Jonnin

there is a rumor of the kel tec plr 16 in 300 eventually. As their shotgun is still hard to find and the 22 mag is still troublesome to find, that means if they released it today it would be at least a year from now before you could find one.... but someday, maybe.... I would get one if they do, I like my 223 but I feel 300 is a better pistol.

It took me a while to get her there, but my wife can open it without any effort now. She feels a lot better about it; she now stores her best jewels in there when not in use, and can open it to get her own guns out if she wants. It was just really intimidating to her, and I do not understand why. It was not the guns, she has been an avid shooter for ages. It was just something about the way the dial worked and the difficult to operate, heavy door. That and the funny partial turns to the combo are confusing.... its something like turn it 5 times past 1000, then 4 times past 500 the other way, then 3 times past 750 --- that would blow her mind because the first hit on 750 is not a full circle, you were already at 500, and it just did not compute for an eternity. I think that still bothers her but she memorized past it at last.

Lets say you did go into a posted place with a gun, by mistake. What on earth would you have to do to even draw attention to this fact? Assuming it is concealed properly, no one will ever know but you. If the gun is noticed, what then? If you do not touch it or do anything odd, and someone calls the cops, I would think that full cooperation would get you escorted outside, told to pay better attention to the signs, and released with a stern glare. Realistically, what business owner would press charges, spending time and money, to harass someone who can claim that the sign was not in a good location (and part of the requirements of posting the sign include using a specific version(s) of the sign and posting them clearly). Have there been any cases in TN where a person was caught and got into serious trouble, tried to claim that the sign was not noticed, and lost??

I am no good at this legal stuff. If the property rights thing is a valid argument, then, what other parts of the state and federal constitutions can property owners ignore upon demand? Can the property owner DO a search and seizure of the offending guns, because their property rights trump the second ammendment, so they also trump the fourth? Can they detain an individual without trial because the person said something the owner did not care for?? (first and seventh). ????? I cannot make a leap that magically allows the suspension of the second without suspension of the others. But then again, I totally believe that it would be OK to make all liberals pay $500 to get a liscense to exercise free speech --- clearly that is also acceptable under our current legal system.

Awesome! I have long tried to explain that to parents, most of whom are too afraid for their little darlin' to listen. Teach them young, test them, and let them shoot it under supervision, it works. The worst thing a parent can do is panic or freak out, which creates a burning curiosity inside the child, who will then wait for an opportunity to investigate...

Dig deeper. In 1994 he backed two gun-control measures: the Brady Law, which imposed a five-day waiting period on gun sales, and a ban on certain assault weapons, saying, "I think they will help." He signed the nation's first ban on assault weapons in Massachusetts and steeply increased fees on gun owners. His claim was this was to get the pro and anti gunners to work together, the pro gunner got.... the right to cross a road when hunting. A nice quote from him: "We also should keep weapons of unusual lethality from being on the street" and "And if there is determined to be, from time to time, a weapon of such lethality that it poses a grave risk to our law enforcement personnel, that’s something I would consider signing" -- apparently this means semi-automatics holding more than 10 rounds. ---- It is pretty clear that if he were handed a fresh copy of the brady bill, he would sign it in a heartbeat. He also lied about being a lifelong hunter --- evidence suggests that he hunted twice in his life, one for a campaign dove hunt, and once when he was a teenager.

The preciseness of the load is largely the powder device that I use. The seat depth and crimp and all are as good as the single stage, but that auto powder device is a bit sloppy, and if you want match ammo, you should powder it off the press and on a scale. Of course progressive is better. It costs more though, and is more complicated. turret is the middle of the road choice and IMHO easier for beginners.

I estimate that for say 9mm or 45, a turret is twice as fast as a single stage, roughly. A progressive might be 4x faster than a single stage. For rifle, I would say the turret is less than twice as fast, but still faster. A little of that is my slow die setups .... I do not have quick change devices because its a turret press, so if using it single stage, I just deal with the slowness. Most of the time, however, is handling the brass all those extra times, moving it to and from storage just adds up.

I have not used an O press, and am unsure if they even come in turret or progressive designs? If they are just single stage presses, I would go for the turret, just be sure to get an all steel press if you get a turret press and do rifle loads. My turret press, the lee classic, is strong enough. I cut the end off 30-06 rounds and forced them (easily pushing 50 pounds of force onto the press handle) into a die to make them into another caliber by sheer brute power. I made a number of them and while my first reloading table broke under the strain, the press is just fine. New table has held up to this task quite well. I do not see the need for the additional leg of an O press from a stability standpoint. If I ever manage to bend it, I will let you know.

Turret is essentially single stage press except the dies rotate, so you can have all your dies set up at once and do every stage of reloading back to back on the same round. The dies rotate, the brass is down below and pushed up into the dies. One of the many advantages of this type is that you can remove the turret, and put in another one --- keeping your dies ready to go for each caliber, saving a lot of setup time as you swap from one thing to another.

It should be easy, but it is not really. The USA has been doing this stuff for a long, long time, and we still blow up the occasional airplane, space shuttle, or rocket. We have failed hundreds of rockets in our time, maybe thousands. NK will figure it out eventually. And, as nutty as they are, I doubt they attack the south or anyone else. Bluster and boast, parade and flaunt, but actually attack? They know better.

we work with boats, and about all I know is you have this thingy called a wiring harness that connects all the engine stuff to the all the user stuff, including ignition and gauges and such. It could be loose, it could be fried, it could be chewed, but you may need a new one. It could be something else, but it sounds like that. This is a time to call the experts. Go to a boat place and they will hook it up to a computer, just like your car, and tell you what you need to have done. If you need a new harness, they can help you figure out which one and install it (you may can do it, but they are complicated). It could be ground. Boats are grounded with a hunk of metal under the water, and over time, it is dissolved by electrical annode/cathode magic. (I really never did understand this stuff). If that hunk of metal is too small or gone, all sorts of stuff goes wrong.

