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1) 300 average, as low as 250 at times. 2) You may not want to shoot steel. KT recommends a brass diet for all its guns if I remember it right. Its not a picky thing, its a broken extractor thing. A polished up KT will eat most ammo, maybe the odd exotic shaped JHP will not feed, but most will. 3)The trigger pull is beyond heavy. You might be able to bench press it, I cannot even fire a new KT without hand cramps. I estimate a NIB one at 15 pound pull, and a well broken in one at 8 -10. If you have not tried this gun's trigger, do not buy it until you do!!!!! You may like it, many people do, but its not a good gun to buy "blind". 4) I do not remember if it has a rail or not. I am sure you can get on on it if you work at it, but out of the box, not sure.

I strongly advise buying the tools to sharpen it... you will probably have to sharpen it once a month or more. A surgical quality sharpening stone and a leather finishing strap is the classic way or go high tech on it.

sportsmans warehouse in chattanooga has a very skilled reloading guru and he does a class about once a month, the class is simple but the important thing is you can ask him anything (and can do the same outside the class, he is very helpful).

I wonder if I qualify... I have a job, but never really had the struggles most of these folks had, folks paid for me thru college and my first job, bagging groceries at $10 or more per hour (tips!), was just for spending money. Still, I do work and certainly do not get anything from the gov't, even if I have had it fairly easy.

You can save a little. 1000 rounds of 9mm, with free brass (if you buy brass, even bulk used brass, you cannot come out ahead). 1000 rounds will use 1/2 to 1 pound of powder ($15-30 roughly), 1000 slugs ($70 for hardcast lead), and $35 for primers -- those prices reflect taxes and bulk rates, though. $135 for 1000, then, typically. That is $6.75 a box after taxes. There may be some way to get 9mm for that low, in large quantities during a fire sale, but usually it is closer to $10 per box after taxes.

Must be a quality control thing, I have used a lot of 2 & 5 & 2230 and other ball and mine does not leak. It has plenty of other minor issues... the disk/volume chart is a work of fiction, the on/off rotation cannot be used without breaking it, and the chain safety thing never did fit right, but leaking, not happening with mine. Maybe I got lucky.

I avoided the double disk setup in favor of just hitting 2 charges on my rifle rounds. Its a little more trouble to pull the handle twice, but its not really bad, minimal force and movement. Mine does not leak at all, using mosty stuff like accurate 2230 or #5, and a few other brands that are all bigger/fatter than those.

Its ok, but they should have made it double action .... the px4 in single stack would have been a much better gun, or a mini 92 or their 380 either one shrunk way down. Normally a beretta fan but I won't be getting this thing.

I agree. But I feel we need both: to operate government by spending less than is taken in, and to reform taxes, as I feel they are currently inefficient and outdated. Just getting us to operate on the money that is taken in would be a full time job for a 2 term president and congress, if nothing else at all were done.

I am not sure it was much of a race card. He just said that if the story were true, the sign was insensitive. This is true, whoever painted that was a bigot. It was very slick, and that tells us a lot about cain .... what he did there was leave himself an out if the story turns out to be a non issue, made his opponent look bad/worse, and got himself some free media coverage all for playing the "2 of race" in the cardgame. He probably got some increased black approval ratings. His tax plan interested me, and that is the bulk of his platform, everything else is cobbled around that one issue. I am not sure if I approve of it or not. I like a flat tax rate for everyone, but adding a sales tax is poor. Tax reform is needed, though. Part of his idea is to combine the fair and flat tax camps, to get enough support to push something thru --- that is where some of his odd ideas are coming from, its a mix of the 2. A federal 9% sales tax means every dollar spent in TN is worth about 80 cents --- not good, even with our cost of living.

For all the reasons listed, factory defense ammo is a very, very good choice. There are only 2 "good" reasons to use handloads: 1) you tried to save $50 on defense ammo and are risking everything you own in any upcoming civil suits with unethical lawyers or 2) you want to do something that is cool but probably immoral, illegal, or both. For #1, just bite the bullet and pay for your ammo, its your life (not just survival of the encounter, but possible jail or monetary damages as well). For #2 --- making ammo that always keyholes, or has a steel slug for armor pen, or whatever other foolishness, well be prepared... you could get into a world of legal problems doing that stuff. Don't go there. There are other reasons you might give for using a handload... more accurate, more powerful, less recoil/power or whatever, even obsolete/hard to find calibers, but there are enough variations of defense ammo in enough calibers that you should be able to get exactly what you want in these categories from factory ammo. The risks just are not worth it IMHO -- I am not aware of anyone who was sued over their ammo, but you don't want to be the first one!

