Jonnin

I didnt know that, I thought you could reform & trim a .40 case to work. The neck isnt THAT extreme, what is the issue with doing this?

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90% of gun related stuff I buy is FOR my wife, who has expensive tastes. She said the next big purchase has to be for me =) So, I guess the best secret strategy is to get her into the sport if you can...

Right, I do not know of any caliber of ammo that is prone to jamming. Certain brands/bullet designs, and certain guns, but I have 100% reliable guns in a multitude of calibers.

I found it, they buried it deeply! http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=8162.0 but that range said 223 only, so is there an exception for the event?

I didnt see any more info on the course, but the range said 223 and below, so what exactly are you shooting, do we bring our own guns and ammo, etc? It refers to revolutionary war, are you shooting a BP musket?! It also refers to surplus ammo so I am ultra confused.

is the HP pistol (and carbine, I guess) SAO design? The trigger looks like it, but you said the trigger was bad, what is the story on that? Bad compared to a $1500 1911?

Well apart from the naming conventions, you have the other part of your question. The 9mm is a fine round to use. It is inexpensive (largely due to the amount produced in bulk and the fact that most military in the world use it) and effective for self defense or war. There are more powerful rounds, but it will do the job, so to speak. The round can be reasonably accurate and has enough velocity to carry it accurately to a decent range. In short, its fine, and since it is cheap, you will probably make it your practice ammo of choice, alongside a .22 (even cheaper).

don't worry about it. Its mostly a factor of the type of powder used as to how dirty the brass is. You may have a slight gap (talking nanometers here) on one side of your barrel that allows the hot gasses to take a path of least resistence down that side of the brass, but nothing is perfect, and as far as I know, this sort of thing does no harm to the gun or the user.

The class and permit are a source of tax money, nothing more. Same for dirver's ed or the need for a liscense. I am going to say I buy the car analogy. And then I am going to say that for all the regulations, fees, and an active police force to enforce the driving laws, we still have MORE fatal car accidents caused by basic incompetence than we do fatalities from gun accidents. And, we still have a number of fatal gun accidents as well. The rules and regulations do not help at all. Society really has 2 basic choices: 1) ban everything more dangerous than a butter knife or 2) accept that people, in general, are moronic and will always suffer some darwin events regardless of any level of rules and regulations, so do away with these foolish attempts to defeat the natural course of things.

Another forum that I use has many foreign shooters and in some places, the price of ammo is so high (they were listing over $50 a box for pistol ammo, in $USA terms) that the .22 is all most can afford to shoot, so they go all out with their .22 guns. It has a place indeed. For the record, I get a kick out of all the tatical stuff in any caliber, shotgun, pistol, or rifle, and yes, I own some of it and laugh at myself as well. Largely because I know what tatical actually means, and drilling extra holes in every piece of plastic is not the defination that I am used to

I am almost certain that if she can pass the shooting test, you can find an instructor to give her the test with accomodations. I was at 20/180 when I got my HCP but mine could be corrected via hard contacts to nearly 20/20 (and has since been fixed to 20/20 with lasik). That means I could see the E on the eyechart with my better eye, for reference. Without contacts, I did shoot a few times and I could probably have defended myself, but lord help anyone friendly that got in front of me if it had come to that, I couldnt tell my own dad from the unibomber outside of 2 feet away.

oh, that was plastic? They looked like wood in the pic!

I liked the price, accuracy, available high cap mags, and light weight build. It still looks like a cheap plastic rifle with a cheap clear plastic magazine and a cheap scope, and still shoots great. A few people buy the 10/22 to make it look silly but the current market has a number of .22s that look like that out of the box so the motivation to buy a 10/22 and a bunch of parts to rebuild it is largely gone now for anyone except the most hard core "tatical" 22 shooter. The pre-fab tatical 22s even have a big fake 223 sized mag that doubles as extra weight to reduce the recoil.

Nice job on that refinish. I would have kept the wooden pistol grip in the same color just for looks, but you cant beat that black grooved one for function.

