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BOTH ITEMS HAVE BEEN SPOKEN FOR! EDIT: Cherokee Slim has taken the press. EDIT: otnman has taken the magazines. As the title states, I'm giving these items away to the next to people who sign up for a Benefactor subscription. The first person to show proof of purchase will get first pick. If we cannot arrange for local pickup, I will ship on my dime. First item is a Lee reloading press. It appears to have be used very little. Second item(s) are two Ram-Line 10/22 - 77/22 magazines. One is a 50-round, and the other is a 20-round.

This is a modified wharncliff I made for my daughter in law to her specifications. It's made from 1095 5/32 " thick carbon steel professionally heat treated to RC 59/60. It has a blade length of about 4 1/4" with an over all length of 8 1/2". It was twice etched then lightly sanded with 800 grit to reveal the details. The scales are Australian redwood burl mixed with alumilite. Still need a sheath....I'll get to it soon.

This. I'm gunna start saying that 12g buckshot is going to be banned. I have a metric crapload of that stuff, and I really want a new Mustang.

NOTHING HAS BEEN BANNED!!!!

The weather stinkin' sucks this morning.....that's how the weather is right now. Wind driven snow/sleet with a wind chill of 9. I hate winter.

  :rolleyes:   There's a lot of other crap a 1911 won't do either.  Like run when it's full of mud, or carry 15 rounds in the same size frame as that Glock 19, or get carried by more police forces than any other handgun, or.... you get the point.   I'm a huge 1911 fan but I am also a huge Glock fan, and a huge M&P fan, etc.  Each have their strengths, each have their weaknesses.  But this slide breakage isn't an inherent weakness of that Glock any more than a freak frame-crack on a 1911 is a weakness of that platform.

My grandmother put two rounds of .32 long from a S&W revolver(her purse gun and the only one she ever bothered carrying) in a guy attempting to rob the family bar back in the 80s. He apparently died before he got back to his car in the parking lot. The human body generally has an adverse reaction to new holes. Not saying that he couldn't carry something better or more modern, but having a firearm you're comfortable carrying and using if need be is better than leaving one you don't like at home in a drawer. Grandpa was THP so he carried a .357 on his hip and a .38 on his ankle but I never heard of him using either, he much prefered a shotgun. He had one for his cruiser and one for the family LTD.   I have no clue how long the guy actually lived after being hit as I was 3 at the time, but a picture of his body laying dead in the parking lot was posted behind the bar until my grandmother passed away many years later.

Every now & then, even I manage to find a nut!

Get him a nice wheel gun?  :shrug:

What TDR doesn't mention in the fine print, is that this is like prison and you've just become 'his'.   Godspeed 

Join the club. My pops is the same way... I guess that's what happens when we get old maybe? Mine has a decent gun, and carries it in the door pocket of his truck. I helped him haul some stuff to the dump the other day, I'm driving and I look down and his HK USP is completely rusted. I asked him "Hey, your gun looks pretty dirty pop. Have you fired it in a while?" He goes "Funny you say that, tried to shoot a coon that gets into our trash with it the other day and it wouldn't fire" I'm thinking to myself.... "They WTH are you still carrying it!?" Who carries a gun that doesn't work!? What's your plan, throw it at them? So as far as advice.... This is what I did. I said... "Lemme take that thing home and clean it up for you. Looks like it could use a detail" To which he of course agreed. I took it completely down for a full inspection and detail, rust removal.... :ugh: .... and I bought him a box of good defense ammo. Since he had it loaded (only 5 rounds also... :squint: ) with VERY old flat nose target rounds. I go out there to shoot with him almost every week, so I'm adding more pistol shooting to the mix and I'm going to just have a talk with him about his carry. Advice: So... maybe buy him an acceptable carry gun? If it's a gift from his son, he might carry it instead. :2cents:

