Jonnin

ah.  For *that* the web says you gotta pay a locksmith who has some sort of specialty tool --- your original question.

MOA is just a trig measure of angles.   That is all it is, is a measure of the angle between where you aimed vs where the bullet hit.  Naturally, this can be used to offset the drop caused by gravity at longer ranges, or a constant wind effect, or the like, so your point of aim and point of impact are the same at some range.   It is also correcting for the fact that your scope and barrel are approximately parallel instead of using the same center line.    I am not sure what MOA on mounts might mean, though.   It sounds like a misuse of the term to me?   What you are probably looking for is a high dollar scope with good, easy to use and easy to understand adjustments in the field.   The scope mounts... do not usually enter into it very much, you just need them to be solid/secure and at the correct height etc.

if its open, the web sez:   1 Enter your existing combination to open your RedHead gun safe. 2 Hold the safe door open and enter “000000.” 3 Input the existing combination followed by the new combination within five seconds. Close the safe to store the new code.   nevermind that wont work, when I first read it I thought you didnt need the old combo once opened.     There almost has to be a code to set a new one without the old one, but I cant find it.  The web ALSO sez that taking the battery out of the combo dial will reset to 123456 combination. 

Are you competing at a serious level where someone is likely to take issue with it?  

  Yea you always have to contend with the rulemongers....   It may be a thorn in your side forever to use that gun, depending on where you go and how serious they take it.

my 238 came with a poly holster, but it does not fit the 9 at all.   It is good quality, covers the whole trigger and can be worn various ways.   If they made one for the 9, it may be a part of a bundle (gun, 2 mags, and holster packaged together and marked up 100+ bucks).  Soon as sig is back from vacation, call --- someone will know how to get you one of them.

there are pet shrinks too, mkay?  The little guy has been through a lot of stress: new people, new home, excitement and confusion and such.  For a few hundred bucks an hour, someone can talk to him about these issues.   It probably won't work but you can feel good about yourself for trying or something :)   Kidding aside, he has been through a lot of stress, has it been long enough that he should start to settle in?  My totally unexpert opinion is if he needs time, shocks and such might make it worse.  If he has had a few weeks,  it may be time to try those sorts of things.

  Well thats a moral delimma.  The buyback with no questions asked DOES get them off the street --- whereas without it, any stolen guns would continue to pass around from thug to thug, possibly resulting in someone (innocent or not) getting shot.  But it also rewards stealing them to sell to the buyback folks -- an assured and safe fence for the goods, the government!    Hmm.    The government may be onto something here.   Crookfare, we can call it.  Anything stolen can be sold to the police for a bit.  The cops turn around and sell it back to the owner at that same price if the owner wants it.  Unclaimed items are sold later, whitewashed serial numbers and laundered, in an auction.  Use that to fund the program....   of course the loser is the victims of the theft, but what a system .... :doh:

yes, you can replace just the barrel.  Yes, IDPA bans porting or did last time I read their book.  Edit: replacing the barrel is sufficient but someone may still argue about it ....  people are like that.     While you are buying barrels, consider a twist rifled barrel (instead of poly rifled) so you can reload lead on the cheap for the sport?

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/201328/  for whatever that is worth.

CYA is always added to any gun training.   You cannot attend any reputable class without a little bit of it thrown in, in whatever format.   Its dumb, and no sane person would really actually DO that (yell they have a gun to draw attention/fire)  but it allows them do continue to provide this service by pointing out such "training" as "enhanced safety" and so on.

If you just need it sighted in, some places will do that for you.  Academy sports here will do it for you free, very nice of them.    Wife got one of those ineritally driven laser & target setups off midway (never seen it elsewhere).  it can be used as a boresighter, though I have only used it for pistols so I cannot say what you would get if you tried it with a rifle...

If it is too tight, it will not function, and that will go from a little too tight (jams a lot) to busted (cannot even rack the slide, possibly damage something).   It will do a lot for accuracy if the accuracy issue in that gun is caused by the barrel flopping to a new position after every shot.     Typically a bought bushing is too tight and needs to be fitted by a gunsmith...!  I am not sure you can buy any of them and just stick them in without some work (???) in just any gun (could get lucky I guess).   The accuracy improvements, unless the original is very, very bad, will be fractions of an inch at 10s of yards, maybe as much as 1 inch at 50 yards (and again, maybe a lot more if the original is super bad).

its beautiful.

the long wood and action make me think this is a seriously professionally reworked military surplus gun, but I could be way off.  Ive not seen long wood quite like that on anything else (??).   Which might mean a parts gun, a little of this and that put together well in a custom shop.

yes, you can keep the load the same with that.  Its only if you were redline hot or wanted to match an exact FPS or something that you would adjust the powder.  Just go for it, you won't notice any real difference.

Absolutely.   You will want to drop your load data just a bit, try taking off like 1/2 to 1 grain and it should even up to where it was before roughly, depends on powder used etc. 

  just about everything BUT 223 and 22 LR and AK are available here.  I still find plenty of 223 brass at the ranges I visit, I got about 25 today just off the ground.  I dunno about the slugs --- if 303 brit will work, plenty of that available?

pure profit.  Take a pot metal .25 worth $50 bucks, its an automatic, and you get 200.  

mosin might make a good deer rifle but its way overpowered for rabbits AND it will knock your shoulder black and blue pretty fast.  Its a heavy, powerful rifle from WWII era, and will certainly give you a workout if you DID haul it thru the woods for a deer.  They are great rifles at a great price and you probably might want one while they are still dirt cheap and still being imported.   That said, an inexpensive .22 is a better choice for a rabbit or sending many rounds downrange at a time for fun and practice.    So, if picking between the 2 --- mosin for picking off moose at 500 yards.  .22 for a rabit at 50 yards.  Mosin for a 20 round shooting day.  .22 for a 200 round shooting day.  

In my box of pull aparts sits a 9x18 that is perfect in every way... except somehow a used primer got stuck into the case, or it never got deprimed....  duh!

you can probably also just find some sort of container that is about right, drill a hole in it, and use it to replace the cracked bowl.  Heck a large margarine tub with a hole in it would probably fit many round bowl tumblers and work just fine....   if you wanted a 10 cent fix.

300 is just a modified 223, you can make it from 223 cases and 762 slugs.  Making brass this way tends to be rather tedious, better to find a supply and buy it, but if you must, its doable. 

There was some talk of moving ARs to a type of NFA status, actually.  I dunno if that will happen or was serious though.

I like it!  It calls to mind what you would get if you put a handle on a good sized shark tooth.  That is just a meaningless observation, not a criticism or anything.   It looks like it would serve well, rugged and sized for chores.