Jonnin

Ive done this with an old piece of pipe (about 1/2 inch around??). Cut a dowl rod or something in 1/2 (its now a 1/2 circle plug), jam it in the hole, and cut an air slit in the body. Plug the case mouth. It will toot with as little as that.

I have 2 10-22 and they both work fine with cheap ammo. One does not like soft lead nose ammo, the other eats anything at all. You can get good jacketed cheapos, like federal bulk. 10-22 is plenty accurate, how good did you want? A higher quality gun will do better farter away, but they cost more...

if they have that kind of money, they probably paid their taxes into the handout system. If the system is so broken they can get their money back out of it, I can live with that. WIC is something else. My whole life I have listened to blather about how women are equal to men and can do for themselves. Why do they need a special program then? Plenty of hungry men out there.... this program is sexist against men! Where is the MNFT (men need food too) program?!

Powder is easy. Weigh the powder. Is it between the starter load and the "do not exceed" value? If not, start over and figure out WHY your method was so far off. If so, it is safe (but may suck due to large variations in loads). You want to get to within at least 1/4 a grain to have reasonably consistent loads even for plinkery. If you want better, you need good gear (good scale, good dispenser, etc) and patience to get it right (it just takes time to do it at higher precision). On a 223, 1/2 a grain may be accurate enough for a "case filling" powder charge. My 223 overall lenghts are pretty wild as well. My bullets have a crimp ring, and now I just seat them to where that ring is at the very edge of the brass (just inside it) and call it good. I would not be alarmed at 0.05 variation in lengths for this round if you are using random brass picked up from somewhere. Yes, even trimmed brass. Maybe an expert chan chime in on this round, but I have tried and tried and am unable to produce consistent length 223 without just sitting there spending 5 min on each round or something.

they are "large" tolerances. Gettting started, you want to avoid necked cases that are too long (trim them to a bit below the max trim length from your data) and you want to avoid seating the bullet too deep (total cartridge overall length should be considerably bigger than the minimum. Take a 115 grain 9mm. The overall length can be roughly between 1.075 and 1.1, so you have 4/100 of an inch to play with. I split the difference, and would seat them at 1.085 (yea its not exact, no calculator atm, but you get the idea). That gives you 2/100 an inch variation and still in spec, and more important, it seats pretty well on a variety of cases that may be of slightly different sizes. If you seated it to the max, 1.1 or longer, and got a short case, it may not stick in there very well! Then measure your produced ammo. It should mostly be about the same (within a couple thousandths, probably) and that means it would be very well in spec (within 20 or more thousandths of the extremes).

I can do the 3 inches at 20 with a couple of my carry guns. My makarov can do it (trigger job FTW). My cz rami. What the shooters don't say is most of them took 30+ seconds to aim each shot --- its not defensive shooting at all. I would not say anyone sucks for being unable to do this. It just takes a lot of practice and time spend to develop the skill --- and its a skill of limited practical value. Most people have better things to do. Once you can do it, so what? Whoopity I can hunt a rabbit with a makarov... thats about as much epeen as I can get out of it, since I am not good enough to compete against anyone who is really, really good. I am actually encouraged by most defensive shooters I see. Most hit their target with most shots at a solid rate of fire. A few need a lot of work, but most of what I see, I wouldnt want to be that piece of paper. It gets the job done. I agree with the smoothbore /slingshot comment as well. You just do not need a whole lot of skill (or gun) to hit a man sized torso at 10 yards or less. Lots of dead sailors and such from a single shot, smooth bore BP pirate type pistol.

ah, I thought you needed more than that. Its worth it, the mum makes it a great project and worth saving.

Heck yea! "In some parts of Tennessee, 1 out of every 11 people on the street is either carrying a weapon or has a license to do so."

sigh, 100000000 of them with no mum to butcher if one must butcher a gun, why do it to the much less common intact piece? If you know the guy, slap him in the back of the head for that. Speaking of which, the "easy way out" would be to just buy a cheap rifle with no mum but in otherwise great condition, for less than $200 I think is the rough value, and just put your parts into the other gun. It may be a lot more hassle and possibly even more expense (over time) to buy a part here & there?? Might look into it.

