Old Dog

If the Gen3 fits your hand I would go with that. I had trouble with a Gen4 Glock. The only reason I went with the Gen4 was for the replaceable grip straps. The Gen3 is a little too large for my hands while the Gen4 fits just right. Plus there are a lot of Gen3 parts out there as you said as well as priced cheaper.

OH, OK, Never mind. Never had a problem with those either and my wife is deathly afraid of being stung. The problem was less and less each time as more and more land was developed and they are nothing like they were when I was 10 years old and living in the suburbs for the first time in my life. We had two female cousins visit us as we were all city folk and I lived near a beach and it was like a resort to my family. After two days of Cicadas they packed their bags and went home.

But they do not have stingers. My wife is allergic to bee stings and she walked among then twice or maybe 3 times now. It is bad enough there is so much misinformation about guns on gun forums without it spreading to bugs too. "Technically cicadas don’t bite or sting; they do however pierce and suck. They might try to pierce and suck you, but don’t worry, they aren’t Vampires nor are they malicious or angry — they’re just ignorant and think you’re a tree. Just remove the cicada from your person, and go about your business. Cicadas also have pointy feet, egg-laying parts (ovipositors) and other sharp parts that might feel like a bite." All it takes is a willingness to learn for yourself rather than believe what someone else tells you to know the truth. I have never had one "suck" me or know anyone that had that happen to them. Never has anyone said that they were hurt by the kind of Cicadas we get in NJ. I have also lived in other places that had some that appear at different time intervals. They are a nuisance at best. Nothing to be afraid of.

I have lived through them twice, the first time when I was 11 years old or so. They do not have stingers or I would have been stung hundreds of time because after a while we all started playing with them. They are just annoying and not as bad as they were before large areas of trees were uprooted. The last time they occurred it was nothing compared to the old days when you had to have someone pick them off you before entering the house. As a kid we started playing with them. If you grab one by the wings and throw it hard to the ground they make a satisfying popping sound. Seriously, there are men here who are afraid of bugs? Our ability to track and kill bugs is one of the manly reasons women marry us. Remember that there is only room for one person on a chair so you either push your wife off or fight that bug like a man.

I have used the Saf-T-Blok on all the Glocks I used to own. Works real well and no gunsmithing required. It fits behind the trigger and held there by adjustable spring tension. Just the pressure of a finger along side it will send it flying across the room and leave your gun ready to fire. You just have to be a little careful with your holster selection to make sure yours will not press against it. I had a lot of different Glock holsters and it was never a problem. It works as far as I am concerned and is a clever way to provide an inexpensive manual safety to a Glock. I think it is even easier to use than a manual safety.

Good opportunity for target shooting while providing a public service.

I agree. I bought enough for the next 12 months because I shoot every week and that is what I need. The problem with leaving enough for the other guy is that someday you may have to shoot the other guy and he will have ammo and you won't.

I am sure you will love it. I have yet to meet a Sig I did not like. I had one on order with Bud's last xmas but after 4 weeks they still could not tell me when they would be able to ship it with xmas days away I ended up getting a Scorpion P229 with the SRT. Loved that gun but as usual, another gun winked at me and I sold it to buy my new love.

OK, I have a nice Blackout edition with Hogue wrap around finger grooved grips with the extended mag. Take I-95 all the way down to Florida and then call me and I will guide you the rest of the way. Range time is $9 an hour so save up your money. I almost sold my P938 because I did not like the heavy trigger and the way I shot it. On the third trip to the range I brought the box it came in because I was going to give it one more try and if not happy, trade it in on a Kahr PM9. Turns out that I had to place my finger low on the trigger. The gun is not a small 1911 and the trigger pivots like a revolver's unlike the straight back design of a 1911. Once I realized that and found the right spot for my finger, I was shooting it as well as any of my other guns and decided to keep it. My XDs and P938 are my two main carry guns. My Sig does not like 115 grain practice ammo. It prefers 124 gr. so that is what I practice with. However I have not had any problems with any of the 5 brands of SD ammo I put through it and carry DPX 95 gr. 9mm in it now. It is a nice pocket gun and rides easily on my belt. I have three holsters for every carry gun I own; pocket, IWB and OWB for all occasions as pocket carry is my preference and most comfortable but not suited to times when you are driving or sitting down a lot.

I am still trying to find out why so long in NJ? It is a national system after all and I bought a new gun yesterday and had the NICS check before I could even ask to see one of the other guns in the case. Why does it take so long in NJ and not elsewhere? I assure you that we buy more guns here than up there and have a lot more gun stores. I have 5 or 6 within a half hour of where I live and I do not live near any of the major chains. During xmas I was asked if I wanted to go home and come back the next day for my new gun because they said it may take 15 minutes to get the NICS check. I cannot imagine waiting days.

