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After being party to a conversation today at a local farm/home type store that does a volume business in common varieties of ammunition, I've finally heard enough to be convinced that the only remaining reason for shortages continuing is a combination of people who are speculating in ammunition and ...

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I forgot to mention one other phenomenon accompanying my own decrease in visual accommodation: my coming around to shorter sight radiuses on handguns. As a younger man, I did not pay all that much attention to the old tests that had been done showing how some target pistol shooters with vision or ho...

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I am of the persuasion that a good aperture rear sight is the most useful - and generally cost-effective - aids to aging eyes. Unfortunately, I'm getting past the point where they do me as much good as they did, because I am now having trouble with the front sight as well. I still have reasonable su...

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The book "Rapid Fire" by Anthony Williams contains a photo of a 1" Gatling round (the caption also calling it the 25x88R, although I think it was also called out as 25.4mm), and the sparse information supplied lumped it in the "naval weapons" category. (The entire book is an...

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"So..........This Army Truck Pulls In My Driveway.........." ...may have been the rough translation of what the Frenchman said when a QM truck company showed up in 1945 as his temporary tenants. I can't recall verbatim what my uncle - a company motor vehicle maintenance officer - said many...

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Will it help if I switch to an airgun scope with an adjustable objective? My guess is that yes, going to a scope that is parallax-adjustable will take care of your problem; it did the trick for me. I use Leupold 2-7x28 Rimfire VX-1 and 3-9x33 EFR Ultralight scopess on rimfires and airguns, and whil...

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Another thing I'm going to have to take into account is computer costs. The desktop is a 32 bit version of XP, the laptop is a 32 bit Vista and CS6 takes the 64 bit Win 7 (or Mac equivalent) or higher. Even though I have a strong preference, either platform can do the job. I have been a Mac user si...

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If you are enrolled in a college or tech school, you should be able to get a student discount on the Creative Suite 6 package, and that is what I'd recommend for most people in your situation. Yes, you can do most - if not all - of the photo manipulation with just Photoshop 6, but my guess is that t...

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Another vote for the UPLULA. I am more awkward - thus slower - with them than I'd like, but at least loading isn't a pain.

(literally)

People at the LGS love them and will often use them to load just one or two rounds.

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The AR is just the latest (more-or-less) installation in a continuum of personal weapon development. One can argue that within its role - that of a state or empire's "lowest common denominator" infantry weapon - it is the current culmination of lessons learned combined with available techn...

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The last two replies are pretty succinct, so I'll just give 'em a bump and add that too many of the new faces where I shoot have dismissed the revolver without really understanding the possible procedural benefits of same. A pity, that.

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I had a spare rifle-sighted 870 Police barrel modified to take Rem-Choke tubes by Rose Action Sports (http://www.roseactionsports.com), and I was quite pleased with how it turned out.

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I actually liked each of the Mini-14s I used to have, but all save one suffered from mediocre accuracy... and I grew to dislike not being able to clean from the breech. Other than that, I have a much friendlier feeling towards them than I do an AR or AK or (insert other initials here) because the Mi...

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We have some connection problems too. Redcoats burning courthouses maybe? Nothing that exciting, I'm afraid. In a nutshell, it's just a case - or so we think - of a mother's early death, followed by some intense daughter/stepmother antipathy, then finally the daughter losing her husband and having ...

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Because of some family misfortunes affecting two generations, my dad had no real knowledge of his father's family tree. I ran across some paperwork after one of my aunts passed away that gave us a thread to start tracing, and it led back to the Revolutionary War (there are braches of his family that...

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I explain to them that it's like golf-clubs - you could play a game of golf with just one club, but I doubt any golfer would want to do so. Or for the women who seem to find owning more than one gun inexplicable-- "You don't do all your cooking with only one pot or pan, do you?" or "...

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Deafrn: My bride insists on her little S&W .38 snubbie and wadcutters. Some days I find myself thinking that a 2" SP101 loaded with non-"plus P" .38 JHPs is very likely to be what I'm going to end up with as my primary handgun. To be honest, I'd probably be okay with that. I was ...

