musicman

Sweet piece! Congrats!

Anybody that fusses about an M&P never shot a Sigma! THAT was a terrible trigger! That being said, it was also my very first gun. Learning to shoot a gun with a 12lb, half-inch trigger pull will teach you discipline and technique! It's like having the worst revolver without ever being able to cock it and shoot SA. Love my M&P 40 fs, btw. And the Apex mods are on the horizon.

Hey Vontar, my pastor is also one of my shootin' buddies, along with a few other men at church. We're going skeet shooting this weekend, and regularly help each other out with ammo, etc. :-) In late October we're holding a church-wide skeet shooting event, with the full support of the gun club at which it will be held. I'm stoked because we'll also have a number of first-time shooters joining us. It's pretty awesome!

Yup. Same here. Most gun folks are really great people... nearly every time I go to the range I meet the people around me and we all try out each other's guns. Many folks notice my ammo boxes look different and ask me why. I explain to them that I reload, and point out that I bring my own brass bucket for spent casings. Almost without fail, they will light up, say "That's cool!", then offer to give me their brass. It really is nice. Of course, it's also nice to get a little compensation after they get all excited shooting my .44 and they go through 18-24 rounds of my ammo... even reloading, that stuff ain't cheap! :-D

Yea, I went... sort of... I was in my way to the Hobson Pike TWRA range with a couple friends, and was about to get on Mboro rd from Old Nashville Hwy but couldn't due to the road being closed for the parade... I went around the back way and came out Waldron and all was good. Thankfully it wasn't a busy day at the range and we still got our three consecutive lanes. It was a great day! :-)

Absolutely awesome! I'm in for two lowers. Possibly uppers as well, depending on what I stumble across between now and then. :-)

Ditto Nightrunner. I've gotten lucky a time or two in the afternoon, but rarely. Thankfully I have a stack of .22 bricks pretty tall, deep, and wide... and no, not from panic buying. For about 3 years I was in the habit of buying 2 Federal 550rd bricks every time I was at Wal Mart. Some times that was only once every 2 or 3 months, and other times once a week. It all added up to a "healthy" supply of .22, aling withe the other calibers I shoot. I've been tempted to take advantage of the hysteria and make a small fortune, but I'm such a hoarder I can't bear to let any go! I'm even kicking myself now for selling (at cost) a few boxes to a friend who has had a hard time finding a few calibers. I come by it honestly... you should see al the crap my Mom has been holding on to for 40 years!!

I completely understand that! I've never had the opportunity to meet the Great David of Reloadingshire yet, just made a fair purchase from someone running his booth in his stead at a Nashville show last year. So, though I've tried, I really have no sworn allegiance yet. :-) I was very happy with how Greg treated me, and he says he has somebody else that works with him that lives within a few minutes of my place. That may come in handy! Aaahhhhhh!!!!! Thread drift!!!! Um.. uh... erm.... ahhh.... the Murfreesboro show was fun! Saw some buddies, fondled some firearms, shoulda' bought a T shirt.

I didn't see David's booth. A bummer as I was finally going to stock up. There were 3-4 booths selling reloading supplies. One was sky high on everything and pretty pushy... he only had one thing I wanted, and kept trying to get me to buy stuff for calibers I don't even load for! I figured I just wasn't going to spend the wad in my pocket, but I then I saw a booth in the back corner with lots of powders. He had all three Ramshot powders I wanted to try, and for $4/lb less than pushy dude. I also got a veritable butt-load of .44 mag bullets, and he made me a great package deal. He definitely won me over. Stop by and see Greg at the Reloading Den.

Blink.... blink.... Lord, come quickly!

Loaded thousands of rounds of 40 using the same brass multiple times at near max pressures that looked way worse than that with just the decap/resizing die. I don't even have a bulge buster die. I've never had an issue and don't expect to. I've had a few case splits, starting from the case mouth but that's an unrelated issue. Methinks you worry too much about something that doesn't really matter. But hey, if you enjoy fiddling with it, more power to ya! :-)

I grew up in Miami, FL and had to mow our relatively large (for Miami... about .80 acre) yard every week, and sometimes twice a week in the summer. I hated it. We had a nice John Deere riding mower and everything... still hated it. I told myself when I left home I'd never mow again, and I haven't. :-) I'm perfectly happy to pay a friend to do it every other week for a few months a year! I'm glad there are people that enjoy doing yard work... it allows me to NOT do yard work!! :-D

I used to play an Ernie Ball MusicMan bass guitar. On forums where musicman is already taken, I use musicmanbass. That bass is long gone, but the name is generic enough that now I just figure it represents my love for music, and I make guitars for a living now so it all still works out. :-)

Oh man. I worked at a guitar store in college... ended up still owing them money when I quit for another job! (Which, not wot workjng around guitars any more, allowed d me to pay the debt quickly!) Have fun!

