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If your 45 is in a 1911 there are ways to reduce the cost of shooting. Dolomite

I would never reload for anyone. There is way to much liability involved. I do let friends shoot my reloads with me present and in my guns. If you do get a taker I would be very, very cautious. Not all people have the same level of experience or concentration for reloading. And it takes the person to have a 100% success rate or the results can be harmful or fatal. And honestly anyone who does take up your offer isn't concerned with liability which woudl alarm me. Dolomite

For a bare bones kit you can't beat DPMS. It is one of the things they do really, really well. I have used seveal different kits over the years and always come back to DPMS for a stock style kit. As far as longevity goes I had one DPMS kit that had over 10K cycles on it without any major problems. I think I did replace the disconnector after the hook broke off but that is the only time I have seen it with the DPMS kits. The nose of the trigger was fine as well even though it had been honed. As part of doing the triggers I do not touch the hammers and concentrate on the the trigger. I use the trigger kits I sell to take of the slack as well. The tight fit of the Spikes lowers probably has to do with the annodizing or coating more so than anything out of spec. They are probably in spec when raw but when they are finished they tighten up a bit. Some brands of lowers are not annodized and just coated. In most cases those that are just coated do not have the same surface hardness annodizing can give. Not sure if the Spikes products fall into the coated or annodized category though. Dolomite

Just looked up pictures of the vetterli ammo. The ammo in the OP will not work. The Vetterli ammo is a necked cartridge that is more of a rifle cartridge than a pistol cartridge. I have an idea of how to make one if I can can get detailed dimensions. It will take a while though because of how I feel. And add that fact I fell between the last post and this one. Hopefully I will be able to move later. Dolomite ETA:Have the drawing now. http://en.valka.cz/files/10_4x38r__v_c.vetterli.gif Problem is going to be sourcing an appropiate bullet to use. I would suggect a round ball but I can't find any that are .40 diameter. I will mic the bore to get an idea of size then go from there. You might be able to paper patch one of these: Hornady Muzzleloading Bullets 40 Caliber (395 Diameter) Round Ball Box of 100 - MidwayUSA Might be able to use these as well but I would be concerned about sticking one in the bore: Hunters Supply Hard Cast Bullets 40 Caliber (401 Diameter) 155 Grain Lead Round Nose - MidwayUSA

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There is a way to shoot those old rimfire derringers. You can take an original shell and drill it for a 22 blank to fit inside but on the rim. Push a round ball in by hand. WHen you insert it into the chamber you need to make sure the 22 blank is where the firing pin will hit. After you shoot you push the 22 blank out and put another in followed by another round ball. I have seen it done a few times over the years and it seems to work ok. Makes shooting that gun you can't find rimfire ammo for easier. Hey Magid, when we meet up if you have any fired cases bring them with you as well as the gun itself. I might be able to machine an insert for you to be able to shoot. Even if you don;t have any cases I might be able to emasure and build a case to use. Dolomite

Well my words were not lost yesterday. They dropped the price from $944 to $897. The exact model is the Patrol Carbine. Dolomite

The biggest problem is those responsible will not feel the sting of what they did or at least not for long. Yeah they spent some time in jail but they will go back to their house, their car and their way of life. Those two women should be ordered to sell anything and everything they own and all proceeds go to the child for care and treatment. After that 1/2 of what they make for life go to the child. That way every tme they get a paycheck they will be reminded of what they did. They should also be named in the lawsuit but they aren't. Another thing to consider this is the first known or recorded incident. I am sure there are hunderds, if not thousands, of other incidents since the child came under their care. As I have always said before people who get caught doing wrong are rarely caught on their first try. I can guarantee these two women have done this to other children as well over the years. Then there is the disparity of the sentencing. The charges should be aggravating because of the use of a weapon even if it is a fly swatter. And because of the length of time the crime occurred there should be more than a single misdemeanor charge. Like I say to my wife, some people need a sledge hammer to the head. Dolomite

Predator Custom Shop does as well. Dolomite

It was a base model with M4 profiled barrel. Bolt carrier was a standard parkerized model. Standard carbine handguards. Flat top with a removeable cary handle. It did have a standard front sight. Collapsible stock, don't know if it was 4 or 6 position. Dolomite

I would prefer a barrel that is unthreaded over one that is threaded from the factory. The reason is I can have it threaded concentric to the bore to make sure it is 100% straight. My issue with most guns I have been looking at is they are pot metal or even aluminum. Both of which will not last as long as steel. I am slowly figuring out which guns have steel bolts/slides. Dolomite

I was in there today and they had a Bushmater for $944. There was a customer standing there talking about purchasing it. I mentioned to him the a local shop had AR's cheaper that were just as good. The clerk asked who and I mentioned who it was and she looked dumbfounded asking again who they were. I also looked up the price at Bud's and their price is cheaper as well. I mentioned that it was cheaper online to the customer and the sales clerk's response was that I didn't know what I was talking about. She also said there must be something wrong with them like they were broken or something or everyone would buy from the internet. I told her I buy stuff off the internet all the time and she just huffed. I mentioned to the customer again about the local shop having them cheaper and her response to the customer was that the local shop was selling messed up guns. She then told me to quit trying to talk a customer out of buying their guns. Dolomite