I am thinking that all it means is that I can drive through your State with my concealed gun but not make NJ as my final destination and carry while there. Sort of the same laws in place for transporting firearms under Federal law except I can have it concealed on me while doing so. I do not see it meaning that I can visit my family in NJ and carry concealed. That would provide loopholes for concealed carry in NJ and I just do not see that happening. My guess is that I can drive through NJ with my FL resident CCW License but if I stop I have to secure it in my car or at best, be allowed to carry it at stops incidental to my trip such as stopping for gas.

Be careful. Around here the letter you get warns you about the kind of clothes you can wear. The judge can either make sure you spend the entire day waiting, send you home and tell you to change and come back tomorrow or a combination of the two. Around here they actually send the sheriff to your house if you do not show up but then again the population is not as great as it is up there.

Life is too short. Pick your battles. Always take free stuff.

KY, oh, wrong lube, wrong gun. I ran many a mile in the Army reciting just what a gun was used for as opposed to a rifle. Those serving or have served know what I am talking about. In Nam we used to give the FNG's a can of urine and tell them it was special lube to keep their rifles from rusting in the hot and humid jungles. They all fell for it and we all had a good laugh. You had to be there.

I have brought small amounts of bad ammo to my local range and they took care of disposal. They say they find live rounds all the time and either use them or take them apart and dispose of them if damaged.

I do not call them used guns. I call them already broken in guns. I have had 100% reliability when I buy a pre-owned gun. Any problems have already been taken care of and I do not have to spend a fortune breaking it in and trying all sorts of ammo to see what it likes best. I just ask the previous owner. I have never come across someone that I bought a gun from that sold me a lemon.

No one has mentioned that the lack of ammo affect the amount of time spent at the range and therefore forces you to spend more time with the wife. I know that my wife misses having me out of the house at least one afternoon a week so she can clean my home office/man cave and get the funky smell out.

I have also supplied holsters, gun belts, rail mounted lights and even a pocket gun to guys who would never spend a dime on any of this. So many around here carry without a holster or at best use a cheap one size fits all nylon holster they bought for $15. No one is aware that they make gun belts and Mexican and pocket carry do not need a holster. After all, your pocket is a holster and your belt will hold your gun in place. What gets me the most is that you give people good advice and they go and just do what they want. Pretty much most of the new guys I teach buy a gun based on everything but practicality. They either want a Glock like they saw on TV, an LCP as it is no bother to carry or another gun that is considered cool. I usually give them a list of guns in all price and size ranges for carry but they will buy a gun because it is shiny (for real), is dark earth colored, is on sale, allows them to change the grips to fancy wooden ones, etc.. I know that they never carried a gun before and try to guide them but they see guys on TV or the movies carrying these big guns and the think they are man enough to do the same and then learn that actors do not carry the prop guns until the scene calls for it. Just ask Don Johnson who took that shoulder holster off the minute the scene was over and only put it back on when he had to show it on camera.

I am like you try to introduce a few people to shooting each year. Most give up once I stop paying for their ammo. Others give up when they see how expensive the guns they like are. At today's prices I have not even attempted to introduce anyone to shooting since I live in a retirement community where they live on fixed incomes and watch every penny carefully. The last guy I taught did not want to spend more than $300 for a carry gun that he felt he would never have to use. He got discouraged when he could not get the guns he lusted after and settled for an LCP which he hates.

Even that place that has the TV show, Red Jacket (I believe) lost their FFL license and the owner due to unaccounted for missing guns and they had to hire someone with an FFL to be the license holder. They are in the national spot light, brand guns on behalf of companies like Ruger and still had paperwork issues so if they government looks they can find problems with any business because no one is perfect and the paperwork required to run a business is so cumbersome and sometimes complex as to invite errors.

I wonder how this shortage has affected attendance at matches. I know that most of us no longer go due to the high cost of ammo. Just too expensive on a fixed income for many. 9mm is selling for $40 a box of 50 for FMJ import brand if you can even find it. The last 3 boxes of 50 .45 acp Fiocchi I bought were $35 each. No .22 ammo at all to be found locally and online they only have the Ely or similar expensive stuff. I basically am finding other hobbies as my income get less and less each year as I slowly retire and the cost to shoot keeps rising too quickly. I just bought two guns simply because they were available after being hard to find for so long and were selling for less than MSRP. I do not need them right now but I figured that I would buy them now while I had the chance and at a good price.

