TGO David

Y'all... these things have been going on since the beginning of time. People have been murdering each other since Cain smashed Able's skull in with a rock. The difference today is that the Leftists who run the media have an agenda and they are so close to succeeding that they can taste it. They are foaming at the mouth to report every single gun related act of violence that happens anywhere other than Chicago, Illinois right now. It's hype time. It's crunch time! They've languished for this moment for decades and they're almost at the finish line. They will report every gun crime they can just to push it to victory. We're ####ed, because most people are sheep and most people are just soaking it all in and thinking the thoughts that the Leftists want them to think.

That holster is the PHLSTER Floodlight. It's made for PHLSTER by the folks behind some of my favorite gun-specific holsters, Henry Holsters. The advantage of the Floodlight design is that it's fairly universal for a wide range of guns since the weaponlight itself is what provides the retention. I also have a holster for the PDP without any light whatsoever from Tenicor called the CERTUM3, and a holster for use with the TLR7 from Texas Holster Solutions, called the Pierce. I'll post a pic of it below. I also have a TLR7 holster coming from McKinaTec but I haven't received it yet so I don't feel comfortable recommending it sight-unseen. Texas Holster Solutions "Pierce" Let me talk about that Surefire X300UB light and PHLSTER Floodlight holster some more, though: I am using that light and holster combination for several reasons. First, the X300UA light puts out 1,000 Lumens in a beam pattern and light temperature that really throws some illumination on a target. It's 1,000 usable Lumens and that can mean the difference between a bright light that just blinds you behind the gun, or a bright light that lets you identify a target and what they're holding from quite some distance away. Daytime, night-time, indoor, outdoor. Second, the longer holster honestly conceals BETTER for me and reduces the "hot" spots (pain points) that shorter Kydex holsters can cause when worn inside the waistband. Think of that long holster as being the keel fin on a sailboat, and your belt-line being the water-line. The extra length beneath the belt-line keeps the holster from wanting to shift around or "roll" at the belt. I can wear this thing all day and barely notice it. A shorter holster eventually starts to dig into my leg and cause a "hot" spot that rapidly makes it miserable once it begins. @Smith hit on some of the reasons to go with the C&H plate already. I will add that the C&H plate is precision machined whereas the Walther plates are cast metal. I've seen more than one person post that their Walther plates didn't fit perfectly flat in the pocket on the slide until they took a honing stone to them and flattened the bottom surface of the plate. Yeah the PPQ M2 mags work with the compact but are too short for the 17rd full size. Enjoy that gun and the second one you're going to buy too.

I have the new full-size on order and it'll be here tomorrow. I'll have some pics of it soon. As for the auto, that's only in full size right now. Honestly, the Axis lock on the non-auto makes an automatic practically pointless in my opinion. With minor adjustment to the T-10 pivot screw you can get the sweet-spot where the blade doesn't have any wiggle to it but will flick open with barely any effort, if not open/close by gravity only. I took the blade and brass washers out of my Mini, cleaned the blade and pivot thoroughly and applied some better oil to it, and polished both sides of the washers on a 5,000 grit water stone to smooth them out. That knife opens effortlessly.

Guns are cool. Guns with bright lights and red dot sights are even cooler.

There's one in the Trading Post FAQ section. https://www.tngunowners.com/forums/topic/100866-suggested-personal-firearm-bill-of-sale/

I'll add: I test our contingency plan every single time I update the software by virtue of doing the software update itself. I have, on more than one occasion, had the software update go poorly and rolled us back to the previous state, instantly, with a backup. I know that TGO's plan works because I test it regularly and update it as things change and new options become available or old options phase out. It's a good habit that working in enterprise healthcare IT has ingrained for the past 20 or so years.

Truthfully, what protects us (and them) in cases like this is just simple ol' planning ahead and having contingencies lined up. I appreciate the kind word and confidence, though. With our backups, I can re-home TGO elsewhere pretty quick if needed. The delay is in getting DNS servers to update, and there are some tricks that can make that give us a little extra control over that. Without backups, we'd be sunk. They would have been too.

