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At least the Hi-Point will work

I've gotta say that I thoroughly enjoyed today's game. When you're a Vandy fan, you've got to take the little bits of joy where you find them.

I wouldn't buy an RP9 for a lot of reasons. It being ugly as sin is the least of my worries.

Overall it was a lot of fun. I ended up shooting around 1000 rds. We had 28 in the class to start off. 10 of those were in the 2 day class so the last 2 days we had 18. That meant more time shooting. Day one started a 6:30 am with check in. They exam your equipment to make sure it is compliant and then off to the classroom for the introduction. We had lectures during lunch and then after range time. The first day was dry practice(not dry firing because as they put it you are not firing anything). New term "dry practice" The ranges have 15 targets and everyone teams up with another classmate and we help coach each other along with 3 or 4 FS personnel there giving instruction. The first 2 days I teamed up with Rick. He and I both shot about the same but he was much sharper on his procedures than I was. During some down time (which was not often) I learned that he had been in that class 6 times and had already graduated and taken the advanced HG class. I felt a lot better about where I was after that. They are very strict about how they want you to do everything which I understand but when you have done things differently for so long it was hard to make some adjustments. One of the things I had never practiced was after fire drills. After EVERY shot we were to do after fire drills. Look over both shoulders, move from your original firing position, scan for more bad guys and tactical reload. I took a Gen 4 g26 because it is my carry gun and I wanted to shoot what I carry. That was a mistake for 2 reasons. 1. I was shooting the smallest gun in the class and do not normally practice head shots in a 3 inch by 2 inch box from 21 feet with my smaller guns. 2nd the dimples on the gen 4 felt like they had grown a half inch by the end of the first day. I kept looking at my hand expecting blood. I am used to lifting weights at the gym and the roughness of the bar but every time I grabbed the 26 it was painful. At the end of day 2 I looked everywhere to find a sleeve for that gun and every place was closed by the time we got to town. I ended up buying a bicycle tube from Walmart and made my own. It worked great. I would have taken my Walther PPQ gen 2 had I known what we would be doing and how many times I had to draw my gun and how much time we would spend with the gun in your hand. Also all the malfunction drills are easier with a larger guns. When you have to draw and fire in 1 1/2 seconds from 21 feet to a head shot the room for error is not much with a small gun. Day 1 and 2 we practiced presentation, clearing malfunctions, tactical reloading, trigger reset, and trigger control. Day 3 we did door breaching and room clearing and a lot of practice for the test on day 4. They also introduced shot timers on day 3. I will be picking up one of those. That thing owned me for 2 days. It is amazing how you forget everything when that buzzer goes off. Day 4 was the most fun. We did more malfunction drills and another round of the practice test skills. Around 10 we started the testing. To graduate you can have no more than 13 points taken off. To get the intermediate score you could have no more than -34. If it is a head shot and you make a good shot under the buzzer you get no points taken off. If you are outside the box but still under the time it is minus 3. The first round I had no defaults. The second round I was not only out of the headshot box but was outside of the silhouette of the target. – 19 points after round 2. The rest of the test was clearing 3 types of malfunctions and tactical reloads under time pressure. -6 for a total of -25 which was the intermediate score. I thought before that if I could score in the intermediate range I would be happy. After that we had a man on man challenge. They had 2 ranges set up with 3 targets. The first was about 15 feet away and it was steel silhouette hostage with a 5 inch by 5 inch steel head for the bad guy. Behind that about another 20 feet where 2 silhouette steel targets one red and one blue. They drew names to see who you would shoot against. If you hit the hostage you lost. If both hit the hostage neither one went to the next round. Naturally I was one of the first to shoot. I won the first round easily. I hit the head, dropped the red and hit the frame on the blue another shot and I dropped the blue. The guy I was shooting against had not hit the first target yet. The next round, same thing except I did not miss the blue. Dropped all 3 in before the other guy had hit the first one. That left me for the finals. The guy I would have to shoot against hit the hostage so it was just me. The range master said I still had to go through the course clean. So I took 3 shots for the hostage shot and dropped the other 2 with 2 shots. I WON. Because I did not have anyone to shoot against the range master got everyone behind me and when he said fire they all started screaming. Funny I did not really notice. I really appreciate all the guys that hit the hostage so I did not have to shoot against them. They teach to take your time on the head shots to "insure the hit". Well I have never practiced like that. When I get on target I pull the trigger. I knew I had been missing low and left on the timed shots so I held high and right knowing that I was not going to take the time to bare down with it being a race. Funny how trigger control goes out the window under pressure. We also spent time on day 4 for dealing with multiple targets up to 4. Each day was jam packed. After day one we had dry practice at 7:40am an usually were shooting until it got to dark to see. I met a lot of great people, not only the staff but the other classmates. One lady had never fired a gun before. We had 2 that graduated to the advanced class The whole experience was a blast. If you ever have a chance to do it I would highly recommend it. All the FS folks were great, they were very friendly. The facility is top notch.

Just got it from Reese at the Gun Crew in Hermitage. Been wanting one since I got my PMR-30 a few years ago. Couldnt bring myself to pay the exorbitant prices that were being charged every where until recently they came down, then Reese had it on sale to boot, so I couldnt resist.

Same here. Had numerous visits to my house from at&t including engineers to get my internet service hooked up. Long story short, after months without internet and almost a full work week lost making appointments spread out over same months, their engineer told me ALL of their techs were using an old hook up box and the good one was on the back and a guy would be out the follwowing day for the hook up. Next day comes and the tech calls me at work saying he can’t do his outside hook up (inside was DONE by the engineer) unless I️ come home from work. I️ told him to pack his stuff and leave. Called charter a few days later and they were out the next day, let me pick a two hour window of time and their tech had me setup in less than an hour. Theyre expensive, but I’ve never had to use an automated system and have always had an English speaker answer the line. The service is so far above at&t they also couldn’t tempt me with free service at this point.

Don't know if it's available in your area but we use Charter and have had great service.

And a lot of the 700 actions that folks are building custom guns on aren't even made by Remington. Instead they're made by third party folks putting out the quality and features that Remington either can't or won't. At this point Remington has something more akin to inertia, not true market share. Ask Colt how well that works out.

Remington 700’s are hardly as popular as it once was. The 700 is too pricey to compete with guns of comparable quality or accuracy and they are not good enough to compete with higher priced guns. That is why the 783 was brought to market. It is a better rifle than the 700 and cheaper allowing it to compete withguns the 700 just can’t compete with. The only thing the 700 has is a HUGE amount of aftermarket parts. 10 years ago that was a big deal but today almost anything you can buy for your 700 you can also buy for another brand. There is nothing a 700 can do that a cheaper brand can’t.

Hadn't heard about this place until reading this, I am in Collierville and it looks to right there with Range USA. I'll have to check it out and see what is going on there as well, always good to have more ranges and see if there is another decent gun shop in the area, more 2A folks the better. From the pictures on the website it looks like a pretty nice place. Fortunately, we have some family land where I do most of my shooting, always have bad experiences at these in-door ranges, waiting in long lines and the last 2 times I have been to Range USA the folks next to me have ended up pointing a loaded firearm at me, at which point it was time for me to go. Good luck to them!

Yeah, I kind of felt like a heretic putting it on there. :()

The gun cabinet is nice, but I don't have room for it. Getting an old curio cabinet of wife's family that will take our wall space.

Fixed it!

So many of the manufacturers are leveraged to their eyeballs and have depended on military contracts to stay afloat. It wouldn’t surprise me to see us a few of the brands bought for pennies on the dollar at auction over the next few years.

Every man has a dick and a Glock 19.

This is highly unusual at Oak Court Mall, they are usually shooting them instead of just brandishing them

It’s Memphis...

The RP9 is not selling because it is an ugly gun. I think most gun owners are just as worried about how a gun looks. The RP9, if you squint just a little bit, looks a lot like a Highpoint and we all know owning one is like riding a moped, it's cool until your friends see you.