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One of the gents at my LGS handed me an XD-s, a full magazine and a target. ("Just try it.") It did not feel all that comfortable with me standing there at the counter pointing at the target on the wall, but was surprisingly friendly and controllable in actual use. Without any familiarizat...

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When times are hard, a single shot shotgun and a good 22 rifle Mike. The bearcat in a pack makes sense too. When you look back at the great depression, thats what worked and they still mąkę sense as "must haves." I'm also doing the "look back" thing, but have been doing so for a...

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It's probably a result of a deficiency in my technique, but I seem to need a levergun fore end to be "just right" compared to a semiauto; a quad (or in the case of the Mossberg, "triple") rail would likely be a bridge too far for my liking. The bulk, the "serrated' effect......

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I have a Kershaw Zing that I often carry, and while it wasn't (at least at the time) a low-end Kershaw, it was actually not very expensive. I bought it on something of a whim, but it has proven to be a nice, capable little knife that is as "useable" as my Spyderco Delica 4 and Benchmade Mi...

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I can get decent groups on the range, but lining up the sights for a quick shot in low light is getting beyond what I can do. Heck, I can't even line up (iron) sights for a SLOW shot without problems. With a small enough aperture in a receiver sight, I can still make irons work but the writing is o...

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"I designed it myself. My wife makes 'em for me. Very practical for the hot weather." -Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, Royal Navy (For those unfamiliar with what was the real-life inspiration for the book - and thus the movie - "The African Queen," do a search on the gent quote...

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That is neat. My son's whole unit was transferred to a new command and PCS'd to Ft. Bliss following their last Afghanistan deployment, and it has not been the happiest of moves on many levels, but duty is duty. Anyway, I still haven't convinced him to get out of El Paso once in a while and go SEE - ...

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Hobie wrote:The 130 gr. NYCLAD non +P has a good rep.

The Federal Nyclads are my favorite snubbie load, but I have had trouble finding them lately.

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I believe that red dot and reflex sights refer to the same thing although they can be configured differently (an UltraDot Matchdot using a closed tube doesn't look much like a Burris FastFire which is an "open" configuration, but both are red dot/reflex sights): an LED is projected onto th...

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I would prefer a magnified scope over the red dot, mainly for the later 307 conversion. In the ranges I would use the 375, the red dot would do fine, I am sure. I found that the dot is about a 3-4 MOA dot, but the scope has 11 different brightness settings and when set on 3-4 it looks much smaller,...

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I'm no expert but I think this method is for the more powerful spring guns which twang and vibrate a bunch. I chose a mid-power air rifle because i wanted handling more like my rifles. I tried this but don't see much of a difference with my air rifle. This. My HW30S doesn't do any better with the &...

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Would I recommend these two books? Yes but with a qualification: if you know next to nothing about these two subjects (like me) and aren't sure you want to dig any deeper into them, then they are worth checking out. If you're already familiar with the subjects and/or are looking for lots of detaile...

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I tell you, fellers, if I even LOOK LIKE I might want to buy another rifle that even LOOKS like a Winchester lever gun, I hope one of you will do me the favor of kicking my behind. This is my first excursion into this nightmare and it will be the last. I have 6 different Marlin lever guns and they ...

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I don't think they are bad firearms, but I'm another one that doesn't particularly like them for some reason... they come and go, but are never missed when they leave. I could pick one up today on some pretext or another and then "fall out of like" with it within the week. Heck, I'm toying...

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I believe this was the final installment on a series of clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wryy-TZVbdk

It does look fun; I understand that trying to get one "legal" for street riding is an exercise in frustration.

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Pretty far off the beaten path is the Union Army's own "navy," about which is Chester Hearn's book "Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All." That one sounds mighty interesting as well. I wonder if it's in the public domain and has been scanned by the Gutenburg Project or s...

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And as usual, I find the really off the beaten path stuff most interesting. Pretty far off the beaten path is the Union Army's own "navy," about which is Chester Hearn's book "Ellet's Brigade: The Strangest Outfit of All." The Ellet family's adventures were unknown to me until I...

