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I am going to agree with this 100%. Then I am going to wonder if we should give our troops tasers and haul every enemy back to the states to stand trial. This would be the ethical thing to do, but it would also be terribly inefficient and ineffective. A good bomb in the right place is an ugly, but practical and acceptable way to handle the enemy during a war.

most papers are on the internet though, so its the same thing. My electronic american rifleman has animated/popup/annoyware ads, the internet is probably BETTER for the "papers" than physical paper is -- the web lets the advertiser spy on anyone who sees their ad, anyone who clicks on it to follow up, etc, while there is no good way to see who read an ad in a magazine or paper.... eventually electronic will be the way to go as the few folks that read physical papers slowly surrender to technology, kicking and screaming all the way (some of em).

I was trying to find out more about this candidate, until I found this gem... Herman Cain Breaks With NRA On The Second Amendment | ThinkProgress

Its not the *design*, its the *workmanship*. Old world workmanship vs mass production, and nothing made today comes close at a reasonable price. You can get a fine mauser or other old rifle for $300 or less, even as low as $100 at times for a beater. A gun made equally well new would be a $1000 gun. But you can remake a milsurp into an amazing custom rifle for a low cost investment and the action will be better made than anything produced today outside the high dollar stuff. The bimetal jackets are thin and are no more prone to ricochet than anything else... lead or copper can bounce just as well if you hit the wrong thing. Copper jacketed will spark on a rock same as bimetal. Its not much different IMHO. I have seen 223 copper rounds give off a tremendous spark upon hitting a rock. Personally, I do tend to agree with you --- buy a cheap deer rifle, shoot it your 20 times a year, and it is fine. But the same money into a milsurp conversion will be a better gun, for a job that does not require a better gun. The milsurps were made to be shot hundreds of time a day in war. The $250 deer rifle was meant to be fired one time a day...

I lost the copy & paste but fox news just put out a blurb on this topic, and their numbers were that with the relaxation of gun control in DC and other states, the crime in THOSE areas are DOWN (as we have seen time and time again, carry permits = less crime) which means that relative to those areas, TN is HIGHER than it used to be... hmmm?

That is fine, I just said to check it first, there are rare variations. I was all set to lug mine thru the woods this coming season until I discoverd that all matched incluing bayonette, barrel cap, and the rest + all but unfired condition = much, much more $$$ than the common ones. Estimates ran closer to 3k for it, I had no idea, and am certainly glad I checked before banging it up. If I had converted this gun it would be hard pressed to have retained 10% of its value. 7.62 mosin is the same as 303 british, it is what I use in my mauser, .311 or .312 diameter bullets are not hard to find and you can get nice hollow point, soft point, etc bullets. I am using sierra designed for 303 brit, 180 grains, and I am willing to bet the mosin would eat that happily. A non-reloader would be in a mess but it should be possible to pull the bullet from a FMJ surplus round, poke in a new hunting bullet, and proceed, if you kept the bullet weights close.

The safest way is to go to a gun store and do an FFL transfer with the background check, most shops will provide this service at some cost + the background check fee. I do not know --- maybe you can do the background check without the fee, I don't know how that system works. The fee may be tied to the paperwork portion which could be skipped. The seller is only liable if the person you sold it to is very, very obviously a problem. Like, you sold your handgun to a 10 year old kid, or someone who was very clearly out of state (say you went to meet him in georgia...!). The police may be willing to do a background check for you for free. Again, I do not know. Most folks settle for meeting in a public place (so robbery is less likely), with a buddy along for the ride, and let it go after checking the buyer's driver's liscense. I mean, its a 2 way street: the buyer does not know the gun is not stolen, or that you are from his state, or anything about you. The seller does not know if the buyer is a felon or criminal, or out of state, or whatever either. So the ONLY safe way is to get an authority involved who CAN run the numbers on the gun and the buyer to see if both are legit.

Trim to make 9x18. I have never had to trim a pistol either, this is to make a hard to find case (everyone shoots steel 9x18, darn them) from an easy to find case. I do this for my 7.65 as well, take a tube cutter to 30-06 then reshape it, trim it. But those last forever -- the darn makarov loses about 5 out of every 50 no matter how I chase them down!

I also use the lee trimmer. I only do a few at a go, trying to trim in bulk is horrid and makes my hands hurt bad. I also hate that larger caliber trimmer sticks dull the blade if you are not really careful with them... the base bites into the blades steel on steel and its over, you almost have to buy one blade for each caliber or be super careful with it. I eventually want a better method for 223 and 9x19->9x18, the rest of it I do not shoot enough to matter, 25 here and there in the 30ish calibers every so often.

He had about 5 blade designs, and at least 2 of them were more of a classic design that would be good for utility work. But really, a $600 utility knife? Must be nice! I like the assassin style best (it just looks cool), but he would have change that grip design, possibly even make it a fixed blade, before I would bite.

