Malice4you

Sig 1911 TTT with custom carbon fiber grips

You can reprofile to 30° - though I hope for your sake you have the diamond rods, cause even the coarse rods will take forever to get you there. While I'd love to make some of the knives into a full flat grind, there are services available to do so, and often times, Spyderco will come out with a flat ground option anyway... For me, the 30° and 40° are sufficient for my needs...

My left arm is 'recovering' from the clean cutting I did last time I sharpened a bunch of knives. It's probably a good thing I wear long sleeve shirts in winter - they're covering up partly bald patches on the underside of my arm... That is my primary test to see how sharp the blade is. I use the Spyderco Sharpmaker kit - with the diamond, coarse, fine, and ultra-fine rods. Depending on the knife steel and grind, on the majority of my knives, I can get hair popping sharp. On certain models, I've managed hair splitting sharpness. Some cheaper blade materials seem like they will never take a good edge, though I've never had a problem with the higher-end steels... (Though, ZDP-189 takes forever to get sharp again if you somehow manage to get it dull...) The heat treating on a blade will also affect the blade's ability to take a good edge....the same blade material from one manufacturer to another can have a totally different 'feel' and different results from sharpening... What I consider dull is considered sharp by the average person... I can't stand that... I've got scars showing what happens if I let a knife get dull and have to put too much force behind the blade...so my knives stay sharp...

Step 1: Go to bank, get money in $50/$100 increments Step 2: Make daily purchases normally (for example, a $1 pack of gum...), save all change in an ammo can in safe Step 3: Purchase guns and ammo to your heart's content Step 4: Practice saying "What? This old thing? I haven't shot it in years, that must be why you don't remember it!" with a straight face Step 5: If you fail, hire good attorney

I've got a fingerprint scanner as the lock for my cell phone - a Motorola Atrix. It uses a small pad at the top of the phone that you swipe your index finger over, and the phone then unlocks. 50% of the time, it works every time. If I'm holding the phone perfectly, and not angling my hand and/or finger, and not moving my finger too slowly or too quickly, and don't use my left hand (even though that is also programmed in), and run my finger over the scanner 4 or 5 times, it usually unlocks the phone. Would be great to never have to lock the gun....in an emergency, all I'd have to do is scan my fingerprint a few times, making sure my grip is the same as always (because I wouldn't be under any stress or anything), hope nothing is going to prevent the scanner from reading my fingerprint (oil/cleaners damaging the scanner, dead battery, etc), and then, after I'm dead because the guy who broke in didn't have a "smart" gun, he can take my gun and download an illegal hack off the internet to disable the scanner...

Mine expired around Jan 13th or so, I brought them in on the 17th, and they were renewed on the spot. Took about 15 minutes. Went direct from my PD to the store and used one of them. Bring em in and give it a try, you'll never know until you try.

Who wants assault weapons these days, anyway? Government is always trying to take those away from people... They usually do say they support owning weapons for personal defense, so I'd like a PDW or two. I'd settle for owning an MP5K PDW...or even an MP5K...or P90... or.... I better stop before I get carried away... By some three-letter agency.

Congrats on the Mosquito, I really like mine. Make sure to run it wet, and break it in with CCI Mini Mags (or essentially aka CCI AR Tactical) for at least 300 rounds. Every couple hundred rounds, probably wouldn't hurt to lube the feed ramp a little too... Once the gun is broken in, you can run almost any 1200+fps ammo through it. Mine seems to love CCI Stingers, CCI Velocitors, Aguila Superhypermaximum Velocity ammo, all of which make the Mosquito feel like a 'real' gun... It will also eat cheap bulk ammo, even lead nosed or Remington Golden Bullets... Mags aren't that cheap, though you used to be able to find real Sig metal ones for $30-35...dunno what they are today Have fun with it

I'd stuck to "common" calibers with all my purchases prior to Newtown, figuring I'd be saving money on ammo. I'd planned to eventually get some other calibers, but after seeing how bare the shelves are of all my common calibers, I decided to start adding less common stuff to my collection, as much as I can afford to... Not that .40 S&W, .357 Sig, or 10mm aren't common as well, but they're less commonly used than 9mm and .45ACP... I have started looking into reloading, but I don't think I can afford to do so at this point...

