Vlad

I like it, I think is far better then "CSI: Wachita" or whatever the hell they are up to now and a lot of other crap out there. Also Olyphant is better known for Deadwood then Hitman.

Those rules are stupid, and this is coming from the guy who doesn't even like shooting shotgun and is always outclassed in gear because he shoots a 7 shot pump mossberg with a some shells in a cheap belt thrown over the shoulder Poncho Via style. However wrote these rules (*cough*lets pretend we don know*cough*) has forgotten what the roots of this game were. The IPSC constitution still says So we are going to ban side saddles, chest rigs, bandoleers, box fed guns (cause 5 rounds is a laugh), and ammo location in general. Sure, you can argue that revolving tubes and speed loaders are not "practical" on the other hand action shooters have polished the design and use of technology that was futuristic at the time and it is now common place in military and police use.Oh wait .. I found this other gem in the IPSC site that explains it all Oh good, well at least that explains the airgun division.

I dunno, I'd think the AR would be perfect for small predators, and maybe a .22?

Buy "Green eyes and black rifles" It really should be titled "My first black rifle" and it should come with your first lower receiver. It covers everything from parts, ammo, maintenance , shooting stances, barrel wear, external ballistics of various loads, zero methods and ranges, etc.

Red dot have unlimited eye relief, at least decent ones, as well as very little to no parallax.. A short one like the T1/H1 also has a large field of view and if you mount it forward (like at the end of the upper receiver) it should be really forgiving about head position. I'm guessing a red dot is pretty much the only choice with both scopes and iron requiring somewhat precise head positioning.

I'll be the opposition here, Mac laptops are slick .. but. First of all if you are going to use them hard various generation WILL burn out motherboards. I'm typing this on my macbook pro which is on its 3ed motherboard. Talk to anyone who needs to support lots of them and you will hear this a lot. Part of the Apple slick design philosophy is that their hardware is chronically under-cooled. I'm also not a fan of OSX, and I say that as someone who works with Unix machines for a living and likes the idea that OSX is built in top of a unix core. My beef with OSX centers around the ergonomics that come into play when you run lots of applications and many windows. The Menu bar being bound to to the top of the screen is idiotic. The fact that mac laptops don't have a second mouse button when the OS uses a second mouse button for context is stupid, specially seeing how there are two switches in there. Multitouch pads are nice and help with that, but every decent laptop has one now. The big pluses to macbooks are the slick package and the awesome screens. Good luck getting a top notch video card in there though, charging $2600 for their top of the line machine and shoving a 9400M in there is insulting. I've been using a Macbook PRO for almost 3 years, and I wouldn't spend my own cash on it. I just bought a new machine and spent my own cash on a Asus machine. Windows 7 is very slick, very stable and Asus has been making incredible machines. Compare the 17" macbook pro and the Asus G73JQ and the Asus is twice the machine for $1000 less. Every one is offering i7 based machines but Apple.

For optics I'd look at the aimpoint T1/H1 series. I imagine proper head positioning would be a problem for the shooter (or at least consistent enough) so while everyone likes 1-4x scopes the red dot may be better. Also with a larue mount it weighs around 6oz. If money is an issue look at the primary arms clone.

Stop worrying and learn to love the bomb. Let is auto-update, it is really for your own good. On any kind of modern hardware the background updater will cause no meaningful load, but ending up with an unpatched JVM with maybe a security hole is silly. Also, you really want a JVM or lots of stuff won't work for you nowadays, so completely removing it is a silly idea as well, as far as I am concerned. And I don't even like java as a programing language.

I can think of many non-safety reasons to ban a shooter. Lets see .. the guy that makes the lady shooters uncomfortable and won't take a repeated hints from match directors to back the hell off, the guy (or gal I suppose) with that keeps making veiled racist comments and RO's shooters differently depending on their skin color, the guy who regularly scores his friends .. forgivingly, the 30something guy who throws a temper tantrum like that would embarrass the 12 year olds girls shooting the match over his own damn poor performance and then throwing his own equipment over the berms, etc. How about a guy that DQ'ed at every club around you and then shows up to your match and signs up with a fake name? Now ... I've had to deal with some version of ALL of these issues, but none of them have gone as far as requiring me to ban the shooter. Usually a stern talking to behind the wood shed resolves those problems, but I can very much imagine circumstances where it wouldn't and where there isn't something as clear cut as repeated 180 violations to submit to USPSA. I think match directors have a responsibility to follow USPSA rules, follow local club rules, but ultimately their highest responsibility is to the shooters themselves and ensuring that they have a fun and safe time should be a primary consideration.

Actually banning someone for being jerk should reflect positively upon our sport. Look, all of us there are armed, if someone is being a belligerent abusive prick, I have no problem kicking them off the range and asking them to never return, BEFORE it becomes a safety issue. If USPSA has an issue with that, tough, I'll do it through the club board, so the shooter is welcomed to shoot the match, just not welcomed to step a foot onto the club property. Those who know me know damn well that I'm very newbie friendly but I am not a_-hole friendly.

In my experience the odds are the Savage will perform better out of the box and barrels are really easy to change, the Remmy will be more upgradeable later.

I've struggled to get my older buckmark running well for years, it even went home to Browning. It would still randomly FTE and FTF. Finally I figured it out. the top strap just wouldn't stay tight. If I tighten then screws down every 100 rounds or so it runs. If I don't it starts having problems. I could probably use some form of locktite but I need to find some of the light purple stuff because I don't want to use blue.

No trick, just visual patience and that takes a bit of time to develop. Try focusing on the A zone and consider that to be the entire target, consider everything else a miss. That way you may slow yourself down a bit to make sure you have proper sight picture.

I'm guessing you could probably even flush it in small quantities.

I guess they watched the Mythbusters episode where they cover a car in clay and then dimple the clay to see it it gets better gas millage. It does.

Yup it broke almost like that but closer to the U, there is none of the first loop attached to it. With that few rounds I sure hope it was just bad metal, the break is a very clean shear. I do have set of the JP yellows thats going to go into the gun for now, but they don't light up everything (like military primers) so I'll have to shop around for some springs that feel nice and light up everything.

Wouldn't the CO2 canister be consider explosive or dangerous?

I don't think anyone ever chrono's shotguns, do they? Either your load will knock the steel over or it wont.

Make one that fits unthreaded barrels and I'll buy it. Some of us are stuck in New Jersey and have to scrounge for old breaks that no one makes anymore.

After 1200 rounds of .22 through my Smith break I'm not seeing any real buildup.

My AR currently is sporting a set of the Tubb 90% springs which feel nice to me. I've put maybe 600 .223 rounds through it, and about 1200 .22 rounds through a CMMG conversion kit. Today the hammer spring snapped in 2 (one of the side coils broke away from the U shaped bend). Do people break those springs? Are the Tubb springs crap or did I get one poorly heat treated? Do .22 conversions put different stress on hammers?

It's been that way for a while. To me the ER is place to be avoided short of true of real hardcore emergencies. For everything else make an emergency appointment with your doctor.

I'm the guy Raz-0 mentioned that uses titegroup with 170gr moly in a M&P. Yes it is smokey, but I never notice it even shooting indoor. I'm also not noticing any real barrel fouling.

Well looking at the prices from our gracious host, I'd say the used machine isn't worth it then. A 550B (complete with powder measure) is $419, the powder measure itself and a powder die are about $90 resulting in the NEW value of the press itself of about $330, and that is before we start asking what other pieces are missing (tool heads, primer feed components, etc). For the $30 difference, give Brian a call and order a new machine, but remember you will need a few extras as well to really start reloading which is why the guides he just posted are awesome.