Jonnin

the pic had the guy manning the gun, maybe it is RC, hard to tell.  Some of the camera interface is RC but the gun didnt look motorized to me.

all that effort and the gun is still manned.  Put a freaking camera that points where the gun will shoot....     and for the record, the dozer guy had a better tank IMHO but a dozer costs a lot more of course.

it will break in to a point.  The smaller the pistol, the stouter the trigger will be, in general.   Talking frame size here, caliber is not important.  As with an auto you can take it apart and polish on the moving parts to help it along if you feel like it, though this is more difficult in a revolver as they are not really meant to be torn down and the screws will be hard to remove.   You can also lighen the spring either by messing around (clip off a few coils, for example) or replacement or exercising it (takes forever).  If you over-do it, it will lack the power to ignite the primer and you buy a new spring & start the process over (ask me how I know..).   Rarely the cylinder is rough to spin and polish of that is easy and helps some with the pull.   If you cannot spin the cylinder by hand and have it go around 3-4 times before stopping, this may help.  If it will not go around once, it will help a lot.   The gun is broken in when it stops getting smoother after use.  There really is no magic number for that, people toss around 200, 500, 1000 rounds down it but its different for every gun.   I have 3 small frame taurus pistols.  I gave up and let a gunsmith polish them and work them over.  They are still stout for DA but much improved and very smooth.  There just is not much more to be done with the small frame, as it has less leverage internally vs the hammer spring, and the spring has to be X stoutness to fire a primer.....

Should not be any issue. Many guns do not have a discon, so you can point out in court that your modifications do not make it different from other commonly used pistols. I consider a gun that does not fire with the mag out defective. Unlikely as it may be, it could be a big deal some day and the discon serves no purpose at all --- its a "feel good" feature.

I was using 3 in 1 oil on mine. You have to apply it often, but it worked well. One of my guns was being very, very picky and several folks said to swap to grease so, not having much in the way of grease on hand, I tried out my case lube. It has worked great so far as a grease, using the unique (think its hornady branded) case lube as a grease. Cheap, it goes on very thin.

[quote name='peejman' timestamp='1354902086' post='856527'] If the authorities ask you about it some time later, you say "I sold it." "To whom?" "I don't remember." The end. [/quote] ^^^ This. If you can help the LEO in any way, that is great. Maybe you remember when you sold it, what the buyer looked like, and so on. Maybe you sold it to your brother in law for example, and can give a name and address and all. But that is extra, something good you can do if circumstances allow it. If you cannot remember anything about a gun you sold 25 years ago, say so and that is the end of it.

The on the press primer is faster than the handheld tool for me? On the press, deprime, take it off the press, hand-prime, put it back on the press, continue.... by the time I did that, I could have made 3 rounds. Yes, I realize you would do the deprime and hand prime in bulk, but its still on/off/on and that eats a ton of time compared to on, make a live round, off. I don't watch tv and am not cooridnated enough to play on the computer while handling explosives, so maybe I am biased.

left handed, you have 3 choices, and they all suck in their own ways. 1) get a left handed gun. There are like 10 total of these, many of them hard to find. The cz83 / 82 (used milsurp) in 380 or 9x18 is one of the BEST of these. Problem is that 99% of "left handed" guns have something that is still right handed. Makarov comes up again: if you slingshot the slide to close it, it has a neutral heel release mag and the safety is not useful so you can leave it on FIRE all the time (da first pull is long and heavy, its safer than a glock). Even so, the slide release proper is right handed.... you can't win. My beretta nano let me reverse the mag drop but the trigger takes a horse on a chan to pull it and the slide release is still wrong handed. If you have the hands of a gorilla it may be a decent choice. 2) custom gun, which usuall is a 1911 format, and usually costs a fair amount to be 100% converted. 3) just shoot a right handed gun and live with it. Currently I am using a sig 938. Better than the 238 because the safety is ambi, it still has an irreversible wrong handed mag release and slide release. I slingshot the slide so its just the mag drop that I have to contend with --- that is a huge deal, though, on a low capacity gun. The cz is my favorite lefty gun but it was fat (double stack), big, heavy, and the trigger left a lot to be desired. Still, with ambi safety and ambi mag release, its a winner. Trigger is about like a beretta 92 or ruger p89, long DA pull and sloppy SA pull.

