Dolomite_supafly

Just wanting to see who has a gun chambered in it. Dolomite

Emails, for me at least, never get answered. But every time I have written a letter I have gotten a response in abut 2 months. I know it seems like a long time but in the scheme of things it really isn't that long because they have to research previous opinions on the matter so their opinion doesn't conflict with another. Dolomite

As much as I hate to do it I am going to write another letter to the ATF, second one this week. The opinion letter talks about having a firearm bought second hand. Also it says it is legal as long as none of the original parts are replaced during maintenance. I want to know if it is legal for me to purchase a firearm then swap parts out that make it not in compliance of 922r. All my guns were bought new by me, I cannot say I bought them second hand. Dolomite

Sounds great. I can come to you as well, I just need to know where to meet. Dolomite

No you didn't. I need to gas check them because of my adjustable gas block. Dolomite

I am looking for someone to cast something I don't have. Then we swap weight for weight. No zinc or other alloy, lead only. I am looking only for 30 caliber but I can offer several 30 caliber from ~100-~160 grain, 38/357/9mm in ~125g and ~152g, 44 in 214g HP and 240g, 45 in 230g (flat point and round nose) and several 12 gauge such as a Lee keyed 1 ounce, Lyman pellet at 1 ounce and .690" round ball at 1.18 ounce. I am looking for 30 caliber cast bullets in the 190+ grain weight plain base as well as ~110g-~125g gas checked bullet. I already have the Lee Blackout mold so that is out. I need the bullets to be at least .310" but prefer larger. Dolomite

If so I will be tossed in jail because there are people I do hate. And those I use the word hate towards will never make it off of my hate list. It has nothing to do with who they are or where they come from. It comes solely from their actions and what they did to me on a personal level. Dolomite

If you don't understand your wife then you probably don't spend enough time with her. My wife, Sour Kraut, and I are pretty much tied at the hip. We enjoy each other's company and literally know what the other is going to say before it leaves the lips. I can't imagine being any closer to anyone and that is how it should be. Having to worry and hide stuff from your better half, or worse half depending on how you feel, is not something I can imagine. I do understand my wife because we spend so much time together. I know what makes her happy, sad, frustrated or angry and I would never be able to hide anything from her because she knows me so well. Dolomite

A option would be to use the values from NADA as well as KBB and average those two. That should give you a decent idea of what it is worth. If it is you fault I would even compromise and tell her you are going to use the "clean trade in" rather than the "average trade in" which is what it likely is. Nada lists it at $1,375 for a clean trade in and KBB lists it at $1,633 for average trade in. The average of the two are $1,504 which is right where you are. I think your numbers are fair as long as the truck looks decent and is mecahnically sound other than the damage you caused. If it has any damage at all I would reduce the estimates by a lot more. You could also try CarMax. They do a lot of business and might be able to assign a value. Might be able to take it to some random car dealer and ask them how much of a trade it it would be if the damage was repaired. Dolomite

Will we know who are "partner" is ahead of time? The reason I ask is I would like to research posts to find out what they like or are needing. I would hate to give something Glock related to someone who despises Glocks. Either way I am in. Dolomite

I would say it is illegal. The original firearm is classified as a pistol and not designed to be shoulder fired. Once it has been modified to be shouler fired it no longer meets the definition of a pistol and does meet the definition for a rifle. And when it meets the definition for a rifle it MUST have a barrel of 16" or be registered as a SBR. Dolomite

AK's are accurate, end of story. It is the ammo that makes them inaccurate. The same thing can be said about AR's as well. Take thd average AK and the average AR. Feed them both Tula and Wolf. The results are going to surprise you. I know I would be tickled to have 223 Tula shoot under 4" at 100 yards. Accuracy, regardless of weapon type, is all about what you feed them. I have seen AK's that would hit man sized steel targets 7 out of 10 times at 350 yards. They where being feed ammo that had the correct sized bullets. And BTW, every commercial 7.62x39 ammo I have measured the bullet on has been .308" and not .311" like it should be. This is why AK's over here shoot so bad. Buy some correct surplus ammo and they are as accurate as most AR's shooting our "surplus" ammo. Dolomite

