Jonnin

There is a subtle difference between doomed to fail and being disadvantaged. Many kids are at a disadvantage in school; its hard to focus if you are hungry or your back hurts where you were beaten or your clothes do not fit or the other kids pick on your because of your poverty/cleanliness/behavior/other issues. It is not always related to income either; I went to a high school that now costs more than most colleges per year, yet there were a few kids there that had unbeliveable problems. Some were dumped in the dorms to fend for themselves --- they had money, but no support network, parents wanted nothing to do with them. Others had parents who were at war with each other, a disruptive and violent home life. Some just did not try. A very few wanted to be there and could barely afford it, or even not (scholarships) and worked hard to take advantage of it. In any case, while environment is a big deal to success in school on the average, there are many, many cases of people that excelled because they wanted to get out of their horrible conditions, and many, many examples of people who did not try in school at all in spite of a great home life and supporting family. So, no, they are not set up to fail. They just have a more difficult journey, and just possibly, for a few of them, the motivation to excel against the odds. For the bulk of them, however, failure is indeed a sad and likely possibility, as it takes a rare soul to overcome tough conditions. If we could only have a fraction of the money we send to our enemies as foreign aid, we could probably afford to give such kids an easier life and a chance to succeed. While I am not keen on entitlements, giving kids a "sink or swim" chance and supporting the ones that choose to work and and "swim" would be far better use of that money.

Its hard to say. I still have my first one, though I have bought and sold several between then and now. Not because its my first one but because I like to shoot it to this day, a lot. This was pure luck, by the way; it was at a gun show and the price was right and I liked how it felt and all. No amount of research (apart from actually shooting one of each ) would have done any better for me. The ones I sold, same thing except not as lucky as the first one. You never know until you can shoot it, and even then, years later you may still love it or grow to dislike it. Testing everything you can really is the best way to find something you like though.

sounds about right to me too. I esp like how he turned a lack of intelligence (information) into an insult !

lol I have yet to see biden go an entire event without at least one uberstoopid comment.

now that sounds interesting.... pics and even more how to, if you don't mind?

Its not that bad. I think it boils down to 3 simple rules: 1) gun has to have been purchased or brought into the state on or before june 18th of 1875. 2) you must bolt a boat oar to the pistol grip. 3) the magazine must be replaced with a "bolt action style" that holds 10 rounds or less and loads by shoving the rounds into the chamber one by one. !!!

I am heartened a bit by the polls. If romney is ahead in ANY poll, he has a better shot than folks realize. The polls have always been skewed to the left, so if Mitt is up by 2% in the polls, there is every chance he is really up 10% or more in real voters. Its a tough fight. It takes 3 states to cancel out CA. FL can cancel out NY if we win it. If we lose FL, we probably lose. PA is a big deal, and Mitt needs to get up there and stir those good people up. If he can pull FL and PA, it will be a close, but winnable battle. OH of course too, but PA and FL are equally or more important.

Not sure where you would get training specific to this. The 2 big differences are obvious, though. First is how you draw the gun. If you are left handed, some of these guns and the p238 specifically are not left hand friendly, so that may mean weak hand shooting skills need to be honed. If you are right handed, not a big deal. Pocket draw takes a lot of practice and I am just not sure that you can draw the weapon as fast this way, fast but not AS fast. So on top of needing more time, or because of it, you might look into some martial arts to kick, push, and punch to buy the time needed to draw your weapon and to get the space you need as well. This is true for any gun, IMHO, just a little more handy for pocket carry. Second issue of course is the lower ammo capacity and reduced caliber (even my 938 is weaker than a real 9mm, barrel is shorter and that reduces the power a bit). So you want to focus on actually hitting with each round, rather than spray & pray of a 20 round full size. You want to practice reloading drills and carry of a spare mag. Again, you do that full sized too, but its critical for a 5-6 shot pistol! One way to "train" some cheaply is to visit your local IDPA when they do a "backup gun" match. I would also guess that, apart from the way you draw the gun, a regular training class would cover much of what you need to know. There is some liability with pocket draw: it is not allowed in most competition sports, and not allowed at many ranges, and is in general considered to be unsafe when practiced by unknown shooters of unknow skill, and a possible danger to everyone in a 1 mile radius. I don't get it, people shoot theyselves all the time with regular holsters, but there is a stigma on pocket draw that may make finding a session and instructor more difficult. You might find someone willing to one on one teach you. You might find someone willing to let you in a regular class with the understanding that your platform is a little different. Can't hurt to ask, and who is going to turn down $500 bucks of your money? If you are willing to pay with the understanding that your platform will not 100% mesh with the class content, someone will be glad to go there I bet.

Try something bigger. The 2k seems to work well, for example, and my PLR 16 has been trouble free as well (though the mag that came with it was not stellar).

