Jonnin

I do not know about the values but I keep mine on its highest (driest) setting and it pulls nearly 2 gallons per day this time of year.     My powders seem to be fine BUT my powders are stored in their orig plastic jugs.  While not military or space grade airtight, the amount of air exchange is minimal and, basically, the air that is IN the jug stays in the jug and the air outside the jug stays outside the jug, making it unlikely that even the worst humidity would not quickly spoil my powder.     All that to say: keep them in their containers, with a snug lid, and if worried throw in a pack to absorb moisture and it will be fine for decades.   I suggest your humidity is kept low anyway, as your dies or press or other stuff could rust but your components should be ok without excessive amounts of extra work.

Autos and animals.... I have to say consider a revolver if you have one.  Some animals will surprise you and be too close for an auto to function more than one shot.   Unlikely enough but the occasional cat will jump on a person, for example, and some of the others can charge at you extremely fast (angry hog!)   10mm is plenty for anything short of a large bear.    I spent a LOT of time in the woods when I was young, and have never been attacked by an animal excluding insects.   Most of them fear, or at least respect,  humans.

  I seriously doubt its loud at all, at a guess you could probably use it all day without hearing protection.   Ive shot a few $$$ airguns but they were all small pellet, and the sound was very little.

A qualified maybe, depending on when, where, etc.   Its getting on toward the part of the year that I stay inside if the sun is up, as I burn in about 2 min flat in the sun or 5 in the shade this time of year :P    Now if you wanted to talk now for the upcoming fall ... that gets :up:

There are 1911s, and then there are the red-headed stepchildren.  For carry, you have double stack 1911s, you have them in 9mm.  You have many strange sizes and shapes.     So my advice is to take a long, hard look at the "carry" "1911ish" pistols and see if there is something you like even better!     I currently carry the sig 938.   I like the colt defender a lot.  Para's nighthawg or whatever the small one is may be of interest.   The main point here is not to recommend anything at all so much as to say there are things out there that you may love that are not the classic 45 caliber only 2 sizes fit all only pure variety.   The not quite 1911s offer smaller sizes and higher capacity, or both, with the classic trigger and action in a carry friendly frame.   That said, if you *want* and love a pure 1911, that works too.  But before you bust out your wallet, at least look!

Food for thought.   You could pay about the same to silence a .22 as you could get that 9mm air gun which is probably very quiet and as powerful as a 9mm handgun.  But silencers are "bad" and have to be regulated.  Derp.

Unless its very, very, very cheap I won't buy any factory except rimfire.    For that, I *have* paid $50 for 500 at least once.  But anything over $30 will only happen for high quality stuff, not golden misfires or thunderandomgroup type stuff.

It is insane, period, to ban any type of hand to hand weapons in an era where *most* of the bad guys have guns.   Though most of our lawmakers still live in the era, the 1950s are over now.

  HAH I always thought he was saying something like this too.   Being younger, I did not know what "mohair" (spelling????) even was until much later in life.   There is another (older) song that mentions it and I thought they were saying "monkey suit" by some woman, diana ross maybe... ?   Speaking of sir elton,  I like saturday night and one or 2 others.  I could stand it if he sang less and pianoed more.  And I could stand it a lot less if he kept his politics to himself -- given he is not from this country, he has even less of a say than other entertainers, and that is no more of a say than I have --- one vote.  Using an entertainment career as a soapbox is fail. 

Traitor.   There is no evidence that the bulk of the leaks from this guy were to expose misconduct.  A couple of them, maybe could be excused this way but most of it had no business being published.   The guy this week, however, is a hero and a patriot.  The govt has no business collecting data in this manner.

He does not have to do it forever.  Only for 3 more years.   And yes, it will hold up that long.  Bush actually IS to blame for the big brother crap.  Its one of about 10 or 15 huge idiotic mistakes he made and why I am NOT a fan.   I liked him better than the alternatives, yes, but that does not excuse the massive blunders like the first bailout, the patriot act, going to war (if its worth one us soldier's  life, its worth one nuke in my book),  no moron left behind, and more.     This is a consequence of the patriot act and the blame lies with bush in at least equal measure to obama.   Again, for a guy at 40, there has not yet been ONE president in office that I would cross the street to pee on if they were on fire.  Yes, that includes reagan who did so much damage to CA that it is no longer even recognizable as part of the country and it includes bush sr who started a war that cost us billions and it includes W for the listed reasons and more.   Ugg.

the news is wrong.   Guns are not legal at a college in CA so clearly that did not happen.  Also they mention an assault rifle, which is banned in CA --- an assault rifle being defined by its grip, stock, and plastic doodads + the magazine, all of which are banned and required to be rendered inoperable in CA.   There were numerous other gun control laws that were broken as well.     All I can come up with, since gun control prevents these sorts of shootings, is that the media is playing a joke on us and that this never happened.     Now, a BP pistol with a capacity of 3 or less is legal in CA, so that may be plausible however he still would have turned around and gone home at the campus due to not being allowed to have it there.

