ReeferMac

Glad to see experienced people taking the time to show newbies around. I grew up in a house w/ no guns, and didn't understand why as a youth I always enjoyed hanging at my one friends house (he was a boyscout, father an avid sportsman), and some friends of the family (good German family, hunters, etc.). In fact, was JUST lamenting w/ my parents the fact that I didn't get exposed to any of this stuff as a kid (they were chiding me for taking my children to the range). Had it not been for those .22's we'd sneak in Jeff's basement, I'd probably have never been exposed to it, and may have different views or political opinions now as a result. Pleased to say, my kids have ALL shot the .22 (rifle and pistol), and my oldest loves the 9mm, but he still doesn't like the 20-ga. If they grow up to be retarded liberals, at least they won't be ignorant one's! :lol: (Rant on) This softening and feminizing of the America's youth as promulgated in our public schools and single-mom homes today in the name of 'safety' will have far-reaching affects on our society, and already has (the very concept of a 'micro-aggression' existing is proof positive we've got 20-years worth of pussies to get through). Teach, teach your children well.... (Rant off)   - K  

Back in the day, my Mom worked as a tour guide in Niagara Falls (grew up near there). Occasionally she had some high-profile clients, one was some big oil Sheik and his entourage - booked her exclusively for a few days. Spent 3-days in a Limo (usually gave tours in a 40-passenger bus), gave her a diamond ring afterwards as a "token of the sheik's appreciation". She was informed by one of the handlers from NYC, to speak to the staff at the restaurants very quietly, and if anyone in the group ordered an "Iced Tea", they should bring them a Long Island variety, but since alcohol is illegal for Mooslim's, they would never ask for it, however b/c they wouldn't want to offend their hosts, they wouldn't send the drinks back.....   I haven't trusted A-rab's since I was about 9-years old.   - K

I was just going to post this....   http://www.alloutdoor.com/2016/01/14/oath-expanding-fragmenting-slugs/   That's gotta hurt!!!   - K  

For single-stage presses, make sure to get an "O" shaped one vs. a "C" shaped one, they hold up better over time ("C" shaped can flex). Also get a steel one. Don't want to use an aluminum frame and steel action - steel will win that fight every time.   - K  

LOL! If you take 81 back, stop in Bristol at the Cabela's (right off the highway), it was only $35, and it's not like you can't find something else you need there... ;)

  DING DING DING DING!!!!

Ditto what's been said, debated about getting into reloading myself (just starting the process). I try to buy my 9mm rounds when on sale, and in quantity, so typically get it for around 20-22-cents per. Once I acquire everything needed (yes, that's a $300-$600 proposition for me right now, I realize that could go higher, too), I can reload for about 9-10 cents on practice rounds (FMJ). If I can get free brass, lead, etc., I can lower that number, but simply collecting MY brass and reloading, I'm looking for under-10-cents a pop, or half my current price (ROI aside). Additionally, I want to try experimenting a little (I'm the type that likes to tinker...), different loads, diff. bullets, etc. ... I'll likely always carry commercial ammunition for self-defense (Gold-dot FBI loads!), but even just for my pistol(s), I believe it will allow me to shoot more cheaply when I go (note I didn't say 'save me money"?) I'm also interested in long-range rifle shooting, and this is one reason why I'm starting to acquire reloading equipment - I know it will be useful for that end of the hobby as well. It's not so much a 'save money' proposition, b/c the ROI @ 10-cents a pop is scary. Most people that get into it are the tinkering-type, or are looking for something they can't get commercially (consistency for long-range, etc.) Getting into it to shave $$$ off your ammo bill won't work, you'll have to pay yourself 12-cents an hour to make the money back.

  Yo Dude! I _just_ bought a hand-deprimer from Frankford Arsenal Yesterday @ Cabela's on my way back from the Great White North. So far I am very happy with it. I've run through a couple hundred 9mm's playing w/ it on the couch. A few have gotten stuck and I needed a set of pliers to remove, but so far pretty simple and easy. You spill the spent-primers sometimes, but nothing the vacuum cleaner can't handle. Check around on prices, as I only paid $35-bucks! Worth it IMO, it's pretty well constructed from what I can tell. Be happy to let you borrow it sometime or try it out if you want. I'll bring my cleaned brass to reload on your press while you're de-capping w/ mine! Win-Win! LOL!   - K  

