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My favorite .22 plinker is a 1930's Iver Johnson .22 Supershot Sealed Eight. It feeds every type of .22 ammo reliably from the neat little Aguila Colibri rounds, shorts, longs, shot, high velocity, low velocity, to the Aguila SSS. Eight rounds with a smooth double action trigger, or a crisp single-action. Target sights, and reloads nearly as fast as any automatic. Best of all, I got it at a flea market about ten years ago for $75! The 1930's were the high-water mark of American firearm quality. Name-brand American-made firearms from this period are usually a bargain, and will outlast our lifetimes. I've never seen a worn-out Marlin M39, Remington M121, or Winchester M62. They are destroyed by neglect or mistreatment, but never worn out.

I've been carrying mine for about 5 years. I fired about 100rds to break it in, and have put maybe 50rds/yr through it since. It likes hotter .380, and doesn't like the WW white box unless it has been freshly cleaned and lubed. It's a great little carry piece that you can put in a pocket and nobody will notice. I like the looks of the new Taurus .380, but I will a year or so and see what issues come up. I NEVER buy a firearm I will stake myr life upon in it's first year of manufacture! Every manufacturer has had some type of problem with a new model. It's impossible to test for every contingency before production.

Elected officials are just people. Like any other job, if you do not adequately supervise people, then you leave yourself open to corruption and theft. We do not adequately supervise our politicians. Our politicians have made the people their accessories to this theft by bribing them with earmarks and saying their job is to bring money to their home districts. If WE do not fire politicians when they misbehave, who will? And if WE encourage congresscritters to 'bring home the money' then WE are just as guilty as they are.

I just use a 60w light bulb. It does the same thing as a Golden Rod but also serves to illuminate the dark corners! Electric dehumidifiers work by warming the air slightly above the ambient temperature. The 60w bulb keeps the inside of my safe at least ten degrees above ambient. For a smaller safe, a 40w bulb would probably be plenty. My safe is 6'Hx4'Wx3'D.

All M39s were blued. If you take the the stock off, you will likely find the blue under the wood to be in excellent condition. Re-bluing will not enhance the value. But if you must do it, do it right and try to match the original color.

NATO-spec, yes, no problem. As for "if it says 9mm on it and it's not lead, blast away", that is VERY incorrect!! Use ONLY 9x19mm ammo, also called 9mm Luger, 9mm Parabellum, and other less-common names. But use only SAAMI or NATO-spec ammo. There is some ammo out there made for use in submachine guns under arctic conditions called L7A1. This gives very high over-pressures in normal temperatures. It has damaged many pistols and even some submachine guns.

Ammo is pretty expensive. But the choices are good. You can get the HotShot 7.62Nagant ammo from Century for ~$25/box of 50, or any .32 H&R magnum ammo that runs that price or more. For plinking, you can get the .32acp cylinder on sale at Century for $45 and a boatload of the surplus .32acp I saw recently for ~$200/1000. I generally reload .32 magnum as that's the cheapest shooting. Since these revolvers don't have a forcing cone, it's best to use jacketed bullets if you aren't using 7.62Nagant brass.

I live near a sharp curve that's just over the crest of a small hill. In bad weather, we can usually count on at least one car crunching the guard rail. The sheriff's deputies in this part of Wilson County have always been polite and professional when this happens. They always are primarily concerned about the people. I got stopped in the NC mountains shortly after getting passed by another bike going at least 30mph faster than I was. The Trooper looked at my license and registration carefully, and then said "I guess I got the wrong bike. I don't suppose a 25 year old Honda would have been going over 100." I smiled and said "I could have been, but wasn't. This one redlines at 160." He didn't even crack a smile, but just told me to ride safe and have a nice day.

I usually just leave them in the case with whicever firearm they are most-often used. The Gemtech Outback lives in the Walther P22 case, my TripleX 5.56 suppressor lives in the case with my CAR-15. Copies of the Form4 are also in each case.

I bought an original Jackass shoulder rig for my Star PD .45 in 1981. I still have it, and still use it. It also works with any 1911-series pistol. I wore it often during the '80's, and with a little wardrobe thought was difficult to see. The little Star didn't hang as low as that picture shows that big ol' Bren10. Likewise, the Star is much smaller and shorter, so there wasn't much swing when I moved. These days I usually carry IWB as the holsters for that are much better and allow a lot more flexibility in clothing.

As long as you don't drop it or bang it against stuff it will work fine. Keep it clean and only use the graphite lube. The main problem isn't reliability, but durability. If you drop a fully-loaded Beta-C on a hard surface, there is a good chance that something will break. That was the military's reason for not buying very many of them. If you shoot a lighter-weight barrel from a bipod, your point of impact will shift a bit between when the Beta-C is full and when it's almost empty. For fun, it's hard to beat, though!!!