I will say this about my initial Verizon experience. My fault I went to a reseller and not an actual Verizon store. We had miserable service with AT&T at our home. We decided to have friends come out so we could see which service gave the most bars. Verizon was the winner so we dumped AT&T, paying in all over $600 just to switch to Verizon, not including the cost of the phones. I bought a brand new iPhone 4 and my wife got a free phone. We also begged a free phone for our son and added him. We get home and we have 3-4 bars but no service. My son's phone was the worst so we got him another phone and saw no improvement. We would get stopped calls or have no dial tone several times a day. The only way to correct it was to turn the device off for about 5 minutes. Then it would work for a few hours. Again, we had 3-4 bars the entire time. We spent hours on the phone with Verizon as they did their trouble shooting. The best they could come up with was a hardware problem on the tower itself. They said give it a week to see if it improved. After a couple of weeks I called back because it hadn't improved. Verizon said they would void my contract because there was an issue they could not resolve. They said they would send out a cell booster but in the interim I was going to cancel. I called the store where I had bought the iPhone to let them know I was canceling service. He responded with he wanted my iPhone back. I told him I paid for it and it was mine. He said that didn't matter and that if I cancelled the contract the phone was his as well as the money I had spent. So I called Verizon and they said the phone belonged to me and not him or his store. So I called back telling him what Verizon had said and he told me he would give me $200 for a phone I paid a lot more for. I told him no and he said he was going to report the phone stolen to Verizon and have it disabled so it would no longer work if I didn't sell him the phone for $200. He sent this as text messages. I contacted Verizon again and they made sure I was the only one who could report the phone stolen. The cell booster came in and the service worked great unless I was outside. That went on for a few months then miraculously the phones were working perfectly without the booster. I suspect whatever hardware problem they had got fixed. I am very happy with Verizon's coverage area but their limited minutes suck. I will always have an iPhone of some sort. I wish Walmart offered one with their straight talk plan. Dolomite

I wasn't saying he has to add parts to be 922r compliant because the gun is perfectly legal as imported. I was saying if he adds or replaces ANY parts with US made parts then he has to "finish" by meeting 922r. If he swaped out the thumbhole with a standard shoulder stock and a pistol grip it would be a violation of 922r, regardless of whether the parts are US or foreign made, because that configuration is ILLEGAL for importation. Similar to the currect Saigas being imported. They are perfectly legal as imported but once you add a single US made part you must make it compliant of 922r. Even if no one has been charged under 922r it is still a law. Dolomite

When this was imported it was legal without US parts. It was imported when Chinese firearms were legal to be imported. So this gun is likely imported prior to 1994. You do not need to change any parts as it was legal at the time of importation. Now if you change a single part on the gun for a US made part then yes you must follow the 922R compliance. States like Connecticut and a few others do not allow AK style weapons or other "assault weapons" unless it was imported or made prioer to their ban. So when I say ban compliant that is what I meant. Your gun may be early enough to be legal in those states and those in those staets pay top dollar for guns that are pre ban. I know most pre 1994 AR15 stripped receivers sell at well over $500 when in any other state they will bring less than half that. If you are on Verizon I can give you my number and I can explain. Dolomite

Totally different than what I was talking about. I will give a more detailed response tomorrow. Dolomite

This is true, just because you are no longer physically in Tennessee doesn't mean you can't stick around. I know if I ever moved from Tennessee this would be one of the few boards I would remain in contact with. Dolomite

Why delete it? Dolomite

That is it. Every bullet in every caliber has a sweet spot as far as twist rates go. But because we want to shoot various bullets the manufacturers use a twist that will work with most and will be ideal for a few bullets. In that sweet spot the bullets will fly as try as they ever will. Take 223 for example. I will use weights rather than lengths to simplify things. A 45-55 grain bullet is optimal in the 12 twist range. A 60-70 grain bullet is optimal in 9 twist. And a 70-80 grain is going to be ideal with an 8 twist. Will a 8 twist shoot a 45 grain bullet? Yes but it will not be as accurate as if fired out of a 12 or even 9 twist. Will a 9 twist shoot a 77 grain bullet accurately, you bet. The reason for the 7 twist was not because of standard bullets. It was to stabilize the tracer which is longer than a standard 62 grain bullet despite being virtually the same weight. I mean the tracer is about 1/4" longer so it needs more twist to stabilize it. It had nothing to do with being able to shoot 77 grain bullets because 9 twist will do it and terminal performance with the 9 twist will be better as well. Dolomite

A 9 twist WILL stabilize the SSS but will cause accuracy issues because it is overstabilized from being spun too fast relative to its length. And when you overstabilise a bullet the circle in which it spins grows with any amount of out of balance. Think of it like a out of balance tire, it no longer rotates on a center axis but off center. And when this happens the groups will grow. But the bullet will hit nose first. A good indication of ovestabilized bullet is the Super Colibri or CB's out of a 16 twist gun. That short little bullet needs about a 22 twist barrel. But with the 16 twist is will be overstabilized. And we have all shot them and seen them fly in a larger and larger circle on the way to the target. This is what happens with the SSS just not in such a big scale. A 16 twist will NOT stabilize the bullet because it doesn't impart enough spin on the bullet to remain stabile. Kind of like throwing a football without putting a spin on it. It will hit the target sideways 50% of the time. It will also catch air and fly off in a random direction from time to time as well. There is no good reason to spin a bullet too fast or too slow for that matter. Get the twist right and the gun will be more accurate. Dolomite

