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Elections have consequences... Some of them are illegal.   leroy

McElroy and the KNS are surrogates of Gannett.  They hate guns, the Second Amendment, and think you and i are too rustic and hotheated to own or operate a weapon like a gun.  They also must hate elections and debate because they always give one side of every issue and scold you if you happen to take the other.    As Garfua has said; the "comments" section is the "real entertainment" if you are in the right frame of mind.  The most important thing the KNS puts out is the cartoon and want ads sections of the paper.    The real use of the KNS and most other big city and "chain" papers is propoganda and lining of bird cages.   leroy

To add to what others have said; ya need a single stage for load development (...small batches...).  Progressives (...we have a dillon 650...) are used to crank out pistol loads once youve found a load ya like.   Ya can change toolheads easily to change calibers.  "Good" rifle loads are loaded on our single stage (...RCBS Rockchucker...).   Hope this helps.   leroy

As others have already posted, take a look around and handle lots of o/u's.  See which one points and feels the best. Most any o/u will outlast the shooter, even if he shoots a lot.  Most all the higher end makers [...Browning, Beretta, Winchester (...101, 96...), Remington (...3200...), SKB (...japenese...), and all the european hi grade makers...] are great shotguns.  Spend whatever your budget will allow.  Havin said all that; i think the citori is hard to beat for the money, if it fits ya.   leroy

HEHEHE... --- Looks to me like there are about 10 or 12 of em.  Great crowd.....   Remember, Leland Price is a Democrat with political aspirations.  I would expect him and the three or four other potential inner city "personalities" need the lock step following of the welfare single mother and democrat machine (...such as it is...) to be elected.  It's political pandering.  Remember, Price and others in the DA's office are so acutely tuned to the pulse of things that they couldnt see a known felon repeatedly visiting judge Bumgartner nor detect drug use in the judiciary.   The good news is that some of us geezers are watchin and wont forget his opinions and positions.   Watchin leroy

Keep them cards, e-mails, and letters commin into Alexander's and Corker's mailboxes.   leroy

Folks, while i agree in principal with most of what has been said here about alexander and corker; the "real" vote in the senate is the one that will come up on this issue; not the one allow "cloture" or debate.  The vote on the final bill has not been taken yet.  The "cloture" vote was a "quid pro quo" vote to buy or pay back a favor (...in my estimation...).  It also makes these two look "reasonable" and "statesmenlike" to many (...not all...) of us.  I agree that we should keep up the pressure to vote against this thing on principal.    Alexander and Corker would do well to heed the admonitions of those who counsel against any "enhancements" to background checks.   I'm old enough to remember a guy by the name of Albert Gore Sr who was thrown out of office after 30 or so years for voting for the Gun Control Act of 1968.   Keep up the pressure.   leroy

David:________   I like this bruthah:   The hell with Paypal.  Dont give 'em money. They dont like us gun owners anyway, why should we support them.   I like the TGO icon and the TGOxxx Serial number!!.   Keep up the good work!   leroy

I like the 121 fixed blade.  Got one myself.    Enjoy!   leroy

Wait until they read a high roller or "fortunate son's" mail and take him to court.  They can do anything they want until they make it to the federal court.   leroy

Would definitely take two; maybe more.   leroy

My guess is that this is red meat for the gun control democrats and cover for red state democrat senators.  It allows team obama and their children to say they did something on the gun control issue while giving cover to the red state democrat senators by way of the "ruling class" rino republican senators; nothing more.    As to the "removing of reciprocy" in concealed carry permits.  As far as i know, the federal government has no jursitiction in this issue.  It is a state issue, not a federal one.    As to this: ".....The Manchin-Toomey agreement would close the so-called “gun show loophole” by requiring that background checks are conducted on all commercial gun sales in the country. ...".  There has always been a federal law that says "all commercial sales" are to be background checked on handguns.  My guess is that this is political pandering and red meat for the democrat "anti-gun" base.  With a complicit media; it will be heralded as a policy victory for team obama.   Interesting read on this subject here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/04/09/the-gun-control-vote-and-harry-reids-problem/   Here's watchin   leroy

Looks good!!    leroy

Elections have consequences.    leroy

Let's see if it gets funded once the republicans, red state democrats,  and the ACLU wakes up and reads about it.   leroy

Glad ya like it; it looks great.....And a very special thanks for all those who turned us on to kershawguy.  I've got a new blem echelon in my pocket (...cant find the "blemish";...can see the 4 little xxxx'es....) for a small knife myself from our man.  It is in the same pocket with my ZT 700.  I'm a big Kershaw and ZT fan myself.  They are a great knife manufacturer.  all their products are consistently good.   Enjoy.   leroy

fivestring:__________   My son used to shoot lots of cap and ball revolver suff.  We burned lots of powder thru a pair of 36 navies (...my favorites...).  We have several other cap and ball revolvers as well.  They were all from uberti or cimmaron (...uberti too...).   They all needed some bit of tuning; but when the tunin wuz done; they were as smooth as glass and shot really well.    As to the cap thing; in my experience it wuz hit and miss.  We usually wound up changing nipples on most ever revolver and fitting the right caps to it. The trick is to get the caps to fit exactly right and to fall off the nipples as the revolver is re-cocked when shootin pretty fast.  If the nipples dont drop off; sometimes they will bind up the hammer.   I would try to get the nipples and caps to fit as closely as possible with little to no "crimping" of the cap to hold it on.  We also used the trick of putting a little dot of bore butter on the side of the nipple to help hold the cap on; which works pretty well until the revolver cylinder heats up.  Here is a great resource for the cap and ball stuff:  http://www.buffaloarms.com/default.aspx We used to buy most all the parts and supplies we needed from them.  They are good guys.   Bottom line on the cap thing... buy several sizes when you order them and help yourself out by buying a cash inline capper.    Have fun with your cap and ball revolvers.  They are a great thing!!   leroy

