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  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

serbu:  RE; this....   "We" didnt allow this if we voted against it.... The courts are the place it gets stopped... The legislative branch is afraid of doin anything... They like their jobs.... The judicial branch will eventually rule on each thing; but that takes time.... It's a calculation by the nobamaites and the political class that they can do anything they are big enough to do...   The way to fix it.... Vote.... That greatest democrat and "progressive' of them all, FDR, did the same thing... There aint nothin new under the sun or on the political scene...   leroy

Windbaggery and calculated unlawful executive action... The calculation is, i think, at least, that ya can get away with anything you are big enough to do and damn the law... its the old "...chicago way..." thing... You will will be ultimately ruled against in court; but it takes time and money to do so; and the effect of these "executive orders" is felt immediately and dutifully praised by your supporters... It's window dressing ALA the "Recess Appointments" thing and the FCC "fairness thing"... Doomed to ultimately fail; but done for the dramatic effect...   By the way, elections mean things and there's an election soon... Vote early and often; the opposition that likes this kind of stuff will...   leroy

Dolomite and Frank are exactly right RE: the setback distance... I generally use 10 feet as the distance for a pistol... The chrony will measure the speed of the powder particles... It evidently cant tell the size of particles, only the speed....   leroy

I'm like Dave on this one... It is against the law in this state to "...go armed..." without a HCP... We can quibble about whether it infringes on your 2A constitutional rights (...i happen to think it does...) but that is the "settled law"... If you open carry in the wrong place (...the mall, the health club walking track, ect...) you can expect someone not to like it and to drop a dime on ya.... That is the nature of things in this society...   f you are out in the field or at the barnyard; no one is probably gonna care....   As the Apostle Paul said: "....everything may be permissible, but not everything is helpful....". This issue is one of them...   Discretion and wisdom always trumps "in your face" exercise of rights... Many see the open carry thing in crowded locations as an "in your face" thing.... It's one thing for your skirt to blow up in the wind every now and then... It's quite another not to wear a skirt at all...   leroy

I've bought from Midway since the beginning.... There is 44 mag and 357 mag brass at my house that is marked "Midway"...I've never had a reason not to like their service nor their prices...   There are basically 3 places i look for reloading components:  Midway, Powder Valley, and Graf and Sons... I buy parts from Brownells or one of the specialty AR houses like Rainier Arms or BCM... Scopes and red-dots from folks like SWFA or Midway...If they dont have 'em; i dont buy them unless i go face to face with someone like our own David... The trick to buying from these guys is to buy a lot when you order; that will take care of the shipping charges... I also never backorder anything... period....   You can rest assured that if ya buy a couple of hundred rounds of anything from anybody, you will pay dearly for it...   Everybody here knows that the reloading components and gun parts business has been out of whack ever since the Nobama Regime has started running the political scene... There is no wholesaler, no matter how large, that has a full inventory of anything; or that has not experienced this dammnable panic buying stampede that has been goin on for the last six or so years...   Larry Potterfield and company (...nor anyone else for that matter...) is not obligated to sell any of this stuff... We need to recognize that we are receiving a service from those who are in the component and gun parts business... If Midway becomes non-competitive, someone else will take their place... That's how the capitalism thing works... They provide a service and you provide the business... Right now things are a bit skewed; but they will finally settle down....   You can rest assured that the "big" ammunition components and gun parts companies could give a damn less if they sell to folks like you and me; they would rather put the components into ammo and sell it to the gubmt or to resellers as part of a "take it or leave it" gun plan ALA what winchester and remington used to do; when they made wholesalers take obsolete or slow selling ammo as part of a package deal in order for the wholesaler to get the guns they wanted...   All in all, the gun and ammo business has always been a bit ratty for the wholesalers...I wouldnt beat them up too bad... If ya dont like 'em; vote with your dollars goin to someone else... That is, in fact, the best way to change attitudes in the selling business...   leroy

Spiffy... Shoot 5 shots, throw out the high and low; then average the remaining 3 and see what ya get...   leroy

There's not "lots" of them... I have one in 44 mag myself... They were built by a japanese maker (...SKB i would bet...) for Browning... They are a true copy of the winchester 92 (...designed by John Browning, not Winchester...) and are very well finished... There evidently were more 44 mags than 357 mags...  Mine shoots like a dream...   Enjoy... leroy

