Jonnin

  Nice looking one, sweet grips.    About the same price here after taxes, but our state (TN) has a high sales tax.  But more or less the same price for 22.  I think 9 is about the same as well, give or take a dollar or so but a lot of that is brand name variation.  I think AE is also federal with a pretty box.

  No, but I have one on another pistol.   I prefer the red dot.   The combination of long eye relief and magnification make it very visually frustrating for me.  If it were not magnified, it would be OK for me, but the magnificaiton really messes with my head.  Unlike a rifle scope where you look through it and do not see the background and perephial vision etc as much, with the long relief you see all kinds of distractions and the magnified area is out of phase with the rest.  I dunno its hard to explain but I do not care for it at all.  I think someone could get used to it, and it is not too bad when bench shooting (but who does that with a pistol much?).  Standing there though, it is just not for me.  

^^^ It is not too often that someone puts up something I have never heard of, but you did.  good looking clone!  The 92 is a very pretty gun and copy or not, they did it justice there.     Someday go back for the .22  if you do not have one;  its hard to beat a gun that shoots ammo that costs 1/6th or less what everything else costs.

I thought everyone knew the car length for every 10 mph rule.  Its a simple rule, if you are going 50, and someone is less than 5 car lengths close to you, one of 2 things has to happen -- they back off, or you have to adjust your speed to match their distance.  Since you are only in control of the second option, the ONLY solution is to slow down until the problem resolves itself.  It works very well though!  They usually honk or wave howdy or something friendly but in the end they always either pass you or back off!

If the public sector jobs went private, that would be a good thing --- except the govt would STILL need some of those services unless they downsize (another issue, I am all for it, but not gonna happen).  So now the private businesses are contracted to work for the feds... and the feds suddenly at random stop paying, now what?   That is not a good scenario either.    The real fix is to downsize govt so it does not need milllions of people drawing pay daily.   But as I said, not gonna happen in my lifetime.  The other fix is to stop wasting money somewhere else (tons of places to pick from, my favorite is to cut all foreign aid 100% across the board by law until we have no debt).

yea it is neat to find things.   Real is probably the wrong word.  I think you have a (probably functional) real gun.  It just may not be an 1880s production real gun. 

  Yes and no.  22 mag is something most places get a few boxes of per week.  It sells slowly, as it is not a highly popular round for anything.  A few people hunt with it, a few carry it for defense, and a few burn a box here and there for fun, but no great quantity is consumed by those few people.   Once in a while someone buys up a ton of it to feed a kel tec or something.  It still comes in the same as before --- a few boxes a week at most places, from what I have seen in my attempts to arrive in sync with the trucks at a few stores.   Trouble is, demand is up, so those 5 boxes a week are gone in an hour whereas before they could sit on a shelf for months.   It is not just the few who buy it thinking it will go in a 22 (this stuff happens, I got to watch a guy getting help from a range officer because he could not get the 9x18 to feed in his glock...)  but there is an actual demand that is not being met.  And there is the "its there" effect as well --- guy shows up at the store and they have 22 mag and nothing else useful, so he buys a box of it that, had they been stocked in 9mm, 22lr, and so on, he may not have bought.

The condition, to me, screams "recent" burial.  As in, buried in 50's to 70's roughly, possibly even more recently.   Logically it does not make a ton of sense to have buried it if it were a genuine antique... even in the 50s,  the owner should have / would have known  better.   Could have been in an old shed or something that collapsed, though, stranger things have happened, and 15 min with that shovel would verify if it were in a collapsed building.    I dunno what to think but the condition to me makes me wary of delcaring it an antique "at a glance".     While it would be cool if it were ancient, its cool either way.  It almost looks like enough TLC could restore it to shooting condition. It would certainly be fit to hang on a wall with just a little bit of work -- electro off the rust, cold blue, and a set of grips would get you close.

If they drag it out it will hurt a lot of people.   If you hire someone to do a job, you pay them.  You don't cut them loose without warning or force them to take unpaid vacation on a whim either.  I can think of thousands of ways to deal with this in a better way that does not hurt the little people (meanwhile congress draws their wages without any problems).   All they have to do is keep the people working and pay them back in a week or 2 when this is resolved.  It WILL be resolved.  We KNOW that.  So delay their paychecks by a week or so, let them OPT to take the unpaid vacations if they WANT, but if they need the money let them work and pay them when it is all straightened out.   Its not that complicated.

today the chattanooga academy (at HP mall area) let me buy 2 boxes of 525 bulk .22 LR.  Its the goldpaint remington stuff but these days I won't turn down anything...  very nice to see enough in stock that they increased the daily limit.