  Number 9 is great for 357 sig too.  Lots of velocity and excellent accuracy.   leroy

I like 'em both.  I would like to try an EMP 40; but im afraid i might like it... HEHEHE... I do like the micro compact 45.   Thanks for posting these great pictures.   leroy

Thank you for posting this great analysis..   leroy

  Tried to pass some of it out in the stuff under the first paragraph along with the why.   I think the SHTF thing is goin on now with lots of folks realizin what the gubmt is really up to under the present regieme.    I understand that some folks aint gonna agree with the analysis, and im ok with that.   I'll end this with a simple question:  Do you know anyone who the government has come for in the middle of the nite without a warrant... ?, What did they do?....   I know Alex jones thinks this is goin on; but im lookin for some local confirmations.  I aint seein any.   I'm just pointin out that folks need to think thru what is goin on.   leroy

Things will change for the better.  States rights; more liberty, less government..... i hope. Yeah, im too wordy, it comes with age and not havin enough to do.   Hope this helps.   wordy leroy

I like 'em.  Got the series 70's brother in the gun safe with plain pachmyers on it.  Its gettin a bit cloudy on the plating; but that makes it look greater.   Remember, nickle plated guns look bigger than they really are.  HEHEHE....   Thanks for posting these great pictures.   leroy

  I think there is a lot of truth in this post; but i cant buy the "...we are turning into a police state..." thing yet.  Dave is exactly right, a majority of folks voted for what we have now and the present "regieme" is doin all they can to kick the can down the road toward authoritorianism and the "police state" thing. We are seein a redux of post civil war reconstruction politics levied against political enemies on a national scale.   The good news as i see things is that more and more folks are wakin up to what's goin on.  Lots of them are edgy and are buyin up firearms; and they aint for hunting and plinking.  For the first time in my life; i believe a goodly number of people are actually very concerned that the US government may not be a benign force.  I count that a good thing; because its not, and hasnt been for quite a while.  The bad news is that i think it's about a 50/50 split population wise; but there is good news in that it is regional.  The "blue" voters are concentrated in the usual "blue" areas; or are islands in "red" territories ALA Memphis and inner-city Nashville.   Jerrymandering in the blue states, voter fraud, and a weak bunch of republican pukes brought us barak noama and  "uncle mort" napolitano.   Folks for the first time in a long time (...since the civil war...) and post civil war reconstruction otherwise reasonable and hitherto uncaring citizens are seein first hand what "reprisal politics" and high handed government is actually like and they dont like it.   I count that a good thing.   I predict that we will get rid of lots of the nobama authoritarianism about 2014 because the demorats are gonna have to re-brand themselves and distance themselves from this idiocy to keep foolin their political base.   The rebublicans are worse; because they have let this happen twice now. They may well morph into the demorat party and a new party may emerge ALA folks like Rand Paul, Rubio, and Ted Cruze; and i count that a good thing.   I believe that no matter what happens with the presidential and federal elections, we are gonna see the red states get redder and the blue states get bluer.  Some of the blue states are turnin purple and red; i count that a good thing too; again, more and more people are wakin up and they dont like what they see.  Matter of fact; i think that the only people who "like" what's goin on now are the hard core socialists, idiotic union members, children, and those on the dole.  The socialist and union thing is a religion in my view; the "children" are ignorant; and the "on the dole" thing is what it's always been; ....being bought and sold like cattle.... .  All for a measley handout from the government.     I think that states rights are emerging and that we will see a continuing devolution of the states into like-minded confederations; where the citizens of the individual states decide what they are willing to allow (...just as it should be, anyway....).  I think it will lead to a showdown with the federal gubt if we get another demorat; but i think the showdown will be bloodless; with the courts puttin the federal gubmt in its place.   Havin said all that, i will concede that talk is cheap and that nothin has happened as yet; but i think we're in for some interestin politics in the next few years.  I'll close this little musing by sayin that america wuz founded on rebellion and a yearning for freedom.  America was founded on the anthesis of what the old world wuz and is now; a bunch of cowed compliant serfs governed by a political elite; first kings, then kaisers, then a political elites.   The sons of b****es running big government machine politics at the fed., state, and local levels are tryin mighitily to make us all serfs; and they were doin pretty well with it up until now.   Now they have tipped their hand, and the most rustic and base of us can see what they are doin.   They would have done well to be a bit lighter handed; and kept foolin the children and the blissfully ignorant among us.   Here's hopin im right.   rustic leroy

Bustin clay birds with an old rifle, cast bullets, and a 2 power scope at a hundred yards aint bad.  I wouldnt be surprized if your groups turn out tighter than the 50 yard targets would indicate.  Ive seen that before with jacketed bullets.  The 50 yard target may be showin bullet prints still tryin to stabilize.  I cant wait to see your 100 yard targets when ya get the time.    Keep up the good work.   leroy