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"Precision guided firearms." Another spin of engineers pushing the technology envelope. http://www.thefirear...uided-firearms/

Yet an hour's drive north to Dutchess County, on that same side of the river, they are still available. Go figure.

http://www.lohud.com...&nclick_check=1 Seems the folks in Westchester County, NY lost their bid for “full-carry, concealed-handgun” permits in appeals court today because they failed to show “proper cause” as to why they needed the licenses. Seems anywhere close to NYC is now off limits. And so it progresses....... A federal appeals court today upheld New York’s gun licensing law, rejecting claims by five Westchester residents that the law violates their constitutional right to bear arms. The decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals was hailed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office defended the state Supreme Court judges who denied the plaintiffs applications for “full-carry, concealed-handgun” permits because they failed to show “proper cause” why they needed the licenses. The Attorney General said the ruling was a victory “for families across New York who are rightly concerned about the scourge of gun violence that all too often plagues our communities.” “Every day, my office fights to ensure all New Yorkers are safe and secure in their communities,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “This means ensuring that our state’s gun laws are protected and vigorously enforced.” The lawsuit was filed in July 2010 by Alan Kachalsky, Christina Nikolov, Johnnie Nance, Anna Marcucci-Nance, Eric Detmer and the Second Amendment Foundation. U.S. District Judge Cathy Seibel dismissed the lawsuit in September 2011, ruling that there is no constitutional right to carry a concealed handgun in public and that the licensing provision was a legitimate public interest. In today’s ruling, the three circuit judges unanimously agreed, finding that the “proper cause” requirement was not unduly restrictive. “New York determined that limiting handgun possession to persons who have an articulable basis for believing they will need the weapon for self-defense is in the best interest of public safety and outweighs the need to have a handgun for an unexpected confrontation,” the judges wrote. “New York did not run afoul of the Second Amendment by doing so.” Kachalsky, a lawyer from Rye who was the lead plaintiff, could not immediately be reached for comment.

That is NOT an 1895 Winchester. This is: http://www.winchestercollector.org/guns/1895.shtml

The following are proposed amemdments for 2014, which were discussed recently in the Hunting section. Some will affect and expand rifle regs. http://www.njfishand...ers_Meeting.pdf

1885 Winchester High Wall takedown. Missing its barrel and forend. (BTW - the rifle depicted directly below is selling for $15,000 on Merz Antique Firearms' website. They specialize in antique Winchesters.) These are worth some money. Would make a nice project gun to rebarrel and use again. An intact one Does the underside look like this, depicting a groove for the locking latch?

In deer hunting with buckshot, or goose hunting to throw steel shot, or turkey hunting where folks need lots of pellets for denser patterns at distance, it's a bit different for those applications; and I say use what's best for the task at hand. In a LE situation, no one is using 3.5" shells. The 9-00 buck load has been the standard for years. I think if 3.5" shells are used for a HD situation, the buttstock should be labeled with a sign that says; "hold on!"

1:12 should stabilize the bullet weights you are mentioning. That's the simple cut and dried answer. However, you can Google something called the "Greenhill Formula" and it explains twist rates a bit more, but that has changed over the years since bullet construction has become enhanced. There is a bit of reading in the next link and a calculator to compute rate of twist: http://kwk.us/twist.html There are some twist rate tables in the attached link that give a good guideline of what will work for you. http://www.montanabu...com/page11.html You can search the web and there are free downloads out there for the Greenhill formula that you can put on your desktop/laptop to play with. As others have noted, with any rifle barrel and twist, many are unique individuals when it comes to which bullet they shoot the best, either by weight, length, bearing surface, flat-base or boattail, exposed lead core, hollowpoint or polymer-tipped. The conundrum I see today, or lack of, depending how you view the situation, is that there are more bullet choices available than there were decades ago.

Only certain seasons, certain areas, certain game, up to a certain caliber and a limit on bullet grain weight. Open this PDF file and search "rifle" and you will get all your answers. http://www.state.nj....12/dighnt12.pdf

I don't get the fascination of the 3.5" shell, but I do understand why duck & goose hunters asked for it and why it was developed. But it's not a 10 ga., which is what it tries to be. 3.5" shells for HD? Yipes! If you pick and use as an example the data of factory Remington 00 buck shotshells, and use a constant of 7.5 lbs. as the weight for a compact 870 shotgun, here are some numbers to consider comparing various loads from 2.75" up to 3.5". Note how the recoil energy goes up as velocity decreases. (I plugged in the values in a recoil calculator to get these. And, as gun weight goes up, recoil energy will decrease.) Yes, the payload is bigger with the 3.5" shells and there are more pellets, and striking energy increases with each additional pellet, but I personally would pick a load that offers a balance of velocity AND payload, while always paying attention to recoil. It would also be imperative to pick the one that patterns best. Some people think bigger is better. I don't espouse to that theory all the time. Why would you want to be whacked with the energy equivalent of a 458 Win. Mag. firing the 3.5" shell? (They are fun, but the novelty wears off quickly.) 2.75" - 9 pellet @ 1325 fps (482 grs) 1 oz. - 25.3 ft. lbs. of recoil energy 2.75" - 12 pellet @ 1290 fps (648 grs) 1 1/2 oz. - 39.9 ft. lbs. of recoil energy 3" - 15 pellets @ 1225 fps (810 grs) 1 3/4 oz. - 53.4 ft. lbs. of recoil energy 3.5"- 18 pellets @ 1125 fps (972 grs) 2 1/4 oz. - 64.7 ft. lbs. of recoil energy