A all lead bullet is shorter than a jacketed bullet at the same weight and because of this it requires less twist. It is the bullet length that determines twist rather than weight but it is easy for most people to remember the weight of a bullet than the length of a patrticular bullet. For the 22 lr 60 grain SSS 12-14 twist is ideal. Yes a 9 twist 22lr barrel will stabilise the 60 grain bullet but accuracy will suffer. The reason why they chose that rather than a 12-14 twist is because those who were deciding on twist forgot that a all lead bullet is shorter than a jacketed bullet. So they defaulted to the 9 twist which works best with a 60 grain jacketed bullet. There have been a lot of studies done on the 60 grain 22lr since it was introduced. And every single person has said that 9 twist is not the ideal twist rate. As a matter of fact 16 twist will stabilize the 60 grain 22 lr bullet but you must be at an extremely high altitude and extremely cold weather to do so. And that is another facet of bullet stability, enviromental conditions. And a 223 with a 9 twist WILL shoot 77 grain bullets and they will remain stabile past 200 yards. And it will also shoot 33 grain bullets without them slinging the jacket free from the core. Dolomite

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People are generally pretty oblivious to their surroundings so unless the gun is full out no one will notice and even then I don't think I lot will even care. I carry all the time and I wear T-shirts that definitely print and some even are high enough that 1/2 my holster is showing. I have yet to have anyone say or do anything to indicate they know I have a gun. I am glad it is getting colder so I can OC with a jacket covering it., I just like it better. And with a Glock most people won't care if you do because they will just assume you are LE. Dolomite

I have shot a lot of the 60 grain stuff over the years. It will not stabilie out of your gun but it will not hurt it at all. The bullets will be hitting the target sideways at anything beyond probably 10 yards, maybe even less. Temperature can affect stability as well but no amount of cold is going to make it as accurate as regular ammo. Also, you are going to get a different smell (I like it) from the priming compound. It will also be louder at the port than a normal 22 because the short case doesn't seal well. It will definitely hit really hard for a 22, you can tell it with steel or nuisance animals. From all my calculations a 12-14 twist barrel is what is needed to have an accurately stabilized 60 grain 22 lr bullet. A 9 twist barrel will overstabilize the 60 grainer and cause accuracy issues. Then why use a 9 twist? Because at the time they decided everybody shooting 223 thought 9 twist is what is needed for a 60 grain bullet. It has a place though. It is the ONLY ammo I willl carry in a gun that might be the last or only defense against a bad guy. The reason is the velocity is stabile out of everything I have tried it in. The velocity runs about 800 fps and is enough to penetrate 8" of ballistic gelatin. And while it is traveling through it tunbles creating a permanent wound channel that can be as big as .60". And because of the shorter than normal case reliability is increased substantially in a semi auto. I have a Taurus pocket pistol with a 2" barrel and the SSS clocks ~790 fps and it supremely reliable. I have literally shot a few thousand rounds through the gun and as long as it is full power, not subsonic, loads it runs like a sewing machine. The bullets hit sideways at 7 feet but I don't care, it is not a match pistol or something that will be used for hunting. It serves a single purpose and that is as the last line of defense before I grab a pointy stick. Dolomite

From a previous post of mine: These are all available at Midway Usa. They normally have coupons online so you can save money as well. lee-perfect-powder-measure lee-auto-prime-hand-priming-tool-shellholder-package-of-11 frankford-arsenal-micro-reloading-electronic-powder-scale-750-grain-capacity lee-auto-prime-hand-priming-tool lyman-electronic-scale-powder-funnel-pan lee-classic-cast-breech-lock-single-stage-press hornady-lock-n-load-press-and-die-conversion-bushing-kit hornady-electronic-caliper-6-stainless-steel This is what it would minimally take to load. You would still need to buy the particular dies you need as well as bullets, primers and powder. I suggest the primers and powder be purchased locally. I would also suggest buying jacketed bullets in the begining, they are easier to deal with than cast. Cast bullets add another facet to reloading. People are going to say the Lee stuff is crap but I have used all these items for a few years now without a single issue. For the money the Perfect Powder Measure can't be beat. I prefer a electronic over a balance beam. Balance beams take a lot longer to settle than an electronic. No need to tumble your brass to clean them. Get some Lemishine at Walmart. Add a table spoon to some water and soak your brass for 24 hours. Every time you walk by give them a shake to aggitate them. Rinse them and let dry. Brass will be very clean and useable. This setup may not be as fast as a progressive but it allows you to learn the machanics of it. Or you could wait for the next show and get what you need from David, DLM37015 on here. He has everythig you could want or need to reload. $177 as is on the list above Dolomite Here are a few things to do to save money at the cost of convienence You could do away with the conversion bushings if you don't mind setting up your dies each time. I find it hard to make identical ammunition when I have to set the dies up each time. You could also do away with the powder pan and just weigh the powder in the casing. You just need to make sure to zero out the scale for each casing because they all weigh differently. You could also dip out the powder and not use the Perfect Powder Measure but that is a very slow going process. The Press has a priming tool on it but that is also another slow going process. You are also ted to your press to prime cases. With the hand primers you can watch TV while priming cases.