The Second Amendment was written to protect us from this but people tolerate the gradual erosion of our rights the same way a frog will tolerate the gradual increase of heat of water until it's too late and he is boiled to death.

Wow. The description of what happened to their server falls into what I think most folks would just call an "Act of God". Glad they got it running again!

We're not immune to problems but we do a LOT of backups, all "off-site", several times a day.

No worries, man. I appreciate you supporting the site.

I'm still waiting on the full-size variant of these to come available in another week, but I wanted to pick up one of these too since it seems like a more "carry friendly" EDC sort of knife. There are a few steels that I am a big fan of and CruWear is one of them. It's a bit more difficult to sharpen than CPM S30V, for example, or the D2 that the previous Adamas was produced in... but you can't beat it for retaining an edge with use. When I saw that the new Adamas and MINI Adamas were going to be released in CruWear, I knew my wallet was going to get a bit lighter. The smooth G10 scales are perfect for pocket carry, the Axis lock is one of the strongest ambidextrous lock types out there, and the pivot runs on legit brass washers. Brass washers are my favorite for a knife that might get dusty or dirty (you know... USED like a knife) since they tend to keep grit and grime out of the pivot better than the other alternatives. I am very pleased with this one. If you get a chance, pick one up for yourself.

The old one was set to expire on 3/15 of any given year. I just edited the new one to expire on 3/30 of any given year. That pushes it out past the six days and keeps the math easy.

My generation spent stupid amounts of money to buy sequined gloves to look like this weirdo. I can't throw rocks at my kids because of it. To be clear, I am physically incapable of throwing rocks with this damn glove on. They slip out of my hand. I want to throw rocks.

Sounds frustrating. We've tried to keep it simple here and it's working so far.

You should be good to go now. I canceled the old one so that renewing it won't be an option and then set the expiration on the new one to a year from today's date. Let me know if that works for you?

Shouldn’t be a problem. I can work on it for you this morning.

I just want to acknowledge the clever title for this thread.

I have no detail about what happened here but it's pretty obvious that it was a catastrophic failure. Edited to add... The pistol is tentatively identified as a EAA Girsan Mc28sa SARSILMAZ Sar9 .

I am watching the J&J vaccine with interest. If I am going to do one, it will probably be that one. I am not an anti-vaxxer, lest anyone be left with that idea. I do the flu shot practically every year and have not sprouted a second head because of it yet. I just want these COVID-19 vaccines to get some miles under their belt before I embrace them, especially the radically new ones. Until then, I've had the real deal and that should suffice for a while. I also plan to not embrace any more social distancing unless some crazy new extraordinarily virulent and lethal version of COVID-19 or other nasty plague manifests. There is a justifiable concern among the scientific community that social isolation in 2020 may have hurt us more than helped us, by diminishing our herd immunity to other communicable diseases. I'm ready to get back out there and lick some damn doorknobs and hug randos at church, folks.

General Class here as well. I'd like to study for Extra at some point. I can help where time permits.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-suspends-astrazeneca-vaccine-blood-clotting-0ab2c4fe13370c96c873e896387eb92f "BERLIN (AP) — March 15th, 2021: A cascading number of European countries — including Germany, France, Italy and Spain — suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine Monday over reports of dangerous blood clots in some recipients, though the company and international regulators say there is no evidence the shot is to blame." My take-away from this: The AstraZeneca vaccine is not approved for use in the US yet. Might never be. There have been deaths recorded with suspicious proximity to other COVID-19 vaccines being administered here in the US. I've not yet seen whether blood clotting might have been a factor in the US deaths. No one should feel pressured to take or not take the vaccine. It's a personal decision. Consider all of the information available, include factors which affect your risk level into your calculus, and go from there. If you prefer to make decisions in a vacuum or if your opinion is easily buffeted for or against this or any other subject, the Internet is not a good place for you to spend your time.

Maybe let the moderators do the moderating?

I don't disagree with the inherent irony of that situation, but you're basically complaining about a person's freedom to choose.