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Murphy showed up at Mass one Sunday and the priest almost fell down when he saw him. He'd never been to church in his life. After Mass, the priest caught up with him and said, "Murphy, I am so glad ya decided to come to Mass. What made ya come?"  Murphy said, "I got to be honest with you Father, a while back, I misplaced me hat and I really, really love that hat. I know that McGlynn had a hat just like mine and I knew he came to church every Sunday. I also knew that he had to take off his hat during Mass and figured he would leave it in the back of church. So, I was going to leave after Communion and steal McGlynn's hat."  The priest said, "Well, Murphy, I notice that ya didn't steal McGlynn's hat. What changed your mind?"  Murphy replied, "Well, after I heard your sermon on the Ten Commandments, I decided that I didn't need to steal McGlynn's hat after all."  With a tear in his eye the priest gave Murphy a big smile and said; "After I talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' ya decided you would rather do without your hat than burn in Hell?"  Murphy slowly shook his head. "No, Father, after ya talked about 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' I remembered where I left me hat."

Well, when you are raised by government and basically taught there is no accountability for any action, everything is given to people and the culture around you is based on nothing but crime and corruption with no consequences in most ghetto homes, there you go. An entire subculture of takers is born and they can't differentiate between taking handouts or stealing from someone with more than them, or even less. 

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For the life of me I can't understand why people buy Kel Tech handguns. One of the least enjoyable guns I've ever shot was the PF9. Hell, you can just look at it and see how cheap they are. For just a little more money one can find better options.

Good riddance. Newsflash!! Breaking news, this just in! You can increase your chances of NOT getting shot by an order of magnitude....All you have to do is not be a damn criminal.

Honestly, when a family comes out after something like this and spouts things that basically say that it is okay for a person to go 'shopping' at someone else's house because that person was raised in the 'hood I do not feel a bit sorry for their loss.  "Where will he get money for clothes." etc.  Who cares?  Where the hell do these people think the homeowner got the money for the stuff he was there to steal - from a friggin' pot of gold at the end of a rainbow?  How is it that homeowner's responsibility to see that Trevon has clothes and so on?  Screw the lot of them.  Further, I don't feel a bit sorry for the dead guy, either, nor do I think his death is in any way a 'tragedy' or even a real loss.  Bottom line: thug broke into middle-aged lady's house, middle-aged lady decided not to be a victim, thug got dead and won't be breaking into any more homes.  The only sympathy I feel is for the homeowner who was dragged into this situation by the aforementioned thug.

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The only thing carbide in a carbide set is the sizing die.  You may try putting a tiny bit of lube on the expander so it slides on in there a little easier.   Or....the expander may be a little rough.  Wouldn't hurt to take it out and polish it up a bit.

I've had two that I would give all I have to get back. I've spent thousands on dogs, hundreds on dogs that weren't even mine. Never regretted it not even once.

The biggest part of self-defense training is training your mind to know when to act and what to do. In my 40’s I figured out I’m not 10 foot tall and bulletproof anymore. By 60 I figured out I’m not able to go hands on with anyone anymore. Situational awareness. Will you see a threat progress? At what point are you justified in pulling a weapon on a person? Do you have quick access to a weapon you are willing to trust your life to? Do you practice for that scenario at the range? Can you do a mag dump at 7 or 15 yards into a silhouette without using sights and have effective hits? Can you put your hand on a weapon without pulling it that is ready to fire? Have you thought about what you will do when the perp has the drop on you? We tend to underestimate thugs. Todd you probably won’t see coming. Fred you might, but he could be an ex-special forces operator with PTSD that is far better trained than you. You may find yourself in a situation where going for your gun will do nothing but get you killed. As cops we learned from the mistakes of other Officers that lost their lives. We looked at the situation in-depth to see what could have been done differently. And unfortunately sometimes there is nothing that could have been done and the good guy dies. Training your body is very important. But when your body starts slowing down your mind is still capable of getting/keeping you out of trouble.

