Jonnin

dunno if an AR upper in 22 would be easier to do or not. Probably easier and cost about the same if you do the AR thing. I could recommend 4 or 5 antique semis that are really good .... mostly old brownings with a tube fed system. I do not even know if anyone makes stuff like that anymore.

44 is a nice flat shooting, long range pistol and reasonable to control in a long barrel revolver. Its capable of taking most game in our area if you hunt. Ammo is fairly common and comes in a variety of loads suitable for many purposes. Its big and loud and fun at the range. It is fine for self defense --- pretty much the same round as a 45 acp but with twice the velocity. Basically just one of the most useful and flexible cartridges for a variety of shooting needs. And you can poke it into a number of rifles, including but not limited to lever actions, which gets it pretty close to a 30-30 in performance for a lighter, rifle type payload.

store the offending mag loaded to the max for a couple of days. Use it -1 round for a box of crap ammo when you try out the gun. It may break in, mags do sometimes. If it does not in a reasonable time, replace the mag. Its not an old style messed up mag, they didnt have a 7 rounder at that time (you could use a 7 rounder from a colt or something, but sig didnt make it at that time).

the sportsmans warehouse here in chattanooga carries a tactical solutions built 10-22 for about $600. It is ultra lightweight, mostly aluminum and plastic except where it matters, and we have been extremely pleased with the accuracy and quality. You can buy the parts to build this online but I have not seen the built and fitted ones anywhere else. The problem with this gun is it is a lot more ammo picky than most; its built tight and it shows. Once you find ammo it likes for both function and accuracy, its a winner, and it saves the trouble of fitting it yourself.

evaporate and condense?

they get a large amount of money by digging it up and selling it!! Otherwise, I think the property has to be inspected so that the lead is not going over any open water or entering any drinking water sources? indoor range I go to sold about a year and a half's worth and it was a significant amount of money. Lot of copper in the scrap too.

You really need to re-think your policy. Not about drinking (I also do not drink, hardly at all, its related to my 24-7 carry policy) but strong booze like rum or whiskey is a medicine in a world where there is little else. It can be used to clean wounds, cures a variety of sore throat type ills, and can be used as a painkiller, just to name a few uses. Thankfully, its not too hard to make so you do not need a huge supply, just a couple of bottles.

I agree that most people never see a concealed weapon unless its just huge and printing (like spandex over a gun blatent printing). People carry a lot of crap around, phones, tools, gadgets. A lump in a pocket is just another lump. A blob on your clothes could be a phone, glasses case, or a dozen odd working man's tools, and more. I also look to spot concealed weapons and even looking for them, I rarely see them. So far, I have seen less than 2 a year in general, not counting gun stores or shows. I have never, ever caught a woman, but its always fun to look.

A useless comment, but mine feeds the critical defense ammo 100% so far. I shot 1/2 the box out, and 0 issues. The rubber plug should NOT hit the feed ramp. If it does, that sure could create problems, but not on 1/7 shells. It would do it every time. Instead, I again point to the magazine. Perhaps HCD ammo is a nanometer fatter, and pushing that 7th round in the mag overcompresses the spring or something. I dunno. But if it were the plug hitting the feed ramp, it would do it EVERY time or at least consistently, not on JUST the full magazine. Mix up your ammo, try it again. Mix up the ammo, try it again. Is one round messed up? Or always the 7th shot? Could have 1 round of it with a problem!

Agreed 100%. I can answer your question about the fear of a basement builder. How many ARs have you made? (typical answer: more than 10). What happened to the first one (or couple)? (typical answer: sold off or torn apart for parts). Not heard: "this is my first one, its perfect, flawless, so I never built another one!".

sounds like a bad magazine. If the magazine is new, using it to break it in may help, or it may never work right. You can also try cleaning the mag: take it apart, get all the grease and crap out of it, relube it and all that jazz. When a semi auto works with one mag and not the other, its the mag, not the gun.

Yes, I kept the comment brief and am not going to debate it, justify it, recommend it for others, or anything else. Just an honest response to the question.

well yea, it would be a hoot to watch. It would also have been fun to watch some of the darwin awards....

regardless, do you want some PETA tard filming your boy chasing a turkey with a machete and posting it online with a caption "hunters enjoying their *sport*" or the like? It would go viral in a bad way. And that is if it is legal (its not clear since neither the prohibited stuff nor the legal list provide insight).

yea if you bought all 5 at once, you might get a deal. Or if you got your own FFL. I suspect the above S&W is probably $450 for the dealer to buy. It should be possible under some circumstances to pull it off for your price, if you worked hard to find a deal for a bulk purchase, moreso if you bought all of your guns at the one shop. Yes, the ar15 has had years of service. The mauser was used from the 1890's to the 1970s across the entire world but I don't want one of those when society collapses as my go-to gun. The musket was proven for 200 years or so as well. I do not want a musket. Years of service isnt the point, in other words. If I had to grab one rifle and book it on foot, I would grab my consumer grade AR, hands down. But my gun has not been "proven" in battle. The design, yes. The actual gun by this manufacturer? It has not. Most likely it will last my lifetime without major failure of any parts, but, I cannot be quite as sure as I could be if I somehow got an AR from a military supply depot. That was really my only point -- I consider the commercial variety AR to be no better than a mini 14 in terms of shots fire before breakage, in other words.

