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  I meant the actual micro dot styles like the Aimpoint H or T series, and the Primary Arms version.  Far as I'm concerned the standard size red dots work just fine and never felt the need to spend more just to have a smaller sight.  The weight difference is negligible, and I don't use a magnifier so the rail space isn't an issue.   I'm all about a red dot, though.  I had an M68 (Aimpoint M2) on my M4 in the Army, and I have an EoTech 516 on my SBR.  Both of those are good enough for me.  If I buy another one, it will probably be an Aimpoint PRO- best overall value to quality I've seen yet.

Not sure what a TGO Twitter account can bring to the table that would be unique, or isn't already on the site and out there already.  The accounts I follow are mostly news, politics, comedy, and hot chicks, so I like to think I'm well covered.

  If you aren't on there already, get a LinkedIn account.  Lots of job listings are posted there, plus you can search the industry you're in and maybe something will come up.

  Glad you aren't cut off cold turkey from an income.  With luck and your resume, here's hoping you get back to full time employment before long. 

  The clasp on both my Omega's are all scratched up, and the bracelets to a much lesser degree.  If they can be buffed out when I get them serviced, cool.  If not, oh well.  It's the crystal, bezel and case I care about the most, and I've been lucky enough to have those do alright. 

Never got into the micro dot craze, but I can see how this will eat into Aimpoint if the price is $150-200 lower.  Good move by Trijicon.

  I'm trying to get my friend into owning a gun, and she only gets interested when I tell her how I know a business (Amendment 2 Custom Coatings) that can make it purple for her.  If that's what it takes, who am I to argue as long as she does it to a Glock and not something pretty like an H&K or Walther.

If I ever felt compelled to leave the US to live somewhere else, I'd pick a nice small town in Canada, get a modest job, spend my off time reading, and never have to worry about being too hot in the summer again.   Or, if I had as much money as I wanted, I'd find a nice apartment in Tallinn, Estonia, and spend my days with the girls there and the girls a ferry's ride away in Helsinki, Finland.

Unless it's a high end name like Rolex or Omega, watches don't really hold much resale value, so I wouldn't get your hopes up.    I'd just check eBay and price them accordingly based on what you see.

  Any immigration plan that doesn't start with this is doomed to fail.  Until we start putting people who knowingly hire illegals in jail and close their businesses, we're just asking for the problem to continue.

Fat finger on a mobile, please delete.

Photoshop. http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2014/12/riverfront_times_photo_goes_viral_after_being_edited_to_seem_super_racist.php

I don't know if I could restrict myself to shooting .22LR via bolt action.  Having a GSG-522, it's just too much fun to load a mag and have at it. 

The weather is going to be quite a bit different, and you actually need a permit to carry a pistol out and about.  I think you'll like the cost of living difference, however.   Welcome to TGO.

  I've always thought AK's look best when left to the basics.  It was never meant to be a fancy rifle, just something you can drag through the mud and still put rounds downrange with.  If I ever get one just to have it, it won't have an inch of tacticool on it.  If by some chance I don't use the wood stock, at most, I'll only have the under folding stock.

I'm not sure if the writer of the article was serious, or just writing something that would become click bait.  It just goes into a spin that is only possible when you are writing for a website barely anybody reads.  The charges of racism are him latching onto a buzzword that's flying around too loosely.       Has to do with military pride in the post 9/11 era I think.  Part of the war spin was to have people have become conditioned to just thank troops by default.  The Bush administration tried to tie support for troops to support for the Iraq and Afghan wars, when the two are separable in every way.    I get the same way as you, but my father who was in Vietnam tells me how much he is glad at the way my generation has been treated, so I try to see it in the spirit it's offered.  I just wish more people would be engaged in things like wondering how many guys are going die or come back without limbs, to say nothing of the overall fiscal costs.  The best way to support troops in my view is to make sure they aren't squandered on whims of fantasy in ungrateful regions.

  An officer has to defend that judgement from legal consequences and even public opinion, which can bring about legislative changes.   As for protecting themselves, if it's reactive to a specific event I'm likely to be fine with it, but preventative protection taken against the public should have a higher bar.

I had a similar issue finding holsters for my Walther when they weren't quite a commodity yet.  While I don't think you will be able to find a custom fit without a custom job, the dimensions and barrel length should help you find something that serves the purpose.

  EssOne had a good post about the term reasonable belief and how he viewed it.  I think allowing officers to define a term, and not using some common or standardized legal definition is a slippery slope.

  Having dealt with iodine tablets during field training exercises in the Army, I would rather go through the process of boiling water than deal with them.  Maybe the overall suck factor came into play, but the taste was just not pleasant. 

  It seems we don't see eye to eye yet.  :rofl:       I'm just discussing the event.  Nitpicking is something I do, I'm a big fan of critical analysis.       Being engaged by a citizen who has a carry permit, is open carrying, and is showing no signs of belligerence is a statistical improbability, even with a very skewed p-value.  That's why I find it unreasonable.    I'm certain you're right that a jury would side with the officer...but I find that a issue of ignorance about firearms ownership, the permit process and general firearms responsibility as much as anything.

  No, it's within the officer's authority to "disarm a permit holder at any time when the officer reasonably believes it is necessary for the protection of the permit holder, officer or other individual or individuals" per state law.  Doing it just because doesn't jive.  I'm not seeing where that reasonable belief with regards to protection existed, and that's my whole issue.

  That beauty full of top notch parts is worth a marital fight.  It should be able to fire for the rest of the century if you treat it right.

  I'm not disagreeing with it, but the evidence isn't there to support it, and in my estimate the evidence present negates it.  The officer never articulated any threat, and his body language never hinted at it either.  The entire stop was by the book in that he was courteous, gave a reason for stopping the guy, then all of a sudden, felt a need to disarm him when the bikers hands were nowhere near the weapon.  The officer did have his hand on his own weapon, but that should be common during the approach at any stop, right?  If so I wouldn't consider that abnormal, and even if it's not standard procedure, it comes across as prudence on the part of the officer.  The officer even explained taking the gun at the 2:49 mark as "the gun's just being taken for my safety at this time."  So, no indication of a threat.    He's was forthright with the biker on everything, offering explanation when asked, so not saying anything about a threat from the weapon, just citing safety after he had taken it makes me infer infer that the officer didn't see a threat that justifies disarming the biker, he just didn't want the biker having a weapon during the encounter.

  That was through the opinion that the biker didn't present a threat.  Your defense of the officer is he could have seen something we didn't to perceive a threat in accordance with TN law.  We've been disagreeing on that since page 3.