Jonnin

I am all about the Dr. having the right to ask whatever he wants. I am all about being able to refuse to answer that or not, depening on why he wants to know. Personally, if I trust the guy enough to let him stick his hand up my butt, listen to my junk, cut holes in my body, and so on, I feel I can trust him to know about my gun too, if he asks (he has not). You trust this guy with your life ---- everything else is secondary. If you do not trust your doctor, you need to find one you can trust before it matters! I still say that in general, they do not need to know about guns, but if mine asks and has a good reason for doing so, I will probably answer with the truth. It could be as little as him needing to know that several pounds of "fat" from the casual (not nude) weigh-in is not really "fat" ..... I am seriously considering asking for a lead level check next time I go, just for my own peace of mind. Like most other things, the world would be a better place if laws and government would butt out and let doctors and patients work out between each other what information is necessary to be shared.

My dad had 4 barrels for his g19 and I forget what all brands. I have tried all the ones he had. I am a pretty decent pistol marksman, and the key thing I noticed was that the factory barrel is easily as good or better than anything aftermarket that I tried. That is not to say that a high quality barrel cannot beat the factory barrel, it is just saying that the factory barrels in glocks are pretty darn good. I will follow up with: I have shot hard cast lead in a glock (and a makarov) with zero issues. Soft lead may lead to the infamous kaboom issue if you follow it with copper without a cleaning, but hard lead does not muck up the poly barrel. So, that leaves me with the thought that unless you want to either shoot soft or unknown quality (self smelted random melting pot stuff) lead bullets OR you have a burning desire to turn your glock into some sort of long range target pistol, I would not fool with it. If you are not shooting out past 30+ yards, that factory barrel will put them all in a pretty tight group, with good handloads.

Its not the looks for me at all. Most of my guns are fairly ugly, and the glock would not stand out among them. I think I can boil it down to 3 or 4 issues with them. Which is not hate, just "not for me" stuff. They have excessive recoil for the size and caliber, across the board, due to light weight frame and heavy springs. The trigger has to be memorized to be used well (not only glocks, and a problem on any gun that has this issue). The grip angle is off from every other gun and feels wrong (unique to glock -- as if the designer threw out 3 centuries of handgun design to start from scratch). The thingy in the trigger is uncomfortable and annoying and useless (this is true of all guns that have the trigger "safety"). And, no fault of the gun, but the get-a-glock-one-size-fits-all crowd causes a lot of harm to new shooters. They have just as many strong points. Inexpensive. Accurate. Reliable. Fairly easy to use point & shoot operation. The looks never really entered into it. Anyone buying a plastic gun for looks needs their head examined anyway, wood & steel are for the beauty contests, plastic is for function.

This happens a lot, but people get all fired up over something and forget. Write it down. Do not forget it. DO NOT CONFRONT RANDOM PEOPLE. IT IS NOT WORTH IT. Eventually, someone who has both the authority to do so and the training, backup, and means to handle it will take care of it. If you want to do something, record and report on it. If the cops/officials ignore you, stir the pot with the internet or local news.

Sounds like someone did something stoopid and they cooked up a story after the fact to me.

If it is for kids, the mostly alum tactial solutions 10-22 is super light (and about twice the cost of a normal one). I like the 10-22 but if the kids are very young a semi auto may not be a good choice for learning (too much ratatat and not enough focus). It is also not really centerfire practice, unless you are talking an AR centerfire. If your want to practice for a bolt gun, buy a bolt 22. Also do not neglect a good used rifle or consider other styles --- there are a number of good tube fed autos, lever guns, single shots, and more. Most can be found used at a decent price, not sure what is still in production.

I clean the 10-22 nearly every go, but it soaks a good 200 rounds on a good day and .22 is nasty ammo generally. my ar is cleaned rarely, about every 500 rounds. Other rifles, which tend to see 10's of rounds in a session, 50 tops but usually 20 or less ... get cleaned rarely --- like once a year.

All I did to mine was... 1) replace the feed ramp with the easy load one (inexpensive but difficult to install, I let a smith do it) 2) better recoil pad 3) extended tube (mines holds 10+1 of short 12 ga or 9+1 magnum) 4) while smith had it for #1, enlarged the barrel gas ports so it would cycle low recoil ammo. I have a second barrel if I want to shoot a lot of stout stuff. you can do a lot more, but that is all I did to mine. As it was a used gun, I still have only like $400 in it tops.

good! I just now found the thread and was going to say that shooting heavy trigger guns leads to pulling the trigger so hard and using so much hand muscle that you cannot keep the gun on target. If your hands and wrists are strong you can train out of it, but the issue is: if you ever change guns, you have to retrain all over again. I have very similar problems with my nano, which has a terribly harsh trigger in a small frame, with similar results. I could probably train to overcome it, but, then I would miss with all my other, and superior, pistols.... so I just chunked it in a strategic location in the house for emergency use only.

