General Comments = a list of things having great demand, that the govt has banned would be great.

I'll see what we can get on that...

-- William

General Comments = give me the dam equation for shooting range!

If you mean an equation for finding bullet drop at various distances, there isn't really one. That calculation uses muzzle velocity, bullet weight, bullet caliber and shape, and air density. You basically have to find the bullet's drag, and use that in conjunction with the velocity and some calculus (since drag and velocity are interrelated) to plot the drop over a distance. It's way easier to just find the drops yourself by shooting at various ranges from a stable rest. Or for rough data, take a look at ammo manufacturers' web sites - they usually have some drop info for the ammo they make.

-- Columba

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = Too many people don't really get this info correct. This should help tremendously! Thanks! RSJ

ed *****, Missouri sovereign to all government

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = I strongly feel the same...

How can we, as Patriots for Freedom, somehow UNITE and ORGANIZE to be able to DO SOMETHING??? Are we just going to keep watching the "Big Boys" take it all away? If we lose this special FREEDOM and LIBERTY, this wonderful experiment, and our special Constitution... we'll NEVER get it back. Dictators and tyrants have ruled forever... we have a unique and special country -- and they want to take away all we have, and trample our minds and bodies, so we cannot "ruin" the rest of the world with "the light" we have. Keep up the good work and let's educate people (most are fat, dumb and asleep at the wheel (sheeple), as long as "their government" keeps giving them stuff).

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = This article, by Elias Alias, expresses my sentiments exactly. And, which I share with anyone I may converse with. HOO-RAH.

C. L. K****

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = G'Day Elias, Never have I read an article that so closely mirrors my own life as your"Low Profile, Slow Profile, No Profile" piece.

So right on that I smiled and thought high fives your way all the way through the article, really good to know there are some real "Contrarians" around still functioning in our increasingly Facist society.

I'm heading out in the spring, will look to see if I can find you and swap some truths and perhaps some lies as well, spent a lot of time "over the road" as a "heavy haul" driver, always did prefer open trailers to boxes. I also thourghly enjoy Claires writing as she has a wonderful way with words and very witty turns of phrase to communicate very deep thoughts.

Keep the Faith Bro, and will catch you on the flip side, perhaps?

A. F. H*****

General Comments = Let Freedom Ring. More and more, it is time to show the bastards the line in the sand, and tell them that; "We WILL be free!"

Rattlesnake Jim

Nary a problem, Jim. The little steps are the important ones, 'cuz they add up and give people hope to keep taking more. Sometimes you can get a lot further taking a couple of little steps every day than working diligently for months to take that one giant leap.

-- Hunter

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = Irreverant humor is the most subversive thing in the world!

So they tell me, but I take life FAR too seriously to have ever found out for myself... *twinkle*

-- Hunter

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = Another thing to do: I printed up business card-sized Declaration of Liberation cards. The text of the card says: I hereby withdraw any and all consent (if, indeed, consent was ever given) to be subject to the whims of the murderous, criminal collective known as "government"! At the bottom I have a signature line and a date line. I leave these around anonymously.

Not a bad notion in and of itself, but an awful lot of people who are in the early stages of breaking the chains in their minds are not going to understand. The fallacy of the "implied consent" argument that the statists throw at us deserves an article of its own, but I think Spooner beat me to it by many decades.

-- Hunter

Rating = Average

General Comments = Here's my favorite eeeeeasy thing to do to promote liberty: When a telemarketer calls you (oh yeah, get off the whimpy "do not call" list) tell them that you'd love to give them money, but say: "I'm sorry I can't this year because my taxes are so high, I can't afford to piss." This works especially well with those taxpayer funded beggars that aren't required to abide by the "do not call" law.

*laugh* Now that's a good one, I gotta remember it. I've used something kind of related with political polling and fund raising calls, but I never thought of extending it to telemarketers. Once in a while I get a call from some outfit I know supports victim disarmament and shut up the telemarketing operator with that fact. But this is a more generally useful tactic that spreads an important meme. The least those guys deserve for interrupting our lives.

-- Hunter

Rating = Average

General Comments = Some good links, but poor overall suggestions as to achieving real freedom. Time wasted on "playing the jester" could be spent more wisely in self-examination of your environment and the limits on freedom therein. People can waste their whole lives trying to wake up 'the masses'...better to investigate and review tools and technologies which will result in more personal freedom NOW, and have that info available for true freedom seekers.

Here's one:
#51. Get a pen and paper. Write down everything you need to live your life on one sheet(if it fits)(food, shelter, communications, transportation, etc...subcatagorize right down to light bulbs). On another sheet write down all the things these needs are dependant on (ie;trasportation->car ---- gas, insurance, license, mechanics?, parts?) Now, you have all your current needs and dependancies laid out before you... but here's the tricky part...look through the dependancies and see what you can either; -do yourself or learn to do yourself(through technologies and tools) or -move away from dependance on the state

A lot of work, yes, but this kind of visualization can be helpful for people to realize just what kind of monster the state is, and just how far into their lives it's tentacles reach. (PS:If you want to scare yourself, put dollar figures next to the dependancies)

Geez, tex, don't hurt yourself leaping those tall conclusions in a single bound. I made my first list like you're describing almost 30 years ago at this point. Kinda an ongoing process once you get started. One of my earlier articles published elsewhere advised people to have not only a plan, but contingency plans, and others have covered training, equipment selection, and overall strategy. This, however, was meant to be a list of easy and fun things for people to do. (You DO have fun on your list, right?) News flash - not all that many people find the level of self-appraisal and planning you talk about enjoyable. And that automatically excluded such an idea from an article meant to present ideas practical, achievable with minimum effort, and above all morale-boosting.

