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As long as you don't sell them, you can manufacture all you want for personal use. I forget if you have to put a serial number on them or not. Want to sell them, you have to get licensed. You just need to meet the requirements for whatever you are making (i.e. pistol, rifle), and what you build has to be legal. Federally. In NJ, you would have to be registered with the superintendent.

When the whole tea party thing started, there was a lot more variety to what you would find there. Also, a lot more issues got more attention with a lot more nuance. Now, it's mostly soundbites of inconsistent squawking about government spending and complaining about the personal lives of others. I don't begrudge them their existence, the left has plenty of loons I don't want to see win either, and it is better to ahve a counter balance than not. However, I would still like someone to show up with a well reasoned plan that is not really interested in telling me how I should be living my life. At this point the tea party isn't that, at least on the national level. I'm sure you can still find local groups filled with generally reasonable people, but they aren't getting people like them into office, so it doesn't really matter.

If you weld, a piece of rebar and two exhaust hanger u-shaped parts will take a fair beating and hold them at nearly any angle. Pick one end of the rebar, call it the top. At the top end, weld the two U-shaped bits with the open part of the U facing the top. Attach them at a 90 degree angle to each other. If you don't weld, these ain't cheap, but will last until the end of days. http://mgmtargets.com/tstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=109

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11636 printable ar-15 magazine.. with printable spring. makerbot is about $1300.

Good and cheap: green mountain and adams & bennett (jhust a store brand relabeling of a GM barrel). Good but not so cheap: clark custom guns makes barrels. Their 16.25" fluted bull barrel balances REALLY nicely in a traditional stock. Volquartsens also shoot nicely and come in lots of cool looking fluting designs. Good and light: whistlepig, tactical solutions For NJ, I'd just go whistlepig and avoid trying to deal with getting a non-threaded version of the TS. It exists, but some places don't differentiate well in their inventory the difference between non threaded and non-threaded with thread protector installed. But it's still a good barrel if you find one.

As PA residents, did you follow all the PA laws for a face to face transfer between individuals of a firearm? I'm guessing yes. So it was your gun, then you moved here. No need for a permit to purchase. If the gun is NJ legal, you are good to go. If you want extra peace of mind, and as others stated, PA keeps a record of initial sale, have your dad write up a note saying when it was purchased and gifted to you, and have it notarized. That's probably the best you can do in the case he is no longer around to testify on your behalf at some point. You aren't breaking the law, so at best you are concerned with convincing the authorities of that if it is ever necessary. You might want to also have some documentation that at the time it was gifted to you, you were a PA resident.

PErhaps if all the very religious folsk side with the tea party, they can be jettisoned. I'm for freedom with responsibility, equality before the law, and as few laws as it takes to keep things from going to hell. I'm not interested in winning the war about who's unsubstantiated beliefs are more correct.

Just git my 930 barrel cut down ti 18.25" and recur for chokes as well as had theforcing cone lengthened and polishhed. $150 including shipping there and back. I think just thread for chokes was $85. Google for rose actiin sports.

Also, you may need to clean up the flashing from the molded plastic. I dunno if that is in the tutirial anymore.

Well, being that is doesn't have any baffles or expansion chambers, it's not a comp. It also doesn't look like it will be much of a flash hider. What it looks like you are buying is a useless tube with holes in it.

