leroy

I think it's very interesting that the only branch of the 3 branches of gubmt that is acting like the adults in the room is the judicial branch... My guess is that things are so polarized that the federal judiciary knows everyone on both sides of every issue is watchin... They seem to be commin down on a strict interpretation when it comes to the Bill of Rights issues...   By the way, hooray for the Second Amendment win.... We are livin in interestin times...   leroy

Let 'em believe whatever fantasy they want... The solution to this is to vote out the idiots who advocate this.... There is an election in 2014... Vote early and often... The sons of b*****s who like this stuff will....   Keep your powder dry....   leroy

HEHEHE....    leroy

This one is gonna be interestin to watch.... If im reading the posts on the "Legal Insurrection" blog right; the only "real" witnesses to this is the defendant (...Dunn?...)...   I think what we are seeing is the outworking of the "on edge" black vs white thing; especially in Florida...Evidently the greater Jacksonville area is a zoo anyway... Everybody is nervous when young black (...or white...) kids start loud talkin them (...if they actually did; which i think, they probably did...) and makin threatening moves...    The real tragedy of this whole debacle is that there is a kid dead... A kid who most likely said and did exactly the wrong thing at the right time....   There is a big lesson in this for parents is to know where your kids are, who they hang with, and that they know to keep their mouth shut; especially; it would appear, in florida.... They may just mouth off or make a threatening move to someone who well may be a genuine steely eyed killa... The lesson for kids is obvious; keep your mouth shut and don't make any stupid moves...   The fact is that life in these times aint a gangsta rap music video; nor a video game where ya can "rewind"... Someone got killed in this confrontation that didn't have to happen; and they aint commin back...It has become very dangerous for kids and loud mouthed adults to loud talk edgy white guys in Florida.... There seems to be a rash of self-defense shootings goin on...   The sad truth is that one life has been taken and a bunch of others have been altered in the saddest of ways because of this senseless encounter... I'm truly sorry for the parents left behind....   leroy  

Good shooin... There ought to be more of it..... The sheriff is right ya know... We need to start an ammo fund for this brave lady.... Leroy Sent from my iPad using [URL=http://tapatalk.com/m?id=1]Tapatalk[/URL]

The older "German Eye" knives were great... As i remember, they were carbon steel and built by Carl Schiepler in Solengen, Germany... They were around 40 years ago.... The first sod buster i ever saw was a "German Eye"; it was yellow.... Ive got several of the older pocket knives... They are well made and sharp....   I belong to this forum... Sometimes it helps; sometimes its a bunch of bunk...   http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/859574-German-Eye-Brand-Knives   leroy

Are ya crimping the loads?... I've shot the SWC's with no problem; but i always roll crimp the rounds.... Check and see if the round is dropping down in the chamber a bit... If they are, that is the problem...   Hope this helps. leroy

Yep....   leroy

Who gives a damn where "Zero" landed or visited....   More buffoonish behavior and photo ops to please the "children" i say...   non-caring leroy

I'm a semi-geezer and grew up with the ww2 guys being my uncles, dads, and mentors... I saw some fine ww2 bring backs; never have i seen one with "documentation"... As Austin said; i think it's a very valuable addition....   leroy

I like it!!!  Thinkin about one myself....   Enjoy... leroy

Walther PPK; the ultimate "gentleman's pistol"....The semi-auto competitor to an engraved "J" frame smith...  They are a great thing....   As to the "dangerousness" of the 380; Garufa and others have rightly opined:... no one who is on the "wrong end" of a 380 is gonna have a good day...  A 380 in the eye, temple or heart is a very bad thing... I say:... think more about accuracy and less about caliber.... The best pistol to have is the one youve got when ya need it...   I'd like to have a genuine old walther myself; im like some others here; i cant bring myself to spend the extra dough...   leroy

