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Me not being originally from here I also get it. Not as bad as you I am sure. I can say that in my little community they are quite clannish. Dolomite

When did you move here from Hawaii? Not to pacific islanders around here. I am not originally from here either. Dolomite

Free speech as well. There is no obligation to allow someone to say what they want on your private property. Dolomite

They do leak some but they tend to meter very accurately. I double check every throw on my rifle rounds and it is always within .1 using Varget or H335. If I loose a little bit of powder I don't mind. Something else that helps is to disassemble it and wax the inside then tighten it down a little bit tighter. Dolomite

Here is what I have recommended to about a dozen people so far. None have said anything abd about the selections. [TABLE=width: 692] [TR] [TD]Product # [/TD] [TD]Description [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [/TR] [TR] [TD]107333 [/TD] [TD]Lee Case Length Gage and Shellholder 223 Remington [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]118739 [/TD] [TD]Lyman Electronic Scale Powder Funnel Pan [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]136199 [/TD] [TD]Lee Case Trimmer Cutter with Ball Grip [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]858110 [/TD] [TD]Hornady Lock-N-Load Press and Die Conversion Bushing Kit [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]215819 [/TD] [TD]Lee Collet Neck Sizer Die 223 Remington [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]389104 [/TD] [TD]Lee Chamfer and Deburring Tool [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]401556 [/TD] [TD]Redding Body Die 223 Remington [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]519525 [/TD] [TD]Imperial Case Sizing Wax 2 oz [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]540522 [/TD] [TD]Lee Perfect Powder Measure [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]566058 [/TD] [TD]Lee Auto Prime Hand Priming Tool Shellholder Package of 11 [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]645558 [/TD] [TD]Lee Universal Shellholder #4 (17 Remington, 204 Ruger, 223 Remington) [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]713372 [/TD] [TD]Frankford Arsenal Micro Reloading Electronic Powder Scale 750 Grain Capacity [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]413473 [/TD] [TD]Lee Auto Prime XR Hand Priming Tool [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]317831 [/TD] [TD]Lee Classic Cast Single Stage Press [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] It has everything you would need without breaking the bank. You can remove or add the calibers you feel like. With the 223 dies I would keep the collet and body die as it helps make the brass last a lot longer than the all in one die. If you go here you can get a lot of the Lee stuff cheaper but it might take longer to get the items you ordered. https://factorysales.com/ This list is like everything else, a preference. Everyone has their own recommendations. I have used everything from high end reloading equipment down to Lee stuff and honestly the Lee stuff has worked as well as the high end stuff for my needs. I do shoot precision rifles as well as a lot of 9mm and 45 ACP. Dolomite

As far as trespass goes it isn't in the criminal charge itself it is in the defense for that charge. You may be initially charged with trespass but it doesn't mean you are guilty of it. It is perfectly legal for you to walk onto someone else's property providing one of the following conditions are met: ( It is a defense to prosecution under this section that: (1) A person entered or remained on property that the person reasonably believed to be property for which the owner's consent to enter had been granted; (2) The person's conduct did not substantially interfere with the owner's use of the property; and (3) The person immediately left the property upon request. As far as signs go it is the same as being told to leave or not enter the property: © The defenses to prosecution set out in subsection ( shall not be applicable to a person violating this section if the property owner posts the property with signs that are visible at all major points of ingress to the property being posted and the signs are reasonably likely to come to the attention of a person entering the property. But the prosecution would have a hard time proving you saw the signs prior to entering. It would be very difficult to prove what someone saw or knew. Now if the sign was posted all over a door and you walked through that door it would be hard but if there was a small sign 100 yards away it would be very difficult. Dolomite

