Jonnin

I have a cz rami (their smallest 9mm) and a 75 clone (eaa witness).    Pros.. They are very, very accurate.  They are unique (or rareish design anyway) in that it is a DA/SA gun that can be carried cocked and locked.  You can also get a SAO trigger kit and make them into a poor man's 1911ish thing.  Reliable and they really fit my hand well.   Very easy to clean.  The CZ custom shop here in the states can do a lot of neat things and they do great work.  You can get a .22 conversion kit for some models.   The cons, and I am digging hard here so you know everything I can think of... - like most DA/SA triggers, its not awesome.  It has a longish reset and even hammer back there is some pretravel.  Its on par with anything else of the type though, about like a beretta 92 or ruger 89/9x/etc series or the like.   - the rifling starts a little early.  IN both the cz and the clone, a small number of brands of ammo will not chamber as the bullet hits rifling early and the slide won't close.  This is almost always a JHP in a very heavy weight, and not common enough to be a problem (try another brand if it does not work, or stick to 120ish grain weights and under).   - cocked and locked is not as easy to use as a 1911 and not really highly recommended.  Most folks just tolerate the heavy first DA shot instead.   - they are internally complicated, and probably not the best choice for a lot of modifications if you are not already somewhat skilled at messing with guns.   - many models are not left hand friendly at all.    Also let me highly recommend the witness.  Coming in at 100-150 less than the CZ for the same gun, they are every bit as good. 

heh what an idiot.  Inside 3 seconds he goes from saying he does not want to grab guns or tell us how to live to.... condemning rifles and telling us what we can and cannot own.   No one needs a cheap suit and mismatched tie either, but you don't see me up there complaining about his wardrobe because he does not "need" it.  

Seat the *base* of the bullet to the same depth as the other one and it should do just fine with the same data. 

I don't know, its not MY data just the best thing I have to work with as I don't have a chronograph nor the $$$ required to buy barrels to cut up.    I picked these data points off their charts to get the same weight bullet.  A typical 9mm is lighter and a typical 38 is heavier, combine the 2 and you get a significant difference in velocity between the "standard" loadings.   As far as recoil, the 9 probably has a higher pressure spike and probably delivers the bulk of its recoil over a shorter time, leading to stouter felt impulse.   /shrug maybe?     I dunno.  Even if they were quite a bit different, ballistics is forgiving.   Significant difference in performance is comparing a .22 to a 44 mag.   9, 38, 40, 357, etc... all more or less PERFORM the same and I doubt if you hit a victim in the same place with any of those 4 that the surgeon or coroner or whoever could tell the difference in the damage.   The 357 has an edge in that group,  but could you really tell it from a hole poked in a corpse?

  Strange, that beats the top 10 prices I found with a quick search, most want $30 and up for 500 (4 per round would be $20 for 500) so someone SHOULD jump on that.  One way to move it maybe is to charge them that penny per price and have a $25 shipping fee --- that is how most of the online people work ---

  Exactly.  Guy sounds like a moron, but not a criminal.  And he surely needs to stay away from guns.

its pretty easy to leave 1 in the chamber on a .22 rifle, pull the mag out and think its done.  If we are talking he checked them in, mags were unloaded and not in the guns, all but one empty and one round forgotten, then its just a screw up.   A rather dumb screw up, but who is going to do what crime with one round of .22 in a gun that is about to be sealed up and put in the cargo area of the plane until trip is done?     Serial numbers don't sound to be removed, just painted over.   A bad rattle can paint job, but if the # is THERE in the metal, not filed off, its THERE.  Also stupid, but any DIY gun finishing job could do that.   I question that it is illegal...  2 seconds with a piece of rough sand paper and its fixed and most likely you can read the # painted or not. 

http://www.ramshot.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/WP_LoadSpec_7-2-13.pdf   May help.  MOST powders have a load data book you can get free online.

if they say 3.7 and you are over 5, you need a smaller dipper or a different powder.    You can make a dipper if you get desperate, from something.  A screw & a dowl rod, drill out a hole until it is what you want for example.    the lee dippers (and any others that I know of) are sort of 'one size fits all'  in that you get a few dippers and have to make it work (by using a powder and bullet for load data that weighs right in the provided dipper)

  380 Not so much by my makarov throws all my brass away and its MUCH MUCH harder to come by (the few that shoot it mostly use the junky steel ammo).  I usually end up grinding down 9mms for it and trying to find them after use (50% is good).

