Jonnin

If you read my 2 cents a lot you KNOW I absolutely HATE DAO guns. But the para LDA is actually tolerable. I swear its maybe 3 pound pull, instead of 10 or whatever the typical DAO stuff is. Its a great gun. If you run across one, S&W made a DA/SA gun on a 1911 frame or something very close to it. I have one and its a very nice pistol, very accurate and comfy.

Police world wide carried the makarov as a duty gun, though it is fading away now. 9x18 is about like a 380, and plenty of folks carry those as well. My first carry gun was my mak --- it is an excellent low cost weapon that uses low cost ammo, yet its better made than most guns in the price range (under 300). The 64 is similar, and I had one of those for a while too but sold it. You can get a 9mm in a smaller, lighter package. The mak and friends are obsolete due to their weight and lower power caliber. It is not your best choice, its 50+ year old technology. Its good stuff, rugged and reliable and accurate and plenty to drop an attacker, but .... there are better modern choices. The only reasons I would choose a 9x18 today would be to save money --- nothing else that cheap is going to be as rugged and reliable and a lot of the cheaper choices are DAO with awfully heavy pulls.

pic added! taurus 941, 8 rounds of 22 mag in a steel 2 inch revolver.

breast cancer gets too much attention. Need to spend on some of our other diseases at that level, we might cure something rather than fail at one thing.

Hard to say. If they moved activity toward grand theft, then yes. There is easily 400 milllion in jewels, autos, and sundry loot in chattanooga alone --- across the nation thats a lot of loot. Of course, risk/reward comes into play, but we are talking about organized crime here. Currently, its not worth it to try to steal everything in the city. Who knows? With everyone now having the munchies on legal pot, maybe they will find a way to black market snacks.

My job gets me the occasional bit of insight. This week, I was handed a piece of paper that told me all about the book "no **** day" -- the recent book that has some "info" in it. Now, the book is out. It is published and read and the info is, restricted or not, now in the public domain. Can't be undone. But this lovely memo tells me that I cannot discuss the book (and I am not, I am discussing the memo that tells me not to discuss the book...) nor highlight / mark in it. Basically the govt is telling me that I cannot express my opinions about information that is published and public domain. I am not sure how I feel about that, but my opinion is that this is a restriction of free speech and a crappy job of closing a barn door with no cows left inside. (I would NOT say that being asked to keep something that is NOT already public info secret is a violation, instead, that is a trust and necessary for a functional country). This on the tails of Obama being very, very wishy washy on freedom of speech in his UN butt kissing event, where he put far more blame on the movie maker than a bunch of terrorists who are killing and looting and rioting over.... a verbal insult. He almost condones the reaction to the verbal offense as acceptable, not quite, but all but. They have arrested the guy (supposedly the right one?) on some unrelated offense but he will be made to pay for the movie, because he dared to express his inflamatory opinion. Not too happy with Obama and his goons this week. Of course, that is most weeks that he is not on vacation, so at least 1/2 the time.. and by the way, the link up there..... the plight of the Jews was not known in detail at that time for him to HAVE sympathy. We knew they were being persecuted and that many had fled to the USA already, but the extent of the things going on was unknown here, just dark rumor at that point. Hard to lay blame on the guy for that, though the link seems to want to do so.

Could be. Its not something you DO without checking it out first, that would certainly be a bit risky, but it may be an angle to investigate.

I know nothing about that conversion, but is the barrel 7.62? Would a .311 bullet work better or be too fat?

That group at 100 sounds kind of rough for a 308. All I can say is try a shotgun approach to start out, try a variety of bullet weights and mess around at random until you hit on something that works better.

That is like asking how much my gun is worth. The condition, history, markings, and many other factors control the price. A generic one in average condition is still worth a LOT more than 25 bucks though --- I think a rock bottom gun is going for 10 times that while some are worth over 1k, a few ultra rare ones more still. Take pictures, post them at someone that can tell you, maybe gunboards site

if it is soft lead (I dunno, test it with a junky knife?) you can cut it with almost any steel cutting device, a saws-all, for example, though i would personally try to use something like pruning shears that did not make any sort of "sawdust" if at all possible. If it is long and thin enough you might be able to bend - break it, lead will break after a few bends. You could heat up a thin wire (possibly electrically?) and melt right thru it to carve off a chunk, if careful.

I would add that poverty is spreading. Gas, corn, food, anything transported all cost more, people make the same money and many lost jobs or have had to take a lesser job than they rate to get some money, etc. Less opportunity for everyone hits the lesser educated and already poor even harder. That sort of thing always leads to more theft and petty crimes which is a downward spiral. It leads to more drugs/booze too, people want to escape their life or feel good for a change. Only way I see of putting an end to it all is a combination of a star trek replicator in every home + libertarian approach to making stuff legal. Neither one of those is coming in the near future. Its a mess with no solution.... any improvement is a step up but the staircase is an escher one that just ends up back where it started.