I have used lanyards plenty while in the service as well as my life after service. You want the lanyard to be just beyond arms length fully extended, any longer and you are asking for problems. If you don't use a super long lanyard the possibility of it going off from being dragged is minimal. It also does help you keep from loosing a gun either by negligence or nefarious taking it. There are plenty of advantages to a lanyard. One is if someone grabs your gun you can yank it out of their hands or at least make it hard to aim by making a hard turn in the direction of where the lanyard is attached to the body. This wraps the cord up around you and hopefully pulls it out of their hands. That is providing you use a strong enough attachement. I used 550 cord to tie the gun to the lanyard. With that being said I hated using them and would avoid it whenever possible. They seemed to get caught on anything and everything you walked by. Dolomite

I was looking at those at the alst show but they wanted a mint for them. The cheapest I found was a well used and abused one for $250. For that price I will get a Ruger. Are the firing pins round or flat? If they are round i will make my own. Dolomite

Although I am sure they are good I would rather spend my money locally. Predator Custom Shop builds AR's to order and as a matter of fact have some reasonably priced AR's sitting in the racks right now. Predator has done a lot of work for me over the years. I have spent a fair amount of time in their shop just hanging out. If there is one thing that they always try to do is make sure their customers are happy. Even if it is only a 5 minute job or a long build their commitment is the same. And a lot of the stuff they do for customers is "while you wait". Dolomite

I shoot a lot of steel as well. I really enjoy it and I am fortunate enough to have 25 yards at home which is perfect for rimfires as well as most pistol calibers. I try to shoot every day but sometimes I can only shoot 3-4 times a week. But I shoot at least 1K a week. With my suppressor a wheelgun is out of the question. And honestly they have never really intersted me. I have owned a few but sold them pretty quickly. I have had a S&W 22A and it was the worst gun I have ever owned. It would not make it through a mag without a problem. Treid every ammo I could find and finally sold it after a few months of fighting it. I even called S&W about warranty work and they said it was not a warranty issue but they would look at it as part of their 3 lifetime services. Dolomite

I am in the market for a threaded host for my suppressor. My PacLite upper is not threaded concentric to the bore so I am getting baffle strikes (this is the second one I have bought that does this). This has left me for a need for another host. I shoot a lot, about 1K rounds a week from various platforms but at least 500 through the pistols I thought about a P22 but don't like the fact that their slides are pot metal. Also, their sights don't screw on in any way they just snap intol place. I have shot a friends and the front sight popped off. He said it happens all the time. Also, such a small gun with my large suppressor would make it hard to hold. So I though maybe I would like a Sig Mosquito. After all they seem to be quality guns. I called Sig to find out a few things. One was their estimated life span. Their response was if you are meticulous about maintenance and cleaning 10K-15K rounds. That was a big turn off because of how much I use my guns. Then I asked about slide material and the Sig rep said pot metal, I asked after this if he was sure it wasn't aluminum and he said no it was pot metal. Then I asked about warranty repairs and was told if the gun was wearing out from use there is no warranty. So best case scenario the Sig should last about 30 weeks if I keep up my schedule. Kind of hard for me to buy a $350+ dollar gun only to have it last less than a year. So now I am looking for another Ruger as they are the only guns for me that has a lifespane measured in years, not months. I have a threaded Kimber that is great but it makes for a heavy gun with my all steel suppressor. ALso, the slide is aluminum which leaves me wondering about its service life as well. Dolomite

Even my little county with two officers on has a non emergency contact. And by two I mean that is a single shift during peak times. The rest of the time there is one or even none with an officer on call. As far as dogs calls go my local LE will not respond to any type of dog call. Even if there are injuries they said it is a civil matter unless the dog is shot on the owner's property. We had a pack of aggressive dogs show up on our property in "hunt mode". Wife went out to shoosh them and began stalking type movements towards her. She came back inside and I called the local non LE's emergency number. I was told to call the local Humane Society. I called them and they said they would not respond to an aggressive dog. I was told by the local Humane Society agent to shoot the dogs if they came back. By the time all of this had transpired the dogs had quit hanging around our house and luckily our animals were pinned up at that time. A day or two later they showed up again except this time they were killing some animals that weren't in pens. My wife was screaming so loud at the dogs that it woke me up from my nap. I had no clue what was going on so I grabbed a rifle and went outside. I was able to get off a number of shots but because I still wasn't lucid I missed the 50-75 yard shots. I spent the next 10 mnutes walking around killing our animals that I knew wouldn't survive. I hopped in the car to go look for the dgos and noticed the same dogs with a neighbor. I told her they were strays and had been aggressive towards my wife as well as killed some of our animals. She said she knew they were strays but they wouldn't hurt anything. She went on to say she thought they would leave after they had their bellies full. She said she had been feeding them for a few weeks but they would never leave. She also went on to say "dog will be dogs" and shrugged her shoulders. We considered suing the neighbors over our animals because she had been harboring and feeding the strays. But in the end it was better just to let it go. I never had another shot at those dogs but they did cause some problems at a local store at one point. Dolomite