I'm gonna wade into this conversation by way of a "blast from the past"... I used to shoot lots of long range rifle stuff back in the "old days" with turn bolt rifles... But rifles is rifles and the general principles should apply everywhere...   We always free floated barrels because of shot repeatability...(...And we never shot a group with a "clean" barrel; we always took a "fouling shot"...)  A free float barrel arrangement, no matter if turn bolt or AR, allows the barrel to vibrate freely and return to its natural rest position every time regardless... Lots of hunting rifles and some semi target stuff that wasn't free floated (...most weren't...) would string vertically as the barrel heated up and open up target groups.... Free floating a good barrel will make your rifle shoot better... Free floating a so so rifle will make it shoot a litttle bit better... It's been my experience that a rifle has a good barrel or it doesn't... Havin said that, there are individual differences to consider... I had (...and still have...) a 300 win mag 40X remington that went from about 1 1/2 at 100 (...which is a bit too short for it and the 308 i think...) to less than one inch at 200 yards with good loads and a simple free float and bedding.... (...Then again, the 40X had a helluva barrel and good trigger, genuine target gun...).   If a rifle has a good barrel (...and trigger...), it will shoot pretty well "as is".... If ya "free float" it, it will shoot better... If your rifle is shooting groups like a shotgun; dont worry about "free floating".... If it's shooting pretty good groups (...make sure it aint you, in both cases...), it will shoot better with a free float... If you are shootin a minute of angle (... about 1 inch at 100 yards...)... Leave it alone, no matter whether free float or not... Most off the shelf guns (...and some marketed as target or custom....) wont do any better, no matter the treatment (...except a new, high dollar target barrel and trigger, that is...) no matter what people say...    The "heart" of any rifle is the barrel and the trigger... If they aint good, the rifle is "so so" to ratty... If they are good, the rifle is good...    Some of our more precision minded target guys may wade in and disagree on some details here; but i think ive given ya the "readers digest" summary of the free float thing... By the way; if its a AR 10; big kick, big flinch (...some times...) bigger groups... AR 15, should shoot good (...no kick...) smaller groups...   Hope this helps and livens up the conversation a bit... leroy

GK is right on this one; it is, indeed, about "...follow the money..." (...i think...)....  If ya read some of the news articles carefully; you will note that a "legislative staff study" indicates that corporate lawyers for big companies are supposedly recommending against firing folks for cause because of guns in parking lots if no crime has been committed... I don't know whether that is true or not; but it makes political sense in today's "edgy" climate... I do know that the political class likes the support and contribution(s) of the big companies... I think they are like the little "mugwump bird" (...sittin on the fence with their head on on side and their tail on the other; as my sainted mother used to say...) hopin this one will go away and are sending a signal (...i think...) to the big companies to lay low... I say make em take a public stand and vote out the ones ya don't like... The hell with the political class!!   populist leroy, the anti-mugwump activist

Looks ta me like he needs to hunt a new line of work that doesnt involve handling semi-complicated devices...   leroy

It's not unusual for the hand spring to break on these ubertis... We used to shoot the percussion models and had the problem from time to time... We ordered replacement hand springs from Brownells... The leaf spring is a weak point on all single actions; no matter the brand...   leroy

