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I'm a firm believer that you never REALLY need to take them apart. A bore snake and CLP aerosol will take care of the gun for way longer than most of us will own them.

Thanks to TGO member Bud, I'm the new owner of a S&W Governor. I have probably already shot it more than he did. I shot a few carpender bees doing some skeet shooting off the back deck with #9 .410 plus a box of old .410 shells I had laying around just because it is fun shooting a hand canon and put a box of colt long and acp through it. The real question for me other than price is there a reason you would shoot .45acp over .45 Long Colt? I plan to shoot a lot of acp for fun because of price but was also wondering what the opinion on defensive ammo (other than the .410 options). Does the Long Colt has enough extra umph to override the larger selection of different defensive ammo in acp. The Long Colt is an impressive cartridge when you start loading it around someone that has never seen it before.

Green River Tactical Rifle match Saturday 20th. Five stages 108 round count minimum. Sign in at 8:45 Shooters mtg 9:15 no AP or LAP ammo chamber flags required and will be available for sale. See ya there. bggrgc.com

I read that the wolf/coyote hybrid is making its way closer to us. They are supposed to be bigger and hunt more like wolf packs. I have no problem hunting or trapping them, but I would just prefer that it not be wasted. Fur bearing animals have a lot to offer if you do not mangle the hide up. Of course, I also wish I saw more deer hunters tan the hides or at least pass them to someone to tan. Seems like a waste to see it all get tossed in a dumpster.

I know I'm not the only one wants a G19 sized pistol made by someone else. And no one is wanting the slide length (4" bbl) of it. That's available from several other manufacturers. The grip length is the magic of the G19, and what is important when talking concealment.

I posted a video here a few years back that was really too dark to see. I shot a new one this weekend. I hope this helps some people. One more note that I should have mentioned when filming. If your pistol still has a magazine disconnect, then you will need to reinsert your magazine when pulling the trigger. Otherwise, the hammer won't move where you need it to.

This is the clearest, to-the-point video I have seen on re-assembly. I remember, before the internet, being on the phone with CS at Ruger, them walking me through re-assembly.........PITA Info about the 'springy' bolt stop pin assembly is priceless. I would like to ask you to edit your [OP] post, and include your 'note', in case someone watches but doesn't read below it. Note: "One more note that I should have mentioned when filming. If your pistol still has a magazine disconnect, then you will need to reinsert your magazine when pulling the trigger. Otherwise, the hammer won't move where you need it to." Good job, Brother.

Yes, coyotes are pushing foxes out as they compete for the same habitat and food sources. While coyotes are voracious rodent eaters, I'd much prefer foxes as they rarely attack pets or livestock and don't howl at night.

you decide your fair share. government complicates this by indoctrinating the masses into the fantasy called social contract granting them the imaginary ability to impose on others for the sake of their subjectively determined good unpopular opinion: you own you

Great vid, Cap. However, I've been fussing with my Mark II for about 25 years. Needed a hammer last time. It's never coming apart again, at least by my hands. Liberal blastings of Remoil are good enough for cleaning out the innards.

I'm still searching for the purpose of a chigger.

They are available at GilbertsGuns right now https://www.gilbertsguns.com/sig-320-x5-9mm-pistol-with-4-21-round-magazines-320x5-9-bas.html

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I do not think people had to go through metal detectors to go to the BBQ competition. It is in a park so you should be legal to carry. If you go to Beale Street in the daytime, you don't have to go through metal detectors. The Gibson guitar museum is there. Go check out the lobby of the Peabody Hotel and have a snack. The zoo would be good to go to. You can also drop in the Brooks Museum by the zoo. The Pink Palace is also good to see. Bass Pro in the Pyramid has a nice observation deck that you can see all around the river area. Overton Square has some good restaurants. There are a couple good breweries in Memphis that offer tours.

best video I have seen on this...thanks. Now I would recommend this as a sticky under the gunsmith threads. I will need it someday.

My solution would be a 12ga.

Nope. I have a lifetime permit. As long as it isn't revoked, I shouldn't have to renew it.

Wow, looking at your list I'm your polar opposite for the most part. But by my yardstick, I'm doing well, I'm retired military, and my body is not so broken that I can't hold down a job. Not rich by any means, but so far at 52 I have no monetary worries. Privileged? hardly, but I never let that stand in my way.

