TGO David

My guess is that their prices are likely calculated off of a few different variables in their site's code. If someone changed something during an update or at the end of their big sale last weekend, it could have thrown everything off.

I noticed it earlier as well while looking at some other HK's online just to see what pricing was like. My wife wishes I had never gotten rid of my HK P2000 so I've begun looking around again.

Maybe sometime this week. If not, it will be at the TGO shoot @ Guns and Leather on the 30th.

M&P 40 again today in MTAC.

I don't think the HK45 is as large as the USP 45. I may be wrong, but it doesn't feel or look that way at all. It's only slightly larger than the M&P 9/40 full size in both length of slide and length of grip. In fact, last night I learned by sheer luck that the HK45 fits into a DeSantis leather OWB holster that I bought to fit my M&P but ended up not caring for. So I technically have a holster that I could carry the HK45 in if I wanted to.

So who got to shoot the Skank target? That's my favorite part of the CIS classes! Skank Hunting.

It would be appreciated if you wouldn't use serious threads to cut up and show everyone how witty you are. We do have a policy against crapping in people's threads. Thanks.

http://www.tngunowners.com/forums/class-iii-nfa-firearms-accessories/22193-engraving.html It's a sticky in this forum.

Actually, Daniel knew I was looking and ordered it for me. It hadn't been in the shop for more than an hour or two before I stopped in to pick it up. I even had the honors of wiping off all of the HK packing grease. I had this guy do all of the roughing-up for me...

Crap... outrun by the old dude with the hexagonal head!

There was no hearing today, just the filing of papers.

I used to own an XD45 Compact. Used to. Got rid of it for better firearms. I've owned several XDs and will never go back down that road again. While I never had major problems out of them, I did not care for having to replace firing pin indicator roll pins every few hundred rounds or having to send them back to Springfield for penny ante service that I could have done myself were parts sold to individuals. Big, big thumbs down for XDs from me. I cannot recommend them to anyone out of good conscience.

Moody, let's talk sometime before you jump in a 9mm 1911. If you just want a single-stack 9mm, there may be better (and cheaper) options. If you're wanting it just because of the 1911 factor... there may be other options.

I hadn't really. Apparently a guy on HKPro has found a case of these old annuals laying around, new, unopened and might be selling them with the proceeds to benefit a charity of some sort. I think it's a great bit of history, but I'm not sure I am amused enough to spend $25 or so on one of them either.

5 months!!! Cripes. That doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

It's a bit of homage to a gaff that an HK annual came out with a few years ago. Whomever did their marketing photo set up a mag with a round in backwards accidentally. It became rather infamous in the HK circle, so... it's the only way to properly photograph an HK handgun now. Edited to add, here is the photo:

I've been trying to find a polymer frame .45ACP that I liked enough to consider carrying. I had an affair with a Glock 21 SF but just couldn't really get used to it for some reason. I tried to convince my wife that maybe an M&P 45 would be fun, but she said we had enough M&P automatics in the house as is. Today I had a visit with my friend Daniel up at Guns & Leather in Greenbrier and he set me up with this... I ordered a leather inside the waistband holster from TT Gunleather over the weekend, knowing good and well that this was going to end up following me home, but the wait on them is somewhere around 12-14 weeks. I'll probably pick up a kydex OWB holster from Comp-Tac in the meantime just so that I will have the option of carrying it sooner than the end of the year. I really wish there wasn't such a long delay on custom leather, but even at 3 months it is a faster alternative than Milt Sparks. Sooner or later some traditional tritium sights will make their way onto it as well. I'll live with the kooky glow-in-the-dark sights at least until I have a holster for the gun.

If you have not already installed your detents and take-down pins, do yourself a favor and get an AR15 detent installation tool. It makes life a lot easier. There are tricks to doing it without one, but it's not worth the hassle when the tool itself is only $4.

Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. --Larry Vickers You can't miss fast enough. --Unknown Every bullet you fire has a lawyer attached to it. --Unknown Speed comes as a natural progression of accuracy. Combat accuracy is a loose term defining the act of putting all of your bullets into the target at the maximum effective range of a defensive situation. Pulling the trigger fast does no good if you're sending your shots into the scenery around your target. Continue working on the basics of sight alignment and trigger control. A competent shooter should be able to group their shots into a space the size of a 3x5 note card at 7yds without problem. Then work back to 15yds and push yourself to achieve the same goal. Once you can do that with slow, deliberate shots, go back to 7yds and start pushing yourself to accelerate your follow-up shots. There is no sense in hosing your target with rounds. 2-3 shot strings are sufficient. Keep working at it and keep pushing yourself to the point just past the envelope of where you are no longer accurate, then dial it back a little. This is the most effective way of training to improve both accuracy and speed. Good luck.

Google maps, dude. It's about a 1hr - 1hr 15min drive from Murfreesboro depending on traffic and your driving style.

Jack Daniel's black label and Diet Coke over ice.

Sunday.... carried the Kimber Warrior in a Milt Sparks VM2, spare mag weak side in Comp-Tac single mag pouch.

That is a sweet firearm! I will have to dig around and see if I have any of my old P220 holsters or other gear that you might be able to make use of. As much as I love the P220, I have gotten to the point where I feel as if I'm going to carry a single stack .45ACP, I might as well carry a 1911. The 220 is certainly an evolution of that concept and I think you're going to love it. Oh, and I also have a SIG-specific MGW sight installation tool if you ever decide to swap sights for some reason. Just hit me up.

Oh, one last thing... That is probably the most ridiculous political observation that I've ever read on TGO. Actually, the unfettered arrogance of the typical American consumer thinking that they are God's gift to every industry that sells a good or service is probably more at fault for the erosion of capitalism than anything. The American consumer has become so accustomed to always being "right" and demanding of the lowest prices, to hell with the consequences, that many American businesses could no longer compete with the off-shore sweat shops that were willing to do whatever it took to deliver. Think... Wal-mart. Think... Apple's iPod factory labor-camps in China. We Americans tend to be cheap bastards with an absurd sense of entitlement, and it has caused tremendous damage to our economy as a result.

I must have struck a nerve. Are you that guy at gun shops or something? Let's assume that you are in the top 10% of consumers who know exactly what they need and do not want or require the assistance of a salesperson who has taken the time to educate themselves on the wide range of options and subtleties of whatever product category it is you're shopping for. Awesome! Bud's Gun Shop and Gun Broker exist specifically for people like you who have done all of their homework and aren't open to the suggestions of an unbiased sales person who isn't paid on commission and isn't trying to push an agenda. Granted, it may be rare to find sales people of that nature in the whole of retail, but it's not that rare in the gun world. Hell, the price margin is too narrow to begin with so it's not like any sane person would work on commission in gun sales. I submit that you might reconsider what strikes me as being a fairly condescending attitude toward gun store clerks. There are good stores out there and there are sales consultants in those stores who aren't just fed on Guns & Ammo or American Handgunner and who actually do know what they are talking about. You might look at them and think, "I'm smarter than this guy because I've got a real job. I'm not going to listen to a damn thing he says because *I* know what *I* want." Maybe you should lighten up a little, be slightly more open minded, and realize that this mere salesperson isn't necessarily an ignorant ass trying to push whatever gun is hot and happening at the moment, but that he's someone who is around hundreds of different firearms every day and has probably picked up a smart idea or two along the way that you could benefit from. Really it's no skin off of my teeth either way. I don't work at or own a gun shop. I just tend to be a more open minded about the experience of people in sales and apparently put a little more value in what they are saying even if I temper it with what I've learned from doing my own research before hand.