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If they pull into your driveway they are on private property. Call the cops then walk out to greet them to hold them there if they will stay. You cannot force them to stay but chit chat might hold them there. And if they leave at least they know you are aware of your surroundings. But if they stay have the cops trespass them from your property. If they come back and enter you property again they can be arrested. I know I have walked down my dead end road to see why someone is parked along it. It is not against the law to ask if they are looking for someone or something. Dolomite

The difference between 223 and 5.56 is pressures of the loaded ammunition. 5.56 is actually loaded to a higher pressure, 10K-15K, than commercial 223. And because it is loaded to a higher pressure something must be done to reduce pressures and that is why a 5.56 chamber generally has a longer throat. The long throat allows pressures to begin to drop before they encounter the resistence of the rifling.   Firing 5.56 is a gun chambered in 223 is not going to result in a catastrophic failure of your gun. It will cause a bit more wear and tear on your firearm. If your 223 firearm blows up from shooting 5.56 then your gun has some serious issues. Is it recommended to shoot 5.56 through a 223 chambered gun, no. But doing so from time to time will not cause the world to stop spinning or gravity to reverse like some people seem to imply. Pressure signs yes but no dramatic failure.   There are a lot of guns that are marked with 5.56 chambers that are actually 223 chambers. And likewise I have checked the throats on several guns chambered in 223 and they were longer than 5.56's throat. There is an article where 1 in 4 "5.56" guns actually have 223 chambers. If a 223 chamber resulted in a kaboom when firing 5.56 there would be a lot of guns blowing up.   I have a AR chambered in match 223 that I shoot 5.56 out of regularly and have yet to see a single problem.   Dolomite

A person who shall remain nameless had a video with one of these. Seems like a great idea.   Dolomite

You will have to have the barrel shortened a little to start fresh.   Dolomite

There are no brakes, that I am aware of, that work with different brands of cans. All makers patent their individual brakes to work with their cans so finding a muzzle brake that will work with different brands is going to be next to impossible.   Brakes are cheap so buy whatever you need then when you do get a can buy the muzzle brake for that can. Or buy a metric brake and when you get you can go ahead and rethread the barrel.   Also, what kind of gun is this? If you plan on getting a can you probably need to have the barrel threaded again concentric to the bore. And when you do it have it threaded 5/8-24 which is the standard for 308.   Dolomite

Our dogs overseas were only worked 2 hours at a time, normally twice a day when we were the most busy. And even then the handler made sure the dog found something every 15-20 minutes. He said if he didn't the dog would go through the motions of searching but not really search.   Something else that effects dogs is stress. Imagine being at work and always being super excited or super busy. Just like you, dogs get burned out and can become neurotic. While in Bosnia I seen dogs chew their own tails off. I have seen them peel their own skin off. Heck one dog that was put to sleep chewed his front feet off. All of them did this while sitting in their cages because they become so used to running 90mph that they could not slow down and relax. They were all nervous wrecks and most became dangerous towards the end. We had one handler who had his dog snap and attack him. And on top of this the dogs quite finding stuff.   Dogs are great tools but they have a very limited lifespan without rest. They cost a lot for what you get.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI_XzNfxjlY http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=Q6XxouRmGao&NR=1   This is some amazing stuff. These kids are remaining calm and righting themselves. Then they remain in that position and scream for help.   Might want to look into this if you have young children. Imagine the kids that would be saved every year.   Dolomite

I use a $2 chamfer tool from the hardware store.

I pulled this from another website. It is very telling and a good indication as to what is going on. I don't think people are hoarding ammo, like I thought, I think people are buying ammo for the guns they are purchasing.    At some point the powers that be must realize that we are a substantial force. And rather than alienate us they might try catering to us if they want to remain in power.   Look at that number, 42% of all background checks were done since Obama took office. Since becoming president over 20% of the US population has bought a gun. The Monday following Newtown almost 1 million backgrounds were completed in a single day. And remember a person could have bought several guns for each background check.   http://forum.saiga-12.com/index.php?/topic/86058-back-ground-checks-no-ammo-right-now/

I have heard a few people say the stuff Walmart sells is decent.   I have zero experience with freeze dried foods other than MRE's in the 90's.   Dolomite

As a person who has been around 1911's for a while I will say that dropping the slide on a 1911 can damage the gun. It is the only gun I have ever seen it happen to. As a 1911 chambers a round that round provides some cushion. When there is no round the slide velocity is much higher. And when that happens it can bump the sear nose off the hammer. Once, twice or even a few dozen times is not likely to hurt. But over time as the sharp nose of the sear falls off the sharp hook of the hammer it begins to round both off. And this reduces the amount of engagement. After a while the hammer will begin to follow the slide, both empty and when loading it. If you are lucky the 1/2 cock notch will catch it if you are not so lucky the hammer will follow it all the way home and the gun will go off. I have had a hammer follow a slide on a 1911 and got extremely lucky. I was sitting and the round went between my legs.   Some guns have a lot of engagement and some guns have such a small amount of engagement that even a small amount of rounding can cause problems. Most high end guns have a reduced amounts of engagement than the cheaper guns. The reason for this is a crisper trigger.   And honestly I have no clue why a sear getting bumped off the hammer is no different than pulling the sear off the hammer but there is.   The 1911 is the only gun I have ever heard of it happening to and I have seen it in person. I upgraded the hammer and sear for a friend last year on his Kimber. He called me two months ago saying the hammer on his 1911 would not stay cocked when he would drop the slide. I asked if he had been doing it with an empty chamber and he said thousands of times in the previous year. I said there is the problem. We replaced the hammer and sear again and the issue was gone. I might be able to find the parts and take very detailed pictures.   Dolomite