I have an ultradot 2 moa on mine.  Truth is that outside, I can't see the dot on the smallest setting and have to increase its size and brightness (brightness, by the way, also increases its size in MOA effectively).   So if you shoot outdoors with much sun, the tiny dot sights are possibly not worth the extra cash.  I shoot mine mostly indoors, and with controlled lighting the tiny dot is amazingly good and very worth it.   The ultradot came with "sunglasses" lol -- polarized and colored covers that can be used to improve its use outdoors, but even with that, the micro dot settings are just a wee bit much to use on a bright day.    Whatever you get be sure to get one with a good warranty.  In my limited experience, its not a matter of IF but WHEN the device will fail.   I have worn out 2 or 3 of them just because the switch failed after a while (could no longer turn it off/on).   And a couple of the windowed (not tube) type cracked from nothing more than a 22 ejected round hitting the wall or something and bouncing back.  One of our ultradots croaked for unknown electronic reasons, so its not just the cheap gear that die....    This is not meant to worry you (all my units lasted many, many hundreds of rounds for the .22s and I have yet to break one on my 1911 which I shoot much less) but to caution you that they are, at the end of the day, just consumer grade electronics and they do, on occasion, have issues.

Mine is about worn out believe it or not.  Can just barely see a hint of rifling now.   I think I may just buy a new gun instead of a barrel though.   Barrel is nearly $100 and I would like a new lower that accepts target grips; mine is the plastic 22-45 that cannot be modified and since I shoot this one weekly I want to get better grips on it.  Time I did both of those things and replaced various other worn parts (extractor, etc) it would cost about what a new one does....   what do you guys think? 

  Heh if you loaded ONLY the 3 gun and IDPA most popular calibers (223, 9mm, .40 maybe?, .45 acp maybe) you would have a full time job in some parts of TN if you could get the folks to buy it.  Some people are very wary of the idea, even after you did all the paperwork and jumped all the hoops.  /shrug others wanted to try my loads after watching me shoot them for a few weeks.   I don't think lead slug 9mms would sell well.  People are wary of it, esp glock shooters.  IMHO it is perfectly safe if you use common sense, but I still think that would not be "wise" to go there esp starting out.  So don't expect to match what I said my personal costs were, those 90 grain lead slugs are just plain cheap.  (and yes, if it were FMJ I would account for that price difference when deciding to buy some or not, I am not a complete jerk!) 

  A lot of men also do not care to carry a 1911 sized pistol.  Its big and heavy with a capacity that is only rivaled by a revolver in terms of "less is more".   They often cost too much to bang up with daily carry as well, often 2x a typical carry gun if you don't go for the bargain models.     I would think a woman would have the same complaints as a man: its big, heavy, lowcap for carry.  As for shooing, most shooters / range time, I could not say.  My only guess there is that a 2-3 pound gun gets heavy after a while esp for a woman who lacks upper body strength, or perhaps the large grips vs small hands?   They are very pleasent to shoot apart from those 2 issues.   Could also be perceptions --- a lot of folks think a 45 has to have a lot of recoil because its so much bigger. And at least one woman I shoot with refuses to shoot bigger guns becasuse she dislikes very loud guns (and its an indoor range so that means anything more potent than a 9mm usually --- and she will go home if somone has a 44 or AR in there).     Lots of other women and men do carry them.   And there are a ton of modern 1911ish guns that are excellent carry pistols -- colt defender, para, and tons more, some in other calibers and some full 45s.    I say carry what you will --- I don't care what other people carry, or how, etc if it works for them.   But you asked and those are the reasons most cited against a 1911.

Nickel (the element) is magnetic but you can't divide cases with it.  You can easily pull steel cases out with a magnet but I just tested it to confirm: nickel cases do not stick to "the mother of all magnets".  (Its a magnet that I pulled out of an old hard drive, It takes all just about all I can do to pull it off my safe straight up, it can probably hold a 50 pound weight up).  I don't know if its the alloy used to plate the brass (just as some stainless steel is less strongly magnetic than an iron bar) or what, but if that magnet can't stick to it, it cant be done.   However its easy to tell apart, being a totally different color.   I realize profits are needed to run a business.  I said I would pay around 2 bucks a box over *my* costs (which are using retail not wholesale components) for quality "factory" reloads in understanding of that.  Assuming the pro-reloader is making it faster and for less in materials than I can, that is very reasonable. 

