Jonnin

Yes. Single action guns have a short, consistent pull. The classic is the 1911, but you also see this in other guns as well. Double action only (DAO) are the same every time, with a typically very long trigger pull, often heavy as well but not always. The trigger here must lift the "hammer" each time against a spring, which requires a long pull (ignoring modern engineering things like gears, which no gun maker has discovered yet). Proprietary action names are largely lumped under the umbrella of striker fired. These tend to NOT have the same pull. For example, glocks are known for their short rest, which means the first trigger pull is long and spongy (you are not really doing anything except fighting a spring in the trigger, its done for safety) while if you just barely let go and re-pull, the next shot is a very short trigger pull. You must physically memorize these guns, so you know how far to let go and can get it down to to the wire. Double action guns (not DAO, these are fired 2 distinct ways) are inconsistent. The first pull is as I described the DAO above. Every pull after that is sort of like the single action gun but with a lot of trigger slop, often a HUGE amount of trigger slop. Revolvers are an exception, a double action revolver has a slop-free trigger if you cock the hammer by hand, it is identical or nearly so to a single action revolver. Hands down, a cocked revolver (there are DAO revolvers or you can shoot a double action one uncocked like a DAO above) have the best triggers in the business unless you want to spend thousands of dollars on a competition quality 1911 style gun. Basically, then, you want to look at single action guns or double action only guns, as a good starting place. Note that many oddball .22 guns are single action though they look different. For example the ruger mark pistols are single action with no exposed hammer and a somewhat sloppy trigger. I do not know if there is an official name for this type but "single action" works to describe them.

the sights on mine are the 2 dot system. It is an older model, but not a military gun; probably bought around 1990? newer ones are 3-dot. So the type of sights may be either a date of production thing, a buyer's choice, or something else.

I am not too overweight (low carbin' has dropped me back to a half decent weight) but I am less active than I could be & have a cushy desk job. I have always had a cushy desk job, so I quickly moved to pocket carry over the other methods and have always favored smallish carry guns for this reason. You just cannot beat a modern micro-sized 9mm or 380 in your front pocket during the day. I also bought one of those gun-carry 'day planners' that I keep at work, so if the gun were to bother me I could put it in there and have it hidden in plain sight @ my desk. Out and about, walking around, I still tend to stick to pocket carry but sometimes I mix it up, and have a couple of guns that, even if they still FIT in a pocket, are much larger than the ones I use when sitting down, for example I can stuff my px4 .40 cal into jeans pockets on the weekend but it is a bit much when trying to sit down with that thing.

I like the looks of these, wish they would release THIS frame as a 9mm.

But there are some rare ones and it takes an expert to know. A couple of the washington quarters had really low production and are quite valuable (a couple of them in mint condition are in the thousands). Others are worth like $3 for meltdown value. A lot of this is old info -- the same ones that are high priced today were high priced in 1970, the value changed but the rarity did not.... you can probably find a slightly out of date coin book used or use the rough estimates found online to see if you may have any gems in there. Silver Washington Quarter Price List ~ U.S. Washington Quarter Prices ~ Worth, value, coin price list, U.S. coin estimates might be a good starting point, at a glance.

a dealer I talked to said he ordered 4 of each type (16 guns, I think?) and was told at the shot show to expect them by mid-march.

Welcome! There are always more things for sale on here than I have money for, so you came to a good place as a buyer...

I would count the first one as rapid fire, better than 1 shot per 2 seconds and plenty fast. I could empty my sig faster. I don't know if I would hit anything if I did that, though!

And Obama has already taken the credit for his political campaign.

The 92 makes shooting a 9mm pleasant, esp if it fits your hands. Because it is big and heavy. I would never carry the thing, but then again, I would never try to carry a full sized 1911. People do it (with both), but not me. They were both designed for military/police type carry: open and part of the uniform, not for being stuck in a pocket. I really like a large heavy frame for target shooting, and hope some companies will continue to make a few rather than weightless recoil enhanced guns. Just about any gun you can toss up will net you responses from someone who had a bad experience. If it is a big name company, you will draw in some folks who hate that company on top of it. I think you just found someone who has an axe to grind with beretta or who had some sort of 92 that was a lemon.

No, if you are old enough to be DRAFTED you should get a vote. Active or not, you should have a say. However I am ok with upping the draft age to 21 first, then the voting age etc afterwards --- but the two need to be the same age. How do you get your $500 back? Voting is a lifelong process, it would be forever on hold and returned to your family when you died once you proved the dead person never voted twice? I do not see that working out and it disenfranchises people who do not have $500 to spare. And it is to spare, since they do not seem to get it back (?). Democracy would have the whole country using NY+CA values, due to the large populations of those (and a couple of other like minded) states. It was, and is, a very bad word indeed. You certainly would not have a handgun today in a majority wins type system, probably no rifle either.

Custom fit bushing to improve the accuracy? Makes a big difference but the gun becomes much harder to disassemble, you *will* need a 1911 wrench/tool after this. consider a match grade barrel but you can do that yourself, however, you fit the bushing mentioned above to the barrel so before you do the bushing, think about it...!

yes, you can buy them, they are called "snap caps" or a couple of other terms. But those have a real case filled with plastic, the plastic fills the primer hole and is also the fake bullet. They are usually a gaudy orange plastic. If you want realish ones, any reloader can make you some. Reload with no powder or primer and fill the primer pocket with a blob of solder, for example, would look pretty realistic. You could use a lee loader (cheap!) or just hammer the bullets in gently. You dont need a press to do this. Just a trip to buy some brass & bullets. the cost is pretty low, how many? 100 slugs and 100 brass should not be over say $20 tops, probably less. If you just wanted a few, someone may help you out. You *could* try to kill live primers if you want it to look better or use "used" primers but those have the firing pin dent. Someone out there may even sell fake primers, I dunno about that. I bet you could make a box of 50 of these using new brass for $5 or so, but the problem is you would have left over materials at that rate because you buy in bulk to get less per round when reloading.... to get that low you may have the stuff to make 500. Your best bet really is to get a buddy with a reloading station to do it so they look better, they will all be seated the same for example whereas the hammer approach is less consistent. And he can keep the extra supplies.