Well, I should know better than to get involved in this thread but will anyway, just a little. I got caught up in the bass fishing craze back in mid 80's. Talk about getting hooked, it was worse then cocaine and heroine for me. I finally was able to kick the addiction about 3 years ago. That was after 5 new Bass Boats, All Skeeters and about $40,000.00 in tackle and rod & reels. Also made all my own soft Plastic baits myself. Made and sold baits to other anglers. I was on the water an average of 3-4 days or nights a week. Fished Local and regional Bass tournaments winning many of them over the years. Only used Bait casting reels for every application of the art of bass fishing. Never had less then 10 rods on the deck when boat was in the water. My Son in law got the fever from me about 6 years ago and now what tackle and rods I didn't sell he has along with my last Skeeter Boat. All I can say is don't let it get to deep into you blood stream because Cocaine is like candy compared to Bass fishing. Here's a few of the boat my Son in law has now but pictures are from when I had it. All of the reels on the rods are Shimano Chronarchs and all of the rods for the most part are custom rods costing several hundred dollars to have made. Well, can't show all this and not add a few fish pictures........ :up: [url=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Skeeter%20Boat/DSCF0028_zpsd78e4f3a.jpg.html][/URL] [url=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Misc/Skeeter%20Boat/DSCF0027.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/My%20Fish/DSCF0557.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/My%20Fish/SM.jpg.html][/URL] [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/My%20Fish/DSCF0578.jpg.html][/URL]

Find some Krylon, not Rustoleum, chalkboard paint. That stuff is a lot more durable than regular Krylon. Been using it on guns for years and have always been impressed.

My buddy Brad said " Everything mechanical breaks eventually"...Yep. he's right. :cool: I was at the range doing some practice drills last Sunday. Completely uneventful range session. When I got home I actually decided to clean my Glock 19. Now that's not something I do after each range session.(I normally just run a bore snake through it) Yes, I can be abusive to my Glock. But having better than 30K of rounds through it, I've come to trust that little sucker. I'll treat her better in the future. Here's a few pics of what I found... Well Heck! So now I know for certain that a Glock can be broken...you just have to shoot it enough! Actually I thought it would take more rounds than that... fwiw I do change my RSA every 1500-2000 rounds and keep my Glocks appropriately lubed. I contacted Anthony at the Glock service department in Smyrna and he told me to mail it to them. So I did...it should arrive by Friday. We'll see what happens. As an aside. I carry AIWB in a Dale Fricke Archangel holster. It accommodates my G 17 and G 26...so I'm GTG until my 19 comes home. But lesson learned on one front...I will be purchasing another 19...just in case. :ugh: http://dalefrickeholsters.com/product/archangel-appendix-carry/

As an instructor and veteran collector / shooter / gunsmith for over 30 years, I have owned, shot, and worked on every gun in this thread plus many others. And I've helped fit hundreds of folks with their defense guns. My $0.02: I refuse to have a manual safety on any carry or defensive gun. Works fine at the range and in training, but for many folks this is forgotten or cumbersome when adrenaline hits during a life or death situation, I know this from personal experience on several occasions. If you must have a manual safety then you better shoot and train with it several times per month, every month, many thousands of rounds to minimize the risk. As far as size, any gun that is too thick, heavy, or difficult to conceal will be left at home at least some of the time, so pick a gun that you can always carry and fully conceal, even when you are wearing shorts and a t-shirt with no belt in 100 degree heat. A gun that is slightly uncomfortable to fire at the range is still way better than a more comfortable gun that is left at home when the crap hits the fan, and when adrenaline hits you won't notice a little trigger creep or few extra pounds of pressure. With all that said, and for many many other reasons, a Ruger LCP is always with me. I sometimes also have other arms, but the LCP is attached just like my wallet, keys, and kidneys. And I highly recommend the CTC laser which automatically turns on when you grip the gun. It's perfect for defense use, at defense distances, and allows you to focus on the threat.

My father was 81 years old when he passed away and carrying one of these in a shoulder rig from the time he got it in 1968 I believe. He shot a would be robber in 1971 that broke into our home. The robber was also armed but one shot from the .44 Mag and the guy dropped to the floor dead. He said it was the best money he ever spent on anything in his life. He was a WWII vet in the Pacific and wasn't a believer in small caliber weapons. So I wish you the best in dealing with your dad cause I know what's like trying to educate my old man about new stuff.

I might be a bit biased.

And that's why I'm an admitted Colt Steel Guy.

