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These were given to me by the estate of my friend and mentor - the late, great Pat Rogers. This S&W model 38 was his BUG when he worked NYPD: Looks like the whole gun was coated in NP3. Pat and Freddie Blish were good friends so it was probably sent to Robar for some custom work as well. The trigger is amazing. This 1911 was his off duty carry for a few years: Colt frame, Unknown slide. Has a fitted Bar-Sto barrel and some custom parts. Again, based on how this thing shoots, it probably has custom work done, but I don’t know by whom.

I use 5.56/.223 for all social long-gun needs. I am not a .300 convert and am not 100% spun up on the ballistics. If I had a suppressor, I would use subs. If I didn’t, I would use supers.

I don’t have this upper, so I am not speaking from experience. I don’t know how reliable all super rounds will be, but I think you should be ok. The Pistol length gas system is a compromise between the myriad super and sub .300 offerings to offer the best reliability across the caliber.

The pistol length gas system is designed to run .300 ammo most reliably, especially subsonic offerings. These slow and heavy rounds need as much pressure in the system as possible to run reliably. You want the higher pressure of the shorter system to make sure all the moving parts move correctly (dwell). So basically, placing the gas port closer to the lower receiver allows more time for gas build up while the round travels down the bore.

This Christmas, let’s put aside our pork product differences and celebrate all things breakfast meat. Pork Roll, Sausage, Bacon, Ham, and Kielbasa living in perfect harmony.

Im a Pork Roll guy, through and through, but I have to say - Nothing smells better than Bacon cooking.

Looks like a good kit. What are you planning on adding - I have a few things that I like to use (SOFTT-W, Oales, QuickClot) and would augment that kit as well. Curious what you prefer. Personally, I don’t like keeping my boo-boo kit (band aids and tummy medicine) in with my trauma/bleeder stuff, but if the kit is big enough and packaged appropriately, it’s not a big deal. Depending on your range bag, that may be bigger than you want. That’s almost what I issue my cops for an IFAK. I make a couple substitutions (SOFTT-W instead of the CAT, and an Oales instead of the gauze and bandage. But it’s a good start and the right size for a range bag.

What are you trained on and what do you want to be able to treat? Are you looking for band-aids and Tylenol or quick clot and tourniquets? Depending on what you are looking for -you can spend a lot more than $75 and still need more. My first stop for anything Medical supply related is: https://www.narescue.com I’m sure you’ll find something there to suit your needs and price range.

This is fucking genius!

Midway has Schmid AR-15 LPK on sale for 1/2 off: https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1025028783?pid=454948&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Service&utm_campaign=products-on-sale&utm_content=product-description-link If you haven’t heard of Schmid - they make the LPK for Colt and FN.

Trigger finger issues, while a real concern, is the least of the problems with the SERPA. Both the holster and belt attachment are made from cheap plastic that can be ripped off your belt with a twist. They designed a locking mechanism that is easily rendered useless, subsequently locking the gun into the holster so you need tin-snips to cut the gun out. And, they use terrible cheap mounting hardware that backs out on its own for no reason. I’ve seen more l issues with SERPA alone than all other holsters combined. But, since you brought it up - let’s design a holster that only releases the gun when you hit a button with your trigger finger. Then let’s put that button right where the trigger is located. Then let’s make the motion necessary to successfully manipulate the holster, replicate a trigger press. Then let’s expect this to be done at speed and under stress. What could go wrong? ETA: ahh… and I just saw that @Mr.Stu covered a lot of it already. Listen to him. He’s a cool guy /Zoolander

Or any Fobus holster or a Blackhawk! SERPA.

Fake. Someone on Reddit made that.

Nah. Peel loves me and deep down she knows we are right and it’s Pork Roll.

Lol. Same. I probably have 4 more AR pattern rifles than I really need because of this. I have grabbed a single part and turned it into a complete rifle in less than a day on more than one occasion…. I was trying to sell off a bunch of spare parts, just to keep that from happening again….. I have too many other firearm projects I want to finish.

No thank you. We don’t want them.

Items like that prey on the unknowing and the untrained. The “it’s uncomfortable” or “it’s hard to do” crowd love this stuff. They are a hardware solution for a non-existent problem that are marketed towards people that would rather throw money at a “solution” to a perceived “problem” than to seek useful knowledge based in real world experience and then work to be trained. I‘m not saying having a pistol safe in your car is a bad idea. The opposite actually - it’s a great idea for times when you have to secure the gun in your car because you can’t carry it into wherever you are going. But those aren’t supposed to be quick access or out in plain sight. They should be hidden and solidly installed. They are a safe storage option not a holster.

Guns turn ammo into dirt (carbon) and heat. All that heat and dirt has to go somewhere. The engineers have built considerations for how to handle the heat and dirt into their plans (including coatings as well as manufacturing and assembly processes). “There is no free lunch”. So, when you change things to make the gun run cooler or cleaner, that heat and dirt end up someplace else. That may be a place that was not designed to handle said heat and dirt. This can be problematic. I like to prevent problems in my life-saving equipment at all costs. If I can’t prevent them, I will do everything I can to avoid them. For me, step one is to stay away from all proprietary parts (like that roller cam pin or piston driven uppers). Step two is to avoid fancy coatings and the like. So far, it’s worked for me.

I get what you are saying, and I’ve seen what you mean - but this ain’t that. I have always, and will always, call dumb TTPs dumb. Otherwise, they take root and fester and suddenly these terrible ideas are widely accepted. If that makes people feel badly, that’s on them. Leave the ego at the log-in screen - If you’re asking a question, you clearly don’t know the answer. Maybe listening to those that do with an open mind will save everyone some time, money, and heartache. I’ll continue to answer question and go into detail for anyone, the OP decided to be snarky and shut it down, not me. At the end of the day, my advice is worth what you paid for it. If if you don’t know me, my background, or my demeanor, it may be worth even less than that. Everyone is free to take it or leave it.

After reading his response to me, I realized that he wasn’t really looking for advice. What he was really looking for was validation that his idea was a good one. Well, it’s not and he didn’t like it when someone told him that what he thought was a good solution was actually a dumb one. If I’m new at something, and ask a question of a group of people with the same interests, and someone with 20 years of experience tells me my idea is dumb, then takes the time to explain why it is dumb, I generally re-think my position and don’t accuse the person I asked advice of being a know-it-all. But maybe i’m wrong. I don’t have all the answers. At the end of the day, his concern of drawing a handgun while seated and the obstacles to overcome while conducting that TTP is valid. However, his solution is not preferred.

Pissing contest? Give me a beak… I didn’t say the OP was dumb. I said the off-body carry of a CCW was dumb. And it is. I stand by my statement. If I was teaching a class, I would (and have) said the exact same thing to the faces of my students. Are we so soft skinned now that calling a particular TTP dumb is hurting feelings? C’mon now. You and I have been here long enough to know I wasn’t attacking the OP.

3 basic reasons why it’s dumb: The first rule of getting into a gunfight while seated in your car is: Don’t. Cars are bullet magnets and offer almost no protective cover from incoming rounds. So, if you’re in a car and you need to pull your gun, hit the gas and drive away instead. If you can’t drive away, your best course of action is to bail out of the car and make space between you and your aggressor/bad guy. I bet you’ll wish the gun was already on your person then. Think about this - If you are carjacked, would you rather have the gun on you as you are forced out of the car? Or still in the holster between your legs that you can’t get to without telegraphing your intent to fight? Or is it better to leave it in the car as a gift to the bad guy? Fighting while trapped in a car is the last resort. If that’s the case and you have to fight from inside your car, carrying off body is dumb because: You spend hours and hours of training time and ammo drawing from your body. Do you really think you are going to remember, under the stress of a physical altercation where you need your gun, that today, for the 15 minutes you are in your car, that you put the gun over here? In this spot? Not on your body where you are used to it? News flash - you aren’t. Ultimately, no one rises to the occasion. Everyone falls back on their highest level of training. In other words - under stress - your 20 reps from the off-body car rig will not override your 10000 reps of drawing from the holster on your belt. Keep the gun on your body and attend a training class that will teach you the proper way to fight from a seated position. It’s not hard to do once someone shows you the way. ETA: I thought of a third reason - the first time you walk into a Stop & Rob and realize your holster is empty because the gun is in the car - because you forgot to transfer it over to your hip when you got out of the car to get a Twinkie and a coffee - you’ll never off-body carry again. So - to sum up: 1) If you choose to get in a gunfight while seated in your car - That’s dumb. 2) If you have to bail out of the car and you leave your gun behind - That’s dumb. 3) If you react to a deadly threat and unconsciously reach for your gun at your hip/appendix (where you normally carry it) and you find an empty holster - (either due to forgetting you moved it to a new location or forgetting it altogether in the car) - That’s dumb.