Jonnin

I use the unique case lube. For 223, I lube about every 5th case, a little heavy, and the lube stays in the die to make the next few cases go in smooth. When the force to size increases, lube again. Its pretty quick this way. Time I have run the cases thru all the stages, no real lube remains on them to need removal. After loading 2 30 round mags, I might notice the faintest of films on my fingers, but its just too little to be of any consequence and odds are it is more helpful than not (easier to chamber?). If it contributes to gunk in the gun, I have not really noticed. One of the first things I did was get a case stuck. Do not do that. I ended up buying another sizer die, after fighting with it for 2-3 days and giving up. A tube cutter helps if you get one stuck and get desperate --- so you can get the decapper out before beating on it.

they should be old enough to try a target pistol then. I recommend that, as they can refine their marksmanship with such a gun and get much more out of it than just a trainer for using a 9mm at 5 feet. A mark III, buckmark, or s&w 22a would last them for decades and if they outgrow such a gun, it will be because they have become very excellent marksmen and worthy of a big money target gun (and hopefully old enough to buy it themselves!). The SR 22 will be forgotten by the time they are 20. A mark III may well still be a favorite when they retire!

the SR 22 is probably perfect for a kid. The trigger to grip distance is very short for small hands. They seem to be of great quality. Not a fan of the sig, they are picky and quirky. The mark is a better target pistol but may not fit small hands well, and may be a little heavy for them as well.

I have an old S&W but its a 1911 frame, DA trigger is the only difference.

a 9mm downloaded is a 380. Take it farther down than that, and the bullet weight and diameter (even a 90 grain) will not penetrate well. But you can certainly cook up working, potent, and light loads for most calibers if you can find light springs and if you are willing to handload. Revolvers are even better --- no action to cycle, you can load a 357 from a 380 all the way to a +P 357 and it will do pretty well at all those ranges. You can even use 380 bullets in it. So yes, home cooked opens many, many doors.

That is really good news, way to carry the torch!

Same physical gun, no. Same model gun, yes. He was close.... but oh so wrong.

all I know about it is my dad's muzzle loader used paper patched perfect sphere slugs. Had a place in the stock to store the patches. I think he got away from that and used a rifled sabot (?) after the coolness of playing at davy crockett wore off. I do not remember much of that, he did not shoot the ML too often, but it stuck with me that part of the loading process was that patch.

Vipre was just being stupid it looks like. The "off duty" is listed at 7 inchs long. Clearly we have different ideas on what is small

I don't think barry will get a chance to play with this at verdict time. I fully expect a verdict by 2020, but by november? Seems unlikely they will even have a jury by then.

Hmm. http://www.stiguns.com/products/guns/ results in VIPRE has determined that the site you are trying to visit contains potentially harmful or objectionable content. To proceed to this site: In VIPRE, open "File/Settings/Firewall" and add the URL to "Bad Web Site Exceptions..." I will try them again later. Last time I ignored vipre, I discovered that kel tec's web site was indeed infested, and it took me 2 hours to get the offending cooties off the machine.

Hooray! Thanks for the update, always good to see a problem resolved.

This happens all the time. Anyone else unable to buy one on black friday last year or the year before? And a couple of other times as well the system has crashed, either overloaded or just glitches. Yes, in an ideal world where people hired competent businesses to do jobs (rather than low bid or cronyism or whatever) the system gurus would have kept the old servers running and live patched in the new ones seamlessly, and no one would ever have known it happened from the user's side. But turning them all off, tearing it down and putting it back together works too. Its crude, but in a day or 2 it should all be up and running again if the people doing it are even half competent. It could take a week or more if they are incompetent or discover a massive problem (but if that happens, and they had any sense, the old ones would be brought back online!). I suppose it could be used as a form of stopping gun sales. For a day or 2. I think after a week or so there would begin to be some "unexplained inventory loss" at many places, though the price may go up.

I also like the blued one better. I had a long barreled stainless one, but sold most of my collectables and the python went with them.

Time I found STI, they had stopped makeing the rogue, which is the model I wanted. Now all they make are gigantic models that are just another big 1911 to me, and I have one of those already.

There are mounts for putting 2 optics onto an AR, which put the second set at 45 degrees or so offside the normal barrel axis. Perhaps a set of those? There are also mounts that let you look thru them to see the sights but on an AR the optic is already too high off the barrel, and this adds another inch or more....

Of course race matters, though. Like the lady said, its the elephant in the room. If the neighborhood is constantly being victimized by young black men ..... it is not profiling anymore, its ID (mistaken or not) of the individuals who are still at large. Profiling is when the police or whoever target a race/whatever when there are no crimes (and no suspects at large).

better than average journalism. On the light and flippant side, but a church undergoing a lot of, um, bad publicity of late might want to not call part of its church where young boys work a "rectory".

There are more variables than that (not that you are wrong). Size, weight, recoil, energy/momentum, inertia, its all just physics. There are 9mms that jump around in my hands like trying to wrestle an aligator. Other 9mms just barely have noticable recoil -- because the frame weighs 3-4 times more, it tames the recoil. I would rather shoot my ruger p89 than my friends pocket .25, the 25 hurts my hands and jerks me off target more! You can get momentum (stopping power??) without a huge recoil, but it costs weight and size. Does it have to be a mousegun in size? The options really open up if she can tolerate a subcompact size frame, rather than just the tiny stuff. If she can handle a bit of weight, it gets even better. A makarov in 380 is TAME, very compact (though not quite mousegun sized) but excessively heavy for its size. There are a number of older, all steel 380s in this size and weight category that are excellent pieces --- bersas are in this neighborhood as well.

the place I buy from ships using the flat rate boxes, so if you have them fill a box, the shipping is pretty low for the quantity --- 15 for 6 boxes as you said, which is pretty reasonable per bullet. I do not have the time to cast right now. I need to get the equipment and learn the process, even if I still buy bullets --- its a long term goal. One thing at a time, reloading was a big step all by itself.

I have to think that this same guy is pested by dogs regularly. Its one of those things that delivery people, cops, salesmen, and so on just get used to. I have to think that he does not shoot the vast majority of them as he does his job. So I have to wonder if there was more to the story, if the dog did or seemed to be worse than usual, or if the guy just had a bad day or made a bad decision. /shrug not really defending the guy, but something is not quite right the way this story was told.

I prefer lead as well. And I buy cast bullets. But not at a very high price, that is a big part of the attraction. What I meant was, I do not see how a backyard caster can make much off it. I think I pay $30 for 500. From what I have seen, 500 bullets would be on the high side for 1 day's work (???) for a backyard caster.

congrats on the new piece! It could be worse than NC, much worse, but that sounds annoying. Suddenly $10 bucks to get done with it instantly sounds pretty good.

I do not think I have ever had the guy selling me a gun tell me it was overpriced! Being somewhat verbally obnoxious, I am sure I could trick such a guy into admitting they were ALL overpriced by 25% or so with a few well timed observations.

I would not even provide disaster relief. Its not that I am terribly cruel, but I did not see any countries rushing to donate to katrina.