[quote name='mikegideon' timestamp='1354832036' post='856063'] You will need the double disk kit when you start reloading rifle. You'll like the classic turret press. I use mine for pretty much everything except critical stuff. [/quote] It is not required but it is nice. I only reload a small number of rifles, just a couple hundred rounds in a year across 5 or 6 calibers, and I have so far just double charged the cases without the double disk. So its doable without but annoying and could lead to mistakes if not focused. I need to get one of those.... I also made my own "disk", this is not hard at all to do if the given ones do not work for your load, took me about 1/2 an hour. I doubled up 2 sheets of 3/4 plywood. It flexes a little on the largest rifle cases but it withstood nearly 100 reform brute force conversions (forced 30-06 brass into another die to make it into a different caliber, took an incredible amount of force on the press arm). So doubled up 3/4 is more than enough for any normal reloading task. I do not think 1 thickness of 3/4 would be enough for large rifle cases. It would be fine for most pistol and small/medium rifles. Maybe if you had enough lube and good cases that took minimal force, but a dent or bad case and it would flex too much.

I would not bother if the gun works. When it stops working, that is the time to send it in. If it needs a new recoil spring, buy one online -- the other springs will let you know when they are bad.

that is a good price, though lead is still a little less you found a nice deal.

I really like the lee disk powder device for loading things like 9mm fast --- it likes small ball powders best. I really like having extra turrets, so my dies are set up and ready to go each time. I have close to 10 turrets now --- just get one every time you buy a set of dies! lee sells used items, and those are often a bargain, so I check their site a lot. Get a discover card. They have 1 time use software ---- you do not give your real credit card info, and if anyone steals the number, it will not work for them because it was only set up for one use. I am not sure what other cards are doing this at this time, surely some do by now? There are also similar services to do this, such as pay-pal (yuck, anti gun site) which you trust one site and the rest deal with the trusted site. A common form of theft is a keylogging virus (pretty much sends a text file of what you typed each day back to the hacker, and some are smart enough to "look" for credit cards and personal info), so you should be careful of your security on your PC.

well he had or soon will have a concert here at an anti gun venue that I will not be attending (track 21). I was sad to see him sell out and play at such a place.

Another thought, I would not be here, and many of us probably not, you think? Before age 2 I had a series of ear infections that best case scenario would have left me deaf. By age 10 I had nearly 20-200 vision, correctable so not truly legally blind but close enough. By age 18 I had my gall bladder go out and removed. I had suffered serious flu seasons about every other year until nearly 20. I had pneumonia as a child as well, maybe aged 8 or so. One of those would have done me in before I hit 21, hands down. Most likely, the gall bladder: even with today's tech it was a near thing, the idiot doctors tried to send me home with belly-ache meds and were sure I was lying about the pain -- 2 more days and it would have done the toxic swell/rupture similar to an appendix. But, none of that was a huge deal for generation X. I have had laser surgery and had 20/20 vision for a long time, starting to slip a little now. The gall bladder was removed via a 2 inch long cut (my moms slit her from neck to groin and she was messed up for months). the ear issue was treated with tubes and medicines. The flu was just annoying for a couple of days. Etc. I expect TEOTWAWKI scenarios will have a massive toll from lack of modern medicine. MASSIVE. The flu alone could take 1/2 the population with a low medicine society.

zirk is a great guy but that may be a gun based class. However he does one on one sessions & you might get him to teach it more martial arts heavy as I am sure he knows some hand to hand and more than enough for basic defense. There are dozens of martial arts studios in town as well, but I cannot comment on one over another. Surely some of them offer short, no nonsense classes. Just have to weed out the competition and exercise programs to find a serious place -- the competetive martial arts have rules and the exercise stuff is nearly useless.

Encryption is, in general, too much trouble to break. Its not going to slow you down much for daily type tasks, but it will give you a big performance hit on any "real" (not solitaire, but 3-d serious stuff) games. We have a cartoon up at work that compares "what you hear" vs "what happens" and it basically in frame 1 says you think they will spend 1billion on a supercomputer to break in, and frame 2 they buy a $10 wrench and beat the password out of you. Private browsing just blocks some of the most basic aggravations --- cookies and tracking that is legit, well known, and used to profile you for advertising. It does not block anythiing serious. Secure websites such as banks do not keep your login data on the PC and the browser also will not retain it. Its pretty much gone after you close the browser session. Most PC crooks are looking for the billions of computer illiterate folks that have no clue how to protect their info. These people are easy targets and cybercrooks are smart enough to skip the few that put up even modest defenses in favor of racking up money from the defenseless. Keyloggers are one of the top ways to get taken --- its a lot easier to read it as you type it than try to decrypt it. And that is not stopped by an encrypted drive or anything either, its sent on back to the crook within a day or so of you having typed it.

