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    Moving to Fort Worth...Help?

    Thanks all sorry for not replying to my own post in awhile but we have completed the move with our now 7 week old daughter, lets just say it was fun...real fun. We bought a house just off of boat club right near Lake Worth. I only had a week to find a house but we did it and the wife is...
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    One rifle, one caliber for whitetails; your choice?

    bolt action Remington 700 .308 Win without question
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    Moving to Fort Worth...Help?

    Sorry its been long, had to go out on det. Thanks all so much for your help, Im going to making a trip in sept for some house hunting. I appreciate all the suggetions and have already started taking them into account while Im looking at homes. Thanks all so much !
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    one in the chamber and full mag?

    I carry loaded cocked and locked with a topped off mag, If I have to clear the gun for any reason I put the extra In my coat pocket or stick it in the belt loop of the holster so i dont loose, but sometimes it gets lost.... hey hollow points are sold by the 20 or 25 and two mags +1 comes out to...
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    Open carry is setting us back. IMO

    I support open carry one hundred percent, only these threads put me on the fence. I carry concealed everyday and I can see both points of view, it comes down to two sides the positive- it exposes everyday citizens to a firearm ( and guess what it didnt jump out of your holster and shoot...
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    Open carry is setting us back. IMO

    10mm +1 for education, I was taught hunters/gun safety in 7th grade in PA. My history teacher taught it and had a gun safe in the class room, with weapons to teach us. Times have changed since I was in 7th grade but we had so many more people who even if they didnt hunt werent scared by the site...
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    how did the myth of the .45 acp come about?

    have you ever tried to shove somebody without bracing yourself its easy to push someone over when they are standing with their feet shoulders width apart adjacent to each other and you put one foot infront of the other and lean your weight to keep you falling from back. right?
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    how did the myth of the .45 acp come about?

    It would be possible to lift a small frame man off its feet, we say that in order to knock someone off their feet, you the shooter would also fall over. But we forget about all the energy being used to eject the round cycle the slide and chamber a new one, and all the energy we absorb into our...
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    Which gun for a raffle?

    My local friends of the NRA are doing a multiple gun auction where you get to choose and they were selling them everywhere at every gun shop and show and at walmart. If you have a few guns and do one ticket pull for each fund raiser you can let them have their pick and still have two guns left...
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    .308 Win. question

    46 grn varget with 168 grn SMK perfect for my 20 inch barrel 52 grns varget with the 168 smk for 30-06 shoots excellent sub moa out of my buddys mossberg but i started with 42 grns and worked up from there
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    686 Spitting Lead - cylinder alignment - help

    wow :eek: I have the forcing cone recutting tools and a crane swedger and alignment rod for .357 but thats as far as my "speciality" tools go. Ill pick up the manual though I have few books that cover the basics of everything and a few that cover the basics of handguns and rifles. Thanks...
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    Should property rights trump 2A rights

    That is outstanding can i use this quote divemedic? I live in washington and the hostpital that my daughter is going to be born at in August has one of these "gun buster" signs. I have been carrying in there for all her appointments and birthing classes. Is this something that the state...
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    How many people START with a 1911?

    1911 was my first handgun I personnally bought and owned. I had a couple of rifles before that and a shotgun but me and father have traded shotguns and one rifle since. I was raised shooting revolvers and only ever fired friends semi autos. After my second deployment I came home and bought a...
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    686 Spitting Lead - cylinder alignment - help

    My old man is shipping me his 686 its an old Mass. Police gun. After shooting it for 20 years its now spitting lead. He is sending it to me to fix and keep. I can re-cut the forcing cone but how do I go about re-aligning the cylinder? I know the crane probably needs to be straightened...
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    A unique CCW situation

    My wife is sitting next to me, and has an identical frame to the SIL. Her input is the Desert Eagle Micro, it has a huge trigger guard so she can fit even a long finger in no problem and long trigger so she wont have a problem finding it and is so small I can barely put two fingers around the...
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