which is what always happens when something, anything becomes .... "taboo".

"They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."  BENJAMIN FRANKLIN   "The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American statesman and senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852)

This actually is about LEO asking an Ohio man his name illegally detaining a man who was not engaged in any illegal activity, and nothing at all to do with firing on peaceful protesters! Dave S FTFY

  Well, all an interesting viewpoint, and yeah I admit I've been surprised by some various negative media from traditional sycophants of The Anointed One, but I think it's more about their being in between champions. Like Herr Leader and the Dem Party itself, they're more about elections than anything actually related to effective government itself.   And I'll certainly concede that 3.5 years is an eternity in political time, or any kind of time in American life today, as far as that goes, but unless a major socioeconomic change happens before, Hildebeest is in the catbird seat. I said it when she resigned, that the fix had been in all along.   She gives four years of service to The Anointed One, thereby bringing the Dems who were bitterly disappointed by her loss of the nomination into the fold, kept her in the press daily doing "important things", and allowed her to bow out with plenty of time to systematically gin up the machine for her Ascension. If BHO winds up being seen as a miserable failure, she was still a team player, and didn't have anything to do with it (after all, she didn't want him to be president), if a success, just more coat tails to ride in on.   It was to BHO's benefit to have her heading State, mainly in the "keep your friends close and your enemies closer" sense.   Unless the various Benghazi probes eventually show that she and BHO basically said "Screw Chris Stevens, let's have another drink", it won't cost her any significant points at the polls.   Keep an eye on Christie. Assuming he almost certainly wins reelection as Guv, I honestly don't see him running for Prez on the GOP ticket. Seriously giving odds here that he might mount an early independent campaign, maybe only half seriously as for as winning, but if his favorability stays high,  with the deal being he becomes Hillary's veep, switching parties in "a true sense of bipartisan service to the country".   He'll be a hundred pounds lighter, and she'll look 50 by the time the campaigns begin and unless something overall terrible happens as mentioned in my post above, it would be a cakewalk, even if Christ himself decides to run for the GOP.   - OS

Those quick kits work. The flue pipe connection can be real frustrating if the new heater doesn't line up perfectly. If I had to swap one out today, I would probably call a plumber, even though I have the tools. I'm just not in the mood to do that much cussing :).

We saw mill alot of our own out, and drop several large trees a year. Most sawmills won't look at anything less than 10 acres of timber now. My uncle recently sold 90 acres of timber rights and only got 3 bids. Most milling companies are looking for 100's of acres not a couple hundred trees. I would just get a timber cutter to price out felling it and you doing the clean up work. Sent from the backwoods of Nowhere

Recoil spring would be my guess, with out having the guns in my hand

I had a dead 100 foot hickory taken down over a year ago.  IIRC I paid $500 just to get it put on the ground.   I had to deal with all the mess and cut up the usable wood. Took a few days of burning the sticks and chainsawing what was usable into logs for firewood.  The guy came in with a small crew and a bucket truck.  They did exactly what I asked him to do.   I dug through my rolodex and found the guys card.     Reds Tree Service- 865-687-8927   You will never find anyone to come get it for processing.  I got a hundred trees and no one is interested.

yes, it sounds like the bullets are a hair long and hitting the rifling early which will jam up.  This could be from using a fatter bullet at the same length, in some cases (fatter at the nose sooner, so a more pointy bullet might miss the rifling and the fatter one catch it?)   The others sound like light load problems, need more oomph to throw them out and cycle properly.    The last round not popping out  --- before trying to diagnose it, try increased load power.  It may clear up.    Had you shot any steel in the mix?

Sounds like you are not getting enough velocity and pressures to cycle the gun.   For #3 the cases are not sized all the way. If they were once fired military you might need to get a small base sizing die because the 5.56 fired through machine guns can swell so much standard dies can't fix it. If these are the same cases as all the rest then you need to seat the bullet a bit deeper because it is likely jamming the bullet into the lands before locking up.   You need to invest in a chronograph. It will save you that much in trial and error between time and components

Maybe a a new recoil spring is needed.

