Rusty

Ok, don't mean to start a big debate in the middle of a recomendation thread, but this hollywood "knock down" myth has to die. From the FBI Academy Firearms Training Unit http://www.firearmstactical.com/pdf/fbi-hwfe.pdf No duh. If you'll look up a couple of posts you notice I said I don't believe in the one shot stop. But one does have to admit that a slow(er) heavy bullet with a big cross section is gonna dump a nice wad of energy on impact. Doesn't matter what the goblin's wearing, he's gonna feel it. And while he's wondering what hit him, I'll be headed for the shotgun/rif

The 1911 was designed to be carried "cocked and locked." IE: Hammer back, round in the chamber, safety on. My Kimber II has been in my dresser drawer like this since I bought it. I changed out the main spring housing a few months ago because I didn't like the plastic one Kimber put in mine, but the spring is the original. Bad advice. That's how holes end up in walls, TVs, and people. And the last time I checked, "It slipped" isn't all that great of a defense in court. If you want to carry/store/etc a gun hammer down on a loaded chamber, get something with a de-cocker. Otherwise

Nifty flame thrower. "If you can't kill 'em with the bullets, set 'em on fire with the muzzle blast" It's as true of snubby magnum revolvers as it is of short barrelled 308 rifles.

Every thing I've ever seen says that the standard short/long action split is between 308(7.62x51) and 30'06 (7.62x63). The standard short action can be used for most anything based on the 308 case and smaller, down to rounds based on the 222 with minimal-to-no modification. The long action will handle all of this, plus rounds about the size (OAL) of the 30'06. The magnum actions (I just learned this) are typically based on the 375 H&H cartridge overall length (OAL). There's nothing stopping you from building a 222 varmint rifle off of a magnum action, except the weight and gi

Same as the above. IIRC there are 3 basic action lengths: 1: Short action, ~308Win length and smaller 2: Long action, Longer than 308Win, ~30-06 Springfield length 3: Magnum. If they made bolt action elephant guns, they'd go here. Now, there are of course exceptions. The Savage "short" action is about as long as most everybody else's long action (and the savage long action has no problem with magnums). To answer your question: 7WSM is a short action round.

Hmm... I'd always heard: "Acute Cranial Lead Poisoning". But yeah. Rabbid raccoons are no fun. Took out 3 on a friends property: Two with an AR (~50-75 yards), and one more with a 1911 (too damn close while cleaning up). Never been charged by an animal before, so I was glad JMB's gift to mankind was sitting on my hip (the AR was, uselessly, slung over the shoulder). Somehow I emptied 15 rounds into the little bugger, and I don't remember dropping the first 8 round magazine. Now days I won't walk around his property without some sort of high velocity animal aeration device in my h

March of Cambreadth - Heather Alexander. You've got to love a song that repeats the line: "How many of them can we make die?!"

Slightly modified Navy version Missing points mean I agree with them. 1. Bring a gun. Bring a bunch of big guns. Bring a whole carrier air wing worth of over-caffinated half psycotic flyboys with guns. 6. If you can choose what to bring to a gun fight, shove a precision guided munition up their ass from 200 miles away. 7. In 50 years, a bunch of nuts will sit around a table talking about how you blasted the crap out of Yamamoto's Navy with your big 16"s. 8. If you are shooting, somebody two decks down is coordinating the second strike with another carrier group. 9.

Too bad. Every one of those weapons should be in private hands (assuming it is the ATFU's collection)

In theory yes, but the S12 is pretty damn reliable. Ask BVamp about some of the crap he fed his Saiga and how the pumps were choking on it. And like I said, if you carbon up your gas tube enough to impead functionality: (1) You have other problems (2) You still have a charging handle to pull on

Well.. you could always take the gas plug out and yank the charging handle after each shot.... 3" magnums might short stroke the system just from the recoil, but normal 2 3/4 shells oughta act just like an oddly configured pump.

Didn't Uncle Mike's House of ThumpaThumpaThumpa buyout/reposess/sue-out-of-existance the Molot (makers of the Veper) plant? Pretty sure I read that somewhere...

Why does anybody think this is a good idea? You're already less than ideal trigger is now remote controlled, the weight balance is all wrong, and your supporting a big booming 12ga with a pair of thin plastic clam shells. But what ever floats your boat man.

Fear my 32+ MPG (highway) V6 powered Buick LandBoat. Gearing makes all the difference

In my experience, popping primers tends to be an ammo problem (you said Federal ran fine) unless there is something seriously wrong with the weapon.

ElLoco: A request: Would you mind either scaling that picture down or (ideally) dumping it altogether? I don't mind looking at pretty ladies (even plastic ones like her) but that thing is almost 1 MB and it damn near killed my browser while it was trying to load.

0h n03z!! n0t t3h h4xx0rz !!!! oh, lord, im such a geek. Who's the real geek? You for taking the time to type that or me for glancing at it and knowing exactly what it says?

Not that my nickname is interesting or anything, but here goes: Rusty: Comes from the 68 Corvair I'm restoring. Started as I was driving to work one day. Some Nader loving goon pulled up beside me in a plastic, wind-up, Asian-mobile. and called out: "That's a rusty piece of shit" I replied: "My car can squish your car" then won the race to the next light. So, "Rusty" is short for "Rusty-piece-of-shit."

40-something on the first round, 60 on the second try. For $40 I'm thinking the software might be worth it.

Yeah... unless you want to pay $15,000 for a 20 year old weapon (assuming you can find one), select fire and automatic fire aren't options. Anything you could build or buy today is going to be semi-auto only. That said, I bought a 20" Heavy Barrel AR with a fixed stock. Dead nuts accurate at 100 yards and "Minute of Plate" out to 300 yards when I don't screw up. I prefer the AR configuration, but it's really personal preference. Even with a couple of 30 round mags, it was lite and handy enough to carry around for a half day of property clearing out in the boonies.

Well, I ordered a couple of things from K-Var. Hopefully I can hack something together.

HAHA! Ignore me, it was standard password #11 (that I thought I had retired). Changing email settings now...

Doesn't that turn the pistol into a short barreled rifle, or some such nonsense like that? If I remember my BATFU BS correctly, a pistol with a buttstock == rifle with a short barrel.

It's missing something... Oh yeah, the Glock-n-Gut bayonet and the homeboy nite sites.

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