  Ditto!   I used to do this quite a bit with my previous hobby - Salt Water Reef Keeping (and I'll bet you thought the "Reefer" meant something else, didn't you? :dirty: )   There are a bunch of suppliers on the west coast, a few in FLA, and 1 or 2 inland... but shipping little bags filled w/ saltwater and twig's of coral are pretty expensive (first AM overnight delivery from LA _used_ to run around 70-80 bucks per cooler, which only holds 12-15 coral frags, etc.) We had formed a club up there (Upstate Reef Society) for social reasons as well as sharing knowledge, and many of us would gang up orders to save on shipping. 20-bucks for a coral wasn't too bad, and you only had to swallow 5-10 for shipping, which was far better than the premium local fish stores would charge (to offset their shipping costs and losses, etc. - it wasn't uncommon to have half-your cooler die due to shipping stresses).   It's unfortunate to lose a local vendor, and I encourage everyone to support local small business in which you are interested as much as possible... but I don't think any of us are an individual charity. It'd be nice if there were a group of people you could talk to on the internet and throw out a conversation to strike up an order pool or something?   - K

well said!

  Amen! Another NY-Transplant recently said it best in another thread. I could have lived anywhere in this country. I CHOSE to move my family to Tennessee (for many reasons). Ya'll might talk w/ marbles in your mouth sometimes, ;) , but I don't hold that against ya!   I never studied the particular's of the NY law, it was passed in a political-rush after the School shooting in CT incident, and clearly wasn't well thought out (cuz they didn't limit the number of mag's you can have/carry, just the capacity of each one). If you had a 10rd you were supposed to get an insert for it, or turn it in and buy new 7-rd compliant one's. I don't know anyone who did that.   For the record, the bulk of that state is strongly opposed, it was the downstate politicians (NYC area) that pushed it through. Imagine if most of TN's politics was decided by the people that live in/around Memphis? The wife and I started our pistol permit process before leaving, never finished it - takes over a year in most cases! And they're so asinine about the ammo, too: You cannot even purchase ammunition unless a pistol of that caliber is listed on your permit (e.g. I couldn't buy a box of .45's and meet you at the range, b/c I have a 9mm). MOST LGS's would look the other way for regulars, but still, just stupid laws that really don't have the desired affect (stopping mass-shootings by criminals!). Frankly it was one of the final-straw's w/ me deciding it was time to pack up our shit and GTFOOD!

  LOL! Indeed. One of the neat-o inventions the boy's in DARPA's back room came up w/ around the same time they invented the giant tater-totter portable Microwave anti-personell device, they invented a laser-dazzler to incapacitate individuals in a non-lethal manner.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzler_%28weapon%29   - K  

As a transplant from the nanny-state of NY, I enjoy teasing my friends and old neighbor's about magazine capacity... Those chuckleheads passed a law that says only 7-rnds per mag. Odd's are, you'll see some sort of similar action from the federal level, restricting capacity as a means to chipping away at your 2nd Amendment little by little, rather than a straight-up ban. Currently there's a bill floating around the downstate area suggesting you should only be allowed to buy twice the factory-spec capacity of ammunition every 90-days. For my M&P Compact that's 24 rnds every 90-days. I pop off at least 80-100 every time I go to the range, which is like once a week!!!! BEFORE Fartknocker gets out and Hillary gets in, you can just about guarantee SOMETHING is going to happen. All the whack-a-doo's in the news lately only serve to reinforce their claims, in some odd twist of Orwellian logic. :wall:   - K  

Good for you Dave, I've been troubled by the lack of stages of escalation seen frequently these days. I'm not a cop-basher, have a lot of respect for the boys (and girls) in blue that uphold the law, but we've all seen the actions of bad-apple's on the tv screen, and it does raise the question about escalation of force sometimes.   Policy or not, I think you made the right choice.   - K  

ROTFLMAO! Just for that TMF, I'm switching back to the old avatar! LOL!   - K  

  For your purposes I'm not sure it matters? I chose the bolt b/c I have a couple kids in the house who will be the secondary users (I'm finding I love the thing so much I'm using it more!), and the bolt action will help teach them trigger discipline. Too easy to whip through a clip when all you have to do is pull the trigger. If you have to cycle a bolt and re-acquire your target, you'll be more careful when pulling the trigger.   - K

I recently acquired a Ruger American .22 bolt-action rifle. Great little gun, love it, very accurate, and comes w/ a threaded barrel from the factory! Have seen people using cans for .308 rifles on it on you-tube vid's.   - K  

It's totally true.... anyone who's had a fireplace, back me up here? Throw in 3-4 sticks of fresh ash, you've got a PILE on the bottom to clean before you put more wood in. I can burn dry locust, maple, and oak and have less ash after a whole weekend, than from 1-night of bad-wood. I loved getting a call for a downed-maple in the fall. By the time the next season rolled around, I had great firewood!

