Jonnin

star line brass still has it I think. You can also buy S&B ammo to get cases. There are probably other sources. There are many thousands of maks in the country, you would think somone would step up and make decent ammo at a decent price.

Finally, a glock that I would buy.

Sorry, I misread it and thought you were looking for ideas. When I wrote that the picture of it in use was not showing up, just a link to it, and it really sounded like you were looking for something along those lines, not that you had bought one.

You can make a fine pistol rack for a few $$. Take 2 boards and glue or screw or whatever them into an L shape. For each gun to be stored, stick a writing implement that will not damage it (a wooden pencil with no metal eraser stuff, for example) in the barrel and mark where the barrel lies on the tall part of the L when the grip is touching the table or whatever behind the short part of the L. Drill a hole there and glue in an appropriate caliber dowel rod, about 1-2 inches long. repeat for all the guns to be stored, and remember to give enough width between pistols! You can go 2 deep or make 2 and put them 90 degrees to each other to really cram them onto a shelf, however I just made one and put it on the back wall of one shelf, it holds most of my handguns on one shelf this way. Its a lot like what you bought, but I doubt I put $5 in materials into it, and about an hour of work. And with the custom height of the dowls, it fits every pistol I have from my desert eagle to my sig p238. For magazines, I found this wonderful invention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_box

That is really nicely done. Most reworked mosins look like rejects for a pimp my mosin tv show, this one is just clean and simple. One of the best I have seen lately.

hooray!

welcome! I am also not a glock fan, like yourself our first autos were glocks, because when you do not know what you want, almost all gun salesmen will direct the buyer to the glock. They do this because glocks are popular, which is because new shooters all get told to buy one, which makes them sell, .... its a never ending circle Time to try out as many guns as you can, and keep notes on the brand & models that you like and dislike. This should be a fun process, meeting folks in your area and playing with lots of different guns while saving up to buy one when you figure out what you want. If you happen to be near chattanooga, you can try some of mine.

None, just saying anyone can make a process look good on video. And they are helpful, so it is great that they make the vids. But if there were a 100% working trick to get that idiotic hammer spring dangle to land in the spring cup while having the "holds the whole gun together" rod slip neatly into place, someone would have mentioned it already. There is not, it takes a few tries. The videos do not reflect the multiple attempts required to get that stuff to align, but they do an excellent job of illustrating how easy it is on the attempt that actually works, when everything finally just plops into place without a fuss. By the way, is the gun in question assembled yet?

clarify what you need and why?

doh I have the front sight from mine, it fell off and I never put it back on (I use a red dot on it).

if at all possible I will have the first one of these to hit chattanooga At which time anyone who wants to shoot it is welcome to help break it in. Unrelated but S&W did an amazing thing this month. First shields to hit the street were found all over, in small shops and large, very fairly distributed. I hope sig can do that as well.

Of course it looked easy. I can do that too. "OK, ruger assembly, take 47, in 3, 2, 1, action!" 1911 is worse for me. Curse whoever said a tight bushing was better.

You will be waiting a while. As much as I shoot mine, it has never yet "failed" to actually operate. The only failures I have had have been sticky chamber fail to extract issues, where the case pulls out of the extractor claw because it stuck to the chamber wall. That you can clean without disassembly. The next place it will fail is going to be a stuck firing pin, which I would bet takes 5 to 10k rounds to get that much crud. After about 1000, it begins to deposit little soot balls onto the shooter which smear and make a horrible mess on clothing and skin. They come out the chamber, the bolt becomes so dirty it gets on you when you rack the gun, and eventually they begin to fall out of the grip when you swap mags. It can fling them when you shoot if it gets bad enough. If you keep the chamber clean, you will be waiting a long, long time for anything serious. I second the rem oil. It is the worst lubricant of all time, but it is an excellent cleaner/solvent and also great to spray and wipe for guns that can rust.

welcome! That is quite a well rounded collection, lots of choices for a day at the range.

Yes. Mine is a mark II actually.

eventually, the stuff you cannot reach gets soot buildup. It takes a while, but it gets up in the firing pin / recoil spring / unreachable area of the bolt / and other places. It also, eventually, gets down in the trigger group and gunks up the feel of the trigger. Shooting mine an average of 100 rounds a week, I find I need to deep clean it at least twice a year. I usually do it about 4 times a year though, I prefer not to wait until it actually begins to actually need it. I waited until it needed it once and it was an unholy mess in there, better to not let it get quite that bad.

Trimming the brass gets old, so be sure to recover any you made. The only other nearly .365 that I am aware of is 38 S&W which I have tried but they are in general just too large for the makarov. Its probably possible to use them, but I have not managed to make a decent load with it. It felt dangerous to shove the slug in so deep. I like these http://www.missourib...=5&secondary=28, sitting on 5 grains of accurate #5. Top end loads for mak with typical 90ish grain bullets should not exceed 1200 fps by too much, 1100-1200 range for defense or stout loads and get a better recoil spring if you want a lot of that. Paper punching, 750-1000 fps is plenty and a lighter spring on a light load really tames it, makes it a 380 for all intents and purposes.

Guess instead of a tiger, he got some bushmeat! He can blame it all on his diet that way!

I totally agree with this. I cannot imagine giving the combo to my safe to a "girlfriend". I think I would hesitate even with a new wife, given the divorce rates in this country. After 5 years, maybe. I am on year 12 this month but unmarried with her thru college, its really year 17 or so .... she learned the combo 2 years back, but I would have taught her by the time we were married given our long dating history.

also a "normal" bad reassembly. I would say that I get mine to go into this state about 5 times on the average before it goes together correctly. I can almost always reach THIS state (assembled but busted). Thankfully, you do not have to totally remove the mainspring thingy anymore. Now you can just slip it down a bit, turn the gun over, pull the trigger, push the spring thing back in, see if it works, repeat.... By the way, let me preach a bit on the virtues of cleaning this gun with a q-tip between big cleanings. You still have to do a deep clean and disassembly now and then, but you can clean the barrel and chamber and extractor and such without taking it down, which will keep it going for a long time. Most of the crud in this gun stays in the chamber.

I have spent anywhere from 5 to 45 min putting mine back together. Tilt, pull the trigger, give it a try, repeat, repeat, .... eventually whatever it is aligns and it works. It could just be one of those fail to align issues. It could be the result of your mod but I do not see that. It just sounds like the typical ruger frustrations.

You have to compromise. They probably sell brass cased ammo. Offer to leave the brass on the floor if you can have the ammo for $7 a box.

those handles are hot!

pressure is not OAL. Pressure is where the butt of the slug sits relative to the case depth (the internal depth, not external). If you seated a 380 deep enough to be a problem in a 9mm, it would look like a wadcutter round for a revolver. You actually need to seat them moderately shallow to get them to feed and behave well.

Heh, I remember a guy telling my grandpa that the more of something he bought, the less he had to pay. He told the fellow to pile them up until they were free.