TGO David

The Oppressive Regime strikes again, I guess. Good bye, good riddance. We don't need this sort of bull**** drama around here cluttering things up.

Just suffer through it. The IP could be changed at a later point and having it keyed into your local hosts file would screw up some of our less technical users. The DNS records should update fairly quickly.

I wouldn't say that. I've had two work related emails, a phone call and a remote assistance request to deal with this morning. I haven't had an actual day off in about 10 years... but I'm not sure that's worth bragging about.

This isn't the first time that you've chipped in your two cents on how I or the moderators have handled things. I suggest that you keep out of it and just be content to be a member here and let the moderators do their jobs when appropriate for them to do so, and otherwise let the moderators use the forum just as any other member does... freely and without undue harassment. If you feel the urge to moderate something, do it over on your own forum.

I slept in til about 8am. Made a pot of coffee, came upstairs to check on some work. Going back downstairs soon to play COD4 on the 360. I'm starting to remember why I like having days off.

Para isn't exactly renowned for quality.

I've been a member on a lot of forums. One thing that never surprises me is how members will bellyache anytime a moderator gets involved in a tussle. It's all fun and games until a guy with a title has an opinion, and then suddenly everyone's being repressed. Give me a friggin break. First of all, the moderators are entitled to have and share their opinions just the same as anyone else is. All moderators are first and foremost members of this forum and they are extended the same "rights" as any other member. Those of you who feel that a moderator shouldn't be allowed to express an opinion should find the nearest exit from TGO and take it, never to come back. Secondly, there are some fraternities in this world that a smart man doesn't go around making up farcical stories of being a member of; the military being one of them and certain divisions of the military being even more so. When you lie about being a member of those things, you can expect to get called out or worse. The people who really are members of those things generally have paid more than their fair share of dues over the courses of their careers to be called Marine, or sniper, or SF, or whatever and they don't take kindly to posers. For example, ask any Marine about the EGA. You don't get to wear the EGA until you become a Marine. You don't call yourself a Marine until the USMC calls you a Marine. You don't step off the bus at Paris Island as a new puke wearing a Marine Corps t-shrit unless you want to become seriously aquainted with pain and suffering for the next few weeks. You don't spit into the wind. You don't step on Superman's cape. Get the idea? So if a person comes onto an Internet forum occupied by a lot of current and former military personnel and starts spinning a story that seems pretty unbelievable, expect that they will get called out on it. And furthermore, expect them to get a lot of heat if their story turns out to be crap. Why? Because military take care of their own and the price of admission to their fraternity isn't free and it isn't cheap. As the cliche goes, all give some and some give all. Oh, and as a PS... most of the guys that I have met who really have been there and done the cool stuff don't talk about it much. Now I'm not saying that the original poster is full of ****. What I am saying is that even to me, a person who has never put on a uniform, the story sounds suspicious. And I'm inclined to let the military guys present in this thread handle it among themselves because if it turns out to be bogus, it will serve as a good warning to the next poser who comes along and decides to make up a bunch of crap. And if it turns out that it's legit, it's still all good. Because from what I've seen from the outside looking in, a good ration of **** is expected between members of the armed forces. They expect it and they understand it. Bottom line? Thread stays open, OP should put up the goods and let the other military members present vet his claims. The only thing that I am doing is moving this to the lounge forum and reminding the non moderators to let the modertors do the moderating.

The reason for an adjustable stock is to tweak the "length of pull" to the shooter. Especially when body armor or other accessories are introduced into the mix.

The butt-stock is available for either commercial OR milspec tubes. Stocks made for commercial tubes wobble on milspec tubes. Stocks made for milspec tubes won't fit onto a commercial tube. The proper part #s are as follows: Commercial: #CBS Milspec: #CBSM Reference http://www.magpul.com/pdfs/technotes/ctr/buffertubeid.pdf for the reasons why this is. Pictures are worth a thousand words.

Same as yesterday. Busy, busy, busy.

Thanks for contributing nothing of value to the thread. Off-topic remarks should be kept in the General Off-Topic forum, not in topic centric forums or threads.

I'd prefer the plain SCT version (link) instead and skip all of the free advertising for BW.

DIKE.

Been here since 7am CST. Full day today and tomorrow. Coming in for a token gesture on Wednesday and plan on being home before lunch. Off after that until January 2nd... but I've got a lot to do over those days. It's good to be the King?

I'm moving this to the Class III forum where it belongs.

