Jonnin

  And such is fun to watch.   I went to a few civil war shooter competions (I forget the name of it, but its an official thing) to watch and when 10 guys line up and blast away with BP the smoke, smell, and all is pretty intense.   

My wife likes a lot of different things -- the one thing we agree on is we both hate dislike actions.    Her favorite pistols include her eaa witness,  cz kadet (.22 on a 75 frame, similar to witness),  a browning buckmark, and her taurus 22 and 22M revolvers.   She also loves her 1911 and many others.    Her favorite rifles include a 30-30 lever, her 10-22, and an ar-15.   She likes antiques, does not own too many but sometimes buys an old revolver.  She picked out an extremely nice 45LC last year.   She dislikes shotguns.  Pretty much all of them, actually.   She does not enjoy big recoil, she will shoot it a few times and then go back to a gentle gun.  But she will try most anything once. 

It is just his arrogant punishment / slap behavior.    Banning bolt action rifles on a pretext (they are MILITARY GRADE bolt action rifles)  because it is the ONLY thing he can do without congress to punish his political enemies, so he does it.     This will backfire, but it will really be a loss to collectors.

Have to be precise --- sloppy wording is why people consider christians to be backwards about science.  Evolution and genetics are real, and has been observed in nature.    Evolution from a lightning strike created amoeba from some sort of random slop that happened to all congeal the right way into humans (via a chain of intermediate critters) is where the theory/faith part of the religion of evolution comes to play.     Even with all we know we have yet to make life from a bowl of ingredients, nor have we been able to selectively breed monkeys into cave men.  For a reason.

Not for me but I want to watch the "rapid fire" stage...   I agree with you on the price tag.   I have a cheap setup but lost interest as the reality of the pay to win hit home.   I enjoy my solo practice sessions and the discipline of it without having a 10k investment in it. 

If your medications are properly set up for YOUR specific needs, you should be able to eat more or less like a normal person unless your diabetes is extremely bad.  That is the point of the medication --- to get you back to close to normal.   If you have been on something for more than a month and you find you need to "balance the medicine with snacks"  then the medicine is possibly wrong, the dose or the type or something.   I would badger my doctor and get a second opinion as well, see if maybe the dose can be tweaked or something.   Maybe, maybe not, but be proactive about it and get a straight answer from your caregiver on the subject.  

If something makes me nervous when reloading it, I tend to back off and do something differently.   I consider paranoia and illogical worry to be a layer of common sense; that is, if something I am doing is setting off alarms, then somewhere, deep in my brain, something has made a connection that something I am doing is possibly more dangerous than usual.     In your case, I would either reduce the load with that powder until it can be loaded without excessive force or I would swap to a hotter powder.   Forcing things during the reloading process .... seems like a bad idea to me, and I would (personally) not do it anymore.    The only thing I have ever forced on the press was to reshape unprimed brass, which is not possible to explode. 

I will admit to doing an external wipedown on a loaded gun if it got a drop of sweat or fingerprint on the barrel or something.  I see no difference in this and any other handling of a loaded gun: keep it pointed safe and do not touch the trigger.   Racking the slide to unload it and reload it after is equally, if not more, dangerous than running a rag over the slide or barrel.  Just don't use the rag to polish the trigger and don't rush.   Thankfully I no longer carry a rustbucket daily, and no longer need to do this, but anyone who has carried a pistol that will rust in 1/2 an hour after being touched probably understands where I am coming from...

I have started putting mine in the door compartment.  Being left handed, it is a great location for me.  Drawing from the body in the car was not working out, and while I could probably find a way to  make it work, this method is the best I have found so far.   

  I like Mr. Sowell as well, and often read him and others on the NRO  but I thiink he missed a big piece here.   With very few exceptions, every time a country has racial tensions on the rise, the same country is suffering an economic downturn.   A difficult economy leads to finger pointing and irrational blame of folks that are different who seem to be doing better.  

  Its the internet.  Someone finds it, links it, then a dozen other who never saw it before see it and pass it on, and suddenly it is all over the web again.  This happens all the time.  If you watch the news summary / headline pages (the ones that tap the headlines from 10 or so major news sources)  you will see something make headlines one day, vanish, then come back a week later, vanish, the pop up a third time ...  and often enough a few months later it will be back yet again.   News and rapid communications have not come full circle.... I have even seen the same story with conflicting "facts" from the same news source, with the conflicting headlines and articles both up at the same time.

Too bad he died quickly.  People like that should spend a few months to "contemplate" their mistake.  A shame he had time to hurt the girl.   

the 63 is what I had as well.  pictures being pictures, I was not sure how close the 2 were, but that explains it looking very similar :)   And I think the 63 is the (design?) date....  meaning these pistols probably date from the 60s and 70s and maybe even into the 80s.   I think they stopped in the late 80s or 90s (???).  Likely there is a date right on it, coded into a number but obvious, like 17986 (86 being the year) or something like that.... 

