Jonnin

I think your WWI and WWII snipers need a bit more respect than that. Their scopes were crude and low power, their guns were standard issue guns hand picked to be the best of the lot but they had no extras. Their ammo was standard issue as well. They did not have a spotter, did not have any of the math and know-how of modern ballistics, etc. They had little specialized training. They did not have specialized camo, or infrared optics. On top of that, while todays snipers have the special gear and training and all to make the 2000+ yard shots, they make most shots at much, much shorter ranges... 300-500 yards. So for 80% or so of their kills you are talking .... WWII era shots with 10 times the equipment and training and optics and so on. I had the privelege of working with a USMC sniper for many years (he is an engineer now), he did not talk about it too much but I got a little out of him over time.

there are 3 or 4 ways to define a sniper. 1) an accurate gun with a powerful scope 2) a historic sniper, like a mosin, sometimes these are regular guns reconfigured to replicate the historic sniper, some are real deal. 3) a modern sniper (and these vary, the current best sniper had 5 rifles in an interview I saw, a 223, a 338, a 50 bmg, and something else) these seem to be custom/hand built AR platforms mostly or similar styles, but some are still bolts. 4) a deer rifle in the hands of someone who thinks way, way too much of their skills. I jokingly call my 308 lever gun with a 24X scope a sniper. It isnt, but I call it that, and it can outperform my skills anyway.

Get a used marlin. Or one of the others, used if you find it. If you hit a gun show there will be many, many lever 30-30s. Do not discount other calibers if the right gun comes along used --- it is not recoil operated, so you can get for example a 308 and handload that to be 30-30 and up if you load your own. But there are too many quality used guns to buy a new one if you have budget restrictions.

The party continues to select candidates using a system that allows liberal, high population states that have 0 chance of adding ONE electoral college vote to the GOP candidate to have a large say in the GOP candidate. As long as this process continues, we will never see the 'best there is to offer' get past the first round of primaries.

hope he expands the line --- only has gizmos for a couple of makes and models.

I made a nice powder funnel out of a 223 case. Hammered the case into a steel washer to reduce the neck size until it would go into a normal 223, cut off the back end and expanded that, pretty easy. I suspect you could do it with any necked case with a little patience.

the only thing in a gun that I have seen damaged by steel is your extractor, and that is an uncommon issue seen mostly on low end firearms shooting steel. What happens is, a cheap extractor (possibly brittle?) is matched up against a stuck case (it happens) and because the steel is tougher than brass, rather than cut thru the rim of the stuck case (like it would for brass) it breaks. The only thing I have had damaged badly by steel was a mag. A round that failed to feed was dragged by the slide thru the mag and wrecked the feed lips. I polished and bent on it until it mostly works, every once in a while that mag causes a fail now.

it depends on what reloading manual and data, but the data I had would not cycle our glocks (9mm) until about 65% of the way up from starter loads to max loads. You may want to split the difference between max (which is stilll below +P!) and starter loads to save time; if you start at the bottom, you may just get ammo that will not function.

"I was like, should I pull the trigger now or like wait or like OMG" .... Sorry, I am very proud of her, but her bubbly cheerleaderness made me LOL a bit... she pulled it together well at the end with a great smack down on the gun control morons. Now she needs to go practice more and take her daughters with her....

Not sure how I feel about this one. Darned if you do, darned if you don't.... from the snips we can see, he seems to be, in "PC", "in need of some help". If the authorities ignore this and he shoots the place up, then the police didnt do their job, bad press. If they arrest him, they violated his rights, bad press. If they investigate him without cause, bad press. The LEOS can do no right here, every choice is going to result in bad press. If he made threats in print, I see an arrest and investigation as acceptable. If there were not threats, just trollish rants, then arrest is not acceptable. That is where I draw the line, though of course I personally do not get to draw the line.

it gets the LH seal of approval too. Ejects out the bottom instead of onto the shooter. Safety is prob RH but its better than average.

I dunno. Maybe girlish was the wrong word, but its short and super thin and lightweight with engraved flowers or something. He looks like he could fire it one handed. Hers is not a 22 SA, its just something that looks similar and the super thin build looks a lot better in her hands than his, IMHO. I dunno if that is her 39 or not.

Yea, girlish. Its not the same gun but it looks like something Annie would have used...

I have one marked belgium. It is very lightweight and accurate, I really like it but rarely shoot it. It has some fancy "engraved' (probably stamped in) doodles on the metal. I also have a BAR-22 that is very, very nice. I prefer this one to the above; the SA just seems small and girlish or something. Confirmed the BAR-22 is made in japan. I have a scope on this one, the SA is iron sighted.

