Jonnin

seems like something you either do entirely (sell everything else or do it from day 1 as a planned approach)  or you don't do it at all.   But I say that as a shooter ... I can't understand owning large numbers of guns you do not shoot.    I much prefer being able to make a few rounds for anything I own, and shoot anything I own when I want to...   and still being able to do a bulk purchase if I wanted to do that, etc.   Nothing wrong with shooting the cheapest to feed guns the most ...   even now the majority of my shooting is still .22 ...  but I try to exercise most of my guns at least a couple of times a year.

I hate to encourage any sort of permit, because that is wrong, but Id rather pay once and have done with it if they insist.   That said, at some point, 750 is more than the rest of my life is gonna be...  if its actually 50 every 5 years, that is a lot of years to pay for and the bulk of gun owners are middle aged ... a great many people generally finish college before permit since you can't use it on campus anyway...    they need to offer a buy once that is age-based, so the older you are the less you would pay...   I don't need 100 years worth anymore...

export them, compress them, and email them....  most email clients allow you to save them as a document (often just a .txt or .html with images).  And you can usually do that in bulk.   Compressed to a single file, 200 should not be very large if its "just email".   If its documents, files, images, and other big junk, you may need to dump the compressed file to the drop box or similar approach.   If its under 2 MB, just email it.

is this physical or mental?   If physical, I have no idea... I have damaged hands as well and anything I can dry fire, I can shoot.  Mostly, that is SAO actions, or very light DA/SA that are already cocked.    What gun is giving you trouble?  Have you tried a SAO like a cocked revolver or a 1911 etc??     If it is mental...  I can't say much about that, except you just have to overcome the fear.

I shoot the same projectile in all 9 and 38/357 ... a cheap lead 380 round that I bought like 5000 of.   Granted, the 357 load is extra weak.   I have heavier projectiles for the full loads. 

  Agreed.  I often forget to mention it because until recently it was a collector's item -- but sig did so well colt decided to start making them again...  as said try a few, see if one has some slight edge over the other for your personal tastes.

  Well, there comes a point...   they been around a *while* now.  There are KT guns that are 15 years old or more .... worn out, changed hands 10 times or more, shot to death,  bubba'ed, and even models no longer made.   Does colt still repair 1911s from pre WW1 for free?   Will browning repair your 75 year old A-5 for free?  You probably not the original owner of those, given the ages of them, are you?   No, no one else does this either.   I don't see how its a deal breaker to do the exact same thing every other gun company does.    They still fix the gun for free if you bought it new  -- which is exactly what everyone else in the industry does.    It is not economically viable to do repairs on every item ever made once your company reaches a certain age...

  Its not uncommon.  I used to do community service and we would go to the nursing homes.  There was an entire *floor*  (of about 4 floors?) that housed the more troublesome folks.   That is, they would randomly assault you,  verbally or physically, some quite aggressively.    The common theme seems to be that YOU (the victim) remind the person of someone they absolutely HATE.  And they act upon this.    My wife's grandmom thought my wife was someone who had been her rival or enemy or whatever in like elementary school and would throw stuff and try to get at her...  same thing.   When my grandma was in, one of the other ladies there chased me in her wheelchair (slowly... sad..)  saying she was gonna get me for being a scruffy looking rascal.  It was funny, but it wasn't.  I think she took offense to my leather jacket.   The brain is short circuited... and what happens is pretty much totally random.  They all have things in common ... memory loss, confusion, but *which* memories and how they are wired to respond to the confusion varies greatly.     Whether this guy had it or not is hard to say.  Usually, they call the person by the name of the mistaken identity but not always, and reference wrongs that of course make no sense to the victim.    This sounds like something else.

I really like our EAA.    It is accurate and reliable.  Trigger is so-so, but it was like $450,  not a pro target model.   They make a fine single action model but its pricy.   I also like the cz rami.  Good size for both range and carry.   I had it converted to SA but it has a ton of take-up.  There is only so much you can do without a total overhaul.   range only, the RIA 1911 9mm is hard to beat for price and fun.

