Jonnin

probably the high power if I *had* to pick off that list.   And that simply because I don't care for snubbies and if I do get one it would be capable of 357s even if I shot 38s, I don't like glocks, the sig has a bad trigger,  the ruger would be my runner up.    These guns are all over the place in style, so my thought is that you should head back to the drawing board, come up with a style you like,  pick some guns that are somewhat similar to each other,  and ask again.    This looks like you just wrote down what the local pawn shop has on the shelf today, no offense, but there is almost nothing in common here so what you are asking is which of those we like best,  and at a guess most of us have not even shot, much less owned, all of them...   your answers are going to be about as useful as voting for most popular back in high school.   Fun exercise, but not terribly meaningful.

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yep, you don't want the stuff we had,  it was special purpose.   Im still happy to look it up but strongly recommend you try one of the above fixes first and save the $$.   

its all about the $$.    We had wireless that would go over 1/2 a mile on the unmanned vehicles I worked on, commercial grade off the shelf stuff not anything special.   You just need to cough up for a bigger antenna, really.   I can find out what we had, but it was a big piece of angle iron (Id say about 3 feet long,  6-8 inches per side, 90 degree angle) on a tripod (like a camera mount).   And a box with an amp for it.  Probably get all you need for under $500 at a guess.

  Let me restate it:  mosins, out of the box, are a good quality gun.  Military grade and a little rough, but good quality and better than many guns you can buy brand new.   However about 3/4 of the one's ive seen are in bad shape from being shot to death, or shot with corrosive and not cleaned, or steel cleaning rodded, or whatever else.   That is where the quality issue comes in, or perhaps the right word was "condition".   The "condition" then, is poor on many examples. The other 1/4... I haven't seen a like new one, but a few that at least had rifling have crossed my path.    I could take a colt python and bury it in the mud in the amazon jungle for 10 years and it wouldn't be worth much either.

There are some common factors that make a gun collectible.   Age, of course. The number produced is a big one.  Whether you can actually shoot it is a factor.  Quality/accuracy/usability is a third.  And a fourth ... model made famous somehow.   Some examples: a civil war era shotgun is worth less than a new pistol, even stunningly beautiful pieces.   Because of 1 & 2 ... they made a very large number of them and you can't safely shoot them (wire-wound barrels are dangerous due to hidden rusting).   a colt python, which isn't "really" that old,  is worth a ton because the # produced is less than demand and its an extremely high quality piece.    For #4, dirty harry's  44 mag model is worth more than nearly identical guns from the same era and such.   mosins are not going to skyrocket up to $1500 a pop anytime soon.   The supply is too big, the quality too low.   They will steadily increase over time as people butcher them one by one and as the ones that have actual rifling in the barrel grow more scarce, but this one will take a while.   I agree the Remington pistol might be a contender due to low # in the wild.  If they don't re-release it after fixing the design.  Last I heard a lot of owners sent them back and are in some sort of limbo, so the few people with a gun in hand might have something in 10 years.   Its on par with buying stock.   There really is no way to predict what will go up, all you can do is make educated guesses based of historical info ... like I am doing by giving some of the trends that we can see on values today of certain models from long ago.

This is just asshattery at its finest.   I am absolutely sure a few of the guns at gun shows are stolen and that a few crooks buy them there.   But, lets not be color blind here either.   At a typical gun show, there might be 0.00001% of the people buying that are not, well, white.    If we gave it a naïve 30/30/30 % of typical gun using criminals being white/black/Hispanic/other,  then using that boring and even distribution,  2/3 of the "bad guys" aren't getting they guns at the gun shows.    Now lets factor in the places that don't have gun shows or don't allow the individual trades in the parking lot ...  you know, those be place with gigantic populations, like CA, NY, ...  you know the ones right?    So now a majority of the bad gun guys in terms of sheer population nationally and in terms of racial distribution are not even present at these locations.    By simple common sense, the common hoodlums that plague our major cities are not buying them at shows.  

I say bring it.   The slow erosion of rights with partial bans and illegal laws is killing us.   Bring a full ban to the table.    It won't pass ...   the last few years have been more pro than anti in terms of actual laws and changes.   Let the cowards show their true colors and finally take the stand.  And lose big when they realize no one outside of a few complete morons want this.   But first, lets implement their strategy piecemeal.  First disarm the police so we can be assured that the government isn't trying to turn into a police state.   Yes, lets start there ... :)

  That must be a big change from the single shot black powder pirate guns?

Almost nothing has an ambi mag release.   A good number have ambi safety or no safety or safety not needed (da/sa for example).  Almost none have a LH slide release.   My take on it, as a lefty... -- I get a LH safety.  But I use light trigger guns that need a safety.  DAO and DA/SA, it does not matter. -- I ignore the mag catch.  A few heel releases are neutral, and a tiny # have a reversible one, but I can make do on my reloads, ive learned how to make it work. -- I ignore the slide release.  Rack the slide to release it works on all models.   This keeps my options open, whereas LH guns only are so few in number...   I don't like the gun but my beretta nano is very left hand friendly. Not a 9mm but my Makarov is very LH friendly as is the 9x18 CZ   /shrug most of my others are RH guns.