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Some .22 match rifles are set up like that, because it's a known, fixed distance every single time. Target+sight=hit. Yep. My college target riflery facility had essentially identical rigs for us to use, but one old cluck in particular seemed to be easier for me to make good scores with. The only t...

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You know what they say, NEVER TRUST A PERSON WITH 1 GUN, HE WILL DEFINITELY KNOW HOW TO USE IT. I've shot with a couple of people who - for one reason or another - ended up using one firearm for most of their recreational shooting, even when the gun wasn't the theoretical best choice from among the...

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I do like the idea of a Double Action Revolver for a woman or anyone not into guns. And I like it even better if the hammer is bobbed or enclosed. That way there is no operating device to manipulate, or a hammer to cock or uncock after the crisis is over, you just pull the trigger or you don't, and...

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I thought that tumbling might be gentler and less distructive than sanding. However, it doesn't sound like that is the case. An outfit here used to do a lot of vibratory cleaning and finishing (before the FedGov made their whole product line a perpetual potential quagmire of "process" cri...

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I don't have one either, but last night I was looking at reviews and starting thinking I might get a Springfield XDs I fired an XDs last weekend at the behest of my LGS, and while it didn't particularly feel comfortable in my hand (nor were the sights particularly friendly to my eyes), it still sho...

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The question I have is, Did I screw myself, buying a Short barreled Gun over a LONG one?? Would a 20, or 24 inch sight radius HELP here?? Or am I doomed to (gag) scope it??? Do NOT want to abandon the 357 lever concept... But a Modern looking scope on a 92 seems like Sacrilege.. any insight from an...

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Griff wrote:just how many "iron cross" air filter covers do you have to see before one realizes that one's just part of the crowd.

Even Mossberg would draw the line at that.

Oh... you mean on motorcycles.

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I suspect that the term "tactical" means so many different things to different people that it it would be hard to be real dogmatic about it. In 1860, the Henry was state-of-the-art "tactical," but time and technology have rendered it a tough sell for infantry use in 2012. A case ...

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Considering how long this has been going on, I have my doubts that we will be seeing any new Marlin products much longer. It does seem that FG-Ilion has a learning curve that my old shop teacher certainly wouldn't tolerate. My fear that Marlin QC was becoming like Rossi QC came true before the prod...

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Just out of curiosity, if I wanted to run slugs on occasion what would be the smallest choke that would be advisable? I know the choke won't help a slug but the wrong one in the barrel sure could turn it into a shorter barrel quick, fast and in a hurry... :shock: Most of the time I leave the modifi...

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I had a cracked molar replaced by an implant within this last year and have and zero problems with it yet, while the roughly half century of miscellaneous old-school dental work (and rework) is a continual pain in the... mouth. The time it takes for the bone to grow back seems a tad long, but the pr...

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The photo shows an 18.5" Remington 870P RS barrel that was converted to use removable Rem-Choke tubes. It throws shot no differently than a longer barrel using the same tubes, but other factors (balance, "sight picture," etc) make it hard for some people to use.

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The way a contact who is in the industry explained it to me was that for trucks which never leave improved roads there are savings in fuel, maintenance and tire wear by using supersingles, but the cost to convert over and worries about what happens when a tire goes flat without a redundant dual keep...

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Without loading you with any details, I graduated from med school in 1952 - and, it's been my experience - personal and with my patients - that yellow stuff referred to in the "golden years" contains more rust than gold. My mother is 80 years old now, and a few years back she told me, &qu...

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I almost bought a HW30S. I suspect my girls will learn on one. How smooth it out of the box? Is it hold sensitive? I plumb blew off the last question; sorry about that. I can't say that my 30S is NOT hold sensitive, but the shooting so far doesn't seem to indicate that it is fussy. FWIW, I did leaf...

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I put a Leupold 1-4X20 shotgun scope on my .22 Mag CZ a while back and love it. The shotgun scope has wider crosshairs that are easier to pick up in low light. Worth repeating. The shotgun/muzzleloader scopes are real sleepers, working well for a lot of people... especially those new to glass or th...

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