Some of the send in stuff, I don't fault hornady for, and dillon does the same. Sometimes they just want the whole damn press to make sure it works and that you aren't the problem, or because it sounds like there are multiple issues and they want it back so that it can get fixed in one go without lots of shipping stuff all over the place. Dillon will on occasions refuse to help you out. It's rare, and usually justifiable, but I have run into a couple of customers where dillon blew them off and it made little sense. Dillon has also gone trhough some of these growing pains. With the 650 there was at least 3 revisions to one part of the primer system that was giving customers fits. But they didn't send you a part unless you insisted on getting another of the ones that were marginal, or they had a new revision to try out. Hornady needs to spend time generating decent setup videos, and just put them up on youtube for free, I think this would make a world of difference especially. They also need to tighten up the QC on manufacturing, and sometimes just admit they are out of a certain part because they got a bad bath and that that bad batch is garbage, not something to buy time with. It's not like they are doing nothing. They have introduced more shell plates so that the plates work better for a narrower set of cartridges rather than claiming they do a huge number of cartridges well, and that was something they needed to do for a while. It's just that given the quality of their setup instructions, the proliferation of missing parts, and the increasing frequency they are having defective parts go out the door, I really wouldn't feel comfortable recommending one to a newbie anymore, even if it is cheaper. When I bought it, going red saved me nearly $300. I knew CS wasn't as good as Dillon's but the reality is that the difference in the two didn't make up for a $300 difference in price, plus I liked not having spent primers dumped around randomly. Also, at the time, there wasn't a huge issue with missing parts. I'm personally at a 50% rate for their pick-pack process leaving something out of a retail package. That's just not acceptable.

Because with a number of their qc problem parts, the only answer to getting it working with your press is to have their machine shop alter the part. Often, they will ask you to send in the one you have because they know if it is going just flush, they only have to take a thousandth off in the right place. Also, in the past I have been asked to send things in rather than just get a replacement. Like overly tight shell plates. (you mean you dont want to be able to put a 9mm case in every slot while off the press, be able to toss it like a frisbee, and have none come out? Makes for reaal smooth press operation) Also, higher priced items they tend to not take your word on defects and want them sent in. Sometimes. They have gotten a bit more consistent on the CS side of the equation in the last couple years.

this is patently untrue unless you have a boatload of free time. I save money reloading. Reloading allows me to shoot more, but time limitations still keeps the total shooting volume to a dollar amount less than buying retail. At the moment, reloading saves me at least $90 a month over buying factory. If I could hit the range every day, I'd still be limited by budget. So really it depends on your free time.

I'd second him on the advice. The .450 marlin pretty much exists simply to give an opportunity for large commercial manufacturers to produce rounds that the marlin platform could take without the liability of manufacturing something that would blow up a vintage 45-70. As a handloader, you aren't buying anything you don't already have access to. I say spend your money on some of the niftier hardcast heads form beartooth bullets and maybe some really light barns copper bullets and see what crazy stuff you can come up with. Especially if you do not have one of the microgroove barrels, you can really play around with some very versatile loadings. Myself I have a 444p. If I knew then what I know, I'd probably have just gotten the guide gun in 45-70.

Some of that is just ballistics, the move to taller targets should help that too. But if you are shooting a 2ft high target at 50 prone and bouncing the bullets off the floor off the ground, some of them might hit things near the ground that happen to be installed there.

We can only do 2 special classifiers a year. However, if the extra pit on the end is free by the next one, we will likely do 5-6 classifiers and 2-3 field courses.

Look, legally you don't need a COE, or a FPID to have your guns. That is not what they are for. As for a cop with a bug up his a**, no paperwork is going to save you. I'll pass on two stories about the west point shooting team that I have been told. First one: They are coming to a match in NJ in their usual crappy van/truck/whatever you want to call it where everyone can sit inside. They get pulled over for something generally legitimate (forget if it was speeding, mechanical issue , etc.) The guy driving the truck is active duty military, on duty, and has his sidearm on as required by his orders. The cop decided that his interpretation of the law trumped the guys orders, and started escalating the situation. When it was explained that he was armed under orders due to transporting fully automatic weapons, the cop decided that that activity was ALSO illegal and started escalating it further. fortunately for the cop, his backup showed up just before he committed suicide by stupidity and was informed in no uncertain terms that he was really, really wrong. Another year, the crappy van/truck/whatever decided it didn't want to run. So the same guy had his cadets pile up in the bed of a pickup with their rack of M4s, and drove to the match that way. Apparently a truck full of guys illegally riding in the bed of a truck wearing camo with ready access to a buttload of firepower looked like it was above all the officers pay grade that day. Some cops won't bust you even if you are doing something illegal, for whatever reason. Some cops will try to arrest you no matter the fact that you are obeying the low, or common sense says that they should calm their ego down and engage their brain. Common sense says sort it out without getting killed, which usually means after being arrested and with the help of a lawyer.

