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Mike:___________ Go for it!!! Hurry up and get to work on the blackout. You are startin to do exactly what i want to start to do. Let us know what parts ya decide to use. Keep up the good work. leroy

I like Ed Bryant. He ran against Bob Corker last time in the Requblican Primary for the senate seat corker holds. leroy

Interesting read. Thanks for posting it. leroy

I'ts a shame that the people of tennessee were foolish enough to elect Alexander. The problem is that he has built so broad a a fan club that i dont think he can be beat. The demorats would be worse (...incrementally, i think...). The republicans cant successfully challenge him. He is exactly where Howard Baker was when he was in office. Maybe he'll retire soon and Bill (...the Snozz...) Haslam can take his place. Sad leroy

vujade: RE: Your concern. "... Is it unreasonable that a barrel could be worn out? (I can certainly see the rifling but what is a true test?) I never thought of that. ....". ---- The barrel aint worn out. This rifle is shootin pretty good for an off the shelf rifle. Like mike says; sometimes there aint any ryme or reason to lots of this stuff. You just have to experiment a bit. Several years ago, i spent a pretty good amount of time shootin a Ruger M77V (...heavy barrel...) with a 12 power lyman. Did the whole thing with the brass and 168 grain match bullets. Five shot groups in the .5 to .75 range. I think anything hovering around .5 with a "medium kicker" like the 308 is pretty good shootin for country boys usin off the rack rifles. I'll freely admit that my experience is dated to the early eighties; and that's 30 or so years ago now. Ya might want to try the rifle at 200 or 300 yds and see if it settles down a bit. Mike makes an excellent point about the bullets not fully stabilizing in the first 100 yds or so (...i know that sounds crazy, but it's true....). I would try at 200 to 300 yds on a calm day and compute my moa (...ive got a 300 win mag that does this all the time. The bullet simply doesnt stabilize until after at least 100 yds or so...). Ya might be pleasantly suprised. Keep in mind that .7 inches at 100 yds is 2.1 at 300 yds. Agout the distance from the center of a hawgs nose to his eye. I say that's pretty damn good shootin. Let us know how things turn out. leroy L

The race baters and their toadies won. Check this link out for demographic: http://www.clrsearch.com/Sanford_Demographics/FL/Population-by-Race-and-Ethnicity . Thanks for posting this interesting article. leroy

I like it!! Keep up the good work. leroy

BJ:_________ If i liked the 1911; i would do a 38 super. There aint a nickels worth of difference between them (...the super or the 357 sig, that is. ...). The main thing if ya get a 1911, ya need a barrel that headspaces on the case mouth. I like the super. Would like to have one myself. If ya decide to build a 1911; let us know what parts ya use. leroy

Moonbattery Blog. The photoshopped pictures are great!! leroy

Sounds to me like its time for a one on one conversation (...make sure it is, in fact, one on one...) with the next door neighbor. Ya might want to think about makin him responsible for your dad and moms well being (...physical and mental...). Remind him that you will be watchin and that you will be the judge of adequate performance in this area. Remind him that the court system aint the only means of redress in these little tiffs. This approach will either bring compliance or will start a heluva feud. My experience is that it generally brings compliance. leroy

RE: Glock barrel conversions. See lone wolf link here: http://www.lonewolfdist.com/products.aspx?CAT=82 I THINK (... need to check to be sure...) that all the 9/357/40 barrels will interchange between families (...families: baby, compact, full size...). To convert ya need a conversion barrel (...that fits your family...), magazine, and (...maybee...) a recoil spring. The other series is the 10 mm and 45 gap/acp series. Two slide sizes. 9mm/357/40 and 10mm/45gap/45acp. I think. leroy

Greg:________________ Try 6.5 grains of Unique, standard primer, and any 230 grain roundnose or truncated cone hardball (...hornady....) you can find. Look in the book for the overall length. We dont have a gold cup; but we've burned a ton of these loads thru regular model 70's and old military colts. Lots of folks like 5.2 grains of titegroup. Another old time load is 5.0 grains of bullseye. Hope this helps. leroy

Ya got a good barrel. Keep shootin. leroy

Gray (...and others...)make an excellent point. I've bought several firearms via the internet; but i never would do business with an individual. Face to face is the best way for an "individual" sale. Thanks for the heads up. leroy

