Jonnin

And an icbm can kill the guy from even farther out.   And I need to be fighting at 50-100 yards about as much as I do at 500-1000 miles in any realistic scenario.   For some folks, 50 yards might be useful, can't deny that.  But it wont be inside my house, inside my workplace, or inside the walmart, or any of the places that *I* frequent.  

this morn it was up to 8, and its melting fast now.   If it re-freezes it will be awful.

Heh I was way off on where the curve fell, apparently.  

deep enough that I am hopin for a second day off work :)   I dunno, less than 3 inches but sitting right at freezing, it was wet and turned to ice.

It depends on the purpose of each gun.  The original post assumes that handguns are for self defense and that 1000 rounds is kinda overkill.  Well, it is.  But that ignores that you can be doing survival chores (chopping wood, getting a bucket of water, or just bored and wandering around your area) with a pistol and take game with a 9mm pistol, yea even a deer if you hit it right and certainly smaller animals.   I dunno about you but hauling an AR every second just in case you see an animal is a lot of trouble.  Personally I plan to not have *any* shootouts with other people, I would really like to avoid that as much as possible (same as I do now in a normal world).  Its possible, even likely early on as people get hungry but have not died off yet --- but I would still rather avoid it.   So my ammo is for survival, and defense as necessary, but even my 'handgun' ammo is more of a supplement to hunting than anything else.   If I were only using the pistol for defense, sure, one brick of ammo is plenty.

RIP.   May we all live as long and do half as much! My poor mom is upset, a big fan.  I could care less about that sort of movie, though some of them are appropriate for young kids even today.

I will be the naysayer this time around.  My wife picked out the small airweight 22 mag, and cylinder (at the front, where the ejector is) cracked after only a few boxes through it.  S&W repaired it, but in the process several other people said they had experienced the same sorts of problems.   I am sure it is a tiny % of guns that crack, but its a possible aggravation.  Its a shame too, that gun was *beautiful*.   Also the trigger pull on the entire class (not just S&W but most small revolvers) is extreme, making practice sessions very difficult when you start talking a box of ammo in one trip.      We solved both issues with a ruger 357 gp.  A $10 spring kit fixed the trigger pull and its a steel ruger, about as tough as it gets.

need bullet weight and *actual* velocity -- not what box says which is probably out of a pistol but your actual velocity.  its probably going to be close a 25 and 4-6 low at 75 at a ballpark guess.  But what do I know, I make mine to shoot flat. 

lol if he had trouble with a punk teenager, he gonna get a real butt whoopin now.

gunboards has experts on just about every gun made before 1980 (within reason, when you start talking  backyard gunsmiths of the 1630s you are just outta luck) and can probably answer questions about a lot of recent items as well.   I got a ton of help there for my (pre WWI) mauser.   They do have a lot of WWII chatter --- because that is the era that the bulk of inexpensive milsurp items were made, but if you ask and are patient, someone there WILL know.     Wiki says:   1960s A rifle design by Walter Gehmann was purchased, and went into production in 1965 as the model 66. Some self-loading pistols were also offered, such as the Mauser HSc.    varients:       Model 66     Model 66 S     Model 66 P   so, ironically, the 66 was made around '66. IIRC mauser was disbanded after the war and these later offerings were not really mauser.  The real mauser engineers and designers formed H&K which exists to this day.  Not sure who bought the name to make guns in the 60s, but it was no longer the same entity that made the war rifles.

hmm.  Yea try the revolver.  Could also diameter check some with calipers, maybe they let loose a bad lot somehow.   Also weigh a few.  If you have any you did not use, I mean.... if you loaded them all, you either get to tear them apart or shoot them up. 

Well, I dislike best buy.  You can sometimes do OK there, but they come loaded with garbage that can be difficult for a typical user to remove --- lots of "free trials" that expire about the time you have a few documents saved with them, and nagware to buy the real versions, etc.   I am passing decent and it takes me the better part of an hour to cure a new BB machine.    Its not the machine, those are "ok", its the aggravation.   I would say try new egg, they still have some solid ready to go machines at a decent price.  If your son is going to game, he is going to want a half decent graphics card (nvidia something or other) and a midgrade cpu & ram.  You cant go bottom of the barrel for games, they need midgrade or better.   Unless you mean like solitaire .... I am talking 3-d video games here, not browser games or 5 min break stuff.

probably, its not the bullet but the load.  Have you tried a few different charges?  Might also try a slightly slower powder, just to mess with it.   Its strange how sometimes just a little variation can make a big difference....  that big a group sounds like a big issue, any chance they are tumbling?