Really? Another semantics argument. Yes, a shotgun used properly is a better "defensive" home weapon than an AR. Both can be used for either. Reasons: collateral damage, ease of use, hit probability, safety, etc. In a defensive situation you are already behind the ball because you are reacting. You have lost the edge in nearly every way . A shotgun helps mitigate those factors by reducing target acquisition, less collateral damage possibility, and maximising target hit probability with each trigger pull. Absolutely an AR is better if all those factors are in your favor, thus the reason SWAT teams, military, etc. use them, but that's not what we are talking about.

I'm far from a tin foil hat type but anyone who thinks the government doesn't have at least a small file on everyone in this country is extremely naive.

Do you get good feeding and ejection at 25-25.5 grains of powder with the 55 grain bullets?   Your OAL should be correct. Are you full length resizing the cases?   To reach the same pressure levels, you'll need a lower powder charge with the heavier bullet, and a higher charge with the lighter bullets. I'm no AR expert, but I have found that in general, semi autos work best at a certain pressure level, and that is usually found at the upper end of the load data.

I've never been made, and I have perfected my carry rig and clothing to the point where printing is minimal if it shows at all, but if someone was observant enough and asked me what was under my shirt, I think I'd just tell them it was a medical device (to protect my physical well-being).   I guess you could call it "preventive medicine".

I can’t believe it was 65 ignorant people that didn’t know the gun was there. Either they were willing to risk the very high probability of arrest and convictions on weapons charges; or they had other intentions.    

What, don't like chap stick?     For those interested.  The paper back is available on Amazon for 4 bucks. http://www.amazon.com/History-Lumsdens-Battery-Confederate-America/dp/1481056123/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370693061&sr=8-1&keywords=A+History+of+Lumsden%27s+Battery%2C+CSA

If the people that WORK for a living don't open their eyes and see that those that VOTE for a living are the enemy of freedom, we are doomed.....

  Georgia Arms won't be there, so there's about the best prices I've seen since Sandy Hook at shows gone right off the bat.   - OS

more of "who cares", no one will do anything.  The people in DC who actually can do something will do nothing.  This of course after raising symbolic holy hell over it all.   It does not matter who is in power.  All they care about is us footing the bill.   All of this crap is a smokescreen.  The government is here to help, yanno.

  Well, I ain't no professor no.     BUT, the Mason Dixon line runs between PA and Maryland.  If you run that across country, you'd split Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California; Basically in half.  That'd leave the upper half for the hippie demo scum and the lower half for the rest of us.  Typically demo/commies like colder weather anyway so there you have it.  There'd be plenty of plains lands for either side.     Now, personally, I'd be fine with running the border sharply south at the california border.  We don't anything they have to offer. 

Wow!  Would have hated to be one of those artillarymen that were ordered to follow the infantry, unarmed!  Thanks for sharing this! Very interesting!  Where did you find this book?

The thing is probably fine.  Gather some Pyrodex, balls, primers, crisco then load it up and shoot it.   Don't overthink it.

But ..but ... but ... the Constitution was written by a handful of long-dead, powdered wig wearing, slave owning, caucasion, capitalist, Christian, heterosexual males over 200 yrs ago. That's just crazy to think that their tired old "free Republic principles" would apply in todays modern, multicutural, socialist society!

Were they able to intervene with the people who just set the bombs off in Boston?  Seems as to how they have been raking in the information on everybody for a while, phones, e-mail, social media, and, the Ruskies tipped the heat off about these cats in the first place, and yet the bombs still were set off??   Are they just that incompetent?  If so, they have no business having all our information...

It is none of the goverments buisness. If you think you have nothing to hide, let me know how you feel when your 5 year old daughter gets strip searched at the air port. No big deal she has nothing to hide either right? Sent from the backwoods of Nowhere

  No different IMO than when I see a somebody drop $1300 on an ACOG for their $800 AR to punch paper on the weekends.

Guess "cat head biscuits" are related somehow.   No pets were harmed in the composition of this post.

I'm glad that didn't end with eating cat. That actually sound really good!