I have a lot of thoughts about this, but I'll stick to a few for right now - because truthfully at 2200CDT on a Wednesday evening I own and run a small business - and I'm still here, today. I haven't had a guaranteed payday on Friday in a long, long time. So, here I am. Both of our political parties have their hands in our pockets. This isn't a "conservative"/"liberal" thing. It's an American political thing. Find more than a handful of our 536 elected representatives in Washington that actually understand what it takes to actually create and sustain a job. You'll be hard pressed. And, I say that as a small business owner who knows the extraordinary effort it takes to go from zero to one employee. I am successful. Truthfully, I am rich. Maybe not by every metric, but certainly by most. I've been all over the world and I know what poverty looks like. I don't have to worry about much. Every time I open the refrigerator, it's like I've won the freaking lottery. There's good food in there, and I don't have to worry about whether or not it's going to make me sick, or whether there's still going to be some in there tomorrow. Success is a funny thing, though. I work hard. I work really hard. But, as it turns out, that's not the single biggest indicator of success. In America today, the single biggest indicator of success is the level at which you can tolerate risk. And, as it turns out, I can tolerate a fair bit. Some of that is the product of decisions I made earlier in my life, but a lot of that is also luck and privilege. You can discount it, but sitting where I sit today as the managing director of one company and the CEO of a new company, those last two factors are significant. What plays into those? A non-exhaustive list off top of my head: I come from a two-parent home I never once worried about my safety at home or whether or not I would have food to eat in the morning I went to good schools where teachers knew my name, cared if I did well, and by and large actually knew something about the subject they were teaching I graduated from high school I graduated from college with no debt - scholarships and the fact that my parents were able to fund the rest of my education I went to graduate school I started a little business with a couple of friends in the 90's that was in the right place at the right time We met some people who took a liking to us who happened to worth a whole lot of money - and they mentored us I waited until I was married to have kids My wife worked while I got my first company off the ground - and she had good benefits I'm white - discount that if you want - but I walked into a bank that I've never been into in my life today and the bank president walked me out when I left On the rare occasion that the police come into my neighborhood, they always address me as sir. I've always had reliable transportation - or lived in a place that had public transportation so good you didn't need it My family has not gotten any serious illness or disease My wife is able to parent with me so that I don't have to worry about childcare so I can go to work - it doesn't even cross my mind - if my schedule changes, it's not a huge deal. Can you take away one or more of those things and still be successful? Sure. But, you're going to have to work a lot harder at it than I do - and probably for a lot longer. The fact of the matter is that now, at 42, I can start a brand new company, and it's likely that it'll be successful. I'm good at what I do, but the only reason I'm starting it is because I have both an opportunity AND the ability at this point in my life to take advantage of it. As to a CEO having a huge compensation plan while stepping on the backs of employees, there are some giant problems in America today. Frankly, the economy is being looted by financiers. So many CEO's today aren't adding much value - they're just in a position to be able to extract as many assets of value from the companies they're heading as they can. See Sears, JC Penney, Radio Shack, Kmart, et al right now if you need examples. I cannot speak for everyone, but I can tell you how I see it. I'm pretty generous with my employees. I look at it in two ways. First, you can have a large piece of a small pie, or a smaller piece of a much larger pie. I try pretty hard to bring more people to the table and give equity away generously. In doing so, yes, I own a smaller percentage of the company. But, there are a lot of people who suddenly have an equity stake in it doing well. What do you think they're going to do with that? My experience shows that they work a lot harder to create value. And, having been through it a couple of times, instead of having 80% of something that's not worth that much, I have maybe 25% of something that's worth 10 times as much. In my experience, it works out better for everyone. I also look at it from a Biblical perspective - actually an ancient Jewish perspective. In the 23rd Psalm, there's the idea of the Lord filling a cup until it overflows. In the ancient Jewish tradition, there was no idea of individual blessing/salvation - it was all community based. So, when your cup overflows it's not wasted - instead it flows out into the community around you. And, everyone is better off because of it. Sure, I don't much care for having the government tell me what to do with my money. I would just assume they left me the heck alone. But, that is coming from a position of privilege. The truth of the matter is that while I'd love it if our churches, communities and civic organizations took care of our local communities - we suck at it. And as we embrace the politics of 'the other' over the gospel, it's getting worse. I can think back to the flood in 2010. We have a major church in Nashville that was built with the intention of being a disaster relief shelter. But, when the time came to put it to use, they didn't - because it would be disruptive to services, and liability, and insurance, and safety, and our kids, and whatever... Every last one of us depends on the government for way too much. And, that's unlikely to change anytime soon. I grumble and moan every time I write a big check to the government for taxes. But, as individuals we've become way too dependent. And it's not like our churches are going to step up. Western individualism has run completely amok in American christianity. So, it's a question that doesn't have a discrete answer that fits into a neat little partisan box. Do I "deserve" more because I work hard for it? Maybe? I probably deserve more than the Instagram starlets. But there are plenty of single moms that work every bit as hard as I do every day as vet techs or as medical assistants or teachers or at Target for that matter. There are women at the Target up the street that I know for a fact are there from open until close most days. I am in a position by luck, privilege and effort that allows me to tolerate a lot of risk - and that will more often than not lead to success. That's the easy part. It gets a lot harder from there.

Definitely a good match. Stage 5 was really tough for most shooters, lots of rounds sent down range for those 3 steel plates. It was tough to see the plates and the unstable fence rest didn't help either. The headshots on stage 3 gave most people fits as they didn't hold high enough on the target to hit the head. I was very happy with my new toy and shot really well with it. Finished with 5 target points down for the whole match.

That was a fun match! It might not had been intended, but the "dancing steel" plates in the wood line of bay 5 while looking into the sun was AWESOME! One of the hardest things to do in a fight is to acquire your target. People can be getting shot at from a general direction and won't return fire because they can't see a clear target. We become conditioned to look for that bullseye or cardboard cut out and our brain under stress just won't allow us to focus on something that is different from what we wish to see. We all wanted to see nice round white painted steel plates with a dark green background. Its not what we all got..., we got that "different" that under stress (a timer in this case) caused all of us to work harder than we wanted. Outstanding!

I bought my fourth Bersa .380, the Burnt Bronze model, a few days ago. I've found them to be extremely reliable. Many of the problems owners have shared on the Bersa Chat board are ammo related--relatively few can be blamed on the gun itself. A lifetime service agreement is extended to all original owners. After shooting trials, this pistol will be strapped to my hip regularly for EDC.