There are really 3 main types. Single stage, you do 1 thing to a piece of brass, repeat for all your brass, then do the next thing to each piece, across 4 or 5 steps assembly line fashion. Requires a place to store brass full of powder but no bullet yet and is the slowest. Turrets do one bullet from start to finish. Progressive do one stage to several pieces, so it works in parallel and is the fastest. Progressives tend to have automatic wigits, so you do not have to powder this case, bullet that case, prime another case each time. Turret, you still tend to hand-seat the bullets and possibly hand powder the cases (many users just funnel it in, I use the device, its a choice). I strongly recommend a turret. You can turn a turret press into a single stage if you want, or use its design to go faster if you prefer that. You can never make a single stage any faster, though.

I picked the lee classic turret press as well. It is great for pistols, and slightly better than a single stage for rifles. The trouble with rifles and necked cartridges is you have to trim them after sizing, so the brass cannot really stay on the press from start to finish. With straight wall pistol, the brass is on the press from start until ready to shoot, without any external steps. If you want to make LOTS of ammo FAST, get the lee disk powder measure. It is a little sloppy if your goal is to make every round the same for accuracy purposes, but for bulk shooting, it is extremely useful. It works best with small particle ball powders, which give the least variation in "air space" between grains of powder.

the good news is that you cannot have a squib that cycles the action. If your handloads fail to cycle, check the barrel, and your score be darned. If you are worried about the score, cut a dowel rod to the appropriate length for a very quick check.

there isnt a nice way to say it, but kids that young should always be supervised by an adult. Which makes their ability to get at a gun that is way up high impossible to do. You cannot secure everything that can cause serious harm to a child -- car keys, chemistry, electrical outlets, matches, guns, ..... I can list stuff all night ..... the solution is constant supervision and constant awareness of where the children are and what they are doing.

I am going to second that. A squib is usually a primer and no powder, just enough juice to get stuck. Even 1 grain of most powders will put it on out the barrel with a few tens of FPS, when talking pistols. I had 2 early on and since then I have looked into the case on every freaking load. Every one. Its a little tedious, but its the only safe way. If I can see powder in the case, I know it will at least pop out the barrel. Thankfully, on most pistols, I can see into the case without taking it off the press, just need good lighting in the work area.

they still make 303 slugs, very popular and used in multiple guns.

wonder if they changed something? They fed fine in my mark 2 from the mag, and in an antique tube fed rifle, from the tube.

there are 2 things about the ammo, the price and the ability to reload it. Some of the calibers are hard to find dies and brass for. Some are hard to find ammo for. Last ammo I saw for my 7.65 mauser at a gun show was $40 for 20, though there is some online its still a good $1 a shot and more. I have never seen a reloadable piece of brass for a mosin nor anyone having a fire sale on dies for the caliber. I dunno how hard that may be to get but I think most shooters are still on the cheap surplus ammo --- which is not being made any more. Research the ammo issue for sure. Many, many old guns have been butchered to use modern calibers, like 30-06 and 308. If ammo is a problem and you do not reload, look for a hack job.

I prefer mauer to mosin. For 300 you can get a heck of a mixmaster shooter (basically mismatched good quality parts rather than all matched and beat up (or all matched and worth a ton of money)) or a garage gunsmith model (hacked up, polished, and ruined but still a heck of a shooter). You can get, for example, a used mitchels mauser for around that once the owner realises its not collectable -- these look nice, if you are into that.

I have shot the regular out of a rifle with no problems. It loses energy in a rifle, too much barrel time / friction for the energy. I could see it even sticking in some guns, but it seems ok in MINE. Its really best in a revolver or a BA rifle; autos are just annoying as it wont cycle anyway. We were shooting at an empty plastic detergent bottle. It bounced off of that. I shot it at a 2x4 from my pistol, and it bounced off that too, but it at least made a bullet deep dent in it. It punched thru a soda can in both pistol and rifle. Its just not much, might cap a bird or a rat tops, and its a fine plinker.

I have already touched one at a local gun store. It seems to be more of the same, big for a single stack pocket gun, small and undercap for a subcompact. Nothing stood out about it as good or bad. It seemed high considering its so similar to things like the taurus 709 or beretta nano, which were both about 1 C note less.

I use my 380 bullets in 9 and 357 and 380 all. I have not gone the other way; a 9mm bullet in a 380 is certainly possible but its going to be moving pretty slow and seated a little deep. Due to seating it deep, start with a very weak powder charge and work up, as that increases the pressure pretty fast. It really depends on which 9mm too. A 380 is 90-100 grains, a 9mm at 115 is only a little more and only a little bigger (but possibly elongated a bit). If you used a known recipe and it seems to be working, try a few. I do not think you did anything wrong here, but be careful if you try to make your own, always err on the side of wimpy and work up.

Could be, but, ICBM tech is difficult. Only the most advanced countries really understand the engineering behind it and have what it takes to pull it off. The ability to launch and hit anywhere in the world is.... not simple. So, on one hand its hard, and on the other hand you have a country like the USA that messed up those centrifuges in iraq with computer trickery.... could be either one.