Back home I loved the natural gear, prairie ghost, trebark, and mossy oak brush camo patterns. Everything there was mostly brown.

I haven't got to go hunting in Hawaii yet, sadly.

I once bought a Walther/Smith and Wesson PPK/S for $150 and sold it a few months later for $200. I didn't really like it but it was a pretty cool gun to have. I get a little angry at myself every time I see one for sale because there's no way I'll ever get another one that cheap.

I also sold a Smith and Wesson 459 for $250 once. I made a profit, but I still miss that rattly clanky inaccurate piece of junk for some reason. Not all 459's are bad, mine was just well used.

35 rem is not based off the 308 case and does not share the same rim diameter. They're close but not the same. 0.473" vs 0.460". The Remington cartridge lineup introduced in 1906 included the 25, 30, and 32 Remington which were basically made from a rimless 30-30 case; and the 35 Remington which was based on a rimless 30-40 Krag case.

I've tried cutting 30-30 cases on a lathe to form 25 rem cases because they're pretty hard to find. It was too much work and I found a company doing a run of brass so I purchased a few hundred, which would've took weeks to make myself. 30-40 Krag is harder to find than 35 rem brass so there's no way I'd ever try to cut them from 30-40 krag, and it's way easier to reform 308 and trim the rim down.
http://www.ballisticstudies.com/Knowledgebase/.35+Remington.html

22-250 is like a cousin of 308, and could be formed from 308 pretty easy if a person wanted to do it.

I put a lot of work into getting my model 8's fed back home and did a lot of reading on cartridge conversions for them so I figure this is one topic I could chime in on. I have a PDF book on brass forming that was very helpful that I could share as well. And yea, I wouldn't want to go through the work of setting up a progressive press for either 35 rem or 22-250 if I wasn't shooting tons of it.

What FPS were you loading the 300BLK to?  Sounds like issues with underpressured ammo.  I don't shoot 300BLK, but I shoot with many who do.  I'll ask them about combinations of gas length (I assume carbine), springs, buffer, etc. 

Yeah, recoil on most AR15 calibers aren't bad at all.  I haven't shot the wildcat stuff like 6.5, 6.8, etc, but I can't imagine them being too bad.  5.56/.223 is nothing really.  I haven't shot a rifle length gun in a while, but I would really love to own a rifle length upper.  When I was thinking about getting into service rifle matches, I was close to getting a basic (irons only) upper to shoot those competitions.

I don't know exact feet per second but I was having problems with everything except a few brands of factory supersonics. I ended up opening the gas port to 0.125" and it helped but it still doesn't run most factory or reloaded subsonics. Maybe I need to mess with it more or find another powder but I've basically thrown in the towel for now and have been looking at getting a pistol length gas Barrell for it.

Back home I lived near a creek that would always have bottles floating down it from the city upstream. Me and my friends would see who could shoot and make the bottles bounce the highest in the air without breaking or sinking them. It's easy to hit a bottle, but hard to shoot close enough to make them bounce and not break them.

I'd recommend against the NAA mini revolvers unless you need something absolutely tiny. They're way too loud, inaccurate, and slow to reload. Stay away from RG revolvers, i had one that wouldn't hit primers hard enough on double action, andmost of its parts are pot metal. The lcr looks good, but I've never shot one. Anything Smith and Wesson is probably good as well. I've shot a full size Smith in 22 and it was a sweet shooter.

I'll agree with what others said,  see if you can try before you buy.

I'd also consider getting a full-size metal framed gun for your first gun, but I'm biased as they're my own preference. They may weigh more, but that'll help when you're learning and you're not likely to be able to legally carry it very far in Hawaii. If you do want a polymer gun though, I'd go for a Glock. They're pretty much the standard against which all others are judged. You can't go wrong with any of the full size or compact models (17 or 19), but I'd skip the subcompacts (26) for a first gun.

In my hometown the daily paper would publish a list of crimes committed the previous day, and I think they might have listed names and addresses of suspects/victims and where the crime occurred. I don't know if that was just something that my town did on its own or if there's a law that mandates reporting crime to the public. Maybe call the Honolulu star and see if they report this sort of thing?

It might be tough to find who you're looking for if you don't know any names or the case number. It gets more complicated If a minor is involved. If you have a name you can search criminal records at https://ecrim.ehawaii.gov/ahewa/, but it only shows convictions, not pending charges, and there is a service charge.

You can also try the traffic report at http://www4.honolulu.gov/hpdtraffic/ to see that it was reported and would have a case number. It looks like the site only lists reports for the last 24 hours, at least while looking on my phone, it might show more on a PC.

I hope that the kids ok.

If you have any idea of the percentages of lead and antimony you could compare it to prices on rotometals.com. It looks like a 5 pound ingot of 3-5% antimony/ 95-97% lead is selling for $9.99 right now, not factoring in shipping.

Back on the mainland I never carried anything bigger than my CZ P01. I quit carrying it because of the size and weight, and mostly rotated between a diamondback DB380 and a Beretta 21a. I did carry a charter arms 38 for a while, but quit because of its weight and it's failure to eject reliably. I always wanted to try out a Glock 26 and 43, or a keltec pf9 as they seem like they'd have been good for how I carried in both summer and winter. I guess I gravitate towards smaller guns, even for winter carry. If I were ever able to carry in hawaii I'd get the Glock 43. My db380 seemed to have troubles in hot weather, and I hated buying 380 ammo.

As far as big guns I don't have a lot of personal experience. My cousin carries a full size Beretta 92 year round but admits he wants something smaller. I have a friend who carries a ruger P90 with no problems, but he's got 6"and 80lbs on me.

My brother in law carries a Beretta px4, grandma carries a ruger mk1 in a purse, dad a 3" Taurus 357 in a toolbag, 4 other family members pcket-carry NAA mini revolvers , and my little brother carries a Jennings 9mm but acts like it's a custom kimber . Safest family reunions in town.