Jonnin

If you didnt say it --- you said they were rough? Maybe tumble them afterwards?

- Yes. No round in the chamber OF A LONG GUN. Pistols can be ready to go. No place I have heard of has this restriction on pistol. - TN parks can be posted but if not you may carry there. I do not go to a lot of them --- maybe national parks are a no-go? Not sure about the specific location try the website for the park if any? - No. If the officer asks, you must answer true, but you don't have to volunteer your status.

try the mag loaded to -1 round (that is if it holds 8, put 7 in, or whatever). If it seats and functions well, you need to break in the mag spring and possibly take the mag apart & clean/lube it. Small guns should not really be any different from larger frames. They should not jam, the mags should go right in and come out easy when released, etc. Like large guns, they vary in quality -- I don't have an lcp but its a well made copy of a good design so it should not have quality issues. Like large guns, they sometimes need to be broken in with a lot of shooting or a tear-down and polish. Remember, if you have never had to do this, polish is polish, and it is not grinding.

sweet! Not sure how catching fish helps, but glad you got set up and running. I shoot as fast as I can load up some too. That is the point, isnt it?

To borrow from clint eastwood.... when I see a guy chasing a woman with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I shoot the bastard. So I guess my vote is to shoot the guy. That is the assumption that he has already stabbed her once, mind you, as the text you gave indicates. Also, in the case of already stabbed, he gets no warnings, no commands to stop. Back of the head, I don't really care. If the woman is unharmed, 911 is your friend.

did I miss the obvious "sell it to an individual without giving your personal info" ?

Welcome to TGO! I hate to say it but.. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU FORGOT TO READ THE READ ME STUFF WHEN YOU SIGNED UP HERE. Go read it. Again. Esp the part that says you cannot sell your stuff here until you pay for that feature. But do feel free to talk guns and such in the forums, and stop by the new members area to introduce yourself and all that.

I dunno. I have spent a fair bit of time to keep my name and image off the web. I do not want to be ID by anyone for any purpose, whether government, news, businesses, people that I do not really like, or even my highschool/college. I have no macho delusions that my personal information can be put to ANY good use by anyone, period. I am not big into lawyers or lawsuits. But the one way I can absolutely assure you that I would sue someone would be a case like this, if I were wrongfully arrested and my name and face plastered all over, then proven innocent, I would be one wealthy sob time that was all settled. Even if you did nothing, you will never escape the harm done by the media in a case like that.

Actually he seems like a pretty nice guy. He has his problems, and those are made public because he is famous which probably makes them worse, but I would bet everything he has done has been done by someone on this forum without the publicity. All of it combined? Well most people cannot afford to do ALL that stuff.

it is not normal to ask for ID on the passengers, but IIRC officers can always ask for ID of adults and you are expected to have it. If it is not on you, not sure that they can do much, could be a vagrancy charge or something minor and stupid (????) but they can ask. Wonder why he did...

No, its not an 8mm if it was made in 1890. There was a parent cartridge (M-88??) that was similar to the 8mm mauser, but its not the same thing, I do not know how interchangable they are but I think at least the brass is the same (???). Better figure out what it is before you even think about shooing it --- its age indicate it may use a ligher load for example an a 1940s era 8mm might blow it up (or not, I really do not know!). I think it is a type of GEW 88 rifle. Spandeau was one of the manufacturers of the piece. Google gew 88 and read the wiki on that rifle to learn more.

I would soften up the lead, rather than use hard cast, or if that is difficult to control (I asked once and was told that hardness control is a pain) just buy one box of jacketed soft point in the same weight and use the cast to practice and the bought box to hunt. I cannot comment on what powder is best, I like accurate #7 but I will not claim it is better than any other. #7 does not fill the case up enough to compress and it did not leave unburnt powder but my loads were very different from yours (I use a 165 grain slug, big big difference).

The taurus trigger out of the box was gritty and needed a polishing job. After that it was nice and smooth. I cannot fire these guns DA with my weak hands, which means it probably has over a 5 pound trigger pull for DA. Its stout. I could not fire the S&W either, it was also stout. The single action pull is all you could ask for. The .22 had an issue out of the box. Taurus took over a month to fix it, but they did a very good job. Not sure what spotty means, but SLOW for sure. I would not recommend this pistol (the 94 series specifically) to someone with hand problems if they plan to fire it double action style. There is no way to lighten the pull according to the gunsmith --- you would get light strikes, its an overall design issue. I do not know that you could call it sub-par, its no worse than an auto DAO in the same sized frame, its better than my beretta nano and a kel tec. And a lot worse than a full sized auto or revolver.

Yea nano is a DAO striker and really hard to fire, gritty and it just won't break in. Its the right size, its reliable and it works, but its no fun and they need to go back to the drawing board on the action.

The primary does not HAVE to be fair to those states, to be blunt. The RNC can run the primary any way they see fit: its not a run for an office, its a run for the party nomination. They could for example divide a state's contribution by the number of elections since the last time that state voted for R in the real election... say CA last voted for a R in 1980 or something, then CA's count is divided by 8 (8 elections). Or whatever other rule they want to make. While we love the 10 or 20 conservatives in those states, we cannot let the 10 million crossover dem voters continue to bork up the primaries either.

