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TGO has unfortunately, from time to time, been visited by those who lack morals and ethics and would like to take advantage of the good graces and trusting nature of our fine members. This activity almost always seems to increase when social conditions are turbulent, especially if the turbulence is centered around the ability to find and buy guns or ammo. Lately we have had to boot a few people who were exhibiting suspicious behavior. We want you to be aware of this fact and to be sure to check a person's status on TGO before you commit to doing business with them as either the seller or the buyer. This is especially true if the other person encourages you to take communication with them "off the forum" and to email or some sort of instant messaging service. Before you buy or sell: Look to see whether they have have an active account or if they've been banned since you started talking to them. If you are going to meet to conduct business, do it during daylight hours and in a heavily trafficked, very public, neutral meeting place. Don't invite people to your home. Don't agree to meet people at theirs. MOST police and sheriff's stations have space at their parking lot where you can meet for selling and buying with strangers. Other good places are parking lots of busy business and in sight of their security cameras. Trust your gut instincts whether just when communicating online or meeting in person. If something feels "off" or "weird" - trust your gut. Feel free to involve me, @MacGyver, @Chucktshoes or one of the other moderators in a private conversation with the other party, or just contact us off to the side if you have concerns. Some of the suspicious activity that we've seen includes: People answering a Want To Buy ad claiming to have what you want, or that they know a friend or family member who does, and offering to broker an exchange between you and them. When it is fraudulent, this sort of thing often quickly becomes ridiculously complex and harder than it should be to do a simple transaction. Your warning senses should start tingling. We insist that people never list an item for sale for a friend on TGO for a reason. First Person is simpler, easier and often safer. People asking if you will ship a gun to them out of state or if you require proof of residency. Shipping a gun out of state always requires that you send it to an FFL in that state. An in-person buyer has to be a resident of your state. Again, heed your warning senses. People asking you to send money to them via PayPal "Friends and Family". Remember, first of all PayPal doesn't allow you to pay for guns and certain other things with their service. If you do and you get hosed on a deal, you may have no protection with PayPal. Second, sending money via Friends and Family saves the recipient a measly 3% charge but it also means you get zero protection via PayPal if the other person hoses you. Strangers insisting that they meet you after dark, or at a remote location, or at your house or theirs. This is a big NO. Don't do this. People asking if they can send a friend to pick up a gun from you instead of meeting you themselves. This is also a big NO. It can quickly become an illegal "straw purchase". Again, trust your gut instincts. You have them for a reason. It's safer to heed them and risk offending a person than it is to ignore them and end up the victim of a scam or worse. And always, always contact me, @MacGyver, @Chucktshoes or another moderator if you are concerned and just want a second opinion. We're glad to help. Stay safe out there!

I've had an extra Anderson Lower receiver and PSA lower Parts Kit, as well as a generic carry handle laying around here for quite some time. I decided I'd order one of these upper receivers from PSA. Bargain Basement Upper It showed up today, not quite a week after I ordered it, so I ran a patch through the bore, sprayed the BCG with oil, and gave it a go. I fired a couple of shots from about 20 yards offhand to verify where my sight were. That checked out ok, so I moved to the 100 yard bench. The only frill on this carbine is the ambi safety, as I an southpaw challenged. Here are the first 3 shots from the 100 yard bench. 2 clicks left, 1 click up, and I should be good to go. Ammo consisted of various range brass, bulk 55 grain 223 fmj projectiles, CCI small rifle primers, and a max charge of IMR 4320. This is a sample size of one, but based on my experience, I would recommend this particular upper. I haven't found the blemish.

Picked mine up today. It's everything it was hyped to be. Trigger is fantastic. Short clean break, definitive short reset, and light but consistent pull. Grip/ergonomics are phenomenal. Basically it took a great PPQ platform and accentuated all the good parts and made them even better. Have a Holosun 407c to mount as soon as I get the mount plate. Can't wait to shoot it tomorrow!

It took you a minute to get on the bus - but we're glad you're here. I really like the Magpul MS4 QDM sling. It's not the cheapest - but it fits me and my use case well.