The original poster, DaveTN, is for some reason obsessed with comparing apples to oranges. As gcrookston points out in his most recent post, it is easy to find examples of a person doing menial tasks at a pay rate that is not in keeping with the level of education or skill that he brings to the table. The fact that companies have been willing to pay an employee $75/hr because of tenure to push a broom on a Union factory floor is why so many companies are hurting now and why so many people are losing their jobs. I've told my own employer for a few years now that while the annual pay and bonus increases were appreciated, they were not necessary nor were they appropriate considering that my workload had not increased any in the same amount of time. Rather, my workload has actually decreased as the company's business has decreased. Yet pay and bonuses kept going up. In my 2006 annual review with our CEO, I questioned this practice and was told that this was just the way it had always been. Every year brought a $2,000 salary increase and a similar increase in bonus. I pushed the point and asked how the company could sustain this when our operating income was on a downward slide since 2002. The answer was that they hoped things would turn around and that the employees would riot if it ever changed. Well, guess what. The employees are rioting now because they are laying people off. Those of us who do not actively interact with clients and directly generate revenue (i.e. cost center departments) are taking the hit first. Hardly a fair predicament given that the salespeople who aren't selling still get to keep their jobs, but life isn't about "fair". But I digress. Back to the question at hand, are my skills worth what this company has paid me? YES. Was my pay worth the amount of work that I've had to do for the past year? Not really, but my job is analogous to having car insurance. It may seem like you're paying me a lot until you really need my skills. When you do, I'm worth every penny. As for outsourcing IT to India, that trend is dying off. There are a lot of menial jobs in IT that can be outsourced to monkeys if they wanted to do it, but the problem is that you get what you pay for. If you pay a guy who barely speaks English and can hardly communicate well with your customers $0.50 an hour to answer a phone and work through a fip-chart to "troubleshoot" a problem, then you're going to get your money's worth. Once Habib costs you a few hundred non-returning customers or a few thousand in lost income because of downtime, I'll be there to fix it for you. And it's going to cost you quite a bit, but even still not what I'm worth.

Sorry to hear it, man. What a peaceful way to go. I can only hope to be as lucky when my number is called.

Thread locked at OP's request.

FWIW, I had a Burwell trigger job done on my last M&P 40 back before Dan was as well known and completely covered up with work as he is now. The resulting trigger feel was crisp and broke cleanly like the proverbial glass rod. It felt awesome. BUT... The trigger job made the reset slightly longer, a by-product that Dan was quick to point out would happen because of the way the sear engages in the M&P design, and was even less perceptible than it is with these guns right out of the box. I just had to "learn" where the reset was and program it into muscle memory rather than expect the tactile click that the Glocks have when they reset. It's just one of those things that you'd have to experience dry firing the two brands side by side. The Glock is definitive and easily perceived. The M&P, not so much. But different folks like different strokes, so I'm sure this is just my personal opinion standing between me falling completely in love with the M&P family. As it is right now, I'm just flirting really hard with the M&P.

I'm not sure why your trust in the firearm has gone out the window. If you blow a tire on your car, do you park the car and never drive it again, or do you replace the offending part and continue to enjoy it? Guns are mechanical objects. Anything mechanical will have problems; sometimes the problems crop up quickly, other times it takes years for them to appear. I'd say that if Springfield fixes it and makes it right, shoot a few hundred rounds through it at the range upon it's return and let that re-establish your confidence.

If you have an M&P with a definite solid trigger reset, hang on to it and never let it go. It's a factory freak and likely to become a collector item.

The trigger feels similar but the reset is mushy on the M&P whereas it has a nice solid click on the Glock. I prefer the Glock trigger but I've forced myself to adapt to the M&P trigger. If Smith & Wesson would improve the trigger reset on the M&P family, it would essentially end my pro-Glock arguments. They seem to have addressed all of my other complaints with the M&P as of this current generation. The finish is better and more Glock-like, the mag catch is more solid and this one functioned flawlessly out of the box. I'm very happy with it.

Old pictures.

WWTC = What Would Tungsten Carry. I only had the one M&P 9mm, which I bought thinking my wife would like and end up owning the M&P 9 JG (Julie Goloski) edition. As it turns out, she wasn't a fan of the M&P series but did like the 3914 so that's what she owns now. My Glock 19 is, IMO, the perfect 9mm for me and I was lacking a .40SW so I picked up the M&P 40 to fill the gap.

A few weeks ago I visited Hero Gear and was able to trade my Smith & Wesson M&P 9L for a M&P 40 service model. I've been meaning to post some pictures but things have been a bit hectic. This has become my daily carry in a Comp-Tac MTAC holster during the winter. It's a little bulkier than my Glock 19, but it still hides easily beneath heavier clothing. I figure the .40SW cartridge also has a slightly better ballistic profile for dealing with heavier clothing typical during winter. Anyway... pics...