  Nope.  The two are totally unrelated.  The UN is correct on the molestation.   The UN overstepped on abortion --- their rant is effectively telling a religious entity what to think/say.  

lol who meddles?  The vatican has been meddling in global politics since rome fell.     The 'church's '  stance on covering up and defending child molesters is unacceptable.  I do not care about any of the rest of it, but that is evil.

  I am another who knew the face, a little, but not really.    As far as it goes, heroin pure is not so bad.  Its addictive as all get out, and withdrawal varies from fatal to miserable at best, but the biggest issue with the drug has always been the horrible things cut into it by the dealers trying to get more $$ per weight.   A person can survive heroine for a long, long time and get off of it and live on after that as well.   A person does not do so well injecting a heroine/comet mix.

a cylinder would work but the aerodynamics are awful.  I think one could do far better.   Depends on the cartridge and desired range and performance.   I dunno about the costs, but I can see how a trial and error approach could get pricy.  

  Every crash I have had in windows excluding the now ancient screwball versions (95, for example)  were from running bad software, period (some of it, my own mistakes in development).  A bad driver, or a bad program can still bring windows down.   The same can be done to a mac or unix machines ... a guy here took down a big unix machine by running a binary for a different CPU, it oblitered the OS to the point of format and restore.   You can bork up anything if you are creative enough.

  This is like asking us where to buy a new car by asking "hey, i need a car, where can I get one" --- and no other requirements or desires given.    You want a generic PC to get on the internet, get a cheap pre-built PC and buy the monitor separate.   If it needs to do more than this (games?  computation?  play movies?  Interface to something ? other?)  we need more info.  You can, by the way, hook up a keyboard, mouse, and monitor to a tablet PC for the web, pretty cheap, or a cheap laptop.   But it wont do much more than surf the web...       you do not need anything special for a touch screen actually.  They really are a monitor/mouse and specialty mouse driver ....  that is all it is.   The screen senses your touch, and sends it like a mouse command to the existing interface of the OS that was made for mouse clicks.    Ultra high resolution is actually BAD because your finger is large and running in 8000X120000 resolution with buttons the size of a pinhead makes it hard to click what you want.   A large screen, with a medium resolution and possibly OS settings for larger controls is much easier to use, IMHO, but regardless, you don't need extra good graphics for it.  A lot of touch devices (not computers but control screens for hardware)   run in ancient resolutions like 640x480 with a modest (5 inch squareish) screen. 

For that price it need to have an old-timey rotating music box in the cylinder to play the tune.     I am gonna agree with the ugly folks.   To me it reeks of a slapdash design to exploit the death of the man for a quick buck. 

That makes sense in hindsight.    The gas is not slamming the flat backside of the round to expand it into the rifling and seal up like normal.   You may need a custom mold after all, or have to paper-jacket or something.

I have done this, and a boat tail shape provides a more aerodynamic shape if you can find a mold for it.  I was using jacketed boat tails, not cast, so I cant help there --- the point of mine was to make a cheap "hollow point".  Mine fed fine, but that will depend a lot on the gun.   I need to think about the aerodynamics.  I suspect you can actually exceed the speed of sound a little without the crack on some shapes --- not by much, but a little bit --- due to the shape of the bullet.    You might give it a try, see how fast you can push it before you get a crack...

actually sort of felt burned by the last 2, so it will take quite a pistol for me to buy another.   Tried their px4 and it did not have the rotating recoil device, bad advertising -- only the giant models have this which was unclear and supposedly the 'thing about' that model series... duh ...  then tried the nano, advertised as a small striker but really just a cheap DAO.   I am really glad to have them in TN but they have enough of my money after those 2 horrible experiences. 

Looks like a great start!   while you can get a set of sights put on a bow,  the 2 things that helped me the most were a notch on the string (it probably has an official name, but its just a crimped on thingy so your arrow sits in the same place on the string each shot)  combined with learning to "sight down the arrow".  That is, you aim by using the length of the arrow as a sight, which still takes practice but you can become accurate with it.    Instinctive shooting can be learned as well but I highly recommend learning to aim it at some point.

I won a HP 45 at a small event, and it exceeded all expectations --- gentle, pleasant to shoot, fairly accurate, worked 100%.  There are any number of pistols that cost 3 times as much that cannot do those 3 things out of the box.   Dunno about the package deal with the safe, but maybe if it helps keep a few guns away from kids or crooks, then its a good thing...  I would be annoyed if every gun came with one of these as a new industry standard though....  jacks the price up for zero value added if the person has a good safe already.