I have a LnL AP with case feeder. I'm happy with it after 60k + rounds. That being said, I can't recommend hornady right now from the business side of things. The press is fine, I even like a number of its features better than dillon. However, there are problems with hornady. When dillon has a defective run of parts, you can't get that part form them. When hornady has a run of defective parts, you can get nothing but that part out of them until it is gone. this isn't new. There have been at least three critical parts with QC issues that went into distribution that they replaced with the exact same lot under warranty knowing it was just going to have more of the same issues. Probably the WORST was the drive hubs that were cast poorly and cracked easily. Most recently it is either a slightly out of spec primer seating punch, or sub plate. neither is ideal, but at least dillon's method doesn't have me paying to ship stuff an unknown number of times. The other horrible thing they are doing right now is boxing and shipping items without all the parts in them. I ordered two new powder measures recently, one was missing the mounting bracket, it's not very usable without it, and I was fortunate that one of them was for my press, so I only needed one. My bullet feeder was missing a lock ring fortunately I had parts to make do, but had I just ordered a press and feeder I would have been SOL. I've seen posts by people whose press was missing parts. On top of that, although the engineering behind the press is pretty sound, the instructions are sparse. At least with dillon, you can buy a very comprehensive setup video. In the last couple of years, I think a lot of new people have gotten into reloading. I think hornady is getting a lot of new customers from this due to having a larger presence in retail storefronts compared to dillon. I think hornady is having trouble keeping up with demand without quality control suffering. I don't think they expect the boom to last and aren't building out their manufacturing, inventory control, and QC capabilities fast because of that. I can tell you that they have put more people in the CS department. Last call to them I talked to more people in one call than I had talked to the first 4 years of owning my press. Unfortunately, there is only so much they can help you with. Missing parts? No problem. The out of spec primer ram? They can ship you a new one, but can't tell you it will help, and you are playing lotto to see if you get one of the couple of people who knows that if you can sed it back, they can machine down the right bit so it extends a hair further and fixes your issue. For the moment I don't see me buying hornady reloading gear outside of things like shell plates, bushings, and powder measures. Mainly because their powder measure is as good as ones costing $60+ dollars more, and I'm willing to wait for a replacement part for a $60 price difference.

Well I have two things to say on the subject of UPS and ammo. 1) LOTS of places ship ammo packaged insufficiently, you would think that the high volume shippers would know better, but they appear not to. They get damage plenty. 2) Unless something has changed at UPS, if your package isn't showing up with the 4 bullets left in it, some UPS floor sweepings, and encased in a bout a quarter mile of tape that wasn't there to start with, bundled with a claim that UPS didn't do nuthin', nuh uh, no way, then something more than damage happened, or the damage took place in a facility where stuff has been going walkies.

Well, you aren't going to learn much about building one form buying a complete rifle and plinking. Unless the thing is a POS and it needs lots of fixing. You might learn a little about what you like, and more about what you don't like depending on how much of an opinion you have and if the rifle you bought is a better or worse fit to that opinion. Putting together a lower is easy and doesn't require too many tools. I put together my most recent one with maybe 6 tools total in about 40 minutes (at least 15 of that was fighting with the foam tube for the ARFX stock). My first one probably took about 90. Of the 6 tools, the only things specialized to the task were a bench block, and two roll pin punches.

It isn't just you. You are being emotional about it, and in exactly the way the terrorists want you to. They want a fight between every last Muslim and every last non-muslim. That is exactly why they have perpetrated such acts. There are muslims who have come here specifically to escape those guys. They want that culture to change and become more tolerant and free. They don't need From a practical standpoint, do you think most of our productive intelligence that has saved lives and croaked scumbags like OBL has come from some "towelhead", or from some super patriotic white guy on the internet?