Without a lot of time, I did not find the by-laws or anything on what the GOP or RNC or whatever would do if Mitt were to withdraw due to felony at this point in the race. Total web search fail, I will try it again later but if someone else finds it first throw us a link.

Sorry to see/hear it, those sorts of things are so frustrating (cant use your hand, and every time you forget, painful reminder...). The proper tool isnt always the answer. My wife begged for a high dollar kitchen knife, so I got her one. Its the sharpest thing I have ever held, period... wustoff or something brand, folded steel, amazing piece. She promptly all but took off the top 1/4 inch of her thumb (it made a pretty bad cut through the nail and all, but did not hit bone, it was just above the bone). Looks like a first class set of stitches. They just used superglue on the wife.

China has been at it for a very, very long time. It depends on how you define "works" !!! Their system apparently "works" for them. Our system works too. When it is used. The current crop (last 50+ years really) in office ignore the design and actively try to avoid following it with every trick in the book and then some. Take the "its a tax" ruling from the SC on obama care: he knew what he wanted to do, the trick is to find a way to justify it. They all do this now. Any system, filled with corrupt jerks, will fail. Any system, with (a) strong leader(s) can work --- many a monarchy worked under a strong king, many a country that uses a model like ours works, and many a dictatorship also works. And every form of government has failed as well. The leaders make or break the country. Our leaders are horrible right now. This is not a good thing....

I am not sure, but I think paul has the runner up spot because the others dropped out of the race. He is technically still running and did not officially drop out of the race, unless I missed it. That would be a twist. But I have no idea how the rules work, perhaps they start over and anyone can run again, or the GOP makes an emergency nomination / vote of the party bigwigs? I think I will look up what the rules are if I can find them.

This is classic mismanagement. Sams: the greeter checks every person and a line, usually longer and slower than the checkout lines, forms up and people can get stuck for 5-10 just trying to leave the stupid store! This is terrible, and to be honest I dread going there because of this, the slow lines, and the generally sorry service. Walmart: Treating honest customers like a criminal is worse than losing a few items. The crooks are gonna steal, and most of them are probably better at it than the greeter people can catch. Honestly if I wanted to clean out a walmart, I would get my wife to distract the greeter while I wheeled my cart out --- they are usually elderly and easy to befuddle with a question (try it sometime, ask the greeter what aisle has axle grease or something random.... ). Cell phones make it easy, text your partner to start the disturbance as you are near the exit. As with gun control, the crooks are gonna win, and all the store can do is aggravate the honest customers --- terrible decision. I would have let the police arrive and showed THEM my recipt then asked them to arrest the lady for harrassment, stalking, and reporting a false crime etc. But I am a jerk that way.

Maybe paul could do it, maybe not. I would vote for him any day, but I just do not see him beating obama with a campaign restarted at this late date. The hate for obama is strong, but is it that strong? I do not know, but my guess is no. Yes, I can say that I do think mitt has a good heart, loves the country, and the other stuff. That will not stop him from banning AR's (if congress handed him the bill, he would sign it) or raising taxes. I do not care for his views. Orders of magnitude of bad do not impress me ---- is the best we can do in the USA a choice from {horrible, awful, moronic, bad, worse} ?! That is a depressing thought.

I doubt the GOP could even pick a candidate before november if Mitt were thrown in jail tomorrow. They would be left with Ron paul, who would scare away anyone on the fence, IMHO. It is not horse crap. As governer Mitt increased the tax burden with sneaky changes (not direct tax increase) including things like increasing the price of gun permits (a tax on gun owners). He is likely to increase taxes IMHO as president --- either directly or indirectly. He is a self proclaimed moderate and "progressive leaning" --- a RINO. He says the right words on gun control but that seems funny from somone who supports a 5 day wait to buy, supports MA's gun control laws in full, admits to not agreeing with the NRA, supports bans on weapons that can be used against police, supports "assault weapons ban", and more. I can look at him and obama and wonder why Obama does not ditch biden and take Mitt for VP --- I just do not see any difference. Time may prove me wrong, but I do not care for Mitt one bit.

If you want both close up and far, consider a 2-7 or 3-9 power adjustable. I really like this type, they adjust fast and while a little strong at point blank range, they cover everything from 25-200 yards easily (though you will still have to adapt for up/down based off the distance and know your rough ballistics). I am not too brand picky, so long as the scope has a lifetime replacement. Most brands offer the same scope with a wide variety of reticles from electronic to traditional to mil-dot and more. Should be able to get anything in any model from most of the major brands.

No, but whichever one of them gets in, that is what we will get.

That is what we have, the 94 and the 941, both with a 2 inch barrel. They are more accurate than I would have expected, and I highly recommend them. I would rather have had the long barrel version, but wife got the 22 mag to carry and the .22 LR to practice (she was going thru 22 mag so fast it was cheaper to buy her another gun!). They get the "for the money" stamp of approval. I would not trade in my .22/22mag blackhawk for it, but if I were buying a moderately priced .22 revolver today, the taurus would be in the top 5 for sure.