Shane45

Kwads, I believe he is aware. I think he is refering to the lack of a production or even modded 15 rnd G17 mag whereas the 19 has a factory 15 round mag. I dont speak glock so there is a hair of conjecture on my part Welcome SJ!

I am truly sorry for the victims here. With that being said, this is truly the "counter case" as to why all these AZ inspired bills are so absolutely stupid.

Thanks for the kind words Axe! But you and Sam are no slouches either! That and Sam is so light and fast! Hell if I ran out of ammo I could just pick him up and through him at the target LOL

Mostly new. The failure of old was my own 70's era Python.

I had a Dillon 550b many moons ago. After a ton of research the only one that gave any challenge to the 550 was the RCBS Pro2000. The LNL was a distant 3rd with far to many on the reloading forums having issues. So I again purchased a 550B.

lrizzo, thats my point. Keep in mind, again Im talking failure, not malfunction. I run into a factor of at least 20 to 1 pistols over revolvers but the failures I have seen have the revolvers ahead in actual numbers. If it were 50/50 then one could losely extrapolate that the failures would be X20

I agree that for a novice shooter a revolver makes a lot of sense and in fact give that same advice.

This is a topic that has been discussed more than a few times. Although I dont personally care for revolvers I dont dislike them. I say this because when I get into these discussions it is sometimes percieved that I have a dislike for them. I dont. However, the area of discussion that I find myself most engaged in is in the reliability debate. I think I get particulerly passionate about this facet of discussion because I run into a lot of people that seem to believe that a revolver is infallable. As with anything man made, it can fail. However, my experiences in Texas this past week have given me enough instances to draw some conclusions. As I have stated before, in the circles I shoot, pistols are the vast majority. So it strikes me as dispraportionate the number of revolver failures I have seen. Here is the point that I am driving at. First, let me say that for this discussion I am focusing on failures resulting in a non functioning firearm that cant be readily corrected and returned to action. In numbers the pistol failures I have seen vs the revolver failures I have seen, I have seen more revolvers go down unrecoverably! The incident that drove this home last week was a 357 mag. I had 5 brand spanking new shooters on the line. We had a Sig, HK, Kimber, Glock, and a S&W. (And a full auto Uzi for PAPA ). Long story short a screw must have backed out of the side of the revolver. When the shooter went to reload it spit the entire crane and cylinder!!!! He was standing there with a revolver with a bay window view through the side! It was done! So this failure got me thinking about the other revolver failures I have seen. In my experience it would seem that although an auto may have a greater chance at malfuntioning, it would seem when a revolver fails, it fails in a big way. Only one malfuntion I have encountered out of several revolver failures was what I would call similer to a simple pistol malfuntion. This was when a casing slipped under the ejector star locking up the weapon. All others where issues making the revolver inoperable. Thats not to say that cant happen with autos. I have seen them go inoperable as well. Im just truly suprised that given the 20 to 1 ratio of pistols to revolvers that the body count is about even(revolvers slightly edging out pistols in # of failures). Just some food for thought and discussion. Shane

Thanks to SJSC for passing it along. http://www.federalpremium.com/pdf/45_Auto_warning.pdf

I dont think you will see anything costing any money to put out there coming from MSAR....

Yeah, you and a chicom shotty...right!

"most classes pick all the parts for you and you get virtually no choice of the build" There is a reason for this. These classes arent really designed to turn you into a pistolsmith as much as they are designed to introduce you to the concepts of how to fit parts and how to understand the order these parts need to be fitted. Really imposrtant is the greater understanding of the inner workings and the why's. With this basis you can go on to do so much more. So the parts and the assembly its self are secondary and incidental. After you accomplish this, it opens wide what you can build. When you are laerning on your first build its better to not get too sidetracked with the bazillion combos and pittfalls of untried combinations. That is why the parts list is preselected.

A lot of em BUT it CAN be done with very few specialised tools.

I dunno if Id call it easy. I put around 80 to 120 hours into my builds.

On the Lapies I was more speaking of they are just crappy/flimsy junk. Its the storage solutions that the parts are unavailable for... They were only 50k each

I got about 40 "business line" dell laptopss in an e-scrap box. Heres the problem with Dell. If they can save .03c on a transistor, they will. The net effect is their stuff is cheap crap even in thier most top of the line offerings. This is not just laptops, this is pervasive throughout all of dells offerings. This becomes a problem in support due to dells supply model of build on demand. So they dont really keep a sufficient inventory to support their products due to the way they skip around to save a nickel. For exaomple, I have storage solutions around the company to the tune of about $300,000. Its ALL going into the can due to the risk they pose because even if I wanted to, I cannot replace main components in ANY of them because there are NONE to be had because dell has NONE! They are less than 5 years old! Its the same story among many of my peers in the industry. When we compared notes, they all did the same thing as me. Dumped dell and most went to HP. So I use HP for servers, compellent and HP for storage and Lenovo's for laptops. I have fielded probably 60 lenovo's in the last 4 years. I have had about 4 go down. NONE were the fault of the laptop. all 4 were the fault of being severly dropped while open or some such dumb a** thing. I have fielded test laptops from HP and a few Panasonic tough books and a few Toshibas and Sony's. For one reason or another they didnt compare to the Lenovo. The biggest suprise was the Panasonics. These werent the true ruggedised 4k toughbooks but toughbooks just the same. Both died within 1 year and support to get em fixed sucked! The tosh and HP's were just not well liked. The feedback on Vio's I fielded was that they were very flimsy and not well put together so you had to be real carfull with them.

Checked em out but see nothing but junk swords

Well.... Id say my T1 is off for all intents and purposes when at 0. A spec so tiny you have to really really look to find it shows up under gen3. 1 is super faint and then up from there. The power draw must be incredibly small. If you are of the mind that anything drawing power isnt truly off, then yeah Id say its on. But then what is ever really off

Griz, it was never about if he broke the law or not for me. As I stated from day one, I dont care if he did. It was about the abuse of power by the Judge who used his position to prejudice the outcome of a case due to his own personal views. VJ, its all about the rules of evidence. You dont have to ever read the miranda rights BUT you may also lose evidence in a case if you dont. Which is why PD's have the policies they do, from losing cases.

Jack of all trades master of none. I can read a manuel pretty good

Whatever you do dont buy Dell. I scraped more dells than I can remember.

I have fielded A LOT of laptops. Lenovo has served me best by far!

Its a good question matty. Probably is an issue. But I bet I can get them to make a model SUKITNJ

911 was it. Its just that America has ADD so it is already forgotten....

They are the only ones I know of doing a true hammer forged reciever same as the original M14. This is not necessarily a bad thing but if it matters to you Springfield Armory recievers are cast. But a good casting, I have never heard of one failing. But I like forged