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You can search youtube for detail stripping videos for the J-frame. Basically what you want to do is tap the handle frame on the rh side(hit the same side the sideplate is on but not the plate itself) with a plastic or leather hammer (plastic screwdriver handle will work also). The weight and inertia of the side plate will cause it to pull free of the frame when you do this. You should never pry on the sideplate as it will only damage things.

Springs in any gun will get weak with age. The amount of time that is required depends on design and how poorly it was made. I have had mag springs fail within two years of buying a gun (ramline 10-22 mags). I also currently own guns that are close to 100 years old and the springs could very well be the same age and they work perfectly (Enfield No1mk3, 1911 dated).

For me personally all of my defensive handguns are kept loaded. All the mags for those handguns are also loaded. Like others have said there is no use for owning a defensive gun and leaving all of them unloaded and locked up. The rifles I leave unloaded but I have hundreds of rounds on stripper clips or in mags that would take less than a few seconds to be put in the guns while I covered myself with the handguns.

If you use yours guns to practice regularly you will recognize problems with your firearms caused by weak springs and it will be a simple, cheap repair. If you leave them locked up in your safe for 5-6 years at a time loaded with ammo you may have a problem when you need the gun but it may truly come down to unfamiliarity with your weapon. Get out and shoot them and be proficient, ammo still costs less than yours or a loved ones life.

Couple hundred in the safe in mags and on clips. Plenty more spread between sealed spam cans, 50cal cans and wooden crates.

I would like to call it spirited, speed limits are suggestions anyway aren't they.

Normally my riding is centered somewhere between cruiser touring speed and track day speed. I have no problem going fast but I like knowing that if a corner catches me off guard there is still a fair margin of lean angle left if needed.

Ok, so none of them are on my bike but I did take all of the photo's myself.

I5 cpu (shows four processors running)

650 @ 3.20ghz

4 gig ram

64 bit windows 7 service pack 1

thats what im on these days

The I5 650 is a dual core cpu with Hyperthreading. Not a true 4 core CPU.

Para Ordnance.

Huh, that's odd. I had always heard that Para was one of the better manufacturers. You use oil or grease to lube it? I run grease on the moving parts of all my semi-auto guns, barrel, frame rails and recoil spring in this case. It seems to last longer during long days at the range and doesn't throw off the slide and end up all over your face like some of the thinner oils can.

I use a white calcium based grease made by Lubriplate but pretty much anything you can get at an auto parts store for wheel bearings is good stuff. Several people I have shot with in the past have sworn by the black molly grease you use to pack cv joints with. The pound can I have now will probably last me another 10-15 years as a little bit goes a long way.

My advice is don't. Of course that is based on my first and only handgun that happens to be a 1911. After almost 1000rds of "break-in", lots of tinkering and frustration, I finally completed a 90rd course of fire this evening without a malfunction.

Jeez man, what brand 1911 do you have. I have a full size Springfield loaded model I picked up back in '99 that has been the raw definition of perfect. I have well in excess of 10K rounds through it. Heck two sets of mainsprings (one every 5K needed or not) and the normal cleaning and care is the only thing I have had to do to the handgun in the past 12 years. I can honestly say I don't think the gun has had a single on range malfunction the entire time I have owned it.

The Taurus Judge will shoot .45 colt and .410 shotgun shells.

Any .357 Magnum revolver can shoot .38's (don't try the other way around)

CZ-52 shoots 7.62x25 Tokerev and with only a barrel change will shoot 9mm.

Most .40 S&W can be converted with a barrel change to shoot .357Sig

The Medusa 47 could shoot anything from .380's, .38 special, 9mm to .357magnum without any changes.

You also have the more hunting oriented Thompson pistols that with a barrel change can shoot anything from the new .17 rounds clear up to .30-06

The actual getting wet part doesn't bother me all that much, it's the guy in his Lexus shaving, reading the Wall Street Journal and checking his e-mail on hos Blackberry while it's raining that bugs me.

Can't argue with that logic other than rain doesn't cause them to do that. It happens daily. Those twits and the woman with the makeup and cell phones while yelling at the youngin' in the back seat will get you also.

This is reason #4 on the list of why to wear all the gear all the time and to be sure your bike is in perfect condition. In this state you never know when you will be riding home in a thunderstorm.

I've already been caught in two storms so far this season, certainly not by design but it does happen.

First thing I would do is take the scope off and make sure the gun hits correctly with iron sights (hopefully it has them). Once you are sure the gun doesn't have a problem then you can troubleshoot the scope.