I had 3 great-uncles that were WWII vets, only one of them spoke about it much. He was in the press corps and loved to tell stories. :usa:

No worries guys, I'm sure hate speech against pro gun groups will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Why I'm sure there's a friendly DHS representative heading that way to inform the gentlemen of our federally protected rights. -southernasylum

The physics of a sphere (as in a shotgun's round pellet) does not lend very well to penetration or even for "flight" for that matter. But hey I guess physics don't apply to some people. Anyway my 30ish some-odd years of shooting shotguns gives me vast amounts of confidence in a few things, first is their ability to dish aout a tremendous amount of trauma at close range with a single trigger stroke, this is especially true when using 00 buckshot. Second I am extremely familiar with how quickly fired shot, even the larger 00 buckshot runs out of energy, so even without the pellets expending energy penetrating any barriers I know that any shot fired out of one of my shotguns is less likely to reach my neighbors homes. Third is a pump shotgun's reliability, especially my Mossberg 590/500 series shotguns, I have been using them for years in some of the nastiest weather and conditions & they've never failed me. Fourth has to be the fact they (tube magazine shotguns) can be reloaded at anytime, ie: you can top them off by slanking in a shell or two during momentary lulls in the fighting, without having to take the weapon momentarily out of action by dropping the empty mag & reinserting another full one. Fifth, less lethal options ... rocksalt, beanbags, rubber balls, even 12g taser rounds are now availible. Granted the laws down here in TN are not favorable to homeowners employing less lethal options, seems like they'd rather you use regular buckshot iffin "deadly force is justified" or you'll be charged or something because by using less lethal options "deadly force couldn't have possibly been justified". (What's the deal with this btw?) Sixth again has to do with being wrongfully charged, a homeowner employing a shotgun for home defense is not unusual or scary, however a lot of folks, especially ones who tend to vote democrat ... be they responding or investigating officers, district attornies, potential jurors, could believe that only military/police should own "assault weapons" & a civilian who dares to use one obviously did so because they were looking for an excuse to use it. As silly as that sounds to us, some folks do actually believe that sort of nonsense, anyway out of time for now.

I did not know this. You've already educated at least one more person. (Me!)

What jurers should be told is they also have the option of nullification. That is finding the law the defendant broke as unjust and refusing to punish him for breaking an unjust law. He may have been guilty of breaking the law, as written, but it doesn't mean the law itself is just and legal.   There are thousands of laws that are unjust and people were convicted because most jurors are unaware of the right of nullification. Had the jurors known they could declare the law unjust a lot of people would be free.   Maybe if more juries were to nullify and begin ruining DA's conviction rates they would quit charging people with laws that are unjust.

I hate reloads too. Typically reloads(be it commercial or private) are done in haste. I do however shoot 'handloads' exclusively. The difference? Handloads are carefully crafted works of art.

I have heard people say that no reloads were shot in a gun when selling a gun or trying to buy a gun. I think that is because those who don't reload think that all reloaders load their ammo super hot and that this wears the guns out. From all the reloaders I have talked to the vast majority are on the other end, that is they find the lightest load that cycles reliably and run with it. I know I personally run stuff on the low end with very few exceptions.   As far as running someone else's reloads I would have to know them very well. I would never buy some guy's reloads at a show or on the internet because they generally do not have the insurance or take the precautions manufacturers do. And if a guns kabooms or a person is injured I suspect you would have a hard time proving it was their reloads and even if you did it would be even harder to get any money out of them.

I guess I could have, but since that day at the range was the first time I shot it and the dealer was on the way, I just swapped out. Cheaper than sending it back. BTW I live near Bolivar and the dealer's name is State Wide Pawn Shop. They offered to send it back for me or trade for another one. Had to run new back ground check because it was to long since I bought it (3 months). They did not charge me for the check either. Now that is what I call customer service!!!

I'm with y'all. The new format is great. Now it's a show about guns, shooting, and marksmanship...not politics, alliances, and backstabbing. Plus, I'm very happy about who went home first. One of my least favorite competitors from all the seasons.

Thanks everyone for their thought and suggestions. Called the dealer and will swap out for another new one tomorrow. Not sure when I'll get to fire it, but if the new does it also, I'll follow Dolomite_supafly and Lowpower tips (thanks).

I live just outside Nashville. It's a really nice city... one of the best I have ever lived in. I don't see what the knock is on Nashville.   That said, there are lot of places I don't go, just like in any big city... the bad parts of town and the tourist area downtown, for example. I avoid rush hour traffic.  There are several decent Farmers Markets, great micro brew beers, decent pizza, and enough variety in culture and food for most people.   I live on several acres in rural setting, but downtown is less than 20 minutes away.