Does the key seem to 'spring' back up when you press it, or does it already always feel depressed? Try hitting it on the edge of the key, sometimes you need a different angle to get them to work. Does it feel gritty in any way? Try turning the keyboard upside down and using some compressed air to blow out any debris... On a desktop keyboard, MOST keys can be popped off and cleaned underneath. Try at your own risk...though a new keyboard is under $20 for a basic model... Laptop keyboards I wouldn't mess with. You can often times pop off the entire keyboard and put in a new one for pretty cheap, the replacement keyboard off ebay, and a how-to via google/youtube. This is likely a little more expensive, but not terribly so - often $40 or less based on what I've seen, and anyone should be able to do it (or ask any 9 year old)

I just picked up a Glock 23 Gen 4 .40, have not shot it yet, but I like the feel of it, something to consider if you decide to carry a .40. I also have a Sig Pro 2022 in 9mm, I'm a big fan of it, it has become my go-to carry gun around the house. Both of those guns have interchangeable backstraps for fitting your hands better, though I'm fine with them as they shipped. I'm 6'2" and have fairly large hands. If it weren't for the polymer frame comment, I'd suggest a P226, P228, or P229 as well...

Nah, they'll follow NY, and allow us magazines up to 7 rounds, but you can only load 5 rounds in...

Regarding conventional scopes....what I don't get is this...most high end scopes only seem to have a ~50-56mm objective lens (though I've seen a few 72mm Zeiss scopes) and then the tubes are only 30-34mm... Yet, these scopes are still upwards of $2-4k. I can buy autofocus camera lenses of at least the same optical quality with significantly larger lens elements for quite a bit less... Large glass elements are a majority of the cost of quality optics... A Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L lens is $1300 yet features a 77mm front element. A 300mm f2.8 has a front element of at least 110mm and costs around $5k. My 300-800mm f5.6 has a front element of around 150mm, and costs around $8k...and it's not like a 300-800mm lens is mass produced... Did I mention that these lenses feature electronics, motors, and some even gyro-stabilized lens elements...? I only have a few lenses with elements smaller than 72mm, and I always think of them as tiny... So...why the cost for these scopes? What am I missing? And dammit, why can't I just mount my 400 2.8L IS or 300-800mm f/5.6 onto my guns, like in 'The Jackal'?

I agree with you about the Mosin, other than the short arms bit... I start to really feel the shotgun after ~75 rounds, but that's typically pretty rapid fire with a pump. I don't bother changing or adding a recoil pad to the shotgun. Though if I were shooting 3 1/2" magnums through it all the time, maybe I'd change my mind. A proper stance and placement certainly helps, and it's something I've had to demonstrate to newbies trying out my shotguns before they shoot them. If you feel the need to add a recoil pad or use a vest, go for it...if it's uncomfortable to shoot, you won't shoot it as often, and where is the fun in that?

While I have not been looking all that hard nor all that often, in the last month, I've obviously noticed that the 'common' ammo calibers were missing from almost all the stores I visited. I had stuck with common calibers due to lower cost and ease of finding the ammo, but I'd never considered how a rush on ammo would deplete stocks of these common calibers. I bought the last box of .45 at a store the day of the shooting (before knowing how bad it would be), I was in line behind a guy buying the last boxes of 9mm at another store the week after. I did notice that the 'less common' calibers were still in stock - the .357sig, .40S&W, even some 10mm if I remember correctly. I am now waiting on NICS to come back on my new .40 Glock 23 Gen4. I think I will begin to expand to other calibers, perhaps including .357Sig and maybe even 10mm. I enjoy shooting .22LR too, so I seem to buy a brick almost every time I visit to a store.

I've got the Mule Team 01 in 52100, it is a great blade shape. Sadly, because mine is the first one, the holes don't allow the other handles made for any other Mule Team to fit, so mine just has some Micarta slabs glued on so I can use it.

Saw a Glock 19 at Hackettstown Guns and Ammo yesterday when I put down money on a Glock 23. He had a few G21s, another G23, the G19, and a few other Glocks I forget. He also had a lot of Sigs, couple of Rugers, bunch of Ruger/Browning/S&W .22 target pistols, and a fair number of 1911s. Also noticed a Beretta 90two and a few PX4s. Shelves seemed a bit more barren than usual, but still plenty of pistols in stock... Noticed ammo in stock, too...

I'm a moderator on another forum where the average age is probably between 15-30, and some of the unintelligible gibberish posted by our members is downright scary. We have rules to attempt to restrict the whole txt-speek nonsense...but it's asking too much for people to bother to read the rules...let alone type anything that makes sense. Sadly, it is not just the younger kids...people my age (30) seem susceptible too... The worst thing is that the argument these people like to use most often is "I'm not at school/I'm not writing a paper for school" as if that were an excuse for the piss-poor writing, grammar, spelling, and inane abbreviations... I'm not saying that I'm an English professor, or that I am perfect (I used to have an Editor, that was nice), but is it asking that much for people to know the difference between their/there/they're or its/it's..? I have friends who are teachers, and the stories I hear about the things kids have turned in...it makes me wonder what the hell happened in the last few years... Turning in a paper that was directly copied from a website, advertising information and all still included? You got it... Papers written completely in txt-speek? Of course... I'm starting to feel real old.... Damned kids...get off my lawn..!

My P226 was my first gun, picked it up about 45 minutes after getting my FID and PP... It's a great firearm, and I love it. It fits my hand very well, though I thought nothing would fit my hands better...though I may like the thinner P220 (single stack .45acp) even better... I'm sure you will love your P226...I really like the rosewood elite models.... Congrats and have fun with it!

I considered the Remington 870, Mossberg 590, and Benelli Supernova for my first new shotgun. (I have an old 28" shotgun.) I got the Benelli Supernova Tactical with open rifle sights and full stock with pistol grip, and picked that up for about $450 before NICS/tax. I do not regret it whatsoever. I've put about 400 shells through mine since June, when I picked it up. I added a Nordic +2 mag extension and clamp, and a flashlight, plus some personal touches. I have not had any problems and it has been 100% reliable, even without me doing anything to it maintenece-wise. Everyone who has handled my Supernova has seemed to quite like it. I figure I will still get an 870 and 590 eventually, but I do love my Benelli... I'd say you can't go wrong with any of the three options... If you want to modify your shotgun into a more tacticool gun, then maybe the 870/500/590 are better options, but I had no plans for that, and I am very pleased with my gun.

Apparently I am the only person on Earth who has not had a boatload of issues with the Remington Golden Bullets. Sure, there are the occasional FTFs, but I expect dirt cheap ammo to not have the same quality or quality control as centerfire rounds, or .22s that cost 2/3 as much for 1/5 the rounds... I had two boxes of Federal that failed to fire multiple shots per mag, but that was a bad batch and I am happy with other Federal bulk packs now... My semi autos seem to like anything I feed them that shoots over 1100fps. I would suggest buying 50 and 100 packs of different ammo types and see how your gun likes them...

This is what I ended up doing. I am still looking for a better clamp than what I have now, and one of these days I may see if I can get another Nordic magazine clamp and use that for the flashlight, if it will fit the tube and flashlight. I would do this if they made one for the Benelli...

I was about to list all the kinds of ammo I've run through mine, but I realized that I've never had a issue with almost any ammo I've fed through it, from 710fps CCI subsonics to 1640fps CCI Stingers and even 1750fps Aguila SuperHyperInsanityMaximumUltimateTopBest Velocity ammo. I had two boxes of Federal Value Pack ammo that were apparently a bad batch, and ALL four of my .22LR guns failed to fire about 1 out of 10-15 Federals, including my XT22. I gave the Federals another chance, and my XT22 eats them just fine now. My primary ammo for my Marlins is either Federal Bulk or Remington Golden Bullets... I'd guess any of the cheapo 500/525rd value packs will be great plinking ammo. For small game, you might want to try CCI Stingers, CCI Velocitors, and/or CCI AR Tactical, as I've never had a single FTF on any of those rounds...though I've never hunted anything more dangerous than steel or paper targets.

For airsoft, I bought Bolle T800 goggles with RX inserts. They are rated for military use and if I remember correctly, can stop a high-FPS .22 pellet. If you wear glasses and don't use the RX inserts, the T800s will press the frames against your face uncomfortably. Bolle X500s are roomier inside, and I can wear glasses under them comfortably. That said, I DID eventually get contacts, and prefer to wear small shooting glasses for shooting. I do occasionally wear my normal glasses when shooting, though always with a hat.

I am getting light strikes when using my GSG-522SD. I have cleaned everything the manual specifies as "user serviceable" but the light strikes continue. I am about 95% sure the breech body which holds the firing pin is to blame, as it feels gritty when I compress the springs or manually move the firing pin. I'm not 100% sold on disassembling the entire breech body - at least not just yet - and I've been thinking about getting an ultrasonic cleaner to see if that can do a better job than the spray cleaners I have used. I know there are a number of different cleaning solutions I can use with an ultrasonic cleaner, be it water or chemicals. I'd rather not use chemicals as I'd like to avoid dumping them since I'd use the ultrasonic cleaner rarely at best, but if they would work best, I may go that route anyway. My major holdup has been removing the water/cleaning solution after, and how to relube the breech body while still avoiding disassembling the entire assembly. If this doesn't work, the gun will have to be serviced, and I'd like to avoid that if possible. It would also be nice to be able to clean other parts in the US cleaner and possibly save some time and effort. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks!