Jonnin

I see more bs blaming of games for the actions of a deranged criminal.   :wall:

heh its a thought.... I am starting to wonder if I need a safe for my ammo ! 

I have not had the first failure in mine across several brands including FMJ, defense stuff, handloaded defense, and handloaded LRN junk.     What does not work well is the trigger just will not break in.  Its as gritty and heavy today as it was out of the box.   But as for function, I would not worry. 

    The Ar is easy to clean --- push out a pin by hand, swap the chamber, barrel, and bolt, and its good for another thousand rounds.   The mini is quite a bit more complex, not terrible, but you have to deal with a small handful of parts and actual reassembly after cleaning.     The mini seems to be terribly hard to keep accurate too.  When I first got mine it was a tack driver at 200 yards.  Within 6 months I was having to re-zero the gun just about every range trip --- it would drift up to 3 inchs at 200.   It was not the scope, it was just internal parts or something moving just a little bit, just enough to drive you crazy.   The mag changes are what really prompted me to sell it.  That and the low cap, nonstandard mags --- all I could ever find were 20 round and they were a lot more than AR mags each.   You could put the mag in, seat it, all would seem well and it just would not feed any rounds because it was not seated exactly right, close but not quite.      If the mini would take AR mags I would have kept it.  On the bright side, its rugged and will feed just about any sort of ammo without complaint once you do get the mags seated.  I really, really wanted to make it a substitute AR but its just not quite good enough IMHO.

  Mini-14 is a nice gun, but they can be troublesome to get accurate at longer ranges, use a different magazine, and its difficult to swap mags (its a post and hole deisgn, and takes a LOT of practice to do it fast).     Ban list aside, *any* .223 or 556 semi auto rifle is going to be fubared by any law that passes -- no matter what it is, not matter what it looks like, etc.    Have you considered a 9mm carbine?  Out of a longer barrel, the ballistics of the round is much improved and makes an *excellent* range gun that uses inexpensive ammo and is also quite good for home defense.    You do not need a rifle for home defense IMHO.  While a powerful weapon, its very loud indoors and too big to manuver as well as you might like.  I think you should get one, before they are banned if you want it, but IMHO a big pistol is the best for inside a typical home -- your 1911 is perfect.

Cool!   The lighting, mostly due to your computer being on behind you, makes the dark gun in a dark room a little hard to see about 1/2 the time.  I would turn the PC off next time around (or at least the monitor) or maybe shine a lamp in your general direction.   Might also consider showing the takedown to clean it and you shooting it -- probably easy to splice that into what you have.  That would make it a "full" review, I dunno, just most video reviews seem to have those things.  Then again, the takedown is usually pretty dull, most guns have moved to a pretty standard and similar approach to it, and only older designs need to be explained anymore.   Anyway, I liked it, good work!

Among the things being "talked about" in the new bill are an ammo tax and limits on amount you can buy at once.

/shrug   It sounds like you are headed for a divorce to me --- no matter what you do.   Even if you stop this childish "punishment" of your wife, the underlying problems that make you *want* to do this to her are the sorts that can only be overcome with love, communication, and a partnership.  If you let things go back to "normal" you will still have these same relationship problems, even if they are less out in the open.   So you either need to sit down & talk things out and figure out what the problems are and how you can work with each other, or you need to get a lawyer.     This has nothign to do with sex.  A LOT of marriages in the USA are "sexless" (less than once a month is the definition here) and function very well, and a lot of hot ones fail later on when the couple figures out all they had in common was hot blood.

  outside the current confusion its less than 9mm but a lot more than 22 LR.    Not hard to find --- still on the shelves, we got 5 boxes over the past week (my wife shoots a lot of it in a revolver).   I don't think there are a lot of semi-auto choices for it.  A few, but mostly bolts & levers --- I can't think of a one to add over what was already said.

As I recall they are legal for use in hospitals, airports, and a few other select places where phones can interfere with some (usually antique) equipment.     I would not mind having one that had about a 100 foot radius in my car but as you noted, I can't DO that no matter how many people get killed from yakkity drivers. 

mine started doing that when I dropped the load and put in lighter springs.   It seems harmless enough. 