I have a half dozen .22 autos (and a number of bolts, levers, and whatnot), both pistols and rifles. A few are very, very picky, but most of them are flawles with bulk junk ammo from walmart, the stuff that is 500+ rounds for a few dollars. They are also accurate, the rifles are good to 100+ yards and the pistols give or take out to 50. I am not sure what guns you have, but if it is not working, its due to either a poor quality gun or a lack of cleaning (and, by that, I mean one cleaning per bulk pack of ammo, or 500 rounds or so). Off the top of my head, the one .22 that I have that is super picky is my .22 S&W escort, which is a mousegun semi that holds 5 rounds and the whole design was never very good, they only made it for like 1 year before giving up on that design. I tried for 2 months last year to get it working and it will with hot cci ammo, but not with anything else. The ones that work 100% with anything include a mark2, 2 buckmarks, 22a, 10/22, browning belgium made tube fed that I can't remember the model of, another tube fed that I cannot remember the brand or model of lol (some 60s era cheapo), and I have often shot and observed it being shot a walther p22 (inaccurate, but never fails to fire) and a phoneix arms .22 (sorta accuate at short ranges and 100% reliable). Nothing against the manual guns (I have a number of those too, and love them) but there is nothing wrong with the major brands of automatics, indeed, many of the cheap major brand guns are extremely accurate on top of reliable, with that long barreled buckmark being able to pop a dime at 50 yards (bench rest FTW).

If it is trying to install or harrassing you, do not get it from that location. Lots of freeware is taken by thugs and bundled up with junkware/malware/adware/etc. as a sort of trojan; you get the free stuff and a bunch of stuff you didnt want and may not be able to remove easily. If you want the program, go to its home page, read up on it, then download it from a safe location.By the way it is often possible to reroute streamed audio or video thru to your recording software if you want your own copy. One way is to jack the output of your soundcard into the input of a second card (for example if you have a real card and a built in one on the motherboard). Its like recording a song off the radio, which used to be acceptable, I do not know about the legal details of such things, just the technical possibility.

I see that but compromise is how we got to the state we are in now, with dozens of special purpose firearms laws that supposedly are OK even if they violate the right to bear arms, including the concept of a permit. The only reason a gun should be destroyed, ever, is if it is too dangerous to shoot (will explode or the like due to poor condition), and even then, "destroyed" should mean little more than removal of the firing pin or similar, with possibly some sort of universal danger symbol that can be stamped in a known location to warn people of the poor condition. I am also ok with the destruction of illegal modified firearms that cannot be repaired or cost too much to fix, such as a full auto glock or the like --- however those, if functional, SHOULD be kept and used by the police/swat for tatical situations.

There's one born every min...

250-500 at a rough guess via google, but that body style is uncommonish of the ones up for sale so you will want a better answer before you sell it. That is just a ballpark.

Kel tec SU-22 for something different. Or the Mossberg tatical 22. I have the 10-22 just like everyone else, only upgrade was 2 30 round mags and a 4x scope. I think the used 10-22 was like $250 or so, and that may have included tax and fees.... shop around if you want a low price.

that is odd. They like dark, maybe damp areas and this is very unlike them. I have found maybe 5 in my life, and ALL of them were on the ground, outside, and in a dark area like move an old log and there it is. One lived in a stump in our yard that we had drilled holes in to rot it out, found it as we did the final removal of the stump. I took that one to school (alive, in a jar) and my science prof had a minor cow (deadly critter in a glass jar with kids all around), killed and preserved it.

I do not have a round count but my plr 16 just keeps going and going, Im sure its over 1k by a decent margin. It hates my reloads -- something is STILL slightly out of spec somewhere --- but it eats brass factory ammo all day long (manual says stick to brass so I do). Its accurate and probably useful out to 100-200 yards (depending on the ammo). For a cheap gun, it has been amazing.

It looks to be identical to my 1100. Again, I had the gunsmith drill my ports out, the DIY approach is fine if you either know how big to go or like the trial and error approach. If you only shoot light loads, this is THE thing to have done, it will then be usable for light loads. Buy a couple of pins (this can't be that expensive) or have them made to get it flush, and you should be good to go.

The 9mm is very similar to the 357 (either type) in shorter barrel guns. It becomes QUITE a bit more powerful out of long barrel guns. It has a marginal edge over 9 in typical carry guns with 3-4 inch barrels -- barely worth mentioning. If you are carrying a 5+ barreled duty gun, the sig is a winner for sure. 525 out of what gun? Also, energy is biased with velocity over mass, use momentum to weight both equally for a much better comparison of power.