The opposite! Pocket guns tend to be small and thin, typically under 6 X 5 X 1.2 in size. Sitting down all day at a desk job is WHY I pocket carry: the gun does not bind/pinch/annoy me at all. I tried the big guns (relatively, like my cz rami... that is "big"...) IWB and so on, and they always either hit the back of my chair some or bite into my hip or belly in the front, or something. I could not get them comfortable when sitting down all day. Stuffed in a poket, it just sits there, far from any moving body parts (hips, waist, etc) and not pressing into the chair in any way. About the only thing that can happen is some tables/desks can hit the gun in the pocket when I roll/scoot forward in my chair, and that is rare.

if you do not have the admin password, you can reset it with the windows install disk (or you once could, not sure about windows 7??). You will lose anything encrypted under the old admin log in, but that is unlikely to be an issue. The best way to cure a virus that is very bad is to remove the hard disk and scan it with a working computer using a good antivirus.

yes, I know, but that would mean the p3at and copies are MORE safe than a glock. Which is another reason the pocket angle did not make much sense? If its safe to haul around a huge glock with a lighter trigger in whatever rig, it should be safer to haul a small gun with 4x the trigger pull --- the pocket makes no difference assuming a holster is used.

223 is a pain no matter what you do. I do it this way: take the rod out of my turret press. Size and deprime. Haul sack of brass over to the trimmer. Trim sack of brass. Haul brass back to the press. Re-insert the indexing rod. Proceed as you would with 9mm, prime/powder/seat/crimp on the turret. If you did it single stage, it goes like this: put size die in press. size brass. trim brass. put powder die in press. Prime and powder. Remove brass and store it upright. swap dies to seater. Seat a round in each primed and powdered brass. swap dies. Crimp each round. Done. That takes a lot longer because it takes time to pull the brass on and off the press for each stage and it takes time to change dies. I keep a turret set up for 223, so the dies stay in the turret ring forever, and I swap turret rings to change caliber. Fast! If you want to do it that way, just leave the index rod out and use 1 hole on the turret. Its now a single stage press.

Not sure what the size of the gun has to do with it? A full sized glock with no safety is equal to a pocket 380 with no safety (both will fire when you pull on the trigger). A 1911 with nothing in the chamber is the same as a raven 25 with nothing in the chamber (both will fail to work when you get mugged). I guess I do not understand the pocket pistol angle. Safety or not is up to the owner; IMHO only SAO guns need any safety at all and they should be used on SAO guns. One in the chamber is up to the owner as well, but 1 short on a 5 shot pistol is significant, not so much in a 18 round fullsize. If your gun can fire when dropped, it is not a good carry piece, period. Stuff happens, but modern guns should have enough internal features to prevent this in all but the most freaky accidents (should involve at least 2, maybe 3 mechanical failures at once).

good point....

this should be a downloadable executable. Doing it over the web introduces tons of latency, you are all probably in the 100 MS range and the other 100 ms is the round trip lag. 246 avg, 205 best, 309 worst.

you could wear a gun duct taped to your forehead and 85% of the people would not notice. Ok not quite but people are, in general, oblivious and if you make an effort to keep it under wraps, most of the time you will be fine. If that is not good enough for you, conceal it better until you are happy? There are a number of ways to do that.... get a smaller gun, get a more exotic holster, change your clothing style, .... and so on. If you are concerned about it, take a look at different holsters first, clothing second... a new gun is sort of an expensive approach

mosin is quite capable of hunting. It is TOO powerful for small game, but if you just want to vaporize varmints, that is ok. Of course you can target shoot/ plink with it. It is high recoil with full power ammo and a bit brutal to do extended amounts of shooting without extra padding or something. There are other cheap, or nearly as cheap, military surplus guns out there, mosin is just the latest to be imported in bulk and there is still plenty of surplus ammo for it as well. The biggest drawback to milsurp guns is they can be aggravating to mount a scope properly. And, if you do want to scope one, be sure to not buy a collector's gun and ruin it.

welcome! Lots of places are poorly marked in chattanooga, often just a see-thru circle slash gun 3 or so inches square. Fortunately, you are covered: the law says the sign must be visible and of the correct type. Small, hard to see, and off to the side signs are not correct and if you do not see it, that is the fault of the business not you. It is not the burden of the permit holder to seek out the signs.

Those are both fine considering what you are doing and how long you have been at it. Forget the 1 stray with the 9 (though its nice to know what you did there if you notice it) --- plenty of people shoot worse groups than the rest of the shots with a 9 at closer distances. You will get better, and its not bad at all. If you can keep them in that orange circle at 15 yards with the 9, you can defend yourself pretty darn well.