UT. She states that she wants to be as far away from home as she can and since we are basically forcing her to do in-state because of cost, that is it. We are not going to pay for her to go to some out of state to get the same level of education but cost twice as much,. We are going to drive over if she is still insistent and let her drive the entire way there and back. I am hoping that that will press the point that if she needs anything or has to come home that it is a LONG drive. Going that far is not going to change the bad choices she made over the last few years either.

You could also possibly knock the iron sighs out of alignment, not have night sights for a low light shoot, tritium expire, tritium fall out, FO tube break, sight break. There are lots of hypotheticals and nothing is perfect, except using a point shooting base. For years the military and police taught point shooting, mainly ignoring irons, shooting from the waist. Revolvers barely had sights, as well as 1911's. Think Fairbairn/Sykes. Then they taught sight shooting with one eye, highly reliant on tactical/precision irons. Now we are back to sight shooting with an optic. I believe that is what Dave was pointing to with Leatham and Enos. Point shooting is always the best technique for speed, accuracy (both eyes), awareness, next target acquisition, multiple target awareness, etc. Optics are used an as aid for the effective shooter, not as a necessity. Over reliance on any sight is a crutch. Irons alone > Optics alone Optics with irons > Irons alone Point Shooting > All sight/optic

Yeah I'm not sure what they issue is. Your first post had valid reasons why you don't want a red dot. I think they are neat and will probably buy one eventually but I seriously doubt it's a "need" and really more of a "want". Some people feel the need to have every latest tacti-cool item on the market and then have to justify said expense. I wonder if Jack Wilson was running a red dot.

If you’re in the mood for pizza, there’s always Memphis Pizza Cafe. They do a crisp, St. Louis style cracker crust that I really dig. I never knew that that style was originated in St. Louis until I started spending a lot of time in MO.

I gotta say, this thread has gone much more calmly than one might have expected. You get fans of BBQ from KC, Bama, and Memphis going in on it and you’ll normally find as heated of a debate as any found in the now departed politics section.

Three Little Pigs is my choice for BBQ. A good non-BBQ choice would be The Cupboard.

I am perhaps a little shocked that there is not already a thread about Walther's new PDP handgun, but at the same time I am also not entirely surprised as it generally feels like the whole community of gun owners-at-large is holding its collective breath during these first 60 days of the Biden Occupation. That being said, let's get on to talking about a new blaster! https://waltherarms.com/pdp/ The Walther PDP (Performance Duty Pistol) is positioned to be the successor to the Walther PPQ series. It is Walther's new polymer frame, striker fired, 9mm pistol with a steel slide available in 4-inch and 4.5-inch lengths (a 5-inch is rumored to be coming). The slide uses Glock pattern front and rear sights, features a beveled leading edge for easier re-holstering, raised Super Terrain™ front cocking serrations, and comes standard as an optics-ready platform. The optics-ready aspects of the PDP are a centered around a deeply recessed mounting position that accepts a variety of Make/Model-Specific mounting plates that Walther partnered with C&H Precision Weapons (aka CHPWS) to produce. CHPWS is renowned for manufacturing rugged and reliable metal mounting plates that address weak spots of OEM plates from companies like Glock and Smith & Wesson, and plates that adapt optics to platforms that were otherwise incompatible with them such as Sig Sauer, H&K, CZ and Staccato. This decision by Walther is a damned good one, in my opinion, and will result in a lot of options for PDP owners moving forward. One last note about the optics-ready nature of this gun is that the mounting pocket is so deeply recessed that an Trijicon RMR mounted to the gun provides a Lower 1/3 co-witness with standard height Glock sights. Taller sights would only be needed if your particular optic and mounting plate combination dictate it. Most mass-produced optics ready guns require taller sights for co-witnessing. The only other one that I am aware of that doesn't is the Shadow Systems MR and DR family, and they lack the modularity of a mounting plate system. The frame of the PDP uses a new Performance Duty Texture on the grip's side panels and modular back strap, paired with more traditional grooves on the front strap. The Performance Duty Texture is geodesic in appearance and seems that it would offer good traction without being overly rough. LAV does a good overview of the grip texture and back strap features here: The PDP also continues the tradition of Walther providing what is arguably one of the best triggers in a polymer, striker-fired handgun. The community has long raved about the excellent trigger in the PPQ series and the PDP thankfully does not divert away from a proven recipe. The PDP also sticks with the PPQ M2's preference of a standard button-style mag release rather than going back to the original PPQ's paddle style. As someone who has owned several and still owns one HK pistol with a paddle release, I can say that this does not make me angry in the least. The paddle, while interesting, is weird in comparison to all of the other guns I've ever used and owned that use a button release. I will forever instinctively move my thumb toward where the mag release button should be on any gun that has paddles. So I am very thankful that the PDP does not have them and does have the button style release. Your opinions and preferences might vary. And if they do... you're weird and wrong. Once again here's LAV to explain to you why this trigger is pretty awesome and why you weirdos should try to conform a little more. Last but certainly not least, the pricing on the PDP seems like it should be reasonable once the initial hype dies down. The retail industry has taken note of how quickly the first production runs are selling out, and they are doing what retailers are often wont to do: They are putting them on GunBroker and letting people pay a premium to be among the first to own one. Good retailers are keeping them in store and selling them at MSRP. I love you good retailers who do this. The GunBroker turds can count on me remembering who they were a year from now when gun sales are hurting. If you want one and don't want to pay a $50 - 150 premium, wait. The supply chain will catch up. You won't have to wait forever. DO YOU HAVE ONE? Let us know what you think about it! I will pick one up sooner or later.

