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A lot of trap and skeet people just buy winchester AA too. Even so, I specifically pointed out that over unders are where you gain the most and compromise the least. Once you start having to feed from a magazine is where reloaders have an upper bound on their QC practices compared to commercial ammo.

Actually, I'll shift it even more. Ignore the 2a. As long as they curtailed their employees recourse to self defense beyond whatever is permitted by state law, then they took on the liability of enhanced protection to counter that action. Leave the rights part of it out as much as possible. Maximize the fiscal liability of gun free zones.

Yes, but no. That's the wrong argument. The right argument is that they curtailed their employees 2a right to self defense, and in doing so took on added responsibility for the safety of their employees, which they failed to adequately provide for. The argument to make is that gun free zones transfer liability.

Given the bulk of components and the weight of some of them, you may actually be able to buy and stack more not reloading. The sweat equity discount may not just be small, it may be non existent or negative. You have to look at your supply chain. Last time I looked into it was during the last panic. Even then, while 12ga became less plentiful and more expensive, it never became less plentiful and accessible than components. For me there was an added space component. Keeping component stock encroached into things like my storage of powder for pistol and rifle and used it's portion of that budget inefficiently. It just didn't work out, it was cheaper and more effective to just buy cases of ammo and store them.

OK, here's my take on shotshell reloading: It's kind of like reloading 9mm or .223, but worse. With 9mm and .223 you really can't load significantly cheaper than you can buy. You save maybe 1-2 cents a round vs shopping for sales. However for that price you can load better ammo than you get for the money. With shotshells, you are mostly making a load that works worse than commercial stuff. You can't crimp and finish the shell as nicely as even the cheap factory stuff. You don't have access to the weird specialty shot the factories do. Basically the only place you have a lot of options you won't find on the shelf are in your powder choice. While reloads work fine in over unders, they may work less fine in pumps or semis. This all depends on your hull conditioning and crimping. Taking a load recipe from online, going with the average wad price, free hulls, cheapest primers, cheapest lead. I get $56.23 per 250. $0.22 per round. That doesn't even include shipping or hazmat. I have a lot of choices at that price point. Now if you want to do old school brass hulls and stuff, yeah reloading is the way to go. And heck if you do want to reload, look used. SO m,any people seem to get into shotshell reloading and abandon it and will ditch nice gear CHEAP.

This isn't really true. Slides that are fit well glide like ball bearings. Slides form bulk manufacturers that want to make a tight fitting slide cheaply just do the gunsmithing equivalent of squishing it in a vise to add friction. While people's warnings about springs isn't wrong, it's also a bit alarmist. Most factory 1911s in .45 come way oversprung. USually 18-20lb. They will work with a 15lb just fine. Bully is right that cocking it first manually will reduce the strength required. One other thing is technique. If you are having issues due to strength, you don't want to hold the gun with one hand and pull the slide wit the other hand, you want to PUSH the gun wit one hand and PULL the slide with the other hand. Bot arms should be contributing to the effort. If your issue is lack of ability to pinch grip, get a slide racker. That's kind of a pain on a 1911. Easiest is get a glock and get one that replaces the rear striker retaining plate. Similar are available for the M&P and XD.

I read a lot of news. I just don't consume it as a traditional news program on TV, or ye olde news paper. since I control the type of content, the equivalent of the sports section and the gossip pages get pre-filtered to the landfill. You think some evil is being done because people are making a big deal over it. And you shouldn't be subjected to it. I think if this is a key part of your life, you might want to think about how you live your life, but hey your hobbies are your hobbies. It's no skin off my back, modern existence has provided the functional equivalent of an apartment with 4 foot thick sound proof walls. I don't have to hear the neighbors party, and absent nosie or parking problems, why would a give a shit about their party? I mean avoiding it was a simple as not clicking this thread. BOOM! slightly less Kobe. My unavoidable exposure to this stage of events was limited to the preview sentence of this thread on here, and a single image and half a sentence where youtube tried to inject it into the youtube app my kid was using in the living room.

