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The hogue is a bit on the miniature side IMO. I have a Bell * Carleson anschutz style stock, and it's meant for standing and prone, a bit short for anything else. Unfortunately it is also short for the eye relief of a number of scopes, so less than ideal. The fajen wood laminate stocks are pretty nicely suited for your average adult size as are most of the knockoffs of it.

TO answer your first question: 9x19m, 9mm parabellum, and 9mm luger are all the same thing, and you cna run across ammo labeled as all of that and just 9mm, especially in catalogs. Most boxes will say 9x19mm on it someplace. 9mm kurz and 9mm short are the same thing as .380 ACP. I have yet to see that referred to as just 9mm, but I have seen .380 acp labeled as 9mm kurz and 9mm short on older foreign ammo. 9x18 is 9mm makarov. I have seen that just labeled 9mm in some catalogs, but it is not common. Then there's 9mmx21 and 9mmx23, which I have never seen labeled as anything other than that. Will cheap Russian ammo hurt your gun? That depends. I've been pretty happy with my experiences with wolf/WPA. It's dirty, but pretty consistent. What I have seen with some steel cased russian pistol ammo that IS dangerous was insufficient crimp/neck tension/sealant. I don't know which of those three they were counting on to prevent bullet setback, but you could shove them into the case just pinching them between thumb and forefinger pretty well. They were .45 in a modern gun, so a lot of headroom on pressure, and nobody got hurt. SOmething like that in 40 or .357 sig could go pretty badly though. I would and have bought wolf since they cleaned up their act as importers and got better specs and QC that they try to enforce. I'd just hand cycle some bullets first and make sure you aren't seeing lots of setback. If you do, don't shoot it and give them a call about it.

God the rules really need to be rewritten, there is no complete and up to date set. Please do NOT shoot at targets in other lanes. If you are in lane 7, you should NOT be shooting anything but the target in lane 7. PERIOD. Why? because you wind up shooting the side walls and other people's targets. Also, our backstop is designed to prevent splatter and ricochets when you are more or less shooting right at it. By shooting cross lane, you increase the amount of splatter. Even more awesome, you almost 100% DON'T increase it for yourself, but only for others. Also, if you have the target in front of you at 25 yards, and one in the lane to the left at 10 yards, and you are in the middle of the range, you are probably shooting the wall. It's not designed for being shot a lot, and that and is unsafe. Also, one target per frame in the middle. This is really only important once you move closer than 25 yards. Why? Because as you move a target closer, a short shooters cone of fire at a target taller than they are heads to the ceiling. A tall shooter's towards a target shorter than them towards the floor. We put out frames of a fixed size that try to be the least problematic for the largest gorup of shooters so those challenged in the concept of geometry won't destroy the place too bad. You put targets at the top and bottom, you exacerbate that even further. The frames cost money? It's wood and cardboard. It's cheap. The heat for the indoor range is NOT. The armor for the walls is not. The acoustic tiling is not (seriously, one panel of that stuff is like $20-30, a target frame is about $3.20 of sticks and cardboard if that).

Alright, I thought screwing the pooch on stage 3 would have hurt me more than it did.

We NEED pension and health care reform. I say this as a mostly state worker (a good chunk of my pay and benefits are state funded, but not all). As a whole, my benefits package already matches what they want the unions to accept. It's still a pretty killer benefits package. It is not something to be afraid of. I try to explain to the teachers I know that you DON'T want a pension, you want a 403b with a nice match. Their answer is that their "pensions are guaranteed! There's no guarantee with a 401k!!!" My answer to that is your pension pays out way more than it brings in. a boatload of greedy political hacks can use it as their private piggy bank, and not even come close to breaking the law. On top of that, the math breaks down and the only way it will be able to pay out is to work it like a pyramid scheme with an expanding base, make sound investments, or to get constant infusion of cash form outside the pension system. Option 1 isn't likely to occur at a sufficient rate. Option two is the same as a 401k. Option 3 clearly isn't happening as the politicians have realized they can grab the cash. The only thing guaranteed about the pension system is that at some point and time, the recipients checks are going to bounce. The teachers don't seem to grasp that, historically, pensions have gone bankrupt, and so can theirs. I get a 403b. At least I know how much is actually in the bank, and the politicians and my employer can't touch what is there. I also have some degree of input to manage investment risk, which the pension system does not, despite being invested and having investment risks. If the NJEA really wants the heat off their union, they should roll out the vote to reform how school construction is funded. It's pretty much designed to vacuum tax dollars into cronies pockets. Instead, you could continue to say how important you are and that the taxpayer owes you and can't replace you. Our graduation rate is 18th in the nation, and we cheat to get that high. Our teacher pay is 4TH in the nation. I can also say this as a product of public education. Since I graduated, the only place I have noticed a significant increase in the difficulty/quality of education is K-4. The same schools I attended have between 4 and 6 times as many administrative staff. They have added teachers aids in the classroom despite class sizes being similar if not the same. Adjusted for inflation, in the schools I attended, the teachers' pay has gone up about 25% across the board despite the job not really changing. More importantly in this comparison, those schools I attended were essentially all bringing up the bottom of the top 10% of public schools. Despite all the extra manpower, new facilities, teachers entrenched in their jobs for decades at the redline on salary for their education level, every single one of them has fallen in their rankings. I have head endless numbers of teachers complain about being forced to be over glorified baby sitters these days. People have noticed. You don't need to pay someone 100k a year to be a baby sitter. This is why people are pissed off.

