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I think some of the most fun you can have at the range is taking people who haven't shot before, or are just learning. I've been toying with the idea of building up a collection of pistols and revolvers for first-timers. Presumably these would be .22 caliber or convertible. In particular...

That's the stuff. I didn't actually see them shooting, so I have to assume it didn't cycle their guns. Thanks!

I was at the range today and somebody was showing off their 9mm, no-powder, primer-only 3.5 grain training rounds. Apparently the German military uses them for training and you can get them cheap. Unfortunately, I didn't get the name of a source! :banghead: I've been Googling and haven't found...

Now that's really nuts. Mary Ann, every time.

I gave my .22 (a Buckmark Camper) a good disassembly + inspection + cleaning the other day. Among other things, I tightened up all the screws. Today was its first time out since. After 120 rounds or so, I noticed that the sight rib was so loose it was about to come off--you could easily see...

Yesterday it was raining hard. It was hard to see and the road was wet. Just the kind of day where somebody could lose control of their vehicle and hit a pedestrian. I still drove to work. But I went slower than usual, and if I had questions about my tires or brakes, I would have taken the bus...

Coupla observations I actually tried the old Washington Post on-line recount. It let you pick Bush or Gore depending on which votes you'd allow (hanging chads, dimpled chads, write-ins with the same name that was punched). Sometimes Bush won, sometimes Gore won. There was no unique result...

Again?? How often do you have to tighten it? :( I checked it after the last time I cleaned it, and it seemed okay... But since that was a problem before, it could be again...

The .22 is meant for practice; I'll be getting something later for self-defense. How do you clean a magazine? Thanks, John (the Dilettante)

Slavery was abolished in DC and in the territories in 1862. In 1861 Lincoln turned down a number of compromise proposals that would have expanded slavery into the territories. The Emancipation Proclamation depended on wartime powers of the President. It did not apply to areas not in...

Yesterday I took a friend shooting with a Browning .22 pistol. Two things went wrong and surprised me: (1) A few misfires in a recently cleaned gun (ammo: CCI mini-mags). (2) Sometimes the slide didn't stay open after the last cartridge. :confused: I am starting to wonder if this (used)...

You guys...it's just acting! Clubsoda has a good point here. When politicians practice for a debate, one of their own campaign team usually plays the opponent. Same concept. Actually, I bet many of us could come up with better arguments than they usually present. ;)

I was shooting the other day and I wasn't doing well. Suddenly I noticed that my shoulders were very tense and uncomfortable. At some point I had started reaching forward while shooting, as though I wanted to grab something with my hands and it was just out of reach. This pulled my...

If you're that bad a shot, no caliber will save you. :)

20,000 of them will be sold on Ebay. :D

A general observation It's very hard to guess how somebody will react to an event like 9/11. Bush surprised a lot of people. During the campaign he sounded like an isolationist. Now he's the most activist president (internationally) that we've had in decades. On the day of 9/11 he seemed...

I was going to recommend the incentives they use with ordinary prisoners -- better food or access to HBO -- but for a man like Saddam, there's an easier solution. Give him a "secretary" and let him dictate his final message to humanity over the next year or so. Remind him that his place in...

T-stox: :confused: Do you mean that metal usually "feels cold"? It's actually the same temperature as whatever's around it--but the metal sucks a lot more heat from your fingers, so it feels cold. Rubber, at exactly the same temperature, doesn't feel cold because it doesn't suck as...

In any country in the world, if: publicly offer money to have someone killed, and someone else does the killing, you will be convicted in connection with the murder (the exact charge will vary from place to place). I don't know the details about these defendants, but I know that radio...

Do you really want to train yourself to put on earmuffs or plugs before shooting? It seems like the kind of thing that might cost you part of a second.