jeff47

A good friend of mine is lefty and I get that when you do find left handed long guns (which isn't often) they are at a premium. Just pointing out though that Mossberg announced they have apparently tooled up to make a whole slew of left handed shotguns in 15 different variations. If he needs one today he's probably out of luck but I would suspect you'll see them in larger numbers soon, especially online. Although if you were the only lefty in the house I could see the Ithaca being a great compromise.

How is left side ejection not a 'thing'? It obviously exists or are you saying it's not practical in some way? It's certainly a new series, but I have no reason to doubt it works. http://www.mossberg.com/category/series/specialty-series/left-handed-l-series/

The Mossberg 500L or 590L would be my choice since they are left handed guns that eject to the left. My 590 is awesome (but I'm right handed).

If you find yourself shooting regularly its much cheaper to shoot at GFH with even a basic membership. You get discounts on ammo, classes, range time is much cheaper etc. As far as ammo I never buy less than 500 rounds, usually 1000. It's not like it goes bad and at the moment it's relatively cheap. You should be able to buy about 1000 rounds at a bit over $200 plus shipping. SGammo normally has great deals on all types of ammo but look around, I've bought from many different vendors over the years. I've bought several thousand rounds of pistol and rifle ammo from Freedom Munitions without issue but obviously YMMV. Good luck!

People said the same thing about aluminum and plastic guns being inferior and unproven in 1968 when compared to the time tested steel and walnut, yet here we are.

No, MDTS stopped using Buckeye a few years ago, I never found out why. They had tentative dates and then cancelled them all for some reason.

SmittyMHS, I had a similar issue with an AR. I was using some spacers to make the stock a bit longer and it turned out I had swapped screws and grabbed one that was about 1/4" (maybe less) too long. This was long enough to prevent the bolt carrier from locking back and was causing intermittent failures exactly as you describe. I had only swapped the stock so didn't perform a function check before heading to the range. Good times.

I figured I would give you guys a quick After Action Report for those who might be on the fence about taking either TIM1 or TIM2. TIM1 is a 2 part class, Part 1 is basically lecture and Q&A and Part 2 is all hands on. Dave spends the first half of the class talking about and showing photos and video of various types of Traumatic injuries, how to identify them and then discusses how to address them among a slew of other things. The first part is very informative but the second part of the class alone is worth the price of admission. We go over the hands on use of Chest Seals, Nasopharyngeal airways, a decompression needle, various types of bandages and tourniquets etc.. If you have a kit and have wondered how it works (or what certain things are for) or if you are considering building a kit but aren't sure where to start or what to have in there you actually get to try things out from different brands, learn how to use them and decide if you like them. When I took the original class 2 years ago I had 1 type of tourniquet and considered buying another type for cost reasons. I quickly found out that this secondary type was useful if I was applying aid to someone else but if I needed to apply it to myself I was probably going to die (seriously, which since its marketed to police is a shame). This piece of kit was not easy to apply with one hand (even using my dominant hand) so I decided this was a shortcut I didn't need to take and bought a few more of the original type of tourniquets. There aren't many classes that even talk about this type of kit much less let you try them out and learn their proper use. TIM2 is all hands on. If you have ever taken a Force on Force class and realized what a powerful learning tool it is, this is the First Aid version. We started out by building some practice trauma kits using the incredible amount of stuff that Dave had on hand. (we had CAT's, SOFT-T's SWAT-T's, Israeli bandages, 4x4's, rolled gauze, shears and a slew of other neat stuff so building up a kit that contained equipment we liked and knew how to use was pretty easy). We had the option of building a kit identical to our normal IFAK's/First Aid kits or building slightly different kits depending on what was available so I built a mostly identical kit and actually added a few additional things. Then we got into the scenarios. Using the mannequins and each other (and in one case having to work on myself) Dave would give us a scenario and we would get to work, asking him follow up questions based on what we might be seeing. I suspected the scenarios would be mostly based around shootings or events similar to what has happened recently in Belgium or Paris but that was not really the case. While I think they would certainly be applicable I'd say the bulk of the scenarios we ran were things like car accidents, traumatic accidents within the home or out with friends or family in relatively 'normal' surroundings. Dave mentioned that 95% of the scenarios were things that he has encountered personally so there was nothing insane or 'that will probably never happen here' type scenarios. The last few scenarios were actually 'I don't have my kit' scenarios that might happen while in the restaurant, at a BBQ with friends, somebody else drove me here etc. These were interesting because we had to come up with some possible fixes based on what we carry everyday and would likely be available in those surroundings. My take away from TIM2 is that most of my kits are relatively well stocked already for what they are designed for but I need to augment most of them with at least a couple of critical pieces that were just too useful, too often to not include. Hilariously the one piece of gear used during most of the scenarios was something I have in none of my kits and that I wouldn't even consider to be 'first aid' specific but I will be adding nonetheless. I also plan to change my EDC slightly (no I do not plan to carry a 40 pound trauma bag everywhere I go but I was surprised how frequently that might have come in handy) to reflect some of the things we learned. Thanks again Dave, great classes and I look forward to a TIM3 or at least a TIM1/TIM2 refresher in the future. - Jeff

Didn't realize there was a second video, even so she's likely going to be the subject of a protracted lawsuit sadly. It will cost them little to file and her a ton to defend herself. But that's a discussion for tort reform unfortunately.