About the only thing in that that wasn't moronic was the last statement.. bear in mind it is a weapon and don't be stupid. As for the 4.5x more likley to be shot... it's a bs. The study referenced has questionable methodology. They took 667 shooting victims over 3 years, and determined if they were in possession of a gun. About 6% were. As a control group, they called up random individuals not incolved in any shooitn gand asked them some questions, amongst them if they owned a gun. Now what ehy determined is that a person with a firearm being attacked is 4.5x more likely than someone from the control group sitting at home to be shot in an assault. This conclusion despite the fact that Of those people shot in an assault, 94% were not in possession of a firearm. What they really determined is sitting at home answering the phone is not particularly risky.

Personally, if I was going to spend what the wilsons cost, I'd buy the tripps. They are VERY nice magazines, and they work in my SA without issue. At the moment, I don't know how that would go. Virgil's house burned down in the texas wild fires a couple days ago. Last I heard the business was intact, but I'm sure things are going to be out of whack.

Spyderco Native III (or whatever the current revision is), especially if you want a very capable knife that isn't giant. Good steel, nice design, very useful. Personally, I'm not doing liner locks anymore. I have a ton, and some of the older ones with lots of use are losing tension on the liner and becoming dangerous. These days I'm liking the mid back spine lock, or the thousand minor variations in the style of the axis lock.

More capacity = better. That's why. As to what differs, it is usually some combination of differing length of the magazine, different follower design, and different feed lip geometry. Most 8 rounders do not fit flush, but occupy the space a 7 rounder with a base pad would. They use the space a base pad would take up with more mag tube, and then have some form or wrap around base pad.This is generally not a bad thing because in the event of a failure, you have a protuberance to grab onto and rip the magazine out by sheer force. A GI 7 rounder is definitely cheaper to manufacture. In general, Tripp (aka corbramag), wilson, chip Mc Cormick, and metalform make good stuff with some exceptions. First, the exceptions that I know of (things I wouldn't buy): 1) The wilson combat 10 rounders. They seem real nice, but without the metal stop welded on the front, you can overinsert them. The welded on bit seems sturdy, but I've seen more than I'd like have that bit sheared off when used a lot in competition. CMC 10 round power mags are cheaper, and the polymer base pad that serves to limit insertion is, surprisingly, more durable. (as are the bases on the tripp mags). 2) MEtalform flush fit 8 rounders. These use a follower that is almost exactly like a government split foot design, but with a shorter tail. This makes it less stable than a 7 round GI design, and when you step out of the realm of 230gr round nose FMJ, the GI design is already marginal at best. Things that are worth noting 1) CMC powermags have kind of soft steel for the lips. They may not come perfect from the factory, and may require maintenance. 2) CMC powermags cna have issues with some mag wells. Basically, the part of the base pad that stops over insertion may be a hair too wide for the gap on some magwells. 2 minutes with a razor blade to narrow that bit will fix this without much headache. 3) Wilson polymer followers can have the slide lock chew up the shelf on the follower with lots of use. The old orange followers were pretty bad with this, I don't know about the newer black ones, but since they likely aren't harder than steel, I'm guessing the duty cycle on them is just longer. The orange ones looked like they were polyethelene or something similar form the way they wore. I think the newer ones are delrin. 4) Tripp mags are designed to let the bullet sit a bit higher up in the gun. Most guns this is a good thing and allows better feeding of more bullet profiles. On a small minority of guns this can cause issues with feeding. Myself, I just buy tripp mags these days although I have a bunch of CMC mags and a few metalforms. The checkmates look a lot like some of the above mags (tripp), but people seem to have issues with them. I suspect the tubes either aren't as rigid, or the QC on tube dimensions is less and thus reliability goes to crap.