Jonnin

did anyone mention the browning BLR 308? Seems like a good hog gun to me (along with the others mentioned). I love mine, very very good piece.

303 british is a good round for a fat bore, its .311 ish. More common .308 sized rounds are the other alternative. I am not aware of many things in between these 2 sizes. There are a number of quality bullets for both precision shooting and hunting in both of these sizes. You may be able to make brass for it from something. Not sure what it would be, though, but there are probably 25 different but similar calibers in this neighborhood. Dies, a tube cutter, and a good starting case, there should be at least one easy to convert case out there... costs more time and money than pulling bullets but you can reuse the cases many, many times and no corrosive primers or other aggravations.

You can still shoot anywhere you want outside the city limits if it is on your own (or a buddys) property and you have a safe setup. Usually this needs to be far, far away from other people (not just safety, but noise factor). Such places are rare these days, but if you have one, you can do it. You can NOT shoot trash at the cleveland range, and I suspect the chattanooga one is the same, and PC is also supposed to be no trash allowed. Private property is about the only place non paper can be shot (or possibly approved nonpaper like steel knock downs, clay skeet, etc).

Not sure how I feel about this one. My wife is on birth control pills, which really help her with some issues (she couldnt have a kid no matter what) and the idiotic catholic hospital here will not allow her to take them when she is in there (yes, it is a no brainer to smuggle them in, but that is aside from the point). Yes, she could go to a different hospital... which does not have the specialist she needs to see. When a pointless stance (again, she cannot have kids anyway) is enforced in a case like ours, I find myself siding with obama. If the good Lord wants to circumvent her defective hardware and provide a child, I am absolutely 100% certain HE can bypss the pill as well, and we can leave the arrogant nurses out of it. On the other hand, personal issues aside, Obama should have more important things to do right about now. I cannot think of any reason for him to be messing with this subject at this time given the many important things that are going on in our country. Abortion and birth control can be put on a shelf until people have jobs and stuff.

a little more than 200 but leopould mark AR scope series is excellent and is available in mil-dot. I think they are closer to 300 but I have not looked in a while and do not know what you might be able to find if you shopped for a sale/deal.

GIven that she has a history of being uncomfortable with guns, how would she fare if she did have to shoot someone anyway? Could she do it? Is she ready to begin to think about carrying a weapon with the intent to dispose of any and all attackers? Or is she just now at the point where punching a hole in a target is fun and interesting but not quite ready to consider the practical applications of a firearm? Only she can really answer that but if she is just at the paper punching stage, than a .22 is your best friend, followed by whatever she wants to shoot. As for you being comfortable: lots and lots of dead people can't tell you that being shot by a .25 is no big deal. Same for a .22Lr. At this point I would bet (though I do not know her) that supporting her choices and growing her interest in guns is your best approach. In time, you can move her toward a more powerful caliber, but the last thing you want to do if she is just getting into it is push her too fast toward CCW type guns which tend to have high recoil, loud bangs, and are (often, but not always) less fun to shoot than a smaller caliber gun for various reasons.

it would not seem odd to me at all if the heat treating process to creat the melonite is cheaper than the process to line the barrel in chrome. I do not know much about the process, but it seems to me that heat treating would just be some sort of swab & bake process while binding the metal liner would be more complex. /shrug seems like a win win on the melonite, but perhaps someone who knows the steps involved can say for sure.

If you want better accuracy, you have to spend a bit more, the standard velocity target stuff and it tends to cost at least as much as 9mm per 50. Usually not worth the expense, but if you want to try out a high accuracy gun once in a while at a good distance, its hard to beat the good stuff.

With bulk packs, I have had the best luck with blazer. Benchrested, they make about a 1 inch group at 25 yards for me, but my red dot is cheap and the dot is very big, makes it hard to keep them all in one hole even if the ammo could do it (not sure). (this is with the mark II pistol and wifes cz kadet) Runner up is the federal bulk pack. It is a little less consistent in my gun but is still quite good. I have not seen a gun yet that cannot fire one of these two. The blazer is soft lead, no jacket, and some guns do not like that. The federal is jacketed and is better if a particular gun is cutting chunks out of the soft lead rounds. Revolver (S&W), ruger, CZ, buckmark, 10-22, various other rifles, all of mine will eat one of these two brands and make a solid group at a reasonable range.

some packages have 2 mags. Mine had 2 + the little plastic belt holster. It also cost a lot more than places are charging now, right at 600.

probably better reload it if you want sub MOA.

This is not far off the mark. I sometimes refer to IDPA as a game "by glock shooters and for glock shooters". You will see what I mean once you have been a time or 3. I also will not be found bashing glocks; I said it once already, they are fine guns.

No. the beavertail of the gun protects it --- the gun cocked is no different than uncocked as the beaver-tail would snag the same as the hammer, in other words. The hammer is not a revolver hook style, and cocked adds I would say 1/4 inch thickness to the business side of the beavertail area, and it does not extend in any way that could be more snaggy. The sights are more of a snag issue than the hammer, assuming you carry it hammer up in a holster in a pocket. The inside (striker surface) of the hammer is perfectly smooth & flat. I don't get that comment. It is almost the same size (give or take a few milimeters) but the poly framed guns are not soft or something, they all print the same and they all eat about the same space in all 3 dimensions. The sig is heavier, I think, that may make a difference to use of a belt or whatever, but does not directly make it print any worse.

Do not get a glock... because someone said to. I sometimes think glock is a top seller not because it is good, but because ever new shooter is told to run out and buy one. If you like the glock, get one, by all means: they are fine, well made guns. If you like something else better, get something else.

I do, I would guess most of the people who said they carry one carry it that way. Over a year now, safety has never slipped off in my pocket. It is so small I have it in a holster behind my wallet. I like it a lot, as I said earlier, it is best in class for small carry guns IMHO. That is said with a very strong bias against DAO designs, so keep that in mind for my commentary --- a long heavy pull puts the gun way down on my list (though I did break down & get a nano, which I probably should not have). Our gun store said they should have a few 938s by the end of march. The nano trigger is effectively a DAO though it is supposedly a striker fired. If you dislike a long DAO type trigger, the 238 or 938 or one of the micro kimbers or paras are about the only options. And the kimbers are a bit large, the smallest para is hard to find and they have moved that toward a LDA (dao under a new name). The STI rogue would be nice, but those are long gone and not coming back.

I have about as big a safe as anyone, a liberty presidential series. I can scoot it on carpet or slick floors by myself, its rough but I can do it. Anything else, I recommend a mini fork lift. That is not a joke. It is too heavy for people; I paid 2 men & a truck and they brought in a second team so 4 of those guys who lift heavy stuff all day could not get it off the ground or anything.

9mm and 40 are the most popular. A few 10, 45, 357 sig, and others are also used. Guns vary a lot, from 1911s to glocks and anything in between. Lots and lots of glocks, of course. The trouble is that if you have a safety, you must use it which eats time compared to the no-safety guns. They do not grok the DA safety off carry style, in other words. I like compact guns as well, and use my cz rami. It holds the required 10 shots (that is all you can have in a mag), is deadly accurate, and just my size. Not terribly expensive either.

From the rule book (well, one of them, there seem to be a couple of versions) ... 1. Non-IDPA-Legal Modifications for ALL Divisions The following modifications are NOT ALLOWED IN ANY DIVISION unless otherwise specifically mentioned. A. Compensators of any type including hybrid or ported barrels.

The 238 is excellent, overall. The light trigger pull and reduced recoil (It simply seems lower than most other similar 380s) make it easy to shoot rapidly and accurately. The safety has a positive lock with a ball bearing with a spring slipping into an indentation type design -- it does not come off in your pocket under any normal use. I can hit a 2 inch target at 10 yards easily, and empty the gun rapidly will stay in a pie plate and rapid for this gun means less than 10 seconds to empty. Mine has some 500+ trouble free rounds through it, probably closer to 1000 now, I do not track it but have a general idea of how many boxes I have reloaded and what is left in the stash. Gotta give you some "cons", but they are not many. It costs a lot more than its peers. Like, double. Watch out for a used/older gun, you may have to replace the mags & recoil springs on those (you can google for the differences and how to spot them). The mag release (esp on my heavily used gun) is a bit light so if you bump it (hard) you can drop the mag while in your pocket, just be aware of it. A new gun probably takes a much, much harder hit. I have 2, as my wife took mine on day 1 so I had to get another. The first one had a slight issue: the slide stop was slightly too big and sometimes bullets inside the mag would hit it, lock it open with rounds left. Gunsmith fixed it for me; I think sig would have as well but I did not care to mail it back. I have not heard of this being a common problem. I cannot recommend this gun enough, however I personally would, in your situation, strongly consider the 9mm model that is coming out this year instead.

Better check out the action and everything, not just the barrel. Barrel is probably the least likely point of failure on that gun, from the pictures alone.

If you ask for it, they will get it for you, as I understand it. It may take a while, and they may try to "talk you down", but if you want it and nothing else will do, they will get it for you (eventually). the 9x18 is pretty close to the 380 in performance, and the 9x18 performance has been cut way, way down in the USA (and imported ammo) while 380 has been beefed up. Today's "hard hitting" buffalo bore ammo for 9x18 is weaker than the self defense loads I bought in the 90s, according to the published energy and all that, and everything except buffalo bore is much, much weaker than it used to be. So the real issue is cost. If you reload, its the same, about $3-4 per box. If you buy it, 9x18 is about $10 a box (or less!) while 380 is typically 5 buck higher per box, or more! Otherwise, the 380 is effectively the exact same gun. The 32 is going to be a lot weaker and more fun to shoot (the 380 and mak have a bit of recoil, not bad but it can be stout), however that is also a pricy round per box compared to makarov (and it also reloads on the cheap). I would call them and try to get the makarov caliber 83. The worst that can happen is it takes a while or they say "no".

they clean up nice, that is a pretty gun now, well done!

welcome! I replied to your cz82 thread, but now see you are a neighbor. The gunshows here almost always have several, and one vendor in particular always has a stash of them. I highly recommend the next local show for you, since you are here, for the 82. I also like the CZ design, I have a rami and the wife has a kadet and a witness 9mm (same thing, but stolen design).

A while back there were several shops that let you pay a little more to hand pick your gun (from pictures, I guess?) but I do not know of anyone currently doing this. You want to look at the surplus shops, the places that specialize in milsurp guns. They will have some and you can get one in "nearly new" condition for, last I heard, between 200 and 300. These specialty shops are the ones that let you pick your gun. The cz83 is the exact same gun in 380, though if you pester CZUSA enough you may be able to get them to import you a 9x18 instead (lack of US customers for the caliber = none imported, they make it for euro customers). If you want a high quality, new gun, that is the answer.

You are welcome. I learned as much as you did, I do not KNOW all this stuff, I just am interested enough to find out and very good at searching the web. They also made some pistols that were sold in large numbers in the USA back in the depression.