Fear

I'm not saying pull out and blow away. I'm just saying it's hard for someone who sees a situation as fixed the moment they have a barrel out to realize that the next few seconds after you draw your weapon can go downhill very fast and the assessment at that point is the most critical.   At this point I just feel like I'm trolling. I'm sorry if that's how it's coming off.

I'm not a big fan of cops, but I don't believe for a second that if a person pulls on a cop that the cop would even hesitate to empty his/her magazine in the threat. You see warning shots and other idiotic stuff on TV and people believe if it's on TV, it must be real. If a dude kicks in your door, drops on you at an ATM, etc., you are lucky if you get a half second to decide if the dude is a life-endangering threat. And I have to believe such a scumbag would have more doubts that a woman has the nerve to pull the trigger than a dude and that he could probably disarm her and do as he pleases.   When I had a shotgun pointed at my face by a tweaking crack-head robbing my store while I was in college, I was genuinely not scared. I was so focused on him making the mistake at pointing the barrel away from me for a second so I could grab it from him and crush his skull with the stock, it was disturbing. No bragging, there's nothing there to brag about. I just couldn't get rid of the idea that at any moment an irrational tweaker could decide to waste us all no matter how much we complied with his wants. The idea that you can trust someone to not hurt you because you submit after he was the one to brandish a deadly weapon first is absurd. If that's what goes through my head when drawn on, what goes through the mind of a sadist pumped-up on meth when he's drawn on?   I think that once the situation gets to the point of drawing your piece, hesitation will get you killed.

I'm thinking I wasn't clear. My rear sight is tall, my front sight is short. Not a matched set. So when I aim at a target in an indoor range, the bullseye is centered in my sight, but the bullet is going to the ceiling because someone installed a tall rear sight without installing a tall front sight. I have tons of punches, but feel my upper receiver would look like a dogs chew-toy by the time I got the sights swapped with just punches and not the cool clamp-on press that pushes sights in and out of dovetails. I was just hoping someone carries Beretta parts around Nashville. I figured they would because this was a standard military sidearm model for some time so I figured there's a lot of vets with tooling,parts and knowledge on servicing the M9 Beretta (92F).

My wife got spooked from that video a while back of the dude kicking in the door and nearly beating a woman to death in front of her nanny-cam. Now she wants to get her carry permit, which I'm of-course all for.    My worries are that I think people get this idea that the moment they point a barrel, they now have control over the situation. It's the way it happens on TV, but I've had guns pulled on me before and all they do is piss me off. I'm afraid a rapist or other dirt bag might see her pull her piece and doubt her commitment on pulling the trigger and take it as an excuse to escalate the situation from bad to really bad.    I told her I really hope that if she picks nothing else up from the carry class, it's that if you pull your pistol out you better be 200%-ready to blow some holes in someone, or else things will likely get really bad really quick. No warning shots, no drama, just draw and shoot.    

I bought an old Beretta a while ago and it's sat in my drawer until I took it to the range a little while back with some other guns and realized the sights are useless. It has a tall match-style sight in the rear and a stocker in front. So, unless I attempt the 200-yard mortar-attack approach at shooting or ignore sights and shoot gangster-sideways above my head-style of shooting, the gun is useless.   Anyone local stock Beretta sights and the press tool for the dovetail? At this point, stock rear sight is fine but I'm always up for the night-sights. Not much point to match-sights on a carry 9mm.  

Be really careful of buying used or super-cheap new EOTech or Aimpoint scopes. There's a few Chinese companies that don't worry about going down for making visually accurate knock-offs down to trademark lettering and packaging. China doesn't respect patents or trademarks. The scopes look legit, but suck. Biggest give away is if the scope can select between a green or a red dot. Both companies list on their websites ways to spot a fake and both companies insist they never made a scope with a green dot.