Lager... I understand the concern and the wish to stand with like-minded brothers and sisters, and i full well understand that urge to help advance the reclaiming of our God Given freedoms here in this country as well... I believe that it is a laudable goal and that all responsible citizens should engage in this work... Havin said all that; i would offer this bit of perspective on this whole issue...   Everyone tends to index his memory based on when they start looking into or get active in any issue... I'm old enough to remember when the passing out of handgun permits was handled at the whim and discretion of the sheriff of the individual county sheriff or (...in some states...) the local chief of police...   All this was done in spite of the fact that the Second Amendment was in place... The State of Tennessee (...as did most other states....) had a Reconstruction Era statute that effectively said that:"... the state will regulate the wearing of arms with an eye to keeping the peace...".   That statute wuz baloney; because it was put in place by the ruling political class at that particular time to, in fact, disarm certain of the individual states citizens who had been on the "wrong side of the civil war" or who were political rivals... That amendment to each state's individual constitution(s) was a clear usurping of the original intent of the Second Amendment; and there was no one at that time who did not know that; but that was the mood of Reconstruction politics...   That statute was amended in the eighties and effectively replaced by a "Shall Issue" provision that states, in effect, that the state must issue permits to ANY CITIZEN who is lawfully eligible to lawfully own a firearm... The reason that the "shall issue" legislation was passed in this state and a bunch of others is because like-minded citizens and the NRA successfully campaigned on them... It effectively took the issuance of permits from the hands of an elite local political class (...in many instances...) and made the application and issue process a non-political issue... That was real progress in moving back toward the true intent of the Second Amendment as written in the Bill of Rights (...i think, anyway...)...   There were (...and still are, for that matter...) many in the political class who didn't like this idea; but they had to swallow that particular pill and honor it in order to stay in office... The fact is that the best possible medicine that we gun owners can give any political class operative is a good dose of fear that he (...she, or it...) will be swiftly voted out of office if they don't honor the spirit of the Second Amendment or all the others that we hold dear for that matter...   This approach works no matter what you believe as to concealed carry, open carry, knife rights, on and on... Look at what is going on in Colorado...   I firmly believe that there is a resurgence of a powerful populist movement throughout this country of like minded citizens that believe that the plain reading of the Constitution is, in fact, the law of the land... I believe that the likelihood of any politician or group of politicians taking any constitutional right away from the citizenry is miniscule due to this resurgence; except in the traditionally blue "Boss Tweed" fiefdoms, that is; and they are even loosing in court... Look at what happened in Illinois the other day with the Chicago thing... Even the hippies like Hickenlooper are loosin in Colorado; and i predict that the clowns in Kalefornia will soon suffer the same fate....   People are more informed (...and educated...) today than ever before in the history of this country... They are also "edgy" and for good reason; they are thinkin (...and rightly so, i think...) that "government" is a very potentially malevolent force and that it just may be in the business of limiting rights; not ensuring them...They are also tired of the fiefdoms that used to rule most everywhere... Those fiefdoms are even crumbling in blue places like New York state where you have sheriffs and chiefs of police who are givin the single finger salute to the state government sayin they will not enforce the New York SAFE act... These sorts of things have never happened before in my lifetime and im a semi-old geezer...   To summarize this little rambling; i'm not afraid that any politician (...state or federal...) is gonna take any thing away from me other than my money; because that is the nature of government....  We already have the right to bear arms via the Second Amendment... We need to go about our business exercising this right and act responsibly concerning it... We need to vote out any politician that doesn't see things in clear constitutional terms... period... If we do that, we have noting to fear concerning the "loss of rights"....   On a personal basis, i trust no politician; no matter the political stripe... I watch 'em and reward good behavior and punish bad behavior with my dollars, my affiliations (...think NRA, PACs, or other "gun rights" organizations here...) and my vote... The thing is to keep politicians afraid of the citizenry, not the reverse... In my mind, when we do these things, we are standing together as gun owners and responsible citizens...   leroy

  Try 15.5 grains of 2400 with standard primers and a heavy crimp... It's the old "Keith" load for the 357 mag... The modern loading manuals wont recommend it; but it will work... Use it in the "n" frame smiths, blackhawks, and vaqueros....   leroy

I'm big on the 13 1/2 grain 2400 / 158 grain LSWC in 357 mag brass.. It's accurate, powerful, and soft shooting in a big revolver.... If ya like 38 special brass; use 12.0 to 12.5 and the same LSWC...  It works like a charm... In the 38 special cases it duplicates the old 38-44 hi speed load...  Either of them shoot like a dream in my n frame smiths or my vaquero sheriff...   leroy