Yea, this.

Eh link the second pic? I tried to get at it but it was too much trouble.

Anything could be in that bill. No one has read it. I doubt the SCOTUS judges read the whole thing. I know obama did not. Most of the congresspersons asked did not. NO ONE HAS READ IT. That said, this sounds like paranoid talk to me, not that government would not or could not try such a thing but that it is too blatent and too much too soon. Government tends to add small, hidden increases then grow those, like planting a seed. Its about time for them to try to increase the tax on ammo, for example: its in place, and probably not high enough to pay for obamacare without an increase....

agreed, from the looks. The triangular thing on the stock is not part of it, I think it was added by the GI or bubba who owned it. It also looks like the safety or something has had a bolt knob welded onto it. Both of those things seem off to me, but i am no expert. The rest of it looks right.

if chattanooga is not too far for you we have the 2 box stores (sportsman's with reloading supplies & academy with some guns) as well as a good dozen smaller shops and even more if you count the pawn shops. Might be worth a day trip.

Not sure if it was the HCP or not. I do prefer to be aware of my surroundings and in contol of myself, so drinking lost its appeal not long after it became legal for me I do wonder if that same mentality is part of it for others (?). I like the taste of wine and get into that now and then, but actually having enough to have any effect at all, its been years --- if what my wife gets is "one glass" or "one drink", then I get 1/3 a glass once in a while tops.

If you are worried about velocity, why are you shooting low velocity ammo ???

Most decent handguns (of any caliber or make, really) can hit a soda can at 50 yards out of the box with decent ammo. 100 is tricky, and very hard for the .45, as it has terrible drop off at that range and the shooter must compensate for that or use special ammo (a super light bullet at higher speed for example, or rather hot ammo). I would say you have a very good shooter, a custom gun, and possibly hand loaded ammo combined here. Even if the gun could do it out of the box, it would still take high quality ammo and an excellent shooter to do it. I suspect he has had accuracy work done, but its possible he did not, but it has to be handloaded or high quality ammo either way.

I am satisfied. I could become one of "those" with a cell phone glued to my head, never out of touch with work, and spend an unholy amount of time and energy trying to keep up with an ever changing and already huge field, move to some ghetto like atlanta or even worse, california, and make more money. But that is where being satisfied comes in. With no kids, my middle class income is sufficient to not only live, but to live well --- its designed for a family of 4-5 and the wife and I are simple folks, so it goes a long, long way. Long enough that she does not have to work (she does, but we could manage without it). Letting my whole life be ruled by work and spending 15 hours a day trying to do more and more and more isnt for me. I like being able to shoot a couple of times a week, to waste half a day (like today!) on computer games, to have a fairly low stress job (which I also enjoy to boot). When is enough enough? When you do not have to worry about money and can afford to have reasonable amounts of fun (a dinner out isnt a concern as to whether you can pay your electric bill if you decide to eat a steak for example). When you can not only afford the things you need and want (again, keeping the wants within reason) but on top of that, have the time to enjoy those things. It is wise to consider what you can do with your degree when you graduate. Look at where you might work and how much you might earn. Look at how much that is in real terms (what kind of house, car, kids, guns, fun, etc can you afford) and think on how such a life might be. If you think you need more money, change degrees or plan for a masters or advanced degree. What I am saying is that even if you love history (for example) the odds of scoring a good paying job off a history degree specialized in the doings of ancient natives from cambodia or something is low. While you may be half decent at math (but not love it), and find that a career as an actuary is well paying, if dull. ..... Spend a lot of time on it if you need to. Its the rest of your life, unless you spend even more years getting another degree to do-over.

Not sure about TN, but there are people who have gotten on the SO list for public nudity & similar misconduct. There have been a number of extreme examples where people were put on the list for very minor things; one was for a guy who was nekkid in his own home but some kids saw him through a window, that was a big case a year or 2 back (not sure how it turned out).