I can help if you need it.  Im all thumbs on making nice stuff but if you want a $10 table I can certainly show you how to nail 4 4x4 legs onto a sheet of plywood :P  Actually I stacked the plywood 2 deep to make it extra rugged.   I am not a guru but I feel I have a pretty good handle on making safe loads and managing things on the cheap.  

lol don't if you want to keep your account.

well they had american eagle .22 lr and some kinda AR (I think its the 325 pack of cci ar .22 lr??) one per household.  That was a little over an hour ago, but maybe still have some.   They have other ammo, but its pretty lean.

1) I lube my entire barrel.  I want it to slide nice in the bushing, I want the recoil spring thingy under it to slide along the barrel nice, I want the top of the fram and locking lugs to slide.  It may be excessive, but I coat the whole thing in a very thin grease.  Also the rails of the slide/frame, of course.  A little in the hammer and action now and then.   5)  Not sure... I pulled the spring out for a lightweight one and shoot light handloads in mine.   Um, I liked S&B 45's for factory ammo back when I shot that.   6) my mags caused nonstop jams so I bought new ones.  I went with chip mc 7) No, you only polish the ramp if it needs it. 8) MIM is fine, in spite of the 1911 snobbery the actual parts work fine most of the time.  Replace the bushing is the first thing I recommend as most have a loose one from the factory.  Second would be a trigger job, but that is expensive.   9) Shoot it.  If it gives trouble, then diagnose it and work on the problem.   A 1911 pistolsmith might be able to rack the slide and tell you what it needs by feel, but in general, just shoot it and see unless you have a great deal of experience and skill with the platform. 

lee makes dies for it.  Buy the expander for the 1909 argentine.  :)   Its 7.65, or .313 I think.

Are they the milsurp guys that mostly sell to C&R holders?  If so, they are indeed a bit odd but have a huge following among the collectors. 

one year of GA income taxes sold me on moving across the line.     They should score it by cost of living ratio against income, if they did not (I didnt look).   Typically our high number of people in "poverty" are below the national line not the TN line --- you can live very cheap here, where the same money would be your death in LA or NYC or something.

the state IS at fault.  Or the feds.  Whoever is behind the law that disarmed the teachers --- because that is the problem and you can bet its worth a lawsuit to make that point.

I can see a round going off.  I cant see it breaking the skin or causing serious harm.  But, the short news did not really say much about the injury --- I would buy a hospital trip was forced upon him even if it just bounced off his skin.  I would buy a minor shrapnel wound from the case as possible.   I doubt the bullet could break the skin or even leave an interesting bruise.   If it hit the eye, maybe minor damage there. 

agreed! You might be best to hold off until you have gotten into it a bit and stick to the exact proper components at first.   As he said, translated, the fatter 38 and 357s can spike pressure in a 9 or 380 due to a tight fit and also may not chamber well in an auto for the same reason (never tried doing this and won't!).  The other way around, the slightly undersided 380s work well in the 38 with soft lead it expands to close the slight gap.   A full 357 magnum load behind the 380 would probably be problematic for a variety of reasons.

I liked our 709 pretty well.   It will pocket carry but not easy, depends on your pockets I guess.   For an inexpensive smallish carry gun, the 709 gets a "best value" vote from me --- for the money, it didnt jam, was a good size, and trigger was usable, recoil not bad.  I would not turn one down.  Only real issue we had was the sights were only casually pointed in the general direction of the point of aim -- good enough for up close, but it was quite a bit off at at 15 yards.

Bah, I have it on the highest authority that any year now gun deaths may exceed car deaths for the first time since about 1912.   The brady campaign said so..!

those can share a bullet, if you want to do that.  I use a 95 grain 380 slug in 380,9, and 38 all for paper punching rounds. 

primers have been on-again, off-again for most of the obama administration.    A store down here always has them but limits you to one box per "visit".  I tried to find 223 bullets and there are almost none in stock anywhere.  I have plenty thankfully but have christmas money to spend....  and nothing that I want is still in stock ....   Presses are not in stock locally but probably not impossible to find online.   Anyway, where to start is going to depend on your calibers and budget.   You can acquire some of the stuff you need now while, a little at a time, while letting the out of stock stuff settle a bit.   You can probably go out today and find powder, primers, and dies for example.