BS; first, Todd having the mental toughness and mental discipline to do all that is probably somebody on your side. Todd, wants to go home at the end of the day, Todd does not want your measly $20 you may have in your wallet, and Todd, having undergone all that training is probably doing all this overseas to the same people that we all want to have it done to. No, Todd is not the guy you need to worry about; it's Fred Crackhead, and Mohammed Martyr which pose the greatest risk. Fred, wakes around 1pm after a night shooting up heroin or smoking crack. He needs another fix, he has honed his skill by shoplifting, breaking into cars and houses. He doesn't really care if anyone is there or not, his only goal is the next fix. He started off carrying a piece of pipe someone threw out, upgraded to a knife in one of the home burglaries then scored a nice 1911 when he broke into a truck looking for loose change, he was almost caught though, but he managed to give the owner the slip. Fred has now decided that loose change just isn't cutting it, he decides to go for the big score so he picks a nice store to rob, and look there is a sign out front letting him know that nobody inside will confront him. So he begins his robbery when what do you know, the trucks owner just walked in... Mohammed, wakes at 4am tired and restless from the long flight the night before. He has just completed a 6 month course in Somalia where they taught him hand to hand combat, how to shoot rifles handguns and RPGs. John, I mean Mohammed, mustn't make that mistake again; it could mean his head...Mohammed has come back home to the US. He was born in Michigan, dated a high school cheerleader, worked his dad's farm, but became dissolutioned after graduation, thought Obama was going to fix things, after all he is one of them. But listening to his heroes Cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright he has come to the realization that only he can strike a blow for Allah. So he straps on a his vest made just like his explosives instructor taught him using dynamite his dad was planning on using for those stumps in the new pasture and loads his equipment into the old ford. His chosen targets, the local water supply, his friend Thomas, err I mean Maliki, brought over some powder to dump into the pumping station, it's right by the stadium where the big homecoming game is scheduled to be played. He knows security will be light, after all nothing can happen here, but he has had a friend supply him with a new AK-47 just in case...

Boy, I bet Jon was mad as a hornet before you got done with him!

You're likely wasting your breath until they've had the experience of shooting the pistol and getting frustrated on their own.   If they get frustrated, that gives you an opening to help them learn.  But, up to that point, it involves throwing the husband under the bus.

There comes a time...been there and hated every second of it.