I really can't respond to the article in detail until part two exists. Most of it is bitching about the 1911 platform arguing that you need something like a sig. Then he says his sig failed when he needed it too. The guy understands he wants a gun to be reliable and not fail, but most of his ranting seems to indicate he doesn't know what makes a gun reliable or not and where one is making compromises. ETA: And yes, in the competition world, some very foolish compromises in reliability are made to get a gamey advantage. So if that is the entirety of his point there, then I guess I agree.

For those complaining the cable companies aren't any better. Here's a tip. Complain to your town. They contract with teh cable company to get them a monopoly. Not only do their complaints carry a LOT more water than yours, they also have an escrow fund with cable company money in it. IF they feel the cable company has done wrong, they can use that money to make nice. Then the cable company has to put the money back in to bring the escrow account back up to the agreed upon balance. If your cable comapny isn't even trying to fix something for you, they probably aren't for your neighbors. Gang up on the township.

Lets see. Police officer rate of alcoholism is over 2x the national average, are police in the survey? They ride around and carry loaded firearms. What about age? Children aren't likely to drive drunk OR own guns, are their children included in the original CDC survey that was meta-analyzed? Did the questions regard LEGAL ownership of guns? Then there's sex. More men own guns. The rate of alcoholism for men is roughly twice that for women. According to gallup, about 47% of men report personal ownership of guns, and only 13% of women. I'm sure there are a ton of other things you can tear apart in the survey methodology when taking the survey questions as asked and subjecting them to meta-analysis. IMO meta-analysis is the grade inflation of research. Academia wants to grow, they need to mint more professors as the BA becomes the new high school diploma. However, much like the degree getting watered down with marginal students, the whole publish or perish thing causes research to get watered down with lazy, uncreative research. What fiddly bit of info do 37 other studies imply in the margins etc. It's poorly constructed research.

Bump. Can't donate a lot all at once, but I can donate something. Just donated again, surly some more of us can kick in again.

Because if you are missing, it is because the target wasn't big enough!!! So if you miss with a red dot, you must need a 3x magnifier. If you miss with a 3x magnifier, you must need a 5x magnifier. If you miss with a 5x magnifier, you must need a 7x magnifier!!!! Although, I imagine the 21 MOA dot from magnifying it 7x makes seeing anything you are aiming at kind of hard. My guess is that the really pricey true 1x scopes are trying to get to 6x and 8x at the top end, so they are offering a product for the cheap bastard who wants all the must-have high-speed, low-drag features, but can't be bothered to actually pay for them. The cheap chinese stuff is a good way to test drive without having to offload $2500 of scope for $2000 a couple months later.

Totally forgot about that. Yes, it's grippy. Yes, it hurts. Yes, you get used to it, but it might take a little longer than you like.

I'd add a bounce card in the front of the lighting setup so you can see more of the gun. It looks like she palyed with the dodge/burn tool in photoshop to try and fix it, and it's not quite cutting it. In raw, you'd just play with the fill light slider, not sure how you do it to a jpeg in PS. compositionally it's nice, and she got the rim light setup pretty well.

Main issue with the springfields are the extractors. They are hard bar stock milled to a weird angle, and not proper spring steel. I've seen multiples get funky between 2-3k rounds unless youa re firing very hot .45 ammo. I have a trp operator. Replaced the extractor with and aftec, and have been generally happy other than the trigger is complete crap by my current standards, but felt fine to me when I first got it. The slide was kind of soft, and has gotten very loose in the back half. OTOH, I have around 20k rounds on it. Only things that broke were the extractor losing tension and the hinge pin on their bo-mar knockoff sights.

