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The match is on unless the weather says otherwise. Who all is coming out?

I don't necessarily think Ron Paul is any better than the rest of them, but a big +1 to his analysis of the situation.

Del toro can craft some creepy creatures. I'll have to try this series out.

Sometimes you can know you can beat them all you want, and you will still get your a** kicked. However, you need to believe it is possible to ever progress to the point where you CAN actually beat them. The practice is so that you can be a better shooter than you are. I think the mental part of the game is all about actually delivering the shooting you are currently capable of. B takes forever to get out of if you don't commit to practice though. It took me 6 years in part because I didn't have the time to practice seriously for more than about he first 6-10 months after getting my card. One of the more painful realities is that B is where you start seeing a divergance between what success means for a classifier, and what success means for the rest of the match. There are a lot of skills not represented in the classifiers that you need to be competitive. The higher up you go, the more you need to excel at all of them.

I'd be more aggressive about my replacement interval for reloading components on hand, just to deal with the inevitable shortages of people hoarding again.

Knowing what the weak spots of a gi style 7 round mag are, I'd have to say that all the best engineered .45 mags are 8 rounders or 10 rounders. I've got 5 or 6 gi 7 round mags. Only one works well. It's a metalform.

It's not deceiving. Even the census has us at a net loss. We are losing retirees and college grads like there's no tomorrow. Heck, if you attend college out if state, the odds of you returning here and establishing a residence is near zero.

There are a bunch of very reliable 10 rounders. It's when you go past that you don't find anything good. Mainly because theres no competition market for them, and the awb didn't leave them legal, so they pretty much are only made by no-name companies that make crap mags.

I would suspect older people make up a good chunk of that stat. Lots of the desirable traits of nj go out the window once you retire, and the cost of living does not make your retirement dollars go farther.

That's exactly one of the purposes you shouldn't buy it for. It is a heavy bullet moving slow and has a lot of drop.

Wacom Intuos is the gold standard. The bamboo might be sufficient unless she cares about the angle of the pen having an effect, or needs lots of levels of pressure sensitivity. What resolution display ate you going to use? The smaller pads can have aliasing issues going to too big a display. Also, if looking at competitors, don't get a 4:3 tablet for a 16:10 display. Also what software? If it won't understand all the tablet's features, there's not much point going for the nicer tablet.

The cmc 10 rounders can need the part of the base pad that pokes up to prevent over insertion narrowed for some guns. It's nothing that a couple minutes with a razor blade can't fix. My current favorites are Tripp research mags. I have a bunch of cmc 10 rounders, but the feed lips need regular maintenance. Still have about 19k rounds through my set of 5 of them.

It's ahrd to argue witht he troy battle rail extreme forends when you want free floated with light weight for a good price. I'd probably call it a three way tie at the moment between them, the DD lite rail, and the troy rail.

I think Obama will win a secnd term. I don't think the GOP has any intention of fielding someone who could win. They don't want ot be in the office to take the blame for everything that is going to wash out in terms of the economy and all the propping up that didn't fix anything finally running out and the bill coming due. They want congress, and making Obama look like a boogeyman and a shoe in to win benefits them most for that plan. Then the hope is in 2016 that they can control both houses and the oval office due to burn out on democratic policies and general finger pointing and name calling.

Well, 300 blackout is basicaly 300 whisper. I've gotten to play with one and try to diagnose all the issues it had back before it was a SAAMI cartridge in either flavor. It's a pretty meh cartridge. It was designed to do two things, and it can do them. If you don't have a use for those things, expecting it to be something else will be more than frustrating. 1) If you load it mildly, it can launch a .30 cal projectile subsonically with a trajectory that allows you to hit something out to 200 yards with reasonable terminal ballistics on an unarmored human target. So if you have a supressor, it's a dandy way to show it off with some expensive ammo. 2) If you load it hotter, it can slightly outperform a .30-30 for hunting. Mainly because you can use superior bullets (outside their optimal velocity range), on a inherently more accurate platform that is likely heavier than your .30-30 lever gun and way more expensive. When you start tyring to push it beyond that, you often start popping primers out of the brass and killing your brass farily quickly. When loaded to do 1 or 2 above, it is a pretty mellow feeling round that's not bad to plink with all day. Well except for the price of ammo. If you want an upper that is legal to take deer wiht in states that permit rifle, it's not a bad idea. If you are looking for something longer range or more accurate than .223... look elsewhere.

Yah, what he said. I've come close to making that mistake becuase I shoot semi-autos so much and revolvers not very much.

Or you could go with a Nordic tactical comp, which the gas block will fit over.

A very light fiber reinforced polymer with an aluminum bow.

Straight wall brass gets shorter when you resize it, unlike bottle neck cartridges. You don't need to trim it, and you should never trim before resize. Think about it you trim to a certain dimension, and then you change that dimension by sizing.

The main reason you can't find many people offering a dissy setup with a lightweight barrel is that most light weight barrels are turned down in front of the gas block, so you have to do something to make a standard front sight tower fit, or use something other than a stock front sight tower that can deal with the reduced diameter.

Built one of the fusion kits, it was fun. If I were going to take a do-over on anything, it would be dropping more money on better/more appropriate files.

It might not be the spring, it might need fitting and be binding up a bit.

This. It can even be an issue with a lot of full capacity magazines, but is often more of an issue with NJ compliant magazines. You cna also just lock your bolt back before loading the first mag. That's what I do.

Well, I've done the box of parts thing for a 1911 and 2011. There's only a few bits that I have opinions outside "buy good quality" for the part. 10-8 slide stops. Especially on a 2011 where it is recessed into the frame a bit, their design is outstanding. very grippy without being snaggy, and it isa high quality bar stock part with a good heat treat that comes in .45 and 9/38/40 profile if you want to build something other than a .45. If you are building a .45 and want to go wit a slightly less aggressive design, then cylinder & slide makes a nice one. Thumb safeties. If you have longer fingers, and want big ambi safeties, the wilson high ride is a superior design compared to say the ed brown. I used the ed browns in one gun and had to reshape them a lot to get it to not suck. If you want slim ambi ones for carry, then the caspian ones are nice. grip safeties. If not disabling for competition, which I don't, get one of the ones with a big bump. I like ed brown, or STI. The STI has a narrowed beaver tail to facilitate a higher grip, but if you have pudgy hands, the ed brown may suit you better. I went ed mostly cause I like the accent grooves for looks. Triggers. Get the right length for you. SV's insert system makes that relatively easy for a price and they look cool, STI's gunsmith fit composite does as well for a lot less and is very light. Dlask triggers are neat looking until the second you touch them and they get a grungy color never to be like new again. For me, I like a flat trigger best, but that's me. Hammers. You want good and light. I like EGW's koenig hammer, but for a new build I'd probably go with their HD hammer as I like the looks a bit better than the koenig. For disconnecter and sear, I'd go either EGW or cylinder & slide. Hammer strut I go with the EGW extra long, usually titanium. For a mainspring housing, in 1911s, I usually go with the smith & alexander arched with magwell, but the arched is purely cause I have large hands. Slide, STI or caspian. They are pretty much the only ones I know of that are readily available in lots of configurations and are appropriately hard (caspien is a bit better on optimal hardness). Beyond that... Stay away from stainless fames and slides, the gunsmiths hate it.

Fitting a thumb safety isn't too hard. It is mostly a matter of patience, care with a file, and a basic knowledge of what it is doing in there. If that doesn't sound like you, don't do it. If that sounds aspirational, be prepared to buy a second safety.