TGO David

I just received two more for my collection. I now have a Phantom from Raven Concealment for my M&P and additionally my Glock 19 and my Kimber Warrior 1911. The Raven is by far the most comfortable and low-profile of any OWB holster that I have tried to date. As long as I wear a loose, long T-Shirt, I am able to cover any of these three weapons with ease using these holsters.

What that last photo tells me is that you better walk the straight and narrow unless you want to come home to a pose like that.

Better Off Dead. I meant to comment earlier but had to rush out to a meeting. The Camaro in that movie was my lust-car as a teenager.

I saw this elsewhere and thought it was very thought provoking. Perhaps we can get some good discussion out of it here as well... Copy and paste follows: Im driving in my car today and Im listening to talk radio and Im hearing about how my state legistlature is wasting time and misspending money and the Mayor of New Orleans is getting probed for the same type of behavior and it just got me thinking. Its such a disgrace and its despicable and its happening at the highest level of our government. There is no other way to put it except that its a joke. Everything in this world has a life cycle and I believe our country is in the last stages of ours. Just look around. Can anyone look deep inside of themselves and envison a great future. I cant see it. Our social, moral, and intellectual foundations are declining. Who are our nation’s heroes, and what does our selection indicate about the values our people? Today, we admire and pursue gossip on celebrities such as sports stars, singers, actors, and musicians. We admire and emulate them regardless of how corrupt their private lives are. (Perfect example: Crowds of people surround the hospital where a pedophile died and its on just about every channel). Our heroes change as our values do. In the beggining, we admired soldiers, builders, pioneers, and explorers. Then it was businessmen, entrepreneurs, intellectuals and academic figures. The music we hear is riddled with sex and perverse activity and the divorce rate is increasing. We are drowning with millions of illegal aliens and they will probably be made citizens with the stroke of a pen from Mr. O in the years to come only to use more taxpayer money.Our industry is declining with the loss of manufacturing and production base and services, and the exporting of countless American jobs to second and third world countries. Do I need to talk about the financial decline? Taxpayers are paying for underground turtle tunnels. We also have political decline with Obama implementing his facist plans. He wants the government to have control over the health care system. Everything the government tries to take over goes down the ****ter. The Postal Service-Debt, Amtrak-Debt, Medicare and Medicade-Debt, Debt. The dollar is also declining and a communist country holds a good portion of our nation's debt. I also feel like our world influence is declining as well. This is just what I can come up with off the top of my head. Theres more. The reason I mentioned Rome is because at one time they were on top of the world. They had it all, military, power, wealth and then there was nothing. I also can't keep my mind of that universal principle that we all know: What goes up, must come down. I feel like America was up but we are now going down. I know its hard to think about this because nobody wants to believe it. Its easy to ignore and write off. It really is difficult to swallow, at least for me anyway but thats why I ask. Does anyone else feel like I do? If not, please try convince me otherwise because I have never wanted to be wrong in all of lmy ife.

I'm not in any better shape... probably worse since you're active .Mil and I get to be lazy a lot... but I managed somehow. It probably looked like a T-Rex trying to bear-hug a watermelon, but it happened.

I'm really killing my own thread with these off topic comments, but after reading Page 1 of that thread... wow. The idiot factor is strong with those guys.

Werd and then some. I'm really just looking at it from a "Eh, I haven't done this yet so it might be fun to try" perspective. None of my DGI guns have ever, ever dicked up on me because of the direct impingement system. None of them.

Taking a moment to temporarily hijack my own thread... That dude is a douchenozzle.

Catchy title.

I'd like some feedback on their uppers. I'm giving serious consideration to going with a piston-driven upper on my next AR build.

Dammit. I had no idea. That's what I get for not asking, right?

Bravo Company USA has them in stock right now but they won't last long. I just ordered one for my second naked lower that I've been needing to get built. AR-15 Lower Parts Kit Enjoy!