Predator Custom Shop in Knoxville.   The owner is a HiPower fanatic and his smith is great at what he does. They also have a great turn around and reasonable prices.   Dolomite

Or how about this post it in the benefactor section. That way it is kind of limited on who can see it.   Dolomite

Exactly. If a piece of brass has a nice blue color to it then it has been urinated on or some component of urine. I have seen them that were a nice royal blue color.   As far as discoloration I shoot them all. Even if they will not clean up they are safe unless they have pitting. You need to be careful with nickel cases. If they peel on the outside and you try to size it the nickel may scratch the inside of your die and ruin it. One a die has been scratched ever case that goes in the die will have a scratch as well.   Dented cases are fine as long as they will hold the bullet, hold enough powder and chamber after they have been sized. The dents will be ironed out when firing.   Although you can reload steel cases it really isn't worth the effort. Once sized they generally stay pretty stabile other than the neck. You can size the neck and reuse the cases several times and they do not grow after the first 2-3 loads. After someone said it wasn't possible I loaded a steel case 12 times. And even then it was fine. I did anneal the case neck ever thrid loading though. But as I said it isn't worth it because rust is not anyone's friend and they rust really quick.   Dolomite

  Are they made by SIG?

  I have a better idea. Disband the IRS and take those agents and put them on the border. It works out to 16 agents per mile. Surely we can protect the border with an agent every 100 yards. And that is on both borders.   Dolomite

If she decides she like the PT22 better there is some great ammo to use for a defensive 22. I have the same pistol and I keep it loaded with Aguila SSS rounds. They are 60 grain bullets that fire out of a standard 22 lr firearm. They have several advantages over regular 22 rounds in a defensive role.   First and foremost is reliability. That is because these rounds have a shorter case. As a matter of fact they use the same case as a 22 short. And that shorter case makes it less likely to hang up during extraction and ejection. I have had several guns that will malfunction with regualr ammo but eat the SSS rounds up. The heavy bullet also excerts more pressure on the slide as it cycles which also increases the reliability.   Second is the bullet itself is both heavy and long. This helps with penetration. Most 22's use a twist rate of 16 which is plenty to stablize most 22 ammunition but not the SSS rounds. But because the bullets are not stable the SSS bullet will tumble. And because the bullet is .600" long as it tumbles it creates a wound channel that wide. I have chronographed them out of my PLY22 (the same as the PT22 except polymer) and they run ~800 fps which is enough to penetrate 8"+ into ballistic gelatin.   Here is a video of the SSS at roughly the same velocity as out of the PT22. Each square at the bottom represents an inch. http://youtu.be/2T10BMy6oq0]http://youtu.be/2T10BMy6oq0   Although not the perfect choice I would have less worries about using a 22 loaded with SSS rounds over one loaded with anything else.   And just so you know Stingers are the worst possible round to use in a pistol for self defense. I have chronographed them out of several guns and they rarely reach 1,000 fps out of a pistol Combine that with their 32 grain bullet and you have 22 short performance with a lot of noise. Out of the PLY 22, if I remember correctly, they were less than 900 fps and would not cycle because of the lightweight bullet. Stingers need barrel length to get their velocity to the advertised velocity.   The next best 22 round would be the Velocitor by CCI. Only because it is a heavy bullet that has a higher velocity. It is not as good as the SSS but it is better than anything else out there.   Dolomite

http://www.mcace.com/shotguninserts.htm   http://shotgunadapter.com/   They are perfectly legal. They are sold currently.   Dolomite

And just to make it clear this wasn't about me. I have never used a suppressed 22 for anything other than plinking.   Dolomite

The game officer was in a town in Texas. He was using 22lr to kill deer in a city park at night. He wasn't happy with the results and was asking me for subsonic 223 load data to hopefully work better. I wound up selling him a barrel for a Savage that I had chambered in 7.62x25 Tokarev. He used it to shoot heavy bulles at subsonic velocities using my load data. I talked to him a year later and was thrilled with the Tokarev once he got a suppressor. He said before some deer would not drop from head shots but with the Tokarev they almost always did.   The shows were Cops from the late 80's and early 90's. They were doing drug raids and would knock out street lights.   Here is a COPS show where they were killing nutria in NO with suppressed 22's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzjgWwqho-E   Can't find any COPS episodes on YouTube where they were knocking out the street lights.   A suppressed 22 definitely has some usefullness inside a city.   Dolomite

  I am serious. I have seen several shows where they used them to knock lights out but never actually seen them used for dogs. One show was in New Orleans and they were using suppressed 22's to kill nutria in the canals. I have talked to a game officer that used a suppressed 22 to kill nuisance deer inside the city limits.   Dolomite

  To quitely taking out street lights or dogs just prior to a raid.   Dolomite

From now on anytime I see someone in person asking more than what I think is fair I am going to ask if they are paying income tax on their new found fortune. I haven't seen anything outrageous on here but at the shows you definitely do.   I do believe you do need a FFL to sell ammunition if ther person is selling it for profit or as part of a business. Same as selling reloads for profit. I suspect there are a lot of people being looked into and at a bare minimum those doing it should be paying income tax on their profits.   Dolomite

For me it is just a toy but for hunters it could keep a record of their hunt. I would prefer to have a camera recording my entire body as I shoot so I can see and improve. I have actually done that when practicing.   Another real world purpose would be if you seen trouble coming and use the camera to document what exactly happened. I know I have some troublesome neighbors that have actaully came on our property and made threats. Since the first time it has happened I always have a camera ready in case they come back. They have said they will lie to police. And if I have video documentation it is hard to dispute what happened.   Dolomite