TGO David

Looks like more nasty weather predicted between noon on Wednesday and noon on Thursday for here in the mid-state area.  Between 3-6" of snow and ice again.

Clearly we all should have done something about that pesky ammo tax before he showed up.  Who the heck forgot to do that?!?   Trust me, folks, we're going to have a stern discussion about this at this week's meeting.  And whoever keeps leaving the toilet seat up, Marge in Accounting is plenty ticked about that too.

  This.   My thoughts when I saw the skit were:   1.) It wasn't very funny.   2.) It was fairly tacky for all the wrong reasons.   3.) It seemed like the SNL writers wanted to make fun of ISIS but at the same time hoped no-one would "Charlie Hedbo" the SNL offices because of it.  They played the middle of the field as if to say, "Hey ISIS... don't cut our heads off or shoot up our offices because we make fun of everyone else in this video too!"     Overall it felt like a 1990's SNL skit.  Lame.  Short on the funny and not worth the time it took to produce it.  The writers didn't fully commit to making fun of ISIS by going in for the kill, so to speak.  They could have done so much more with an anti-ISIS skit and apparently left the good gags on the cutting room floor.

  Ok you've gotta review that once it arrives.  I'm curious!

Every time I think about selling a gun to buy something non-gun, I remind myself that the government isn't trying to ban whatever that other thing is. :)

Got to say that those were all simply shot with the iPhone 6 this time. I'd be glad to break out the light-tent and Canon for your collection though!

  It's definitely deceivingly smaller than it looks, which is what appealed to me.  I've got a couple other smaller fixed-blade knives coming to me soon so I hope to do some size and quality comparisons.

  Bottle opener, lashing point, prying tool... whatever you want to use it for I suppose.

  All specs are here:   http://www.bladehq.com/item--ESEE-DPx-HEST-Folder--6996   OAL is 7.75" Blade is 3.25"

  Meh.  Should've kept the 1911.

My next purchase for this knife is going to be a horizontal-mount kydex belt sheath.  The MOLLE sheath that it comes with has a kydex insert, but it's big and clunky.  This could easily be a belt knife with the right sheath and several people out there are making them.   More to come!

I'm picking up various smaller fixed-blade knives lately and this one just arrived on Friday. I specifically hunted down the NIlox steel version of the DPx H.E.S.T. II because I wanted something with corrosion resistance that would hold an edge fairly well. There are other versions of this knife that don't use a stainless steel and instead rely on their powder coated blades and your common sense to keep them wiped down with oil to prevent rust from forming. I haven't bothered to see if anyone else on here has posted about the HEST or HEST II so pardon me while I just drop some knife porn...

  Check again now.  Are you still seeing it?  I think I fixed it based on my own test.

  Hmm.  Let me check on that.

I found the solution to the problem and applied it to our forum.  Seems something changed with some alterations in a recent software release.     For my own future reference if this happens again... [solution]

That's interesting about the chat indicator. Let me try to track that down.

Welcome.  :wave:

Honestly I don't mind the OP posting here and sharing good info even if it does help drive up YouTube visits.  I'm all for seeing someone contribute solid, useful information to the gun-owning community at large and will gladly support folks like that with traffic whenever I can send it their way.  But this idea of adapting a mag carrier to fit something it wasn't made for, with folded up bits of paper, really seems like stepping over a dollar to pick up a nickel.  Mag pouches just aren't that expensive, and if you can afford to feed your gun with ammo, you can afford to spend a little on good carry gear.   I've seen too many people give up carrying a firearm because they found it to be uncomfortable, or unwieldy, or inconvenient.  What's worse is that maybe 9 times out of 10, if they had just tried a good holster or a good belt or the right gun for their purposes, they'd have been successful and not ended up going unarmed.   This seems like it almost begs someone to "give up" after an what will invariably be an otherwise avoidable bad experience.

Nearly choked on my coffee. Well played, sir. Well played. :)

Look, I know you signed up on a multitude of gun forums the same day you signed up here (Google is a wonderful tool) and it really seems that your reason for doing so is to post these videos on all of them and drive traffic up on your YouTube channel.  Don't care.   What I do care about is good information.  Stuffing cardboard into a cheap mag holder to force it to work with mags it wasn't designed for is thrifty, but not really the sort of gear you or anyone else should be trusting your life with.  This seems like a really bad idea.

I don't mind gay people any more than I mind anyone else.  I don't support the lifestyle, I don't engage in the lifestyle, but what two men or two women do in the privacy of their own home is between them and God.  I just don't care to have to witness it.  Men or women.   The gay kiss and the fawning of Eric over Aaron was completely unnecessary and made both me and my wife gag.  The writers could have added gay male characters without gratuitous spit swapping and it would have been just as effective of a story-arc as what they have now.  It was done for (a.) shock value and (b.) to push the envelope of what is socially acceptable on television, period.   Anyone who wants to argue that 30-40 years ago it was just as edgy to feature interracial, white/black, kissing on TV -- for example -- is arguing from a disadvantaged position.  The parallel simply is not there from a biological perspective.  Someone else pointed out that the media is slowly shaping what the public is willing to deem acceptable, and I agree with that 100%.  Just beware that 30-40 years from now if the leftists have their way and keep eroding society's morals and ethics, someone may be having the same discussion we're having but instead of two men kissing and fawning over themselves, it could just as easily be a grown man and a 12 year old girl.   Today's taboos are tomorrow's topics of cultural diversity and inclusion unless people stand up for what's right.   The Walking Dead may have lost me as a viewer if they can't find a way to tell this story without two dudes graphically finding love inside of each other's sweaty, hairy butts.