I was fortunate enough to know several of my great grand parents and talk to them some -- at least 3 were alive when I was around 10 or so and one made it until I was 17 or so. Of course they knew their parents and so I have some idea of what it was like 2 greats ago. Wish I had talked to them even more of course.

"Why" makes it not a y/n question. 1) Both. We have made a lot of progress in some areas and gone backwards in many others. 2) probably not. My granparents were the type that would have said that it is OK to enforce morality and that there is only ONE morality (theirs, based in religion). 3) I disagree. My granddad was so racist he almost walked out of my HS graduation because one of the speakers was japenese. I sorta understand that as a WWII vet but a 17 year old kid is 2 generations out from his enemy ... a little of that religious based forgiveness might be in order but it never worked that way. He would probably have had a heart attack to find out 2 of his grandkids were gay (Ive got a LOT of cousins). Three questions? Why do you think children are slave farm labor is all I can come up with. Having kids you can't afford just to get some help didnt work out all that well.

I reload the 380. For less that $5 a box, its very worth it if you shoot much of the caliber. I double up the savings -- I adapted the cheap LRN bullets for my 380 to my 9, keeping the costs down for both. The only problems I had with 380 were trying to use a hot powder.... too small a charge, use a fatter powder, try something that uses 4 grains or more unless you have precise powder and scale.

green cones are just full of the stuff from some types of trees.

not sure about the taurus, but I *know* the ruger is well made and one of the best made for the price tag. They put a little more plastic in the 95 lower areas but my 89 is built like an anvil and about as heavy. I have had pretty good luck with taurus, and their service was good the one time I needed it (revolver issue). But I have to think the ruger is better made from my experience with both companies, though not the exact models listed.

mmm tough lesson about cosigning ... something to never do.

Same as always. I have no children so the house is absolutely not kid safe and I tend to clear out a couple of rooms & keep the kids in those if someone comes over. Most of my friends are at that age and starting to pass it (kids are getting closer to 10ish in general) but I have not had a bit of trouble being around them with my normal carry. I pocket carry so lifting kids or playing is not going to expose or drop the gun. As for exposure, yes get them used to them. IMHO the best thing you can do with guns and kids to get the kids to classify guns as "boring and dangerous adult stuff" --- about as exciting and interesting as a clothes iron, hot stove, or lawnmower. If they want to see it, show it to them. Explain the rules and that touching it can get them hurt. IMHO again, the worst thing you can do about guns and kids is to make them want to touch/play/poke at them due to an aura of mystery or boundry testing. I do not care for kids toy guns for gun owning parents at a young age so there is no confusion between a toy and the real thing, and so there are no bad habits from shooting each other with nerf projectiles etc. Once old enough to understand the difference, the toys are OK, but at age 3 or 4? They could think the real thing is a toy...!!!

as others said not .22 of course. You can do it, by the way, but what a hassle. .25 acp, because no one seems to have any brass. Ordered some but still 2 more months before that arrives. Also the bullets cost as much as the ammo by and large, so this one is a loser all the way around. I have a project going to do it on the cheap but how that turns out.... I will let you guys know. I do not reload every 9x18, 9x19, and 223 that I fire, sometimes I buy cheap (though always brass). 9x18 brass is harder to find lately. shotgun, as it is cheap enough that a reloader is just not worth it for me at this time. 243, but I almost never fire that gun and just have not bought any dies for it.

[quote name='173rdABN' timestamp='1354114014' post='851871'] So, I should be looking at two different loads? Makes perfect sense. Rather shoot lighter loads through the 329PD for sure. David, I need 15-20k primers from you next time I head to a gun show, I think I'll pick up some powder as well, maybe give a couple different powders a try. Do you absolutely need magnum primers in .44 loads? [/quote] anything that will cycle the auto is going to be *rough* in that revolver. I do recommend 2 sets of load data for your setup. Also, you need to crimp the revolver loads, but the DE is not as critical. The bullets can't recoil-pull out of the case in the magazine. I would use magnum primers if you use a slow, magnum powder. Or a medium powder and regular primers. If you want to save money, 44s can soak up a fair amount of powder and lead in a hurry. Lighter bullets and hotter powders can really cut costs, if you shoot a lot of the calliber. And that DE can really eat through a box of ammo fast.... 50 rounds of 44 mag gone in 1/2 an hour easily. With a revolver, the same 50 last me about 4 times as long (but my revolver is slow loading, single action).