TGO David

  I am presently leaning this direction as well.  I have two of the XPS sights.  They work just fine for me and haven't presented any problems.  It's tempting to jump on the bandwagon and ask for a refund, but that would mean another $400 or so out of pocket to replace these with something from Aimpoint or Trijicon, plus I'm one more guy who isn't kicking in doors for a living, helping bankrupt a company that makes products for people who do.

I am neither a felcher nor short and week, and I am going to start carrying my M&P 40 or my P2000 .40SW just to rub Comms n' Drama the wrong way.  ;)

I think you and I shop the same stores. I picked up the same Woodford this past Saturday in Cool Springs.

I am really torn on whether we want to have our pup's ears docked as is traditional with the breed or leave them alone.

Welcome Iris.  I'd recommend we change your screen name to just iToon so your email address isn't listed so prominently. 

Someone else can have Ralphie and his EOTech optics.  I'm switching to the Doberman tangled up in Christmas lights.  :)

Yeah, I'd gladly share if I could but he "hooked me up" so... 

The flaw is assuming that the mags we all buy are to be carried all at once.  Mags are consumable items.  Eventually they break, wear out, get lost, etc.  If you cannot buy them later, you cannot have enough of them right now.

Good deal was through a friend who owns a business.  I don't have a link to share.

  Obedience school is a given.  These dogs are almost always smart as tacks.

Congratulations!

  Yeah our last dog was a Doberman and we had good luck with him for 8 years.  We're essentially going back to the breed with know the best.  :)

I ordered a bunch of the Glock 19 mags this morning.   I have a lot of the factory mags but I was able to get a case of these at a good price so...

  Hey now.  We were male children when the original trilogy was NEW.  That's why this is a big deal to us.  :)

So... divine providence, perhaps. We found an AKC registered Doberman breeder who had two pups from a current litter remaining. We will get to bring this little blue Doberman girl home on Christmas Eve. (Photo redacted for opsec because there are weird-ass people on the Internet)

There's a thread on M4Carbine about this.  People there are on both sides of the fence:  Panic or Meh.  Several things worth repeating here:   1.)  A quote from a guy about the conditions of the test and his concerns:       2.) A video showing another sand/water test where it passed:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SMir0VKdo&feature=youtu.be

Welcome to TGO, Tom.  :)

Well... bad news of sorts.   The German Shepherd didn't work out for us.  To be fair, we were warned that she had eaten someone else's couch after breaking free from her crate during the night.  Come to find out the rescue had been unable to successfully home her with several homes due to the behavior that we began witnessing after she'd been with us a week and came out of her shell.   Unfortunately we weren't told the degree to which she suffers separation anxiety nor the fact that it sometimes manifests as a crazed panic which borders on slightly aggressive behavior. She appears to have attached herself to me completely and when I was away from her became manic, acted out destructively and was inconsolable by anyone else. The fact that she acted crazed towards other people was the absolute deal-breaker for us.   It's a shame, really. We'd become very attached to her and loved having her around -- until Mrs. Hyde came out in her personality. I suppose hindsight is 20/20 because a 5-year old pedigreed dog that has been unable to be placed anywhere else should have been a flag. The fact that the rescue offered to waive the adoption fee *AND* help pay for a $400 crate to keep her in if we would just go ahead and adopt her... well that's an even bigger flag.   :rolleyes:   The folks from the rescue came back and picked her up yesterday.  They weren't super friendly about the whole thing but honestly I put that back on them.  Complete transparency would have gone a long way, and adding "incentives" to keep a dog that isn't working out is just poor form and honestly doesn't take the dog's best interests to heart.  What this GSD needs is professional help from a professional trainer to help her get over this behavior.  She may in fact need to be permanently homed with a trainer who can work with her constantly.       I think we're going to look for a Doberman pup to raise from scratch.  We had such good luck with our Dobe, it just feels like the right decision.    

I'm really not sure what that test showed us other than that, with determined effort, you can break anything.  The fact that sand and grit kept it from going into battery isn't really surprising either.  I've seen this happen with the vaunted Glock 19 and 17 in the past too.   All of the crap he did to that gun is beyond the parameters of what 99% of the people carrying them will ever expose them to.  It doesn't change my mind about my VP9 at all.

It's not a forum issue if only one person is reporting it.  I know that's not helpful but there's no sense in hoping that this is something I can resolve for you from this side.  :(

I don't run a captured guide rod in my Gen 3 G19.

The past few months have sucked a little more than others, having lost our 10-year-old male Doberman and our 10-year-old female Boston Terror [sic] within two months of each other. Bostons are highly social animals and become very attached to their people and to other animals that live with them. The vet says the Boston passed after the Doberman pretty much due to grief and depression. Very sad. After the Doberman passed, and before the Boston stopped eating, we contacted a few local rescues to see if we could find her another "big dog" friend. Sadly none of them responded to us quickly enough. MrsMonkeyMan put us in touch with a wonderful lady who owns a combination training org, breeder AND rescue of Dutch Shepherds and we seriously considered that as an option although my uncle in VA, a retired SWAT officer, K9 handler and trainer, told us that a Dutchie might be a little more "high octane" than we wanted. Others here with experience with the breed echoed those concerns in this thread too. While a Dutch Shep is not off the table entirely for us, one of the local rescues did get back in touch with us. To make a long story short, here is our new fur baby. We call her "Mina" as it's a perfectly good German name for a perfectly good German lass. She's about 5 years old and is even pedigreed. She learned her name quickly, has chosen me as "her person" in the family, and watches over our 2-yr old daughter like a guardian. She even endures my daughter laying on top of her. (I'm pretty sure she enjoys it)

  I've heard anecdotal reports of Sam's involvement, and each one has been slightly different and all from local folks, but I've never read any industry accounts substantiating it and Custom Defense's own website makes no mention of it either.  That seems like something most any business owner would want to at least drop mention of in their marketing materials as it's "brag worthy".   Sadly one of the people I've heard repeating this story the most is Rick Uselton, and well Rick also claimed that he himself made all of his custom 1911s when the reality was Sam was doing the work.  Hell if Rick Uselton out there was telling folks that *I* was from Kentucky originally, I'd be skeptical, and I know that the truth is I really am.  :lol:   All of that aside, Sam makes phenomenal 1911s and whether or not the Remington models have some of his "DNA" in them or not, they get really good reviews.

  Thanks.  Poor Ralphie is going to have to sue L3 Communications since he's stuck with an EOTech.  He and I both run them on our AR's ... so I guess I can expect mine to suddenly suck and me start missing targets too.  ;)   #dontbelievethehype

We didn't do much of any Black Friday shopping except for a few Christmas decorations that the wife wanted for the house.   It wasn't on sale but we did pick up a Sonos Play:5 and two Play:1 to start off a whole-house audio setup.  I am hooked on the Sonos stuff hard-core now.