Welcome.  Wipe the Bloomberg off of your shoes, come in and stay a while.

I bet that stings.

You know, it might just be their policy and the poor girl was doing what she was instructed to do.  Generally in a retail setting, front-line employees bend policy at their own peril.  It's not like they are normally "empowered" to arbitrarily change what forms of ID are accepted.   I never understand people who lose their composure with retail staff like this.  Ask for a manager if you're going to show your butt.  At least that way the person having to endure your demonstration of discontent might have some power to change something.   But hey, that's just my opinion based on (a.) having worked retail myself before and (b.) having two grown kids who work retail right now, so I have lot of empathy and a little sympathy for folks in that position.  The general public is full of otherwise-good people who truly believe that they, the customer, are always right, and will resort to completely dickish behavior in the blink of an eye to get their way.   Slamming them on Facebook for the fact that one employee, who may or may not have been doing exactly as she was told to do by her superiors, failed to meet your expectations (realistic or not) is pretty dickish in my opinion.  With as many outside forces are trying to put Pro-2A businesses under or squelch the Second Amendment entirely, we gun owners really need to abandon the practice of eating our own or we'll have nothing left to hand down to our children and grandchildren.

Let me just get this out of the way at the start: Bleh Beretta has never been among my favorite firearms manufacturers and they have seemed to consistently stay behind the times by a span of approximately 20 years. First the 92 used the Walther-style tilting barrel mechanism and then the PX4 used the weird rotating barrel mechanism, neither of which were as efficient as the Browning design that Glock and so many others adopted modified versions of. But, here we are in 2015 and Beretta is finally joining the striker-fired semi auto pistol club: Source: All 4 Shooters The new Beretta APX multi caliber semiautomatic pistol has finally arrived! Rumors had been spreading ever since the company launched the sub-compact BU-9 Nano semi-automatic concealed carry pistol worldwide, a couple of years ago: Beretta's next service and defensive pistol system would not have been based on one of the Company's tried and true concepts, but on something that they had never went for before. The new Beretta APX pistol has been presented at the 2015 edition of the IDEX, the International Defense Exhibition and Conference that takes place every two years in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates): Beretta showcased the final version of its long-awaited new semi-automatic pistol system conceived for sports shooting, personal protection, home defense, and service/issue purposes for law enforcement, military and private security personnel. The new Beretta pistol is dubbed Beretta APX. This is what the company disclosed so far about its new semi-automatic pistol: following the market trends and demand for a certain type of features in a semi-automatic pistol, the new Beretta APX comes built around an ergonomically-molded reinforced polymer frame fitted with a built-in MIL-STD-1913 "Picatinny" rail for tactical accessories. As standard nowadays, the Beretta APX is issued with interchangable backstraps, which also include grip panels, in order to better fit several hand sizes and thus remain viable to shooters of all genders, ages, sizes, and build. Unlike the Beretta 92 series − which, like the predecessor Beretta 951, was based on a Walther-type tilting barrel − and unlike the more recent Beretta Px4Storm series − which was built around a rotating barrel − the new Beretta APX comes with a much simpler modified Browning locking system; it can only be disassembled when it is disarmed, and that's why a slot on the frame allows the use of a tool to decock it before it can be field-stripped by operating a lever found on the left side of the frame itself, right over the trigger guard. The trigger can be considered a light double action, with a 2,8kg/6.17lbs break, a 6mm/0.2" travel and a 3mm/0.12" reset; the Beretta APX is a striker-fired design, and the rear portion of the striker itself will slightly protrude from a round slot on the back of the slide providing a visual and tactile confirmation of its status. The slide of the Beretta APX semi-automatic pistol is machined out of stainless steel, and is nitride-coated upon construction to make it glare-proof, scratch-proof and corrosion-resistant; wide front and rear slide serrations allow easier manual cocking and chamber checks. The three-dot front and rear sights are dovetailed on the slide, and sport a unique and patented adjustment system. The baseline Beretta APX semi-automatic pistol will come with no manual safety whatsoever, featuring a "Glock-style" trigger safety and a redundant drop/striker safety system instead. Optionally a manual safety system will be available upon request, consisting in a frame-mounted two-positions switch. The Beretta APX semi-automatic pistol has been conceived to be just as much left-hand-friendly as it can be; as such, it comes with a reversible magazine release catch and a factory ambidextrous slide stop/hold open release lever. The Beretta APX will feed through black double-stack metal magazines with a polymer bottom pad, offering a 17-rounds capacity in 9x19mm caliber (a.k.a. 9mm "Luger", 9mm "Parabellum". 9mm NATO), and a 15-rounds capacity in 9x19mm IMI (a.k.a. "9 Italian") and .40 Smith & Wesson. The overall lenght of the Beretta APX is in the standard bracket for this kind of pistol: 192mm/7.56" long overall, 108mm/4.¼" barrel. The handgun has however been designed to be as streamlined as it could possibly be, in order to constitute a viable and comfortable alternative for 24/7 concealed and open carry. No further information has been released so far concerning global commercial availability and pricing of the Beretta APX semi-automatic pistol − although several European Countries will have to wait at least until 2016 for it. What's for sure, with the APX, Beretta appears to be even more determined to compete on the modern handguns market for civilian and professional applications alike, particularly with a design that seemed to be a sole prerogative of some of its most direct competitors up until very recently.