Maybe I should have posted this in the blade sub-forum, but I asked GT to make me a survival/bushcraft knife with some pretty specific preferences and he delivered! The blade is about 5"-ish, the scales are mesquite, there is some perfectly placed jimping on the spine, and his signature acid etch on the blade. Here it is with the sheath I made for it. Not surprisingly, the blade is super sharp, will spark a ferro rod with no problem, and has just enough heft to do some light chopping. I'm looking forward to taking it outside to put it to use. If you've ever thought about one of GT's blades and were on the fence, just go for it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This popped up on my facebook. My apologies if you have read it, but I thought it was pretty insightful to look at things this way. We always talk about being ready for a worst case scenario, and this is one way to think on it. I didn't write this Todd presents an interesting way to look at where to fill your own voids, or what you need to train up on to be able to successfully confront. Todd By belisarius That long thread about Aikido got me thinking about the assumptions that we make about our potential opponents when we enter into any kind of "self-defense" training. I suppose that virtually any martial art or fighting system will work if your opponent is a moron, but how does it fare when you have to go up against the rare "black swan" event---the perfect storm opponent situation? Since you cannot control who you will run into, maybe it is prudent to create a template for a worst case opponent and assume that is who you will have to face in a fight for your life? Let's call him "Todd." Physical fitness? Discipline? Motivation? Todd is a former Division I-level athlete. He benches over 350 and runs an all-out quarter-mile in just over 50 seconds. Todd spends his mornings pounding out miles of hard roadwork, pumps iron like a maniac in lieu of eating lunch, and spends his evenings dry-firing his EDC handgun, studying ways to hurt people, and beating the hell out of his Spar-Pro and heavy bag. He maintains an extensive library of books and videos on combat and survival-related topics. He goes to bed tired but satisfied every night, satisfied because he has no other hobbies and because he looks at training as money in the bank---he will cash in his full paycheck on the fateful day that he faces you in a fight. Todd spends his weekends doing strenuous physical activities and competing in IPSC Limited or IDPA matches. He spends his vacations going to places like Crucible, the Rogers Academy, and BSR. Todd has no other hobbies and he is not really concerned with being a "weird, paranoid freak" in the eyes of many normal people. Todd does not really hang out with "normal" people, anyway---he prefers to hang out with people like himself. Warning of an attack? Deception? Good luck trying any Jedi mind tricks on Todd: he studies NLP and evolutionary psychology. Todd does not dress like some kind of thug, either: he knows that a clean-cut appearance increases his time/distance window of opportunity to ambush his prey. Pay very close attention to Todd's choice of boots, belt, and watch---they may be the only warnings that you get. Todd knows that anonymity is the most important weapon in his formidable arsenal. He does not threaten, he does not warn, he does not talk #### or insult---those things take time and telegraph intentions. Todd just makes a binary decision and then acts. Training? Background? Todd trains in the most effective fighting and survival techniques that he can. He is open-minded and non-judgmental, caring only that techniques fit within an overarching framework of logic and ruthless pragmatism. He lives his whole life this way---it is his structure, his discipline, his religion. Todd may have a black belt from Rickson Gracie, may have been a Golden Gloves boxer or a freestyle wrestler or a linebacker, may have trained in the famous Muay Thai gyms of Holland, may be a student of WWII Combatives or battlefield jiu-jitsu methods. Maybe---and now the plot gets chilling (as Marcus Wynne describes in his books)---Todd has been the recipient of millions of dollars in government-sponsored training...money that was specifically spent to turn him into some kind of professional shadow-warrior badass, like John Macejunas or Kelly McCann. Maybe Todd is all of the above: operator, martial artist, fighter, contact-sport athlete. It does not really matter where he got his start, because he has synthesized his approach into a combination of very destructive, attack-oriented techniques that he can perform with maximal effort without much fear of hurting himself in the process. He can strike and he can grapple, and most importantly he always tries to hit first. Weapons? Equipment? This is the best part: trying to beat Todd in an unarmed fight is largely an academic exercise, because you will never, ever catch Todd unarmed. He carries a Glock or 1911, Fox OC spray, and a fixed-blade with him CCW every single day of his life. Todd is not interested in hitting you with his hands or feet---given even the slightest provocation, his opening gambit will be to present his handgun from the holster and to demand that you remain very still and quiet. If you then try to disarm Todd, strike Todd, or reach for your own weapon to attack Todd, Todd will not hesitate to shoot until slide lock. Todd also trains in ways to use his knife to great effect---maybe pikal, maybe more of a Kni-Com technique, maybe both. Names like James Keating and the Dog Brothers are very familiar to Todd. Todd will run you over with his SUV if you give him reason to. If you are more of a distant problem, he keeps an M4 or a DSA FAL in a Pelican case in the trunk, next to his trauma med kit and bugout ruck. Forget trying to get to Todd at home: his place is like a fortress, complete with crazy locks (Todd studies B&E, too), a large dog, and the ubiquitous Scattergun Technologies 12-gauge with Sure-Fire light. Remember that Todd likes to move first---his first move is to draw a weapon on you. Todd is not stupid. This isn't Bloodsport or a Sho Kosugi film. Todd wants to win...period. Todd sounds like a nightmare, doesn't he? Well, let's all take heart---while we cannot control whether or not we will ever have to face a Todd, we CAN control our own training and preparation. We can become "Todds" (!). Many of you probably consciously found similarities between your own lifestyles and habits and the ones that were described above. I think the idea is to imagine the most ferocious and skilled opponent that you could face in a nightmare, then try to become that person (within whatever constraints that you face). If you are not willing to become a Todd, then you need to ask yourself who it is that you believe you are training to face. We can become the "worst-case scenario" for someone else to have to deal with. I believe that these forums are about this...the mindset, the techniques, the equipment. There has been a lot of heated debate lately on various subtopics beneath the mantle of self-defense, but we are all students (no one has all the answers) and we are share far more similarities than we do differences. I don't believe that anyone here is interested in promulgating some kind of massive mind-meld---dissenting opinions are what fuels progress and interesting debate.

ALG AKT Trigger is nice. https://algdefense.com/ak-trigger-akt.html Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

that's about the only option. I had to do a little extra fitting on a couple of mine when using plastic magazines. Seems the thicker lips pushed up on the  bolt carrier keeping it from hooking the disconnector causing it to double occasionally  

I think the only one you will really need to snug up will be the center rivet. Possibly the rear trunion. I used the press tool on the center and rear. You might be able to rig up something using a c-clamp or one of those wide jaw vise grips used for welding.    You will find you press comes in handy for putting the barrel in and out.

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Having thought about comments since my last one I have further thoughts.   First, none of us have any idea how either she or the husband will react.  We are dealing with people after all.   There is some risk with the approach I suggested.   Also, most of the time, it's not what you say but how you say it.  Of course the husband will be pissed if you say the gun is a piece of crap.  That's basic common sense.     I think this thread has given the original poster plenty to think about and consider.  Also, each of have a different view on how to handle things based on our life experience.  I appreciate straight talk delivered in a courteous manner.  

As someone who has been in sales a long time I can offer some advice on this. 1)Never disparage another product. As already mentioned, calling it crap will create a defensive position. 2) Educate. Pull out some of you guns and talk about the differences is revolvers, semi autos etc. Talk about what makes one a quality piece and another not so much. Use their gun as well as yours to present a best, better, good scenario in that order. Show them what they lose at each step. 3) Shoot them. Start with the raven then something much smoother and easier on the hands. This is where you insert bias by making the comparison bigger, less recoil, easier to handle. Like a pinto vs a caddy. Let her make the decision to get a different gun by guiding.

Fun day today. Thanks to everyone who came to shoot and especially those who came early to finish setting up. Incorporating the classifier in to a match worked great. Terry did good with his stages that were both challenging and fun.

  She-who-must be-obeyed will hear that! 

I believe that long barrel solved the problem. Sent from the Fortress of Solitude.

I was an early adopter and managed to snare a threaded barrel version the end of January.  Out of the box fit and finish is outstanding.  The pistol has been 100% reliable through just under 1000 mixed rounds, including subsonic with a mounted suppressor.  Field stripping is a piece of cake, similar to the Browning BuckMark, but faster and easier.  Adjustable rear fire sight is perfect for my 75 year old eyes.  Included detachable rail with fixed rear sight is made of composition material but dead accurate when mounted.  I have six factory magazines, all run perfectly.  Out of the box accuracy and trigger pull is equal to the older un-modified Ruger Mark II series. My trigger pull measured 3.5 pounds.   Subjective opinion-  I wear a size 11 glove.  The grips are thick enough for my hand, but need some more front to back depth.  Also, the bull SS barrel, is a little nose heavy.  Larger after market grips and a VQ target barrel could make both of these complaints go away.   Executive summary:  Buy one, at the current selling price, you need it.

On the reloading front, buy in bulk when you can. Also I purchased the Giraud Tri-way trimmer head for .223 and picked up a used Evap cooler motor off of ebay for 25 bucks shipped. The tri way trimmer turn brass prep into an easy process, just stick the case in like your sharpening a pencil, brass comes out trimmed to length, chamfered, and de-burred. Wish I would have bought that set up first before spending money on other set ups that just didnt do it for me. Sent from my SM-G900P using Tapatalk

The reasoning is sound for soldiers, but that could not be further from the truth for LEOs. Just in TN there are probably 20 different issued handguns, and they aren't all Glocks or even .40s. Tennessee State Highway Patrol are issued Glocks in .357sig. Just check the thread pinned at the top of this sub forum, "LE Duty handguns in TN"

If I go down the path of special ordering I will be in big trouble. Lol.

AR accessories are a lot like fishing lures.  I bought a lot of lures that caught more anglers than fish.  OK maybe the analogy was a stretch but what I am saying is that the AR accessory market is a big market.  New gadgets, gizmos, pouches, rigs come out daily marketed in a manner to sell.  That is why a lot of us end up with boxes of cool looking "stuff" that we never use.  I usually end up with a kit that consists of well worn, often surplus, equipment that is pretty much basic.  May sound crazy to some but my old H-harness with a couple pouches, bands and butt pack see more time than any now days. Nothing wrong with "Old School".

Tell Bobby I said hey!

Redbone Coonhounds are awesome - had one named Hambone for years and loved him.

love it! he burnt a flag???!!

I was in there today also. Lots of cases of Norma 22. $56/500 if I recall correctly.

Speaking for myself, I understood your position, but as Dave said we are already a "special group" who pay for a privilege and I don't think the correct path is trying to make us more special. The state should recognize and respect the rights of all the people instead of forcing folks to pay exorbitant fees to exercise their rights.

Just tell her she could do better, and a better gun would help too :angel:  :devil:

Constitutional carry is a more pressing issue than fully unrestricted carry. It represents the greater infringement upon a natural right of the two options.

