High Exposure

DrewP, sorry for your injury but the can-do spirit is awesome. Good for you! Griz gave you the best advice. As usual, he is spot on. Go slow. You new strong hand will become as capable as your original strong hand before you know it.

Someone sent me this the other day and I wanted to share: :rofl:

No compromise indeed!

Glock could do more to innovate.... I'd like to see some fancy space age shit - integrated white and IR lights and lasers. RDS built into slides, ambi slide controls. Maybe a safety for the pocket size guns - but it will cost for the development and that cost will be spread to the prices of all their products. But they aren't terrible. They have the G43 and G42 now. Small single stacks are pretty relevant now for what the public is clamoring for. They saw everyone milling their slides for RDS, so they came out with the MOS line. Single stack compact .45 was the hot ticket for a while - boom Glock 36 is released. People wanted a long slide 10mm for hunting - Glock produces the Glock 40. The G17M for FBI has a lot of features people ask for in an "updated" Glock, I'm sure you will be seeing many of the requested "improvements" in Glocks next generation release. In the end, thier triggers are acceptable. I hit what I aim at.... Their sights are admittedly placeholders. There are 47,000,000 sight options for Glocks out there today. Which set should they go with (that will raise the price of the gun accordingly) that every shooter that buys a Glock will love? Or, should they install placeholder sights that are usable until you get the particular sights you prefer? Shit... You get three shooters together you'll get 4 opinions on which sights are best. I'd rather not buy sights twice. Glock should keep the plastic sights on there and keep the price where it is. I'll spend the money on the exact sights I want instead of what Glock thinks I want. In the end Glocks do what really is the only thing that matters in a defensive handgun. They go bang when you want them to and hit what you are pointing at - as long as you do your part...

? Mipa you OK? Are you having a stroke?

I'd rather have ROE and a Brigade commander that would let me use grenades when I needed to and trust me to make the decision in the field.

Did you bring rifles for everyone? At least hats? T shirts?Stickers? Yeah, who's the crappy forum member now?

In my experience ambidextrous mag releases are unnecessary. With practice you can be just as fast, if not faster, as a lefty with standard mag controls. It's a slightly different technique but all you have to do is hit the mag release on the way to the fresh mag with practice you can still pass the falling mag with the fresh one on the way to the magwell. Additionally, I have seen plenty of people accidentally unseat their mags when their Ambi controls hang up on gear. The left side of the rifle doesn't have the protective ridge around the mag release that the right side does.

Have fun. Bummed I am missing it.

The large majority of SF guys I have known over the years carried a G17, with a few sticking with the standard issue Beretta. A couple of old timers and some guys that were "more special" than the rest had 1911s of some flavor - but even they were switching to G17s. They have a handgun solicitation every few years. They never change anything. When I say SF drives the solicitation reqs I mean as a total procurement not just for SF. And if a handgun is officially selected, it will likely bleed over into AF and Navy. The USMC will probably do their own thing as usual.

My understanding is SF drives most of the handgun solicitation reqs. Also, there is a thread with ongoing discussing here: http://www.njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/84961-sig-p320-wins-army-mhs/#entry1098064

Yes it matters. I have seen lowers out of spec where pin hills don't line up, pivot pin holes are oblong and the lobes are too close to fit the upper into the lower. Specifically I've seen this in Spikes and PSA lowers more than once and one Anderson. *** note - Anderson makes decent lowers and I believe the single out of spec lower I witnessed was the exception and not the rule. Stag is my go to lower. Relatively low cost (~$115) but I have had very good luck with them being in spec. BCM makes the standard for reliable BCGs. I use Midwest PX for my LPKs. They are affordable, can be had sans trigger group so you can add your own (I have a strong preference for ALG ACT and Geissele SSA), and Ty is a member here and a friend. If I have to pay someone, I'm happy to give it to him. Additionally, I think M4 feed ramps are an important reliability feature for guns running carbine (and even some midlentgh) gas systems - especially if your barrel extension has them already.

The solicitation was worded in a way that S&W was the only available COTS option that met all requirements. Everyone thought S&W was going to win - it was almost like they wrote the reqs themselves.

I vaguely remember there being something about US building bases, or staging missles, or strategically placing equipment in Italy that pushed them to Beretta...

Krampus

Replace the TP with a roll of Duct Tape.

That was the only part of the movie where I rolled my eyes. He would have been much better served stashing a chest rig with 6 rifle mags and a couple more pistol mags than a Benelli M4 and that 3 Gun rig. It was still pretty cool though.

Well, Glock filed a protest 3 days ago and the GAO decision is due June 5th. No idea what aspect they protested. I wonder if we will see anymore protests. Clearly debriefs are happening. http://soldiersystems.net/2017/02/27/glock-protests-xm17-modular-handgun-system-award/ ETA: Sounds like Glock is stating that their submission performed better on all tests, but Sig won on price alone.

Your first handgun teacher was wrong. There have been plenty of NDs with DA revolvers, and if people keep forgetting rule number 1 and 3, there will be many more. The length and weight of a trigger is not a safety. Knowing the condition of your gun and keeping your finger off the trigger until justified and ready to fire is the "safety". Again, please stop with the condition zero. No guns are designed to be carried in condition zero. Yes, I'll bet a lot of NDs are with striker fired guns, but I posit it is because they are the most popular guns out there and there is a disproportionate number of them in the hands of gun owners right now. I bet before Glock hit the scene, 1911s had that dubious title, and before that I bet revolvers were the leaders in NDs. Like I said before, you got it all figured out. I've only been a student of some of the best instructors of modern pistolcraft and I have been teaching people to shoot and carry a gun for 14 years now. What do I know? Good luck.

Roger! You are correct.

Oh! He'll yeah. John Wick was a pleasant surprise. I saw JW2 opening night with about a dozen guys from the team. Excellent flick! Reeves trained hard with Jessica Hook, Tori Nanoka, and Taran Butler. Awesome stuff. Never heard it called Baba Yaga... I know they referred to him as Baba Yaga in the flicks a few times.

You have a link? All I can find is a movie from 1973 and something about a witch. In the same vein, if you haven't already, check out "Sinners and Saints". Excellent gunplay. One of the few movies I don't yell at the TV during gunfights.

I was avoiding it, but if you say so, I'll check it out.