  I despise them sons and daughters of satan.... They symbolize, in large part, all that is wrong with amerika...   despisin leroy

Harvey Weinstein is a self-aggrandizing, deluded, narcissistic fool; and Meryl Streep aint far behind.... Let him (... and them...) spend all his (...their ....) money on this foolishness... Who cares what he thinks or does.... The hollywood trash that populates the left coast and new york shouldnt worry anyone... He may not have found out yet; but they dont run anything but the democrat party; and that may be over pretty soon...   noncaring leroy

Robert Duval may, in fact, be the greatest cowboy character of both the twentieth and the twenty first century...   leroy

Id say "...use with confidence"... Looks ta me like a "new agent' is a short 1911... As full of death as a drugstore; and as reliable as a 1911 gets in the right hands of course...   Enjoy... leroy

  Lager... I'm a bit older than most here (....67...)... I wuz raised in the country here in East Tennessee where most of the inhabitants put a pistol in their pockets when they put their overalls or pants on just like you and i would put a pocket knife in ours... Everybody knew they were armed; no one saw the arm until it was needed... That is, in fact, my culture and heritage and im a product of that thinking...   As to the "open carry" thing; i think it is a regionally cultural thing...Where ya have a "cultural melting pot" like metro nashville, knoxville, or any of the other larger metro areas in tennessee where ya have a place like UT and lots of outsiders mixing with the indigenous population; i think ya re swimmin against the tide trying to condition everybody to accept the "open carry" thing...It may be accepted in rural Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, Kentucky, or New Mexico; but not in "metro" melting pot areas; no matter the state...There is simply too much dilution of the indigenous population with outsiders and pilgrims from places that are afraid of guns....   I want to (...as im sure most everybody here does...) to be the best ambassador i can possibly be for people taking responsibility for their own safety and the safety of those in their care... I do that "missionary work" by being as winsome and honest as i can be and by speaking out for and supporting 2A rights without scaring those who im trying to convince to see things the way we see them.... We're all on the same side here...The difference in opinion is the issue of tactics and acceptability of the methods of convincing the UN-convinced or antis that our cause is just; and that, more than that, they should embrace that cause...   Havin said all that; i happen to believe that in lots of places the open carry thing smacks of "in your face" exercise of rights; and no amount of lipstick smeared on that particular pig nor defending of those who choose to do those things will change my mind... The fact is that lots of people are afraid and edgy (...and for good reason, i think...) and they are scared of their neighbors and strangers; especially those toting guns openly who dont happen to be wearin a badge or a uniform...There are, of course, notable exceptions to this (...thank God...) and there are places where this aint a problem... The metro areas of tennessee, however are problem areas in my opinion...   leroy

  Nope.... Exercising a "right" is just that....  You can carry open or not...As for me; I carry a gun to protect myself and others around me from thugs, mother stabbers, and father rapers... It aint a statement of "rights"... Youve already got them to begin with...   Im like some other posters; i believe there is a time and place and method for everything ya decide to do... I prefer concealed carry... Your "skirt blowin up" wuz my way of sayin that...   I was taught about carrying a firearm by a dear old grandfatherly guy who had this to say about carrying a firearm... It goes like this: "...Never let anyone know you are armed until you absolutely have to... Never draw a gun on anyone you dont fully intend to shoot and kill"...    Carryin a gun aint about making a statement about "rights"; its far more than that... It's about self-defense and deadly use of force... There are those who may want to try to bluff and scare bad guys... I think that approach is a bad idea on a bunch of levels; but that's just me... I believe in tactical surprise and the determination to be ready to ventilate them if ya need to...   I aint tryin to beat anyone up; but the second amendment, at it's core, is about the guarantee of the ability to have tools for self-defense... There was a time when every finished gentleman was, in fact, armed; and no one had to tell anyone else he was; everybody already knew it... I think that those times are returning with the "Shall Issue" permit thing... The realization of the need to go armed is the point here; not the method of carry....   leroy