I reload 380.  I did indeed find most of my brass on the ground for free.  With lead bullets it costs me under 5 bucks a box, vs over 15 on a good day and over 20 all too often.  Its very worth it if you shoot it much.  And I did shoot it a lot, when I carried the caliber.   I tried 25 acp but its not been fun.  Projectiles cost what the ammo does nearly, so its pointless.   The cheap lead ones I found won't chamber, they are a bad size.  I did make a few using the correct shotshell (#8 or something, one of em is almost exactly the right size for 25) but they did not feed well (nose too short).

Ballistics by the inch site says... 125 gr corbon 38sp in a 4 inch roughly 1k fps. 124 gr federal 9mm 3 inch auto roughly 988 fps.     They are virtually identical, in other words if you give it a fudge factor for ammo brands and details, +- 20 fps is nothing really.   That means something like my cz rami (3 inch, small platform) that holds (10 or 13 depending on mag you choose) is going to have over twice the firepower (number of rounds) than a 6 shot 38 (or 5 shot vs the smaller mag).   However a 4 inch 357 is better than either ballistically and a 4 inch 357 is not too rough to shoot. a 4 inch 357 with 125gr corbon is pushing 1500 fps.  Limited number of shots, of course, but the 357 has a solid rep for defense.

  I think this is a "can be" considerd a resident depending.  For example, renting a house to attend college but actually living in another state, you remain a resident of your true home state.   I forget how long you can work/live in another state without changing it, but there is some leeway there as well, say your job rented you a home for 2 months while you did a contract, then you went back home... maybe that is 6 months too but I think *maybe* it can be extended beyond that sometimes (???).    I am not sure, but I *think* if your intention is to return to your "home" state you can avoid having to change residence twice over a job related work contract or something, but again, it may take filling out some sort of form or something.  ???  I really don't know how that works over the long term.   http://www.tn.gov/sos/election/residency.htm   As far as I can tell reading that, if you INTEND to return to your "HOME" you can remain not a resident so long as its not obviously being misused as a tax dodge or something....  but official guidelines are not LAW>

Well in that case, homeschoolin' is easy, just turn em loose and let them figure it out :)  And you will save a ton on college too, good luck with that career thing though...! I agree that the *point* of education is to teach someone how to learn and how to do for themself, yes.  And school has really dropped the ball here, esp college level. That is a big subject in and of itself, and an important part of the failing of our system. I don't really want to sidetrack too far there though.   But as I already said, from the quality of parenting one sees these days, if public school went away, do you really think the "people of wal-mart" types are qualified to educate their offspring?  As bad as public school is, its better than what I would expect out of at least 50% of parents that I see out and about.  My whole point remains that there are some parents who can't do it (and even more who WILL NOT) --- so public schooling, bad as it is, has its place.   I think homeschooling done right is superior in general -- maybe not compared to 10+ grand a year private high school, but far better than most public.  And I think very few parents can & will do it right.

Its not the color/shiny so much as the combined effect of THOSE grips on THAT color gun.   It could be the lighting in the pic, but the orange & green effect in the picture is not doing much for me.   It may be a nice brown & green in reality and the flash made it orangy, but if the grips really are orange, consider black, brown, or something and it would do wonders for it.   The work looks good.  If the colors are a result of your flash, maybe try a nice bright room with no flash and post a true image?  Could also be computer-brown problem.  Computers have a very hard time with shades of brown. 

  I dunno.  About 1/5 or so of my class had calc 1&2 upon exiting high school.  We had at least 2 sections of AP (calc) physics.  One of the brightest was my friend and he had enough AP credit that he started college as a sophmore.  Some kids can handle this stuff by age 16, not all but some.  Probably more than we think since most public schools give kids the same material year in and year out after about the 9th grade.  And average parents are not going to be able to teach AP 3+ level classes (the max I think is AP 5?)  to their child -- many may not even know of the program.   I also had my first computer programming class (for college credit) as a senior in highschool --- we had 4 students in that class that were in the 7th and 8th grade... the rest mostly jr/sr age but that tells you something....   If your kid wanted college credit ap classes in computer programming or advanced math or english or history or.... can you do it?   If I had a child that wanted to study history, I would be in trouble... I can barely remember that we had a civil war, most of the rest of it is a blur and the roman/ancient era? Um, I remember superbus because he had a stupid name.... thats about it...

i wonder if that is why the legendary japanese beef cattle are kept drunk.... ?