I think my favorite was fogo de chao, all you can eat meat & salad, perfect for the atkins in all of us. But its a wee bit more than I usually care to pay and not sure I would take small children there as a first choice. I think its currently $50 a pop. Love the spaghetti factory.

not dolo of course but the turrets and the mil dot are not related 100% (they work together in some scopes though). The mil dot is only the reticle, a series of tiny dots that make up the crosshair, and that alone is sufficient for many needs (one of my mil dots has no turret, just windage and elevation adjustments). On top of what he said about using the dots to determine the distance, you USE the distance with your ballistics for your caliber and rifle. Then you can aim a little high or low to adjust for the distance. For example my 223 AR is the one with no turret. If I want to hit at 200 yards (it is zeroed at 50), I have to adjust for elevation manually by aiming (low, I think, but I get that confused on paper sometimes). You can use the dots in the reticle to aim with, to 'kentucky' sight for wind and elevation, or you can use the true crosshair and an approximate adjustment. The mil dots are supposed to provide a 1 dot = 1 inch at 100 type ratio to help you adjust but in an adjustable power scope this is not always correct due to issues with the magnification. I think on mine, the dots are 1 mil at max power, but at lower powers, they are not 1 mil, understand? Now with a turret system that is correct for the caliber, you can just dial in the approximate yardage and aim it dead on; it compensates for the elevation automatically. My wife's .22 has this, a caliber specific turret system (even covers several bullet weights) and while its not as good as zeroing the scope for the specific distance, its very very good. Other turret systems are not caliber specific and you have to memorize how many clicks you need for your setup (or, really, you memorize that one click = X inches at 100 and similar to the above simple math, estimate the clicks, make your adjustment, and aim dead on). What exactly do you NEED? As most folks note, most shots in this area are under 200 yards, and most highpower rifles shoot so flat at those ranges that you need minimal adjustment. The vitals of a deer are big enough that if you missed my 1/4 an inch it you still did just fine. All this about elevation, mil dots and fancy tools is for longer range shots than I would expect on a hunting rifle?

most of the time I use a few patchs sprayed with rem-oil pushed by a wooden dowl rod. If it seems like it needs it, I brush it, but that is rare. I push the patches until they come out clean, then a dry one to pick up any excess oil and call it good.

I think you got it right, they would have to move to more risky behavior such as stealing more, or whatever. Could go political. Could go world-wide, taking the legal drugs here to some country that has them illegal. Could sell illegally here, home-made dope for less, tainted and dangerous as that stuff can be, people use it. Could move into the identity theft market. There are tons of ways to make money. Anything you can think of that is illegal to do, someone will pay for it... sex, chemistry, weapons, stealing/fencing, counterfeiting, tax evasion/launderng, gambling, ......

specifically, let em out if their only offense was possession. Stealing is nonviolent.

careful about posting all the text, I think david prefers we use links to avoid any possible copyright aggravations. Good find though, and thanks for sharing I missed this one.

Well, then, I will say it. I have shot a couple and they were fine. Nothing fancy, but they worked, hit point of aim, feel well made, and can't be beaten for the price period. On top of that, you will NOT hear anything bad about them from a legit source. You might run across some snobbery but you won't hear about them failing to work or having constant problems. The ruger is throwing some competition at them, before that, they dominated the inexpensive 1911 market with a great product at a great price. I am not a 1911 expert, but some of this is who you talk to. Accurate to some 1911 shooters is less than a 2 inch group at 50 yards, sometimes closer to 1 inch! Because of the nature of the competition 1911, you will read things that are referring to these levels of accuracy, so sometimes you are hearing about a loose, inaccurate gun... that can make a 3-4 inch group at 50 yards. If it were any discussion except for a 1911 competition gun, that would be called "very accurate" by anyone here. As soon as people start talking 1911s though, the competition gold standards apply. So, some of what you hear can be ignored unless you want to compete with your pistol. Really from rock bottom to top of the line, then, that is what you are talking, about a 50% reduction in group size at long ranges for competition shooting, when talking accuracy vs price tag. Which means that unless you are very good, at typical handgun ranges, the only difference a casual shooter will notice between a $4k competition model and a RIA will be the near perfect trigger on the high end model. The triggers on the better guns are SWEET, by the way. To notice the difference in accuracy, the shooter will need to be very good, using very good ammo (handloads tuned for the gun), and shooting at least 25 yards out.

they stopped it? well nevermind then --- sorry for the mention. I had a bad experience, lets leave it there. time warp... but I rememebered it as a fall thing, and it being fall, is the only reason I said anything.

lol hes doing 5 MPH on the interstate, darn stoned drivers!

I have no problem at all with african americans. Or anyone else. If you had ever been down there during the freetnic (spelling??) event you would know what I was talking about. Stores were robbed by flash mobs. People were raped. Huge groups were walking around doing a wide variety of things from having fun (fine by me) to hurting people (not so good). People of various races are important to the country and I am very live & let live. Out of control mobs of out of town 18 year olds let loose on a city with no adult control or supervision was another story. I was down there in the middle of it one year. I would be equally concerned if there were a redneck festival of 2000000 19 year old idiots let loose and would expect similar results. But no one does that to my knowledge. In this case, african american is simple a description of the event. Basically its a Florida spring break crowd dropped into a place that was unprepared for that sort of thing --- and by being unprepared, all hell broke loose.

http://www.missourib...ry=10&keywords= its not super flat, sorta but not a swc or anything You could probably poke them in backwards with no real problems though. Ive done that on several rounds and it seems to make em into wadcutters more or less.

without looking did anyone see that the truck was found, because a neighbor of the crooks saw the bullet holes and had it checked out? So the crooks found, truck recovered, and shooter let off with hopefully a stern yelling at, I love a happy ending.

and you won't. Its more efficient to steal the booze directly. Mugging a drug dealer, bad plan.