I faced a similar dilemma several years ago. I grew up with my mom a biker and getting dragged to rallies a lot as a kid. I rode for years until I went to college and then met my wife. I spent many years unable to afford a bike (mainly because my taste was euro, brit and domestic bikes and they were priced way out of range back then). When prices came down and my income raised, I tried to piece together a triumph, but ended up buying a Harley instead (new).    It was a Dyna and my wife refused to have anything to do with it. I started planning time off around rallies and bike swap meets and she would tag-along following in the car. She started seeing all the petite young girls on radical bad-ass bikes and started to become curious. She started riding on the back and eventually started riding mine when I bought an older version.   The new'06 Dyna was fast, smooth, had massive torque and great brakes. I hated that. I ended up getting a '96 Dyna because it was what I thought a Harley should be; loud, less plastic, easier to strip-down, more options for modifications, skinny rear tire, etc. Just a more raw kind of bike.   I don't look down on the asian-brand bikes. The owners usually are more devoted to riding bikes than Harley-owners today. Most Harleys you see are modified in ways that make them less practical for riding and only appealing to people who don't know crap about motorcycles. Fat tires corner like crap, forward controls make it harder to feel the bikes center of gravity, lowering a bike until it about scrapes the ground makes speed bumps a nightmare kills the lean-angle and also hurts the the feel for the center of gravity and most of the wacky spike and fake injector air cleaners hurt flow over a simple open element. These bikes rarely get over 1000 miles on them and the owners keep ample pictures on them on their cell phones to impress their buddies but wont ride them because of fear of getting them dirty or scratched.   But the Harley stereotypes are unfounded these days. The jokes of yesterday's technology at tomorrow's prices is wrong. The '06 Dyna has rubber mounted engine and trans, super-smooth ride, 4-piston calipers front and rear, fuel injection, tubeless radial tires, self-canceling turn signals, fuel gauge and so-on. Some dirtbag that was dating a chick at work that had a "show-bike" Harley referred to "HD" standing for the "Hundred-Dollars" he spent every time he started it up. I've put nearly 40,000 miles on my '96 and only non-maintenance  (non-oil, tires, etc) I had to replace was fork seals, alternator stator and a cam and cam bearing. Most cop bikes are Harleys and cops aren't gentle with anything they use, but the bikes hold-up.   Just something to think about.

Maybe I compounded the cliches a bit. Lets say Jurasic Park 3 where the high-maintenance whiney bimbo, her wimpy husband and their completely un-equipped kid make it through the whole movie. The hired trained mercenaries armed to the rim make it all of 5-minutes. Most of Kings books have the wimpy underdog prevailing while the prepared people barely out-last the opening credits. Not just King, seems like most horror movies.    Evil Dead remake had the Ash-character whiney and hesitant. Him and his geeking detoxing sister outlast the less douche-like characters. While the original Bruce Cambell Ash was doing whatever it took to get through and wasn't wasting energy on his personal drama.    I just believe in real situations that if someone is so self-centered that they can focus on their inner drama over the threat at hand are the first to fail. But not the case in movie cliches.   I liked the movie. Walking Dead creeping zombies like Night of the Living Dead seem scary if they creep up on you, but not such a threat unless you're careless or can't find a secure place to sleep. Running zombies like in the remake of Dawn of the Dead put real fear into the concept. WWZ zombies that not only run but form huge zombie tidal waves and can instantly stack to overcome tall obstacles are intense.

Did you guys watch the same movie as me? I never read the book, but thought the movie was awesome. Nothing really insulted me, the action stayed constant, plenty of cool characters revolving in and out, even bad-ass chicks (the Israeli soldiers) and an ending that wasn't insulting.   I liked the reference toward why you keep your index finger pointed instead of on the trigger and how the next time you see the pointed finger, it's on a clearly visible Armalite receiver.   I also liked the lack of clichés like the underdog always coming through. In every Stephen King-type book/movie it starts with, lets say 30 special forces commandos, the quadriplegic autistic kid and their mental-baggage-consumed caregiver. Five minutes later all the commandos are dead and the plot sits on the courage of the two people bound to the wheelchair. Common-sense tells you that's bull. In this movie, all the survivors were bad-asses serious about making it through the turmoil and surviving.   Everybody who's read the book will scoff at the movie to prove they read the book. If you're yelling at the screen during Harry Potter because they left out something from the book, you're not impressing me, you're making me pity you for being so pathetic as to be an adult that reads Harry Potter. Then, of course, I think of how pathetic I am for watching Harry Potter in the same theater as you.   The EvilDead remake was an alright movie by itself, but sucked compared to original. I know people will say that about all remakes (Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, etc.) but this critique is actually true.   The only video game-based movie that wasn't a total disappointment was Hitman. But then again, I've never played Hitman.

That must be it. Maybe I wasn't awake yet.

Thanks for the replies. I'm up to my a$$ in PMAGs and ammo from my other AR. The hard part seems to be finding a Noveske barrel these days for less than what I paid for my last assembled AR. It would be cool to get a BCG matched to the barrel, but I figure any millspec will do. I've never had to set headspace and hope I wont have to.   I had posted this here yesterday, but for some reason it posted it in "deal-spotter". I'm confused as to why.

Posted in wrong area.

I'm gathering parts for my first ground-up AR15 build. So far I have a Noveske lower and a Vltor Mur upper coming. Next on the list is a Geissele trigger. I noticed multiple 3-gun triggers available. Which one fits the Noveske lower? There's no chance I might end up ordering some class-3 unusable trigger by accident? They would make that clear, right?