I know. What a pansy. Full-grown (6'3", 210 lbs) dude wants a .410. My in-laws live in central KY and are not really gun people. They are pretty much only getting some guns because I have a bunch, and have gotten their daughter into shooting, too. They make terrible gun buying decisions (Taurus Judge, Taurus tip-up barrel .22) against my advice. I have given up hope of talking sense into them and now just say "oh, cool. Great." whenever they buy something. They barely ever shoot. Pretty much only when I'm up there. Anyways, he has the idea now that he wants a .410 pump. He's a lefty and liked how my Ithaca Deerslayer ejected down instead of sideways. My mother-in-law wants me to find him one for Christmas. I've seen the Browning BPS in .410, but it's about $600 and way too nice of a gun for him to let rust away in a closet for 30 years. I'd go for an Ithaca, but don't see them in .410. I'd prefer something with a wood stock for him, but that's not a necessity. Standard capacity is fine. What do you guys suggest?

Beautiful! I have it's 19-5 twin, and my wife has "confiscated" it as her own. ;-) Shoot it in good health, and enjoy!

I stand corrected!!! I will make room in my mouth to eat my previous words, as well as my foot. ;-)

Thanks for those tips, DS! Sounds exactly like what's going on. I'll do those little tricks when I get back home. :-)

Yea... this makes no sense to me yet, so here I am. This is just my third time out with this 10/22, and it runs pretty well so far, except with one of my three high capacity magazines. The Ruger BX-25, and Butler Creek Steel Lips magazines work fine, while I am having problems with my Ram-Line plastic lipped mag. Here's what's weird though... the gun is cycling flawlessy and feeding fine! I am just going through one box of 325 Federal Auto Match 40gr LRN. Every few rounds though, I pull the trigger and get a "click" but nothing happens. Flip the gun, everything looks right: bolt all the way forward. I pull the bolt back slowly to reveal a fresh, live round in the chamber. I continue to eject the live round and inspect it... a very light primer strike is all I see. Chamber a fresh round and all is well for 3-5 shots and it happens again. I also can reload these cartidges and they will work fine. Again, this only happens with the Ram-Line. I know that I have isolated the problem to this magazine, but what a weird issue to be isolated to the magazine! Has anyone else experienced this? I tried to index all the light primer hits at 12 o'clock for these pics. This is from one magazine's worth of shooting. Any ideas?

He said "replacement" gun, not "repaired." I don't believe there is a legal mechanism for a manufacturer to put a new serialized gun in the hands of the end user, without going through an FFL. If it was his same old gun, then it would have gone directly to him. Think about the states that have firearm registration? They could land him in hot water with an unregistered gun shipped straight from the manufacturer.

My wife hated guns when we met... I remedied that before I put a ring on it! Started her on a Walther P22. Now "her" gun is a nickel Smith 19-5 .357 and she LOVES it! This past weekend, however, she has taken it upon herself to get better with a semi-auto. (After I gave up trying to get her to do that very same thing!) I've got an M&P 40 and for now, she just can't get used to the snappy recoil. However, the weekend before I bought a 9mm M&P barrel from w0lfattack. I swapped barrels, loaded 9s in the mags, and she went to town! We worked on a better stance and grip (she had been doing that awful leaning back and shooting with her weight on her heels garbage) as well as the "breathe & squeeze" trigger pull. She always shot her 19 in SA, so the M&P trigger was a whole new ball o' wax. We'll get a lot more practice in this weekend, but it's exciting now that she WANTS to get better at shooting! Can you believe, she actually ASKED for advice!!! Every husband's dream come true! ;-)

A hi-cap bolt gun... that should confuse the liberals!!! :-D

Whoa! Didn't think to check ebay! I see a 10 rounder in my future!

Whaaaa? Hype over a plastic fantastic bolt .22? What am I missing here? Cricket with a fancy stock? Start talking about one of the nice CZ bolt .22s and I'm all about it, but I don't really see the point for this type of gun. The Ruget Americans are fine rifles for under $300. My sister-in-law got a brand new .243 for Christmas and I like everything about it except the trigger. Instead of a crisp break, it's got a fair amount of gritty creep before she goes boom. I've felt one other example that was about the same, and a dozen or more others that were just fine. QC issue, I guess. Sorry for the ramble... I guess my question is, what's the point of this model? It's not going to be a fine tactile delight like the $500 CZ, but it's probably not going to be cheap enough to be a knockaround/beater rifle. Is it just to have a full-size practice gun in .22 to replicate its big brothers? Ruger already makes the best cheap .22 in the world. Is this simply the .22 AR/1911 conversion of the bolt action world?

Nightrunner, I agree, but it's been awhile since you could pick up a Garand for under two bills! :-D Frank, thanks! From the little reading I've done on these, they seem like the red-headed step-child of the Remington family... but I have a thing for red-heads, so it's cool. ;-) Like I said, it shot really well for me and was super easy to handle. Sure it doesn't really look cool, but whatever. I'll try to throw up a few pics after work today.