It depends on which gun, which store. In some cases, the manufacturer makes a special run for the big store using slightly less expensive parts in a place or 2, a piece of plastic here, or lower quality wood on a stock there, plain iron sights here instead of glow in the darks there, etc. In many other cases, the store is just selling for less because they bought however many thousand in a large purchase at a lower rate than the mom & pop shop can do buying 1-2 at a time. I do not know if the 10-22 has any swapped parts or not but do not worry about it, they should shoot just as good and last just as long. Just check it out... maybe it does not have a scope mount or some other minor thing, and if it seems to have all the features you wanted, go for the cheap one...!

It depends on who is talking and what they are talking about. You should ask if you really want to know what the person did to justify calling a gun accurate or not, or to produce that 1 inch group target they showed you, etc. Most of the casual discussions here are the shooter holding the gun and using the gun at a fairly short distance (under 25 yards). If you are talking a 10 yard defensive shoot at a man-target and a success is hitting the guy in an 8 inch circle around the vitals, then all decent guns can do this, yes. But past that you get into the defination of "well made". A rugged (well made, in some definations) cheap 1911 may have a poor fit bushing for example, the barrel flopping around (not much but out at 20+ yards this becomes many inches) so every shot has the barrel in a new position. Is that a well made gun? It certainly is not as accurate as a good fixed barrel revolver with target sights is going to be. From here it becomes subjective off the terms (accurate, well made) what is really being talked about. Remember that many "well made" guns have fixed sights and can never hit dead on (cannot be adjusted up down at all, and side to side takes a tool and a lot of effort and may not be doable). They can be precise (make a small group) but not accurate (group is in the x ring). Got something in mind? Ask around, and if you explain what you want to do or know, people will answer in kind. If you just ask if a gun is accurate without any details, you will get useless answers for the most part Same goes for a trigger. There are people here who will say a 2 inch long 5 pound pull gun has an "awesome trigger". You have to be precise if you wanted a short, light pull gun instead or you will get "great trigger" as a response on everything from a DAO pocket rocket to a 1911. Same for any other gun detail discussed, just be as precise as you can be with questions if you want to really understand what is being said.

what issues? Mine has worked well so far, just has that heavy trigger. Its reliable and accurate enough. Its a great size and was very easy to make left handed.

the rear sight on this one is funky. It should be on a ladder, yes --- a hollow one, that looks like a square U .... here is a picture http://www.gunauction.com/search/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=8371553 but sometimes when you see them, they have a long, long (maybe 3 inches across?!) bar from side to side, but the base sight part looks the same. I dunno what the story on that bar is. Several sights give a cleaning rod as 24 inches long for this rifle. I am not an expert, just an interested googler.

if you are on a budget, a .22 can be shot over 500 times for what other rifles can be shot 20. Saiga you would be shooting rock bottom surplus ammo or it gets pricy fast, and the gun isnt cheap to begin with. Price difference? I dunno, but I would bet that isnt much over our price for the cz. Looked it up, $375 to $420 roughly in this area for various 452 22lr.

that 19 is at least as old as I am and has never choked, is still dead on. I can't complain.

Yea, when I said I do not ask I mean, its all over the place, mixed up, and flung far and wide of the shooters so you can't tell whos is whos anyway, and I am also one of the shooters. And piled up pretty good, I don't one at a time it, I get 100-200 in a couple of min when I bother to gather it up. A good sat, nice weather, you can get hundreds of 9mm and 223 and common calibers in moments if no one has been cleaning and no one has been gathering. I can't imagine grabbing them one by one between shots for anything except the most expensive or exotic calibers. In which case, I certainly WOULD be asking first. But I am not gonna ask every guy out there if they are collecting 9mm or 223, its just too common.