I second this.  The 238 is exceptionally easy to rack!   In general, or in depth, or both... a pistol is easy to rack when the rack operation can be seperated from cocking the gun.  A pistol is easy to rack if it has a long slide operation.  A pistol is easy to rack if it has a lighter recoil spring.    A lighter caliber is easier to rack because it has a weaker recoil spring, so a 380 is easier than a 9, a 22 is easier still, etc.  My desert eagle takes a great deal of effort.   So a DA/SA, if cocked first, is easier to rack than an internal striker that is being pulled back along with the recoil spring.   A SAO 1911ish pistol is easy to rack if you thumb the hammer back first.   Replacing the springs with a lighter one can help quite a bit.  Having some texture to the slide to grip can help.  A DAO may be easy to rack as well --- the action is independent of the slide for those, but make sure she can pull the trigger and LIKES the heavy pull on it (same for any gun but esp for a difficult to operate one).     All that is on TOP of using a good technique, rather than trying the manly slingshot method, try to use leverage to your advantage (there are videos and links of better ways to rack that use less muscle and more brains). 

She is a bit small for it.   But they tame the recoil more than you think too... I can one hand the 44,  when I can barely 2h my 44 revolver with hot ammo.   With coaching, she might be able to do it, not like that but ??? Not sure.

The idiotic notion that people are more dead from gas than from bombs is one of the most stupid things of all time.  Dead is dead. 

to comply is the polite thing to do, but I would have pressed the guy and made it an opportunity to educate him.  If he can give you a rational, well thought out reason for putting it away, and will be personally responsible for it if stolen, we might talk about it.  

now remember little fella, as long as you try it does not matter.   2+1 = 13?  Good job.  You my son have a future at nasa...   and if you miss the target planet entirely with your billion dollar sensor remember you did your best!   I am OK with NO contests of any kind.  I do think that such often lead to the same few winning everything and others trying so hard to get nothing year after year is not encouraging anyone.  But if you are going to have them, then winner takes all.    If you want the whole class to feel good, buy em all an ice cream for being great kids, but don't call that a contest.

  MSNBC said it was a .223 military grade high capacity assault revolver.

I would probably have excused myself, hauled off to the restroom holding my "stomach",  and worked the problem from there. 

Feg makes a lot of stuff, and a lot of these guns do have a nasty trigger pull.   Their stuff is rugged and "economically" made.  That is, fit and all may be a little rough, or not, depends on what it is and when (I dunno this model).   They work, reliable and pretty much what you would expect from a foreign military type pistol.   It looks a lot like the one I had in 9x18.   Which was a great gun, but watch that slide bite :)

  Takes time.  They have a name (not released but he is in custody, wont be long) and age now (19).  More is coming out slowly.   Sounds like maybe he had some "explosives" whatever that even means (they never really say what that means, sigh).   Its not much of a story, no one was hurt so the media has little to work with. 

The only way we will ever successfully build up another country is when we can install a democracy that the people in that country approve of and will continue to vote for and defend.   We can't force extremists to not vote for an extremist who will then take over as dictator.  We can't even do that HERE.   That means the only way we can succeed are examples like S korea, which I would argue is a success story --- the people there want a decent lifestyle and have worked hard to maintain what we gave so much to create.     The good news is that such a country that would remain free would not need a constant presence of our forces or constant infusions of "aid" to pay them off to remain our ally or remain quasi friendly.     I can count on one hand the number of countries that would be worth bothering to save.  None of them have natural resources that we would fight to protect like oil, though, so we instead try to do things in the oil rich countries that we "need" to be "stable".   Like almost everything else in the world, follow the money (or oil) and suddenly our idiotic foreign policy makes more sense....

Should be able to find a way to run any phone app on a PC/laptop, unless something has changed drastically.  I don't stay on top of it (I just barely have a cell that can just barely make phone calls and nothing else) but take a look before you buy hardware for one program.    Do you really need that much tech to shoot at 500-700 ?    Someone should make a smart scope.  Ive got a sensor in my hand now that can give gps, wind data, compass, and more.  The sensors are tiny if you do not want nth degree accuracy @ 1000 hz or something.   High res at high update is where the stuff gets bigger and pricier.   Programming in the basic ballistics on a burn & run type chip would not take up a dime's worth of space.   Digital x hairs that move to fit the equation should be cake.

I don't recognize that box but they mostly make high end target ammo.  Like, it should all go in the same hole for the top end stuff.  They have several  grades but even their poor grade ammo is better than most of the other stuff.   BEFORE the .22 shortage their better grade stuff was more than 3X the bottom shelf surplus stuff.