High Exposure

No. Guns don’t kill. People kill.

The name calling. The libel. The finger pointing. The rousing of the rabble. The arguing on a basis of pure emotion with no supporting facts. Why, It’s almost liberal-ish. And from such a well respected and esteemed member of our community. It’s sad really..

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Thought you guys might dig this! 1990 Field Manual for the M9: http://pdf.textfiles.com/manuals/MILITARY/united_states_army_tm_9-1005-317-10 - 14_december_1990.pdf 2017 Field Manual for pistol training on the M9: http://www.apd.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN3524_TC 3-23x35 FINAL WEB.pdf

No choke. Send the Barrel to Hans Vang and Vang Comp. You can thank me after you pattern your awesome new barrel.

I get it Griz. What I am saying is a firefight involving a platoon or fire team size element of regular soldiers (SOF and DA folks is a different story) in a combat zone and what an armed citizen needs to train for as far as combat accuracy in a shooting are slightly different and for cause.

That’s why it’s like 20,000 rounds per kill during the GWOT.

It depends. Pat used to take his T1 on a LaRue 660 mount off his rifle and throw it across the range. Then he would walk over, pick it up and throw it back again. Then he would reinstall the optic onto the rail and shoot a zero check. It never lost zero. Keep in mind that not all mounts are created equally. If I take an optic off, and I have LaRue mounts (and ADM and DD) I consider zero lost until I can get to the range and confirm the zero is good.

Seems like you are spending a lot of money on hardware when you haven’t yet developed any software. IMHO you should be spending more money on ammo and quality training under the watchful eye of a competent and qualified trainer than on fancy receiver extensions and magnifiers with FTS mounts. You still really have no idea what works and does not work for you, and you are changing everything. You need consistency so you can properly evaluate your TTP and measure your progress. This is not a slam on you, please don’t take it that way. Carbine accessoeries are an easy, fun, and expensive rabbit hole to fall down - believe me I know. I learned the hard way that I was going about things ass-backwards.

How many rounds have you fired through this rifle?

Everyone is already infected. If you die from anything you come back as a walker. The bite is just filthy and disease ridden and makes you sick to death. I am behind a few episodes, but I imagine that Carl will be the impetus for someone on the show to whip up a batch of super antibiotics or anti-virals to figure out a way to stop the bites from being fatal in and of themselves. They will do something stupid like give him Sickle-Cell or Malaria or hemophilia, or some kind of Blood Cancer chemo or something equally weird that stops the bite from being so rapidly fatal.

I understand the differences between mil-spec and commercial receiver extensions. The PWS Enhanced Buffer Tube may meet the mil-spec dimensions. It’s a I’ve piece of kit and I would not hesitate to put one on one of my rifles. But this: is pretty far from Mil-Spec. If you are buying parts that are outside the spec for the TDP - either exceeding it or inferior to it - you should not be surprised when things do not fit right.

You should strike the word fast from your vocabulary when training. You want to be efficient. Speed is a result of efficiency, not moving fast. Moving fast does nothing more than introduce inconsistencies. Nothing should be fast. You want to decrease the time it takes to accomplish a task. To do so you need to be more efficient in processing your environment, more efficient in threat acquisition and discrimination, and more efficient in your movements, and your weapon manipulations. Remove unnecessary motion, get smooth. Regardless of the saying, slow is just slow. But, efficient is smooth and smooth is fast. Raz-0, I agree, accuracy comes first - fundamentals have to be laid down.

Getting your hit second. I think he’s referring to the relationship between speed vs accuracy. 5 shots in a 1” circle from 10 yards in 10 seconds is good, but in a gunfight 8 shots in a 6” circle in 5 seconds is better.

I’m aware of BA employees. I still use BA. I’ve locked up more than a few folks that list BA as their employee. You find the same people at any warehouse and food store that employs unskilled labor. It doesn’t matter. All you can do is not think about it. The same diabolicals work everywhere. You can’t avoid it.

This is a parlor trick, not training for a gunfight - unless you are fighting a bowling pin that doesn't move while you also stand still. Yes, there is absolutly an instinctive part to gunfighting, but it's isn't point shooting. It's instinctively evaluating your sight picture and determining if it is good enough to hit or not while being cognitively aware of your threat, your backstop, the foreground, and everything else in between. The evaluation of your sights becomes instinct through training that breeds procedural memory. The situational awareness comes from being able to fight through stress. Through training you should strive to reach the 4th level of achievement when running the gun - unconcious competence. Sight alignment, sight picture, reloads, manipulating the safety, malfunction clearing, admin functions and movement with muzzle awareness should be on autopilot freeing up what little ability you have to actually think under stress for the big decision - shoot or no-shoot, communicate, and environmental discrimination (discerning cover, concealment, and positions of advantage). I have talked to many folks that have been in gunfights and I have been trained by some of the best gunfighters alive. They all say the same thing - if you don't use your sights you don't get hits. These are not guys that were involved in a single incident and survived. This is from men that make their living carrying guns and putting bad people on the ground. They all stress the same thing use your sights. When shooting at another person, the only thing that tells you where your rounds are going is your sights. There is no berm, no neat black hole in a sheet of white paper. No ring of steel or bowling pin falling over. There is no spray of blood or chunks of meat flying. If you are lucky, your target will react - a flinch or wince, or maybe the targets shirt will puff out for an instant . If you are really lucky they will stagger or fall, but even those aren't definite indicators of even a peripheral hit, let alone a solid one. Maybe they tripped, maybe they are diving for cover. The only way to know if you are getting hits is to note the position of your sights relative to your target when you break the shot. Evaluate your intervention and reapply force as appropriate and necessary.

That is a leather piñata. Jeebus! Where do people come up with this stuff?

Everything is a dildo if you are brave enough.

Target shooting can be used as training you for combat accuracy - but in reality they are world's apart. Expect to see a 50-75% degradation in your skills under stress. This can be reduced by stress inoculation in training and experience with real violence. Acceptable combat accuracy to me is to maintain the ability to: With a handgun hit all rounds in a 4" diameter circle around my POA, on demand (which is different than on command), from 25 yards regardless of shooting position. Time constraints follow once I meet accuracy standards. Same from a carbine at 100 yards. My shooting will never win me a bullseye's competition - but that's not what I train for. In the end there is no "Advanced Gunfighting". It's simply tighter accuracy under stricter time constraints - the basics done more efficiently.

1) Gut about 5" - 6" of 550 cord. 2) Tie the gutted cord into a loop. 3) Remove the grip. 4) Put the loop around the grip stud so some hangs out on the side of the receiver. 5) Reattach the grip. (You may have to create a channel in the grip for the cord to fit). 6) Clip your sling to the loop. You now have a cheap and soft single sling attachment point.

If I have two hands available, 2 thumbs. If not it's 1 thumb or - and I have been doing this a lot lately - voice to text.

I like the way the Hera stuff looks on SBRs. Looks weird on full size guns. It also feels weird to me. The stock is too straight and the vertical grip is a weird angle for it's location with the LOP for my little short arms.