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A guy goes to the supermarket and notices a very attractive woman waving at him.             She says, 'Hello.'             He's rather taken aback because he can't place where he knows her from. So he asks, 'Do you know me?'             To which she replies, 'I think you're the father of one of my kids.'             Now his mind travels back to the only time he has ever been unfaithful to his wife.             So he asks, 'Are you the stripper from the bachelor party that I made love to on the pool table, with all my buddies watching, while your partner whipped my butt with wet celery?'             She looks into his eyes and says calmly, 'No, I'm your son's teacher.'

Guys, this will be the first, last, and only warning for trolling. If you have a problem with someone, man up and talk to that person face to face, not anonymously on an Internet forum. Or for that matter, not out in the open on THIS Internet forum. TGO will NOT be the conduit for you to attempt to trash someone who hurt your feelings. If you require counseling, I can recommend a good therapist.

I have never been a big fan of the Redhawk. I always preferred the slimmer frame of a Blackhawk. This new Redhawk looks interesting. I kinda dig the funky shape of it and like the smaller grip. Looks like it will ship with three moon clips so it can shoot 45LC or 45acp.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33130987   Here's a bit of advice on how to lower their debt... get the hell out of Connecticut!

Why are they running around with their fingers on the trigger?

Having your vehicles serviced at Walmart is roughly akin to expecting to get a gourmet meal through the McDonald's drive-through window ...

So tonight my nephew tested for his yellow belt (second belt) in Taekwondo and Hapkido. The man who test him was the same man who tested me, my dad. I thought it was pretty cool that we now have 3 Generations of Martial Artist in the family. My dad is a 6th Degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, Hapkido and Judo, My oldest sister and myself are both 1st degree black belts in all 3 arts, and now her son and my nephew has started on the same path. Here are some pictures from tonight's test. The test included judo, even though the judo belt ranks take much more time to achieve, the school has always taught all 3 together and not made separate time or classes for each. Sent from the backwoods

For the hipster, it's just another way to be fashionable and see who can spend the most money on the current trend. Not that the guys at zero tolerance or benchmade or other high end makers will complain. Sales are sales.

Do ya really think Beretta will stay when they find out the State is requiring them to stamp "Go Big Orange!!" on all their guns? :bow:

Worst.  Excuse.  Ever.    Either their firearms safety training program is substandard, their officers adherence to firearms safety is substandard, or some combination of both. 

Well, my patients can't talk, but I did have a scratch on my cornea once.  It felt like sand or a hair was in my eye constantly (like I wanted to rub and flush my eyes, but it had no effect).   When animals have corneal ulcers they will have similar symptoms--spasms of eye, excessive tearing, redness, and sometimes a constricted pupil.   I would go to an ophthalmologist.  An optometrist is more focused on correcting visual deficits with lenses.  An ophthalmologist is a medical doctor who then specialized in diseases of the eye.  Their education overlaps, but the ophthalmologist will have more training and experiences with eye diseases.

I guess if I had to choose my 2 I hate most it is a toss up between the Lawyers and the Pharmaceutical companies pushing their pills that will treat 1 issue and give you at least 5 other bad issues to get rid of one. Gotta love those with 25 Plus bad side effects to get rid of an ingrown toenail...................... :shrug: :shrug:  

No sympathy whatsoever for a company that can't exist without a firm bite on the .gov teet. 

Tough love? keep screwing around with your eyes, they will give you a free dog! Seriously, go to an Opthamologist, our opinions are worth exactly what you pay for them.

All I have to say about this is I wish they would have stayed with Beretta's because the new plant here is under construction and I want them to be successful here..............jmho

Colt messed up big time by basically ignoring the civilian market while their pockets were being filled with uncle sams moola...Now that uncle sam dropped them as their small arms supplier in favor of Remington, they were left with nowhere to peddle their wares with an already booming civilian market...

I'm not allowed in local Arby's since my last visit when I refused to leave the store until they made me a sandwich that looked like the one in the TV commercials. The manager finally made me one with all the meat they showed on TV and served it to me in a bag with fries and politely told me not to come back so I have not been back. They advertise that they have the meat so I wanted the meat.......... :rant: :rant: :rant:

Those two dufus guys for Sonic just make me sick. Talk about insulting your intelligence...they are some of the worst.

Transitional training from the 92 or 5906 to an M&P in the hands of a 10-20 year veteran is a major shift in direction. All of the potential bad habits of staging a DA trigger while on a target become a ND  in the making with the M&P. E1 has the right of it, this is a transitional training issue that's only going to be solved by repetitive training. He's also right in questioning the type of holsters being used. I'm not going to point a finger at "finger on the trigger" because of sloppy gun handling.  