?  I saw a dozen options for under a grand with a quick search.       http://www.amazon.com/FLIR-C2-Compact-Thermal-Imaging/dp/B00T9RANUC/ref=sr_1_6/184-3297036-3660961?ie=UTF8&qid=1449449980&sr=8-6&keywords=thermal+infrared+camera   looked like something I would try.   I cant recall the model number but we had at my old job what was effectively a black and white infrared that didn't cost "too much" from what I can recall.   It was good enough to record the raccoons on my deck in high detail one night, you could see eyes, etc, and weird looking because the fur was one solid color and other things were washed out in odd ways.   They can't see thru windows, also a strange experience.    you might also find a cheaper model if it only takes stills instead of video, if you just want to find heat around your windows etc.

  as far as I know it will have princess r2d2, a male villan, totally ignores the thrawn books / timeline,  and basically is so far off the story line as to be like trek with an alternate universe spawned by a temporal anomaly.    It will also put money in the pockets of anti gun liberals by showing tons of people shooting at each other.   Bah humbug.

here?  No, not really.   It could happen, but this is the south.  Ill bet someone (besides the idiot attacking, that is) ignored the rules a wee bit and the problem would go away.   In other places?  Yea, it could happen.   Any time there are a lot of unarmed people bunched up, it could happen.   It does happen at those places, the occasion aside.

Its somewhere between a 357 and a 44.  Both of which you can get in fine semi autos.  Both of which you can get in fine revolvers.  Both of which actually exist on shelves.   So, it serves no purpose in practice, but it does provide a rimless semi round that is of magnum quality.  

Never had this issue, and I have a decent round count thru mine, didn't actually count but its several hundred, easily 500.    Not having the issue, no clue about a part for it. That's not enough rounds to break anything IMHO ... all guns should go a couple thousand with nothing but a spring in my world... I would complain and get a new part.  Maybe newer parts are better made too... know issues get a MKII version of the part often, quietly...

My old business was broken into and it had cams.   We saw people break in.  We saw a truck drive up and drive off.   Couldn't ID the person, it could have been my wife or my father or anyone at all.   Couldn't read the license plate.     If you fool with it, get one that has a billion mega pixels and stores it to a computer drive in high resolution that can actually provide meaningful data to the cops.   The sign might stop some folks.   Others will just put on a mask and continue.   Pro burglars don't care what you have, they gonna break in.  Druggie/idiot burglars also don't care much.  

  Recipes?   Jam, jelly, and tomato based sauces aside, the bulk of canning is just preservation and you apply the recipe after.  Are you asking about stuff like ready to eat soups etc?   Most soup, pasta, and otherwise "wet" foods can be canned ready to eat.  The common theme is more liquid than solid,  or if not, canned in water or juice (meat for example).    Canning our ground beef has saved us a great deal of freezer space!  We also did a couple of turkeys.

This sort of behavior makes me wonder if you have enough power for your new card?   Some of the cards get external power from the supply directly,  but if the supply isn't up to it...  soon as it switches modes and begins to suck more power, it can't?     That is the only hardware issue I can think of.   If its the driver, ya got me there... try the last 2 or 3 and one of them should work.

  I get a totally blank white page, meaning my AV is also blocking it.   That does not mean its bad -- AV can be extra paranoid and sometimes a buggy script results in legit things being blocked --  but it can't be good either.   Whatever is going on,  I can't see the text without lowering my security, which I won't do.

I dunno a specific model but find something in your budget with the highest magnification you can and it will be fine at that distance.    Might make sure it has a decent warranty too but its not like a gun scope (no reticle, no recoil, treated gently, etc).   If you get a cheap one with no warranty, don't put it right beside the side blast wave from your elephant gun?

Welcome!   Lots of engineers & "nerds" shoot, surprising at the high percentage actually.   I have a slide rule too but it was my dad's .. I have no idea how to do all the cool tricks on it.   If I want to know a value past what my calculator can do I will write code to solve it :)

they are virtually identical in performance in every way that matters.   The 40 has slightly more "physics"  but is far less flexible for creative ammo.   9 is slightly cheaper and easier to find in good times, but its not enough to make a decision by that -- and 40 is easier to find after an ammo run, slightly.     If invested, there is little reason to swap.   What is your motivation? 

  most of the small 380s have nearly identical recoil.  The sig seems to be slightly lower and I have no idea why.  slightly bigger ones like bersa are much more comfortable without going full sized 9mm.  This size fits a pocket but not as well; I carried nearly the same thing as a Makarov for a decade in my pocket.    "Most" gun store sellers have a hangup when selling anything to women.   A healthy woman can shoot anything a healthy man can with a few exceptions for exceptionally large showpiece guns.  Since you are not talking about those today,  the only other issue is the trigger pull.  I can't pull the heavy triggers on some of these pistols, so watch out for that.   If you can't pull it easily, allowing for back to back shots to empty the mag in about 1 second per shot, then its too heavy or too long or both and in my PERSONAL opinion not good enough for defense.   If you watch out for those 2 issues,  let her decide the rest for herself and ignore (politely) any "steering" your gun seller tries to pull.     

  make it :)  380 has always been and probably always will be over priced.   You can probably make it for under 10 bucks / 50 without even getting creative or extra cheap.    If that isn't an option, S&B makes a good 380 practice round on the cheap.   For carry,  you have to first decide if you want to try JHP or just go solid.  If solid, just about any decent round will do.   If hollow point, try buffalo bore or if afraid of that, hornady's  rubber tip stuff.

  Yes.  The turret is awesome for what it does (making good volumes of ammo in a less expensive setup with a decent quality output) but it does have more wiggle in it.    I don't have access to the distances that would make a difference... I can lay all my shots side by side if I do my part.   But I know if I took them 500+ yards there would be issues caused by the wiggle in my turrets and the slop in my rapid powder dump device.    I won't trade my turret in, but theres a good chance its not what you seek.