I think you guys are missing some valid points. I don't think anyone will shed a tear over this situation except the homeowner who is going to be sued into poverty. A legal shoot does not make you immune from getting shredded in a civil lawsuit. In my mind if I was awakened and came to the top of the stairs armed and saw some guy starting to make for the door with my TV, he's not worth shooting. Ill command him to stop but I have homeowners insurance for that bs. If he starts coming up the stairs towards me and my family, that's a wildly different and more defensible scenario, particularly if I issue verbal commands to stop before shooting him. We all agree this guy was sh!t but the sad thing is even if they don't bring charges against her, she will unquestionably be raked over the coals by this losers family, even though she lives in Florida.

I think you're right about him bring cross eye dominant HE. Santiago sounds like a knucklehead. His "its called a pistol because it has a barrel and magazine" were one of the bigger head scratchers.

Checko, you'll see me there. I signed up for the refresher and TIM2. Looking forward to it.

DirtyDigz, any idea how you'd stamp the polymer frame? Not sure what the best method might be? I'm thinking if it was stamped ahead of time when it's just s piece of plastic, it could be completed whenever.

I'd be interested.

There is nothing stopping you from selling a legally marked pistol,as long as it's legal. My concern is being stopped with an unserialized firearm and trying to explain why it lacks a SN. I have serious doubts that most in NJ will understand that firearms don't technically need sn's and they will continue coming back around to the fact that possesion of a firearm with a defaced serial number is a felony despite the fact thats not the actual situation. I hope that makes more sense.

I have to say, I really thought his posts did this forum some good. No one else was able to galvanize and unite the members here like he was. Even members who seem to agree on nothing agree'd he was out of line.

Fishnut, have you considered a way to mark these receivers? I'm not sure how set your friends shop is. We obviously don't need it unless we choose to sell it but it would be much easier to explain if it's marked in some way with a serial number and place of manufacture.

Op, I don't know how familiar you are with the business but breweries are regularly upgrading the size of their brewhouse's and getting rid of their old ones. Keep an eye out for used (or failed breweries) brewhouse's, tanks, chillers etc as that's a huge startup cost. Kegs are also extremely expensive and a canning line is major expense. Since NJ finally changed their stupid laws small breweries are opening up and really just going the taproom route. You could also do growlers. The distribution of growlers is almost impossible (each label will need to be registered with ATF) but this would give you an easy carry out option. Be wary working with bars, they can be a real PITA and they may force you to pay for taps. Its illegal but it happens. I'm guessing you're going to start with Ales to increase capacity by reducing tank time? Good luck, brewing good beer will help your chance of success immensely.

I guess Apple fixed the charger exploit where you could root the phone and take control of it remotely if someone mistakenly plugged their iPhone in using a conveniently placed 'adjusted' charger? Thats too bad but if the feds wait long enough someone will come up with a new exploit for it.

The shotgun is pretty versital. If it's beating you up I'd recommend using something like the knoxx recoil reducing stock and low recoil slugs and shot. Most people who have fired my 590 are amazed at how light the recoil is.

Newtonian, that's pretty much exactly the advice I got my Massod Ayoob. If there's a dead guy lying on the floor of your house it's easier to say something. Obviously something happened. "You were forced to shoot him/them to defend yourself and/or family and now with all due respect your shaken up and want to talk to you lawyer after which time you'd be happy to give a full statement". Done.

Lol! The NRA is directly responsible for the 92 AWB, 86 NFA, NICS etc not because they opposed them but rather because they helped craft them as a compromise. It's only within the last half dozen years has the NRA bothered to actually defend the rights of all firearms owners, rather than just the dwindling number of hunters and FUDDs that they thought were their demographic. All they did was compromise our rights away for the past 50 years. This is undeniably one of the reasons why they have 5 Million members rather than 20+ Million.

As mentioned above its a fully transferable MG with a special dewat status and needs to be transferred as such. It's got papers and can legally be reactivated so its significantly more valuable than a standard Vickers (or whatever you have) parts kit or dummy gun. If you're not already a member over at the 1919a4 board you should join. Those guys probably have more information about the use and operation of every machine gun ever built (and they probably own a few examples of whatever you have) than just about any other group of people. Good luck and post pictures!

Actually I find Art entertaining as he has managed to rally us all around a common cause. That and the video specifically addresses FTF transactions, so I guess he didn't bother watching the video in its entirety. Personally I find the NRA's recent stands refreshing.

John McGuire posted a few months ago that he was still building, I think it's $500 with your kit and side plate. At current market price for kits (~$1200) you're looking at $1800-$2k. But this should give you great resale value. Not sure what Atlantic is changing.