Nice work there Greg, I to am late to the while AR thing, I had to get buy the "but it is just a 22 caliber" thing. After reading and watching I went into the platform head first. We now have 3, building 2 more from finish less uppers and lowers. It is the "Erector Set" of firearms.

It's definitely on my list but I'll wait for a bit.

I put a PSA rifle kit together for my brother that shoots like that one.

I don’t know what @Erik88is talking about but that ain’t no bar-b-q. It might be tasty though.

Well, the "boss" has decided that she's interested in The Cupboard. I'd prefer BBQ, but if she ain't happy; you ain't happy! Thanks for the input guys!

I wish I could post pictures but I had two (Twins) Browning Hi-Power Practicals. One in 9mm and one in .40. They were beautiful weapons and functioned without fail. I sold them a few years back simply because the brunt of my training was with da/sa design weapons and I was more comfortable with that format. I wish I had kept them though.

This would certainly get me run out on a rail in some circles - but I think it probably rounds to true. Good barbecue is about a good pitmaster. And while you can scale a business model and franchise all day long - good pitmasters don’t scale. So, you can have locations across chains that have widely varying quality of food. Mind you, any chain worth opening the doors ought to be able to do a decent pulled pork sandwich - but even that’s hard to do well when you do 150 shoulders a day. I can’t even count the times I’ve had brisket or ribs in some famous place and thought - mine is better than this. If they’ve got more than one location, it’s almost guaranteed. So, honestly if I’m eating in a chain, I’m often going to weight the sides in there as well. Sides are easier to scale up. If I’m eating in a place that I know has more than one location, it’s a pork sandwich and whatever your two best sides are. That’s the minimum bar - table stakes. If you can do that okay - I might come back and try something else. If you can’t - no hard feelings. Here in Nashville and over in Memphis, there’s no lack of tourists to eat your mediocre food and buy your shirts.

I think that the water temps are gonna keep fish very sluggish for a few more weeks. For me Priest and Old Hickory are in the high 40's to 50°.

Me well, gonna try for Saturday morning!

Is there something I'm missing with the Central location in Nashville at Capital View, because I didn't think it was that good. Certainly nowhere near Martin's, Edley's, or Jack of Hearts in Spring Hill (which is now sadly closed).

Good luck. At least the schools are good in Memphis. It’s a great town and who knows, maybe the sketchier elements will make her a little more aware of the possible consequences of poor choices.

I have to grudgingly agree. I still stand by my beliefs but some people are just nervous around firearms. It comes from the pounding we have had that guns are bad. enthusiasts know they are neither good nor bad but reflect the person holding them.

Yeah, I do believe that is the case.