All sharpening wears the edge down, it just probably gives you the ability to do it much faster than by hand.

Hillsborough gun club (I think that was it's actual name IIRC), did NOT close due to illegal activity. They closed because they turned a SMALL profit, then decided to expand the place ot more than double it's size, not stock much in the way of guns, and fill up the rest of it with about as much fishing gear as you see in a full sized cabelas. They borrowed money to do it, and they then proceeded to not sell all that much of it. Then they had an accident on the range where someone got injured and insurance went up. The landlord, who was using the rest of the building to warehouse and wholesale drawer pulls, raised the rent because drawer pulls were making more money per square foot than renting the place. I believe the landlord was a relative of one of the owners to boot. Just a story of guys who made their hobby their business and then ran the business like it was a hobby instead of something that had to pay for itself. I have a hard time imagining illegal transfers going on as getting them to actually order and sell you something not on the shelf was damn near impossible (at least for me), and they didn't have much on the shelf most of the time. I only know of one shop that was shut down for illegal transfers. It wasn't hillsborough.

In theory, yes. In practice, magpul came out with their clip on covers for storage. If you will note, when installed, they push the cartridges down so that pressure is taken off the feed lips. Lancer systems also built their polymer mags to have steel inserts to avoid this. So I would suggest that it can be an actual issue.

Like I said, I do too. But it works poorly for anything hollow ground or serrated. Also, for kitchen cutlery I find I don't like it on paring and utility type knives. But it is what I do to my large chef's knife and things like ulus or cleavers.

It probably was. Just stuff like that usually winds up in the MD's trunk until the next match, or left in places like the stats shack, containers, etc. Whihc is why we said we'd look there. You might also want to email the MD of the steel match.

I've only seen the thinner version, which is DEFINITELY not appropriate for rifle. The whole setup is a bit heavy, but they are easy to set up and lug around. A little bit harder to put them in the trunk. Also a little on the short side, but very servicable. ETA: the brownells stuff is the thin pistol one. Honestly, they are $1 more at action targets, and you can add the $20 option for rifle steel.

I've handled it. It's a chunk of knife. IMO, it would not be my first choice for that kind of kinfe. It's a short blade, which says skinning, food prep, making fuzz sticks, etc. Except the thing is very thick with a broad blade, which means it will do a marginal job on most of those tasks. Being very thick with a broad blade, you think chopping type tasks. Except it's short, and doesn't have any angle to the grip. If going with the kabar/becker knives, I'd consider the bk7 as more appropriate for a general purpose camp knife. It's long and heavy enough to get away without any angle on the grip for chopping, and will still do all the above tasks just about as well as the bk2. The BK knives are a decent value for the price. Myself for the general purpose camp knife I went with a swamp rat camp tramp. Good luck digging one up though, they don't make them anymore, and getting anything out of swamp rat is a job and a half. If I had to replace it, a bk7 would probably be one of the options on the list.

As usual I'll be there We have a number of people showing up pretty much right after getting home form the sectional match, so if you can show up early and help build, it's appreciated.

Have the lansky system. Don't like it one bit. I don't see the point as it's not like it has tight tolerances. If I have to have good technique to get it to give me the right angle, I might as well just use a regular bench stone. Currently I make do with the spyderco sharp maker, a mouse pad, and a pack of wet sanding paper. The pad and paper are for anything that you want a chopping or push cut kind of edge on. The spyderco takes care of a slicing cut type of edge. You can shave all the arm hair in the world with an improperly done edge as wire edges will shave just fine, but roll over the second you ask them to do any real work. As for the fingernail test, you can make that look like you have a good edge just by trying it at differing angles. The paper test is harder to misread, but can still be done. The reality is a shaving sharp edge isn't necessarily appropriate for anything but shaving.

Will take a look for you in the stats trailer and containers at the USPSA match this weekend.

I like the troy TRX battlerail/vtac battle rail/rainier arms evolution forearm. It's light, comes with the install wrench. You'll still need an upper receiver block and a vise and a 1/2 drive bar for the tool, but you are going to get stuck with that no matter what. On the upside, it is $165. Assuming you have the wrench, even if you have to buy a tool for the stock nut, $50 for the block, $20 for a barrel nut wrench, you are in $235 for the whole thing.

I blame the moonenites.