See above. Dolomite

While it won't work against enemies like Alqaeda and the Taliban it will and does work against conventional forces. Our shock and awe campaign did work in Iraq in 2003. Most of Saddam's forces dropped their arms and walked away. With the exception of the few loyal forces he had most just gave up. Had we went in soft handed they might have felt they stood a chance and continued to fight resulting in more deaths for both sides. In Iraq we have went from a conventional war to an occupation and that occupation is costing us money in a time when it is in short suppply as well as lives. Personally we shouldn't have entered that country in the first place. Sure Sadaam was a bad, bad man but he, nor his country, were not a threat to us. Afghanistan was and continues to be a much larger threat to our safety and security. Let me rephrase that, The border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the threat. Pakistan is far from being our ally and we have been dupped into believing they are. They feed us crumbs of intelligence and make gestures to make it seem as though they are on our side but they are not, at least not the populace. There are more Alqaeda and Taliban in Pakistan than there ever was in Afghanistan and the reason is because the Pakistani government has and agreement with them. Why else would the country with the ghiest number if terrorists not be suffering the same attacks as pretty much every other country in the region? I hate to say it but we will never win, per se, the war on terror. We will make strides that will makes us feel safer for a little while but there is no way to eliminate the threat. What we need to concentrate on is our own safety, on our own lands. With that we need to lock the borders down, I mean no one in for any reason at all. Remove all those who came here illegally, whose whose visas have expired as well as those who have shown a connection to those who have proven to be a threat to the UNited States. And finally we need to quit worrying about being so PC and treating the bad guys or suspected bad guys with kid gloves. They do not want to follow the American laws or ways so they should not be afforded the same protections those laws provide. Dolomite

Now is the time to voice our opinions to the owners, not after he posts. Nothing will change by waiting. If we voice our opinions as well as letting him know we are all trained, licensed and have had backgrounds he might have second thoughts about posting. In speaking with most people who have signs posted they are unaware of what we go through to get our HCP's. Dolomite

I will offer this, which I have never done on here before. If you are ever in the Knoxville area I'll help you out to make sure you have the fundementals correct. I have helped out close friends and family with their gun related "issues" and most results have been positive. I too was absolutely miserable with my G17. It took some serious one on one training by a Gunsite instructor as well as a few other instructors from other camps as well as a lot of practice. Finally I figured it out with their help. I eventually sold the Glock because even though I shot it good it wasn't up to what I felt I was capable of. I have a few other pistols and I can shoot all of them much better than the Glock. I am far from an expert shot with a pistol, matter of fact I am on the other end of the spectrum. I have to work at how well I shoot by practicing 3-5 times a week just to keep up skills. If nothing else I go shoot a mag just to work on sight picture. This leads me to the first and most important thing which is practice, even if you are only dry firing it will help. The only problem is if you have bad habits then you are only going to reinforce those. And when you are shooting you need to practice for the primary use. If you are going to be target shooting then that is what you need to concentrate on. On the other hand if it is a defensive pistol you need to practice at the likely self defense distances which, statistically, is up to 7 yards. Also, shooting at jugs isn't optimal for defensive practice. Make some cheap target stands and get some man sized targets. With a 8" wide jug what you think is a miss would be a lethal hit on a human.\ If you can't make it to the Knoxville area I am sure there are a few others on here that will match my offer that are in your area. Dolomite

Hide your dog! Dolomite

The New Agent grips are different than the standard 1911 grips. They have "wings" at the top rear of the grips that are not present in standard 1911 grips. Here is a good look at the New Agent: Colt New Agent | Shooting Illustrated Dolomtie

It is corrupt people, regardless of vocation, that fear the camera in public places. When it comes to officers, specifically all the decent officers that I have known and worked with welcomed anyone with a camera. This was because a lot of times the bad guy or their family would make false allegations of police brutality. And in most cases when there was a tape present the officer would be vindicated and the charges dropped. It is when the officer doesn't want to be taped that the brutality takes place or other laws are knowingly broken by the officer. If an officer is acting in good faith, even if they are wrong, he/she won't be judged as harshly as those who blatantly break the law. Dolomite

I would contact management. People often say let sleeping dogs lie but I like to push questionable issues. I have asked for a decision and sometimes it doesn't go our way and sometimes it does. I just want to be clear in who I will support and who I will not. I will not support those who seem to "fence sit" just as much as I will not support those who are legally posted. Dolomite