HEHEHE!! I like it. leroy

I dont know that there is a "winner" here. Just opiners. leroy

I agree fully. You are exactly right. I wouldnt want you or anyone else participating in this thread to think i'm tryin to make points by innuendo or lecturing. I aint. By the way; you can always tell when you are winnin the debate (...or discussion...). It's when the opposition runs out of valid counterpoints and either attacks your motive, manner of speech, command of the language, posting grammatical style, or calls you a name. They move away from the "facts" (...in as much as we know 'em...); and move to speculations or recirminations. It's a favorite trick of sorry polititians, race-baiters, and other vermin that speak in the public forum of the news media in order to whip up their constituencies and sway the casual observer to their point of view. leroy

I like it!! Thanks for posting it. leroy

All:___________________ I dont to replow old ground; but there were pictures out there of the z man's nose swelled up and his eyes puffed up too; as well as the cuts on the back of his head. I seem to remember that he was treated for a broken nose. It's pretty easy for me to believe that if this was, in fact, the case (...and i think it is...). That the kid (...who is 6"-2' and 180 senior high football player...) sucker punched the hell out of ole george (...who aint very big...). There is a whole lesson in this one as well. Dont ever let anyone you are in a tiff with in arm's reach of ya. But the z man may not have known that (... i bet he does now, along with lots of other stuff he should have been thinkin about before this happened...). This kid is 18 years old, and he aint a choir boy. He wuz old enough to kill for Uncle Sam (...which i think is an honorable thing, by the way....). Trayvon Martin was clearly on the cusp of the age of "adulthood", and seemed to be makin the wrong turn. Being kicked out of school and posting a thug style picture on his facebook or whatever social media page givin the world the finger and smilin with a gold tooth showin aint exactly my idea of a picture of a "contributor to society"; and, as the great jessee jackson would say: "....a role model for the youths of america...". But that's just me. I'm an old guy who is regularly around 20 somethin year olds (...not too much older than this kid...). I know some that are pretty rowdy; but i dont think any of them would whup up on an older, smaller guy over being asked a question; no matter how impertinent. I also have noticed the trend in this country is to downplay the concept of individual responsibility; and assign blame to others for personal actions. That's a bad thing. You can ignore personal responsibility; but you cant escape it. Both george zimmerman and the kid have learned (...sadly...) that individual actions can lead to irreversible consequences. While im at it; the george man looks a heluva more like elmer fudd (...i do too, by the way...) than he does a militant hard case. He looks all of about 5'-6" and about 130 pounds, with a baby face. No wonder the t man may have thought he was a pushover (...if he, in fact, did...). But, alas, looks can be deceiving. I'll freely admit that this little ramble is a combination of cloudy facts, real facts, perception, and arm chair quarterbackin as to what actually happened; and that it means absolutely nothin. But it is, i believe, a fair and valid one. Its just as fair and valid as the one that states that the t man wuz mindin his own business and was assaulted by an overzealous maddog neighborhood watch bulldog. I believe that to genuinely believe that the kid was a victim in this little tiff, is, as the great Hillary Robem Clinton would quip, is "...to suspend reality....". But that's just me. Lastly, i believe that this is a genuine item of concern and that it is a valid item for serious discussion (...both sides of it, by the way....). I also believe it should be (...and I think, is; for the most part...) discussed in a cordial, and adult fashion. AR hit a homerun shot when he said that points are well made by a combination of kindness, logic, and facts. I firmly believe that no one here is doing anything other than just that. I believe there are lots of folks watchin the gun loving and pro Second Amendment community and waiting for irresponsible and inflammatory comments to be used as fodder to prove lies. I also believe that there is a lot at stake here that could reach farther than florida. leroy