That's like wearing out a Toyota. 

Wowzers. That's a new one for me! Wonder when that happened, and how many rounds it fired without a hitch in that condition. Cool that it stayed together. Looks like it still had about 70% coverage around the guide rod/spring. Steve Hennessey, tuner of perfomance cars, says if you aren't breaking them, you aren't trying hard enough. That's after his 1,000 HP Viper caught on fire as a car mag was reviewing it against some other exotics. Haha!

Then sell it for 1000% profit. Just say it's what Chris Costa used to hunt with.

You have some folks that want to appear pro gun to the NRA but aren't really pro gun.  It is easier on them to not have a vote on an NRA sponsored bill than to actually vote against an NRA sponsored bill.

...for the 2015 election of NRA directors.   Well, Ronnie Barrett definitely gets a vote.   John K Brown should not be considered.   Sean Maloney and Timothy Knight are petition nominees endorsed by Soldier of Fortune.   Don't know a lot about the rest   What say you?

A funny video my dad and I did this weekend.....If you think its funny feel free to share it   http://youtu.be/0-jflQThRBQ

There's a show at the Expo, what's the other?   Either way, unless you really want to deal with a bunch of greedy bastards trying to sell you not-banned ammo at prices inflated beyond all common decency....I would say it's not worth the trouble.  However, if you have a specific need it may be worth it.

I gotta agree with you, Prag.   More importantly it's good hear no one was hurt and folks are now looking to their own guns for possible defects.   If I remember a historical fact correctly, it was said the original Colt 1911's were supposed to be retired after 100k rounds through  them due to possible metal fatigue caused by different metallurgy back then. The 1911A1's were supposed to be OK, though.  :)   I hope no one takes this as a challenge to run 100K + rounds through their Glock as it isn't.   Lp

Glock 42.    If you're wanting something smaller I'd go for the LCP.    

You might think about different ways to approach him that would make him feel if he did make a change that it was more his idea. Many times our elders don't like to accept ideas from their children but will do things that they feel are more their own ideas............jmho

I'm just going to sit back and watch the panicked clowns gobble up ammo that's inflated 3x to 4x what it costs normally. lol

I've got 2000 rounds of 62 grain green tip. Think I'll sell it and use the money to buy back 3000 rounds of 55 grain.

That's just impressive!

Don't get really down on these. Yes they can be a problem in some cases, but what specialty firearm isn't at one point or another. To address mechanically's comments first. I've shot several Thompsons. I won't say they are hard to control, at least not to the extent I/you can't hit your intended target with one. Yes, they rise, low left to high right, but if you control the trigger, and it really doesn't take much effort to do so; you can pretty accurately hit man-sized targets with 2 and 3 round bursts. These are not 50 yard target guns. 50 yard spray yes. But I still think they are controllable to the point of 10-30 yard shots on a person. Maybe not a "placed" shot, but go with the characteristics of the weapon, and trigger/busrt control. Spray and Pray is meant for the "oh ####" moments that we hope never to be in. Heavy? Well for me that's subjective. Heavier than a 1911? Yes. Heavier than a normal AR/M16? Maybe, I don't know the weights on both right now. But for range/out-in-the-woods shooting like we did, I only noticed it being a little heavier with the 100 round drum than the 20 round sticks. Would I rush out to buy a Thompson/Auto Ordnance? Probably not. I would like to own one, and if I had the money and didn't have to worry about it, I probably would get one. Just my thoughts on them. Addendum. Do we now have an auto censor? Just noticed this above had been changed.

Are those knives or cleavers? :p

At 2:30 this morning all we had was ice on the cars, at 6 AM SNOW!!!

  He also said,  "Where's your parts?  What do you mean where's your parts?  I stole from from you and sold them to other people?  Whaaaaaaaat?"

  I wondered the EXACT same thing when the wife and I watched it. However, I seriously doubt it's a plot point and more likely just crummy set design.

    LOL. the "RSA" in my OP is "Recoil Spring Assembly"...sorry for being "murky"...I change it frequently and have several new ones waiting in my parts kit. :pleased:   Thank you. I hope Glock get's it together for me as well.

