Jonnin

im sure its a sweet critter and all that but it has the brain of a 5 year old at best, probably not even that smart.   And just like a little kid ... its going to say what it hears its "parents" saying.    The implications of that are interesting but its actual opinions are equal to those of a kindergartener ....  funny to listen to, but lacking critical thinking skills, not terribly earth shattering.    All in all, the poor monkey deserves better, it should at least have some company that is equally as smart as it is, but from the sound of it, the poor thing is surrounded by fools.

welcome!  

Don't know how often total innocents are put on a list.     I do know the SO registry contains everything from the worst scum that ever walked the planet to people who had one "derp" moment ... theres people on the SO registry that flashed / streaked etc and kids happened to see it.   But that is another issue entirely.  

right, it was never about the right to privacy for felons.    I consider an incorrect entry that reveals personal data for an innocent here, or in the sex offender registry, to be gross negligence.   I also consider making a dumb law that sets up the state to lose money to lawsuits to be gross negligence by the lawmakers.   This has all the earmarks of a good idea that will go very wrong when implemented. 

The same thing could be said of gun control (they are doing it, get over it) ... that is not a good argument to convince me that something is the right thing to do.   I am ok with this so long as - anyone wrongfully on the list that wins a lawsuit takes the money from the creators of this law directly, not public coffers, when they win millions and - anyone finding that the list can still be accessed via web historical programs and archives and such after their time has aged off is similar to #1  ... that is, someone can sue for historical data being kept past their punishment period the lawmakers pay for the damages awarded directly not from public funds.   Promise me that, and I will be all for it. Id rather see a list of rapists though, at the same level of detail.     my conditions are of course impossible.   The point is, its a way to throw away tax payer money in lawsuits the second they screw it up, and that will happen within a month of it going live.  

  Does it ever get cold enough in TN to make a difference in a non water based product?  It barely gets below freezing here.   Its new years and I haven't even found my coat yet this year.

That baby rock looks awesome but Id bet you could find a better deal on it ... msrp is 460 and msrp is always higher than what anyone charges.   400 seems like a reasonable price but nothing to get too excited about.   A quick search tells me that some sold on gunbroker for 415ish -- so its a "fair" price.      Far as the bersas go, I like them but they are basically a less well made Makarov ...  if you can find a deal on a mak, youd be better off IMHO, even with the weird ammo issue.    Nothing against the bersa, its a nice piece (less well made is relative, its hard to compete with antique steel military hardware), but having shot them side by side ...     /shrug I would get the RIA in a heartbeat.  They have a solid reputation of making good guns at reasonable prices.  

  1) grease traps dirt and grit, so after a while it sort of morphs into scouring powder -- that's ok, replace it now and then.  Rem oil is a good cleaner but it evaporates and is too thin, its gone pretty fast after using the gun... I use it to spray and wipe rustable guns.   Clp is a good cleaner but its not really a lube, its better than remoil as a lube though.   2) Heh, I just use my case lube from my reloading stuff.  Its hornady's tub, whatever they call it.  Ill also use 3 in 1 oil (its a little thicker) or even clp and remoil but those two really don't last but 1 range trip.   Most of my guns have the case lube on the major moving parts (slide / bolt) and thin oil sprayed in the works (trigger / action / other moving parts) whenever they feel sticky between deep cleanings.    3) thin lite layer of grease will last a long time.  About the time you feel like the chamber/barrel needs cleaing, go ahead and strip off the old grease and reapply.  For me, that's a couple hundred rounds usually, depending on the gun.    4) you didn't ask but just about the time anyone puts the word "gun" on a lube product, the price doubles.  

been a while since going down into GA was worth it, but this would probably tip the balance.  

I agree with MMM a lot. Not here so much .. we have some off color comments but its actually pretty tame and respectful more often than not, and compared to some forums, this is a paradise.   Getting permission is a fact of life for some guys, who have to seriously justify to their wife how they managed to spend 500 bucks on another gun, esp if on a budget.  Guns are major purchases for many people.    Physical weakness is also a fact of life but a lot of men are total idiots here.  A woman might be weaker than you, in that she can't lift 150 pounds over her head,  but we are talking 5-10 pounds of "weight"  most of the time here, and 2-3 pounds of gun weight, with a few exceptions for extra poorly made guns with 20 pound triggers or extra big heavy specialty pistols.    Handicapped folks/elderly aside, a healthy adult woman can certainly lift 5 pounds and hold it up, or squeeze 5-10 pounds a few times, or pull back a slide, or manage a bit of recoil.  It is drastically over-played.  Granted the heavy trigger guns are not fun for most people to shoot, gender aside, but its no worse for either gender.   Where I see it the worst is a woman trying to buy something at a show or store.  The majority of the folks selling are often heavily biased and try to steer the woman toward their biased idea of what she might like rather than try to find out what she might know already and is looking for.    And the industry is making this worse ... the pink guns are horrible, by and large, I wouldn't want to shoot any of them 100 times at the range, they are unpleasant dao micros with light frames (extra recoil), hard to grasp slides,  extra heavy triggers,  short sight radius,  ...  they might be ok in action but you can't learn to shoot or practice with them because they are not fun to shoot.    If I had to shoot something like that to practice, I would hate shooting too.

  It is a flat out lie,  and only possible by doctoring the data to filter it in a way that makes it true (difficult, but possible, for example they can include deaths in war/combat).   The current trend is to classify all gunshots as "violence" including - self defense - police work - suicides -accidents   while at the same time - suicide by car (sucking the exhaust for example)  is not classified as an automobile death -having a car fall on you when servicing it is not an automobile death - etc   so they tamper with the data to get the answer they want.

  Minor technicality but no one is ever "found innocent" in our system.   If not convicted (or otherwise found guilty, such as pleading), the person is not an offender and any records of the incident should not have any negative impact on the life of the individual.   I know I would have someone's job if I were being hassled over records kept of a non-incident.   If this is some sort of plead guilty deal, that is different of course. 

A lot of these (not all, but many ... pride in appearance & hippies?  romance outta love (free love??)?  I could go on..  ) are direct results of the movements of the 60s which, while a small actual percentage of the population, has had long lasting and far reaching consequences.   Those folks who did that were teens and twenties in the 60s.    That put them .... in the seniors category, solidly.    Granted our seniors today span a wide group and the oldest are not the hippies, but the youngest... were.   This isn't me blaming anyone for anything ...  again, I recognize that a vocal minority turned the country on its head.   But the TIMEFRAME is without dispute.   And what was started has snowballed ... unintended consequences.    My generation is as bad or worse... because we continued to worsen the mess rather than fix it.     Much as I despise the guy, one quote comes to mind over and over.  America's chickens have come home to roost.

they all look like dolls -- literally, their faces look plastic with the lights and makeup.   If I had that much makeup on, I could probably win too --- its thick enough to cover my stubble.

Looks dense to me.  #2 is "miserable" due to low home ownership ... in the town I know best for its time-shares and similar commercial rental property.   Another is "miserable" because ppl aren't married ... clearly, they don't know the married folks that I do, nor the single folks that I know.   Another is least amount of sunny days... some idiot northerner wrote this, having never experienced a fully sunny day in july with 400% humidity and 150 degree sunshine.  