You have the ability to make small amounts of a number of drugs both legal and illegal in any home, period. One ingredient for meth, IIRC, is just strike anywhere matches. Will you get arrested for buying a bulk pack of these? No. WIll you get arrested for buying a pallet of them? Maybe. Same for the other stuff in there, whatever all it is .... drain cleaner, allergy meds, whatever else. If you buy a carfull of the stuff every other week, you will get busted for it. If you buy a little of it, I doubt charges would stick. Another thing about these drugs: most of them are MESSY. A meth lab has so much residue that it takes professionals to clean one up to the point that it is safe for a normal human to even be in the area that was used without becoming explosed to the drug. THe labs are a mismatched set of crap slapped together in some room somewhere and leaks and evaporation and dust etc happen. If all the places you frequent are clean, but you have a bajillion matches and allergy pills, you are still reasonalby safe. If you have meth residue in your home, not so safe. Point is: a few people may be arrested by mistake for having too much of something, but if they are legit, I doubt the charges can stick. However, it is in your best interest to NOT buy the most common ingredients in bulk on a regular basis without a darn good reason (such as, you give away matches as an advertisement for your fireworks business).

I do not think you can compare a telescope and a rifle scope. The telescope is mounted to allow at least 2 degrees of freedom (left and right rotation and up/down rotation) while the rifle scope is mounted to have NONE (the gun moves, not the scope on its mounts). That is why it takes a LOT of stuff to hold the telescope in place: the tele is mounted at a single pont on a moving body that must be locked down, and that single point has a lot of the weight of the tele far from it (the front lense is a lot of the weight in many models) so you have a tube that is front heavy mounted by a single point on a device that is designed to be moved but also be locked in place.... compared to an immovable object (rifle mounts!). the issue with rifle mounts, rails and so on is really just recoil. Recoil will slowly loosen stuff up, even with lock tite a lot of use will eventually batter something loose, its the nature of the vibration. I check all the screws (not just scope mounts) when I clean a gun to keep that under control. I think you can have it equally well mounted off the side, so long as your mountings, rails etc are quality (do not bend or anything over time) and you keep the screws tight... the offset moment of inertia is not helping but I think it can be overcome and would be a non issue. Again, I have to point at the offset mounts for putting a second optic on an AR. That seemes to me to just about do what you are asking, or at least serve as a starting point (?).

hah, reminds me of rush hour... Captain Diel: Two officers were shot, one man lost a pinkie. Carter: But didn't nobody die! Captain Diel: You destroyed half a city block! Carter: That block was already messed up. Captain Diel: And you lost a lot of evidence! Carter: We still got a little bit left. ... Every now and then we have to let the general public know that we can still blow stuff up! Unfortunately, it don't work so well in real life. Sometimes the bad guys need a beating to be subdued, but that should not be the normal approach to situations. It is unclear here why force was used, and if they cannot justfify it, there will be another ex LEO (just not by choice).

No measuring device is 100% accurate for anything. A powder scale is not accurate to 1/1000 of a grain, so why would we need that? Well, any measuring device that is "good enough" for the job is just that, good enough, and if you need the data, you buy the device. You measure velocity because you want to know velocity. That is the only reason to buy a tool that measures velocity. It can be used in many ways from checking your consistency (they all give the same value +- 1% device error or whatever) to calculating ballistics (if you care) and more. If you have to ask why you need it, you probably do not need it! I do not have one, and while curiosity keeps making me want one, I have no need for it. And finally, the "tool" question. When buying a tool (gadget, whatever) you ask yourself 2 questions: 1) do I need this (if yes, name the specific project it will be used for and why nothing else will do the job) 2) Do I want this (if yes, that is sufficient, but answering "what for" can help you decide). Mentally doing that prevents buying things you do not need or want, or it does for me.

Not sure about the law, but the dealers will do strange things sometimes. I once bought a gun in GA at a show by having the GA dealer "transfer" it to the next booth (tn dealer). I have no idea if this was legal, they both said it was, but they wanted money and I wanted the gun....

The point was that AR scopes seem to have more adjustment in them than "regular" (or possibly, "antique") scopes (???). I could be wrong about that, but it seems like my 2 AR scopes can adjust almost twice as many degrees as the "standard" ones, and I just guessed that it was to help counter the extra high mounts? Or maybe I just have too many 30+ year old scopes (most of mine).... You are correct: if the scope is level zero process is the same, it would take rotating the scope to make the zero go weird, did not visualize that correctly when I said it.... important point there!