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In that case, depending on what you want to DO with the gun, you may be able to have a gunsmith change the port hole to cycle the weaker ammo, but that makes heavy loads kick a LOT more. We did that to our 1100 and it will take very wimpy ammo, which is great as its a 3 gun build and if I want to shoot heavy loads I have a second barrel.

you could just as easily say "after the nuke, all your paper books will be ash". The kindle will work if it was not directly zapped, anyone can power it from a car or generator etc and they last on batterys for months if you keep wireless off. Besides, 6 years ago, when I moved into this home, it took 5 trips (car trunk and seats) to haul my books over. I think its 6-7 trips now. My bookshelves are 2 deep in places and we made more shelves for the larger bookcases. I am pretty well set for paper.

very nice =) I dont suppose he sold it for what you got the last time? That may be too much to ask but after a year you would think he would be generous...

Not sure, is the gun broken in (do shotguns need much break in??) or something? It sure sounds like that ammo should work in that gun barring a problem of getting the gas to push the action. Does it have the 2 ring setup, where you have to ensure that the gap in the rings is not aligned? Thats the only other thing I can think of tonight.

Check the gas port in the barrel, could be clogged. Otherwise, the ammo may be too weak for it, is the gun rated for magnum loads? If so, it may not cycle some of the weaker loads.

Could be you, could be the gun. If in doubt I usually lock the gun in place, fire a round, then look down the sights. If you are aimed at the hole, its you. If you are not, its the gun or the sights or the ammo etc. I used to think new guns were somewhat sighted in at the factory, but I have about decided that this is not the case, the last 3 or 4 guns I have purchased were not even close at fairly short ranges (talking 20 feet here, not even far enough to call it yards).

Glad you are OK. Would be interesting to know what caused it, but the important thing is no one was hurt, a thankfully harmless reminder for everyone.

Welcome! My wife was fairly anti gun when I met her. After a bit I made her come with me to shoot (at the time it was just my back yard so it was no hassle). Now, I can't make enough ammo to keep up with her and she outshoots me most of the time. I will let the other parents give you tips on keeping small hands off a pistol; my parents solved this for me by having a rifle until I was old enough to know better, too heavy to pick up and too long to shoot myself and I was too scared of a serious butt beating if I got near it anyway A small child cannot easily rack a slide, heck a lot of grownups barely can, so that is one way to handle it for the very, very young. That will earn you some initial peace.... hand it to your wife, let her rack it, and remind her how weak a child in comparison, and tell her you will have additional safety measures as the child gets bigger. Oh, and 'grats on future fatherhood!

Rohrbaugh is almost exactly the same size in 9mm, but its pricy. If you go up in size a little bit, you can get a number of DAO guns already listed, such as the khars and kel-tecs or the ruger LC9. Unfortunately, to get a DA or a SA, you have to go a bit past the pocket guns; there are several that still fit but they are larger, heavier, and often fatter making them an awkward but possible choice. I manage to stuff a beretta px4 .40 into my pocket, and that is the absolute largest thing I have managed to pocket so far and its takes some work to come up with a system for so large a package. If you want small, you are stuck with a DAO apart from some stuff that is very, very hard to find and usually out of production. The walthers are in the awkward size category, its thinner but on par with my PX -- you will want to figure out exactly how much you can stand in your pocket before you go this large. If you want a DA, the taurus 709 or the walther are probably the best of the really small guns.

Its more open, mass communication and so on, combined with more people/crowds. Today, if a mob forms we know about it around the world, 50 years ago, it was known locally but hushed up past that. Today, there are hundreds/thousands of people jammed into a small area on a regular basis, back when, not so often. Also, times are hard and that brings out the worst in some people. Take a high population with a few angry/unstable people... toss them into a confined area ... make it hot and miserable outside... and give them an excuse to beat someone up, any excuse at all... see what happens?

By the way, I like the way this site ranks handguns for carry. Its sometimes a bit funny, but most of the time I agree with their "defense ranking" of a specific weapon. Genitron.com: Details for Kel-Tec PMR-30 .22 Magnum Pistol This link takes you to the kel tec 22 magnum pistol which has a 97% optimal ranking for a defense weapon, due to the insane capacity in a medium frame... what say you on more vs bigger in this case David, its an extreme example of course.

