TGO David

Hey folks. I am going to need to shut the forum down this evening at 9:00PM Central in order to do some maintenance. The work will take an hour or two to complete, so I'm trying to pick a day and time that normally doesn't see a huge volume of traffic. Honestly, there's no "perfect" time to do it but this is about as perfect as it gets. Sorry for the inconvenience, but I think we will benefit from the work. Thanks!

Oh boy. Yeah, that's been exercised within the past 15 years as an attention stunt and attempt to joust with the legal system for personal gain. I genuinely hope that sad schmuck's life has improved to the point that he no longer sees a "wrongful death by cop" lawsuit as a way to provide for his family. What a complete and utter cancer to the Second Amendment in Tennessee.

I think you'll really like it. The PDP's ergonomics are excellent and the trigger is one of the best I've ever experienced on a striker-fired pistol, out of the box or otherwise.

Reasonable Answer: Walther PDP with a Holosun 509T dot optic on a CHPWS mounting plate. Irrational Answer: Staccato C2 DPO with the same setup. Unreasonable because it's just silly expensive. I have both. I don't really prefer one over the other. If I didn't have both, I'd just buy the Walther and call it a day.

The G45 is the best G. Congratulations and ignore the haters.

All of mine.

I'd probably buy a ready-milled slide or even a MOS slide. You can find the MOS slides for sale with various folks like Big Tex Ordance, on GunBroker, etc. Or pick up an Agency or Zev aftermarket slide. I really like the Agency AOS system for mounting optics as it gives you some flexibility instead of anchoring you to a specific optics mounting footprint.

This is a silly thing to have a problem with. First of all, the shake-awake feature really should be considered a "Sleep If No Movement" feature. The purpose of it is to take what is already an incredibly long battery life for most modern red dot optics and extend it even further by hibernating the emitter when the gun is in storage. You don't WANT the optic going to sleep when you're carrying it, IMO. Second, the battery life of modern dots except for the first generation AimPoint Acro which suuuuuuucked, is measured in thousands of hours... MONTHS... at mid-level brightness. We survived without so-called shake awake for years on Trijicon RMRs. We still do and even without them running out of battery unless we're just negligently stupid about not changing batteries on a schedule. I have six RMRs and a host of Holosuns. My RMRs have never run out of battery because I change them every six months. Easy peasy. Lastly, Trijicon already produces an RMR that uses dual-illumination like what you're asking for. No one uses them*. *That I know

The search index has been regenerated. Everything should be back to normal now.

Just as an FYI, we are at about 31/100 (31% complete) on the regeneration of the search index and about an hour and a half into the process. I would guess that we will finish that process somewhere during the early afternoon hours today.

I am still trying to figure out the best way to do this without ruining the overall experience for new users and non-Benefactors.

I have upgraded us to the latest version of the forum software this morning. There are some new features that I still need to configure before they are available. There are also some subtle changes we may notice as we use the software in the days ahead. One thing to note is that the forum's search index is being regenerated. This process takes several hours. While the index is being regenerated, you will find that keyword searching may not work very well.

I was going to run with a Holy Grail GIF here but then I remembered The Meaning of Life was actually perfect for this.

Back in the 70's my parents used to take me to a place like that but I have no idea if it was a franchise. The name of it was The King's Table and it had everything you're describing. Edit, I found some photos of other locations online. Apparently it was a chain and they were named "King's Table Smorgasbord"

Update... My activities on TGO lately have consisted largely of lurking just because typing with one arm tied behind my back wasn't all that enjoyable. That said, I am now able to be a lot more verbose with my.... hands... so I'll be a little more present now. Geez, that just sounds weird as I read it back to myself. I met with my orthopedic surgeon yesterday and he was pleased enough with the progress that I've made over the past two weeks that he implicitly advised against surgery at this time. A few days ago I shed the sling just because it was driving me crazy and applying too much tension on my opposite shoulder and side of my neck, and the doc was completely unconcerned about whether I kept using it or not. We did a few range of motion tests, all of which I passed, and also a few strength tests. I should note that these were not the Feats of Strength that Frank Costanza advocated for during Festivus. They did lead me to air some grievances though. The final verdict was that it wasn't a severe sprain or a minor tear, but that I had really messed it up pretty good. It's not a complete tear but it's a solidly good one. It is also healing on its own and I have retained a nice amount of utility with it despite the injury. I just have to be mindful of how much I use it and pay attention to what hurts and avoid those activities. Anyway, I guess the good news is that I'm on the mend. The bad news is that I won't get any superpowers like Col. Steve Austin, my childhood hero on The Six Million Dollar Man. So lame.

