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That's likely to do more harm than good. If not carefully done, it's easily possible to blow away parts of the action entirely. There's not much left in some places. Glass beads would work better to remove the corrosion than sand (AlOx) with less metal loss. That said, I'd probably do it by hand. You'll have more in the blast work than you paid for the rifle.

Wow. It would seem my mosin is providing a much greater ROI than my house. Go figure.

What several have said.... Give him a custom gift certificate and have a range date at a place with lots of rental guns available. Try everything, even guns you don't think you'll like, you might be surprised. It may likely take more than one trip to decide what you like, and that's fine. Range fees are cheap compared to trading guns 4 times until you're happy.

I used a variety of rounds, mostly its what was available and worked when I was "qualifying" that particular pistol. I've got Gold Dots in one, Federal somethingorother in another, and a coupe versions of Hornady in others. I'm less concerned with bullet terminal performance than I am with reliable function and accuracy (which is me, not the gun).

Don't go to the parts house, their sole job is to sell you stuff. Get a bearing catalog. Virtually all bearings are stock sizes. There's typically standard numbers on the inner or outer race that you can look up, or just measure the ID, OD, and thickness and find what you need.

Replace them with sealed bearings...

There are plenty of instances of cruise ships running out of supplies and buying everything they can get in a particular port, leaving the locals with nothing.

I intend to build a charcoal grill based forge over the winter. As stated, plenty of videos on how to do it. Look up a JABOD forge.

If anything, the bullet went in one eye and out the other. There's basically no bone between the eyes, and very little tissue. The bullet didn't hit anything hard enough to expand and cause the typically massive wound cavity, it just zipped through taking the eyes and a bit of brain with it. I would have expected there to be a big chunk out of one of the trees or a divot in the ground where the bullet hit.

The result of zero parental engagement. I'm sure the parents are "shocked". It wasn't on their bookface feed or the last episode of American idol (while the kids were in the other room watching TWD) so how could they know?

I have the big double version of these as emergency heat for the house. Only used it once, but it worked well.

I've used them in a garage and helping build a house in the winter. They work quite well but do generate a bit of smell. They also make a bit of noise. No idea if deer would consider it objectionable.

Welcome! Handgunlaw.us is a fairly concise summary of what most need to know. You have to get permission from the ATF prior to traveling with NFA items. I'm not aware of any local laws or prohibitons, but I'm not an NFA expert either. I'd certainly expect some excitement should you come into contact with law enforcement while transporting them. Most public ranges do not allow FA fire and will get excited about any NFA item.

Mmmmm..... smoked bologna.

We finally made my parents watch it a few years ago. They just didn't get why we were laughing hysterically. Work, work, work, .....

I was home sick that morning and watched it on TV. Ellison Onizuka and his wife were my parents neighbors when Dad was stationed in California.

Does Rocky Horror qualify as Halloween? Apparently my wife's favorite is Hocus Pocus. It's been on tv a bunch. Again tonite in fact. Guess what we're watching? Again.

What, no condom?

James Earl Ray escaped from Brushy Mtn prison, and Johnny Majors coached his first UT football game.

Looks like a dog to me as well. Could be one of the "wolf hybrids" that some folks think are cool.

My first date with my wife was to see the remastered version of Episode IV.

Other than taking the whole gun apart, it's not bad. There's a couple videos that show how to do it. Field strip, knock a couple pins out, pry the guts out of the frame, swap the trigger (which involves a bit of controlled hammering), then put it back together. Having 3 hands would make the reassembly easier, but I got it. Based on the videos, the full Apex kit with trigger, sear, and springs really is taking the whole gun apart. Again, not too bad other than some of the tiny pieces can be a pain if you're fumble fingered like me.

I put an Apex aluminum trigger in my shield 1.0 and that made a big improvement. I much prefer the blade style trigger safety over the hinged. I also have a Hogue slip-on grip that makes it feel better in my hand. I'd guess those 2 mods add up to nearly the difference between the 1.0 and 2.0, but the 2.0 still has the hinged trigger so I'd want to change that regardless.

Done that a few times too. We were in downtown Chattanooga and had eaten at Mellow Mushroom. As we were walking back we came across a homeless person. My oldest offered up his pizza leftovers (still warm). Proud papa moment.

We used to encounter a fair number of homeless people in college. We quickly adopted a standard response of, "I don't have any money, but I'll get you something from the cafeteria if you're hungry." One guy took us up on the offer. We loaded him up and he thanked us, sat down, and ate.