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There's a Lee that you can chuck the shellholder in a power drill and hold the cutter in your hand. It relys on the shank (?) of the cutter to be a close fit in the neck to keep the cut perpendicular to the shell axis: Amazon Link plus you need something like THIS for each caliber

I use Hornady Critical Defense which has a cannelure to supposedly solve this exact problem, but I still rotate the top cartridge out to the back of the box when I unload for whatever reason.

The handgun range at SCFGPA is only indoors, so yes, all year. It's toasty in the summer.

.357SIG is fine for IDPA but iffy for SCFGPA. They don't allow magnum cartridges indoors and, while .357SIG is not mentioned specifically, they have a catch-all for any cartridge exceeding 500 ft-lbs. That's a threshold that most .357SIG loadings can surpass. I believe someone was asked to leave from the August match for using .357SIG but I wasn't there.

There was a stage last month where you started without magazines in the gun. In that case if you had 11 in any mag it was a penalty. But the folks there are very friendly and helpful so they would probably point that out to you if you were worried.

The idea that a stressed body will fatigue is "stress relaxation" and as I understand it, it's only exists in polymers. Metals don't resist strain the same way so I don't think it applies. But it has been a while since those classes.

Want to come up to Bridgewater?

Shoot it at a different distance and see if the results are the same. If so your gun just likes the lighter bullets. If not you happened to be in an area where the instabilities did not present themselves the same.

I have my HD mags loaded with the gun in the biometric safe My IDPA mags (basically all the spares) are in the big safe. I have a strip of magnetic tape that holds them to the inside of the door, organized by gun. I have forgotten to take mags with me to practice once, which was frustrating. But if they're in the safe they benefit from the dehumidifier, unlike left in the range bag.

When my EMP was shooting high they took back the slide and replaced the rear sight (Trijicon, no less) no questions asked. The gunsmith personally signed the repair order, fwiw. I like that.

Meh. It's one jailbreak away from business-as-usual. I'm sure it would be easy for someone who knew their stuff to stop the phone from listening for these "encoded signals" or at least not act on them.

+a billion For $800 you could get all mid- or high-level brand names, AND probably a stack of mags, PLUS maybe even optics. People seem to change their minds about AR's all the time. And since everything is modular even if something broke you replace it for a few bucks.

I bought a handgun at Effingers but I knew what I wanted and knew the price they had it at was reasonable. The crew at Lou's is a nice bunch of guys but I just haven't had things line up to buy something there yet.

Of course we know its not that simple though, if your proj goes through your target, any residual velocity is, at best wasted, and at worst damaging something you didn't intend. Consequently I think the TKOF would have to go out the window if the proj doesn't stop in your target. The fact that every department with enough budget can come up with their own standards (FBI, DHS, military) with their own intermediary barriers is why all of these disparate types of ammo can be "best" at a task. BTW, if someone thinks a formula is wonky because it has a seemingly random constant, better stay far far away from ballistics textbooks

As long as we're feeding pipe dreams I say we say "eff the Hague, we're using expanding ammo now!"

Hornady CD. It's fast and light to try not to go through too many houses in a miss. Pow'rBall is attractive too but $$$$

That's how I've done it too. Works for AR's too (remove BCG) and shotguns with cantilever sights.I usually go to a window and use a stop sign a few hundred yards away since my range only has 100yd targets though. Walking it back from 25 would be easier.

Get you some IR tracers and NVG for the night zombies!

I liked "Smartest Guys in the Room" +1 on "This Film is not yet Rated"

My theory on euro cars is they are bought by enthusiasts and those buyers modify and/or drive the hell out of them. I think the unreliability rumors are unfair.

Get the Audi. That 2.0T is in millions and millions of cars, fixing it is easy. Vast aftermarket too. I'm a BMW guy but if you're looking e46 I would probably go with the Audi. I had a WRX which was fun to drive but the interior was (not to put too fine a point on it) shit. You have to decide your priorities.

You can ask an engineer (I am an ME) but the problem is residential houses are not engineered. They're built to a pattern and if you're lucky they follow the local building code. Unless you're going to have someone do a lot of measuring and math (is the subfloor 3/4"? 5/8"? glued and screwed? because that changes the load capacity!) you're going to have to take a leap at some point or be very conservative like this fellow: http://www.ar15.com/...=1&f=5&t=160653

Not sure I follow your math here but a 40psf average in a 10'x10' (100sf) room is 4,000lbs. You obviously can't put a 2-ton safe in there because the weight can't be spread around, but 800lbs is still probably ok, you just don't want much else in that room. Does the safe have legs? or flat bottom? Legs could be an issue if the floor is just thin plywood subfloor. And if you've tiled that room you'd have to subtract the weight of the tiles since you've increased the dead load. I also think it's way more likely that a BG would open the door to the room than it is for him to go in the basement, see a post and say "hmm, there must be something valuable above this!"

Residential construction is supposed to take 40 lb/ft^2 of live load but it depends on your particular house what its really going to withstand. You could always put a jack post directly under it but if you have 2x12 floor joists and it's a small span I would think the floor could take it.

I heard a story about people who moved too close to Lake City Ammunition Plant then started complaining about the plant testing tracer ammunition at night. Well gee, they're kinda hard to see during the day! But the idiots won somehow and the plant had to figure out some way to accommodate them. I would have suggested they shoot the neighbors but I don't think that would be acceptable.