Sam:_____________ The glock 33 dragged me from the world of steel and walnut (...colt 1911's and smiths...) to the world of polymer. I wuz lookin for a smaller carry gun and an old buddy of mine asked me to try the glock 33 and made me a great deal on it. The little glock shoots as well as any firearm ive owned (..i think, due to the combination of the good build quality, bottleneck cartridge design, and relatively high chamber pressures of the 357 sig....). I'm an old handloader, and my handloads will clock out of this little pistol at an honest 1275 fps. I can say that the 357 sig is, in fact, what the 9 mm was touted to be when the push to 9mm push happened in the eighties. I carry this little pistol in an allen miller (...kholster...) pocket holster. It fits in the hip pocket of my carhartt dungarees. I tend to wear my clothes loose; so a tee shirt can cover up the top of the pocket. I also have an iwb holster for it; but i tend not to like them. I simply cant get comfortable wearing them. Also got a d m bullard owb that i use and it works fine because it carrys the pistol high, kinda like ya would a 1911. An untucked shirt will cover it right up. All in all, the glock is as good a carry pistol as ive owned; and it packs a helluva punch with plenty of ammo to boot. I thinks they are the ultimate reasonably priced carry pistol. Now for the downside. That downside is width. Since the glock is a double stack, it, like me, is a bit fat and blocky. A single stack (...like the walther pps...) is (...in my opinion...) the ultimate carry gun of this type. The problem with the walther is that it's pricy. The new SW M & P single stack may solve this problem. I also like the less expensive kahr; but both of these pistols are either 9 mm or 40 (...which i like, by the way. Got a glock 27 too...). Hope this helps a bit. If you are a gun affectionado (...i suspect you are...); i heartily recommend the glock 33. Its a great thing, especially if ya handload. PS -I like the sigs too. I think they cost too much new though. Just call me "skinflint". Let us know what ya decide. leroy

All: Take the time to read this interesting tidbit from the Daily Caller: http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/14/florida-lawmaker-alec-had-nothing-to-do-with-stand-your-ground-law/ Interestin stuff. leroy

Thanks for posting the picture peej!! I love the gblackbird. I dont care if it does leak fuel on the ground. It's a great thing. It made the russians and the chinese afraid of us. That's a great thing!! Thanks again. leroy By the way, please give bubba and dolomite an "...A..." in physics and vector addition!!

Prang is right on target. Graf is a great bunch to do business with if they have what your are looking for; and generally at a good price. I always tend to buy bullets in bulk. I always look at Powder Valley, Midway, and Graf. Hope this helps. leroy

wd:____________ I gotta question: I'll grant that if everybody had good sense this would have never happened. I'll also grant that george could have been out of line callin the kid out for walkin back home. The problem ive got with this analysis which i lifted from your post: "...Everyone has tunnel vision here! I mean for God's sakes, this kid was minding his own business, walking home from the store...now he's dead by the actions of another! Those facts cannot be overlooked! ..." is that it presumes that the kid wuz mindin his own business and was attacked in some way. That simply doesnt seem to be the case (...based on the facts as we know them...). Asking a person what he is doing may be a bit rude (...in some cases...) but it doesnt amount to a physical assault (...my wife, my kid, and others ask me what im doin all the time...). My take on this (...which i realize is an "unofficial one, by the way...)is that the kid was offended by being called out and decided to put a whoppin on george and didnt quite get it done. The evidence (..that we know about...) points to that. That aint exactly "...minding his own business"... . The kid wuz bigger and tougher than george; and he knew it. It appears to me (...and i bet some other intellectually honest people too...) that george may have called him down; but the kid decided to give him a good whoopin for it. It simply didnt work out the way the kid believed it would; ...little ole man whupped for daring to call a tough guy down.... He almost got it done, and ole george found his pistol. I doubt ole george managed to black his own eyes and knock himself down in the wet grass and cut his head. While im at it; i dont think anyone here is "happy" or gloating that someone got killed over this incident. The truth of the matter is that none of this would have happened if everybody involved in it had have either minded their own business or acted like they were adults. There are lots of people watching this case and the firestorm surrounding it that are wondering what the real endgame is for it. I dont believe for a minute that it is "...Justice for Trayvon; or for Geroge Zimmerman, either..."; and i suspect that lots of other observers dont either. This whole thing smacks of post civil war reconstruction politics and punishment. This one has way too much heavyweight interest and propoganda swirling around it to just be an attempt by the state of florida at passing out justice for two private citizens. There is somethin a lot bigger than that goin on here. That something is big time politics; which, by the way, has no bearing whatsoever on justice. Most likely it is workin on "injustice" for someone (...most likely the citizens of florida...). leroy

Thanks for posting this article. Most of the southern baptists i know aint goin along with disarmament. I aint ready to beat my sword into a plowshare as long as im down here in this present evil world. leroy