Posted on 08/16/2022 4:37:49 AM PDT by Larry - Moe and Curly
These days, one would do well to at least get set up with a single-stage press, learn to handload, and then save their empties. It ought to be as important as eye and ear protection.
Also, go ahead and have all the 9mm's, fancy .357 Sigs and stuff that you want, but there is still value in the revolver and the lever gun. One is most intrigued by the Ruger-produced Marlins that should be showing up soon in realistic (lower 48) calibers...
All that anachronistic stuff, .38 special, .30-30, etc, still has its place, and one shouldn't have to pay GunBroker prices for it.
M&P10
Absolutely. I have a couple revolvers just to be able to make use of scrounged ammo in 357/38.
And nothing beats a revolver for a rapid learning curve, for making a non-shooter into, say, a back-door guard.
Any non-shooter can be up to speed on a revolver sufficient to guard a locked door in 5 minutes. Just dry-firing empty, and practicing a few reloads.
***Never ever buy an AR-15 in .223. It will jamb with 5.56 ammo.***
Never had a problem with the two different designations for a .223. Never a jam.
My Colt rifle has 5.56MM stamped on the rifle, the box it came in has .223 on it. Same serial number on both the rifle and box.
And I have only been shooting M-16s since 1966, AR-15 since 1970.
Very popular in the south for an intermediate is .243 Win, which is necked down .308.
Great all-around caliber; flat-shooting, hard-hitting, and accurate. Basically the same ballistics as 6mm Crd, but it’s available anywhere ammo is sold in the south.
100 grains at over 3,000 fps is nothing to sneeze at, yet the recoil is mild enough for smaller women and boys.
Head to Head: .243 Winchester vs. 6mm Creedmoor
by PHILIP MASSARO posted on February 22, 2019
NEWS, GUNS & GEAR, AMMO, HEAD TO HEAD
https://www.americanhunter.org/content/head-to-head-243-winchester-vs-6mm-creedmoor/
***Of course then we didn’t have Hollywood producing any movies that promoted and glorified that kind of violence.****
If you paid attention to the NEWS MEDIA back in 1968 we did.
Back then TV shows were so safe it was called “The national baby sitter.”
Movies were under the Hays Code and most were so safe for kids you could drop them off and not worry.
Then Bobby Kennedy was murdered by a Palestinian immigrant and the news media went berserk!
They blamed 5 shot bolt action Army Surplus Rifles, “violent TV shows, pulp fiction, toy guns and movies which “glorified violence!”
So to keep Federal interference away the TV shows dumbed down to kiddie shows.
Pulp fiction changed their covers, toy guns disappeared from stores, Army surplus rifles were banned from import,
Movies shown on TV were butchered to remove scenes of “violence”.
But the movie industry got a pass when they said they would replace the Hays Code with a joke of a ratings system. “G,M,R,X” was the first.
So with the Hays Code gone, movie makers re-shot scenes adding more blood, gore, guts, and lots of sex to get the now coveted “R” and “X” rating.
It got worse through out the 1970s. At this time the mental institutions were closed down, porn was legalized so comic book publishers began to publish violent porn comics “for adults only” but the kids were reading them.
In the 1980s movies were deluged with serial killer movies hacking young teens. The camera giving us closeups of the most brutal murders, with lots of spurting blood.
Also in the 1980s cable TV made a big comeback and bypassed the FCC rules showing many of these uncut brutal movies all the time.
By the 1990s came the Internet and ultra-violent video games.
I recently saw about ten minutes of an ultra-violent movie for adults but aimed at kids. Dozens of the most violent deaths that would have never been allowed under the Hays Code. Again, in just 10 minutes!
Since those days we have released onto society a whole generation steeped in blood and gore with no moral guidance, who think shooting up a school or night club or church is no different than a video game. Fun!
As I said, fifty three years the TV and movies were blamed. Not a word about the ultra-violent TV and movies today from the news channels today. They only blame guns.
Ar-15...AR-10...
I cantz have boffa dem?
My neighbor here in rural MO says more deer have been taken here with a 22LR than anything else. Shots often taken out the window of a truck and yes, head shots.
30-30 cases scrounged from the range. A little Unique and a 170 ish gr lead bullet.
Shot through a can from a lever gun . It is quieter than any 22lr, even with a can.
It hits like a 357 magnum.
Funny article but the age limits are a joke. No bb gun till 6? Maybe but seems a bit late imho. You should be walking the fields with your old man by then with your bb gun. And you outta be able to shoot a tweety bird during that hunt. Belt out? Heck your old man outta be proud when you down your first tweety bird.
.22 at age 9? Heck by 9 you outta be shooting your first 20ga as you will be bird hunting with it by 10 latest.
My .02.
By the time the democrats get done passing laws the only thing the public can buy is a pressure cooker.
Boring out the 80% polymer lower with a jig and drill press is a story in and of itself. Sheesh. Took a LOOONG TIME. I could only go down about 1/4 inch at a time. What they make us go through. It is not so easy peasy as the youtube videos make it out to be.
Lots of fun in a Magnum Research BFR with 3 inch cylinder, 10.8 barrel. 31,000 PSI limit on loads. If you need to go higher, a Marlin lever action can go higher. A Ruger No.1 or T/C Encore will get you the top loads.
No expert here. Seems like shooting the pelvis would be more disabling than a trunk shot.
No American should own a (semi-auto) "AR15" ... because they should all be (full-auto) M16s. NFA is blatantly unconstitutional.
I like
7.62 × 54r .
Every day is a holiday. Every meal a banquet. Every night is New Years Eve. Every fight is a battle. The party never stops until we see the cops.The cops are too smart to invade our trailer park.
Who exactly is this mofo to be telling e or anyone lese what we can own or not own?! Holy sh*t, this country and world gone super stupid.
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