You know, it's possible to not care about Kobe. I don't, and I haven't been forced to watch or see anything. I didn't even realize they had the memorial. Because I actually don't care about celebrity #1298301823981. I also don't care if other people care. If it is genuinely upsetting to them, let them mourn and grieve in their way. If they jsut want to be some kind of emotional vulture with the spectacle? That's fine too. Because it doesn't matter to me. You whine because you care and think you should be the gatekeeper of appropriateness on a given subject. The world should comport itself to your moral judgement. Get over your ego and just don't engage with it if you don't like it.

This is all plastic funnels ever. Various solutions Satern metal funnel. It's caliber specific (good) Precision hardcore one piece aluminum funnels also caliber specific. (perfect) I own both of the above and can vouch for them. In the realm of trying to reproduce the multi caliber plastic funnel kits, you have the following I know of Area 419 master reloading funnel kit Lyman brass smith pro powder funnel kit. The lyman is the biggest bang for the buck and all metal, but I haven't tried it. That's because it is hot garbage. Lots of lee stuff is very usable and good value for the dollar. The deluxe powder measure is not. I've had one, and it was less consistent and accurate than their disc measure. The tolerances are just too big and the material choices compounds the problem to the point really fine ball powders can come out of it from places powder isn't intended to be coming out of. Near as i can tell with fine powders, a ball or flake wedges someplace, and then because the material has too much flex, it lets more in, which makes the gap wider, rinse and repeat. When I say lee makes some things that are usable and a great value, the scale is on the list. I still use mine to this day. If your digital scale has a 50 gram calibration weight, I'd be leery of trusting it. If it is a plug in model, even more so as scales can be sensitive to line noise. Stop using the digital scale and stop weighing things wrong. First off, it has a precision. Let's take one I bought as an example. It said it was accurate to 0.2 grains. That means if I want a 4.0gr charge, I could be throwing that and it could read 3.8-4.2 and be working as intended. You will also note that your scale self zeroes. If you read around forums you will see lots of people bitch about their digital scales and trying to trickle charge. That's because it see's the very very minimal weight added during trickle as sensor noise or something and tries to correct for it. Additionally, digital scales will drift because of temperature. Whcih is where they become a REAL pain in the ass. Their own circuitry is often enough to change temp and cause drift. So ideally you want them to reach a stable operating temp. Plug ins can, but they have line noise. Battery powered units often turn themselves off. Never weigh a loaded round to determine charge weight. Especially with pistol bullets, the bullet alone may vary as much as 2 grains. The cases are also going to vary by at least that much unless you batch sort them. Headstamp isn't going to get you there. If you want to know what your charge is, weigh your charge. Unless it's weird lighting, that is a ton of roll crimp there. I would not be surprised if that causes you accuracy problems due to distorting the bullet. As fro Cartridge OAL, what will get you depends on the powder and the gun. First the powder. Shorter means higher pressures. However, if you aren't pushing the ragged edge, a little variance won't matter much other than less consistent velocity. Then there's the gun. Being a revolver load, you are good to go. However in general when setting up a load, do the plunk test for semi autos. Take the barrel out of the gun, and drop in one of your loaded rounds. You want it to fully chamber without touching the rifling. If a round is already engaged with the rifling before firing, it will see higher pressure than ones that aren't. That being said, pistol components just aren't that consistent will vary in the thousandths.

All of NJ infrastructure operates on maximum neglect. All the sewage treatment plants eject their waste into the various rivers to the ocean. When the place isn't working right, or input volume exceeds processing volume, they operate in bypass mode. So yeah.. if it smell like shit, it probably is shit.

Meh. I had an actual new in hand RCBS x-die. The decapping pin bent and thus was useless. They were happy to replace it under warranty if I didn't mind waiting 12 weeks. So yeah that was useful. They claimed out of stock, but they had 50 count bags in plentiful supply. So $20+ and 5 days later I had a new decapping pin no thanks to RCBS support.