There is also the hunter education class. If you have taken it, remember the discussion about ethics and appearances? The last thing the hunting community needs is for hunters to be running around in the woods hacking animals to death with a bloody sword. If you want to get the anti-hunters going, this seems like a perfect way to do it. Let me say it again: its not a good idea.

You can get a youth or novice or something liscense, which is cheap, but he would have to be with a liscensed adult. While knives, swords, battle axes, slingshots, broom handles, nunchucks, and other stuff are not specifically itemized on the "prohibited weapony" page of the hunting regulations, I am going to go out on a limb here and say that it is not a good idea. You will note that the legal hunting equipment list is pretty small: LEGAL HUNTING EQUI PMENT 1. Shotguns with No. 4 shot or smaller. 2. Longbows, recurve bows, compound bows, crossbows and other bows That is all it really says, apart from what kind of optics you can have on these weapons. Note that bait (any food that YOU put down to attract and distract animals) is not allowed. Also: Calling or attempting to call wild turkeys using any means to mimic the sounds made by turkeys is prohibited on all WMAs from March 1 until the opening day of the spring turkey hunts on the WMA.

I do not really worry about it. I have emergency food and water for a few weeks, and first aid stuff, etc. I have a supply of ammo that should last a few weeks and the ability to produce tens of thousands of rounds more as needed. I can defend against looters and survive long enough to either get the heck outta dodge or turtle up as I see fit. I could survive a katrina-like localized disaster, in other words, actually do rather well considering. The most likely issue here is going to be a tornado (no floods, no city eating fires, the biggest earthquake in my lifetime... I didnt feel it, no hurricanes, etc). We just had one of the worst tornado seasons of all time with massive damage all around, and there was no widespread looting or unrest or lack of basic needs. Just a mess to clean up for the many unlucky folks. Saw a lot of good stuff in that.... neighbors helping neighbors, lot of working together all around. If things are bad enough for me to try to leave the house & survive out in the woods/ruins for years on end in some sort of end of the civilized world scenario, well I will be perfectly honest here. I would probably just shoot myself rather than go thru a real end of the world/civilazation type existence that lasts for decades on end. Not much of an outlook, but as I said, its an honest one.

The military is not rushing into battle with consumer grade ARs either. Some are better than others, but the ARs that are available to the public (in general, the build your own or brand X's take on it new made stuff) are not flawless, ultra rugged military hardware. Not saying a cheap alternative is any better, but calling bubba's home-built AR "proven" is also not exactly accurate. The web has a fair number of discussions on consumer grade AR failures from problems eating the cheap steel ammo to complex gas piston aggravations and more. In general, most are pretty good, but proven in battle? Not this stuff. If the criteria is battle proven, the only way to get it is milsurp, and that probably means a real AK or SKS or similar 50 year old weapon. The mini 14 is as proven as the consumer grade AR. It is, after all, a M1 garand, a proven design to be sure.

there are 2 of them for sale atm on GB: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=279348449 its only a penny too (I hate the reserve price junk... so dumb).

Browning is named after the famous gun designer John Browning (1911, A5 shotguns, and much more, wikipedia him). The current company makes high quality shotguns and rifles, and just a few semi-auto pistols. I am not aware of any revolvers at all.

I am positive that lee will send you a new plastic one. I am unaware of a metal replacement. I suspect it would not be difficult to make a metal one using a new plastic one as a model...

I have a real problem with the idea of a HATE crime. It makes any crime committed by a white (or, in the recent shooting case, even a near-white) into something else while a pass is given to anyone of any other race that attacks a white person in all but the most extreme circumstances. On top of that, it implies that the jury can determine the motivation for any old crime well beyond what may or may not have happened. It also makes a crime of things that are not criminal behavior... are people (whites!) to be charged now for their speech? If nothing but a shouting match happens between 2 people, one white and one not, and both use racial slurs, guess who will be charged with mr hate crime? Its just more of the same anti-white reverse discrimination that liberals always try to push... on par with crap like hiring quotas or breaks given to minority owned or woman owned businesses (govt contracts, yes it happens). Or, to put it simply, I do not care why someone beat someone else to a pulp or disturbed the peace with a shouting match or spray painted the other guy's door or whatever the heck else. I really do not care. Prove they did it, toss em in jail or hang em, and its sufficient. The punishment needs to be the same whether it was motivated by racial dislike or a disagreement over which baseball team is better.

Hmm. We just got a taurus revolver and while the action was awful, it cleaned up very, very nice with a week at the gunsmiths. Now its better than most. I would buy another one, it seems to be well made and is accurate & comfortable. All my other revolvers are 20+ years old. I learned to shoot pistols with an old 22 S&W, forget the model number, had about a 4 or 5 inch barrel and a double action design. To be honest, one revolver is much like another apart from the feel of the grip and the quality of the action and the material used (avoid non steel guns...!). The actions can be cleaned up to some extent on anything, so that leaves the grip/feel. So pick out a steel gun that you like the feel of and enjoy it.

wife is on her second high cap 22 mag revolver and both of them also get sticky fast. I think its partially the extra capacity means that much more force required to eject the shells. 8, 9, and 10 shot varieties are a lot more surface area to increase the friction over a 6 shooter.