I dislike the 1911 grip safety, actually.   It seems redundant and it feels weird to me.     The deal with a safety is pretty simple to me.   IMHO you need one if the gun fires easily --- usually this means a short trigger pull, and that pretty much means all single actions (autos..) and 1911s or their red headed stepkids like my sig 938.    Almost nothing else "needs" one.  If it has a 10 pound over an inch and a half pull to fire, like typical DAO or DA/SA first shot,  it does not need a safety at all.  The lighter striker fired guns are borderline, they have a long trigger (mushy) with a light pull weight.     However, manual safeties have a great feature in common, across all models from rifle to machine gun to pistol:  you do not have to engage it, ever.  If you do not like it, leave it in "fire" mode.   Because of this, IMHO the majority of pistols *should* have one or be offered in a with/without configuration or make it easy to remove.     I would classify a gun as needing a safety if it can be fired by picking it up by its trigger (gun in its "holstered" state).   This is where the oft cited "you need a proper holster"  lecture comes in.  If your gun were not dangerous, it would not need a "proper holster", it would be fine if you threw it loose in a pocket, backpack, purse, or whatever.   If the holster is a substitute for a safety, the gun should have had a manual safety.   But a lot of guns DO lack a safety and ARE dangerous without a holster...  a fact that must be dealt with by the owners of those types of guns.    (I do not advocate carrying a gun loose, you do so at your own risk and make your own adult choices here.   This is just a way to explain the issue.)   At the end of the day, the safety is your last defense against having screwed up somehow.   

thank you for your service!   a sniper rifle is great but lets be honest... the average joe can't hit squat past 300-500 yards.  You start talking 1000, 2000 yards and so on with a 50 bmg, you got a guy never shot before trying to deal with crosswinds and earth rotation and whatever else with no training?   Not too many will be effective with this.   Typical bubba with a deer rifle is fine.  100-200 yards is easy with a good one, and most of your bubba's that have the same thoughts that you do *have* this.    And a typical AR is fine.  It takes just a dremel tool and some wherewithal to convert one to full auto, if you *want* that.   IMHO if there are enough targets here in the states to spray lead at, we are already done for, but its not hard to produce a lead sprayer.  Illegal, yes, but given the situation...    And AP is not too hard either.  Plenty of joes got some basic metal working stuff and can make a hollow steel needle/bullet, fill the inside with lead, it will go thru most body armor.   Everyone knows it, doing it is illegal, and again.... if we got 20 million enemy marching up our shore, you won't be arrested for it.   Take heart.   Poorly armed people have held off superpowers in countless conflicts.   That sad story repeats over and over...  America is still quite capable of waking up and defending itself.   There are a lot of people who hate war and fighting etc, but I suspect they will come around in short order if THEIR life is in danger. 

you could sort it slowly by looking at each one.   you could run it on the press and if the primer won't fit (or falls back out, depending), toss it in a bucket and sort it that way....    just don't try to force a large into a small, if it wont go in easily, stop!   the story I heard was the large use more lead and are more toxic at indoor ranges and in general.   Which I don't buy -- lead exists in nature, all over the place, its in the water, its in the ground, and any good indoor range has this thing called ventilation ---   but whatever.  We are stuck with it, whatever the reason.  Its probably just cheaper to make with small for the big companies.

time = $$  someone once said.

if talking bigger stuff a Makarov is still one of my favorites.   Its half again as big as the pocket guns, but its gentle and super accurate.  Just look for the 380 versions... the 9x18 you either make your own or have to search high and low for ammo. 

too late now but you should generally copy their DL (take picture or write down name/address/DL#)  and their insurance contact info. Call the police to get a report.    once you get home etc, Immediately report it to your own insurance.   They should handle 99% of it from here.  You may be asked to drive around getting estimates, 2-3 tops, usually 2.   That is usually all the "work" you have to do if your insurance is any good, just let them handle it from there.   -- it may take weeks to resolve.   The insurance companies bicker at each other for a while to see who eats the bill.  This may be a 3-way mess due to drive, owner, and you all 3 having insurance.   But it should fall on the kids insurance, and his company has to eat it for BOTH cars.