He can ask you to leave or bar your entrance if you refused to disarm. Even as a HCP holder your right to carry doesn't trump the property owner's right to ask you to leave the property. Property owners can ask you to leave for any or no reason at all and you have to leave otherwise you are tresspassing. Whether they are posted or not you can't refuse to leave when asked to or whether you are armed or not. It is their choice to allow you to carry on their property. Dolomite

Me as well. I have been to numerous countries and in almost every case I observed there was a negotiation between the buyer and seller. About the only place I will not negotiate price is in a restaurant. There is a leeway in overall price but it is by way of the tip. And before you think I am a cheap tipper because I haggle I am not. My average tip for decent service is 30%. Now for crappy service that might only be 10% but in large I am a very generous tipper. Dolomite

+1,000 If they want it to be safe and humane the world should resolve disputes with pillow fights or a game of tag. ETA: The most humane way to end a war is to make it as quick and brutal as possible. Similar to the way we beat Japan in WWII. When you try to be nice and humane the wars tend to drag along at a snails pace. When it comes to war the countries need not worry with being nice, only with winning as quickly as possible to prevent their own from being killed. Dolomite

I won't even enter into a negotiation unless I am interested in the item because it is a waste of my time as well as the sellers. And just because someone won't budge doesn't mean I won't buy the item. But if I am serious about buying the item the seller needs to be serious about selling the item. To me coming down on price or at least haggling is a way to know if someone is serious about selling. Just ignoring my offer or question about price just means they aren't serious about selling and I will walk on. Also, there are a lot of people who treat it like a sport trying to haggle people down, especially at the gun shows, with no intention of buying. I have watched people spend 10 minutes haggling with a dealer while other customerrs walked by and the dealer come down substantially only to have the haggler walk away laughing. I understand the dealers frustration. There are also a lot of dealers that throw extremely high prices on their stuff hoping a sucker comes along. But when you try to haggle they get butt hurt about it. Take for example a few shows ago a dealer had a pre accutrigger Savage that had a scratched up synthetic stock and the finish was worn off the gun as well as what appeared to be rust. His price? $900 The reason is he said it was a "tactical" model. Realistically it was a $300-$400 gun because of condition. I have tried to haggle with this dealer before and he is a crook in every shape and form, only trying to lure in those who are unknowledgeable. I have asked in the past if he had small rifle primers, he said if he did he would be asking $50 per 100. More power to you but don't sit there and complain when you can't sell anything which is something else he is really good at. He is one dealer that I have told dozens of friends to never buy from. Eventually word will spread. There are several dealers that I will deal with locally. They are willing to at least engage in the haggle even if they don't come down. And even if they don't their prices are fair and I will buy from them anyways but I still need to ask because I am serious. One dealer is selling brand new Sigma's for $300 out the door as well as Mossberg shotguns for, if I remember correctly, $250 out the door. He can be a pain to deal with sometimes during the haggle but his prices are fair enough that even if he doesn't come down both are happy. And to your question, I can't think of anything I might buy that costs more than $100 that I won't try to haggle on. I will haggle in person or on the phone. I recently bought some new tires and spent about an hour bidding tire dealers against eachother and haggling until I got what was the lowest possible price. The difference between the no haggle price and the haggle price was just shy of $100 per tire. I have haggled $300 off a $700 dining room table at Sam's. As well as dozens, well probably hundreds, of other deals. Dolomite

They could actually increase the effectiveness while still staying within the rules. A flat point, even as a FMJ, would do more to upset the tissues than a pointed bullet. Dolomite

Just think. 10 years from now someone is going to find an archive of this thread and think it is an amazing deal. Dolomite

Sonic cleaners are good for most but there are concerns over using them on aluminum parts. Some say they will cause cracks. I have spoke to a few manufacturers about different questions I had. Something that came up with sevreral was that with some aluminum cans that the baffles will work harden and crack over time. This may be why there has been a trend over the last 3-4 years for manufacturers to start making rimfire stainless suppressors. I know stainless suppressors weigh more than their aluminum counterparts but they also last a lot longer and are easier to clean. Dolomite