Lawsuits drag on and on, while the slandered statements have a short term effect of influence on an upcoming election (usually). Take right now. We have what, 30ish days until election time? Say Mitt decides to sue harry reid for saying he did not pay taxes or whatever it was he said. By the time this suit is settled, obama would have finished his second term and someone else would be running the show. It would not help his cause to sue harry, so all the lawsuit would do is to keep the spotlight on the negative statement for longer (you can be assured that the press would repeatedly post the offending statements) and make Mitt look bad (he who is now behind a cheezy lawsuit). There is no way the suit would create any positive feelings for Mitt in this case, in other words. By ignoring Harry, he is able to focus on positive messages and hope that the truth will come out, making Harry look bad and foolish without doing any additional harm to himself. Also there is the press angle. The press is going to make anyone that sues them look bad. If I am not mistaken, a lot of the press is owned by just a few larger entities. So sue one, and they will all (or many) turn on you. Bad plan for an upcoming election.

welcome!

I know a vet who said the first thing a lot of the men did was loot an AK to use because the issued guns had problems.

I hate that place. The food is just horrid and the folks at the counter are impatient. We used to do a "right before closing" run from tech, half the campus would head over there for a late night snack. That was fun, in spite of the bad food, and the staff seemed to be in good spirits about the huge crowd rather than grumpy about going home late, which is a big +++ in their favor. Consider it a must-do-once sort of place, a rite of passage or something.

value will go up. The market has been flooded with these, but that will end and then the value will creep up towards at least 300+ over the next decade or so. Just leave it alone. Shoot it, sure, but don't feel compelled to sand the stock or refinish it or otherwise screw with it. Left alone, it will accrue collector value slowly, and you can always mess it up in the future if you decide you want to keep it forever as a custom gun. Once it is messed up, it will never be collectable again.

Rossi. I *know* already that I cannot pull the trigger on the kel-tec. I like kel-tec's innovation but I cannot deal with the triggers on their handguns. I know that if the rossi DA pull is too much I can pull the hammer back. Slow, but at least it can be fired. Not a compelling reason for people with strong hands, but you asked!

the sig 238 is a very good pistol. I have shot many hundreds of rounds thru mine, and it is very accurate for its size (good to 25 yards anyway, past that its a bit much for the sight radius). There is no point at all in a large framed 380 like the beretta 86 (I think?, its similar to a 92 in 380 anyway) since you can get a 9mm in those frames, a more potent and less expensive caliber. If you do want an inexpensive larger framed 380, consider one of the 9x18 guns instead, it is much less expensive ammo. The cz 82, for example. If you want a single action 1911 style gun, there are not many. Sig is the only one I know of. I did make my makarov single action, but that is another story.

I voted do not follow. I can't deal with taking it so seriously and the moment it stopped being a game is the moment I lost 100% interest in it. Too much money, too much win at all costs, too little fun.

and the .311 or 312 diameters are often hidden under a 303 british label, you can try those as they are probably a good weight for a mosin.

desperation. A burglar robs you because he needs your money, not because he hates you. There is no such thing as a hate crime (it is not illegal to hate anyone, or even a group of people). A crime should stand on its own merits --- violence to another, for example --- without any BS.

They need some genius of an engineer to figure out how to do what I will call "removable grips". This radical idea would be to let the grips be screwed onto the frame in a novel way that allowed the user to replace them with various designs, including no finger grooves, or finger grooves that fit different sized hands. People could get all wild and crazy too, doing things like neat colors and patterns, or interesting thumb rests, and other such things. I know, I know, its a bold move away from tried and true designs, and way out there in the future, but maybe someday someone will be able to examine the engineering challenges that would allow this and figure out a way to make it happen.

If you are far enough away to be aiming and serious about hitting a target, you have time to clear a dud or jam. If you are 10 feet away, even a smoothbore would hit.

Sorry to hear this. All I can add is do not let appearances fool you or get you down ---- the treatments are rough and often are a bigger part of the symptoms. Her Dr will know how she is really doing, rather than gnaw on yourself at how she *seems* to be doing to *you* take him aside and get the truth (this can take some insisting on your part). Knowing is better than guessing and worrying. If you need to talk, pm away.

they are short and heavy SA pulls with just a small amount of pretravel. I would say 4 pound pull average, roughly? Mine finally has broken in pretty well. It can now do 50 rounds of fairly stout ammo without a problem, still not quite happy with weak stuff.

1911 stepchild for carry. Found in 380, 9mm, and other calibers, in a variety of shapes and sizes, they retain the excellent trigger pull and safety system but lose the bulk and weight of the classic guns. You can get them in many shapes and sizes, single or double stack, from a number of vendors including colt, sig, para, and more. No reason to learn how to handle a different system.

17 is my favorite of them as well. Congrats!