Either the 6.5 or 6.8 outperforms the 5.56mm at all ranges. As stated above, the 6.8 is the better performer out of barrels shorter than 18" and at ranges under 300 yards. With barrels longer than 18" and ranges over 300 yards, the 6.5 really starts to show up the 6.8mm. My dream weapon is an M249 in 6.5Grendel! Slow the rate of fire down a bit, and it would be the perfect belt-fed!

Also, 1934 NFA, 1968 GCA, 1986 922(o), 1994 Brady, Lautenberg amendment, etc. All blatantly un-Constitutional.

You will need to change the bolt as well. And re-shape the magazine well. There may be other work required, but it will need at least that much. The magazines are totally different, too.

The 5.56mm cartridge is inherently more accurate than the 7.62x39mm. Add in the fact that the same loose tolerances that make the AK reliable also affect accuracy, and you have the easy explanation. The 5.45.x39mm used in the AK-74 is also an accurate cartridge. It does very well out of bolt rifles (less than 1 MOA). Out of an AK-74, it usually does 1.5-2.5 MOA.

That's a tough price point. Suggestions are: - Tokarev 7.62x25mm pistol with 9mm conversion barrel. That will run right at $300. Polish and Romanian surplus are available, slim, durable, and strong. - S&W M39, 439, 4309, etc. Slim, easy to shoot well, good ergonomics, double-action, easy to find parts, good customer service from S&W. - Star BM, BKM, or if you are really lucky BKS. The BKS is the alloy frame version of the compact Star 9mm and is also called the Starlight. All are very slim, reliable, and shoot well. - EAA Witness Compact. They have an excellent reputation, shoot well, and are double-action with hi-cap mags. If you search, you might run across one in your price range.

Only if you don't care if you're hitting anything. Proper 'assault position' would be with the buttstock secured under the armpit, and the other arm on the forearm controlling against muzzle rise. Even that is very rarely used these days and I don't believe it is taught in the US military any more. Most common these days is firing from the shoulder. Proper shooting of an automatic weapon from the shoulder is done with the right foot forward (for right-handed shooters) and leaning forward fairly aggressively. This puts much of your upper body mass behind the weapon to counter-act recoil.

I cannot imagine the misuse of power that would occur if this is controlled by the government!! The company may have to go underground to prevent great evil!

Tannerite is literally a BLAST!!! Do yourself a favor and call your local law enforcement first. If you have anyone within 1/2 mile they will hear it and they are likely to call the sheriff. Remember that it is velocity that detonates the targets. You will waste targets by shooting at them with .22s and pistols.

Basic member. While I believe in the NRA and they do many good things, I won't give them any more than a basic membership until they actually work at REPEALING an existing gun law.

Amazing how when politicians are running for office they all talk about 'working for you', 'serving the public', etc. But once they are in office, they act like we work for them. That's a sure sign that they need to be voted out.

Remington serial numbers are not reliable for dating. If the barrel is original to the shotgun, the barrel date code will give a reliable date. Remington Dates of Manufacture

Many industries have similar mark-ups. But you also have to look at the costs of carrying inventory. In the case of mattresses, a store has to have a lot of 'demonstrators' which are not often sold to the public for hygienic reasons. and every time a new model comes out, that is another mattress which the store must buy and lose money on. Think about how many greeting cards you see in display racks. Would you ever buy one which doesn't look right? Think how many get dropped, stepped on, bent, stolen, etc. All of that is pure loss for the seller. And then there are cards which just plain never sell. There is nobody in the chain that is making a 'killing' except on those rare occasions when something is trendy. Everything is subject to supply and demand. The trick is in making sure that they match as evenly as possible for maximum profit. If you sell 1000 of something for $100 with a $10 profit, you make $10,000 dollars. If you sell 10,000 with $5 profit, you've made $50,000 dollars. Most people would much rather manufacture and sell more of an item at a slightly lower per-item profit.

Cordite is an extremely stable compound, unless exposed to high temperatures. It's basically a form of nitrocellulose (guncotton). A good amount of the .303 surplus that was sold recently had obviously been stored in a pretty hot warehouse (or in the sun). Most gunpowder will have the same limitations. Temperature fluctuations are bad, but heat is much worse than anything else. A freezing, thawing cycle can cause powder grains to fracture which can cause uneven burning.

Let's see, in Iraq they found thousands of nerve gas artillery shells, some filled, some not. They found machinery used to refine Uranium. They found a facility that Saddam buried in the sand that was filled with refining materials and had radioactive traces. There was the lab producing anthrax. Iraqi scientists and military officers have all said that Saddam had programs working on chemical, biological, and radioactive munitions. Additionally, there has been a lot of captured documentary evidence supporting the claim that during the initial stages of the war, Saddam moved a lot of material to Iran. Saddam used chemical weapons on Iran during the Iran-Iraq war, he gassed the Kurds periodically, and tested weapons on dissidents. How much evidence do you NEED?