Jonnin

I wore rigid gas perm for about 20 years, but had lasik and cannot ever wear them again (the damage to the eye from the surgery prevents it).  When I had them, they were amazing, little to no aggravation and 20/20 vision.   Now I have glasses (the surgery put me to 20-20... for a while, but age is catching up) that I only use to shoot (so far).  Still with very good vision and modern materials, my glasses don't have to be 5 pounds like they were as a kid :)

  Look around, some places run one a month regardless of time of year. 

I probably will eventually.   The movies so far have been pretty good, though cutting out some major events and characters.  I am not running out to see it on day 1, though.  Might just watch it here at home where I don't have to spend $20 for a soda and can have my gun on me.

  Go to a couple of matches before you start spending big. All you need to try it out is one set of guns  --- a shotgun (at least a 5 shot pump or semi), a pistol (semi auto...), and a rifle (semi auto, mag fed).   Many places will let you shoot guns that are not really acceptable to "try it out" a few times, like a 10-22 for the rifle.   If you do not have gear to hold your spare magazines, use a pocket the first few times.   You *must* have a holster for the pistol on a sturdy belt.   Pockets are considered unsafe, as is clip on to pants holster, by most groups.  You need the obvious safety gear (glasses and hearing).    If you enjoy it, then you can go buy stuff.   And while you are there learning and trying it out, WATCH other people.  See what items they have that seem to be worthwhile.  There are lots of items that are just not necessary at all, and there are a few that will dramatically make your shooting faster and easier.  If you can't see the benefit to an item, do not buy it until you DO see the benefit of it.  Its easy to drop 5000 bucks on mall ninja gear that is of dubious value.

  this is just plain truth ...  I started to get into it thinking it was "cheap meat" but the reality is I can split a whole cow from a farmer/butcher across my family and we all get more meat for less, and without the random luck factor and without the labor and aggravation.   Same for a whole pig.  If you do not enjoy it, learn how to do it for your own personal benefit, and move along to something you enjoy.

depends on what you call "dirty". If its really dirty, like was on actual dirt outside and possibly even been out there a while, that needs to be cleaned. If it was shot and tossed in a bag to reload, you can get away without cleaning it in many cases.  As for lube, LONG cases need lube almost every case. Shorter cases are OK without (9mm is short, 357 mag is longish, but 223 is for sure LONG).   Dirt and grit can scratch up the inside of your die, which causes 2 problems... your die is slowly being ground out of spec, and the small grooves in there are going to bite into the case and create even more friction (more stuckedness).     Lube works wonders.  Period.  The amount of force needed even on small, short stuff goes down considerably and with the big stuff (30 cal rifle and up) your press goes from "exercise machine" to "easy to operate".    I really, really like hornady's  grease lube.  Its thin, does not have a powerful smell,  doubles as a good gun grease/lube, and is extremely cheap for the amount --- I bought 2 tubs when I started reloading and am still on the first one, years later, ... and I would not even be 1/2 through it except I did something stupid (I heated it to the consistency of water and mass lubed a bunch of cases by shaking them in a bag with the liquid lube... but it grossly over-lubed the cases and was generally a very big mess, including the now dried and back to grease consistency blobs inside the cases... yuck).

1) You can try whatever but sanding it off and refinishing is the best.  Even if that means spot sanding and refinish with a "blue touch up" or something.  You can remove it electrically but I don't know what that will do to the bluing nor how you would refinish it from there.  By sanding I mean emory paper, not the stuff you use to take paint off concrete.   2) choke? maybe?   3) new screw, and get it out however... first try nondestructive methods --- kroil it to death, and try to get enough torque on it to get it out.  If you can't, drill into it and countersink it out with a screw removal thingy (which is basically a hardened screw that has reversed threads so screws into yours until tight which then is the reverse direction so it torques it).   4)  gently.   Just keep running a bore brush thru it until it comes clean, from the look of it.  again, might try electric removal.  Dremel has "about a 12 ga" "chore boy" type thingy that might go on a cleaning rod.... :)   I have no clue what it is called but I am absolutely sure its 12ga in size...   5) again, kroil first, brute force later.    my unasked for 2 cents... if you are going to shoot it, do a full restoration... see if you can replace that welded part and get it back into good shape.  If you are just going for an heirloom, get rid of the rust and leave it be. 

yes that looks like rich text.  there is a drop down on wordpad to save it in several formats, form plain text (that is what notepad needs!) to word(sorta, its a simplified version) and more.   Rich text lets you do simple things like format the font in different areas of a document in different ways, like a title vs body text or something in italics or bold etc.   Plain text can't do that.  The extra junk you see is related to all that capability.

she has actually turned out to be pretty good *considering* my expectations, which were near zero.  Still not saying much, but shes not the worst person they could have found. 

