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Twist too fast?? I beleive that the original question was,to paraphrase, " would a 10" twist be too fast for a .308?". Although many .308s have a 12" twist, many others have 10". The standard twist for most 30 caliber cartridges over the last 100 years has been 10"----no way is it too fast. All...

If I recall correctly, The Thompson is blowback operated, which would not work well with blanks, if at all. The tube sounds like a crude conversion to gas operation, which can be tuned to operate quite well with blanks. I have never seen one, but that is what it sounds like to me.

One thing is clear to me. If more aggressive bears are killed, fewer of these incidents will occur. Its called natural selection. It is absolutely not necessary to kill enough bears to significantly reduce their population--just killing off the most aggressive one percent will greatly reduce the...

I'm just waiting for the rest of the story----what kind of drugs was the "victim" on?

I agree that politicians tend to go where they think the votes are. Whenever I hear a "regular guy" suddenly start spouting "libberish"(liberal gibberish), I ask to meet his new girlfriend. Invariably there is one.

Big Brother? Wow. I certainly didn't expect this much anger. I tried to be clear that I wasn't suggesting that we give up anything....people would still have all the privacy that they have now, in places that are private now...such as your home, office, car, outhouse, motel room, etc. etc. What...

Big Brother? The problem is not the phones (or cameras in general). It is the laws that are being enforced. This issue seems to really rile up a lot of people that I think should know better. They focus on privacy, and condemn what could be a revolutionary law enforcement tool. Imagine a world...

All bears are known for bluff charging. Unfortunately, this gives some people the false impression that they have "scared off" the bear if they yelled or made noise and the bear turned and ran. Rest assured that if the bear really wants you for lunch, the biggest gun you can carry only improves...

Dry Firing I agree totally with Az Jeff. Although it may appear that dry firing involves the same stresses as live firing, that is not so. The primer cushions the firing pin and greatly reduces the impact. It is possible to design a gun that will tolerate lots of dry firing but it is not...

The beleif that tinfoil can somehow stop the voices in their heads is indeed a common symptom of schitzophrenia. Some will say that it comes to them spontaneously, but I suspect that it is essentially a persistent "urban legend" that is passed along in places where they tend to gather, such as...

I am hearing a lot of people feeling smugly superior to others who don't seem to have the same set of facts memorized that they do. There are a lot of highly qualified shooters who just don't much care about ballistic trivia. I have known several old time hunters who barely know which cartriges...

Reminds me of the time I asked a car salesman what he would give me for the heap I drove up in. He answered, smoothly and politely, "By the pound.....? A very old joke, of course, but my point is that he did it in such a way as to quickly jolt me into reality without devastating my fragile...

These things tend to happen in clumps or clusters....some are copycats, and as mentioned, some are just due to the tyranny of large numbers...out of 300 million people, at any given moment, hundreds of thousands of people feel, some rightly and some wrongly, that they have been screwed by...

What we seem to be missing is that if the "carful of mopes" has committed no crime (other than illegal possession), there is no reason to "throw the book at them"...and if they have committed other crimes, they should be prosecuted for them. If the statuary punishment for the crimes that were...

Gunshot Sound Effects As I recall from an article that I read several years ago, recording actual live fire doesen't work any better than recording blanks...the recording equipment simply can't handle the range of sound, and the speakers can't reproduce it anyway. What we hear in the theater is...

I think there may be some misunderstandings about the meaning of the words "quality", "shoddy", etc. American made firearms have undergone a fairly continuous reduction in the ammount of skilled hand labor that goes into their manufacture, for at least 100 years, and maybe much longer. At the...

Why do we need.... The quick answer to any question from an anti that starts out with "Why do you need....." is : "Because I want to be better armed than the criminals." Shuts 'em right up.

Gun Free NRA meetings This situation has perplexed me for a while but I now think I understand what we are up against. The NRA meetings are just a highly ironic example....everywhere we are seeing legislatures pass shall-issue laws and then nearly negate their value by creating such a...

Anti Gun Girlfriends Be careful. Not one person in a hundred has any luck changing their partners attitude, particularly on an emotional subject like this. Marriage counselors are unanimous on this. To those who think they have done so, I suggest that she wasn't too strongly into hating guns in...

"Super Killer Ammo Hoax" Its been done already, five or six years ago. I forgot the details but it was the perpetrators that got all the ridicule, not the media.