Forum: Technical Questions & Information
07-13-2009, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,038
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Forum: Centerfire Pistols & Revolvers
07-13-2009, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 5,543
For John:
4006 excellent choice for .40 cal. They are heavy guns, no alloy frame, stainless steel. Mine was Mesa, AZ P.D. issue, inscribed on frame, just curious, slide inscribed "caution capable of firing...
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Forum: Self Defense Tactics & Weapons
05-19-2009, 08:06 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 1,029
Re: Body Armour?
I like zf's answer, personally. However, I, too, reside in a very rural area where there is no movement of people or vehicles on our road except in mostly daylight hours, and those invariably are...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
05-19-2009, 07:56 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 454
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Forum: General Discussion
05-19-2009, 07:54 PM
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Replies: 76
Views: 2,773
Re: Do you wear seatbelt
After driver's side bags became mandatory, and passenger's side were being proposed as such, it was suggested by my friend and co-worker that we will reach a point where the entire vehicle interior...
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Forum: Large-Bore/Small-Bore Rifle/Shotgun
05-19-2009, 07:46 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 2,198
HK Roller Block vs. Gas System
HK did not, I believe, originate the roller-block system they use. It was designed by a Spanish firm, CETME, long ago, possibly in the 70s, and H&K bought the licensed rights to use the system in...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
04-03-2009, 08:40 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 1,016
Re: loading used primers
What's on my mind is that MANY stores no longer carry strike-anywhere wooden matches, if you haven't noticed.
The tips from such matches will explode like toy caps if hit with a hammer on a solid...
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Forum: The Pump House Saloon
03-23-2009, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 653
Re: BEING A MOTHER
A post which will be clearly understood by those who have lost their mothers.
Thank you.
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Forum: .22-Rimfire Forum
03-21-2009, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 97
Views: 107,250
Re: whats the best 22 automatic rifle?
Sadly, few remember the wonderful Winchester 63! Discontinued about 1958 (?).
All machined parts, super-reliable, tube-fed in the stock, no plastic, polymer, nylon, bolt manual operation by...
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Forum: VMBB General Discussion
03-15-2009, 01:17 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 530
Re: Are We Old Farts Yet?
Okay then, all you reprobates and elderly curmudgeons, here is another story.
Wife & I quit the "system" in 1999, vowing to never pay another cent of income tax to the squanderers in Washington...
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Forum: General Discussion
02-23-2009, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 17
Views: 769
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Forum: General Discussion
12-30-2008, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 32
Views: 1,139
Re: Snow
Ad (Adolph) Topperwein did various shooting performances for, I believe, Winchester. One crowning achievement was hitting 1 1/2" wood blocks thrown in the air at randon using a .22LR semi-auto rifle;...
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Forum: The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum
12-10-2008, 08:47 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,272
Re: Ongoing Obama Controversy
These last several posts are convincing, no, compelling, reason to seek solace in some other forum for awhile.........
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Forum: The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum
12-09-2008, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,272
Re: Ongoing Obama Controversy
It seems that today the Supreme Court paved the way for Mr. Obama to continue onward with the thinly-masked charade of leading the country through change.
I now must view with certainty, after...
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Forum: The Fire For Effect and Totally Politically Incorrect Forum
12-07-2008, 08:57 PM
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Replies: 44
Views: 2,272
Ongoing Obama Controversy
I noted this evening that, finally, one of the major national news networks indicated that a story was forthcoming regarding the Obama citizenship controversy.
No doubt, despite vigorous urging by...
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Forum: The Pump House Saloon
11-06-2008, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 721
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Forum: The Pump House Saloon
10-12-2008, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 6
Views: 747
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Forum: VMBB General Discussion
10-12-2008, 08:28 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 897
Re: DEADLY CRIME IN YOUR AREAS.....
When the wife & I lived in the Phoenix area, actually south in Laveen, a rash of car-to-car shootings had left police largely stymied.
The official recommendation made by PD over the media was to...
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Forum: General Discussion
09-27-2008, 08:25 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 417
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Forum: General Discussion
09-27-2008, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 1,077
Re: Hoarding precious metals?
My wife was the buyer for North American Coin & Currency in Phoenix during the period Nelson & Bunky Hunt attempted to curb the silver market (early 1980's).
She witnessed the spectacle of poor...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-21-2008, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 1,726
Re: If you had to choose a new ethnicity
Laid off from work, first time in my life, living in Arizona, we used up savings while job-hunting during the "Reagan Recession", turned-down over & over as "over-qualified" trying to get anything at...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-19-2008, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,268
Re: Primer question
Interesting coincidence that I also began reloading in 1974, then living in Las Vegas, where one could easily find desolate places not far away to shoot to the heart's content.
Pop, thank you for...
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Forum: VMBB General Discussion
08-19-2008, 08:03 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 419
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-18-2008, 08:42 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,268
Re: Primer question
Pop, I understand your concern, and did not mean to "set you off". My thinking, though, is that, is it "SAAMI" (?), has established brisance tolerance criteria for each primer type, and no...
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Forum: VMBB General Discussion
08-18-2008, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 350
Re: HELPFUL HINT.....
