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Thanks for all the input guys. I am going to take the plunge today (and avoid cabelas). I have a pretty good collection of .223, .45, and .40 brass anyway, so that will save some $$. Any recommendations for where to get primers and powder in the knoxville and surrounding areas?

I guess that will have its worst impact on shotgun shells which are big and heavy for shipping. It is nice, however to have been able to have quick access to cheap Blazer brass, which I though was the best FMJ for the money. The online market is truly strange for handgun ammo right now. I've had back orders in all over the place from early spring, and I have yet to see a single shipment!

I was looking at getting set up for reloading today. Aside from the initial startup cost of the gear, how do you make reloading cost effective. I went onto Cabela's and added the following to the cart: For loading 1000 CCI large pistol primers 1000 FMJ remington .45 ACP 230gr bullets 1LB of 231 powder 1000 remington unprimed brass Total was 443.95 This is 143.95 more than it costs for 1000 rounds of really reliable and accurate blazer brass .45ACP. Even if you remove the new brass, and use fired brass, the total is still $230. Any advice?

Yeah, me too. I cancelled HBO a few years back.

This looks really great, I can't wait for it to start. Looks like March 2010. HBO: The Pacific: Videos

who is this guy trying to appeal to? He is trying to play the middle ground in a red state. Oopps. I don't think any democrats want to adopt him.

This is a good point. Read an article a few weeks ago about how credit card companies mine your every purchase. Purchase certain products? You may be more at risk to default, and have your interest rate raised simply because of the items you've bought. I worry less that the TBI knows what guns I own, and more that private companies willing to mine and sell purchase information know everything I have bought at a gun store if I use a credit card. I pay cash or Postal M.O. for every gun I buy.

Does anyone else feel weird that a) the whole fingerprinting process is outsourced to a private company (cogent), and the fingerprinting is done at another private business (the UPS store)? All a little to 1984 for me. Not only does the government now have my prints, but at least one private company.

I finally got around to firing the unfired m39 yesterday. Thinking about going back this morning Just need to get another set of mojo peep sights, but damn they are kind of expensive relative to the cost of these guns.

I finally got around to firing the unfired m39 yesterday. Thinking about going back this morning Just need to get another set of mojo peep sights, but damn they are kind of expensive relative to the cost of these guns.

Well that certainly skews the arguments against higher cap 9mm guns. However, there is still a difference, which can easily be seen if you look at the ends of the spectrum. A .25ACP is not going to be as effective as a .50AE, nor is a .22LR going to be as effective .50BMG.

Well that certainly skews the arguments against higher cap 9mm guns. However, there is still a difference, which can easily be seen if you look at the ends of the spectrum. A .25ACP is not going to be as effective as a .50AE, nor is a .22LR going to be as effective .50BMG.

yet, I doubt that one's level of shooting skill skyrockets with certain calibers, so then it is a question of once the round goes where it is going, what is the effect.

it's cool to see so many different things that can go on this list. Two I would add to mine just from reading responses would be stopping power, and historical significance. I'd not given much thought to it, but I do gravitate toward guns with stopping power (.45s and 7.62x54s) and historical significance (milsurps and 1911s).

List your top 5 requirements for any gun you own in order of importance to you: For me: 1) Accurate 2) Cost of ammo 3) Fun to shoot 4) Reliable 5) Ease of cleaning My initial list had fun at the top, but then I thought that there are plenty of fun guns I wouldn't buy because I couldn't afford to shoot them. Accuracy is really important to me. Even though I am not a crack shot, I like the challenge, and that is really most of the fun for me. I put reliability fourth because although I want all my guns to function flawlessly, if they don't, then they don't accomplish number 3 either. The first 4 on the list are musts for more me, especially the first 3. The 5th I can live with, but I don't like taking ARs to the range, and find I leave mine at home more than not because of number 5.