  Many of those small 38s are 5 shots.  You can get between 5 and 10 in a cylinder these days, ranging from .22 or 22 mag to the big stuff.   The complaint is the combined slow reload (for normal humans, we all know experts with tweaked guns and decades of practice an reload one in a nanosecond)  with the reduced capacity, but if you just want capacity, my wife has a 9 round 22 mag that is just fine for a carry revolver.  Holds more than most of the 380 pockets, which is what it compares to.

volume is absolutely safe -- millions of rounds have been loaded with a dipper or a volumetric dropping device.  Weight is more precise.   Volume has random air fluff in each charge,  and some powders this is significant while others it is almost zero (smaller particle powders have less air space problems).  Weight is weight ... if every charge weighs the same, you have the same amount of powder in there.   But its tedious.   If you are not making serious competition ammo or long range precision ammo  or something like that, volume is fine.   I make mine with a cheap lee disk device and the ammo is better accuracy than most store bought at medium pistol ranges of say 20 yards.    I use fine grain powder to reduce the air/error and its great.

  2) very, very old models might have a less reliable extractor, but I think those would be quite pricy and rare to find?  I don't recall the details but it was improved after WWII.   I think a number of other small improvements have been made in the last 100 years but that was the biggie? 

Good luck with that, its like an antique clock in those things.   I took mine apart but not the decocker.   If the video does not do it, try looking at a diagram of it expanded.    The one from the owner's manual is all over the web, not too many other expanded diagrams unfortunately.   As far as I know the rami IS a 75 in design and all, just a smaller frame.   So an info you can find on a 75 should be mostly accurate. 

  as I recall when we had some done they cut it more than double thick (twice the board thickness, maybe three times) and we stored it like that to let it dry on out.   I don't know if that is standard practice or just the way we did it, but the guy that cut it into boards recommended it.   Basically we put down 2x4s,  put a thick board down, crossed it with more 2x4s, put another down, so it had air space around each board.  It was probably dry after one winter as we stored it near our wood stove.   I don't think it would dry this decade if you didn't at least cut it in half long ways

1) Stain soaks in.  You can't sand it off.   2) if it has anything like checkering, you can't sand that either.   wood choice: what do you want, a light or a dark color?  Lots of rings / patterns?  Etc?   Try to describe what you would want to have.   Also go for harder and it will last longer ... cherry is a little softer than the others you listed here.   The wood choice chooses the stain...  when staining: you can always put more on, but you can't take any off.   Ideally you would have some scrap of the same thing to test, here you should use the inside of the pieces and slowly get a feel with a q-tip or something how much you want to apply to get it to the darkness you want.   If you change your mind on DIY sig sells a few flavors of wood and this guy http://www.marschalgrips.com/?content=CZ-models  used to do almost anything if you sent him the originals to use as a pattern; I had him do a couple of mine including my rocked out Makarov.

  Yep.   We planned ahead and have enough to pay a big deductible.  My new plan has a rolling over cash account for what isn't used (unlike some plans with a use it or lose it setup),  great all around coverage, and a high deductible that I have set aside if I need it.  I don't know if its and ACA plan or just one of many options we were offered.   But you are right, most people won't set aside the money ahead of time, and some people can't (though most of them find $150 a month to spend on toys like phones and tv... which would cover it...).   

consistency helps.   After your turn off the air vents,  put the brass in the same spot every time  ... you can draw a little target circle or put it in one of the corners.  Also,  you want to scoot it around and ensure that all 4 corners are touching the surface it is sitting on.  In a shop type environment, sometimes your bench isn't exactly flat and if one corner is not touching you get some variation.   Finally, tap the object on the scale a couple of times and let it settle in on a value.  These should be pretty close for the same object...  if not, something is wrong.  Don't breathe on it.    With all that, most of the $20 scales will do just fine,  most are +-  .5 to 1 grain.  The worst ones are only  +- 1 grains which is *good* for the money spent.    

Had this issue before on a different model gun ... gunsmith was able to take a couple of thousandths off the slide lock so the ammo would stop hitting it, and that was fixed. 

  they are emboldened.   They feel its a sure thing the next president and supreme court will be liberals.   Hillary & Obama are making gun control their main issues, the one on his way out looking to do as much damage as he can and the other coming in with only the 2nd standing in her way of making her dream police state a reality.    Its the #1 thing in the way of their agenda, so its become a major  issue, again.