Jonnin

I use shooter's depo a lot. They have a smith part-time, you end up leaving the gun there & picking up a week later. He has done 3 or 4 things for me now, so far all have been great.

Welcome! Always good to see younger folks get into shooting, take your friends along & get em hooked!

1911|GI Champion with GI Package at my LGS is $570, springfield & new. There are a few models in that price range.

The glock target is consistent and off center. Its hard to say, but given your second target, you may want to adjust sights. Either the sights are off or you do something when shooting that gun. No one can say which from a target, and its hard to tell when you do something while shooting, so I would set it up in a rest, fire a few shots, then see if the group and the sights are aligned or not.

It gets worse. I joined to buy a set of backup parts for a gun, and elected not to pay them a cent for verification. I tried to buy out the item, and was told I cannot: you can only buyout an item if you meet some criteria. So I bid over the buyout amount. And lost. Repeated this 3 times. So you cannot even buy stuff on the site until you have bought stuff on the site (?!). I got irritable with it, contacted the seller, and bought a set of parts outside of GB from the same guy. Its like they don't WANT you to use their site, so I can oblige them on that.

Glocks are great guns that are exactly the opposite of what I prefer in nearly every category. I shoot my wife's now and then just to have a little experience with it in case I grab it, but I dislike the thing a LOT. It doesnt matter. You will have fun with your son, and the thing will shoot fine. You may even come to like it, and the experience of being able to use one is important as you never know what you may have to use one day. That long model you picked will give a nice sight radius for competition if you grow to like it and choose to use it.

The 5.5 is not as accurate for as far as the 7.6 either -- its more easily messed up by wind, for one thing. A good 308 is more accurate than a 5.5, IMHO. Thats a bolt action though, not a AR. I dont have a lot of AR experience, but its not the cartridge. Energy isnt everything, momentum is just about as important, also IMHO. Most things "gun" are about tradeoffs... you just have to choose what you want for your application. What exactly are you wanting to do with the gun? I dont know aobut you, but I need a good reason to be shooting at something 300+ yards away, apart for paper targets for fun. A person that far away either is good enough to have killed me already or I am *gone* from the area, not going to get into a sniper war no matter how much I think of my own marksmanship. And if I do get into it at that range for some unholy reason, I will use a bolt action with a massive scope, not a spray & pray or toy AR. (Now, if I had in hand a full auto AR for real, maybe..) To answer it another way my "zombie" gun is just a 223, with a 2-7X scope & a laser sight for up close. That gets me to ~200 yards. Anything farther out is just not reasonable for anything I need to do, and if I did need that, I have a variety of bolts to fall back on.

keep ccleaner. Its ability to clean up junk, fix the registry, and remove annoying auto start programs makes it a program all windows computers should have. Use it early and often it is safe and I have never heard of it causing any damage to a PC. Can you verify that the CD was read? Open my computer (or whatever vista calls it), open the CD, and you should see wav files or something, I forget but the computer acts as if it has a disk inserted. If the computer seems to act as if no disk is inserted, you have a problem: the drive may be bad, or a bad driver for it, or something. If it used to work and suddenly does not, either the drive is dead or you changed related software or settings (by accident or intent).

In your price range, a CCW with a target trigger is just not very common. Can you comment on a revolver, modified cheap gun, or a 1911 clone in 9mm or the like? You said no 1911 but did that mean the style or the .45 caliber true 1911s? This year being what it is, by march I expect to see a 1911 in every caliber from 22 to 50 caliber to 223 to magnums by everyone and their brother making a 100 year gun. Some of them are bound to be cheap, fun shooters. Thats about it on a decent trigger --- and all of those are reliable.

Yes, I know, I just saw 38 S and brain said 38 Sp. The 38 special commentary can be ignored, my bad!

I did a 10 min google search and all I could find was lead round nose, in about 5 brands, mostly remington & winchester & mag-tec. You may as well go with what you have. If you can reload, consider poking the bullets in backwards to make a flat nose instead, thats probably the best you can do with this caliber unless you are a very hard core reloader (in which case you may be able to adapt something, or not).

Let me second this. A cheap commie gun with a solid trigger job is amazing. Mine is a makarov but same idea; I shot 100 rounds thru it a couple of weeks back, into a fresh cardboard target holder, and the total group for 100 shots (at about 20-25 feet) was 3 inches (using silver bear ammo, very cheap stuff). The trigger pull on it is about 1/4 inch at 2.5lbs or so. Its the best shooting cheap gun I have ever held/owned/etc. And its durable, sitting on 2500 rounds or so without a hiccup.

Oh, its not 38 sp?? I missed that entirely, duh. He is correct, you wont find +p nor much at all in ammo for *that*.