Yep, training learning curve, I remember very well the transitional training from DA/SA revolvers to pistols. It was an educational experience to say the least. You also have the right of it in placing the blame solely in the hands of the officer who tripped over the baby stroller, who is probably still being dogged about that stunt by his shift personnel.

  Like all the North East states, even the conservatives are liberals. It's just that there is a severe lack of something, training or intelligence to have that many ND's in one group.

Or advertizing the latest great new revolutionary miracle drug, then going over a long list of ways it can maim or kill you.

Funny how people who grow up in different locals or even different family lives have such broad ranging thought on what is and is not acceptable.... For so many years a nice Benchmade pocketknife and compact penlight have been part of my regular daily pocket carry that we see the likes of as completely commonplace....  

It's LASO not LAPD, two different agencies and both different as the night is day. The biggest issue here is institutional passing the buck by some of the parties involved. Instead of placing the blame squarely in the hands of the offending Deputies someone's attempted to blame it on the equipment. This happens from time to time in larger agencies and a liberal administration will attempt longer reaches. The firearms training is probably not the issue here, remedial training where necessary and a lot of shift level training on not being the next example is the issue.   

And what's the deal with all the toe fungus commercials? Gross!

I know i'm just an armchair civilian but, would it be out of line for me to suggest that the LAPD might want to make some changes to their firearms training? Just saying. It is California, one problem could be liberals handling firearms peroid, that even sounds dangerous by itself.  :eek:

If stamping Go Big Orange on their guns helps them sell guns I am sure they will stamp it on them for sure................. :rock:

And why the hell isn't he wearing a belt? What the hell kind of man tucks his shirt in and doesn't wear a belt? WTF?!

  Yes, all eye drops tweak PH to be same as eyes, that is, to "normal" eyes anyway -- these will safely flush your eyes but not leave any extra lubricating film.   Dry eye syndrome, if that's really a factor, can be simple deficit in tear volume, or no deficit in volume at all, but that the tears are no longer chemically balanced with correct protein blend for optimum surface retention (ie, evaporates too quickly), so you need a lubricant in there also, like Polyethylene Glycol, or Hydroxypropyl Methylcellulose, or whatever.   You'll find that unlike this saline only solution, most of the "natural tears" type drops also contain a lubricant, just generally not as much as in the ones described as "lubricant" drops.   Perhaps erroneous on my part to suggest that saline alone will make them any "drier",  but won't make them any "wetter" either except very briefly.   Whatever works for ya is right,  of course. But if the saline doesn't do anything for ya except 5 minutes at a time, try a few with different actual lubricating compounds in them.   - OS

I'm in on this one bud. I'll take the usual #16 with a stonewashed blade. Thanks!

  I don't know.  I kinda like Hanna  :whistle:

Does their training not include keeping the booger hooks off the bang switch, regardless of what type of pistol?

At the end of some commercials, I'm left wondering what the product is that I'm supposed to buy.  Whatever happened to "here's my product, it's great, buy it". 

I'm betting most everyone on here shoots way more than police officers. They really don't shoot that much. On another note, when I shoot any of my varied guns, the guns only go off when I expect them too.

The original story has me flashing back to the early 90's when a guy decided to clean his ears with one of those wooden shaft qtips & it broke off in his ear. The look of sheer terror on his face as he said help holding up the broken stick, someone fished it out with some forceps, no harm done but it cracked me up thinking about it.

Pretty sure you could replace the word "Some" with the words,"Most,if not all" commercials are just plain stupid.

Inquiring minds want to know When will danny have another sexscene!

I have to weigh in with EssOne and TNWNGR on this one.  Going from DA/SA to striker after many years is a big change.  LEO's spend a lot more time with their guns than the rest of us, making vigilance all the time more difficult with that natural tendency to gain a comfort level.

Sounds like safety is not a priority in their training!!!   :2cents:

60 are better but not by much, unless you shoot FA there's really no reason to go over 30

If you've essentially spent your shooting life to date with SA, SA/DA pistols and revolvers then shooting a Glock pistol is frustrating as you have to learn an entirely new shooting technique. Then whenever you spend a significant period of time with another pistol you have to reacquaint yourself with the Glock. What's really bad is you can take someone who's never fired a pistol, teach them on a Glock and they'll be outshooting you in no time. So don't feel bad its just one of those pistols you've got to shoot enough to switch off and go auto pilot with to really do well with it. Get away from paper targets and go with reactive ones, empty plastic bottles, cans, ping pong balls and balloons. Then go back to paper targets to evaluate the group pattern. What you'll find is you've forgotten how spongy the trigger is because your only releasing to the reset point and then re-stroking the trigger again. People spend lots of money on trigger kits trying to shortcut the learning curve by means of a crisper trigger. I just put good sights on the gun and shoot it.