Glad to hear you are alright. I have had a few close calls when shooting steel. I still shoot steel but they are angle so hard down that almost everything ends up in the dirt. Dolomite

Rather than using the light reactive phosphorus most use there are some others that are using a different technology. They use digital means to amplify light and it looks promising, especially for the cost. So far the technology is still pretty new but it is already a lot cheaper than the older methods. I have seen side by side comparisons of the two and the digital stuff looks nearly as good as the high end stuff. It also doesn't have that green hue conventional night vision has. The digital stuff is way better than the Gen 1 stuff and is comparable to the Gen 2 or even Gen 3 for a lot less. Another good thing about the digital ones is they can't be burned out like the light reactive ones can. The light reactive phosphorus is very old technology that has been updated as technology would allow but it is still based on very old principles. The new digital ones are using cutting edge electronics. The best part is you can get a decent, useable NV for a lot less with a digital. Dolomite ETA: Here are some digitals: Results for digital night vision - Sorted by Best Match, on Page 1 (20 Items) - OpticsPlanet Digital Night Vision SALE Digital Night Scopes, NV Binoculars, Night Vision Monoculars, Riflescopes, Cameras, Night Viewers Bushnell 5x42 Stealth View Digital Night Vision Monocular Scope 260542 StealthView FREE UPS 26-0542 Hard to beat their prices compared to traditional NV.

It looks like a denial of service attack. They are more than capable of doing this. They even have a link to a program for others to download to take part in the attack. I suspect that with the air of how the country is right now if this hit mainstream media it would be a huge success. As it stands right now they have had about 8,000 viewers so there is hardly enough to really hurt Wall Street. I suspect they will begin to get a following as time goes on and our economy crumbles. Dolomite

When you want to get together? I am free anytime pending how I feel. Dolomite

Two stage triggers tend to have a bit more take up than most single stage triggers. On that note single stage triggers tend to be a bit heavier than two stage triggers. It is all about preference. I personally prefer a trigger with no take up to one that has some. It is because I know how to work on and tweak a single stage to feel great. The Spike's Kit: Unless you are a left the ambi safety is not going ot be used by you. The Ergo grip is a must in my opinion but I would choose a Hogue above all others. The KNS pins in the Spike's kit it not needed, if the lower is put together correctly the pins will not walk out and you will not shoot it enough in a lifetime to damage the lower. The BN coating is good stuff that helps parts last but are you really going to shoot this enough to wear out the trigger and hammer? There is a lot of extra stuff in this kit that is really not needed for most shooters. The RRA kit: As I said before the two stage triggers tend to be a bit longer but are definitely lighter. The Hogue would be my choice over the Ergo grip. Once you feel the Hogue you will understand why. The CMMG kit: It looks like the CMMG is about like the RRA kit but about $30-$50 cheaper once you add the Hogue grip. Most two stages ARE created equal or at least the under $150 ones are which both the RRA and CMMG are. You are not getting more by going with the RRA kit. I would get the two stage CMMG kit because it has everything you need and nothing you don't. Purchase the Hogue grip seperately. The RRA doesn't offer anything more than CMMG for the extra cost. If you decide you want the ambi selector then buy it seperately, same goes for the trigger guard. Here is the Hogue grip for $20 shipped: Hogue AR-15/M-16 Black Rubber Grip (Free Shipping) [15000] - $19.95 : Gunkings.com, 10-22 and AR15 Parts and Accessories Dolomite

So does it feel any better? I'm getting ready to redo my wife's 9mm AR because it is a heavy beast. Might go Magpul to save some weight. Dolomite

Here are a bunch that would be fine, some new from opticsplanet and some used from SWFA: Bushnell 1-4x24 Trophy XLT Rifle Scope DEMO-A Bushnell 1-4x32 Banner Dusk & Dawn Shotgun Scope DEMO-B Redfield 2-7x33 Revolution Rifle Scope DEMO-A Swift 1.5-4.5x32 Premium Rifle Scope DEMO-C Weaver 2.5-7x28 Classic Rimfire Rifle Scope DEMO-B Weaver V-3 1-3 x 20 mm Matte Black Duplex Hunting Rifle Scope FREE S&H 849400. Swift 1.5-4.5x32mm Premier Waterproof Matte Riflescope - 648M Rifle scope FREE S&H SRP648M. Bushnell Banner 1.5-4.5x32 Rifle Scope Matte Multi-X 711545 Riflescope FREE S&H 711545. Bushnell Banner 1-4x32 Rifle Scope Matte Circle-X 711432 Riflescope FREE S&H 711432. Vortex Crossfire 2x20mm V-Plex Reticle Riflescopes CRF-13-P FREE S&H CRF-13-P. I wouldn't feel undergunned with the majority of the ones on the list. They provide enough magnification for an AR. As a matter of fact I have been looking for a lower powered scope for one of my guns so this let me do a bit more looking around at what is out there. A decent set of rings that aren't QD or something else crazy can be had for under $30. I have also used two seperate rings for years without issue. How do you think everyone did it before the fancy one piece rings came to market? Dolomite