My $0.02 for trying to figure out what they are. 1) Does it have projectiles? Then go to the firearms and weapons definitions and see if it is a firearm. 2) It goes bang and makes noise. So I'd read up on the statutes for fireworks. 3) Beyond that I would make sure you aren't in possession of the worlds most useless explosive device if you have one in NJ.

OK. SO Lori was married to Charles. Charles was her 4th husband (this is what we might refer to as a "clue" to anyone considering a long term relationship with Lori much less marriage). I'm trying to draw the flow chart here. So If Charles was the parent of JJ, and Kay was Charles' sister, Kay should be JJ's aunt. But she's his grandmother. So she's both his sister and his mom? Or if JJ wasn't Charles' kid Lori married her Charles' uncle at some point? WTF? This thing doesn't have twists it has frikin loop the loops.

I've been using wawa for the majority of gas for two cars now. They run fine on it and the pumps have been accurate. Like others have said, call weights and measures if you are being overcharged/underfueled. you might just have a shady location that is adulterating the gas or has bad equipment that is causing problems and letting contaminants get in the gas.

Contact the postmaster general to sort their shit out.

UPS stores are NOT UPS!!! Which is why they won't accept firearms. They aren't covered by the exemptions for common carriers. You need to go to an actual UPS customer counter. The main guy at the customer counter in raritan center isn't 100% up on the facts, but knows enough that you can make it work.

Obama loved compromise. Where compromise means that they ask fro way, WAY more than they want, and you meet them in the middle and give them everything they want. Because they believe they are very smart to come up with such an idea and that you are too stupid to understand what they are doing. Bloomberg bought them a state government. They will float everything his gun grabbing minions have ever considered, but don't expect all of it to be fought for tooth and nail. That would mean they would have to be true believers and prepared to suffer the consequences of doing something. Which politicians are very adverse to.

As the owner of a 3rd grader, they have done very little towards the 4th grade goals.

It very often is not taught in schools. I moved in middle school and moved into a school district that had a pretty robust civics class that spent a quarter going over the basics of personal finance, budgeting, investment and stuff like that. Later one year of health class was personal finance and retirement planning. Outside of getting into more advanced math they were pretty solid. When I went to college I met back up with some of my friends prior to moving. They did not get the same kind of coverage of such subjects.

I could download it if I wanted to feed info to what appears to be a scumbag operation. Or they could not put it behind a gate.

No it says salary finance, which is a company trying to hawk debt consolidation and payday loans into a new abomination. I'd question their numbers without seeing the methodology explained. It's hardly an argument for a shitty economy. If the people making over 200k a year are being impacted by a shitty economy more than those making 40k a year, then the issue isn't the cost of living vs wages. The issue is how 1/3 of people spend their money.

some XD and XDm skus come with three. All the Sig legion packages seem to come with at least 3 mags. The sig x-5 package comes with four. CZ has several shadow 2 skus with three mags and competition grips. The accushadow also comes with three mags. CZ czhechmate come with four mags in two different capacities. CZ shadow target II comes with three. FNH FNS-9 competition series comes with three mags. A number of the EAA witness Stock II skus (and some others) come with three mags. That's all today. S&W M&P for a while had a competition pack sku with 3 mags and a holster.

USPSA and 3 gun is hardly standing like a bump on a log while shooting. The last thing I want to do is introduce less shooting and more not shooting and more work into a day of competition. I've got a gym membership for my cardio. Heck just actually help reset stages and you will get your 5k in for the day real easy. RO a lot and you'll get your 10k in too.

Most people develop a flinch because of noise aversion. Muffs and plugs and make sure they are operating their earpro correctly. Also in general, watch to see if their flinch is really just a flinch or if they are gripping a lot harder in anticipation. Milking the grip can drop your hits a lot. If they feel they need to clamp down on it, work with that and just have them grip the snot out of it from the get go rather than at the last moment.

Well if we ever get another pro 2a ruling out of scotus, these shitty ratios will likely matter a whole lot in determining if it passes a particular level of scrutiny or a provided legal test.