Man I tell you... the instant nerve numbness when I did this FREAKED. ME. OUT. I mean, it felt like I'd hit my arm with a stout 120VAC shock for a few seconds. That thankfully subsided over the following few hours and isn't a thing for me now. Best of luck with the PT!!

I'm forcing myself to do as many "normal" things with it as I can tolerate, and just generally "listening to my body" - as the doc put it. I'm hoping this makes the recovery a little easier over the long haul. If it feels weird, I take it as a warning to be careful. I call this the Biden Impulse. If it hurts, I stop it but might try it again later. I can't think of a good name for this that wouldn't put me on a Google search result that I don't really want to be on.

It's amazing that the "pain" (a weird soreness and tightness) comes mostly from my lower arm at the radius and not at the bicep. I mean... the bicep hurts too, but where I really feel it is down there where the tendon connects to the bone and other muscles. I'm starting to figure out some of those workarounds. Like... flexing my arm is fine if I keep it perpendicular to my body where no real weight is being applied to the bicep/tendon, versus if I try it with my arm hanging parallel at my side. A surprise to me is how much that whole mechanical assembly is involved in the simple act of buttoning my pants and cinching my belt. That is a real treasure right now. Just the joy of joys.

I thought @MacGyver was paying you?!

Dammit man... a real friend would have told me this before Monday morning!

I have decided to do a lot of one-handed dry fire practice and maybe even some range time. I have gone the extra mile to ensure that I don't cheat on this by partially tearing my left (non-dominant) arm's bicep tendon, thereby requiring myself to be in a sling most of the time. Gentlemen, I do not skimp when it comes to practice. In all seriousness, I managed to nearly rip that sucker apart on Memorial Day by doing something I've done numerous times lately: Lifting a 4x8 sheet of plywood off of a cart and into my truck. Now, you might think that what should have caused injury was the sudden shifting of weight as that much money suddenly left my wallet all at once. And you'd be justified in thinking that. But the reality of it is that I simply didn't grab the wood properly, missed its center of gravity, and when I heaved it yawed and that was the end of that. I *did* manage to retain a hold on the plywood and heaved it up into the truck despite my injured arm. Because I'd no sooner leave an expensive sheet of wood on the ground for some parking lot pirate to pick up any more than I'd leave a box of ammo there. My parents didn't raise a complete dummy. Perhaps a little bit of one, as evidenced by this injury, but not a complete one. So, back to my single-handed dry fire manipulation.... who's going to join me? Just go ahead and gimp one of your own chicken-wings too and we'll get started.

Weird. I have had zero, and I mean zero problems with my CruWear Adamases (Mini or Full Size) holding their edge. I've cut the hell out of some cardboard with them just because of how quickly it will knock the edge off of a knife. What angle did you sharpen the blade to? How fine of a finish did you put on it? I've noticed that CruWear, in general, does best if you don't take it to a mirror. That steel seems to prefer having a slightly toothy edge to it, so I take mine to 1500 grit at most. 600-800 seems to work even better.

I'd stay at home. Nashville companies need to wisen up. The last year (2020) changed everything about teleworking. Companies no longer only compete against others in their town or city for talent; they are competing against other companies across the country. If they want to hire the best people, they've got to put aside 20th Century notions that workers must spend hours a day commuting only to spend hours more a day crammed into corporate offices. We've preached work-life balance for years as if letting people end their shifts on time was some magnanimous act. 2020 showed us that true work-life balance is easier to achieve when a worker is able to choose where they work from. My own company has lost it's damn mind this year and is trying to shove people back into offices, despite having spent a year saying that working from home was the "New Normal". Not only has it it begun to erode the willingness of people to trust anything a C-Level executive says from this point forward, but it's also causing the worker to wake-up to the power that they have now that choosing an employer doesn't mean just choosing between other Nashville-area companies.