Tanker.... I'm gonna try to make ya feel a bit better... We have a 2001 Lincoln Navigator that is our pet... My wife loves it and she is the principal driver... I always "exercise" (...read that run and idle all our vehicles for 30 or so minutes a day....) when it gets down in the teens; it's just my old time heavy equipment upbringing...   I want the engines and trannys to heat up and have the oil and water circulating everywhere on these ultra cold days... The lincoln started up as it always did and ran beautifully (...like it always does...)... I shut it down in the evening and moved it the next mornin (...the 10 degree one...) and saw what you saw for a few seconds; then the engine cleared up... My guess; the computers and air sensors evidently remember the last settings and it takes a few seconds for them to obtain new data and adjust accordingly...   I think that the real cold weather exasperates these cycles and it may take a bit longer to hit the right point for engine operation on these cold days... They will start and run (...except for my old jeep, that misses the start point every now and then; takin two times to start...); but they need a bit of time to dial in the exact air/fuel combination for the temperature outside...   If ya keep seein it, i would take it to a dealer or a mechanic ya trust... If the warmer weather makes the problem go away and the engine aint missing; i wouldn't worry...   Hope this helps... leroy

Find a "...lightly used and lovingly cared for..." older Remington 700 in 308 or 300 win mag with a varmiter barrel... Invest in the best scope ya can buy to begin with, shoot it with "match type loads" and see how it shoots "...as is"...  Save your money and buy a good trigger and good barrel as ya have some extra dough if it doesnt shoot to suit ya in the beginning...Learn to use a "sissy bag" when shootin it.... Any rifle that reaches a 1000 yds will have some push back....   leroy

ESEE izula or whatever the KaBar is (...an escobar, i think...)... I carry one myself from time to time... Easy to sharpen, strong, and dont cost an arm and a leg... Take a look....   leroy

We need people like Dennis Rodman around to remind us of the greatness of this country's system and to remind us of how foolish and myopic that some sectors of the citizenry of this country are; and to remind us of the fantasy world they live in...   Rodman is an arrogant, self aggrandizing millionaire nincompoop with a chip on this shoulder who is proving to people who have eyes to see that he is a fool... He lives in a fantasy world (...with lots of other folks...) where it's still "Jim Crowe" and "KKK" time; all the while forgetting that american benevolence and capitalism allowed him to play basketball, become educated (...which, by the way, didnt work...) and become a millionaire...   It is indeed true that there was a time when there were "negro leagues" and "separate but equal"; but Rodman didn't live in it; nor do any of those who adhere to his idiotic beliefs today... I doubt that Rodman wants to go back to that time or change places with the poor gold or diamond miners in South Africa....   I say let him talk to kim junior and say all the stupid things he is prone to say.... If Dennis Rodman is anyone's hero, they are fools....He does serve however as a great example of what not to be....   I say let him keep talkin...   leroy

Wanted to pass this on this mornin.... It wuz zero at our house last nite...   We have a 3 year old 5 ton package unit heating and cooling a 3200 sq ft or so split foyer built about 40 or so years ago... The unit DOES NOT have any auxiliary heating on it... For the first time in 3 years, the house was cold last nite... Set point on thermostat wuz 71 degrees and the temp in the house wuz 59 degrees at about 8 this mornin at zero degrees...   The house is warmin up now (...its probably 15 degrees or so now....) and the sun is shinin....   The moral of this little story:  Ya need auxiliary heat of some sort with your package unit...   What happens is the the heat pump will get over-run when it goes to the defrost cycle and the temp will slide backwards in the heated space when its very cold outside... As near as i can tell, a heat pump looses capacity to about 1/2 of it's "normal" rating at zero degrees F.... I have been pleasantly surprized with the performance of the unit until last nite; but ya got to remember that it's been 20 or so years since we've had a zero nite and ten degree days where i live... I'm gonna put in a 15 KW heater kit on wednesday or thursday when it warms up....   Hope this helps... leroy

Metcalf is an overbearing, elitist, wind-bag, know-it-all clown who doesnt take criticism (...and firing...) very well... It's a bad deal for him because he got criticized and fired for saying things he shouldn't have said... The hell with him... He knows nothing.....Now he can draw unemployment and hunt for a job with the gun grabbers... That may be his plan anyway...   Remember what the great John Wayne (...and Jesus...) said about the truth...."....Ya cant keep it bottled up...."  It always comes out...   leroy

Lester:  I like this...   Bingo!!   Keep up the good work, leroy

They are great revolvers... We've got an 8 inch heavy barrel 22 on the same frame as the 357 that is as accurate a pistol as ive ever shot... Buy with confidence... Use and enjoy....   leroy

