Jonnin

reshoots should be very limited ... to things like stage failure... you know, the wind blows all the targets over for you sort of things.    Unsporting behavior should earn you a trip home.  The occasional impolite word should be treated same as daytime radio ... a few get through and its no big deal, when it goes past that, the director should take matters in hand and restore a positive atmosphere, and constant repeat offending should earn a go-home.   I was also a bit shocked at the wording....   its kind of discouraging toward female shooters.      the sports have drifted from their roots into a hard core competitive environment.   It was inevitable I suppose, but the fun factor goes away when people start getting all bent out over scores and rules. 

what can he do?  You can make a robot to pull the trigger based off his eye movements or something.   You can even put the gun itself on a pan/tilt/zoom mount with a trigger puller if he can control such a thing.    If it was just inability to work a strong spring on a trigger, there are guns with triggers so light you can look at em and set it off.  That is no challenge to create, though it can be pricy...  but there are some guns you can put a hair trigger on relatively  easy and cheap, like a ruger mark pistol or a 10-22.   Trouble with a hair trigger is he might lack coordination to use it.  Depends on what exactly his disease is.   And as for a hammer, an auto or something that does not have a hammer might work better for him?     All around it screams 10-22 or mark 3 customized?   And if he can't manage those, the robotics become the solution, sadly.  That would be last resort, though.     Have you or can you get pics of the setup and explain more details on what you think might be doable?

1) if you concealed it, you have about a 99.999% chance of the cop never knowing about your gun so long as you behave like a normal human being.  However, in TN, it is not legal to carry a gun under *any* influence, so you would indeed have a problem if he saw it.   2) actually, you might be in better shape here.  The law prevents prosecution of the shooter in a valid self defense shoot.   ???  Not sure how it would play out, but I think you would get raked over the coals for having been drinking regardless.   You do not want to be in this situation, no matter if you come out clean... you just don't want this.

Sounds like it fits pretty well and you won't beat that price easily.  10mm is not too far off a 44 when both guns use equal barrel lengths.   I still want one of the 1911ish 10's but its on the to-do list. 

  I mostly agree with this.  It belongs in history books, and historic sites, which is of all things where it was removed.  It even belongs on the general lee car, that is, if not really history, a classic and part of Americana and such.       But at the end of the day, what does it SAY about the person flying it?  Are they in rebellion against the USA?  Are they trying to revisit the defeated state's right's cause and go to war over it?   Why would one fly the flag of, what is now a defeated enemy?   And the bulk of the people doing it would tell you in a heartbeat they love America & are patriots.   It does not make any logical sense.    To me, it really is on par with flying a Nazi flag and saying "well nope, Im no Nazi, I don't hate the jews, and I am a patriot who loves America, but this here flag is *cool looking".

25-06 will reach out a good distance, for a different caliber suggestion.    Dunno, it might be a dead or dying caliber now, a lot of my stuff is ancient.

yea, who knows... maybe you can find one to test fire before you decide. 

  yea bad example, they have shot up since then, the 200 ones now are in terrible shape unless you can grab one from someone who does not know any better.   But the idea is still there... you can get a lot for a little with some legwork.

  heh ... ill pit my $200 Makarov against anything under 1k and walk away smiling.   And, come to think of it,  a Makarov or similar milsurp is gonna be a lot better made than sccy... your dollars to quality could be better spent elsewhere depending on what exactly your goal is.   An old ruger p series will be in the same ball park price and much, much, much better made and almost assured reliability.   Like I said, its "a deal", even a pretty good one, but its not the deal of the year or anything.  You are still buying a rough gun with your money, no matter how cheap.   Dollars do not always mean significantly better quality.  It depends.  There are 200-300 guns, used and old, that will run circles around a new one that is made on the cheap. 

