Jonnin

None of this stuff is "best quality target ammo". The stuff listed is "cheap plinking ammo" (of good quality, but the words you used?? indicate a desire for something better than bulk blasting). I am not even sure anyone sells match grade pistol ammo outside the .22 LR, most such shooters make their own (?). You might find some in 9 and 45 or revolver rounds? S&B is pretty good for the 45 and 380, or it used to be. Last time I shot it (maybe 2 years ago?) the 45s made outstanding groups in my gun at 30 yards, I blame the group size on the shooter not the ammo. But every gun is different. If reloading is an option you get both for 1/2 the cost or less (quality and cheap, at the cost of personal time and initial investment). 380 alone you can make for $3-4 a box, costs like $12+ off the shelf..... adds up fast.

308 is an amazing round but if small kids are using it, you have a well built semi auto. My lever action 308 will knock the kids on their backsides; its a lot more potent than the 30-30. Point is the package is just as important as the caliber --- and I don't recommend a lever or bolt 308 for her!

I am just going to say it. If they let that idiot who shot at the guy that stole his truck, which is attempted murder, discharge in city limits, and a dozen other violations, go pretty much with a warning, this lady should be fined $100 and made to pick up trash for a week AT THE MOST.

Welcome! its not registered the way you are thinking. The shop does a background check which is pretty much a yes/no pas/fail "are you wanted by the police?" question. (slightly more to it, do you have any restraining orders, are you an ex con, etc, but generally you get the idea). The shop also (does or should do) a check on the gun serial number to make sure it is not in the stolen gun list. Finally they log it into their books (required by all dealers, this is a national level law) so when the cops come asking they can say "we sold that gun, it left our hands on date, etc". The police can get at the buyer from here, but if the gun changed hands via trades or person to person sales with no dealer involved, that is the end of the line for their search (unless the seller has more info). Supposedly the police cannot query your name and get a list of guns that you own. If you have any that are inherited, traded for, bought from individuals, etc, they know nothing of those. All that aside, you are old enough to own any gun. You cannot buy a handgun from a dealer yet, but you can own one from a gift or a individual sale.

I finally have mine down. After putting the bolt back in, I push on the hammer behind the strut with a dowl rod and "fire" the gun. That lets me get the mainspring thingy back in easily. Still have to hold it at funny angle to align the strut into the spring but I got it first try the last 2 or 3 goes.

My 238 has a "combat 1911" trigger I guess. It has a little pretravel. It has a little weight (4 pounds maybe, at a guess). Its not a target pistol, but it will put them all in a 2-3 inch group at short range (10, 15 yards). It will probably do tigher groups than that but it has no sight radius, a tiny grip, and I tend to shoot fast with a defense type pistol. If its a NEW gun it will break in. Mine has been shot in the 1000+ round count, and it has been smooth for a long while now. The first couple of hundred seems like it was a little rough. Remember that it isnt a 1911. Its just shaped a bit like one. I dunno about the trigger system but odds are the design is a little different.

If you or your husband have any interest in loading your own ammo, that can open up a lot of options too. Then *you* can control the recoil and power of the round (within reason). I have several shoulder bruisers that I make light range ammo for, and I am sure that lighter ammo would take a deer at 100 or less.

welcome! ARs are fun, S&W has a great inexpensive model if money is a concern, its a great "intro" AR (whatever that means, mostly it means it wasnt $2500). I recommend any new shooter buy a good .22 rifle and pistol so you can learn by doing. $20 for 550 rounds of ammo --- the guns will pay for themselves if you shoot them often. The next cheapest ammo is stuff like bottom shelf 9mm at nearly $10 for 50, huge difference. I think nothing of shooting up a box of 500 22s a month. Gun safety is best if kept simple, really. The 3 common sense rules are enough to remember and will keep you and those around you safe. The lists of 10-20 rules are too much to remember and invariably contain "rules" that are not possible to follow (for example the "rule" never load it until you are ready to shoot makes no sense for an armed citizen).

I understand how this stuff happens ... right up to the point they get arrested. The police do not go around looking in everyone's cars, you have to DO something to attract them and then, assuming you are not a total moron with the gun sitting out in the open, you have to DO something even worse or abnormal to get your car searched. I could probably drag my gun anywhere except the airport and maybe the courthouse and no one would ever know.... no one down here uses metal detectors, no one down here does a real, serious weapons check, I would have to get it out and wave it around or epic fail concealment to get in trouble. I know people are dumb, but even dumb people should not be dumb enough to aggravate the police enough to get a thorough car seach!

I see you bolded the bushing part. What is hard to understand --- for a target 1911, if you can get it out by hand, its too loose. That however is not enough to account for this sized group, but he was asking about the bushing specifically.