Welcome! XD are a very popular choice. The ruger is rugged but its a heavy beast, to be sure. They have a fairly low resell value, if possible you may be better off keeping it as a backup unless you can get good trade fodder on the XD with it.

As a fan of anything I can stuff into a pocket, almost every gun I looked at this past year that came in .40 and 9mm both dropped 2 rounds (on the average) when going to the .40 platform. Examples are the cz rami, 8 vs 10 shots, or the beretta px SC was 10 vs 13, and so on, everything being the same except the caliber. Sounds like Dave would pick the 9s in this case. I agree with most of his list, however I still say 1) is a contradiction. If stopping power is a myth, why carry or prefer a rifle/carbine/shotgun? Either more physics is better, or it isnt. If the differences are minor (which I agree with), that does not make the concept a myth, it just means there is little difference in the subset of {9mm, 40, 357, 45, etc}. The term stopping power is horrible, but mass and velocity are real and have real effects -- how important that is between similar things is another story.

Fair enough, but there is some crossover between the two, as well. I totally agree with the bigger is better, but if one looks at the data alone, there is a solid case for the smaller guns. Since we have no details on where people got hit by what sort of marksman under what conditions using whatever type of ammo and so on, the whole thing is guesswork. I honestly think, and always will, that if you had 2 bullets that followed the exact same path into the exact same body, the bigger momentum round would do damage greater than or equal to the smaller one. That sort of study is simly not possible to do, though.

Yes, if you handload, you can certainly make some ammo that will work, I was just talking commercial 380 rounds. You can load that stuff up to the point of brass failure in that gun, probably.

Get a reader. I read a LOT and got a kindle as a gift last year, its awesome. If you finish the book you are on, get another one, tons for free or under $5, and it has a web browser (very limited, but still) and some decent games (cards, chess, and other simple things that do not require animation/motion). For the space taken up by 1 book, you can carry a whole library around. They are a little pricy, but for people that read a lot and often are on travel or in waiting rooms or whatnot, its worth it.

Close enough. 100% of fatalities were stopped threats, so there is a connection between the two. They are clearly not the same thing, but to say they are not even close denys the direct relationship between fatal wounds and a fully stopped bad guy.

Its just another copy of kel-tec -- I would buy the original KT just because I do not care to support the copyright infringement models like ruger. Not a popular brand but those who have them say they are fine by and large. I also prefer the sig to those DAO guns, but different strokes and all that... and I like the bersa products as well. Trouble with the bersa is it also comes in 9mm, so there isnt much motivation to buy so large a package in a 380.

That is a neat pistol, I also had never seen this version. 380 isnt a great pick for 3-gun though, cannot knock over the metal targets they use sometimes, makarov is just barely able to do it with hot loads, its really designed for the 9mm/.40/45 crowd.

I know some places stop charging the elderly property tax, or greatly reduce it, GA does something but I forget the age and the details. No clue what TN does. My mom's SS checks are less than 10% of her total monthly income from retirement and so forth (she does not work). Its a joke, she puts the SS checks in to a college fund for her grandkids (my sister's kids).

The last tidbits I found say they were made by a consortium in belgium (which the above already indicated) --- each part made by a different company, so no one was given a label / that is why there is no manufacturer listed. They are not highly sought or collectable, value from $100-300 roughly unless in extremely good condition, which this one is not. They were apparently sold for $5 in the USA by the truckload from the 1800s through the depression.

Pretty sure this is a black powder gun, and firing any sort of modern ammo in it may destroy it, be sure of what you do before you fire it again.

http://damascus-barrels.com/Belgian_All_Proofmarks.html shows your ELC mark, but the dates do not match the above. Its confusing.

From the web:Crown over R is the mark for the CENTAURE C&B 1894 to 1968. The Star over R identifies the inspector, Sylvain Wagemans, who inspected for Centaure from 1951 to 1965.

You can do this at the prentice cooper range, on signal mountain, google it for directions. It can be rowdy up there, its not manned so go at your own risk. If you can find a friend, the chattanooga and cleveland clubs have great facilitys. I would be happy to take you to the cleveland range as a guest but its a bit of a drive (esp with kids, R we there yet?) so you probably want something closer. I am not a member of the chattanooga one. You may also get an offer from someone who has some property on the outskirts of town, there are plenty of people out of the city with private land suitable for shooting moderate distances. Yes, the limitation on shotguns is they do not want you to destroy the target boards with birdshot. A shotgun slug is OK.