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http://www.midwayusa.com/product/255579/aguila-minishell-ammunition-12-gauge-1-3-4-5-8-oz-7-1-2-shot-box-of-20 Lightest load i know of. Worked okay in my 870. Your results may vary.

MV violations are "quasi-criminal" and only require a preponderance of evidence and nor beyond a reasonable doubt. The fact that he called the PD really does nothing to prove the case but does independantly establish the time frame this occurred. If there is more testimony (Medic and his wife) vs just the defendant there should be a guilty verdict. Read the red light story I related in post #4. It can also go the other way. You are correct in that people get convicted of crimes every day solely on witness testimony but having physical evidence certainly helps.

All my 1911 45 ACP mags are 7 shot Colt or genuine GI except the two 8 rd mags I got with my PT1911. I've seen 10 rd mags that worked and never saw a 15 rd mag that did reliably. More ammo is better but I've never seen the need for anymore than a 7 rd mag in a 1911.

You will be asked to ID the driver in the courtroom (not necessarily the registered owner). If you overcome that hurdle its best if your wife comes and testifies as if its only you and the driver its a case of he said, he said. If the driver claims someone else was driving it depends on the judge's outlook. He can say produce the driver or dismiss the case. I wrote a red light ticket to a guy who showed up in court with the three other guys in the car and they all testified the light was green. The judge told the guy he had to find him not guilty but warned him not to go through any imaginary red lights in town again.

The white dots and posts started to be used widely in the 1980s as a sighting aid. It seems they have become the sighting system for some people and the sights are there only as a handy place to put the dots.

plain black sights Thank you for this information. The SIGs, Wathers, and H&Ks I have or have had are all older and seem to shoot well with using #2. It would be easier for most people to align dots instead of plain black sights. It would seem that #3 would be an impediment to precision shooting as it obscures your target and wouldn't seem to work well if your target is irregularly shaped. It seems you would also be screwed if your white dots were obscured or fell out. You also have to give it thought as to what gun you're shooting as others have mentioned. I can see how aligning dots would be faster and easier on IPSC type targets. I just prefer a #2 on a combat gun as it seems to have worked for me for some time.

I think you don't understand that the sight picture depends on what (range and load) the gun is zeroed for. #1 is how the sights look zeroed for a 6 o'clock hold for bullseye shooting. #2 is for a point of aim, point of impact usually used for a combat handgun. If you are using #3 (and your sights are properly regulated) you should be shooting high as most guns are zeroed for combat shooting. I can see no reason why anyone would use #3. If you're shooting high you need a higher front sight blade, if low a lower one. Your sight picture should not be changing gun to gun, only if the gun is adjusted for a 6 o'clock ot poa/poi. Using #1 for bullseye shooting or #2 for combat shooting why would you think the sights should be anywhere else? If someone feels #3 is a normal sight picture would you please explain why?

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DAO with a 5-6 lb trigger is hard to find.

. 1. Yes. 2. I have been downloading AR/M16 mags usually 2rds. since 1968 for the reasons you state. Some rifles will seat fully loaded mags but by just downloading 2 rds. the bases are covered no matter what rifle or magazines you have. This issue is not unusual and you can find it with other magazine fed weapons, the MP5 being another.

I don't think the grip chop gains anything unless you have to put the gun in a smaller box. I've carried 17s, 19s, and 26s for about 15 years. There is no difference AFAIC with concealing a 19 vs a 17. The slight difference in size is not a consideration. I traded my issue 19 for a issue 17 (carried concealed).

Okay first of all, timing of the gun is fixed. Its going to happen when it happens, Stronger or weaker springs will speed up or slow it down but timing is what it is. You can shoot a 1911 without a recoil spring. Please tell me what that has to do with timing. I didn't say that you would increase the recoil I said it would come faster. Bullet weight and pressure are related. I never said they weren't. What I said is you can shoot a 185 gr bullet and the 1911 will function as it will with a 230 grain bullet. You said, "No, you said something between inaccurate and apocryphal...". Please point out what was inaccurate and apocryphal. You're agreeing with me and saying I'm also inaccurate. Hard to determine what is what the way you word things.

If what you're saying is the recoil spring slows the slide down as it goes back, that is true and merely coincidental to the spring's function to its primary function of returning the slide to battery. However this effect is very small. The locking lugs take the force of the bullet being fired, not the recoil spring. The bullet is gone before the recoil spring really comes into play. I'll tell you some more "physics magic". That 25% heavier recoil spring will also slam that slide forward 25% harder than the standard spring. This can cause feeding problems and will accelerate wear on the slide, extractor, slide stop and eventually will elongate the hole in the frame for the slide stop. All that extra force on the slide is also transferred to the frame (where else can it go). The heavy spring will also increase the recoil impetus making recoil come faster or sharper. Browning didn't specify a spring weight. He specified a wire diameter and type, a number of coils, and a length of spring. JMB optimized operation by designing the 1911 around the characteristics of military ammo. He also allowed for variances in ammo. That's why you can shoot a 185 gr bullet at 1000 fps or GI 230 gr and both will work in the gun. The most important characteristic JMB considered was pressure not velocity or bullet weight. Pressure iand pressure curve is more the determining factor in function than bullet weight or velocity. There is a lot more to this spring thing but everything I've said is "physics magic". It always amazes me that people buy a 9mm and try to make it a 357 SIG or a 45 ACP and try to make it a 44 mag by going to +P or +P+ ammo. Buy a gun that shoots standard ammo giving the performance you want.

