Jonnin

Something in the "sweet 22"  family, the lower end ones are about 50 bucks.  We have one on a 10-22 and its been very excellent.     All my other scopes are like 30+ years old ... typically put 3-7 or 3-9 power cheapish deer rifles scopes on the 22s.   Lot of people will say its too much magnification, and it probably is,  but I hit what I aim at :)     As far as it goes,  scopes for bigger guns have long eye relief so you don't get a black eye when it recoils and hits your face.   I got used to that on my 22s but scopes made for 22s have less of this.      If you are holding the gun right,  anything that isn't defective is ok to look through.  Its holding it in your hand, incorrectly, that makes them seem odd.   You WILL be looking thru them correctly once its mounted on the gun.     They are all about the same to use.   Put it on the gun.  Shoot a large target.   Adjust the crosshairs to match the hole.  Repeat about 5 times.  Now don't touch anything except, if it has it,  the focus & magnification controls.      Some have dots and such that you can use advanced techniques to adjust your aim, but forget all that on a 22 plinker.  Just get a simple reticle that you like and use that.

  Its a good thought.   This seems to happen when the powder burns instantly instead of back to front.   Caused by less than 1/2 full cases of slow stuff.    9 is their slowest...   but its also their bulkiest?  Look again, if its less than 1/2 full by a decent margin, pull them.

Shoot them.  That should exit the barrel just fine! They may not cycle the autos but should make a 44 specialish round for your revolver.

  You solve this problem by taking a gnat's hair worth of initiative.   You call your buddy at work who rides in a similar truck,  get him to pick you up, get back to the office, get another truck if available, or do paperwork or something else if not, or go home even if its truly that bad.   Even if you violate some rule somewhere,  any decent manager/superior will overlook it given that you were trying to get back to working rather that doing jack all day.    I don't blame them, mind you ... if the work environment is toxic and your superior is a bunghole and such, ... fine.   But assuming a half decent environment, you can make a call or two and solve the problem or get permission to bail out for the day.

take a portable device with the web so you can check prices on stuff you don't really know what is.

  Someone at his group has dropped the ball.   The mil has a contractor ID card you can get that bypasses a lot of this nonsense, but you have to apply for it and do some stuff (at the corporate level, individuals can't apply directly).   I think you still have to send your ID info to the base ahead of time saying when you will be there, what you will be doing, and who you will be with, but it reduces the aggravation by a few orders of magnitude.   I can't remember the name of the stupid thing, though...    I dunno it felt easy for us as we had a low-turnover team,  everyone had at least the lowest security clearance,  and we called way ahead to get access.   Generally someone checked a picture ID, verified that we were supposed to be there, and let us in.   Some bases, our point of contact had to show up to let us in at least for the first day or two.

  for how long?      Long enough for the fuzz to arrive when your BA trips? Long enough for some stuff to survive a not-super-hot fire?   Maybe.   For a weekend where you are not home and they have nothing to do but chop on it?  Nope, does not exist.

Old news, old threat...   like the tinfoil hat crowd and their EMP worries or bio-agent worries or whatever the current "we all gonna die" scare is.   Someday, something horrid will happen.   All the precautions in the world won't stop it when it does.   Worrying all the time won't help.   The govt cant even balance a checkbook, you think it can stop a small handful of idiots hell bent on destruction?    It can't.     Its unrealistic to think we can stop everyone forever.     /shrug.    We do what we can to prevent/stop the bad people without turning the country into a total police state.   Its worked pretty well for 75+ years.

Welcome, what brings you to TN (virtually or real?)?

  Agreed.   But there is a big element of the zero sum in there too.   The market itself creates a bit of this, as people see the price drop so they sell to cut losses or keep what profit they earned,  more sell and price drops and drops...  then they buy something else and that price goes up ... all the artificial variation created by the act of trading is truly a zero sum.   The real wealth of a company going up due to inventing something or whatever performance  / profits / etc is outside of that, so its 2 dynamic systems, the real values and the trading effects, all in one place.    When the economy is in a slump, the zero sum bit dominates...

