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$10 to ship one little leatherman? fugg that.

I always thought it was for wrapping stocks, making slings and pulling out stuck bikes in the woods. Never thought it would be for jewelry, athough, thats gotta be the strongest keychain in the world braided up like that!

I carry a Adventure Medical ultralight first aid kit in my camelbak when we go out for a day of trail riding. The AM kits are nice because they are intended for those who will be carrying these outdoors so they are very light, compact and generally well thought out WRT your type of activity. They make various kits from small pouches you can slip in a spare pocket to larger kits a medic would use and everything in-between including specialty kits for unique situations. They all seem to come in a water resistant pouch which is a plus. Good stuff for a bug out bag if you're into that sort of thing. http://www.adventuremedicalkits.com/

I think I'd throw an old Tokarev pistol in the console. Cheap, reliable, powerful and doesn't take up too much space.

The "max pistol weight" issue you guys are referring to applies to semi-auto pistols only. You can have a 70 oz S&W 500 revolver or a big honkin' single shot TC pistol with a 20" bull barrel so heavy the grip snaps off when you off-hand it and its totally fine.

Until the pentagon turned on them! http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-stoner-arms-dealers-20110316 Its an interesting, and long-ish, read akin to the "lord of war" about how two young kids start a business supplying the government with arms for overseas missions. Block off some time to go through this, its 8 pages but a good read. Here's page one:

Here's an interesting observation: take a look at the relationship of the cylinder locking cuts with respect to the individual chambers. Notice they are positioned somewhat overlapping the bores themselves? This means that there is a thin (and potentially weak) spot in the cylinders' bore wall thickness where that cut intrudes into each and every individual bores' area. Now notice where the crack propagated from? See a pattern? Contrast this with the location of the same cuts on a S&W 686 cylinder and how they are perfectly centered in between the bores. My intention isn't to pit Ruger against Smith but i often hear people on the internet righteously claim GP100's as "build like a tank" or some such. Maybe this is true in the frame construction, but it appears that there may be a weak spot in their cylinders if this is the case.

Nice writeup, Bob. I've always thought i would get a bull barrel rifle in 54R, if possible, for some cheap and potentially accurate shooting. PS. Thanks for the hint, now we know what Lunker's next gun is going to be.

traitor!

The lack of primer flow is curious though if the entire box/lot were overloaded. Then again, these were not the round that caused the failure.

I like the Gen3 for the sole fact that it has the slick black teflon coat and not the dull grey coating the Gen4's have.

Ray, i think most people agree to disagree with you as its disagreeable to agree with you. Agreed?

I ended up buying enough 100-rd flip top containers to house a thousand or two rounds of my common calibers and 500 of this and that magnum. If my production exceeds my capacity, i'll just throw them in baggies like i was doing. I thought about just dumping them in a big ammo can but i'm unsure of whether its generally a good idea since i mostly reload JHP's and in many cases where bulk ammo is packaged like this, there's the potential for setback (i think winchester even had a recall for bulk 9mm this way). No uncle Scrooge for me.

No, they don't.

125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon Longshot .355" 1.090" 4.7 1022 28,100 PSI 5.7 1162 33,400 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ IMR SR 4756 .355" 1.090" 4.5 973 25,700 PSI 4.9 1037 28,700 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon HS-6 .355" 1.090" 6.4 1131 25,600 CUP 6.8 1169 27,100 CUP 125 GR. SIE FMJ Winchester AutoComp .355" 1.090" 4.7 1055 28,900 PSI 5.2 1120 33,300 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon Universal .355" 1.090" 4.3 1031 26,900 CUP 4.9 1118 30,600 CUP 125 GR. SIE FMJ Winchester 231 .355" 1.090" 4.4 1009 24,600 CUP 4.8 1088 28,800 CUP 125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon HP-38 .355" 1.090" 4.4 1009 24,600 CUP 4.8 1088 28,800 CUP 125 GR. SIE FMJ IMR SR 7625 .355" 1.090" 4.1 996 28,900 PSI 4.6 1074 33,700 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ IMR PB .355" 1.090" 3.2 887 25,600 PSI 3.6 974 33,500 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon Titegroup .355" 1.090" 4.1 1069 27,300 CUP 4.4 1136 30,600 CUP 125 GR. SIE FMJ IMR 700-X .355" 1.090" 3.0 845 21,600 PSI 3.6 1007 31,000 PSI 125 GR. SIE FMJ Hodgdon Clays .355" 1.090" 3.5 1010 28,000 CUP 3.7 1056 32,500 CUP 124/125, same thing. You can extrapolate a starting OAL from any of of your load books for a JHP load then tailor to your chamber from there.

Tony, Hodgdon themselves, being the manufacturer of Win powders, list exact data for that combo on thier site. Always check the powder manufacturer, they all give out free load data for a lot of different bullet weights and styles. http://data.hodgdon.com/cartridge_load.asp

This is the show on spike where they bid for the entire contents of delinquent storage units and in this episode, they win one with a bunch of junk from a tailor/seamstress company complete with workbenches and sewing machines. However, buried way back in a bin is a little 1' cubical safe with a few things rattling around inside that is still locked up. They take it back to a shop to cut it open somehow and decide to use the plasma cutter. Now anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knows that if you use big fiery tools to cut open a box, if there's any delicate contents like money or other paper items, they're literally toast. Sure enough, these two monkeys torch this thing open and when the door falls off and the smoke clears, a pile of unidentifiable ashes falls out on the table. They take another peek inside and lo and behold, they spot the piece de resistance, a well done, freshly scorched HK-fuggin-P7! The last time this gun smoked this bad, someone probably ran a few boxes of 9 mil though it, however, this time, it wasn't coming from the barrel. Dumbasses-- what a poor little pistol.

You did? I'm jealous! Wolfy, you have a sweet smith pro 1911 so you know what a finely made 1911 looks like, what was your thoughts on the Coonan build quality, fit and finish?

yes you can. the gun will include a softer recoil spring to use with the 38's and the mag will apparently feed them fine despite the shorter length.

Sweet, so my .17HMR pen gun is still ok to shirt pocket carry!

Last night at the fun shoot, Andy told me the same thing, he bought a pair! Unfortunately, he had taken them home already because it would have been nice to actually inspect one if they still had it in the safe.

I too had a less than positive experience with that organization when i was trying to buy an AA kit for my Glock. When you search the web for these kits, since thier myriad of web fronts inundate the internet, you invariably get each and every one those URL's as a match. I started to call each one, one by one, to check stock and every time i got a salesperson on the line, they all gave me a different answer as to how many months it would be and i should just commit now to get on the list. It wasn't until about the 3rd "web site" i was dialing on the phone did i realize i was calling THE SAME DAMN NUMBER each time!

After some hiatus, Dan Coonan has apparently resurrected the old Coonan 357 Magnum 1911 design. The guns are for sale with a bit of a wait though. The guns start a bit over a grand and go up from there with options. Anyone had/have one of these in either the older variant or the new production and can give thier opinion? I'm mainly curious about the build quality of the new ones as the older ones were known to be hand fitted, each one of them. Of course, since parts were all fitted, replacement parts weren't just drop in, however, i suppose this is par for the course for custom guns.

That ammo smells like a turd rolled in burnt hair when its lit off. I despise people who shoot that at the range.

Teacups!