kenw

Thanks for the info. Did a quick OCR and sent out an announcement to the mailing list. K

As the economy continues to slide, we're gonna be hearing more of the "held up/shot/killed for food and pocket change" stories. And at the same time police departments are trimming staff, budgets are being cut and services reduced. I'm afraid that more and more people, some of whom would never consider such actions, are gonna be driven over the line just by the overwhelming weight of their personal circumstances. It may start to get much uglier out there much quicker than anyone ever thought it would.

You can move me from a possible to a probably. It looks like I'll be free, but it really depends if I can roll my lazy self out of bed at 5:00am on a weekend to drive that far south.

As I sit in my dark and windowless office, thinking of new and better ways to market crap that I wouldn't ever buy, only 1 phrase comes to mind. I loathe you.

How did it go? Anything newsworthy?

A charming personality and desire to learn only count for so much. The rest is the novelty of your gender. Yeah, there are a couple of other women on the board, but they seem to participate less and less. I don't know if it's because they generally find us crass and boorish, or if they just move on to something else. There may be a "women and guns" forum somewhere that they eventually migrate to. Dunno, but it is what it is.

Frankly, I'm disappointed. Maybe 2012 will be less of a letdown.

All the hounds have their noses up. Something new is in the air.

Congratulations. Have fun with it.

If you ever find yourself up north on a Sunday, come out to Sparta and hit the skeet range. There are a bunch of Fudds old-timers shooting there who love to give shooting tips to newcomers to the sport. You'd be the high point of their day. Some of these guys are really good, too. A couple of former competition shooters, and a bunch of guys who've been shooting longer than I've been breathing (and I'm not as young as I used to be). They've been pushing me to try it, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around trap shooting. They say skeet is easier than trap because the bird flies the same path each time, but I'm not buying it. K

I fear the guy who wrote the book about this may be losing some credibility by tomorrow morning. I hope he made some money on it so far. Link to article about the author

Do that in a skirt. Your scores may not go up, but the competition's scores should drop significantly.

Depending on which part you eat, either chicken or tuna.

Bring it to the UPS store. They have boxes to fit anything. For a price, of course.

You wouldn't like it. It's humble.

Gee, I hope it doesn't rain. You all know how Matt's race aliens dislike inclement weather. They may just get ticked off and destroy the planet.

Your modesty is exceeded only by your humility. You're gonna fit right in here. Be sure to try the pie.

Welcome to the asylum.

And I bet it didn't take 8 months to build.

And yet, Silver Bullet has them in stock, and anyone else has yet to step up.

I wouldn't care to get slapped in the forehead by either one of them.

That's gotta be tough on vendors who have standing inventory. I wonder how Beretta (or other suppliers) handle vendor protection when they make price adjustments that could hugely affect small volume operations but would have little or no effect on mass market retailers like the online guys. It just doesn't make sense that they would alienate their retailers by not making some sort of accommodation to offset their losses.

The thing I don't like about web reviews is that anyone can say anything. I give more credence to something that isn't as anonymous as that. If someone here, for example, posted that they had a horrible (or fantastic) experience at XYZ shop, that means something, and would carry some weight for me. But some faceless web review that could have been posted by a competitor or fired employee... well, not so much. That's why this is such a great place to hang out. Pricing is a different issue. All you have to do is ask if they're flexible on the price. If not, then not. At least you tried. I've found that if you're ready to buy, most of the one off shops will come off of MSRP at least a few bucks. Certainly not the same as buying on line, but supporting the local guys should have some value.

As to your original question regarding the XDm, at least as of a year or so ago, I believe Silver Bullet was the only shop with the blessing of NJSP to do the smithing on the mags to make them compliant. That may have changed over time, and there may now be others, but I haven't heard of any. Maybe your best bet would be to put out a call to the vendors here, and see what happens. I know they're mostly down south, but it's a nice time of the year to take a drive. Shore traffic should be pretty much done by now. Now they're all coming up north to see the damn leaves turn purty colors.

You have to catch Frank on a good day. My experience has been mixed, but in all fairness to him, he's in a tough business. I don't know if I could keep a sunny personality if I had to deal with tire kickers all day long, with only a small percentage of customers actually buying something. I suppose it's different for a shop that has a more diverse product line. When we bought Lynn's girly snubbie there, he came down substantially on the price to match the number we got at another shop (on our word only, no documentation), and threw in a couple of boxes of .38 for her. I stop in there from time to time just to say Hi and make sure he remembers me the next time I'm shopping. Of course, your experience may be different.