I lifted this out of a website that contains the plain text of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights:   http://constitutionus.com/ I hilited the section we like... The plain reading says two things; the first talks about the militia (...there was no standing army, that wuz a big argument with the founders--- the "army" was called up as a state militia... one of my ancestors served in the revolutionary war and wuz called up in the war of 1812..... The "standing army" argument wuz a great one; research and read the details; it might change your mind about the wisdom of a "standing army"..)...   The second thing the sentence says is the "famous" one that we cherish:  "...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed....".  It's a plain reading thing... Ya cant erase either one... They could have put two periods there and any educated man (..or woman...) knows that....The second amendment gives the "...right to keep and bear arms..." as an "absolute" right... That's why the supremes (via John Roberts..) said so in the Heller Case (...i think...)...   Reconstruction politics brought the "...legislature can regulate the wearing of arms with an eye toward "keeping the peace...." (...or whatever the Tennessee State Constitution says....)    If a rogue federal court can erase the Second Amendment one; ya can go up to Article III of the constitution and erase it too....   The Second Amendment is, in fact, an absolute right given to citizens of this country as long as we follow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...   The "...regulating of the wearing of arms..." thing is power conveyed to the individual states; which i think we can quibble about, but that's what the "settled law" is... That's why ya see these idiot blue state apparatchiks passing state laws and ya see the arguments like ya see in places like Colorado and New York where state citizens (...sheriffs...) rebelling against them and threatening not to enforce "state laws" that are "unconstitutional"...   The law is built on logic and precedent... If ya can tear down and re-rite any part of it; ya can erase, tear down, and re-rite it all; and the legal intelligentsia well knows that...   I wouldnt worry about a federal removal of rights and gun confiscation... I would worry about restrictive state regulation of arms... That's exactly what we've got today in some places... Ergo, my argument about the "red state" / "blue state" confederation thing...   Think about this a bit... leroy

I say that if folks like these sons and daughters of satan that they vote for disarmin them; let them get a good dose of it... They seem to like that sort of thing in lots of places at the state level in places like Connecticut, Massachusetts,  New York, and Kalefornia...   I'm like Dave and ET on this one.... No one is gonna come and disarm anyone in this state; or in any other one where the citizenry believe in the plain reading of the constitution and the bill of rights...   On a personal basis, i believe that the individual states are gonna continue to devolve into two confederations... A red one where folks believe that the constitution and the bill of rights means what the plain reading of it says; and a blue one where ya get the stuff we are discussing now....   I simply dont believe that anyone can ban and confiscate guns as long as the Bill of Rights is around; and i dont believe that even the most ravenous "progressive" supreme court justice is gonna suspend the bill of rights... If the bill of rights can be suspended by politicians; the courts can be suspended; and those who sit on those courts well know that...   Havin said all that, i believe we should all be watchful and vigilant as to these issues and hold these ratty politicians accountable for their actions ALA Colorado...I well remember when that geat old white haired plantation master Albert Gore, SR wuz voted out of the senate after 30 years of  "sacrificial public service" to his rustic "children" in the Great State of Tennessee over one vote ... That vote; a "yea" for the infamous Gun Control Act of 1968....   watchin leroy

I think it's a helluva idea; and i think lots of first time CCW folks will buy it... My 238 weighs 15.2 ounces unloaded (...i think...)... The little glock weighs about 13 ozs... That's a good thing on both counts...   I guess my thinkin on this glock issue kinda goes like this:   I would have liked to have seen glock build a single stack 9/40 first; because my personal preference (...with no encumbrance-- the best of my personal world, so to speak...) is the 40... They didnt... They built a 380; one of which i carry every day, all day long; just like a pocket knife...   I believe that everybody needs to be armed all the time; that they absolutely need to know how to use their tools; and that they need to have made their mind up beforehand that they are willing to stop threats to themselves and those under their protective umbrella.... period.... These are "primary" issues... The "secondary" issues are things like pistol type, caliber, holster,yada yada yada.... Ya get the picture....   There are folks out there that believe that a 44 mag aint big enough... I dont happen to be one of them... A pistol, especially a readily concealable one has to be just that; concealable and light enough that ya will carry it all the time... period.... The humble 380 does that for me and lots of other folks; and does it very well...   I would much rather be armed with something i knew how to shoot and shoot well than an atomic cannon that i couldnt shoot well; and that's exactly the thinkin here i believe.... Make no mistake, a 380 in the temple or in the eye will stop most anything on two legs... Hitting them in other less vulnerable places may not kill him; but i'm willing to bet it will make him sick; and i bet my well being and personal safety on it daily...    If you are worried about fire and stopping power; i say use a little gun to carry all the time ALA a j frame smith or a 380 and keep a "big gun" close at hand... Shoot your way out with the little gun and get to the big gun(s) if ya happen to be at the "OK Coral"... My bet is that ya wont need to; but it may make ya feel better... It does for me when i carry our 629 or a Glock 20 in the truck and the little 380 in my pocket....   By the way, thanks to Gray for postin the neat videos...   mousegun leroy with the big backup