These usually run $60-65. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I547 using Tapatalk

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Well, i figure that prices go up.  I mean, I remember when gas was 89 cents a gallon.  Well, it ain't that price, anymore and isn't likely to ever be that price, again.  Just look at what a beef roast or a gallon of milk costs today compared to, say, five years ago.  The sad truth is that .22LR ammo was never going to stay at 5 cents per round forever.  I doubt that .22LR prices would have gone up quite so much as they have without the scare and the 'shortage' and I also refuse to pay scalper prices (such as the guy at the HWY 11 flea market this past weekend who was asking $40 for a bulk box of Remington Thunderbolts.)  However, I also don't think that prices would be the same, now, as they were three years ago even without the scare/shortage.  I mean, all ammo (and pretty much everything else) has increased in price in that time and some of it has increased quite a lot.  The increase in the price of basic WWB or Remington UMC.44 Mag ammo from just over $30 to nearly $50 per 50 rounds or the increase in decent, brass cased 9mm range ammo from just under $10 to $15 or more per box in the last, few years hurts me a lot more than paying a dollar or two more for a box of 50 .22 rounds.   Personally, I enjoy shooting my .22s too much to sell them off and go the air gun route.  I mean, I have air guns and I do shoot/target practice with them, sometimes, but the 'pffftt' sound they make simply does not give me the same satisfaction as something that goes 'bang', even the rather modest 'bang' of a .22.  I have cut way back on my shooting - which previously included a lot of .22 shooting - but sometimes the 'jones' is just too much to resist.  So, I'll pay as much as $5 for a box of fifty rounds, occasionally. to be able to enjoy shooting my .22s without dipping into my all too meager stash (well, actually to replace ammo I shoot from my all too meager stash.)  That is still cheaper than any other factory ammo I can think of - and right around the price of a fast food burger, fries and a drink.  I can't say I'd be totally happy if .22 supplies returned to normal and the $5 per box of 50 price was permanent but if I knew I could walk into any store and buy a box right off the shelf at that price at any time then I'd be a lot happier than I am with the current situation in which .22 is still difficult to find at any price with profiteers selling it for $8, $10 or $12 a box (which I won't pay.)

  Only in one way IMO -- once charged all you have to do is keep pulling the trigger for 30 shots.   - OS

  I don't know that I'd agree with this, unless you're comparing learning to shoot a rifle to learning to wing shoot with a shotgun.  Shotguns are simple weapons compared to an AR, and point shooting at stationary targets is easier to learn than sight alignment and breath control.

I've got an ex-police Mossberg 590A1 18" barrel that I keep "cruiser ready" in a rack in the bedroom. I keep it fully loaded with 00 buck shot, and a side saddle with six more reloads. Like other folks have mentioned, its my hold up in the bedroom weapon in case of a home invasion.   I have a Glock 22 with a 22 round magazine locked and loaded on the night stand for "bump in the night" investigation. That 18" barrel is still pretty long to maneuver within the confines of my house. 

In the event of a home invasion, I'm not clearing my house (no little ones to protect) I'll be protecting my wife, barricaded upstairs in the bedroom with pistol, shotgun, rifle with ears on waiting for Dude to leave or choose to try to invade my bedroom. We've got insurance for all the stuff downstairs, I'm not using my life insurance early to play SWAT. I don't have that kind of training and I'm not secretly a ninja.

The only thing that Colt has is resale value and that is not because it is better. Colt used to be the standard by which all other were judged but not anymore. I have owned Colt 1911's and every one of them were no where near as accurate as some of the other 1911s I have owned.   Its like wanting a Model T over a Lamborghini or Ferrari because Ford was the one who first made cars successful.   If you are actually going to be shooting then buy something else, something with better sights, with a better trigger and with a beavertail. If you are wanting to shoot buy something you are not afraid to use, shoot or modify to suit your needs.   Now if you are buying it to resell then buy it, wait a while then make $50-$100 on it. But I will tell you something about Colt purists (actually most purists) and that is originality is everything. You had better not remove the gun from the paper or shot it otherwise you have ruined the value to some a collectors. I have seen collectors pass on a gun because it had been shot, even very little.   So if you plan on shooting it, buy something else but if you just want to way you own a Colt, and put it away without handling or shooting it, buy a Colt.

got my three today.  It is just like an old style gas station map.  I am afraid to unfold it until I need it.  There aren't gas stations anymore to go to that will refold them for me.  ;)   I am curious as to how many they will end up sending out.   Had to cost a fortune, maybe the meager advertisements in it payed the costs?