I'll paint it black, put some tactical doodads on it and see what kind of uneducated comments I can get.

i would call parker's safes before i did anything.  you can find him on this site.  good man to deal with.  

I guess this is one of the few instances where you want the least bang for your buck

Buy a SilencerCo Saker 7.62 and then buy the 5.56 end cap for it. The 7.62 Saker with the 5.56 end cap is quieter than the 5.56 Saker. That setup is actually pretty amazing. I can honestly say if I ever buy a silencer it will be this one.

Well, I bought a Tundra 3 weeks ago, only because my Fix Or Repair Daily truck has a "known defect" in the engine block design and I needed a new block. No thanks. After fixing a problem with a transmission leak in December, that again is a 'known issue' (pass through connector seal on the tranny was leaking because ford used rubber o-rings). Since I was just outside of the extended warranty it was out of my pocket to fix KNOWN problems with the design of the FORD. No thanks. Our last ford (a windstar) also had problems with ford using rubber where they shouldn't. Had to take the top part of the engine off to replace 6 bolts that had rubber seals with new ones that were of another material. When will ford learn not to use rubber seals when there is contact with petroleum products? Because I'll get asked :) the problem on my truck was that the rear passenger side of the engine was not getting enough oil so the cam phaser when out cause a horrendous "ticking" sound, so bad that my gas engine sounded like a diesel at idle. Two shops both said that they could replace the passenger side parts, but the problem would return, don't know when, could replace both sides and the problem would return, or, replace the engine block with a "redesigned" one that solves the oil flow problem (and replace a slew of parts along the way). Google "Ford engine tick" for more information. If you have a 2006 - 2010ish F150 might be worth while to check it out before you have the problem.

As most of you know, Consumer Reports does reports every year that show the brands with the highest levels of reliability and the highest level of brand loyalty. Oddly enough, the least reliable vehicles often have the highest customer loyalty. Not sure what is wrong with people's brains that make them desire vehicles that they won't be able to drive, but I am a Japanese guy through and through. In my garage/driveway you will find a Toyota, a Honda, a Yamaha motorcycle, and a Honda motorcycle. I've done the "fix a car more than you drive it" thing the last time I bought American. Sorry, but I'd rather drive a vehicle than fix it. YMMV. 

My daily driver for a long time was my 79 Bronco. A mini tank. All time 4 wheel drive and the girl had oomph! Her only downfall was she wasn't super reliable. Finally I jut faced facts that she would have to be a leisure vehicle so I went car shopping. I got a Sequoia. I love it, rides great, everything about it is good. Except I made a HUGE mistake and didn't get one with 4wd. I can never leave concrete in it and in rain she is just so so. That's the only bad thing I can say about her. If I ever trade her in, which I am heavily considering, I will look at 4wd versions and just "upgrade". But having said that, the Bronco has had the engine and tranny rebuilt so I am really ready to give LaToya a break for a while.

Some of my favorites.

Well now,  13 days after the initial release of the proposed ban it's just starting to make national news.  Will this make a difference, get more of us to take action against the proposed ban ? I don't know and I'm not sure it will.  I've been following the responses on many shooting related forums and the response to the BATFE 's proposal has been deafeningly silent.  :shrug: 

I just bought 25 acres and I really love this place!! At first my daughter and her husband were going to move here but they have changed their mind, so now I live here alone! I do have Rheumatoid Arthritis but I am determined!!! I desperately need a game plan!!! I paid cash for farm and new 4 wheel drive toyota fj but what should I do first- goats, chickens, orchard, fruit trees, I need a lot but I choose to buy without going in debt - I am debt free now! Any advice would be appreciated! The firearms and ammo is covered - and coyotes are an issue! Thanks for any advice!!!

It seems the main function of the NRA is to continually ask for more money.  Until I see some results I'm not likely to send any.

For what it is worth, along with Knight and Maloney, SOF endorses the following current BOD members for reelection: Scott Bach, Ronnie Barrett, David Coy, Joseph De- Bergalis, Antonio Hernandez, David Keene, Wayne Anthony Ross, Don Saba, William Satterfield, Ronald Schmeits, Robert Unkovic and Robert Viden.