We shoot lots of outdoor shots (....railfan shots...)... Beautiful skies, landscape, buildings and slow movin equipment... We use an old D80 and a refurbished N3100 i paid $349 for with a kit lens at Audorama... They both work like a champ... I'm a Nikon guy because we used to use the old F3 High Points for film photography...   Any of the cameras ya can think of do a helluva job.... Nikon, Cannon, Olympus; and they are all "compact format" DSLRS... Just got the wife a Samsung NX 300... It's a helluva camera... I just dont like the lack of a viewfinder (...ya have to look at the back ALA the point and shoot cameras...)...   The point of this little ramble... Buy the one you like and can afford... They all do a great job...Also, get a copy of Photoshop Elements and learn how to use it... It fixes some amazing hu-hos.... Finally, after ya fool with the digital camera/picture thing a bit; youll never believe another digital picture ya ever see is the "real thing"; whether is actually is or not....   PS-- For low light, get a humble 50 or 55 mm 1.8 or so lens... Ya can take pictures until almost dark... Buy yourself a good monopod (...pogo stick...); it will improve your pictures more than all the baloney the windbags proclaim in the photo blogs combined...  Remember, a camera that is still takes a clear picture... If the camera has VR reduction, it makes things even better when ya use a monopod....   leroy

I like it myself... It's got the "retro-future" look and is a helluva idea as to operation... It's great to see an american company come up with such an idea... I'm  a fan of the "pp" size pistols, so i could easily see my little round gimpy self totin one of these around when the new wears off of them...   As to the grip safety;.... In the "old days" (...before the 1911 nazis and the safety police...) the old timers just pinned the safety back... There wuz many a 1911 carried by a trooper who knew how to use it that either had the safety pinned or tied back with rawhide on his trusty 1911...   I say this is america (...for the time bein, anyway...); do anything ya feel like doin... The hell with the nazis and the safety police....   leroy

We used to the use the Bianchi X15 holsters for 1911's, Ruger SA's, and "N" frame smiths... There are (...as others have said...) two problems with them...The first is that they are uncomfortable, the second is that they are hard to cover up...   We used to use them when hunting; so covering them up and being discrete wasn't an issue...   The tanker type holsters (...across the chest strap with gun on chest or side...) is a much better and cheaper solution in my opinion... They are much more comfortable (...for me at least...) because the belt attachment takes some of the weight of the gun off the shoulder strap...   The only "comfortable" shoulder holster i ever had was for a "j frame smith"... That bein said; A shoulder holster for a "j frame" is an elegant (...and expensive...) solution for a simple problem...   The summary for this little ramble:  Try a shoulder holster before ya buy one.... Borrow one from an older buddy who has tried one and doesnt like it... Don't try a cheap one; they are uncomfortable to begin with... Try a "real" leather one with good leather shoulder straps... My bet is it will take about 45 minutes to an hour to get uncomfortable...   For me, IWB and OWB concealed carry belt and holsters are a much better solution unless ya have a very big, heavy semi-auto or revolver to carry....   Non shoulder holster carryin leroy

My prediction is the the "Black Widows" of the North Caucuses are about to be more "endangered" ... These idiots had better leave the Russians alone or they will all be swept away... The russian militarry has already made a pretty good swipe at "ethnic cleansing" in the North Caususes...   The next time they swing thru they will most likely look like the 11th SS Calvary did against the russian partizan operations in WW2... No one will be left...   leroy

Great stuff.... Bullet is obeyin the the First Law of Thermodynamics (...i think...Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; it just changes it's form... "Kinetic to thermal", in this case....) converting kinetic energy (...motion...) into thermal energy (...bullet heats up and melts from the impact...)... If it's goin fast enough (...like an armor piercing round...) it will develop enough energy to melt thru the metal plate ...   Thanks for posting this neat video.... leroy

  D. M Bullard.... My little 238 has been settin in one for the best part of two years...   Hope this helps... leroy