Here is an apples to oranges problem I have seen but it may cross over into your situation also. I had one of the Beretta Neos pistols in .22 with a Millet red dot on it. When the scope was new it worked perfectly and was accurate. About 3-4 months into owning it I noticed the scope was starting to lose accuracy. After looking into it one of the lens's inside the scope had come loose and you could see an o-ring hanging down between two of the lens's. I sent it in for repair and they said it wasn't assembled correctly and returned it repaired. This cycle repeated every few months until the warranty ran out. Seams that a 22 semi-auto pistol can actually do a fair amount of damage to a cheaply made optic.

As a side note, I have seen some of the less expensive scopes that came with the marking reversed for the adjustment. You had to turn them the opposite direction from the print on the knob to get them to go in the correct direction. Don't know if you gave that a try but it couldn't hurt.

They have some of the best thin crust crunchy pizza out there. I am not saying they have the best pizza out there but when I am in the mood for a good crunchy thin crust pizza, I look no where else. I have searched and have yet to find anything that competes.

Just get on 70 and head East for roughly 7 hours till you reach Philly. The guys pushing shopping carts down the street make better pizza that most places in Ohio. Sorry for everyone that grew up in this area but the pizza in this city is terrible. Picnic Pizza out in Zanesville is about the closest I have found in this area to what I grew up eating.

Are we going to have to suffer and deal with Steam on this release?

I call dibs. Will send PM with more info.

Don't know about motorcycle batteries but I knew several people that worked for Deka when I lived in Reading Pa, and swore by the car and truck batteries they made. The plant was local so it was nice to say it is made in USA and supported the economy in the area. Don't know how much was company coolaid. The battery I had in my Oldsmobile was a Deka and was going strong for 8 years before I sold the car. Certainly can't say to expect that from all of them.

When I can get away with it I wear leather work boots. If I am doing a dedicated day ride I have a pair of Sidi B2 boots. Why wear a helmet, coat, riding pants and gloves and then skimp on footwear?

Primers and powder yes, ammo no for hazmat. Most places ship ammo cheaper than you would pay locally in tax. Now granted I usually buy in bulk when I order online. If I'm not getting 500-1000rds it doesn't pay to bother online.

You need the high performance client from here;

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/DownloadWinOther

Then follow the directions from this page;

http://folding.stanford.edu/English/WinGPUGuide#ntoc4

for the multi-gpu system. I have to turn off SLI to get the cards to run properly. The new nvidia drivers seem to be a lot better at switching between SLI and not without crashing the pc. Makes it easier when I turn off folding to go back to gaming and get the cards back in sli mode.

Oh and I added my F@H stats to my sig.

There goes my chances of any decent ranking.

I've turned just under 4k points since turning them on around midnight last night. Should work out to around 9-10,000 daily if things stay the same.

I could throw folding on my two storage servers also and start rocking a pair of nvidia 8800gt's for another couple thousand a day. The only problem is they are single slot coolers and the fans are dreadful running near 100%. My gtx260's currently only need about 60% fan speed so the noise isn't as bad.

And out of all those choices my top two beers for drinking are not on the list. So disappointed. Yuengling and Killians go unrepresented again.

What's the purpose of this again?

Hopefully help doctors find a better cure. Read and help http://folding.stanford.edu/

Got off my butt today and got my main rig folding again. Pair of Nvidia gtx260 vid cards folding. Don't know what my daily numbers will be yet but they should be nice.

I need to start folding again. I have 6.6 million points and over 13k WU's before my folding farm started crashing hardware. I haven't done it in probably a year and a half.

Alienpi, I ran folding on Linux and it is faster just due to the lower overhead of the Linux OS. From what I remember, running in a VM will slow things down even more than just running in windows because you will loose clock cycles to the pair of OS's you are now running. Unless things have changed though, the most math you can crunch is with GPU folding.

375 super mag is .375

About all I have in loading manuals for pistol rounds that get close.

Rifle you can get the following

375 H&H Magnum

375 Dakota

375-404 Jefferey

375 Weatherby

375 Winchester

375 Remington ultra mag

Sierra makes a pistol weight bullet in 375 even though it's in their rifle category;

http://www.sierrabullets.com/index.cfm?section=bullets&page=bc&stock_num=2900&bullettype=0

Hornady also make lead round ball for muzzleloaders in 375 caliber;

http://www.hornady.com/store/36-Cal-.375-Lead-Balls/

Definition;

http://www.youtube.com/embed/4kU0XCVey_U