  I totally agree.  Just saying the topic is about being frugal ... you can get a used 30-30 lever for like $250 or something,  and with 44 running close to a dollar every shot...   

  These are excellent.   But the current price of 44 you might as well just get a 30-30.   357 is more reasonable.  

I really like the sig.  I liked it so much I was one of the first in line when the 9mm came out, and that has been my carry piece since.   But no gun is for everyone, they are small.  Medium sized hands *and* the extended mags will let you get a full grip on it.  Giant hands or extra long fingers might find it awkward.   And as always the safety debate...  it has one, that is the tradeoff for an easy trigger.

  heh 3 applications make it hard.  Range toy, anything goes --- you buy what you want for it, and everyone wants something different.  Home defense, I say higher cap and big framed guns -- My ideal choice would be a RIA 1911 9mm highcap -- good trigger, nice recoil management, good capacity, inexpensive.   Concealed carry, you have a bunch of large guns already,  you need a pocket gun IMHO.   Sig 238 or 938, for example, or shield, or something like that.

  you are in luck, the cheaper setups are single stage presses and those are also the most useful for going slow and making precision ammo.    you will still want a GOOD single stage press that can handle the extra force needed on large rifle cases (assuming you are using a larger rifle case, or someday might).     Save your funds on the press, and use them to get a good scale.  Precision means using a very good scale, instead of a cheap one.  Mine cost 15 bucks and varies by like 2.5 or so grains, maybe more.   That works for my mass produced junk ammo, but for serious shooting, it would be pretty bad.   I don't know what sort of scale you need but pay attention to the +- error of it.     Lots of people will have advice for making precision ammo... I am not shooting 1k yards but weigh each bullet, collect a set that all weigh the same.  Unless you spend big on them bullets can vary quite a bit in weight for heavy calibers.   This is just something I noticed with my own rifle bullets but I do buy cheap stuff...    you might also want a quality brass trimmer and some of the case prep widgets.   All the cases gotta be the same.. knocking off burrs and trimming evenly etc matter more for you.

  wartime SK/AK / AR is what it was trying to say...

I was trying to help, not offend.  You don't have to know anything at all but we have to know what you really want to help..   $500 gets a lot of gun, cheap for a rifle often means 200 and under.  You can get ... almost any sort of rifle with that, really, if used is ok.     History and home defense...  sks is sounding really good.   I have trouble recommending a bolt action for defense.  Lever actions can be learned and shot rapidly, bolts while walking around are difficult.  Rifle inside the home ... be sure what you get fits around corners; mosin and deer rifles like the rem might be a tight fit.  Even the sk in some homes might be a struggle, others, not bad, depends.  An AK or AR works too, same idea.   Dunno what a historical means here, the history/war guns would be full auto and not an option here.

No offense but you don't sound like you have a ton of experience? The mosin is an excellent rifle for its price, but it shoots a fairly punishing round and it weighs a ton.  If you *want* a stout recoil bench gun, its a good pick.    sks is the fore-runner of the AK and is an excellent semi-auto defense type rifle.    These two guns are polar opposites in every way...  one is a big heavy cannon that can shoot stuff half a mile away and the other a light semi auto that shoots a relatively weak short range round.    lets take money out of the equation.  You can find cheap in just about any platform short of competition guns.   So what exactly do you want to DO with it?  How much recoil do you want (roughly), how much range, how much are you willing to pay for the AMMO (big guns cost over a buck a shot if you buy it)?

Its actually a pretty good price.   some of the calibers are insane.   You will pay almost 50 bucks for 50 rounds of 44 mag and 45 LC -- which can be made for 1/4 or so of that.    45 acp is steep, nearly $20 for 1 box is not uncommon at many places.   9mm is at least 50% more than it was pre-obama.     To be fair, copper value goes up steadily and almost all bought ammo is FMJ.   If you reloaded with FMJ bought bullets, the price goes up sharply.   And their cases are all new, adds costs.  

  they probably have, but lived thru it so all the news sez is "man shoots self in abdomen" yadda....  they get head, torso, and extremities, more detail is left to your imagination usually.   Never enough details.  Was the trigger pulled?