Rimfire or centerfire cans? I clean mine by taking it apart about every 500 rounds or so. I media blast it so for me it is pretty easy to clean, mine is all SS. Dolomite

I almost posted a topic on suppressor cleaning but decided against it for some reason. Here is my take on it. I have spent a lot of time and yes money researching the exact same question you posed. If you are going to be shooting any amount of .22, I suspect you will more than 5.56, you need a suppresson that can be cleaned of the lead. The reason is firing a 22 will deposit vaporized lead on the inside of the suppressor and over time this can and does affect performance. This is the reason why nearly every .22 suppressor can be disassembled or is made out of stainless. As far as cleaning there are a few ways to get the lead out so to speak. First is to disassemble the can and manually remove it by media blasting or just some plain old elbow grease. This is relatively safe for you as long as you take the normal precautions for lead. With media blasting you have to be careful to match the media with the material being cleaned. You don't want to use a super aggressive media if your can is anodized or even bare aluminum. The disadvantage if you can call it that is that the suppressor must be disassembled to clean it. Another disadvantge is it can be a bear to get the suppressor apart once there is a significant amount of lead build up. The second way is to use a chemical dip to remove the lead. About the only and definitely the easiest way is to dip the entire suppressor in a solution of hydrogen peroxide. This will not work with aluminum suppressors because the hydrogen peroxide eats aluminum almost as readily as it does lead. A huge disadvantage to using a hydrogen peroxide dip is the by product it produces, lead acetate. Lead acetate is a very cancer causing. It is readily absorbed through the skin, by inhaling the fumes or accidentally ingesting it. It also seeps very quickly into the ground water and can contaminate it so dumping the solution isn't good. Lead acetate is one of only a handful of substances than can easily cross the blood-brain barrier. It isn't all bad though, if you take the proper precautions is very effective at removing lead in non-aluminum suppressors. Also, most major cities will accept small amounts of lead acetate in their household hazardous waste program. These methods aren't needed for a dedicated centerfire suppressor that will never see rimfire use. You can use the normal chemicals used to clean carbon out to clean centerfire supprssors but in most cases they should last a lifetime without any significant amount of cleaning. The biggest threat to centerfire suppressors is the wearing down of internal parts by the blast of hot gases. That is why most use Iconel or 17-4 stainless for the blast baffles. If it were me and I was spending the $200 for a stamp I would figure out what is going to be getting shot the most. For me it was a 22 so that is what I built, a 22 can. For you it may be 223 mostly with only the occasional 22 being fired and if that is the case I would get a sealed 223 can. I can say this, once you fire a subsonic 22 round through a decent suppressor, be it a 223 or a 22 suppressor, a 223 fails in comparison even through a top of the line 223 suppressor because of the sonic crack. Dolomite

Congrats. Dolomite

No what it is they were already looking at adopting a specific firearms before the trials. In most cases the trials are just a formality but probably when their "golden child" didn't do as well they dropped the trials citing "monetary" reasons. Now the DoD is going to come back in with another set of trials geared specifically for the "golden child" to win. Happens all the time. They often know who they want to select before the trials begin. https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=9f67b094636a104ae0bd1068f6ca672a&tab=core&_cview=1 Not going to read all the way through it but most in most large scale DoD trials it is a requirement that the winner must have supplied weapon systems to the government on a previous contract. This requirement alone would eliminate most competitors no matter how good they were. The site is intersting if you search around. Just doing a search for "sniper" resulted in these hits. Barrett won a 5 year $10 million dollar contract for their M107 Long Range Sniper Rifle system in July. Accuracy International won a $5 million dollar contract for rifle stocks in August. There is a bid up right now for 75 Glocks for the GAO. Or the contract for airsoft pistols for the Army that has now expired. On smaller, individual unit, contracts (like a SEAL team or others) they can set their own criteria. Predator Custom Shop in Knoxville has submitted weapons for evaluation in the past. Anyone who is in the "business" should be watching the site for potential contracts they can support. Even if you aren't in the gun business there are contracts for anything and everything the government uses. Dolomite