Knowing what things cost today, I have doubts you will get a professional job for $40. But occasionally I've been proven wrong. I wish you luck in your build. (Build on a vent-rib shotgun for 3-gun competition) http://rifleshooter....gun-conversion/

I would cut the barrel, but leave the rib on in its new shortened form. The rib adds weight and strength to the barrel and offers a sighting plane that folks prefer. All that can't be such a bad thing. JMHO

I've never heard of anyone doing this.That rib is brazed or induction welded on. The effort to heat and remove the posts, then refinish the barrel may exceed the cost of new. You are better off selling the barrel to finance a new one.

You've hit the nail on the head. The entire country has been moving left for years now. Some say this is progress.

Bertram Brass carries 43 Mauser cases. You'll have to search for bullets, but they may carry bullets as well. Just have to search through all their vendors. Or try Track of the Wolf.

Cell phones were included and expanded to the bill under Bush. Reagan was the incumbent seeking election in 1984 when Judge Greene prevailed. And it was no coincidence that telecommunication companies contributed $22 million in campaign contributions from 1995 through 2002. More private money buying public policy. We see those additional charges to pay for this itemized as a universal service fund (USF) charge on our phone bill. My point should have been that the Dem's are always better at promoting themselves, or what they perceive to have created, than the GOP; something the GOP fails to understand this late in the game.

Clays was Hodgdon's shotshell powder answer to Alliant's Red Dot, but slightly more versatile in large-bore (12 ga.) loadings using 24 gram to 1 1/8 oz. loads. It is still slightly slower in burn rate than Hodgdon's Titegroup. All three can be used in applications for shotgun or pistol. Other favorites for auto. pistol are 231, WSF, Bullseye, Unique, WST, Int. Clays. Just about every pistol powder meters nicely except 4227.

The Dem's know exactly how provide the handouts that will get attention (crumbs) and manage to bring themselves down to that level so they are appealing. Sad.

The 788, though understated, was a great little rifle. I have noticed new bullets in .243 diameter as light as 55 grains with published reloading velocities exceeding 4,000 fps. Haven't tried them yet, but that is fast for a 6mm. I suspect the light bullets are more geared to 6mm Dasher, 6mm BR and the like. I am happy with the accuracy I get out of the 80 HP's by Rem. & 85 Gr. BTHP Sierra's.

The FCC has been providing free phones and services to low-income people who qualify since 1984 (the same year the AT&T divestiture was split into seven independent companies ruled on by Judge Greene.) The program was further enhanced by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (signed by Bubba.) It's not just low-income folks who qualify, but senior citizens and the like. But let's not give Obama any credit for this. Just another program, footed by the U.S. taxpayers. Sadly, most people like those depicted in this video are clueless as to what really goes on in our country. http://newmediajourn...x.php/item/4522 If you really want to become ill, read Senator Tom Coburn's (R-Oklahoma) Wastebook - 2012, a document he produces annually. http://www.coburn.se...c5-8522c7e1a40e

Back in the 80's I tried handloading some light bullets in my 6mm for woodchucks. At 100 yds., I couldn't find any holes in my target. I put a target frame out at 50 yds. and tried again. What I discovered was that if I pushed the old 70 gr. Hornady SP (sold at that time, now discontinued) at 3,600fps in my 1x9 twist barrel, it would disintegrate and hit the target at 50 yds. with an 8' pattern of copper and lead. Spin frangible rifle bullets too fast and they will disintegrate. (I see they have lighter bullets now in that caliber but bullet technology has come a long way in thirty years.)

With the flathead screw on the left side of the receiver it would probably be the Stevens equivalent. These are solid, robust and reliable shotguns. If it were mine I would completely disassemble it and try to find the problem. There are so few parts on these they are easy to troubleshoot, but it sounds like you need to take it to a 'smith.

American's fighting and groveling over crumbs.

That was so evident when Hurricane Sandy reigned in. Some areas here were in true gridlock with traffic. When I grew up here, there were farms in my area. I lived across the street from a gladiola farm as a kid. Our town had one traffic light. There's only a few farms left now. The rest have all disappeared, replaced by town houses, low-income housing, assisted-living, or McMansions. .

I don't know how your model is set up, but most 700's have a magazine box that the follower & spring reside and ride in. If the box is not installed correctly, you could have feeding problems. "Installed correctly" would mean orientation of the box in the correct fashion and flush with the underside of the action cutout and it should also fit flush with the bottom of the stock where the hinged floorplate closes. Some have a tab/screw arrangement that affixes to the underside of the actions, others do not. The push/feed 700 should have minimal hitches when feeding a round. http://www.midwayusa...winchester-blue That's all I can think of at the moment. Hope this helps.