  Yes.  I should have said, for the same general size / shape / type pistol, a lighter caliber generally has lighter springs.      For that matter my wife's buckmark (.22) is worse than a number of medium caliber pistols if the internal hammer needs to be cocked.  When it jams/misfires, its a beast.    My makarov is the closest thing to a blowback 380 I have -- cock it first and its not too bad, try to rack with the hammer down, its stout enough ....   Lot of the pocket 380s are not blowback.  I thought most were too, but its probably closer to 50-50.

For a casual range toy AR the s&w m&p is excellent at a good price.    For home defense, what about a pistol AR or SBR built one?  Costs the tax stamp for the shoulder stock sbr, pistol does not cost extra.  I have one, and its legal on my permit should I feel the need to go heavily armed, and its good sized for home defense.  I can (but its too heavy to do it a lot) shoot it 1h in a pinch.  It has no problems at 100 - 200 yard range shots.   An ar is awfully loud inside without ears.... fyi.

  Well, this goes deep and is of course unanswerable.   The implication here is that the almighty can stop a violent act with divine intervention.  I agree with this.  However, if HE can do that, the other implication is that HE routinely ALLOWS violence to happen,  yes even in the cases where the victims surely prayed.  Which begs the questions of 'why stop it this time and allow it that time' and those questions will make anyone pull their hair out.   The occasional miracle at random is almost worse than none at all when trying to *think* about the subject.  Its why faith is so important ...  with faith, you can gloss over the lack of a pattern, the tough questions, etc.  Without faith, it is just random noise that may or may not even involve HIM.   So, like any question on religion (and a fair number for "science") it boils down to faith in the end.

best for what?  The best ammo for shooting beer cans in your yard at 10 yards is whatever you can find at the lowest price so long as it actually functions in your firearm.  Best for self defense is your choice of $1.5 per shot stuff with low flash powder (for night), a well made hollow point bullet, and good quality control (name brand) along with what will function in your gun.  The best for accuracy and competition is the ammo you make for yourself that is tailored to the quirks of your gun.  The best for hunting depends on the type of animal but you typically use soft point (not hollow point) heavy grain and hotly loaded stuff that as before works in your gun.     Most of the time when ammo does NOT work in a gun, it is one of 2 things: 1) super cheaply made and the inconsistent and often light powder charges fail to fully cycle the slide each time or 2) the shape of the projectile does not feed well.

I have a 22/45 in polymer.  My 2 cents... the grip angle aside, the grip is the wrong size and does not feel anything like a 1911.  Not even close -- I do not hold it the same way at all because its significantly different.   Also, I HIGHLY recommend getting the type that allows you to change the grips to use custom grips.  The polymer does not (or did not?  Not sure about current offering) allow you to do anything to change the grip.   As far as such things go, my pistol is nearly worn out (barrel is looking kinda smooth) and the grips are as good as the day they were made (probably in the late 80s).

  9mm @ 24/round is $12 per box.  Slightly lower than the current price of 15 for 50 at the places that are not price gouging (but have very limited supplies).   There is a fresh topic today that someone got 1000 for $227 -- that is cheaper than your friend.   45 @ 34/ is $17 per box.  Compare to $20 for the limited supply fairly priced places.   my current price (or cost; I do not *sell* it) for 9mm:  $3.2 / box for projectiles, free brass, pennies for powder, and $1.5 for primers, all roughly.  Call it $6 per box to cover taxes and price flux...  granted, those are lead projectiles that are rather cheap, but I *am* cheap so that is what he is up against.  Those are retail prices -- a FFL holder and business *should* be able to buy in volumes that lead to at least *some* savings/discounts.   Nickel reloads fine once or twice, then it splits.  There is nothing "wrong" with it except for people who reload.  Reloaders would rather have brass so they can recover it and reuse it.  To shoot it and throw it away, its fine -- a waste of good metal, but that was done when it was made the first time around.

hmm maybe if its free to play. I played the heck out of 1 or 2, whichever one was for dos with polygon 3d graphics...  was surprisingly good for the time it was done.

  its working fine. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bork

  *Most* places will remove the automatic tip upon request for small groups (family sized, say 1-4 people).  Not all, but most.  All the places I go to only add this sort of thing for larger (more than will fit at one table) sized groups.

Interestingly, you will find a lot of honor and honesty amongs the folks who have the least.   My cynical theory is that the poorer folks who are dishonest tend to get ahead faster (thus escaping poverty in favor of jail or success)....  :devil:   Seriously, though, a good story with 2 good deeds.  Well done!