I also am 100% behind RJ making money if they can. The commentary is in response to a comment, which asked why people do not like RJ so much since their entry into the TV world. Any prebuilt is highway robbery. We all know it. But not everyone can build a better gun for less either. If I had tried to build one from scratch, I would have paid as much and ended up with a worse gun. Probably would have cost MORE, since I would probably buy a few things that didnt work well so try again with another brand, etc. The one thing I see in common from builders is most have assembled a fair number of guns (10+). If the first one were absolutely perfect, that would be less of a theme, I think...

Much of what he did was legal as well. I am simply recommending a strategy that not only follows the letter of the law but will quickly back up your claim to any LEO that you are simply on the way to/from a range with a legal firearm and are not up to anything. Yes, its perfectly legal for a non permit holder to toss an empty, unholstered, unboxed, "loose" gun in the glove box and haul it around. I still say doing it that way is going to get you a long Q&A session with the officer if it is discovered, compared to having it in a proper box, bag, or the like, stored in the trunk or, still in the bag/box, in the back seat. Loose in the back seat: not recommended at all, that was not what I meant! Basically, as a non permit holder, you want to look more like someone actually enjoying a nice day at the range and less like someone who just *said* they were going to the range... to minimize any potential (if far fetched) problems.

I would only shoot thru a door from inside my home. As in, someone trying to open it forcibly. Shooting like that is irresponsible and at the very least a reckless endangerment charge is due.

Well, do what you want, but if you offended the LEO enough that he is searching you car, and he finds a pistol in the glove compartment, even unloaded I would not want to be in that situation. Yes, its probably legal. No, I would not want to do that. Lots of perfectly legal things can earn you a very bad day .... let me introduce you to this fellow named leonard ...

I do that. Most people at the places I go do not pick it up, and most people that do pick it up gather as they go, shoot a mag, pick some up, shoot a mag, pick some up... if its piling up I assume the person does not want it. If they tell me otherwise, I happily give them what I picked up & move on. I think maybe 3 times I have been told they wanted it and handing over what I had gathered always seems to smooth over any annoyance. Just tell the guy you want it. Brass ammo is pricy, you paid for it, and if you want it let the person know. You keep on shooting it & letting him go at it, he thinks you do not mind....

unloaded and not "easily" loaded in the car. Supposed to be in plain view or in the trunk, not stashed in a weapons type fashion. Ammo should be seperate or both in the trunk, point is you cant grab & load.

welcome! Pretty close to chattanooga, where I am.

Put all your cases in a plastic bag with some lube & shake it for a while. Lube all the cases at once pretty fast, a very thin spray type lube works great here. Trim your brass into your media. The sharp little shavings seem to help clean the brass faster. They do, however, get removed fast if you use a dryer sheet (which you probably should). If a primer came out, a primer will usually go in. For brass with the crimps, you can try, if its too hard, rotate the case a few degrees, try again, repeat, it will usually go in before you get 1/2 way around. If you get past 1/2 way without it seating easily, toss it aside (either recycle it or ream out the pocket later). You should never need excessive force to seat a primer, just try gently and it will work or not (but it usually will once rotated the "right" way). If you are going to clean the primer pockets, you can get a very cheap wire brush designed for the job at a reloading supply store (get both sizes, of course). These fit into a cordless screwdriver/drill --- 2 seconds per case and its usually done. If really serious about the ammo quality, when you trim your brass, set aside cases that did not trim. They may be shorter than the rest, and will not crimp the same way, seat the same way, etc. Only use cases that the trimmer actually cut into a little bit. The short cases can be used to plink or something later --- they are still fine for general shooting.

I guess I am old school, but I like the big grips on my old S&W 19 more. Here is a pic of one like it.. http://thefiringline...ad.php?t=415969 I think the bottom is closest to that, and it feels awesome to shoot. The wood grips with finger grooves gets a nod at being very nice looking, but too small. The top one, the grips are way too small. For a shooter, those rubber grips probably feel great but are not attractive to me. If you get a popular model, you will find a wide variety of grips for it, something will appeal to you.