Jonnin

You might try finding a forum fulla garand fanatics to see if any of the tricks they use will work.  There are garand competitions and people do a bit to accuracize them, though it probably gets expensive in a hurry, there may be some other DIY improvements.   My advice is to try to find the problem before you throw more solutions at it.  Until you figure out WHY it is inaccurate, anything you do could either make it better, make it worse, or just waste your time....

I am, for now.  I have a certain amount of ammo that I am willing to use, and when it is gone, I will stop going until I can replace it, but for how, I can go for a while using .22 and some "mostly useless for anything else" reloads.

You can give someone money for any reason at any time.   You can ask a friend to make you some ammo that is OK too.  Its kinda like prostitution --- is buying a gal supper and giving her $100 bucks to spend as a gift illegal?   But you bet you can probably get into legal trouble if it comes to light and enough lawyers get involved.    The law prevents ME from making 10000000 rounds of slapdash ammo that could blow you to kingdom come and setting up a booth at the next gun show, selling $4 a box (my cost) 9mm to suckers for $15 a box, or something.   Because handmade ammo is dangerous when you put an idiot behind the handle of a press.  That is where you will find someone getting into trouble (not to mention, selling it without a tax stamp if they try it!).     if someone found out and raised a stink, you could get into trouble slipping your buddy $20 to make you a few boxes even with your materials and all.   If he screws up and blows up your head or your gun, your survivors or you could drag him into court and claim he sold you ammo illegally that was responsible for your injury.  Blah blah blah on all that.  Its illegal, is the bottom line, and its illegal to prevent this sort of thing --- you have to do the paperwork to sell it so you are properly liable if you screw up.  The same is true of food --- you cannot can your extra veggies from the garden and sell it without some paperwork, or you are AT RISK if the person gets sick.  

I thought those agreements were "you will FIRST go to the arbitration process" and "if that fails you can proceed normally" ???  You would have to check that and read the agreement, but that is how most of the ones I have dealt with are worded.   Its simply so they can avoid costly court fees and lawyer costs over a sue-happy american culture.     If that is the case,  I will sign them.   If you are totally giving up your chance to sue, then no, I would not.   My insurance does this --- woman hit me and they (the two insurance companies) wrangled over who would pay how much via abritration rather than court costs.  It took them a while to settle but they finally did.  Pretty sure they *could* have gone to court over it, just that both sides agreed that it was not worth the xtra expense.....

The web says (right or wrong, I do not know!)   Federal law prohibits ammunition sale or transfer to, and possession by, anyone who: 1. is under indictment for a crime punishable by more than one year imprisonment or convicted of a felony, 2. is a fugitive from justice, 3. is an unlawful user of a controlled substance, 4. is addicted to a controlled substance, 5. has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution, 6. is an illegal alien, 7. has been dishonorably discharged from the military, and 8. has renounced his or her U.S. citizenship (18 USC § 922(d) and (g)).   This one is confusing: Federal law regulates the sale of ammunition to young people. It bars licensed manufacturers or dealers from selling long gun ammunition to anyone who they believe is under age 18. Also they may not sell handgun ammunition to anyone they reasonably believe is under age 21 (18 USC § 922(b)(1)).   NO one, not the BAFTE or walmart or anyone else, seems to have an airtight working definition of "handgun ammo" vs "rifle ammo"  --- they all just play it by ear.  If you have a 9mm rifle,  for example, can you buy it at 18?  No one seems to know!

But do ya know who said it?  It is at the same time serious with a bit of irony thrown in ....

  This may be a break in issue?  Or a magazine friction issue, might look at the feed lips?  It should NOT be so --- mine feeds fine with JHP (same as yours crit def & GD) using the thumb release (feeds all ammo fine loading a new mag this way).     I think this is the best of the small 380s, and a great choice.  I have moved to the 9mm version but I kept my 380 because I like it a lot.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.   ;)

SW --- 9 am monday they open and there is a line at the gun counter, 15 or so people?   There will be a 2-3 hour wait to inventory the shipment before anyone can buy anything.   Went back at 12ish and they had a few boxes of random calibers, saw someone buy 38 special and something else.   The rifles were already gone again (duh... of course) and there was NO .22 LR.   Said they were so busy there were still a couple of unopened pallets from the shipment that might have more ammo, or not, have to wait....   so basically they are overwhelmed and enough people have the time to stand there in line for 3-5 hours to get something that us folks with a job that show up at 530 pm are outta luck.   If you can go on your lunch break, you might get lucky one day.   Hard to say if the holiday made the crowd any bigger (?) dunno how many people get MLK off?   Anyway, it was 2 wasted trips for me.   After my current box runs dry I am not shooting any more until I can replace box for box. 

She can't wear them anymore,  MS is slow & steady.  But she does practice her draw & fire with the purse on. 

  yea I meant the modern lower end scopes, I would think it would be a way to cheapen em up another notch.

open both eyes unless you have a visual impairment that makes it better one-eyed.  In defense you NEED your periphial vision,  and its better for general shooting anyway.    Not sure what the drill to draw an empty gun and then load it then blast is supposed to be --- I hope she carries the gun ready to go (?)   Looks good other than that.   Speed and confidence come with practice, and you will react as you do in practice, so keep up the good work!   Another idea --- practice with your purse on the shoulder.  Its aggravating and you should get a feel for what that is like.