Msrp from colt is 1400 flat. **   The used gun tax will bit you a bit, but you should be able to get a bit over 1k for it -- more if you added anything useful like a quality scope?   As-sold, you might get 1250, 1200, at a "guess"  if you are patient, or you could probably sell it in a day or two at 1150 or so...  again, guessing here.   This gun could serve you as a good investment soon.  Depending on which idiots get elected .... it could easily go up into the 2500 range if you wait on another panic.   If you are not in great need of the money or space... you might be wise to hold it for a little longer?     ** http://www.colt.com/Catalog/Rifles/LE6940Series.aspx

  The incline is cool --- its a good ride and practical engineering.  Its still, I think, the fastest working way up or down that mountain (not counting jumping).   On top of being gravity operated etc.   Goes right thru an old and sadly a bit run down neighborhood -- there are some great homes all around it, if you like seeing 1920s or whatever buildings.    On good years, its something to see in the fall, the mountain and leaves etc.

seems like you could make something that would work outta PVC pipes, 2x4s, or similar cheap materials.  A double U shaped padded holding area, with something to hold it in place (a quick release strap would do the trick, you know the type? Plastic connector, like a backpack's belt etc?)  and some way to anchor it to the tractor wherever you have a spot?   Or, you could go vertical instead and put it into some sort of upright ... here again, think rifle racks at the range or 3-gun + some sort of strap?   Youll want to pad heavily to prevent vibration damage.    Might I recommend a decent pistol?  You could open a $15 foam lined case, put 3 or so moly magnets in it, sit it on anything metal in the tractor, and shut it... pistol be ready to go as fast as you can open the box and shoot it?   If the mags are like from an old hard drive etc they will be glued or welded or something to a metal plate that blocks it on one side... so it wouldn't stick to the gun thru the foam that way.  A long barrel 357 will kill most pests at 100 yards or so.

  cleaning depends on what is wrong with it.  A new one, I would spray a paper towel with rem oil and jack it thru a few times, wadded up so as to be a very tight, difficult to push thru friction cleaning.    The first go can be loose fit to get the big pieces out.     Then dry patch it to get the oil off.   From there going forward, if you don't touch it a lot inside,  case lube will get on it and protect it during use cycles.   Cleaning after use ...  it depends on what you have going on.  I have bits of lead in mine, and some soot from case insides,  occasional brass scrapings from cases that had a burr or something, etc and I give em the new die treatment every so often.   If you don't load lead and are not getting anything else major inside, you can probably do a minor wipeout now and then to get rid of excess case lube and such.   It just depends on what it looks like how much you need to do.   Mine get kind of nasty after 1k or so rounds.

the last I heard their primary 9mm original was mostly working and trouble free now.  Buy a used one, you might get the older, trouble prone model, so only buy new here.   They had a rocky start, but seem to have overcome it a bit.. its hard to overcome that bad reputation though.   I don't own one, but ive shot one and it worked, for whatever a few rounds is worth.   this is a gun for people who need protection but can't afford the 500 a pop brand names.  Its a deal of sorts, but its nothing to rush off for...  the going price for just the gun was around 200-225 or so a while back, I *think*. 

news to me, I didn't know that after banning guns there were no more murders ever since in aussie.  

good luck!  A few people have managed around 1 moa with them, but you need a really good barrel going in to get that.

  If you get a 308 bolt or lever gun, you can download your own ammo to be more comfortable -- effectively, you can make it a 30-30 or whatever in power within a wide range of loads and still be accurate at hunting ranges (50, 100, 200 yards etc).   slug is perfectly fine for the job but can be challenging to make a shot.  I can't hit jack with a slug past 50 yards, and can't recommend it for a new shooter.  Granted, my shotgun is not well set up for this job, but even so, its just not a friendly setup for a new guy.  On the flipside, slugs are pretty potent and can turn some bad shots into kills in spite of shooter error -- not always, but more often than zero.   There are tons of fine deer rifles and calibers out there.  All you need is a moderate cartridge that is inexpensive to reload or purchase, a decent scope that won't fall apart under recoil, and a fairly inexpensive rifle.   My advice is to pick your caliber, then go to a gun show and pick up a used rifle that suits you, find a scope with a full lifetime warranty,  and call it good.