I am happy to see the heat on the administration but do we really think europe does not do the SAME thing to US and its own SUBJECTS?   I can't prove it, but I would bet on it.

  I agree with all that --- homeschooling done right is awesome.  My point is, I doubt more than 10% of parents can pull it off for a variety of reasons. 

  So what if the answer is in the back?   If you can't explain it nor work it yourself, you can't teach it well either.    Yes, some groups do social gatherings and such.  I am just pointing out that some kids prefer the daily interactions, and some hate it, most are in between and can get by with church once a week or something.   It varies, but some kids would be better off around others more often.    Its free in that a poor kid can go no matter what money his parents have or don't have.  Obviously it is paid for via taxes etc.  So are the roads.  Some things are not socialism, they are infrastructure.  To me schools are closer to roads than welfare....  When I say it is free, I clearly meant no tuition which prevents the poor from attending.  I can think of a billionty things ahead of public schooling that I would consider to be a worse waste of my tax money.   And no, I am not happy with the current failed indoctrinazation "school" curriculum.  That is not the fault of the concept of public school vs home school, its a trickle down effect of our turning to communist government.  Fix the government, and the schools will be fixed by proxy, IMHO. 

Well, the posts seem to follow an assumption that the government or society or "someone else" being responsible for teaching your kid is a bad thing.  Up to a point, I can agree, that may be the case.  But you take the not terribly uncommon issue of a kid that is significantly brighter than his parents.   I know a few kids like that, its maybe 10% of the population, and in some cases, the kid is still not a shining star, just average with dunce parental units.   So I have to ask, if you are gonna homeschool, and your kid turns out to be brighter than you, WHO is going to teach him/her?   If YOU never got past algebra 2 and the kid is ready for differential equations, for example?  If YOU never got past general science but the kid wants calculus based physics?  ETC.   School also teaches social interactions, however as an introvert I got little enough from that side of things and would have been fine without it.  SOME kids need social interactions, though, and homeschooling parents must find some way to fill this void for kids with such a personality.   Point is, some parents are simply not qualified to teach their kid past about the 8th grade tops.   Very few parents are capable of teaching a kid well enough to earn AP credit.   A significant % of parents could not teach a kid to get a very high SAT or ACT score, and if those parents took those tests, would not get very high score.     ---  there comes a point when *someone else who is qualified* needs to take over the job.   If you make it private and fee based, then only the rich can go to school, making it difficult to break out of poverty. If you make it public and free, as now, anyone can have a chance.   And society is occasionally rewarded when, rarely but now and again, a super bright kid makes it out of public school and accomplishes something great in a field of science or research or something.   If he could not have paid tuition for private schools early on, maybe it would not have happened.   I am not saying that public school is awesome.  I am just saying, there are very valid reasons for public school. I am not saying homeschooling is bad -- just that NOT ALL parents are qualified for it.  

My wife has named a number of ours.  Mostly bad puns.   "percy" -- her first purse gun.  Abraham, IMI desert eagle.  It gets worse from there, I will spare you guys. 

I think that is a full 1 inch diameter ....   there were some antiques in these really big configurations,  I think you can find a very few in almost every size from 2 to 8. 

Terrible, yes.  I dunno though, if a teenager pointed that thing at me, I might have fired too.  Teenagers are very capable of shooting people....   It stinks, but whether you have a banana or a full functional uzi, when the fuzz show up you drop it and raise your hands.   Anything else is asking to be shot. 

Hardcore naturally comes into it for the games where dying means starting over.   Some folks do this intentionally in games that do not support it (elder scrolls for example has a hardcore following that delete and restart if they die).  Others play games that enforce it (diablo, as a classic example).   Then there is the serious player use of the term... has beat his games on the hardest settings, spent hundreds of hours on em, has all the best stuff that can be earned in the game, etc.   The guy that jumps into and beats new content hours after it is release.  They guy that has his name at the top of the PVP ladder.   The guy with a top of the line system with specialty input devices,  uses chat programs like teamspeak, the latest video card, might even have 2 or more high end computers or a supercomputer split into virtual machines so he can dual box (play the game with 2+ accounts at the same time!).    Then there is the misuse of the term, often applied to folks that have the best PC hardware and spend a ton of time "gaming" even if the gameplay is at a reduced level of seriousness.   You hear this used by non-gamers to refer to regular gamers sometimes.    To me, the first and second are more or less correct.  The third, not so much.