Jonnin

It all goes  bang.    The things to look for are -- match powder to the cartridges you use.  One powder *can* do everything from 25 acp to 357 mag but its not ideal for the extremes.   Starting out I recommend trying to get one that will do well in all your cartridges, one less thing to deal with early on.   - flake vs ball vs other shapes.  Ball works better when you use volume based measurement systems due to airspace being more consistent.  If you weigh each round, it does not matter.   - economics, consistency, and safety....   a hot powder takes less per shot, so a pound goes farther.  This is the economic win.  A slow powder lets you weigh it better (margin of error is smaller,  3 grains at +- .25 grain error vs 6 grains at +- .25 error, the 3 grain powder is less consistent with that error, see?!)  -- so a slow powder uses more per case (economic loss, consistency win).   Safety... slower powders that overflow the case on a double charge can't be double charged by mistake.   As you can see I lean toward slower powders.   that said I use AA# 5 in the majority of my common rounds. 

They are very similar.  The 06 gets a little more range, not much,  but at the end of the day the two are virtually interchangeable and I would recommend 308 if you plan to shoot a lot as, due to the AR market and military use of the cartridge, it is easier to get a bunch of ammo and even free cases at the range on occasion.   Both are accurate etc out past 1k, the 06 gets you a few (doubt its over 100) more yards but meh.       If you reload your own anyway, you can pick from literally 50 or more cartridges that generally perform well at these ranges and are all very similar -- many of them sort of obsolete, but you can do it.   The big thing about 308 again is the ammo available and price, nothing more.  There is no reason you could not use something else, if you want a 280 get a 280, if you want a 7mm something, get a 7mm something.  However the reverse is true too... if it performs about like a 308, why get an oddball?   Only reason really is if you find an awesome gun that happens to be in an off cartridge..

No.  You can carry only guns defined as a pistol that have not been modified in a way to make them no longer a pistol.   It is a HANDGUN permit.  You can have a loaded  but unchambered long arm but if you try that in the bigger cities it may not go over too well.  AOW and SBX types can probably be had loaded & unchambered IF you have the paperwork to go with them.   -- an unmodified AR pistol is a pistol.  VFG indeed is illegal -- not only not allowed on permit, but actually illegal without a tax stamp.  Various work-arounds exist for the issue that are legal.   You could get something like the judge & friends, which shoot 410 out of a pistol as a "shotgun" with a couple of specialty 410 defense rounds on the market.  Its still probably less effective than shooting .45 for anything other than a vicious flock of  robins. 

I can't see the price of a house for a "might possibly could have once" belonged to someone pistol.     Now if they could prove it...

10/10 for creativity.    But personally I would buy a couple of 30 round mags and a glock mag accepting carbine, save my $400 tax.

Hmm, have not been able to go in a while, but when I was going cleveland had 1 slug per every other match, on the average.  Not a lot, but keep it in mind --- and the answer is due to the question "if I could only have one for ALL possible stages..."

  Why is any gun desirable?  If we only own what is *useful*, I would have to sell 3/4 of mine.   My desert eagle 44 is less useful than my AR pistol, for that matter:  Its almost as big but holds a fraction the # of shots and is ammo picky (likes it hot and some rounds wont fit in the mag, too long).  My .22 escort is a total piece of junk, and my wife's  .25 is also nearly useless, to name a few right off the top of my head.  My double barreled shotgun is virtually worthless as well, slow to load, low cap, difficult to cock both hammers quickly, but I LOVE it.    My AR pistol gives me a high capacity, long range pistol that can be carried on a handgun permit legally.   It is also fun to shoot.   But it serves no practical purpose unless I need it as a weapon (in which case, heaven help me).  Just because it is legal to carry does not make it practical, its too big to conceal and the range makes it dangerous in an urban setting.  Its one of those things you have and hope you never NEED.

one that allows you to use a slug, so either no choke or whatever the one is that is safe (I get the names mixed) .

  its apparently a HUGE secret that the gun industry wants to sell guns to people and prefer their products not be illegal. Things like that. 

its virtually identical to AA#5 which you CAN find sometimes.

a lot of cheap foreign ammo is "bi-metal" jacketed which is a nice way to say "copper wash over steel jackets".  The copper is *supposedly* thick enough to not damage your barrel, and the steel reinforces it so it behaves as a jacketed round should.  Its just cheaper: they have a lot of steel, and they do not have a lot of copper (hence the steel cases as well).   So at a guess a few slip thru the works and miss being dipped in the copper paint.  This is only a guess.  They could be using zinc or something else as well.  All I know is, they keep the copper to a minimum.

What gets me are people who think the 2nd is about guns at all.  Start with that and you have already lost the war.

