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10 bucks according to the website. I'm kicking this around myself but probably won't have a lot of extra cash to play with at the show.

Looks great!

I've always been a huge racing fan. Was involved with dirt car racing for a long time and loved nascar pre-2001. After Earnhardt's death, nascar started to change its image and destroyed the racing in the interest of safety. Now you've just got a bunch of clean-cut, corporate puppets driving cookie-cutter race cars. It's not about who's the best driver or who can build the fastest car anymore. Now any car on the track can win if they are in the right place at the right time and get in a line that can push them to the front. That's just not racing to me. I'm going to watch some of the race today, but I'm sure the racing will be boring and I'll probably grab a nap about 50 laps in. I'm really surprised nascar still has the popularity that it does. It's lost a tremendous amount of its southern fan base. Sponsors are dropping like flies and aren't putting the money into a sport that isn't bringing the return that it used to. If nascar lasts another 10 years in its current form I will be fooled.

Using a torch to get into a safe like that would have destroyed most everything in it.

You're the first I've heard of getting a refund. Did you provide a receipt or just use MSRP as purchase price? Was shipping refunded as well?

Great info for everyone. Thanks for the comparison.

I'll never shame anyone for having an unintended discharge so long as the muzzle was in a safe direction. I've touched off a round early before on the range, and I've learned the hard way why you never load six in a SAA and then lower the hammer. Thankfully both of those experiences were on an outdoor range and I had the muzzle pointed in the right direction. As for handling loaded guns indoors, I just don't do it. Even when I'm loading my carry gun, as a habit I always go outside to chamber a round just as a reminder to be extra careful.

Same here. This forum does not get a huge amount of post activity compared to some others, and I rarely miss anything by checking in a couple of times per day using the view new content button.

Maybe I misread the OP's post. I thought he was just suggesting to divide the Events section. If the idea is to divide the general discussion of the forum into regional sections, then I definitely would not be in favor of that.

Seems like it would be less confusing and easier to just create sections for West, Middle, and East TN. No reason to have separate sections for areas as close as Knoxville and Pigeon Forge, and saying stuff like "North Middle" would make me go, "huh?".

Just don't park left side to curb!

I use these for handguns that I shoot often. The ones made by Gun Storage Solutions are the real deal. I tried some cheaper ones from Amazon or eBay, can't remember, and they wouldn't hold up with heavy pistols/revolvers.

Actually, it's bowel. Lol

I don't agree with the "policy," but I imagine that it is more of a liability thing than an anti-gun statement. Remember that the search is being conducted on private property, and if I were one of the landowners I might not necessarily want 200 armed people roaming around my property at night.

If saving time and increased production are the goals, a 650 with a case feeder would be a huge upgrade in my opinion. Using a lockout die/powder check in station 3, your only job will be to place bullets and pull the lever. The auto-indexing shellplate on the 650 is a safer in my view and eliminates any chance of double charging a case. If you really want to get crazy, add a Mr. Bulletfeeder to it. Those can be a pain to setup properly though. The 1050 is in a class of its own. Everything is done on the downstroke on the 1050 including priming cases, making it much faster than the 650 for most people. The other big advantage is the built in primer pocket swager if you load military brass. Disadvantages include the cost and time involved to change calibers. For most people, it's a single caliber machine.

Summit is the only climber made as far as I'm concerned.

Beautiful dog. Thanks for taking her in temporarily.

The most efficient way to do this is with a rotary separator. I like the Dillon the best. I poor out all the dirty water I can from the drum into a utility sink then I head outside. Pour the brass and pins into the basket on the separator and start rinsing with a hose pipe. Keep rinsing until the water level gets above the lowest part of the basket. Then you can start rotating the basket, and the water in the tub will quickly separate the pins and keep them from slinging out of the basket. I usually dump the brass into a kitchen strainer and do a final rinse, then sit them out to dry.

The pistol, then and now, is intended for a hotter loading of the .38 Automatic. You can take whatever position you like on it. I don't buy into all the fluff on 38super.net. There was never an issue surrounding the 38 Super until that write up started circulating around the Internet. I think it's poorly written and makes a big deal about nothing, much like his article on the "9mm Automatic." But let's clear up one thing - if you have a pre-war Colt in your possession, it shouldn't be fired at all! As mentioned by others, the Supers are particularly valuable.

There's some bad information getting tossed around here...making things more confusing than they should be... "Colt Super 38 Automatic" is the name of a specific gun model, not the name of a cartridge. The CIP designation is 38 Super Automatic. SAAMI refers to it as the 38 Super Automatic +P. Commonly, it's just the "38 Super". hughd - as I've already said, the .38 Automatic (ACP) and .38 Super Automatic are dimensionally the same cartridge. The difference is that the .38 Super is loaded to pressures of 10,000 psi higher (sometimes more) than the .38 Automatic. All 1911 pistols from 1929 on can and are designed to safely fire .38 Super ammunition. The 1911 is a stronger design than the old automatics that were chambered in .38 ACP. Colt serial numbers 1 - 37,834 are considered "Pre-war" models. The "Super .38 Automatic" rollmark and the rampant Colt will be on the right side of the slide. After WWII production of the Super ramped up again in 1947, and the serial numbers started at 40,001. These models will have the "Super .38 Automatic" and rampant Colt rollmark on the left side of the slide. The last Colt chambered in .38 Super to have "Super .38 Automatic" rollmarked anywhere on the slide would have been around 1971 when all existing models were rolled into the "Series 70" designation. Series 70 models and after were marked simply ".38 Super Auto Caliber" or ".38 Super Caliber" on the slide. "Super .38 Automatic" was the model of the pistol, not the cartridge name. This is explained by the changes in the Series 70 pistols. The "Super .38 Automatic" model was no more, but Colt still chambered the Series 70 pistol in .38 Super caliber. They all shoot the same cartridge from 1929 to today. Pre-war models are not marked "Colt Super 38 Auto" on the top of the barrel at the ejection port. That started at 40,001, and they are still marked like this today.

They are still being made. I just picked up a new Special Combat Government in .38 Super last week. The "1991" pistols are all Series 80 guns. The standard 38 Super model made today by Colt is the O2991.

1971 was the year that all calibers got lumped into the "Series 70" designation. That shouldn't be interpreted as the last year for a 38 Super chambering.

Try not to get caught up in all the drivel and semantics on the history page of 38super.net. There's some good information on that site, but I don't agree with the spin that he put on the cartridge's introduction. That guy has a Ph.D. and seems to think that makes him more correct than anyone else. Typical of those in academia. Hughd - are you wanting to know the last year Colt rollmarked a pistol "Super .38"? As pointed out above, Colt is still producing 1911s chambered in 38 Super. Dimensionally, the .38 Automatic (ACP) and the .38 Super Automatic are the same. The .38 Automatic was created over 30 years before Colt started chambering the 1911 in .38. The Model 1900 and Model 1903 pocket hammer were chambered in the .38 Automatic. Early automatics like these are not made to withstand the higher pressure of the .38 Super. The 1911 chambered in .38 Super from 1929 on can handle any standard factory load you buy today. Early models are very valuable and do not have slides that are adequately heat treated. Shooting them should be kept at a minimum for that reason alone.

Sounds like it didn't actually decrease; you just opted for a cheaper plan. I dare say that no one is getting the same coverage for less money this year.