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January 24, 2022 Officially one week since the gun was logged into the RMA system. Twelve days since it arrived at S&W. No news. No updates.

@Chucktshoes what's life on the road like these days? No more CB?

Now to offer some opinions. It sounds like 2020 was a hard year for the range. I am sure that the drought of ammunition and the rising prices when it could be found both steered away shooters. I am just guessing, but I have noticed that a lot of folks historically paid-by-the-day, so the lack of activity last year probably put a huge dent in their operating budget. The stiff increase in pricing did make me wince a little as I wrote my check, but it is still proximally the closest range to me which makes it very convenient. I just worry that they may now be priced into competition with other ranges within a 30-minute drive that offer better hours, various amenities, and even indoor shooting. The change in operating hours is also something that I think will impact a lot of patrons. Previously the range stayed open until 6:00PM during warmer months. They also opened at 8:00AM previously. These two changes will cut into their clientele that work Monday - Friday jobs, especially if they commute for work. Unless you can make it to the range by 3:00PM, you probably won't bother trying to go during the week now. I hope the hours change. If enough people let Charlie know their concerns, maybe he would consider adjusting that part of the new changes. I signed up for another year at the unlimited tier. I think that I will get enough use out of it to warrant not just paying $100 base and $10 per visit. Time will tell.

I am passing along some information that might be pertinent to some of our Nashville-area members, particularly those in the Franklin, Spring Hill, southern Williamson County areas. Charlie Haffner Memorial Range's pricing and hours have changed substantially as of January 2022, so please be advised and prepared rather than surprised when you go to renew this year. I will line-item the changes as they were relayed to me, below. There are no longer pay-by-the-day options for shooting at CHMR. Shooting there requires an annual membership or being the guest of someone who is an annual member. The basic annual membership costs $100.00 and now runs 12-months regardless of which month you purchase within (previously it was Jan 1 – Dec 31). At this tier, you still pay another $10.00 each time you go to the range. Adult guests at this tier pay $20.00 per day and minor children at this tier pay $10.00 per day. The next tier of annual membership costs $200.00 and allows unlimited visits for no additional cost. This membership is for you as an individual and does not cover your spouse or minor children. Adult guests at this tier pay $20.00 per day and minor children at this tier pay $10.00 per day. The next tier of annual membership costs $250.00 and allows unlimited visits for your spouse and minor children for no additional cost. Other adult guests still pay $20.00 per day at this tier. I presume that children outside your immediate household will still be $10.00 per day, but I did not ask. The range hours have also changed. The range is still closed the first full weekend of each month. The range is also now closed only on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, unless one of those days happens to be a holiday. The range will also be closed on any day where the HIGH temperature will not be above 32-degrees Fahrenheit. The range hours are now 9:00AM – 4:00PM all year round. (Previously the hours ran later during the warmer months). Lastly, every time you visit the range you must visit the Range Officers shack and sign-in on the guest book. The scheduling changes can be confirmed by visiting https://williamsonshooting.com . None of the pricing changes are listed there, from what I’ve seen. Charlie and the other gentleman that I spoke with today said that these changes are meant to help keep the peace with neighboring residents to hopefully postpone the inevitability of the day when encroaching development might shut them down. The cost increases just reflect what the range needs to fund its operation and pay Charlie for his time and effort.

I need to look into one of these for my 365. I love the way the Wilson grip feels on my P320.

For what it's worth, I've been around guns my entire life. When I was a kid I devoured gun magazines and gun books like candy. The Mateba is a new one for me.

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Ugh. That price will kill it before it even gets rolling.

Now, you cannot know my intentions. Everything about guns, maybe, but not my most private of thoughts.

I had a 2020 Chevy Trail Boss LT with the 6.2L engine. It started showing signs of the lifter problems that were plaguing all of them, with less than 3,000 miles on it. I asked about wait time for repair and was told it could be 8-12 weeks, minimum, but to go ahead and bring it in and they'd get it in the queue. No loaner provided. I dumped the truck and bought a different one. So, yeah... my M.O. is not to put up with this kind of ####. Actually, the M&P was going to be something new in my carry rotation. It might still be, one of these days. I've got other irons in the fire. I'm overhauling one of my old faithful Glock 19s with new stuff. The last of the parts arrive tomorrow.

I do think I'd rather the CHPWS plate over the diecast Walther plate, though. It sounds like you have one, so I'd give that a whirl and forego any of the factory Walther stuff.

The CHPWS plate on mine fits nice and tight. The forces that an optic are exposed to under reciprocation of the slide are not lateral. They are fore and aft. The slide pocket does a fine job of controlling movement those directions. Watch the Sage Dynamics video. What are you asking them to warranty? The slide isn't likely to break. A screw might, but I guess they'd remove the screw and replace it if that happens. I doubt they would stand behind any damage to your optic, or to your person if the optic somehow came loose and turned you into a pirate.

No idea. I've read that oil isn't as non-renewable as most folks claim or assume, though. Which makes sense if you consider that oil is basically the result of decomposition and incredible pressure and thermal forces. That stuff is still happening deep beneath us.

Yep. I will state, for the record, that I maintained politeness with the lady on the phone who informed me of the 6-8 week wait for the gun to be seen by a gunsmith. I did ask that she advance me to a supervisor so that I could ask for some sort of prioritization given that it was in fact brand new, straight out of the box. She sent me to someone's voicemail box and I haven't heard back yet. So, my politeness for this situation is pretty much gone at this point. Their service sucks rocks until they prove otherwise. The clock is ticking.

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It was insane how far those exits are apart from one another.

Congratulations. Again, congratulations. Apply for a job with Tesla in their rescue squad. With your impeccable attention to detail and careful forethought, you should be a shoe-in for someone to drive around in a Diesel F250 with a generator to rescue stranded Tesla motorists. It has been decades since I ran out of gasoline in a car. I am pretty sure I was a teenager and still new to it. BUT... If I am traveling across country or am going to be off-roading, I take spare fuel with me. Why? Because I'm not an idiot. And because things happen. And because Murphy's law is a bitch. Which goes back to me not being an idiot. Now, for an anecdotal story: Back in 2010, my wife and I decided to travel across country and see the American southwest. We were driving my 2010 Toyota FJ Cruiser, which had the aerodynamic qualities of a flying cinderblock. We were on Interstate 40 somewhere between San Antonio, TX and Albuquerque, NM and had been timing our fuel stops to maximize distance between them without cutting it needlessly close. What we weren't expecting was to find that at two of the exits we were counting on, the gas stations had gone out of business and were abandoned. After I coasted into the third exit quite a distance later, on what had to be fumes and prayers, I topped off the tank and immediately headed to the nearest Wal-Mart Supercenter to buy a pair of 5-gallon fuel cans to begin carrying with us. That was my exposure to #### happening despite good planning. Now, I recognize that your planning and attention to detail and maybe even the Fairy Godmother assigned to you are all far superior to mine since you've never been in that predicament, but for me that proved the necessity of being prepared for the unexpected. And with a Tesla? You don't get that option. I hope that you are given enough advance notice of that level of disaster that you can be sure that you're in the right vehicle.

Just having fun.

Hybrids make sense to me for a lot of reasons. Electric motors have a lot of advantages over traditional driveshaft locomotion. The ability to reliably make gobs of torque and put it to the ground is fairly impossible to ignore if you just consider diesel-electric locomotives as an example. That said, purely electric cars don't make sense to me for a lot of other reasons, the consequences of which are equally impossible to ignore. Things such as... ... I can siphon gasoline or diesel fuel from containing vessels (fuel tanks, other cars, etc.) if push comes to shove. ... I can tote and transfer fuel, even propane if relevant, to a stranded vehicle fairly easily and quickly. ... My ability to do either of those things doesn't absolutely require the power grid. I have joked with my Tesla-owning friends and asked them if their equivalent of a 5-gallon jerry can full of fuel is two long-haired cats in a box that you rub together to provide an emergency charge. They very seriously told me that, no, Tesla brings a gasoline or diesel powered generator to you, towed behind a gasoline or diesel powered truck.

The rest of the firearms world media has caught up what Bob already knew and PSA formally unveiled the new "Rock" pistol at SHOT 2022. You can read about it here. [SHOT 2022] PSA Shows off their 5.7 Rock Pistol and Some PSAKs -The Firearm Blog

First Generation (aka "Old") slide on left. Second Generation (aka "New") slide on right. In a move that has set Walther owners groups afire on social media, Walther has revised the optics cut on their new PDP Pro SD model, inspiring owners of first-generation PDPs to wonder if this is just a public relations move meant to smooth over hobbyist accusations that the previous design was flawed, or if it is a silent acknowledgement that the previous design really was flawed after all. The new optics cut is dimensionally the same as the first-generation, however instead of having a flat floor beneath the mounting plate and relying solely on interference fit and two screws to hold the optics plate and optic in places, the new design introduces recessed "recoil bossses" into which protrusions from new design optics plates will sit. It would appear that first-generation optics plates will be forward compatible with the second-generation PDP slides, but the reverse will not be true. Obviously, if second-generation plates have recoil posts descending from beneath them to fit into these recessed pockets on the new slides, then those second-generation plates would not be backward compatible with the flat, smooth floor of the first-generation slides. It remains to be seen if Walther or third-parties, such as C&H or other machinists, will be able to retrofit the first-generation slides for compatibility. All of this seems to tie back to a very controversial YouTube video made by an amateur engineer wannabe, posted last year. You can see it here. And of course, I would be remiss if I did not point out that the extremely reputable Aaron Cowan of Sage Dynamics did his own torture test of the first-generation PDP and found absolutely NO MERIT to the previous YouTuber's claims. I know that if I have to pick who I am going to trust between these two, it is Aaron. And physics. And Aaron understands physics. You can see Aaron's video here.

I never realized that the Hi-Power had such a religious following. Apparently as much, if not more so, than the 1911. Interesting.

Don't worry. The 2011 platform is never going to catch on either.