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Vlad G

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  1. I don't think I have ever heard Jim Rogers NOT predict doom and busts. I mean, sure, eventually he will be right, and it may even be this year or the next, but that would be purely coincidence We have big problems coming, revolutionary one, Raz-0's points are the reasons why, and we need to think of how we well deal with 7bil unemployed people on the planet which I think is possible within my life time.
  2. That's sad, but if a thread on the internet pushes you away from something .. maybe it wasn't for you start, and it just reinforces some unfounded prejudices you have.
  3. Presumably anyone who wouldn't would be dead too? Again, they are different things and anyone saying they are the same is nuts, but trust me this, there is a significant crossover between the two camps.
  4. I wore it out. It is north of 125k rounds and I got tiered of trying to get SW to get me parts they don't want to sell for stupid reasons. At least with a Glock brand glock (as opposed to a SW brand glock) I can build one with a credit card and a web browser without buying a single Glock brand part if I need to.
  5. So .. all the marksmanship teams of all the military branches that attend all the major 3gun matches? All the guys I met with missing limbs and eyes and other injuries obtained during the recent unpleasantness that shoot 3gun ? All the LEO/swat people I meet shooting matches? You mean all those guys who then take what they learned back to their Units to teach others? I guess their experience is not real. This argument creeps up like every 6 months and it is an idiotic conflict we should not be having. The tactical and competition fields are different but symbiotic and complimentary. We can all learn from each other and the smart people on either side do. When the tactical world is now getting all sorts of moist over Roland Specials, they forget that 10 years ago they were dismissing gamers with their comp'ed and red doted pistols. Never mind that the competition world debugged and developed the hardware that they are lusting over today, and they it has been decades to evolution to bring it current state. Never mind, that the race rifles of two decades ago are now the hotness of the tactical world with free floated handguards, low power variable scopes, offset sights, etc. The average competitor I know shoots more in a year the most LEOs do over their entire career, the gear you trust your life to, competitor have worn out and broken and provided feedback to the manufactures in how to make it better.
  6. Games are games, and fights are fights, different things. However, the above makes a few assumption I personally found to be false. 1) Yes, competition shooters MOST of the time know the stage. Also, most of the time they have 5min to calculate all possible scenarios, movement, reload plans, etc. A good shooter may run 5-10 plans through his mind before coming to the line and executing the one he or she believes is best. They do that for hundreds of stages. Eventually they get pretty damn good at looking a situation and making a plan REAL quick. 2) I don't think there is any situation in which being able to handle your equipment with no thought is not a useful skill. I have met very few people outside the competitive arena that are one with their equipment, and yes some of them were cops or military, HE for example is completely at home with gear, but most police and military shooters I've met are actually really not at that level. Yes it is game, but I can't think of a situation where being completely in tune with your gear is a bad thing. 3) Most 3gun shooters I know use retention holster, either level 2 or 3. No one wants their gun re-positioning itself into a bush while running around the woods. Some shoot customs guns, some do not. I do ok with my darn near stock Glock. Mostly it is not the equipment but the shooter, within reason. 4) My 3gun belt is not a heck of a lot different then a duty belt. At any point it may carry quite a few pounds of weight, between handgun, multiple mags for it and rifle and a maybe a box of 12ga or more. It is not light, but you are right on the vest and other things 5) Stress is a strange thing, but every competitor I know gets stressed applied profusely , they almost all get adrenaline dumps, jitters, stomach butterflies, some barely sleep before major matches, all the flight or fight responses are in play if you are serious about it, and you get to dwell on it for minutes or hours or sometime days. You get to build up that stress and continuously balance with your mental game. I know it is hard to believe unless your go through it, but at the higher levels of competition stress and dealing with it are critical. Again, games are games and fights are fights. To many game shooters assume they would be awesome tier -5 ninja face shooters, but the also to many of the folks on the other side of the equation have a poor understanding what is involved in the competitive shooting world.
  7. Im one of those with expensive 3gun rifles, and mostly it doesn't matter, specially in NJ and when you are starting out. Have a semi-auto rifle that will hold 2-3 MOA at 100 yards, preferably with a free floated handguard so when you rest it on things you don't shift to far off your zero. Everything else it is nice to have, but you will figure out what you want later as rifles tend to be a personal thing. If you want a scope pick up one of the cheaper 1-6 Vortex scopes. Comps are good to have, but people differ on what is good, a $40 Miculek comp will go a long way. Good triggers also matter but again .. a very personal choice, shoot whatever you have until you learn what you like.
  8. Like everything else, things are worth what people are willing to pay for. And people are fickle. I once picked up a 1954 Winchester 94 in pretty nice shape for $200. I could have walked out of the store and sold it for $400 and now more. It depends on what people want at any given time.
  9. see this is why the concept on incorporation against the states exists. That is the whole point of McDonald and going through Scotus
  10. Side note for problem Maks doesn't have .. the Vltor stock is horrid if you have beard.
  11. So two wrongs make a right? You can't say you support state rights and then turnaround and say but not when I don't wanna cause the other side were poopy heads. The court actually kinda did it right. It decided that the states don't get to chose who you stick it into and who you can enter in legal contracts with. Now, you can disagree on religious, ethical, whatever grounds but from a legal stand point that is EXACTLY how you want to approach gun rights because the path is already clear, not by legislation that can be contested but by having SCOTUS saying it is a constitutional right that states can't infringe.
  12. That is what incorporation is all about and the role the of SCOTUS as a third party arbitrator. We've had civil wars over the issue. If nothing else it is a hypocrisy issue. Lots of folks on the right complained bitterly about state rights over the last years on a number of issues. Maybe they were right maybe they weren't but we shouldn't wave that flag on some issues and then chuck it aside on other. The other issue to be concerned about is the lower courts. If you pass a federal law like this it will be mired in the lower courts for years, this judge on SanFran throws it out then the Judge in NY thinks it is unconstitutional then it gets amended then .. bleh. Much better to work it the other way, get a friendly SCOTUS bring up a good case, have be the implicit law of the land and figure out the details after.
  13. Thats not how I see it. Rushing things in the first 100 days is a bad idea. It entices the opposition to fight harder to prove they are not push overs, look what happened with all the "big ideas" so far. The huge wins have been changes of policy at ATF and related administration initiatives (yes I know they can change again later) and the SCOTUS stuff. The SCOTUS nuclear options use was a huge tactical mistake on the opposition side because they should have saved that in case a second judge was up for nomination, now it opens the door for changing the court balance much easier in the next 4 years. I much rather wait and see some of those pro-gun changes pushed closer to mid term elections when vulnerable sits can be pressured. I much rather see some court cases go to SCOTUS because that is far more influential long term then laws that can be changed at the drop of a hat. The carry law thing .. that is actually pretty bad when it comes to states rights and the wrong way to go about it in my view. Build a court majority, bring up the right cases and get it on the books that way for a long long time. Sure, longer harder fight, but the right way to win it, quick cheap wins never last.
  14. Maks makes a valid point, "best" is way too subjective and relative. Do you have T-rex arms or King-Kong arms? Do you have giraffe neck or a penguin one? Narrow face or broad face? Are you using irons dots or scopes? All those variables can change what best is. Then you have personal preferences about cheek rests, butt plate angles and materials, balance and weight, etc, etc.
  15. Im amused by the sling mount, because crew served handguns are a thing.
  16. The only plastic pin is the backstrap/trigger housing pin. The locking block and trigger pins are steel and they will scuff/scratch/etc. It's a tool not a beauty queen, if it works leave it alone.
  17. In my opinion, if you don't have a pile of stuff hanging off the rifle, I would not use any of the various grips. There is a hand guard attached already (unless you are a guard in Escape from NY) so use that. If you pick the right diameter handguard it will fit your hands just fine and you will have a more linear pull into your shoulder, and more control over the muzzle rise. I've tried AFGs and vertical grips and the like. I always come back to smooth clean hand guard, although nowadays I wrap in elastic bandage for extra grippines ,cause in my case carbon fiber is too slick. The hand stop type are ok for consistent hand placement hints, but for me they get in the way as I don't always get to hold the rifle the way I want it, depending on what and where Im shooting. But HE is right, you gotta try it for yourself, everyone is different.
  18. Vlad G