If you have reloading gear you can make a dummy round easily, leave off powder and primer, put something in the primer hole like glue or caulk, repair it now and then. Dry firing is mostly an issue for rimfires where the firing pin can hit the edge of the chamber, which is mostly older model guns but still best avoided for your .22s. Most centerfires can handle a lot of it before any damage, if damage ever does happen, it may not. Slop in the trigger is exponentially expensive.... the more slop you have, the cheaper it is to fix, and if you want it dead on tight, it can cost hundreds of dollars to cure. I would not mess with it until the gun is well broken in, then you can either try to DIY or pay a 1911 pistolsmith to do it, or a regular gunsmith may be able but those who specialize in this gun design are usually a better choice. .45 ACP is sort of pricy and you are not ready (sorry, but you are not). Investing in a reloading station would serve you far, far better than investing in a trigger job at this point in time, IMHO. Shoot more, practice a lot, far more useful than a perfect trigger at your skill level.

You are old enough to buy a rifle, right? You should be able to find one at that price, if you are not totally struck with the 98 type. I think the good condition 98s are a little more expensive. I see a K98 for $300 here: The Trader - WTS and WTT listing board you might keep an eye out on that forum.

That sums it up nicely. I have spent most of the last year trying to stay in the black of the appropriate bullseye target (there is one for number of distances, scaled for that distance) with every shot and still cannot do that 100%, though I get close. And that is 7/10 points on the outside, or a 70% score if they are all on the edge... not that good, really. It is a difficult sport. On a good day my score is about 85% which is a joke, but I enjoy it. I do shoot bench rested pistol, but at longer ranges, 223 @ 100-200 yards off the bench, or messing around with other guns for fun or being lazy (sit rather than stand). I do not know of any bench rested competition, but it may be enlightening to shoot prone or sitting, defense is not always standing up in a dark alley, and other positions are odd the first few times.

That is not bad for a glock. You can learn a lot with a 22 ruger mark or similar pistol, if you want to practice with something better, and mid grade ammo instead of bulk.

pro target pistols can put every shot in touching at 50 yards. A 2 shot derringer made of tin can hit a man target at 10 feet. It varies between these -- the above is good for combat, but target shooters can do far, far better of course.

It is a 1909. Bad pic of the coat of arms, hard to take a pic of shiny, round surfaces with a cheap camera

These are fine guns from the few I have shot, easily dead on at 15 -20 yards with cheap ammo for the longer barrel version/option.

The ruger is awesome. I also really like buckmarks, and the S&W 22a is a great shooter for a bargain. All three are capable of decent groups at 25-50 yards and make fine plinkers or introductory target guns. A good revolver is also great, and a SA revolver has a better trigger than any of the autos out of the box, some of the DA revolvers are just as good.

You can always restore one with mismatched spare parts. But that would take time to do, tons of work, and the result may not even be worth as much as it is now, since it is very nicely done. It might actually be cheaper overall to buy a mismatched mauser if you wanted one, than to try to buy and ship each part one by one + work needed. It may be an "old" (1960s or earlier?) factory conversion, another reason to leave it alone -- I have no idea who did this but the mauser printed on the buttpad is a clue that it was done in bulk by someone. If you want a lot better info than I have try the experts at gunboards, they may recognize the work.

I agree with this, but it was not the question. The question was the safest way, not the most sane way. The safest way is by doing the checks on the gun serial and the buyer. The sane way is to CYA by checking age, state of residence, and the usual things.

This is true -- I need to find the original interview without the cut & paste mess. Still a bit odd, if he really said that. If anyone finds an uncut version post it please. There just isnt much on this guy, media ignored for months...

The marks are storage, sight on wood damage The bayo is put up but its number matches and scabbard as well.

I will see what I can do. You are just going to have to trust me that all the stuff matches I am not making 20 photos of all the SNs stamped on every lil thing.

At a glance about $300, as it has been cut to ribbons but it looks to have been a pretty good job rather than a kitchen table hacksaw job. It would make an excellent shooter but has no collector value anymore. For reference, it used to look like this and weigh about twice as much: Karabiner 98k - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia