High Exposure

Here back on track!

It’s a line from a M Doughty song. I am bummed I missed it, but I had to conduct PD qualifications and firearms training at the range all day.

I have snost, and I have lost.

I have a bunch of the Glock PMAGS. They work fine, never had any issues. But, they are relegated to training status. On duty or CCW, it’s Glock OEM.

If anyone is looking: Big Tex Outdoors - https://bigtexoutdoors.com/ Is having a sale on Glock OEM mags including OEM 9mm 10 rounders. Big Tex Outdoors is a superb company. I have met Ike, the owner. He is a great kid and a staunch supporter of the 2A. Buy with confidence.

People build their rifles to their particular tastes. You need to find someone that wants the exact rifle with the exact parts that you purchased to assemble if you want to get anywhere near what you put into it. There are a lot of great parts in that gun, some are the same parts I would choose myself if building a carbine. But there are also some parts that I wouldn’t use because of personal preference and don’t want to pay premium prices for parts I don’t want. You’ll never get everything you put into it back - the market is just too saturated right now. And you are asking way too much for used parts. You need to take 25%-33% off everything at a minimum. The only reason to buy from you versus buying new from say Brownells or Primary Arms is a fair and approproate discount for used parts. You’ll have to take a pretty steep discount to sell the rifle as a package. As stated above, you’ll probably make the most money back by parting the gun out.

Yeah. That’s been making the rounds. Idiots for sure. Larry Vickers offered the RO a free slot in one of his classes for his quick response.

It’s a right, not a privilege. You may not like it GnC, but you don’t get to choose who gets to exercise their rights and who doesn’t. They people get to choose for themselves. Pretty cool how that works, huh? Maybe if more people owned and carried guns in N.J., and maybe if there was an actual established gun culture in N.J., everyone would have a better idea on how to act around firearms. The four firearms safety rules would be common knowledge like cross at the green and not in between and don’t eat yellow snow. Imagine if growing up in a gun friendly house and being raised by enthusiast parents didn’t make you a social pariah. Imagine if schools had hunters ed alongside drivers ed and a shooting team - clays, bullseye, 3 Gun - alongside basketball and baseball. It’s funny. Those same people drive, marry, have kids. Each of those things is infinitely more prone to causing death, injury, and disaster. Yet the “idiots” miraculously seem to manage. I wonder why? Probably because they are surrounded by those that know what they are doing. Because these things are commonly practiced, commonly accepted, and everyday topics of discussion without fear of repercussions. Maybe we should take time to teach people at the range instead of bitch about how unsafe they would be if they were to exercise their rights.

You’ll probably have to shop around. A combo of: • Brownell’s • Midway and • Primary Arms Should get you there.

Me too, All red would be too much. If he doesn’t want it, can I have it?

An embarrassment of riches!

Also, here is another picture of how ambient light can fuck you up. This is a brightly lit vestibule in an apartment building in daytime. This was from a force in force training in another state. I was not in the class, but someone sent me these pics. without WML: with WML:

There is a short period every day at dawn and dusk, and under certain indoor lighting conditions, where tritium night sights are very useful. They call it Mesopic Lighting Conditions. Nightsights are also a useful reference if you are in a static position of advantage/dominance and wish to line up your sights on a backlit area without giving your position away. That being said, if I could only have one I would choose: 1) Weapon mounted light 2) Handheld light 3) Nightsights In order of importance in my opinion. Link to another NJGF Thread on nightsights where I talked about this very topic. Still tangentially relevant to this discussion: Photo example of mesopic lighting conditions: Note the bright - but not overpowering - tritium and the ability to still see the outline of the iron sights. You can see the outline of the white body silhouette and the black box inside without the use of a white light.

Goddamn it! Ok cool. I’ll track one down. It’s an updated Gen 5 G17 full-size small frame with a G19 slide and it shoots 9mm.

Where did you get it? Every blue label dealer I called said it wasn’t released yet....

That’s a carbine length has system. See the rail, count the holes on top (you can just barely see them between the side rail panels and the top rail panels). Only 7 of them. That’s the 7” drop in 1913 quad rail from Troy Ind. A midlength system would have a 9” rail (with 9 holes) to cover the gas system. There should be a lot more barrel in front of that front sight for a 14.5” barrel with pinned muzzle device. That’s probably a 10.5” or 11.5” barrel.

Lasers for dry fire are great. That’s why I have a SIRT Pistol.

That’s almost exactly what my work gun looked like 12 years ago. Magpul CTS Stock Magpul ASP sling plate Magpul MIAD grip with trigger guard Magpul BAD lever Magpul XTM Rail covers KNS anti-rotation pins (not sure which generation) Troy BUIS B.A.D. ASS safety Troy drop in rail 7” Tangodown Stubby VFG EOTech 511 optic (they don’t make it anymore) Noveske Flaming Pig muzzle device Can’t tell what make the light is Pretty sure this is an SBR so you can’t make an exact copy, but you can get close. The stock will have to be pinned and I’m not sure if that muzzle break is good in N.J. You’d also have to shave or remove the bayo lug.

I like the EVO a lot. Would love to have one. But, training time and funds are finite and hard to come by. Every rep, every drill, every competition I can get in on an AR platform is a plus - for me. Shooting a different platform would take valuable training time and ammo away. I would rather get time in on an AR platform where the reps build useful procedural memory.

I think visible lasers on pistols are useless. IR lasers on pistols can be useful under nods. An RMR milled into the slide is a much better solution and offers the same single plane sighting advantage.

What?

HOLY SHIT!! $2000?!?! I assume that is without the M5 and Scalarworks Mount. Looks just like mine and it cost me maybe 1/2 that to build!

Every time I watch this, it gets funnier:

I’m partial to Surefire lights. For pistols the X300U is my first pick. Any of the main distributors is OK. I have found myself buying from Brownells and Primary Arms mostly as of late. Big Tex Outdoor is also an excellent online shop with good prices and good gear in stock. Also, keep your eyes peeled for Columbus Day sales coming up.