I used to doubt the practicality of these training classes until I took one. Then I saw why it was such a good idea for anyone who has a HCP to take at least a good, solid defensive handgun class. This little trick is just one example of the sort of stuff you learn. Granted, the average guy hopefully will never have to do this particular drill for real. But if the worst happens, you now know how to improvise. And that's why the SERPA locking mechanism was called onto the carpet in the first post of this thread. It could potentially take a bad situation and turn it much worse. I'll also say that the vast majority of IWB holsters don't allow this drill to work. Especially for any of us who have a less than rock-hard midsection and have love handles that push against our handgun under normal circumstances. We learned other alternatives to this method in class, too. Like locking the empty firearm between your knees...

Call Smith & Wesson customer service at 800-331-0852. Press option #7 from the menu. Tell them that you want to send your M&P in for a Performance Center Sear and some other custom work. They will give you the address and tell you to include a letter detailing exactly what you want done to the firearm. In that letter, explain that you want: Performance Center Sear Massachusetts trigger return spring Massachusetts trigger bar Polish of typical action components Send the firearm back to them by UPS or FedEx Overnight. You will likely need to go to a UPS or FedEx depot to do this as most convenience locations flatly refuse to ship firearms. S&W will call or send a letter to you upon inspection of the firearm, and provide a cost estimate for the work to be performed. They reportedly may try to dissuade you from this particular combination of items. This did not happen to me but it has apparently happened to a few other people that I've heard about. Stick to your guns, so to speak. About 3 weeks later you should get your firearm back. I called them once a week to get status updates since they aren't exactly on the ball as far as staying in good comm with you. I wouldn't have even known it had been shipped back to me had I not called them this week. That would have sucked since the item comes back requiring adult signature before the delivery person can release it. Since I called, I knew to stay home yesterday afternoon when FedEx typically runs our route.

USING AN EMPTY FIREARM... Holster on strong side. Strong side arm tucked behind your back to simulate it being inoperable. All operations performed using your weak hand! Place empty firearm on the ground in front of you with slide locked OPEN to simulate firearm having been run dry. 1. Pick up firearm using weak hand 2. Eject (or simulate ejecting) empty magazine. Leave slide locked OPEN. 3. Insert into holster on strong side of body with the magazine well pointed forward of the shooter 4. Retrieve spare (EMPTY!) magazine from weak-side pocket or pouch 5. With firearm still in holster on strong side of body, empty magazine well pointed forward, insert magazine into firearm and push until it seats. 6. Remove firearm from holster using weak hand. Strong hand still behind the back, imobilized. 7. Use slide release to simulate chambering a round from the spare (EMPTY) mag. 8. Resume the fight.

We need to make a pact... the day either of us finds a striker fired gun that has a trigger as good as even a bad 1911, we will run, not walk, to the nearest computer and let the other know about it.

That simply isn't going to happen. There's little you can do to make a striker fired handgun feel like a single-action 1911. The trigger geometry alone is on the other end of the spectrum.

See previous posts in this thread for answers to all of those questions.

Because all lawyers are scum, right? In case some of you haven't been paying attention, we have several excellent lawyers here on TGO and a few of them are even supporting Vendors here on TGO. I'm sure they appreciate the blanket statement that a trash can is a great place for lawyers.

Franklin Gun wants how much?!?

Until we stop having to kick ass in arid, desert locations or until all of the jihadists go color blind... you can pretty much count on FDE being the color of the day.

Adjustable height of comb, adjustable length of pull and side-foldable. I think function pretty much dictated form on that one and it turned out looking like the boot off of a pair of hip waders.

If I had the money right now, I would already own an FN SCAR. That being said, you aren't going to see a mass exodus to the SCAR in civilian or military circles for some time to come. The AR is indeed very well entrenched. It's my understanding that the SCAR is only being fielded by certain elements in the SpecOps community and that rolling it out to the average foot solider isn't even on the table as an option right now.

Not that this is not planned to be an annual event, but c'mon... seriously? If you knew half of what I know already from our planning sessions, you'd skip the game.

Invite as many people as you can. Radio spots will probably start appearing the closer we get to this, so we're trying to get the word out there.