    9mm vs .40?

    Well sure, if you are going to make such well reasoned arguments, I can't help but agree I shoot a lot more 9mm now then .40, but I've also shot a LOT of .40. It is a actually a lot more flexible then people realize, specially if you reload. I can span from very mild loads similar to 9mm all the way to loads hotter the most of the commercial available 10mm loading in the same handgun size as a 9mm. This is thread is about to devolve into caliber war and I'm not about that, but there are very few useless or bad cartridges, and that is usually if they are inherently unsafe or completely outclassed. .40 is neither.
  19. Vlad G

    9mm vs .40?

    The is another reason to consider .40 even if it is just a conversion. When the next ammo drought hits, 9mm and .223 and .22 are the first things to fly of the shelves. .40 seem stay around for a while longer, in fact during the latest unpleasantness, I don't recall it ever being gone of the shelves.
  20. This. Don't assume there are 5 justices ready for you to be armed. Probably 3 for sure. Roberts and Kennedy are big question marks. I'll bet if Scalia could have have had carry language in Heller he would have. The fact that he didnt is telling. I would preferred this was delayed until there was another judge replaced.
  21. Plenty of LEO's don't shoot their guns. Plenty of LEO's can't modify their guns. Plenty of LEOs drive beaten up CrownVics. Etc etc. The crappy plastic sights work, they beat aiming down the slide, and they are better then WWII 1911 sights by a whole lot. But they are certainly not best of breed, no matter what species we are talking about.
  22. So .. you don't mod your guns? Funny .. I could have sworn ...
  23. If you want one or not is up to you. The dirt issue is not about cleaning your guns, but about using the gun in dirty/dusty/etc conditions and that channel pretty much is a tube all the way to the trigger mechanism. The second reason is that they can improve reloading is they create a better "magwell" effect by removing an area where a mag can hang up. Odds are if you never reload your gun quickly then it doesn't matter.
  24. It is not a flaw. A number of semi-auto shotguns do that, namely most of the ones with the jointed shell release mechanism. That setup buys you some things but it adds this behavior. You can choose to not purchase the gun because of this behavior, and I certainly understand it. I run an inertia gun with the same jointed shell release mechanism and I far prefer it. Sure, you can buy a cheaper Mossberg and then throw it away when it breaks in the 12 different ways which they do one actually used hard enough. Or step up to the Benelli design, which doesn't do that if it bothers you. Personally if you asked me what I disliked most about the 1301 I wouldn't even consider the "flaw" listed here, my main complaint would be the location and size of the shell release button.
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