A knife may be the answer --- most dogs are just making noise or even "playing" with you, but if one really does attack a few stab wounds will put a stop to it without the complications caused by a firearm. Usually you can back down the road from them (facing the dog), leaving their territory, and avoid anything more than a few min of aggravation.

welcome, I started in GA and crossed the state line when I went out on my own, one year of income tax was all it took! Still only 20 min from where I grew up, best of both worlds.

I started with #2, inherited 2 pounds of it. It is aggravating for me. I use the lee disk measure and it just barely makes a pretty hot 380 round with the smallest possible disk hole (with #2) and the 45s have so little in them I think you could get 4X a charge in there. If you have a different type of measure, it may work better for you. It works great in the 45s, by the way. The other issue with it is error factor --- if your equipment is off by volume or weight either one, .1 grain of weight for example, the difference in your loads with #2 is a LOT more noticable than .1 grain difference in #5 or #7. The good side is economics: a pound of #2 costs the same and goes farther than the others.

Lol probably blew $200 on a dinner to impress the lady, all wasted. Ive only been once, on the company dime (boss was rather upset) and it was easily $60 per person for us and we didnt get much in the way of drinks.

I cannot blame businesses for the bilingual signs. That is good business, to get money from all potential customers -- you bet I would do the same if I owned a store. I blame the government, for not sending the illegals back home.

Those trees must be preserved, however, the attack on gibson is moronic. They DO cut the trees some, and sell the wood, when one is diseased or they have enough to harvest some etc. This is on par with going after an antique shop/pawn shop for selling a set of ivory dice that were purchased in an estate sale. Who knows when or where the ivory came from .... but legal or not, I can assure you the 2 bit pawn shop clerk didnt go to africa to buy it from the black market or kill the animal himself. They are going after the symptoms instead of the problem, which is business as usual in our country.

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Only US citizens should have our rights. Else, all the chinese could vote for obama and all the eurpoeans could carry guns, right? Our citizens who happen to be hanging out in a terrorist cell in another country where they end up dead in the middle of a military operation.... gave up their rights already, or are possibly just casualties of the war. Either way, I lose no sleep over this. I am not terribly nice though, I am perfectly fine with making the whole middle east a sheet of glass and calling it a day, innocent and guilty alike -- they would do the same for me, if they had the technology.

I don't think any powder used for so wide a range of calibers is going to always fill the cases. That is the downside of the all in one powder approach. Both of the ones I listed fill a 380 case pretty well but leave a lot of room in the bigger stuff.

Sigh, my worthless aunt from oregon was just down here. She bums a place to stay out of my mother, who is a gentle turn the other cheek sort of person, then spends the whole week telling her how backwards the south is and how great the left coast is. She bought a book on guns & the south to take back to laugh at. It took less than 5 years after she moved up there to become extremely rude and hateful and arrogant. And, she forgets, I have been up there. Oregon is full of "rednecks" (her word) --- fishermen, outdoorsmen, hunters, people living in shacks on the side of the road selling junk they found on the beaches, you name it, its just as "trashy" (her word for the south) up there as it is here. And portland is just as ghetto as any other city of its size, we didnt stay there long but its just a city, like any other. Apart from the general snobbish attitude, political differences, and cold winters, it was not all that much different. She is worse than most because she tries extra hard to "make up for" being raised in the south, so she has a double dose of the snobs

Be smart about it.... park the truck with a gun in it and it may not be there when you get back. In the rack, that is a certainty. Move it behind the seat, it remains likely enough --- the "curious" will see the rack so they know you have a gun, maybe its in there behind the seat! When actually on the road, it would be a great way to carry the gun, protecting it and keeping it out of the way.

Not sure about titegroup but accurate #5 is good for anything from 380 to .45, though it is not for magnums like the 44/357 etc. Power pistol is also good for the same calibers. I tend to pick one powder for most calibers, same as you, and the power pistol was easy to find in a keg (bigger container) while #5 is hard to find outside of the 1 pound bottle, at least in my area. It varies from store to store.

Its a noisemaker. For a while now, very loud devices have been used to annoy people who are acting rowdy, lots of "hailers" designed for talking to someone hundreds of yards away for example have been used this way. This one is small, but likely evolved from the same tech. I have stood on both ends of one of these hailers in action, on a boat, and behind it you really do not get blasted by the sound. In front, its pretty impressive, you can hear it across the lake, as advertised, and it is very directional, too far off the side and the sound is not there. But the one we had was a big thing, the speaker had to be 10 inches or more diameter. This thing... I doubt it is too impressive beyond 100 feet or so (I could be wrong, but that is my guess).

it counts as a mouse gun. It looks like a typical 25, the same design used by several makers, but well made from the looks of it.

I would make it a safe queen, and buy a sig p238 to carry -- the colts have a lot of value if in great condition. Or if you carry it, don't throw your keys in your pocket on top of it