Irons won’t fog up or not work due to a dead battery. The other hypotheticals about irons failing are remotely possible, but unlikely. Enos and Leatham don’t “point shoot” unless a target is really close. They use the sights more for some shots than they do others. Enos talks about “seeing what you need to see” when describing an adequate sight picture. Jeff Cooper mentioned a “flash sight picture.” Sure, hard focus on the front sight when trying to hit a golf ball at 25 yards. For many other less difficult shots, using the front sight to varying degrees or at least being aware of the front sight vs. focusing on it will suffice if speed is required. Some have mastered target focusing with iron sights at farther than you would think distances, but that is different from point shooting. I agree that a well-honed index is important, but to disregard the sights or dot at more than conversation distances when in a hurry is a miss for many shooters.

DING... DING... DING... We have a winner... Mr Smith is dead right... All defensive shooting boils down to this... Many thanks... leroy...

Yep, 40 through Sam Cooper to E Parkway to Madison. Just don’t end up on Union trying to get back to 240 north to 40. The Union-Madison access to 240 has confused many an out-of-town type and more than a few locals. MPC gets my vote. Slice of beef, slice of pepperoni, and a slice of Ultimate Cheese is my standard order. Don’t even bring me a menu.

I enjoy watching it. I prefer Fords but not Carharts. LOL. The challenges are pretty good, people trying to do something they have little to no experience with for the most part, sometimes their background helps, sometimes not. Not as much of a "social experiment" like Survivor, and no where near the drama either which is good.

That's my point. You're prepared for when the battery powered optic fails.

Then you use the co-witness iron sights.

Roosters are the only ones that are noisy. I've never had a smell problem, but my pen isn't overcrowded and I keep the coop clean. They do tend to poop on everything and attract predators, but if you keep them in a good pen that isn't a problem.

Whitt’s is NOT Memphis style BBQ. It’s cr@p. I second and third Central BBQ on Central. As one of your sides, get the pork rinds. They fry them to order and they are still cracking on your plate. Sublime. If you like beef ribs, Interstate BBQ on South Third is the only place I know in Memphis to get them. Gus’s is also. Good, but it’s not Bolton’s or Prince’s. Heuy’s was always good for a burger and a beer.

We're getting down to the bottom of the barrel around here too!

I had something at BIg Bob Gibsons years ago that changed every bad thing I ever said about Alabama. Pork tenderloin is generally good enough alone. But they’ve taken it, cut it into strips, wrapped it in pinwheels with bacon, grilled it, then served it with a pecan bourbon sauce. It’s a little piece of heaven. edit to add: they published the recipe: https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pecan-crusted-pork-tenderloin-pinwheels-with-carolina-mustard-sauce-352954/amp

Outside of home cooking, Cozy Corner has the best ribs I’ve ever tasted.

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I have run into this with other places too and on some of them I have found that they release stock when they send out the flier, but I may receive the emailed flier several hours after other people I know. Sending out thousands of emails take time and often they have to do it in batches to keep from some server along the way flagging them as a bot flooding it with email. So if you happen to be in the first section of the emails going out, you have better luck. No way to force that though. I agree they probably just say in the flier to check their site for what ammo is in stock, but remember this is the site that in the past would not ship ammo to TN even though they are in Chattanooga TN. I had to have a shipment sent to a friend in VA back when the .22 drought was on.

Here is mine BHP. Was my father's and was passed down. Serial dates to 1961. It's got character. Quite a bit but shoots great. Just let me know and you are welcome to shoot it. I'm up in Macon County often given it's only 15 minutes from the house.

I've had several, and the FN's I've had were absolutely beautiful. So beautiful I felt guilty just handling them. They are still on this board... somewhere ! I started my gun journey with an FEG PJK-9hp. I let that one get away because I didn't know what it was. Found another one years ago and it's a keeper. Love these things. It's a shooter!