The ammo shortage has affected me quite a bit. Although I had purchased 500+ rounds for the calibers I shoot before the madness I have to ration it and tend to not use what I have until I can replace it. Here are some of the ways the ammos shortage has affected me. 1. Ammo cost about twice as much as I used to pay so I am poorer and buy less. 2. Instead of shooting once a week I do not even shoot unless I can first get some replacement ammo for what I will be shooting. This has resulted in shooting once every two months now. 3. Even when I go to the range I now only shoot a mag or two of my main two carry guns just to make sure both gun and shooter are working well. 4. I had bought 4 .22's in snub nose, rifle, semi auto and full sized revolver sizes thinking that it will allow me to shoot every week cheaply. However, bulk .22 ammo is nowhere to be found around here and stores are breaking up the bulk packs they have and selling it in baggies, 50 rounds at a time for ridiculous prices. So I am hording .22 and holding it as long as I can without shooting it. When I do shoot it, I limit the rounds to 50 when in the past I would shoot off a few hundred. I sold all but my S&W 617 and Ruger LCR .22 mag. as I could not feed that many .22's anymore. No more $16 for 500 round bulk packs for sale anywhere I can find. 5. I used to buy about 10 guns a year but now do not plan on buying anymore guns due to the high cost of breaking them in for carry and the high cost of feeding a strictly range gun. I normally shoot 200 rounds of practice ammo and 100 of carry before I trust a new carry gun and sometimes I have to try different brands or types of ammo so that round count can go higher if the gun is ammo fussy. So no more birthday, anniversary or Xmas guns for me this year. I am using my ammo only for my main carry and home defense guns. All secondary guns and range guns are collecting dust in my gun safes as there is no reason to shoot them since they are not working guns. 6. I thought I was semi retiring to a nice place near a public gun range where I could use the extra free days I now have to shoot more but now am trying to find things other than shooting to do with my extra free time so my life has been affected by the ammo shortage. 7. I introduced my cousin who lives in the same retirement community as me to shooting and we used to go together and now he cannot afford to buy ammo so our time together with our only shared interest is no longer there an I have not seen him in the last few months when I used to see him twice a month. 8. Last and not least is that I now spend a lot of time on the internet hunting for ammo when I could be doing something else. I have put items in my cart and kept shopping only to go back to check out and find that the item is no longer in stock. Now I buy immediately when I see it as I did today with some .380 ammo that I know will jam in one of my guns but is the only ammo available that I could find in the last week that is not ridiculously priced. It is sad when you think Blazer aluminum cased ammo at $29 per 50 is a bargain but my only other choice was some imported stuff at $40 per 50.

Just got one. The recoil is much less than being tackled in football but more than the vibration of an Xbox controller so be guided accordingly. Gun hides well in pocket and on belt. Add the 7 round mag and a Streamlight TLR3 and it makes a nice home defense gun. Very versatile and lighter than any of the 3" 1911's I have owned. Very accurate for its size, handled any FMJ and JHP I threw at it plus the grip keeps the gun in place. Combined, these features make for a manageable small .45 perfect for carry or HD depending on how you configure it. My 70 year old cousin said that the recoil was better than on a similarly sized 9mm and liked shooting it. I have nerve damage and arthritis in my hands and was able to shoot about 75 rounds before my hand started feeling it. That is much better than it was with my Colt Defender. Definitely not a range gun but certainly very manageable for self defense. Having actually used a .45 in Nam, I am partial to the caliber. This one is a keeper.

I am glad that they have the you know what, to move. Like them, I believe in voting with my feet. The beauty of our governmental system of Federal and State laws is that if we do not like the laws of the State we live/work in, we are free to find another State to move to.

I have a nice collection of carry guns carefully put together to fit all needs and threat conditions. My guns range in size from the diminutive NAA mini revolver to the 17 round FNX-9. In between there are many sub compacts and a few compacts in both semi auto and revolver. However I had once owned a Seecamp .32 which was the easiest gun I ever carried in a decent caliber. It was small enough to just put in your pocket and forget about it or wear on ankle. However it was ammo fussy and had no sights so I sold it. I replaced it with an LCP which is very light but not as small and a little too light for the .380 to allow fast follow-up shots and sights that barely could be called sights. Got rid of that too and bought a Sig P238 which I believe is the best shooting .380 made today if you consider size, weight, recoil and sights. However it is still a little longer than the LCP and wished it was a little bit smaller. So after reading as much as I could and talking to a few gun store owners as I like to find out which guns they see the most returned for repairs, I finally ordered the Magnum Research Micro Desert Eagle despite its heavy trigger. Everyone I talked to told me that it feed anything and despite it 14 oz. weight, hid nicely in front or rear pants pockets due to its 2.5" barrel. The gun is small and best of all, it is all metal and has a hammer which are my two favorite things in a gun for this old timer. I live in a very large retirement community that spans 3 counties, has 100,000 residents and 80,000 homes. It is the safest place I have ever lived and everything that I need to live is within its borders. Do not think of your typical NJ development filled with blocks of houses but rather a special entity found Florida that creates a town within a town. We are self sufficient and supply our own utilities and other services. It basically is cities within cities. No violent crimes occur. Just the occasional home burglary of people who are away for the month or week. So I wanted a very small gun that I could just throw in my pocket every day or use as a BUG to a larger gun. This gun fits the bill perfectly. I have not shot it yet but having been raised shooting revolvers with 12 lb. DA triggers, no gun is hard for me to shoot anymore so I do not expect any problems especially since it has the same weight as the Sig P238 plus a ported barrel. Will post a range report when I it arrives. Luckily I bought a few boxes of .380 when they were normal price because I forgot that I already has a few hundred rounds so I have plenty of ammo to break it in. Here is a picture of it.: