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i did a lot of web searching on these followers.. (i don't know if the above product is brand new (november 2012 date) but you can find a lot of stuff on boards where these things fail alot.. they weren't feeding.. i think the springs don't have enough strength to push all the way up.. but again, i don't know if this is a new/better one..

All great feedback guys. But just for the record. Unless it wasn't obvious. When I said I kept them locked in a freezer chest, the freezer has been unplugged for years. Lest anyone think I stuck my stuff in a freezer when company was over!!

i was thinking one "box" for all of them.. not a lock on the closet.. i definitely want it all one spot. the winchester thing was too big. i was thinking more the line of a big locking tool "chest".. A full out cabinet takes up too much space.. don't laugh, but the storage trunk is sort of the size i had in mind. its 2 long guns, couple of pistols and max a couple thousand rounds.. and at the same time it doesn say "hey, i got guns in here". keep the ideas comin'.. i just checked the dicks 8 gun cabinet. that is too formal. look, i've been keeping them in a freezer chest the past year!.. this is all about function not form. Incognito i like.. even something like this.. http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/100189569/5yc1v?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=rigid+tool+box&storeId=10051&N=5yc1v&R=100189569

Please please please i don't want this to turn into a what is the BEST way to lock up your stuff. And i know some guys will write "just suck it up and buy a real safe".. i have thought about this hard. I don't need a gun safe, I don't have kids, i just need a place to put my long guns (2), my pistol(s), and my ammo that has a lock on it to keep the cleaning lady away from it, and potentially any visitors that get out of my eyesight. currently i am using a small freezer chest that i put a lock on, but alas, i think i want to use my freezer again. So i wanted to know if there are guys out there that have any good locking box, or locking chest suggestions. I don't want an upright cabinet, i was hoping to keep it a small chest that i can put a lock on. Do i go straight steel tool chest? or thick plastic storage chest? Yes, i know the point of a gun vault/safe is not just for temporary deterent (friends, cleaning lady), but its also to keep the thieves away.. but honestly i'd be more upset about other things stolen in my house besides the guns.. so anybody who uses a non vault option.. please send me your suggestions.. some day i will get a real gun vault.. but right now the collection of arms+ammo is so small i don't need it yet. let me crawl before i walk..

you don't even need the entire DCAEK.. just get the hard sear and USB combo and its all butter after that..

I know i'm new to this hobby.. but just seeing the explosion (sorry for the pun) of the popularity of shooting sports in the just the last year.. And again, unscientific i'm just basing this on how long i used to wait at the Bullet Hole and RTSP a year ago.. verus now.. i'd say its a 3X increase.. so figure that into your 2010 projected revenues.. and on top of that figure my bet that Woodland Park Range fills all its $600+ platinum memberships (alleged).

WTF..i joined less than 7 days ago.. what do i get?

You need to turn this to your advantage. If the guns don't sell on GB then you go to him and say now my bid to you is 50 bucks lower because you tried to screw me

Like most people said on here.. the UPS tracking "delivered" was not accurate.. ..and i highly doubt if someone did steal the package, that they were nice enough to bring it back. No, the box was unopened. I'm very very relieved..

the thing that makes me think it really was delivered was that the tracking said "left at side door".. my house has a side door.. most houses do not. i'm going to ask the neighbor tomorrow if he heard the UPS truck around 1:00 oclock.

i'm not concerned about the hundred bucks (200 rounds).. its more me going crazy now worrying was it the delivery guy that stole it? Or someone else stole it. And either or, now that person knows i have weapons at my house. So i'm a little freaked out right now.. and the girlfriend is asking for an alarm system immediately. (please don't let this drift into alarms systems..) lets keep it on point about Palmetto and UPS. as soon as UPS looked up the tracking number and saw the shipper (Palmetto) had a regular account with them they couldnt help me anymore.. they said "take it up with the Shipper). this whole ordeal makes me never want to buy ammo online ever again..

tracking number says delivered 1:20. Arrive home at 3:30 its not there. i've never had packages stolen from my residence. UPS says i have to contact shipper.. (Palmetto State) to sort it out. Do i contact police in the meantime? Not so crazy about a stolen box of 556 with my name on it floating around.

i watched this video like 3 times.. what's remarkable to me is the displacement and the penetration of the mini-mag round nose. yes the segmented displaced the most.. but penetration? the velocitor didnt even penetrate as far as the regular round nose! (could be because its an HP though) for my dollars i think the regular round nose 40 grain was the best of all worlds.

Blksheep: "Strong index finger pointed at the threat. Strong thumb stacked on top of support thumb" I must be retarded.. if you're STRONG index finger is pointing at the threat HOW DO YOU PULL THE TRIGGER?? How can you pull the trigger if you are pointing it? i'm sorry.. i gotta be retarded for not understanding what you are writing.. (i will do any further questions in PM so i stop embaressing myself..)

please elaborate "thumbs stacked" i'm picturing a dozen different things.. Index finger pointed at the threat? you're telling me your weak hand index finger is pointed DOWNRANGE? its not "cupping" your strong hand? what do you think about this guy's weak hand?

i've been to two classes.. and from all the videos i've watched of the pros.. for a right handed shooter their left thumb looks like it is touching the slide. I know that getting more left hand on the weapon helps with stability.. but i just cant find a comfortable grip with my left hand "way up" on that slide. And doesnt the thumb impede the action of the slide? Part of me wants to just stay with what's comfortable.. but what i learned many moons ago when i started playing golf.. doing what's comfortable isn't always the best thing if you want to get really good at something. the pros have their left hand/thumb way up there (as opposed to the way i just "cup" my left hang around my right hand). my laft hand actually doesnt even touch any part of the pistol.. its just "supporting" my right hand. i know its wrong.. i just cant stop doing it that way.

I think one entire side of the glass case at Ottomanelli's is 1911s..

Was that one 100 Rd box for 23 bucks?..

So that's 18 bucks per box of 50??? Holy shot is that what 9mm is up to now?.. I haven't even looked since my last 1000 roun purchase 3 months ago but I thought I spent like 11 per box?

NRA first steps pistol class. (given by anybody.. doesnt matter by who although i recomend GFH, just do it!!) don't think you're too cool or too old for it. In my class i couldnt believe that about half the people in the class were people who said "i've had a gun in the house for ten years...etc etc" and at the end they said "i should have done this ten years ago"

so just real quickly.. if a detachable mag and a pistol grip is proposed to be illegal for a rifle, then what differentiates a pistol with detachable mag as legal? is it that only a RIFLE is evil and not a pistol?.. so what determines a rifle? the length? EDIT: just figured it out.. it has to do with a "second" grip, or that the mag is outside of the grip.

Don't get caught up in the semantics.. the point is this guy is THE MAN on the hill. And i found it interesting he didnt mention going after rifles.. i think this is encouraging..

Today's Op-ed in the Wall St. Journal.. he says assault magazine.. never mentions rifles at all.. hmmmm.... The column: "As a hunter and gun owner, I believe that we should protect the Second Amendment right of law-abiding individuals to own firearms. As a dad and grandfather, I also believe that we have a responsibility to make our schools, streets and communities safe. We can do both if Congress steps up. Many of the president's executive actions will help reduce gun violence, but the policies that would have the greatest impact require congressional action. After being named chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Gun Violence Prevention Task Force last month, I held town-hall meetings in my Northern California district. Hundreds attended, and I heard from law-enforcement officials, mental-health experts, school officials, National Rifle Association members and gun-control advocates. Federal authorities also give undue attention to prosecuting prohibited buyers who attempt to purchase firearms. Federal law bars nine categories of people—including felons and those who have been judged seriously mentally ill—from buying guns. But when ex-convicts attempt to buy guns, they are hardly ever prosecuted. Although the FBI referred more than 76,000 such cases to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in 2010, Justice Department attorneys prosecuted just 44 of them. Prosecuting these criminals should be a priority and Congress needs to stiffen the penalties. There is also strong popular support for a national program modeled on California's Armed Prohibited Persons System, which requires that those convicted of certain crimes or found to have serious mental illness turn in any firearms they own. Expanding California's system nationwide would help make sure guns are kept out of the hands of those we all agree shouldn't have them. A majority of Americans also agree (according to a Pew poll released this month) that assault magazines have no place in our society. These magazines hold more than 10 rounds and allow a shooter to inflict mass damage in a short period of time without reloading. Banning them will save lives. On the issue of reducing gun violence, there is a path between extremes. This debate isn't a choice between protecting the Second Amendment or reducing gun violence. It is about the willingness of a responsible majority to do both." — Mr. Thompson, a Democrat, is a member of Congress from California.

is that gun really THAT beautiful or is it just the skills of the guy with the camera.. ?? that's like magazine quality photo..

so the NY Post had a great piece about the Benelli MR1 and how you can choose the pistol grip or not.. i'm so very new to the carbine world.. but if a ban happened..(i know, i know not another lousy "what if" thread, but this one is constructive i think).. do you think a new generation of non-pistol grip carbines would pop up? Can i get the thoughts from the guys who have shot non-pistol grip 223s? outside of the "coolness" and customization factor of the AR platform, what is the major draw back to losing a pistol grip? besides that you can hold it and fire at same time? would a non-pistol grip just get you out of the 223 game completely?