TGO David

I had really good luck using Duracoat on plastics and using Norrel's Moly Resin on metals.  I never got around to trying Cerakote but all of the manufacturers who use it say it's good to go.

  Glad to see you here, Steve!  :wave:

  Have you checked on mp-pistol.com to see what the forum members there are using?   Honestly, the Shield is sort of a "get the f--- off me" gun designed more for conversation distances than medium range distances.  The way it's mean to be employed would make point-shooting viable.  The factory sights are more than adequate for that.

I think the people who do stupid stuff like this are more often than not people who don't carry very often or carry off their person (in a bag, briefcase, etc.) where it's useless in an altercation anyway.  Stupid should hurt.

Superb craftsmanship.  I really like the milled precision fit and finish.

That is really nice!

If you're getting your best man a pistol, I am available as a backup should he come down with the flu.  :stare:

  That didn't go as expected did it.  :lol:

  This.

The guy's a POS.

  Yep - no worries.  We're all here to learn and unfortunately your experience is par for the course in a lot of HCP classes.  There's so much inaccurate information being proliferated by HCP instructors, it's not even funny.  :(

  So my company pays very well.  We're likely one of if not the highest paying company in the area for technical positions, but we demand a lot from our engineers.  Just getting an interview with us is extremely difficult and more often than not we hire candidates that our existing employees already have experience working with outside.  We want people who can not only hit the ground running but also excel in their area of expertise.  If we have to train you up on what you're supposed to be an expert in, we not only failed at hiring but we failed at interviewing.   We interviewed for nearly six months straight last year to staff three positions.  One guy's resume read like a dream engineer and it ended up that was pretty accurate.  It was all a dream.  Much as you had related, if he touched a technology at any point in his career he listed himself as being proficient in it.  In some instances he had a fairly good understanding, but there were so many that the interview process bore out as being "user-level" that we just ended up stopping the interview at a short yet polite point in the process and thanked him for his time.   The problem for that guy is he's now someone we'll never talk to again.  He misrepresented himself and that's a huge no-no.  I'd much rather a person be up-front and honest and list a few things they are legitimately rock stars with.   If you've only had limited exposure to something, say so.  At least you're being honest and it helps to indicate things you've seen before because that makes it easier to train you in those areas if we see an opportunity.  Don't waste our time by including a lot of lucrative buzzwords only to leave us to find out that the only thing you're really good at engineering is your resume.   I guess that's the moral of this story.  If you're job hunting, don't pad your resume.  Even if they don't catch you on the front-end, most employers will eventually ferret you out when you get put on the spot to deliver something your resume said you could do.  And that becomes incredibly uncomfortable for everyone involved.

Looks good!

I think anyone who generalizes how marketable a certain tech focus is hasn't interviewed many candidates lately and seen how many people throw technologies that they've had minimal exposure to on their resumes.  A true subject matter expert on something like VMware or Citrix is hard to find and they command big money.  I can offer myself as a case in point and I don't work for peanuts, and we've had a hell of a time finding good engineers with strong skill sets in their self-professed subject matter.  Some of the interviews that I've helped conduct lately nearly made me lose the desire to live.   Good luck on the Exchange hunt.  My company pays our Exchange guys so well that just about no one in the southeast can afford to hire them away.

I dislike Staples for a lot of reasons.  This just adds one more to the pile.

  This has zero to do with being able to carry there.  Tennessee does not acknowledge "bar" as a category.  It's simply a restaurant with a liquor license at that point and is still subject to the same requirement that it be posted as anti-carry if the owners intend for you to be there unarmed.

This problem seems to plague the Gen 4 Glocks regardless of whether they are early or current manufacture.  I'd be sending it back to them.  

Have traveled through Kansas armed and no worries.

Nice.  :)

Just catching up on threads but... NICE!  :D

Beautiful rifle.  Congrats, Mike!

Looks like next season, Steve... but we'll get together on this.  :)

  It's not worth opening ourselves to the lawsuit that would invariably arise from raising questions about their character.  We'll just skip that and move on to locating a better source.

I hope you guys are only pretending to miss the importance of what Mac posted.  :)

This is quite simply why I hardly go to the range anymore, forsaking it for shooting on private property when I'm able.    I will say this too:   With the Great Gun Rush of 2013 thanks to Obama and his army of assclowns, we now have firearms in the hands of people who have never so much as thought about holding a gun before, let alone any practical instruction on how to safely use them  These people are going to be everywhere and some of them will handle their handguns with all of the care and skill of mentally handicapped monkeys trying to open a box of cornflakes with a claw hammer.   Be vigilant when you're at the range.  VERY vigilant.