  The difference is that the search is covered by cameras and airplanes have a known (if intact, or mostly intact) shape.  Inside one day a good computer cluster can do pattern recognition on all the images to search for it.   If I had a few thousand high res images of my floor, an object that small but with a distinct shape, yea I could find it in short order.  I have a neural net trainer and image stuff around here somewhere, it would not take me long to rig up a search.   GPS is a wonderful thing, but it has some flaws.   First, the antenna has to be just so or they get muddled.  Second, to get altitude, it needs extra satellite connections.  Its not hard to make a beacon that deploys in an accident, but until fairly recently, it was expensive.   A decade ago (probably the majority of planes are at least this old..)  a high res gps, in a deployment system and all, you were talking 10 grand or more in materials and then, because its the bloody aviation industry, 10X that cost to get it certified to be installed on planes.    Now, the hardware costs nothing (gps is cheaper) and it would still cost 100 grand to certify it, if not more.    Today, a *constant data stream* of all aircraft could *easily* be maintained via high speed networking & satellite comms.  This would be very expensive (satellite bandwidth is premium...  fast connections cost hundreds/ min), but it could be done.   This would cost some to certify but modern planes already have a high speed network capable system onboard, at least I think they do -- it might be a low-medium speed but still we are talking about 1 kilobyte of data every 60 seconds or so is all that is needed.....   I think we can manage that if we wanted to do so.  (a floating point number is 80 bits, or 10 bytes, you need gps lat, lon, alt, heading, speed, roll, pitch, yaw, controls settings (steering commanded), wind/environmental forces...  all in all 100 values is probably too many, 30-50 so really 1/2 a KB per X seconds).    With the last one of those, we can extrapolate where it is going to crash.  And like any other system, turn it off, and you have nada.

  Did you SEE that picture?  I could not tell it was fake at a glance from a distance if the guy is moving around etc.   Eventually, yes, it would become clear if he moved in a way that his clothing was obviously incorrect, but that thing LOOKS real.  And we are gun people, what would a poor sheep see?    My eyes are not 20-20, but even if they were, the tat looks like a real gun handle, and without a 3-d perspective of it an a chance to really study it, it would fool many a person.   The pic really shows it and its clearly fake there -- trigger is exposed and simple physics tells a gun person it could not be stuck in there like that due to gravity.  But if his pants were up and only the top 2/3 of the grip were showing, it would be very hard to tell.   I keep seeing an XMEN moment here  .... LEO "Put the gun down" Redneck "I cant"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/03/20/last-nights-amazing-wheel-of-fortune-guess-wasnt-actually-that-amazing/   ^^^^ Worth a read.  I tried for about 10 min to find any other phrase that fit without using a letter that is on his list.   Pole by the way contains both L and E.  Fish contains S.   See how that works?    There are almost no other words that fit the pattern once those letters are eliminated.     Now, I probably could not have solved it.  The time limit, the pressure, -- not easy.   But when you combine the letter that are left, it leaps out, if you have the TIME or the brainpower to DO that.   Guy either just stumbled across it quickly by luck or is a genius. 

Hope you get well soon! 

and the morale of the story is: "If you get a tattoo that looks like a real gun stuffed in your pants, put on a shirt before you get rowdy".

most of the time when I see it these days, it means a single shot.  I do not know why.   But the general consensus is a bolt action single shot mid caliber  small and light rifle of some sort.  The whole idea is foreign to me, its like going out of the way to pick something of very limited utility in order to have less weight and increased durability.    My tongue in cheek answers was - a pink stock, given the state of scouting these days :P 

all you have to do is see the link (blahblah MSN blah blah)  to know its not worth reading.

I bought a few very old science magazines or books (I forget now, they are since gone)  from the early 1950s.  Featured in one of the was the solution to world hunger --- radioactive growth acceleration.  They pictures giant ears of corn and monster potatoes and more that were grown this way --- but for some reason, it never seemed to take off as a method...   Science marches on.  There are safe and unsafe things that can be done.  Someday we may indeed be able to do this sort of thing safely.  For now, they need to take it slowly and test it.    And we may see other benefits.  Perhaps we can develop a way to save some of the nearly extinct species.   But here again, carelessness could lead to a lot of problems.  There was a time when electricity was considered to be dangerous ....  then we understood it better, and while it can still kill you,  we know how to use it safely...

The law also provides civil immunity for a person who lawfully slays an intruder or attacker in such situations.   We need more of this --- it should be immunity for any justified act of self defense (among other things).  

  Im sorry, I like the gunblast guy, have even talked to him before, but he has never met a gun he did not like.   Ever.  What he says is always presented in the best possible light and what he does not say speaks volumes.  The same is true for the vast majority of sponsored reviews: they rarely give any negative feedback at all, and when they do it is sugarcoated.   Not saying anything about this gun, just that paid-for reviews are usually kinder than the "guy with a blog" reviews.  Of course the guy with a blog often has an agenda.... its hard to find a neutral, accurate, and well done review.     The only guy I know with one of these so far shot it a a couple of boxes worth  and the mag won't stay in the gun now, something broke.  Whether this is a design flaw or a lemon remains to be seen. 

almost all modern primers will be, and will be labeled, non-corrosive.   To get corrosive primers, you need to either buy some very old ones or seek out some of the very odd foreign stuff.  I do not think even modern foreign ammo is corrosive, but I could be wrong, who knows what the chinese will do.   If it is not labeled non-corrosive, you should look it up or ask here with a picture of the box maybe. 

glocks are fairly accurate.   If you want to be serious with them, replace those sights with actual target sights.   Target sights have a thin front blade and tight rear window --- combat sights have a fat front sight and wide window.  Because one is designed to hit where you aim, and one is designed to get close enough rapidly.     Supposedly you can fix the trigger to get rid of the slop, but if you do that, be very careful with it.  A few ppl have made target glocks, but its dangerous.  There is a third party safety that locks the trigger blocking 'safety' thing with a button to release it like a manual safety, if you tamper with the slop this is highly recommended.

  before you go, you should read this:   http://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/reptile-dysfunction-dave-barry-survives-the-florida-python-challenge/