Now, YOU may consider the sorts of actions I put on that list a waste of time. There are dark moments when I do, too, depending on a lot of things - but an awful lot of people have found value in those selections. That article started years ago when I starting jotting down brief notes of things I'd done that WORKED, and I enjoyed enough to want to try again someday. I culled over them to find the ones that I thought would be enjoyable and practical for people to accomplish a little something at ANY stage of their personal journey to the level of freedom that THEY want to achieve. But I am not going to judge anyone else's choices so long as they aren't harming me. People insisting on doing that to each other is a lot of how we got into this mess in the first place.

Face up to it, pilgrim, true freedom is going to mean that a lot of people are doing things that you think "waste their whole lives". It is none of your damn business what they choose to do with their lives so long as their actions don't intrude on YOURS. The Zero Aggression Principle and self defense and property rights and a few other things beyond the scope of the present rant are bedrock requirements, but anything beyond that is just none of anyone's business but the person living each particular life.

-- Hunter

Happy Blasting

General Comments = Stright to the point.I like that.its about time someone called the whining,sniveling,anti-freedom shepple what they really are!! OK rant off loved the article Chuck in WV.

General Comments = This site is great, i am a gunsmith out of missouri, from my knowledge with firearms this site is greatly detailed and a good place for buyers to check out before purchasing firearms. I think somthing like this should be submitted to Gunbroker.com and other sites to help people.

General Comments = thanks for the info 0n the SS109 round...When I Asked I Sales rep At cabela's who was on the american sharpshooters team he said they were made for car doors and would probably go through the door but not the other interior things like seats and door paneling after penetration.....well they went through 1/2" case harded steel...

General Comments = Article and comments were very informative. Just what I was looking for.

Rating = Good

General Comments = I like these types of reviews. I do disagree, however that the semi auto offers great advantage at longer distances. In the event of conflict with an organized army, the irregular unit should try to keep it's distance, and avoid prolonged engagement to hopefully negate the advantage of the other sides supporting arms. You touched on this in an above paragraph, but didn't finish up the thought.Shoot five or ten rounds and run. Where the semi does offer an advantage is a multiple target situation at close range, say under 200 yards. While I am not suggesting that everyone rush out and trade their M1A in on a Enfield, I will suggest that a well trained shooter with a bolt is the equal of a well trained shooter with a semiauto at distance, for a short engagement.

Additionaly, your 2-2.5 MOA is right on target. I enjoy shooting my battle rifles in an exercise that Clint Smith calls the Maximum Field Radius. I believe, through observation of myself and others, that you can take a rifles bench group size, and multiply by three for a trained individual, and by six for a untrained person, and get the effective group size of the rifle/shooter combination.

The drill I use goes like this:

1 shot standing, one kneeling or squatting, and one prone at 100 yards. Par time is 15 seconds for all three shots. Repeat three times, then measure your group. Group size is the distance from the center of the group to the worst shot. That is your MFR. This drill really shows you what a MBR needs to be for the shooter to operate it proficiently. And believe it or not, there usually isn't much difference between the bolts and the semi's.

Thanks for listening

Daniel S*****

You're right about the advantages of semi-auto fire at longer ranges - at a point (where depends on the shooter) the time gained by automatic cycling becomes negligible compared to the time needed to aim. Still, the semi-auto gives one a flexibility that bolts lack. A "step around the corner and find a couple Bad Guys right there" scenario is a practical possibility, and much more survivable with a semi-auto than a bolt action.

The MFR sounds like an interesting and useful drill - I'll have to try it out.

-- Columba

Rating = Excellent

General Comments = Awesome! Fanatastic! I have no words that can convey how it stirs my heart, mind and soul.

General Comments = The7.62x54 are a much better rifle than a 303! The 7.62x54 is a fine rifle!thay are the same ase a 308 win.and close to a 30-06 so you need to do your homework for you start to run you mouth!If you what some good homework on the gun than email me beings that you don't no what you are talking about!

The 7.62x54R is a fine cartridge -- indeed, better than the .303 British. Unfortunately, there aren't any rifles in 7.62x54R that are suitable modern battle rifles. The Mosin-Nagant is slow to use, has poor sights, and a small and slow-to-load magazine. The SVT series are hampered by poor reliability. The Dragunov is arguable, but between its 10-round mags and exorbitant cost, I see no reason to get one for use as an individual's battle rifle.

-- Columba

General Comments = Are there any ways to legally obtain Class III weapons off paper or do these steps apply to them as well?

Sorry, but for Class III stuff there's no simple legal way around the paperwork. It is possible for corporations to own Class III weapons, but I don't know much about how the paperwork is supposed to go for that situation. As for illegal solutions...well, those are pretty obvious, aren't they?

-- Columba