rifled barrels ruin shot patterns. when you look at them on the target, there's a "ring' of pellets around a big empty center, where the centrifugal force spun the pellets out. The velocity and penetration of the buck pellets is very low. It's a huge, heavy expensive clunk. I'd rather have a...
Do they have the same, weak little retention stud on the recoil spring plug that the Officer's ACP has? Wilson sells a replacement for the latter. I like the Concept of the Defender, but am unsure about the execution of it. Bill told me, a while back, that the shorty 1911's often have the...
Around here, the diff in price of practice ammo is 10c a shot. If you shoot enough to be any good, that adds up fast. No better than anyone performs when being shot at, the diff between 9mm practice and .40 carry wont mean a thing. Most shots completely miss the man at 5 yds, if the defender...
I have not seen one recently, but Briggs/Stratton have always had NOISY generators,a nd you can't quiet them down, without causing them to overheat, unless you build a really big, baffled box for them to sit in. I"d get a Used Honda, off of ebay. Is there some reason that you can't just shut...
Jerry was using a 9mm revolver. the .45 shooting, my guy was about 30 yds to the right of my line of fire, and the gun was in a machine rest. He was just standing behind a big tree. You'd be in more danger just riding a motorcycle, or driving you car on snow/ice.
if the hole's deep enough, why worry? :-) and if your man can shoot and you're 50 yds to the side, why worry? Yes, I could get the groups hitting around the target well enough, in a day or so, but the group would be 10ft wide, if it was me shooting, offhand. :-) So getting 2 hits might take...
for the entire package, over 2k, I'd betcha, perhaps even 3k. If you have or get a fully supported barrel, you can RENT the reamer and deepen the chamber yourself. If you have to shorten the brass to ACP length, and wussyload it, then you might just as well use R-P Commerical ACP brass, and...
buried salt blocks work, if you don't have too many farmers and ranchers putting them out for their critters. Sweet corn, carrots and apples will get them scraping/licking the ground. after the first signs of use appear, just sporadic "goodies" will keep them coming. Of course, you can't...
I know that even in the mortgage boom of 2000-2007, almost none of the lenders would touch any of the above (if singlewide) About the only ones that would lend on a doublewide went backrupt, like countrywide and IndyMac.. There's reasons for that. One of them is that such homes can disappear...
hey, if you suffer from NIH syndrome, that's not my problem. I can't help it that I know 10x as much as you about guns and survivalism. :-) I've been at it for 50 years now. Where were you?
Wow. I dehydrated all my water. :-) why not just have a rain barrel, then re-install the bung? put a pc of screen wire and some coffee filters on the entrance, of course, and treat or boil it if you need it. If you need to move it, pour some out into other containers. Even 2-3 garbage bags...
what makes you "think" that people will work for nothing, man? if the power goes out, and stays out for a week and doesn't look like it's coming back anytime soon, you'll be using $100 bills for toilet tissue. The world won't regenerate, to our current level, for a century, if indeed it ever...
The foxfire series. Non fiction, but great, or at least, most of them are. In fiction, John Ross's UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. Not quite apocalyptic, but you will flat love it. For a good laugh, SURVIVAL GUNS, by Mel Tappan. Rawles is like Doug Casey. To him, if you're not a multimillionaire...
you can't suppress it worth a hoot, and 12 ga shells are 10 to the lb. I"ll take the AR, with suppressor, 22lr conversion unit, 60 gr Nosler Partition deep-penetrating softpoints, and 60 gr Aquila subsonic 22 ammo, the ones put up in .22 Short cases.