Great advice! Today's fuel injected engines, if kept in reasonably good condition, actually have a hard time NOT passing the testing! Mine always registered 0.00 percent CO (carbon monoxide), and I...
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-18-2008, 08:27 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 594
Re: More reading = 3 more questions... for now.
Your understanding of the mechanics of cartridge chambering suggests considerable technical savvy beyond that simply gained by reloading experience.
If I may ask, perhaps you can put numbers to...
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Forum: Ruffit's Domestic & Wild Game Cooking/ Recipe Forum
08-18-2008, 08:04 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 3,050
Re: Habanero pepper sauce
FWIW, habaneros have been used to incapacitate prisoners who were shackled by using the juice of crushed peppers, dipping a golf ball in it liberally, and retaining it in the prisoner's mouth using...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:44 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 3,749
Re: What do you do for a living?
Please reveal: was it bad enough in UK to warrant leaving, and how were you able to take assets with you, if at all?
Thank you for sharing. jinn
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,670
Re: XDs or Glocks
XDgirl, do you have any particular problems dealing with this "man's world" of guns?;)
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:32 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 616
Re: You know, year old beer tasts pretty good...
The German beers, such as Becks, mostly have always listed "best before" dates, even before it was fashionable. Years back, the date was hand-inscribed on every bottle (or they had a pretty clever...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:25 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 551
Re: Darn hummingbird feeders
I bought 2 ten-holers, and they have been full all summer. Since June, I have bought 50 lb. of sugar. (and I AIN'T making beer!!)
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-17-2008, 08:18 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,268
Re: Primer question
OK, the difference you mention between brands of primer is what, exactly? Amount of charge? Hardness of metal? Ease of ignition? Do you not think that if, say, Hornady's manual calls for 30 grains of...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:10 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 609
Re: Legal US resident and buying a firearm
Typical, convoluted and wrap-around laws. They punish the law-abiding, and the criminal element thumbs it's nose.
Perhaps we need MORE oversight by government? (sarcasm).
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2008, 08:05 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,207
Re: any union members here?
"Government oversight" is exactly what has put the American Way into the constraints of socialism we now fret over EVERYDAY.
You are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-17-2008, 07:59 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 594
Re: More reading = 3 more questions... for now.
(compressed to save space). 1. Still talking .308? You did not say. My understanding of the mechanics of sizing is this: If your fired brass was used in arms with wallowed-out, or high-end of...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-16-2008, 08:40 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 801
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Forum: General Discussion
08-16-2008, 08:37 PM
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Replies: 104
Views: 3,749
Re: What do you do for a living?
I am paid to spend time on gun forums!
Receive a welfare check every 2nd Wed. of each month. It's the ONLY benefit for getting old!!
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-16-2008, 08:34 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,268
Re: Primer question
My opinion, and it ain't worth much sometimes, but as a beginner reloader, look carefully at EVERYTHING. Primer type is clearly called out on containers, as to whether they are magnum type, or not.
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Forum: The Ammo & Reloading Forum
08-16-2008, 08:26 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 555
Re: reloading dies
Personally, no. If you are truly a newbie, I suspect you are being misled by someone who sells stuff. Pay close attention to your headspace, first, and accuracy will follow. .308 is inherently a...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-16-2008, 08:22 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,420
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Forum: .22-Rimfire Forum
08-16-2008, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 820
Re: One More (Stoeger Luger)
Mine bears S/N 74589. I bought it new in Las Vegas, NV , in 1974, from a gun store on S. Decatur Blvd.
Probably little help. Sorry.
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Forum: General Discussion
08-16-2008, 08:09 PM
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Replies: 42
Views: 1,670
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-15-2008, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 539
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Forum: Technical Questions & Information
08-15-2008, 08:56 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 629
Re: Rifling Direction
Thank you for replying. I was wondering about torque reaction of the firearm in response to the rotational force necessary to secure those extreme rpms of the bullet.
When I fire my XD...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-15-2008, 08:48 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 1,420
Re: copperheads or rattlesnakes?
Copperheads reportedly have lower inherent venom danger from bite than any rattler. I know several who have been bitten; one has a pretty disfigured finger, but he never had treatment of any kind...
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Forum: The Ask the Pros & What's It Worth? Forum
08-10-2008, 08:50 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 1,711
Re: Remington 700 BDL
It's caliber may to a large extent determine value, in addition to physical attributes.
If 8mm Rem. Magnum, high price, for example.
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Forum: General Discussion
08-10-2008, 08:47 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 638
Re: More CA gun buying stumbling blocks!!!
LD, I hear where you're coming from. And, there are usually ways around laws, but not always, or you can simply ignore them and take your chances.
There will be a run on "catch bags" for...
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Forum: The Constitutional & RKBA Forum
08-10-2008, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 14
Views: 1,051
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Forum: General Discussion
08-10-2008, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,041
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Forum: VMBB General Discussion
08-09-2008, 08:31 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 283
Re: OLYMPIC STABBING.....
The National news this AM pointedly added that since guns are expressly forbidden in China, the perpetrator of the killing was not able to use one.
The relevance of that addendum absolutely...
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