Robot hell hit it 100%. Returning the slide to battery is the only function of the recoil spring. I am not a firearms genius but I've always figured John Browning pretty much figured out what weight spring the 1911 should have. DTtuner, if you are looking for 357 velocities and energy figures get a 357. Don't try to make a 45 ACP something its not. A 4" 357 is about the best all around handgun made.

The issue is not one of the POTUS blocking the importation as much as it is the Koreans wanting to make money. The US position is that the Garands were loaned to them and if the Koreans want to get rid of them the only recourse is to give them back to DoD as Greece, Denmark, and other countries have done. These ultimately would wind up at CMP for sale. The ROKs position is that these rifles were given to them and as such they are entitled to sell them on the open market.

Please Maks, patterns for shotguns, groups with rifled firearms. nj22, all the responses you have received are basically correct. Ammo will change the group size as different guns even within the same make and model will like different loads. Some 9mms seem more accurate than others. I have seen fired or fired literally a couple of thousand 9mm pistols in my time and have seen exactly one that wouldn't shoot a decent group due to what suspected was a bad barrel. Your odds of getting an inaccurate pistol from the factory are extremely low. Buy a 9mm with features you like and take it from there trying different types of ammo for accuracy when you can shoot a decent group.

I think you're mixing things here just as the state does. The M1 carbine is banned by "M1 carbine type" just as the Colt AR15 is banned. Using yor rationale if you had a AR15 with no bayonet lug or flash surpressor it would be legal. By the statute the AR15 lower receiver is illegal even if you don't have anything attached to it. However, the state does allow firearms with the same features as a AR15 as long as they don't have 2 evil features and they don't say AR15 on them. Go figure M1 carbine type is even broader than "AR15". Its almost like saying "six shot revolver". Basically anything that looks like a M1 carbine is banned when you look at the statute. It doesn't say anything about having a folding stock, bayonet lug, etc it just says M1 carbine type nad further reinforces it by listing Plainfield and Universal carbines. By statute its an assault weapon if its listed no matter what features it has or if its substantially identical. I'm not defending the law by any means. Just saying that $30,000 spent on a test case would only get you convicted.

I could almost guarantee the banks would file SARs if you made 3 deposits of say $9900 at 3 diffrent banks. In your second scenario, all it would take would be for one bank to file a SAR and if you were a "person of interest", the other deposits could be found.

IMO blue dot is way too slow for 45 ACP. Can you load 45 ACP with Blue Dot...yes, but you will have problems like you are having. Blue Dot is close to 2400 in burn rate and thats considered a magnum load powder. If there is that much crap left in the gun after shooting you need to use a faster powder. If its fouling up a revolver think what it would do to a semiauto. You will continue to have these problems if you insist on trying to make Blue Dot work. I've been loading 45aCP for over 35 years. The slowest powder I use in 45 is Unique. I use 6.0 of Unique over a 200 LSWC as a standard load. Lyman lists over 7 grs as maximum. This gives me about 950 fps. Enough zip to do what you need to do and its not hard on the gun. The gun is a little dirty after 100 rds of this but no where near what you're experiencing. I understand your concern about double charging. IIRC 12 grs of Unique will overflow the case. If not it is pretty obvious you have a double charge. If you want to try magnum primers I'd back down the charge a bit. Save the Blue Dot for magnum revolver loads.

If the banks file SARs it would get caught.

You are correct Victor regarding SARs. I've been away from this for a couple of years and erred on the report terminology. SARs are not CTRs and casinos generate SARs and casino reports.We used to refer to all of them as just currency reports when I was involved in such things.

There is a bit more to this. Banks are required to report "suspicious" transactions. What the bank thinks is suspicious and to my experience most banks are cautious and use a very liberal definition of "suspicious". I have seen CTRs for as little as $3000. The customer never knows if the report is filed. The reason for these is to detect "structuring". If you take the $10,000 and break it down into 2 or 3 deposits to attempt to avoid the reporting requirement that is structuring and is also a Federal crime. Banks, casinos, and car dealers are all considered "financial institutions" under Federal law and are subject to the reporting requirement. You are also required to report the import or export of cash of any type or "negotiable instrutments" to Customs when entering or leaving the country. The largest I've ever seen was $43,000,000 in US currency coming into the US from a bank in Switzerland.

Steps are a set time period to advance on the pay scale due to your experience (longevity). They can be a year apart or in the Federal system you have a career ladder to reach a journeyman grade (GS7, 9, 11, etc). After that you get steps which are spaced first one year, then two years and finally 3 years apart.

The G27 would work better if he didn't use 9mm ammo.

I don't see any real advantage to going to a subcompact (G26 size) pistol over a G19. You are talking at most an inch or so difference. The agency I worked for (plainclothes not uniform) issued G19s as their primary duty weapon and no one seemed to have concealability problems. That included a lot of smaller people down to a 4'-9" 85 lb woman. Use a good holster like a DeSantis Speed Scabbard or a good IWB holster and I can't think of any adult having issues concealing a G19. I'm bigger and carried a G17. There is really no difference concealing a G19 vs a G26 or a G19 vs G17. There is a difference bewteen the G26 and G17. The only difference AFAIC is if you are trying to fit a gun in a specific size box. I speak from nearly 40 years of carrying on a daily basis. Too many people get way overwrapped in the size issue when choosing a carry gun. If you like the G19 carry it.