Jonnin

I am not sure this is all that new. Actually, pretty sure it is not: by default, when a "new" weapon is talked about openly, its no longer "new".

A rich doofus trying to influence the election with $$$? Say it ain't so! Sounds like something outta hollywood (actors, for example...)

For a pistol, just buy a silicone rod & reel type cloth or whatever they call them these days. Cleaned, oiled, and wrapped in that, you can store the pistol in any sort of case (a $5 generic foam lined plastic gun case from any gun store) for long periods of time without fear of rust. You can pull the foam out of those cases if you fear moisture and it becomes a handy plastic box. For a rifle, I would buy a plastic walmart under the bed type box and store the gun with NO foam/cloth or anything touching it, just "bare in the box" with maybe a wooden support block if needed for some guns. Again, lightly oiled and cleaned before stored. Put in some sort of moisture absorb chemistry in the box if you feel you might want that. Now, remember, with no foam in them these are for STORAGE not travel. You don't want you guns loose in a box banging around on a road trip. Put the foam back in for road trips for the handguns, and get a foam lined rifle box for the rifle if you need to haul it. This approach should work fine and cost less than $10 per gun.

30-30 has a fair bit of kick. There are worse, but its not gentle. A 357 or a 44 mag lever gun will take a deer and are quite gentle for a rifle. As was said, a 243 and other less than 30 caliber guns are effective without being brutal. I really like a 243 and feel it is one of the best of the smaller caliber rifles --- wide variety of uses, mild recoil, long range, accurate, common enough to be inexpensive, and so on. So my choices for you would be a 44 mag lever action or a 243 bolt gun. The 44 will have shorter range but it will send a very heavy, large diameter round out to deliver a great deal of power downrange and at typical hunting distances. I think the deer hunting 44s are 250-300 grain slugs and out of a rifle are moving at a good velocity.

If it really is geared toward a tablet, maybe it can be made to run fast at least (??). 7 is a bit sluggish and a bit of a hog even after tweaking it, compared to xp. I can live with the clunky and ugly interface if it will run better, just depends on performance to me. I also will not BUY it for my current PC, so it will have to wait until I buy new hardware. Like others, I avoid every other MS release. IIRC, 3.1, good. 95: horrible. 98 good, ME horrible. XP good, vista, not as good. 7 half decent. They are due for a horrible one again....

it looks like he has a minature soldier for a front sight due to the angle of the photo. Not exactly, but look again, its a neat effect.

I would bet the brady campaign would sell out to him for that much, save him the trouble of making a whole new one. They could call it the Bloomin' Brady Campaign.

Sorry, but dislike of Mitt is not endorsement of Obama. Romney has a horrible gun record. His tax plan is at least questionable since he claims the bottom line for the bulk of the taxpayers will not change. Closing loopholes and raising rates is a wash, if the amount taken is the same, then... you gotta cut spending (instead he plans to increase it, for the military). He has not given us a spending cut plan. His foreign policy does not include cutting off foreign aid to everyone until our debt is cleared off (this is one of the only ways we will ever get ahead economically). He has flip flopped like a fish out of water on more issues than I care to list. Not a commie? If by that you mean he will stop government handouts, you are wrong, he will NOT stop them --- and if they continue, then he is just as bad as a democrat. Obama is awful, that is also painfully obvious. They both suck. There will be little difference: we will still be in debt and digging deeper. The rest of the world will still hate us. We will still squander money on pseudowars. Our freedoms will continue to erode. We will continue to educate the rest of the world to compete against us. The border will continue to be open and illegals will continue to be tolerated and even welcomed. In short none of our many serious problems will be fixed and in that sense they are the same. About the nicest things I can think of to say about Mitt are 1) he is not obama and 2) he may have enough common sense to stimulate the economy a little bit, maybe enough for it to bootstrap. Oh, and 3) no matter what you think, he has agreed with you at some point.

People may do it, but I would say that most land owners do not want random, unknown people doing action shooting sports (which require a certain amount of careful due to the running around and such) on their land unsupervised. Most would not even want you plinking on their land unsupervised. Now, a friend might let you do it.

And the x ring is a gutshot wound, the heart is in the 8 ring or something. /boggle.