Heres my HP lineage pistols. A FEG made FN stamped impostor that I put a real FN barrel in (shoots better). The DA Arcus has HP DNA buried in a bit more steel covering. If I find some time, I may whittle a bunch of that metal off to mimic what Gf54 has there in that Detective. Finally bought a pair of Mec Gar 15 round mags for these pop guns. You need 2 men and a boy to fit #15 in em but they will run them out with no problem. Back when I first got my carry permit at the legal 21 age, I bought a Browning HP from Numrich Arms where I worked across the street at Auto Ordnance. Carried that thing everywhere I went.... One night I was watching Cher dancing around on TV while I was leading her with my HP sights, Just as she stopped moving around, I dropped the hammer on her, thinking i had ejected the round earlier......Bang goes the HP and Cher was gone! Those 9mm FMJ rounds dont go threw an old style TV, I can tell you that for sure! That was one of 3 times a round got away from me back when I was young, dump and full of.... you know... LOL. Sold that HP to a buddy of mine when he wanted it for the PD job he had. The Feg was not polished very well when it was parkerized but it satisfies the HP desires as far as shooting holes in things.....

You are speaking my language good sir. I have two. One is a 1990 produced MK III that I had refinished and fancied up. The other is a Charles Daly Hi Power (only US rollmarked HP) that I bought here on TGO. The CDHP is essentially a US built clone made with Hungarian FEG parts. That one has been cerakoted black and is currently at the Smith to be milled to accept a Holosun 507k. I love the HiPower. It’s the 1911, perfected. I’m not at home, and I can’t find my pictures of them, though I know I’ve posted some here before. Sorry I don’t have any pics of them for you.

Wonderful pistols! My favorite 9mm. Browning discontinued the Hi-Power a couple of years ago. Since then prices have gone up considerably. An average condition pistol now costs in the $1200+ range. You can probably find a .40 cal a good bit cheaper as they aren't near as popular. Honestly, I don't like the .40 and wouldn't have one. Along with the 1911, the Hi-Power is one of the most copied pistols in the world. There are lots of excellent clones out there. FEG, , FM, Kareem, Israel, plus several more I can't remember have made them. I've never heard of a truly bad clone. Most of the real differences are in the finish. You can find these at much better prices, but even they are going up. As for the Browning versions: The pre-war and WW II pistols are extremely sought after by collectors and very expensive. Likewise the "T" series serial numbers are collectible and pricey. For a real Browning, your best bet will be the MK III version which was the last. I have one of these and love it. I currently have 3 versions of the Hi-Power and love them all. Top: Browning MK III I bought new in the early 90s. Middle: FEG clone. Just as good as the real thing. Just not quite so pretty. Bottom: FM Detective Model. This one is the Commander sized version of the HP with a 1" shorter slide and barrel. These are scarce and prices are rising dramatically. I just lucked into this one.

A supply disruption is very hard to handle. I had to work through one when we lost the primary plant that supplied one of our feedstocks due to an explosion. The material was unique and was sole sourced. We were ethical and allocated available finished goods based on past usage, refused new customers, etc. Large customers that historically bought by truckload(s) had to unload one pallet then watch the truck drive away to the next customer with product they both desperately needed to serve their customers. Bottom line. We saved the company but our customers were forced to find other options to continue their businesses. Our most profitable product line was destroyed by loss of customer confidence and their need to serve their customers. In a free market, if there's enough demand for reloading supplies and the existing manufacturers are not able to fill the "vacuum", new sources will develop. That's the basis of "business", identify an unserved need and find a way to fill it. It will take time but this will happen. Unfortunately, we do not live in a true free market. Politics will have a major influence on what ultimately happens.

I have a fund raising letter from the TSA laying on the table just waiting for me to send a check. Considering the fact I am a retired LEO I was planning on doing so. This just saved me some money. I will do something direct to benefit my locals. Through my career I found that the higher one is in the command chain of Law Enforcement, the more they tend to follow the direction of the political winds. I would venture to say that a large number, if not the majority, of the sheriffs do not personally support this position. Especially if they came up through the ranks. However, the those making money sitting in the offices of the TSA rubbing elbows with politicians tend to get dirty elbows.

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Proprioception honing can benefit an irons shooter as well. Building a natural "index" through extensive dry practice will help a dot or irons shooter. Some of the better USPSA/IDPA shooters target focus with irons at most distances. This probably sounds sacrilegious to some and Col. Cooper might roll over in his grave, but they do and they win doing it. I am not talking about Bullseye shooting, but some upper crust action pistol-type iron sight shooters who need QUICK good-enough accuracy (two A-zone hits) can target focus and hold their own against dot shooters.

Brownell's slides are a cheaper alternative.

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