gregintenn

No, I bought it from a guy on 24hourcampfire.com. I haven't been able to find a link to him lately, and I don't know whether he still makes them or not. I think he might have lived somewhere around Clarksville. He also made a couple for me that hold 38 spl speedloaders. They are pretty neat.

I don't have a "regiment", but I will regularly throw a bunch of brass in the tumbler and run it.It's kinda like the dishwasher; you don't have to stand and watch it. I like relatively clean brass because it looks better, it's easier to see potential problems with it, and it goes through the sizing die easier. I also don't like having black fingers after loading a few rounds.   As for longevity, I have worn out high power, bottleneck rifle cases, but I've about decided you can reload a 38 special indefinitely.

Yours looks good! The one I made to carry looks a bit girly, but hey! nobody will see it anyway. Making your own is a great way to get what you want.

All good here. My wife woke us all up about 3am, and insisted we go in the basement. My dog was as confused and perturbed as the boys and I were. Why can't she go by herself and let us sleep? :rant:   Better safe than sorry I suppose.

I hear ya, but we didn't get in this mess overnight, and won't correct it overnight either. People are going to have to feel some pain first. I can see it starting to happen. I am glad Obamacare goes fully in effect next year before the midterm elections. It'll be a major tipping point in changing the makeup of congress next year. The reason you can't find an AR or ammo at a store right now isn't solely because of speculators. People are getting very apprehensive.

You can load for about half price or less the cost of cheap factory ammo, and get better quality ammo in the process. You can expect to spend around $200 minimum for an entry level setup. Unless you load a LOT of ammo, you will probably add items later, but likely you won't need to upgrade what you bought originally.   In theory, you can save money reloading, but I don't know anyone who actually has. You'll just get to shoot more.   The real savings in reloading comes with odd calibers.

If you bought a 3 die set, you are in business. There is a sizing/decapping die, a case mouth expander die, and a seating die. Others will argue, but a crimp die isn't necessary in my opinion. The 9mm headspaces on the mouth of the case, so all you want to do in the way of crimping is to remove the bell from the mouth of the case that was made by the expander die, which aids in bullet seating. This can be done by proper adjustment of the bullet seating die. Sounds more complicated than it is.

Ever hear of Glenn Beck and Blaze TV? There are people working on alternative media, and I believe it will change the way we gather news and information. Today, the mainstream media are quickly making themselves irrevelent. You won't see it overnight, but the majority of people watching the 6oclock news are old codgers. They'll soon die out and no one will replace them.   As the media gets worse and worse, people will simply turn them off. Most news channels keep losing ratings each year, and many newspapers are bankrupting. You won't have to do anything to the media; they are commiting suicide.

I bought a semi auto in the last three months, and already own a semi auto. I probably bought one in the three months previous to that, and will right likely buy another in the coming three months. You could say the same for most any three month period in my life since I was a small child.   How is this bad behavior, and a low point for humans?   I'm not hoarding anything. I just like guns. You aren't getting on the bandwagon of "wants versus needs" are you?

I use Lee CARBIDE pistol reloading dies. If you want to spend more, you could buy RCBS, Lyman, Redding, etc., but they all do the same thing. I do suggest you spend the extra few bucks for the carbide sizing button on dies for straightwalled cases.

Apparently, it isn't legal to sell a used mattress. To get around that, I've seen auctioneers at estate auctions sell another item of little value, and if you buy it, you get a free mattress. If you aren't scared by the liability of someone else shooting your reloads, you may be able to legally do something like that.

I'm with Caster. I use the Lee trimmer, and it trims to length. If it is the correct length or shorter, the trimmer doesn't cut anything off. I guess you could say the Lee trimmer does the measuring for you.

Welcome. I've found that the more prepared you are, the less emergencies you will likely face.

  Some good presidential material in this list.

So this administration is sending AKs to Mexican drug lords, Fighter jets and Tanks to Muslim extremists, and wants me to turn in my rifle. :ugh:  Seriously??!!??

I emailed Dianne Black and asked why she didn't sign the letter. I got back the same damned form letter I get every time I email her.

I've replaced the firing pin on mine. Could you post a link for the decocker fix?

For an investment, I'd buy a Colt. For using, I'd buy a Rock Island, and a BUNCH of ammo.

Me either. I was being sarcastic. The decocking lever on a CZ 52 performs the same function as the trigger.

You are more than welcome to point my CZ 52 at your foot and depress the decocker if you have that much faith in decockers. It hasn't been screwed with, and has been fired very little.

I'd like to not see all the new products in the gun magazines each month until the gun and ammo manufacturers can actually put their old familiar offerings on the dealers' shelf.

Mailed mine in 2 weeks ago, and it was in the mailbox today. It seems they are getting faster!

Screw compromise! You want compromise? Feinstein has proposed an assault weapon ban. I want to abolish the ATF and do away with the class 3 designation. I'll give up doing away with the class 3 license, and you drop the assault weapon ban. There's your compromise.   We'll still get rid of the ATF.

I cannot believe how many here are ready to just roll over and take it! We are in the right here. You DO NOT compromise when you are 100% right. You are playing into the progressives' hands. They'd like you to give a little now, and then next year when something else happens that stirs them up, then you will be expected to "compromise" again. When do you see them compromose?

We are right; they are wrong. We have the U.S. Constitution to back us.; they have lies, distortion, and a complicit media. Why the hell do you want to compromise??!!??   I've got your reasonable gun control: I'll control mine, and you control yours. Everything else isn't negotible.