Class experiences have a way of weeding out gear that is...."sub-optimal".  Until you really experience the "Why" a particular gun or piece of gear is less than ideal you really don't have a grasp of why you need to upgrade. Until you see it fail it is still just "other people's opinions". When it refuses to shoot more than 3 rounds without malfunctioning, or until you experience how difficult it is to press the trigger , or work the slide (these are generalities not particular to any one particular gun ) then it becomes fact that you discovered...not just something someone told you.....   I tell students all the time that class is also an equipment lab for them to test their kit. I tell them to bring what you actually carry on a daily basis to pistol classes , or what you actually plan to use in case of home invasion, natural disaster, Indian uprising or zombie apocalypse for rifle and shotgun classes. Until you try to run your actual gear you actually  plan to use then you have no real idea how well (or not) it will perform.  Best to find that out in class and not on the two way range. 

He who finds roll pin must build rifle ASAP

Maybe I'm jaded but I shed zero tears when someone like this dies. I'm the world is a better place without them. I value human life, but only human life with value.

There were multiple complaints called in on this group of bikes.  Apparently, at various times they were driving at speeds far below the limit, holding up traffic, so a group of people standing in the back of a pickup truck at the head of their line could film them.  There were complaints of some members of this group of bikers driving recklessly at excessive speeds and weaving in, out and around traffic, 'popping wheelies' and so on.  At one point, the pickup truck with the folks in the back who were filming the bikers turned crossways in the road and blocked traffic so that this group of bikers could pass and the group could be filmed.  This is a public roadway, not a friggin' movie set or a closed course.  Based on those complaints, the bikers and their associates in the truck were creating hazardous traffic situations as well as being a nuisance.  In fact, it appears that the vehicle the officer had pulled over was that very pickup truck - one of the biker group's 'safety vehicles' - that was blocking traffic to film and so on..  In light of that, I think it is entirely possible that some of the bikers were intentionally 'buzzing' him.  Further, the driver of the truck was charged with driving with no license.  Now, I am not saying that what the cop did is excusable - it is not - but these bikers were no innocent bunch of lambs, either.  In fact, if the complaints called in have any truth to them then their actions sound a lot like that bunch of douche bags that dragged a father out of his SUV and beat him up a few years ago.  Anyone who has ever driven across 'the Tail of the Dragon' knows that - while many folks on two wheels are courteous and safe - some of them act like they own the public roads and that no one else has a right to be on them.  Apparently, many of the motorcyclists in this incident fall into the latter group.  As I said, that does not excuse what the cop did because if he had caused an accident by pepper spraying the bikers then that could have resulted in serious injury to the bikers as well as bystanders.   Honestly, speaking of movie sets, if this incident were to be made into a movie it sounds like a good title would be "Jerk Cop vs. Jerk Bikers: Clash of the Mega-Douches".

Odd.  Add this to the list of reasons why I wear a full face helmet.   If the cop didn't feel safe stopping on the side of the interstate, why didn't he direct the truck to proceed to the nearest exit?  The bikes weren't that close nor do they appear to be going particularly fast.

They moved over as much as possible, there was a pickup truck and a guard rail on the other side.

Any death is regrettable...period.   But committing a robbery is not justification for  school clothes money. At least not in my world.

Good lord, the quotes from his family members.................

I prefer to duct tape magazines to my chest, so the situation HAS to be worth it for me to rip them off.   Brandon

Indeed. They have a history of excellent cover songs.

I am 100%  behind the LEO on this one. I have lost a few family members and a few friends and one entire family of Husband,wife and two wonderful toddlers all to drunk drivers. I have zero tolerance or pity for a drunk driver. The way I look at it 1 less off the road makes the roads that much safer. And as for his being killed, that falls under the list of Self inflicted injuries caused by stupidity for which I have no mercy..............jmho

I think that is why I have such an interest in it. It probably sold for $25 in 1965 at the hardware store or Sears counter. Maybe it was a Christmas present, birthday present, or bought after a whole summer's worth of mowing grass. I just picture some father and son walking to the fishing hole in the late 60's while toting it, shooting some pop cans after the fish didn't bite, and probably passing it down to the grandson. It's a reminder of times long ago that are still heavily in the back of someone's mind.

Those are actually quite the little collectors item among 40/50/60 year old guys. Might not ever skyrocket into four figures price wise but I know a few guys at the range who have them from days long past and they wouldn't sell them for any price.