I agree, I mostly find it humorous that they bothered to make a rule about it at all, it would take a whale of a belt to break that rule while still fitting in the belt loops. And then I imagine some guy with custom pants that allow his custom belt and I wonder what "advantage" he thinks it provides... sigh. You *know* someone did this to inspire the creation of the rule.

hmm what would I do... I would let my wife buy something, I think. Probably get her an AR in something in the neighborhood of 243 with a high dollar scope. Or, if we can buy anything (not just a rifle), would split it with her and get us each a new pistol (mine would be the sig 938).

from one of the rulebooks, though there are a couple of different ones floating around the web: D. Belts. Gun belts may be no wider than 1 ¾” or thicker than 5/16” and must pass through the pant loops. Im not sure any 3 gun match excludes the types you listed.

semi auto or what? You can get a lot of rifle for $500-$1k in a bolt gun while that would net you very little toward a high end a semi-auto. Comes down to what it is for -- caliber, range, and so on. If you spend as much on the optic as the rifle, which is a rule of thumb that some people go by, that nets you a decent gun and a very good scope... anyway, more details?

No pocket holster, no cross draw, couple of other things are deemed "unsafe" I forget what all. IDPA even regulates what type of belt you use, 3 gun is less restrictive but still has safety concerns with some rigs.

the tswra range offers a small, for-fun bullseye match. It goes inside in winter so you gotta buy a membership but in the other 3/4 of the year it is outside and you can go for a small fee. They usually just do .22, at 25 yards. It is casual so they allow 2h shooting if you like. Bullseye is normally 1 handed shooting with 3 phases from very slow (1 shot per 60 seconds) to fast (1 shot per 2 seconds), the slower shooting uses smaller targets. This is pistol only, and a ruger mark is an excellent gun for this casual level of the sport. I use a mark 2 (the 22/45 version) with a wraparound grip & a cheap red dot sight; I can make about a 3 inch group at 25 yards for slow fire with it, and the gun can do better. One thing about this sport: you want to look into at least medium grade ammo, like the CCI brand, for consistent groups. It is a lot of shooting; each phase is 90 shots (3 goes at each of the 3 phases at 10 shots per phase). So a match that had a 22, a centerfire, and a 1911 round is 270 shots(!) which can take several hours. Again, the knoxville one is just the 90 shots of .22 most weeks, so it is not so grueling.

Lester, the dryer sheet does keep the media cleaner too. It picks up the 2 types of small particles that you get in the process... dust from the media grinding on itself and soot/dirt from the brass. I do not know that it does anything at all to polish the brass any better. I probably reload some cases that have deep stains (how would you know, apart from grinding on it), but I have not had any crack or split so I am going to keep doing what I am doing. I do not make high pressure loads (tend the other direction, really) and doubt anything I do would split any case that is not already cracked or split (I do watch for those!). I do not thing the deep, black stains indicate any sort of structure problem, but if someone knows different, speak up please!

Its pretty neat how accurate guns really are, once you get rid of the shooter that said, this is the wrong test for this type of gun. I doubt one person in 50 can land 6/6 with this type of weapon and this type of shooting. Slow down a little. Make each shot count. If you want to hit the target 6 times in 10 seconds, fire 15 times from a highcap!

Haha I am the other way around. I find IDPA much more complicated (kill the targets in this order, reload before you run out of ammo, stand here, run there, don't be left handed, ...) than 3-gun (grab your rifle and the 10 guys 30 yards back and uses your pistol on these 5 up close, in whatever order you like reloading if you run dry and moving as you see fit). The left handed thing is a joke but first time I went a guy was trying to help me / guide me thru the courses and he kept trying to force me to be right handed. The other shooters will help you. Some of them, you will not be able to STOP them from helping you. Some of them will try to encourage you to spend $$$$$ on toys. Some of them will be practical. But they are all trying to help so just take it with a grain of salt if someone says "you really need one of THESE". You may actually want the whatever it is, or not, but run a few matches before you spend any serious money. That RIA 1911 9mm is an excellent gun at an excellent price. Its on my short list. Some divisions may not allow 18 round guns, I shoot open so those rules do not matter to me.

I wonder what the implications of this are for like car rental companies that spy on the users with gps, some even report excessive speeds (supposedly, could just be urban legends).

I dont get why someone was complaining about a rifle on the pistol range, esp a .22. They shoot more powerful handguns there. I know when I used to go there I shot my pistols on the rifle range, same thing, it does not matter. That is the LEAST of the problems up there and harmless, though a high power rifle thru a poor backstop is an issue. The other stuff is why I quit going. Every time I would go all the boards were toast from shotgun blasts, the posts would be shot to pieces, people would fire downrange or not call downrange properly, and more. There were times when I thought if you went up there alone you would come home without your guns, if you came home at all, but that was just a vibe, I never heard of any actual attacks but some of the people seemed a bit "off" and got my radar tingling. A RO and fees would work, knoxville has an outstanding TSWRA range that is manned and charges a small fee. Closing it is just letting a few punks ruin everything and is the easy way out. Government is always saying it can freaking create jobs, well here is a full time job for about 5 people.

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