I have often wondered WHY this is not how they were made.

we do some work like that here.  We operate the item in a vac chamber, removing *most* of the air, then fill with gas, reassemble and seal, and its done.  It is not difficult to do this, you just need a vac chamber that lets you handle the item enough to reassemble it.  I do not know if you can do this easily at home, but it seems possible to me --- my wife has a vac sealer for food, mabye can modify one of those to do it?  Dunno where you would get a can of nitrogen either (?) but that is a harmless gas should be possible to buy one.

cool!  Kinda like the cornered cat but that one has not been updated in so long, new material is good...     OK, so you tinfoil hats were RIGHT.  THERE ARE GOVT POLICE AND AGENTS *EVERYWHERE* ----   In about the 5th one down, this guy was ambushed by cops who happened to be hidden there...      --The man was quickly found by officers hiding in a nearby creek. ---

  The snipers (some women) had a pretty crappy scope I think -- probably a 3X power roughly?    It is, as I said earlier, a FINE deer gun for TN as-is.     You don't need to use it as a club: they come with a bayonet.

If you have to hit a switch, it is of little value.   You want the laser to be ON when you deply the weapon, from gripping the gun or touching the trigger or activating the safety or something like that.   A 938 (which I carry) you already have a safety to hit as you draw.  The stress of hitting a laser switch in addition to that while trying to avoid getting shot etc seems like too much to me, so I say use the grip to activate design.   The trigger switch is not wise on this pistol, it is for sloppy trigger guns like a glock, not a 1911 trigger, and you would fire the gun just to turn on the laser with that design.

Not with a glock.  I am perfectly comfortable carrying *some guns designs* without a holster in a variety of ways, but glocks and similar guns with nothing but a soft pull trigger to prevent accidents, I would not be happy with that.   I would be fine throwing my beretta nano in a pocket without a holster -- I can barely pull that trigger on purpose, let alone accident and it would be perfectly safe carried any which way.   Not too keen on IWB, holster or not, but I would not care for any setup that it could fall out so easily.  Maybe around the house, but not in public.

The trouble with kids is curiosity.  A kid will look in a drawer, under a bed, in that closet, etc.  Adults that visit do not usually crawl under your bed or whatever!  A criminal might look there if he thought he might find a gun -- hit or miss depending on where you have it and how much time he has to look.   Unsupervised kids have all the time in the world to look and the curiosity to do it and the lack of manners to do it.... bad combination.   Having no kids, I keep a couple of junkers ready to go in a  couple of strategic locations, well hidden but if someone broke in and searched, they could find them.   That would be bad enough, but I can live with it.    Better that I have them if I am home during a break-in than keep them locked up out of fear where they do me no good.

  I do not think even the most hard-core collectors complain about putting aftermarket stocks etc on a gun.  Its the stuff that cannot be undone that get them riled up, things like taking a hacksaw to the barrel or a sander/saw to the stock.    I have mixed feelings on cutting stuff up.  It increases the value of the survivors -- that is good for the collectors and all.  But it is pointless: the effort and money needed to make a $150 mosin into a deer gun could be spent to get an out of the box $300 deer gun that would better suit the purpose.   If there were something to be gained from it, I could see it, but time you buy a $50 modern stock, pay $50 more to get it set up for a scope,  get the barrel replaced or recrowned or counter bored or whatever ..... you have spent what a new gun costs.   If you can do all that yourself, it *may* be worth it in the hands of a skilled person with good tools as a hobby, assuming you have the time and desire to go there.  And some folks go all out, bedding the barrel to the stock and tweaking the trigger pull etc....  the $500 mosin money pit guns that you see here and there.

the imports have slowed down some, so supply is shrinking.  You are either buying from the uncommon import that is still tricking in or from somone who bought them, stored them, and is now looking to profit.   Gun shows have become a haven for new shooters who have heard you can get a good deal at one.   Been that way for a decade now ... the dealers are ripping off people that do not know what the price should be.  Not all of the dealers, you still find deals, but the deals are much fewer and far between.  If/when they ban private sales, the shows will just be pawn shop vendors with FFLs ripping people off, and the shows will die soon after that, IMHO.  The good thing about the pawn shop guys is they sometimes fail to realize what something is :)

Yes,  VW has used the threat of leaving / shutting down at few times alerady.   They are not potential jobs, really --- people already work there.     It has the local government here in a bind --- they do NOT want to lose VW or even call the bluff, they will fold every time and probably continue to do so until the economy is stable again....

  you can find the tube feds used at gun shows pretty easily.  They are less popular than the mag fed 10-22.  I have a browning BAR-22 tube fed that is just amazing, though that probably commands a bit of a price now (?).  I dunno, I would never sell that one.  Should not be too hard to find something in that lineup.    10-22 isnt too hard to find, but bigger mags and ammo could be a problem.   Its an excellent gun, but it sure does not scream "heirloom".  

I like it but it seems like way, way overkill.   Take a bunch of matches.  Dip them in hot wax to make them water resistant.  Put them in a pill bottle (seal that if you must) and its done?

I prefer lead because I can get them at $30 per 500 roughly.  Jacketed is much more.  The guns do not care, they feed LRN fine, at least mine do.