Hmm I would gladly hit this up,  I think you can still get the junky squirt guns for a few bucks a pop.  Assuming they are willing to pay $20 a pop or something worthwhile to get the evil off the street?   Just like a real gun buyback, probably can make a ton off the right junk.....

  It may or may not work.   Again, they can't use most feeders, it has to be designed for their unique needs and full of whatever it is they like best (suet I think?).   Or you could just end up attracting more of them to eat your house.   I can't say, they don't eat my house usually (had one rogue that would not stop) yet frequent the feeder.    needs to be like this: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Coveside-22400-Woodpecker-Feeder/24905014   note the slab of wood below it, they push against that with the tail.

By definition no fact can be denied without losing credibility.    The thing is, so what?   Reasonable law enforcement practice is not to round up everyone in the country and do a strip search.  This is the same thing, only electronically.   A wire tap on some guy who is "of interest" ?  Fine.   Looking at everyone to see what they can see? Not fine.    Getting  warrant to search one home?  Fine.  Door to door break down, tear down, full search across the USA? Not fine.     The hard tactics do work.  They would catch some criminals.  But at what COST?  It is not worth it.

what sort of advice?  Its powerful enough, accurate enough, etc.  only issue is its kind of heavy and you have to find some non military ammo for it (cant use FMJ in hunting!). 

provide an alternative food source... they like other stuff than just bugs (the point of the pecking) and a good feeder (needs a tail bar, they *have* to support their tail to be able to eat from a feeder) will keep them off the wood IF the wood is not bug ridden.  If the wood has bugs, they are gonna peck it.  And you have a problem if that is the case, both ways..!  

  I have no use for a band that sings about how handguns are good for nothing but murder. 

I did the same thing with the sizing die for a while.  They worked in one gun which made it even harder to diagnose when I tried them in a second .... ! 

yes, it sounds like the bullets are a hair long and hitting the rifling early which will jam up.  This could be from using a fatter bullet at the same length, in some cases (fatter at the nose sooner, so a more pointy bullet might miss the rifling and the fatter one catch it?)   The others sound like light load problems, need more oomph to throw them out and cycle properly.    The last round not popping out  --- before trying to diagnose it, try increased load power.  It may clear up.    Had you shot any steel in the mix?

  Its a song about female masturbation.....   (honestly the crablouse is a much better song if you want to hear that sort of stuff).   Its the female version of "dancing with myself".    I loved her voice.  Still do.  Crap music but that was most of the 80s.   Her early retirement was ... a shame, she is worth 1000 of madonna or prince or jackson.  Maybe even 1000 of each.

depends on the design how much wiggle is NORMAL when it is not "ready to fire".  The key is no wiggle when it is ready to fire, anything else, if it rotates properly when you hammer back and locks up to fire, its good to go.  Some designs, half cocked is between chambers on the cylinder, I think (??) so that may be another point to test.   Rust, well the last time I said some pitting was nothing to worry about the guy then posted a pic of a barrel eat clean through.  So the answer there is your gut feeling by observation.  If its pitted deep enough that you feel it could be unsound, then it probably is unsound.  if its just surface pitting, its just cosmetic and safe to fire.    gas cutting is usually in magnum modern guns not so much in BP?  Not 100% sure on that, but I have mostly seen it in 357s and 44s.  Basically you can quite easily see that the metal is cut from hot gasses and that is a problem after a while.  And not an easily fixed problem.   A BP expert needs to chime in here but this, like the rust, should be something you can observe and make a common sense guess at.   If this is your "good buddy" why not borrow the gun and let a gunsmith check it out, usually you can get a quick thumbs up / thumbs down for either free or not much.  Cause it sounds like even if it is safe to shoot, it needs a little pro TLC.

the pretext of this device is very flimsy.   NO ONE pours a can of solvent down the barrel.  You dip a little bit onto a cloth, not even enough to drip.   And that big heavy mess on the gun makes it harder to clean.  And you disassemble the gun to clean it, normally.   And this thing is just a silencer with a false pretext for marketing purposes.... period.  

if AL allows it (??? !!! ) and you have a clear shot, I can live with it.  But I have a very hard time trying to imagine a clear shot in any sort of shopping area.   If there are others around, its reckless endangerment at the very least. 

I have a simple method for a new rifle.   Step 1) get a poster board from walmart (or more like 5 of em). step 2) put a small target in the middle, and shoot at it step 3) without moving the gun, adjust the dot until it covers the bullet hole.  repeat until it is "pretty good".     refine it beyond that?  Nah, get a scope.  Red dot is already 2 or more MOA so if you can hit a 3-4 inch target with it at 100, its fine.