If all you can find are solids, use solids. If you plan to carry it a lot, get something better though. I am shocked that your LGS does not have at least one hollowpoint round to buy : there are still many, many 38 snubbies in use for defense/carry. Also, a lot of reports say that ultra short barrel 38s do not expand defensive ammo anyway, and in that case flat nosed solid points is better. ****You said your gun is older, make SURE it can handle +P ammo before you buy +P ammo, or it may damage the gun or worse. *If the barrel is < 3 inch, consider a solid point ammo. If it has the barrel and the ability to handle defensive ammo, buy some online, such as buffalo bore or hornady. If you just want something decent, try winchester's flat nosed rounds, not +p, or remington's flat nose, or fiocchi's semi-jacketd hollow points. One of these will do nicely in an old gun that cannot handle the high pressure. ---------------- edit to answer: do NOT get a FMJ. It has the highest chance to over penetrate, and is typically round nose, it would be the worst (though still functional) defense round, IMO.

First, if you lie, you will be found out. Second, its against TGO rules to advocate breaking the law (as this, a false accusation, would be). Third, by posting that, you just made public your intent and could be found out even easier. This is a BAD Plan! Control your anger and hate, then make a decision to either write it off (in this case, get it out of your name and disassociated with your name), or attempt to recover it. Even if the attempt to recover it fails, you should get it out of your name. If she claims it was a gift, logic is on your side. Most people transfer related paperwork when they give one, and you signed something when you bought it that you were buying it for yourself, and typically folks dont buy guns as gifts for a GF early in a relationship.

Lead bullets are fine in a revolver, they can cause issues in semi-autos as the slide can slam the rounds hard enough to deform them. The type of bullet is one of "those" discussions... that are best avoided. In my opinion, and that is all it is, either get a flat nosed bullet or a hollow point for a 38sp. 38 has plenty of energy to drive a hollowpoint home, and I would say to use them for your SD rounds. There is nothing "wrong" with a round lead bullet, it will surely work over an attacker if you used it for defense, but the rounds I mentioned will do a little bit more damage. Again, there is a reason SD ammo is usually hollowpoint, and a reason hunting ammo is usually a type that expands, etc.

I have hornady in mine, but its not a piece I carry its a "stashed in the house" gun.

report it as stolen, since you have the paperwork? Even if you don't want to get into a he-said-she-said fight over it, you can use this to clear it from your name in case it is used in a crime etc?

The real reason: its a tax to take money from you. The other reason: you could have committed a felony or had a restraining order or the like against you recently and still somehow have your carry permit physically (even if revoked) on your person. By doing a background check, the store can see that you are in the clear currently. The HCP just shows that at one point in time in the past 4 years you were in the clear. Its a good thing that they check it for current problems. But it should be 100% free. Its a hit on a database over the internet, the cost of that is like $0.15 tops, for the electricity and hard disk wear & tear and time spent typing in your name.

Should have had the doctor plaster you up a holster in the cast and sling mess... If you have enough "hardware" on that leg, you might be able to hide something small to mid sized there. Depending on what you plan to do and what gun you have, you could just sit on it as well, for example put in a pillow, put the gun against the side under the pillow, then sit on the pillow. Since your condition is temporary, you don't have to spend money on new holsters and whatnot, be creative and you will find an acceptable solution for a few weeks.

Armys and such aside, just for raw survival, I would still use the bow. I can handle a cap & ball gun, even an annoying one like a muzzle loader so long as I had powder and caps, but matchlocks or flintlocks with homemade powder are not for me. Either one may be equally valid, but that would be my choice. I have not used a bow in some years but I am confident I can relearn it in a hurry if I must.

As a toy it seems neat. I have little use for 410 (its expensive for plinking, weak for defense, and I dont have a lot of trouble with animals) and would just use my cheap target 22 if in a snakey area. As a 45, its OK, but there are better choices IMO.

There are pros and cons to both. It takes a great deal of skill to make arrows too, and a bow is not easy to make if you could not find one or didnt have one. The Natives did pretty well against us when guns were this primative. Disease and modern guns won the day, not simple muskets vs arrows. By the time the natives totally gave up, guns were using cartridges and lever actions, etc.

I just know where to look on the web & what to look for, barely. I admit I love the design, and that led me to try a variety of them and study it a bit. Only kept 1 though, I am nowhere near a hard core collector of them or any of that.

He sent me a picture and it matchs this link exactly, from what he can read of the markings and all the body parts match up: Pistols For Sale - IMEZ IJ70-17AH 380 Rare HiCap Also called Baikal - Auction: 8707099 (Ended 07/17/2008, 19:00:00 PST) So its a double stack IMEZ makarov in .380 apparently packed in salt for long term storage Any mak magazine should fit it (as suspected), though finding a high cap may be a pain. I confused myself with the feg pictures. They did not make a double stack. The comment was the result of looking at thumbnail images from google too quickly combined with a faulty memory.