A good .22 pistol. The extra weight and bulk of the rifle is not worth the small gains in range or velocity IMHO. A target auto or revolver with a 7 inch barrel will get you good velocity in a much smaller and lighter package. A ruger charger might be a good option too, halfway between a pistol and a 10-22.

Apart from living in a padded room, there is no way to prevent 100% of freak accidents. I am going to go way, way out on a limb here and call a squib + a blank a freak accident on par with the occasional accidental hangings on movie sets from all the ropes etc.

I can understand breaking rules under controlled environments for training in a private setting if there is something to be gained from it. But that would be with adults who understood it was not normal. For example it is OK IMHO to point a gun that has been checked and rechecked by all parties involved at a person with a camera to get a movie/still for some purpose. Doing this in public, with a child who does not know the rules well enough, on a live range, and for no good reason (there is nothing to see up there.... you can see if she is holding it right from the side) is just stupidity cubed. And you can bet if you said something, the guy would be like "what you talking about, go away" or worse.

Im with you, IWB is miserable if you sit/bend or anything other than stand up straight all day. So, I go with pocket.

without the scope and mount its already never going to be an original sniper. Whether it once was or not, I dunno. Try asking on gunboards --- the guys there seem to know how to tell, if you have good pictures. Back then, a sniper rifle was not made special. They took a crate of guns, shot them, picked out the best ones (smooth actions, good grouping, whatever else) and stuck a scope on them, bent the bolt so it could be used with the scope in the way, and called it good. The same is true for most other sniper rifles of that era, this is a generalization not specific to mosins. If the russians did anything more, I am not aware of it.

Exactly. I remember that sort of thing from my youth too, folks saying that someone did not fight fair, as if there were such a thing outside the fighting sports (and even there people do what they can get away with same as any sport). I always wondered what they would do if someone were beating THEM up, would they just take it and hold to the "rules" or what... even a fair fight is not, one person is going to be bigger/stronger/faster/smarter/something. People don't get that either.

the disk chart is off as well if you use that. And both of them are going to produce more variation between charges than weighing each one carefully on a good scale. Volume measure is just too prone to air space, settling, and the like. The disk device produces "pretty good" ammo for me, and does it fast, but I do not use it when I want precision.

there are repro snipers where people took a mosin and made it into something that resembles the russian sniper. One of the first clues, of course, is the russian scope sitting on it. These scopes are UGLY things sitting on an UGLY mount. I have no list of things to use to tell if it is a fake or not though and was unable to find such a list.

Most of the folks shooting 25+ yards have a red dot on their pistols. Not all, but most. Barrel and bushing fit do more for accuracy IMHO than slide to frame. Its pretty cheap to get a smith to hand fit a bushing for you, so thats a win-win mod to do early on. If you can get the bushing out without a 1911 wrench, its worth thinking about.

Agreed, if you do not load your own, look at ammo price. If you do load your own, once you somehow get brass they are all about the same price.

I got a p89 for 250. Hard to get your money out of those if you bought it new.

a bubba milsurp or make your own, like a mosin --- well made, $200 or less, with money left over for ammo and optics. Though you need to make or seek out legal hunting ammo for such, of course...

an awful lot of good things have come from the money. Its some of the best spent tax $$ ever. This is not saying much, granted, but if you had to pick between feeding a lazy bum on welfare or feeding an engineer making the next generation of space age plastic .....

its harder with iron sights. And when I said it, I meant locked down in a device, not hand held bench shooting. A device is the way to do it.

Yea, pretty much. Lets put it in october mode. We have spent untold amounts of money on breast cancer research because 1) people like boobs and 2) a fair number of people have this cancer. We have yet to cure it. No capitalist in their right mind would have spent anywhere near this amount for marginal results --- and only a moron would continue to pour good money after bad if the desire is actual profits. Even if they find a cure tomorrow, to recoup the losses would take until 2050 or later. There is some evidence that a very, very dangerous and expensive procedure can cure aids (and 2 or 3 other immune system diseases, including MS). But no one can get this treatment ..... it costs too much and has too great a chance to kill the patient .... and the R&D on it is almost nonexistent. It is not profitable and the financial risks of killing someone to cure them is not worth it.