I agree, but we've also seen that once someone reaches walmart status, there is not much room for more than a handfun of real competitors. I guess one solution is to go niche. I've seen this in the guitar market. There were in the 90s 4-5 giant retail guitar chains. The market really showed it would only bear one. However, there are lots of thriving niche shops on the web that cater to a more focused market, rather than the catch all market that Guitar Center/ Musician's Friend has cornered. Even the local stores have had to go niche to survive, many focusing on doing lessons, and selling gear that will cater to the lessons crowd. You can't go into a local guitar store and find the variety that you could 20 years ago.

Well put, and of course, it was Bud's that I bought from. One thing to consider though is that the pre-Internet gun market could carry thousands of dealers nationwide. How many Budsgunshops can the Internet-age market bear. Maybe a handful. It is the Wal-mart effect. When we the consumers save money in the short run, I just wonder what the effect will be when the consumer economy consists of only a few centralized retailers. How does that effect local economies?

For certain, there is a balance between when sales tax is an effective form of revenue, and when it begins to stifle economic activity, but what data do you have to suggest that we are over that threshold. I am not an economist, and would love some hard numbers on this. I do, however, find blanket arguments that lower taxes stimulate growth problematic. If sales tax were 1%, plenty of people would still argue that it should be lower. Problem is then, the state has no revenue stream. There is a difference between limited government and no government. Those who want no government should move to Somalia. They won't get a government tax there, but you will pay in plenty of other ways. As far as education goes, when those "resources" are seats in a classroom, then I agree, if there are less students in classroom then teachers can better teach. However, when there are overcrowded classes with student to teacher ratios often exceeding 4 times the ratio deemed necessary to have an effective classroom and offer effective instruction, then no. The problem is not just that funding is going down, enrollment is going up, and overcrowding is the norm. But we are off topic.

ramp on both the frame and the barrel appear to be in good shape. It is a strange jam, I should have taken a picture, but it seems like the round is getting jammed going into the extractor, and wedging there.

Some may remember the funky thread title from the last time I posted with this problem, albeit with a different gun. I am having a feeding problem on the last round of my kimber 1911 stainless ii, and only on the last round. The gun has just over 500 rounds through it, and it has recently developed a problem of jamming on the last round of the mag, with the round not getting into the chamber. My first though was ok mag spring problem. It started happening with a wilson combat mag that has about 250 rounds on it. This is my first suspicion that something other than the mag is amiss, simply do the the great rep these mags have, and the low round count in particular seems to suggest that a spring may not be the problem. Well low and behold, this happened again on the last range visit, except this time with the kimber 7rd mag, then also with a remington rand mag. I've put in an order for some extra power wolff springs, but what else could cause a failure to feed other than the mag. Surely, I have not had two new mags come with bunk springs. The third mag is admittedly 66 years old, but it works flawlessly in the remington.

M1911A1 M1 Garand or Mosin Variant AR-15 Over-under 12ga Modern Design Handgun in .45 (Glock, Sig, HK, Springfield, etc)

I don't think it matters how fast you can do the Israeli draw at the range, when the natural instinct when things go bad is to duck first, then process, you have interrupted that whole motion. I also find that when I am shooting a gun that I point really well before using the sights (for me that is a 1911) it hinders that accuracy if I have to rack the slide first. If I can come straight up to point, I am way more accurate on the first shot.

Just purchased one, a Sig P220 for $816 shipped. The other thing was for that price I got night sights. None of the local ones I looked at had them with night sights.

Let me throw one example out. I am paid by the state. In a time of recession, our demand grows 30-40%, yet our budget for this year just lost 30%. Cutting spending at the state level means roads and infrastructure goes untended, fire and police get paycuts while working more overtime, teachers get hiring freezes and no raises for years on end and less resources to handle more students, and many other state workers get furloughed which basically translates into unpaid days off with the same workload for less pay. It is nice to say cut spending, but the institutions I have seen are already cut to the bone. It is not a solution to lower sales taxes when in one quarter, state revenues are dropping by as much as 12%.