  It *felt* great to me.  It just didn't conceal as well as I might have liked.  The big ones with the rotating barrel are a joy to shoot ... comfy, mild.  Just a bit large for my personal prefs.

  you can use a razor/exacto or a hot wire or a number of other things on it.   Its not too bad to just trace and cut a chunk of solid foam.  The pre-cut stuff is a nightmare.    Trying to cut to a specific depth is very challenging, its easier to buy layers and cut all the way thru one layer and glue the other layer behind that. 

right, don't spend real money on it for sure.   I was guessing you could take a stab for less than 10.

I am not sure what that has to do with my comment?  You can still venture a few bucks and try to hand-replace the part ... and it may or may not work ...  but the parts are tiny and hard to get in correctly and even then, as already said, you got a fair chance of something else being fried that you can't even see.   I would be generous and say you got about a 10% chance of it working if you fix the obviously fried part.   But 10% chance is pretty good, given the price of a working board..   you just never know.  Wife handed me her guitar tuner with caked on leaked batter corrosion.   Took me about 3 hours but it worked after I cleaned it up.   One of my monitors died, and I busted it open and fooled with it and got it going again, it lasted 2 more years.  I won't mention the dozen+ failures though...  don't hurt anything to try, if it already does not work.  Those little parts are usually cheap.

  The rifle is gonna be out of my price range, and there are a number to choose from.  I would look at what the Olympic shooters use, and again at the other competitions, see what the pros have.   However, remember that accuracy is a multivariable equation.  The vast majority of "not total crap" guns can put all the shots in nearly the same hole at 100 yards if the gun is locked down and shot by a machine with excellent ammo that works well in it.   The expensive stuff is designed to take human errors out, to reduce the shooter's burden by reducing recoil, weight, trigger slop, and such things as reduce accuracy by frustrating the shooter.   They look like futuristic space ray guns at the top end, and its all about shooter comfort and removing those pesky human wiggles from the equation.   the best scope you can put on the 22 is the best one you can put on a sniper rifle at 1000 yards lol.  If it can focus at the range, the better the quality and power, the better it is.  I would gladly shoot with a 50x power scope at 100 yards if it could focus cleanly there.   I have no pride here... bench rested shooting, take all you can get.  If you are standing up, too much magnification can actually cause problems, depending on the competitive sport in question.  You sure can't find the target rapidly with a giant power multiplier,  if its a speed shooting event.  So it kinda depends on what you are doing, but assuming pure accuracy from rested position with infinite time to shoot,  go for the gold.  There are a lot of good scopes out there, and I dunno what is "best" for whatever style of shooting.    target practice?  past 200 yards is a lot for a .22.   You can go more...  but that's a practical limit for typical applications.   Game?  depends on what game and what ammo, exactly.   A bunny at 200 would probably die from a hit.  Some other stuff might not. 

heh.  I hate that stuff.  We use it at work and after a while it just loses more and more until nothing remains.

No one can say.   Ill say this ... parts that small is hard to work with...  but you might find that you can fix it for $4 bucks and one chip.  Or you might spend 10 hours on it and discover it still does not work.   Nothing ventured...    sometimes, it works, sometimes, it does not.   Most of the time, it does not.

You should have mentioned it.   A friend of mine's home is in a nasty curve and they get regular accidents there, and a % of them toss things out.  It usually ends up being booze or drugs...  there is ZERO reason to discard ANYTHING after an accident unless the person was doing something wrong.  If they pooped or threw up or something, it would have taken longer to wipe up than you described, so it wasn't like they were throwing out something messy due to the accident, it pretty much had to be something illegal.    Which is dumb anyway... cops don't search a car in an accident like this one ... derp, officer, that roll of stuff came at me and I went to avoid it and lost control.   Investigation over, APB out on truck carrying insulation...