Pay extra.   The stock market is pretty frustrating right now (theres money to be made, always, but when one person makes money, another loses it!)  and interest rates / return on investments are low.  Conversely,  the interest you pay on a large loan is HUGE over time.   If you can pay down the principle a bit EARLY the amount over time decreases significantly.   Just do the math. Go to your home loan folks and have them calculate the total interest paid if you pay the agreed payments for all those years. Then run a what-if you put 100 bucks more per payment into the principle each month.   Look at the numbers.   Now take that 100 bucks a month and do a what-if based off current average returns from having a stock market account.    Which one is better?  (I already told you,  but you should see it for yourself).

welcome!

can't help on red-line data but the powder will smell really weird if it went bad.  You can also pour a little out on a brick and hit it with a match, it should flash near instantly if its still working.  If it burns slowly, makes a horrible "not gunpowder" stink,  or seems off, its bad.     I would start with the HS-6 or red dot, and try a 90% of their max load as a starting point.  You can get the manuals online: http://www.alliantpowder.com/reloaders/Powder.aspx?powderid=4 ^^^ has 38sp and 38sp +P data from the official site of the powder maker.   http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/pistol has the hs-6, also straight up and +P   one of those might help?   I'd share but I put a 90 grain in mine and punch paper with a flat shooting high velocity approach.

I find the 308 to have a bit much recoil and a low round count if trying to use it like a semi-auto.   At range you will shoot it slowly,  aiming carefully, most likely.   I find that a more traditional bolt or lever is easier to get accuracy from with less investment and the semi-auto capability just does not seem to gain me much.  And yea, I have both platforms in 308 but I don't have super long ranges to shoot at.   So I vote 300 AR or 308 in a bolt.   

only way I would ride it is if it had gigabyte wireless for free included.

I can't go sks.   This is an old state, and we probably had a "Tennessee rifle" or such musket,  and if not that, the 50 cal is much closer to home.

sounds great, on the off chance that lacking both a knife and a gun, I happen to have an axe in my pocket.   :)    Just kidding, wish I were closer & such...  one of my teachers in HS was a champ axe thrower but I never got the hang of those, I can do a knife reasonably well. 

I am a fan, but she mispronounced multiple words in weird ways.   I like that she does her own thing with little to no regard for playing the "do it this way to succeed" game that has ruined so much art and music, but the SSB at a major event isn't the best place to mess up the words and get all artistic.  

^^^  except that it wasn't the confederate flag.  The CSA flag looks an awful lot like the USA flag.     Its already happened.   The real flag is long forgotten.    The later flags had a portion that was the "confederate flag" but the entire thing, never.

  I found the 40 to have almost no room to play ...  follow the book, and take care with it, but there are only a tiny handful of weights to pick from and the variation for each weight is fairly small as well.   231 (do they still make it?)  and #5 as stated worked well for me.   As long as you watch that OAL & are not looking to do redline +P loads,  all you have to do is pick a projectile and follow the recipe.   Powder lately has been using what you can find...  you don't have to be too picky.  The slow magnum stuff isn't good in 40,  but the faster stuff is ok (like #2) if you are careful with it.

  MD is a pretty horrible state for guns.   You wouldn't want to drive thru it with anything decent that would be legal in TN.   Not sure about the specific district but anything being done for guns in that state is a welcome change no matter what area!

I took days at it  but solved it many times in the 80s as a kid.   I still remember rubick's maneuver ..  which solves a specific issue of 2 middle pieces being flipped.  Ive forgotten the rest but IIRC you can solve it by getting all the corners right then solve top and bottom and then the sides fall into place fast.   Or something like that.

I voted no -- I don't put "I have a gun" stuff anywhere.   Call it paranoia or whatever, but the answer is still no 

Pretty much all the Makarov foreign ammo is nasty smelling.  The only one I thought was half decent was silver bear, and I tried Chinese, brown bear, Russian military green box,  and a bunch of others.  Actually the Russian military isn't too bad.   I just make it now.    It smells better and shoots better :)

got a flat but not in a glock.  Its ok,  I honestly can't tell much difference.