I use the 90 grain gold dot.  The smaller bullet feeds the best in a few of our 9s including a 938.  It really does not matter.  JHP ammo is all very similar, so as long as it works IN YOURS reliably, it will be fine.  Small differences in bullet weights and shapes won't make any real world difference. 

they are OK.   Its just a few models of any given product, usually at a good price, and they have amazing sales.   But it can be a pain to get any help in there.  We stood there for over half an hour once wanting a stereo system, gave up and left.  

nothing in that icon is in chatt.   The only 2 I recognize are frys which there is one towards Atlanta and Kroger, which used to have stores here.

the grip is everything for control and recoil.  Budget to replace it if necessary.  Sadly mine has a grip no one makes, and age has made it harder to shoot with full loads...  still love it though, my first handgun

I have 1k rounds of these and they shoot fine.  The bullets are at least all the same shape without looking like they were dragged behind a car.  For the price, the # of misfires is low, accuracy is "reasonable", not bad at all. 

I have a 44 Blackhawk.  I meant to hunt with it but never really got there.  I think it cost under 500 but that was in like 1990 :P Still, a used revolver should not be that pricy.  You should be able to find a decent used gun for 500 "or so".    Some of the more exotic calibers and such may jack the price up... 500 blah blah is pricy.   A 44 should drop anything in TN, if you want a moose, you might need something even larger. 

tell them about the issue and offer to clean it once for them for free?   Many manufacturers send it not with lube but packing / protective grease which is not really good for function but great for storage.  It could be that sort of thing?

The short answer is that TN has an abundance of "not pro gun" elected officials.  The majority of them are, at best, fence-sitters who will pass NOTHING pro-gun but will also NOT PASS anything that jeopardizes their position, which is any "heavy" anti-gun laws.    We are having a hard time replacing these incumbents --- when a decent candidate actually runs, they lose.

who?   I have no problems with someone working undercover.   If someone is moron enough to talk to a stranger about things like explosives, illegal weapons, or anti-government private armies...    well duh.   As long as any investigation is properly handled...  talk is talk but converted illegal machine guns and bombs are something else.   I mean really... you only catch the idiots with it, but you may as well put up a web site "join us and learn to blow #$%^ up" and see who joins...  there is someone out there just drooling to sign up lol.

does it smell bad? brown recluse or other necropsy type but as you said maybe he would have lost it by now... but maybe not those things can behave very oddly.  

One of ours was broken out of the box.   We sent it back and it was fixed quickly, and the seller paid for the shipping so it was a win across the board.   Trying to remember, I know the cylinder spun both directions and would free spin, it was like it didn't have a stop at all but it did because it worked if you cocked it or pulled the trigger, even locked up correctly, but it was also clearly fubared.

anything that uses the term gun violence is already biased.  

wife has a 10 shot Taurus .22 revolver that would not be bad to carry.  They also make a 9 shot 22 mag.   22 mag is so pricy and hard to get she got the 22 lr for practice and carried the mag for a while --- the difference in ammo across a few thousand rounds paid for the second gun.   Im with the other fellas.   As much .22 as I shoot, no matter the brand (well, I havn't tried the $20 for 50 competition stuff) there are too many misfires to trust it.   That is really my only objection.  If it worked 100% I would carry one.   I think its been said that .22 has killed more people than any other in the USA.

too late now but improvise if it ever happens again, cut some cloth or something anything > nothing.

I dislike 99.99% of indian food.   I can't stand coffee.  And I simply do not understand why tea is not served like coffee -- strong and user sweetens or modifies to taste.   I can eat most anything else as long as it was cooked.   I might do some things raw but my trust level on that is low... so I usually won't.  

I got one of these for my birthday this year.   We found some ammo online at a reasonable price, not orig but privy's offerings.   I got 3 boxes and will reload it.  There are supposedly a dozen ways to make functional ammo for it using 32ish bullets and various cases.   I am trying to find some cheap slugs for it -- I got one box of hornady .309 diameters to try.  Lee has a die set for it, sorta ...