I've been using Speer Lawman and Federal's American 9mm w/ good results, and don't have to clean it every time. Easily go 500 rnds between cleanings seeing no ill effects. I think by nature, the process is 'dirty'? I used to have a wood burning fireplace in my old house, and some wood(s) left a big ash pile, but dry locust and oak hardly any.... There's likely a lot going on that might affect the level of fouling you're experiencing, I don't know if it's as simple as changing brands (but could be). Reloading your own shells is probably the end-answer IMO.   - K  

  Coming from a manufacturing background... it's not uncommon, EVERYTHING is JIT (just in time) these days. Thank Dell for being so successful. From big to small companies, everything is cut to the bone in the name of profits. Especially if they're a small, hand-made manuf. company... they likely only have a day or two's worth of leather on the floor, also. I work(ed) in the printing biz, and rather than get paper in-stock and on the floor, we waited for the delivery truck daily, juggling jobs and priorities, to the detriment of production efficiency, because we wouldn't get the paper for that job until.... AND this was our 'house sheet', not some exotic custom hand-crafted paper. Of course we'd use the paper eventually, but rather than tie up credit @ our supplier, we'll move things around until we get that paper on tomorrow's truck. To make matters worse, 'cold' paper fresh off the truck runs very different than one that's been on your floor acclimatizing for 24-hours (affects final quality of the product we had to ship, and impacted efficiency).True story. Baffled me daily.   It's one of the reasons some folks have taken to stocking up on food in their own homes for emergency preparedness (while I don't mean specifically those w/ buckets of freeze-dried staples in their closets, they've read the same information): most grocery stores have at best, 12-24 hours worth of supply on-site. I've lived through several blizzards where you're holed up for 2-3 days before you can exit your dwelling! It's just something I do every fall in preparation. For some folks, the concept of not being able to drive to Kroger's for a quart of milk is preposterous! Just-In-Time. It's the new way of doing things (until it fails spectacularly, but that's a conversation for a different forum here! :D )   - K

  I knew your ears would be burning w/ this post! LOL! ;)   - K  

    Thanks for the info! For the most part just target shooting. What differences exist from the sportster to weather warrior 16's, just the stainless? The guy I was talking to @ the range had the model 16 SS and liked the weight of it vs. his Rem700... that being said, I see Remington has a model 700 w/ SS barrel at 24" (vs. 22" savage), that weighs the same (costs about $30 more).   - K  

I mean, besides price...I can't tell what makes a Model 10 different from Model 16? Saw a gorgeous Model 16 w/ stainless barrel at the range this week, and was talking w/ the guy. Had no complaints. He got it to replace the Remington 700 he just sold (which ironically is the other rifle I've been looking at). Said they were both tack-drivers. I went to their website and couldn't even see them marketing them differently. So if you were shopping for a savage rifle, which model would you be looking at, and why?   - K  

Yeah, thinking of pulling the trigger on another Ammo purchase. Seen draft versions of a bill floating in NYC, limiting the amount you can purchase every 90-days. Shot more than that yesterday morning! Scary times.

Ya know, not for nothing....   In a previous life I was the technical whiz-kid at a mid-sized printing company. We handled several national accounts, one was a large spring-water bottling company you've all heard of. Every couple years, they'd threaten our contract w/ them, we'd wiggle, jump, give something up, and they would sign on for another 3 years. ONE of these instances required me going out to NYC (White Plains, actually), to install a remote proofing device and computer on the end of an ISDN Line so the sales guy could get his proofs same day vs. waiting for FedEx.   He took me to dinner that night and was talking w/ him about the account, work, life, etc., and he shared w/ me that these exercises were all just for show (and to get something out of their supplier - our employer). He let me in on a little secret about the account. You see, the Salesman's wife, and the President of this Spring-Water Bottling Company's wife, were Sorority Sisters from college, and the guy liked to golf at this one country club ($225k annual membership!) So long as my employer paid for the salesman to have membership at this club (and he took the guy golfing while the wive's had brunch on Saturday...), the account wasn't going anywhere.   Last I worked there, 10+ years ago, that was a $20 million dollar account annually.   Behold the Power of the P gentlemen!   It's not always about money. Sometimes the money is just for show. ;)   - K