I use a rule of thumb ... if you can get the bushing out without a tool, its not tight enough. double distance and double group size does not make me worry. If you do 2 inches at 13 then 4-5 at 25 is on par. Its not precisely linear, but its close enough that I would say ... try it at 13 or 15 or something, see if you get your 2 inch group.... the gun could be fine. could be any of dozens of things. Ammo. Sights. Something loose. Shooter. Barrel crown (not all damage is easy to test). Lack of a point target to aim at precisely. Etc.

japan has a very, very strong anti-gun culture. I could not live there.

I have a few. 2 of them area actually useless: a BP shotgun that cannot be safely fired (barrel construction method) and my great grandfather's revolver that the cylinder turns too far and is dangerous to fire.

An AR is going to tame recoil and if you have the right stuff done to it, it can tame it a LOT. MY 308 is a lever action and it kicks almost like a 12 ga shotgun. I have shot a 308 AR that a kid could handle --- it had the right compensation and all to tame the round and enough weight etc. I do not know much about the 6-7 mm range of calibers, but if they make a tamed 308 I have to think you could get a tamed 6.XX caliber AR as well. I guess those are going to be similar to the 243, roughly, and in an AR, even more gentle, should be nice setup. Only trouble with ARs is the price is 3X or more over a bolt or lever gun. I hesitate to recommend one as a "deer gun" for that reason -- however if you will shoot it year round for fun as well, then certainly worth it. Just thinking that $800+ for a gun you fire 3-4 times a year is sort of over the top.

they are fun pistols, just remembering the thousands of rounds I ate at that age and translating that to 25 Its a great caliber and a lot of fun, he will surely love it.

price of the pistol: $75 price of the paint job: $150 price of the grips: $25 total cost: enough to buy a used glock being the coolest pimp in the hood: priceless.

lol buy the kid a .22 while you still can. Its about the same, but 25 costs almost exactly 10x as much. I am on a project to reload the stuff because my wife thought the .25 was "cute" ..... project make .25 from shotgun shell pellets.... but the brass is on backorder. Still hoping that pans out to make the stuff for $2 a box or so <g>

Where you notice the slowdown is when you replace it on an older machine that was running XP or something slicker. Then you can feel the overall bloat. Its not "bad" "considering" but its slower than xp OR not quite as easy to unbloat by hand, I am not sure which. It is quite stable and a decent overall product. My top complaint about 7 is minor: popups every #$%^ time you insert a usb disk. I have told it and told it to do nothing/take no action and still it pops up trying to read my files for me and guess what program I might like to open them with. Minor, but every flippin day that gets old.

unfortunately a sad number of vets are homeless. Could be an ex marine for all we know. I hope he gets some help for this.

those are exactly what you need. they are standard 25 acp ammo.

in europe a comma and a period are reversed. so that is 3.25 grams, probably the bullet weight. 3.25 g = 50 grains roughly. 50 grains is a common 25 acp ammo load. "6.35 browning" is the caliber name in europe which is 25 acp. sorry for all the edits, had to convert grams to grains which is unusual for me.

Yes, its better than it was. I can tolerate working on it now if I MUST. Usually, I can avoid it.

For the same reasons that linux users cannot run many of the programs they want to use without a month of screwing with the OS to get all the right versions of the right packages to play nice together for what should have been a single download and double click. Different priorities and philosophies apply! As I recall, by the way, there is a multiple desktop freeware package for windows. I never cared for it, I know how to mash alt+tab, but some folks like it. There is also a sweet multi-desktop on multiple monitors setup built into windows. That one I like, and its very useful. One of them had the desktops on the faces of a cube that you could rotate, for some unholy reason.

The only rossi I have is a coach style shotgun, and it is excellent quality and a good looking piece. Recently shot it a fair amount to try my hand at casual skeet, and it was flawless. However its possibly an 80s or at the youngest, a 90s era gun and a LOT can happen to a company in 20 years. Still, based off the quality of it, I would at least give them a good consideration if I were looking for something they make. Just being around for that long can mean something, or not, but at least you can track the company history and give it a thought.

Many ways to hide things from a burglar. Most of them are in a hurry to score a few pricy items and leave, and they know where folks are prone to hide goodies. Anything locked, IMHO, draws attention and most such things are fairly easy to get into (excluding the better safes). A room full of gun stuff, I would not hide it there. Instead, as a totally random example, buy a used board game at a yard sale, dump the game, and put the pistols in the box and put that in with a few other board games in a closet. Odds of discovery, pretty slim. You can do similar things all over any home, the point is to hide it amongst the mundane clutter that a crook in a hurry will bypass. Won't always work (some toss everything to see what falls out) but nothing is 100%. Spread them out, and the odds of finding ONE is higher but the odds of total loss is lower, thats a decision to make. What you can do and will want to do is going to vary depending on how much you want to get the guns out of storage and what your home looks like and has for hiding places.