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Are any of its supporters on TGO medical doctors?

The Remington brand literally just went through a complete dissolution and reconstitution. It's going to take a while.

I did a thing last week. Believe it or not, I haven't been able to make it to the range yet. Which is just as well as I decided to switch optics and put a closed-emitter Holosun HE509T on it instead. Thankfully I ordered both the mounting plate for the 509T as well as the RMR-footprint plate from C&H Precision Weapons a week or two before I had ordered the gun. Now I am just waiting on the 509T to arrive. No sense getting one red dot sighted in when I'm going to switch to another! Wasting ammo like that is 2019 type of thinking; not 2020 thinking where you begin to consider whether you should reclaim your bullets and smash them back into shape as best you can after you shoot them at things.

I'll throw a monkey in your wrench... or wrench at your monkey... or a wrench in the works? Hell, I don't know which it is. This time change is sucking the intelligence out of me. But I digress. A colleague at work who is younger than me by a couple of years and I'd say arguably in fitter condition than me took the Johnson & Johnson shot last Friday afternoon. He was laid up in bed in miserable as hell condition for the 24 hour period covering Saturday into Sunday. Fever, chills, aches, pains. It finally abated for him on Sunday. His interpretation of what he experienced is that it was his body's immune system kicking into hyperdrive to produce antibodies to fight COVID-19. Maybe? I know that I've had worse cases of influenza than what I experienced with COVID-19, but COVID-19 was spectacularly miserable in and of its own right. I am not rushing toward the vaccine and I've only got so much ammo, so if you early birds start turning into zombies just be aware that I plan to get creative with how I dispatch you in order to save bullets for creatures whose brains haven't turned to tapioca pudding.

Really? Well, my advice above may be completely wrong.

I think using the Holosun 507K will require the P365's optics pocket to be modified slightly. The rear recoil lugs have to be removed and the front lugs have to be reduced in height slightly. That said, I'd still go with the 508K over the RMRcc if it were me.

The Dot Life is the Best Life.

I always start at home by zeroing the dot to the front sight with the irons aligned properly. That will almost always get me on paper at say 7-10 yards. After that it is just a few minor adjustments for whatever distance you prefer. I tend to zero handgun dots at around 15 yards and then see what my holds are for 25 and 5.

There ya go! That's the business right there. I am running the same optic on my C2 DPO and it's the way to go for low profile and an optic that doesn't hang over the sides too badly with the slim profile of the 1911/2011 slide.

Guys, I split this off into its own thread. It probably wasn't going to help a guy trying to sell one when the replies turned to loaning one out for free.

Nice! You ought to just send that Gen 2 grip module off to Dark Side Precision and let him work it over for you or buy one from him when he has them in stock. I have a spare that I am probably going to send to him sooner or later.

UBCs are registration under a different name. It's the same thing. Call your Senators. Email them, visit them. Demand that they NOT pass this garbage. Registration only leads one place: Confiscation.

I had a new sprint-run Spyderco knife go MIA in-transit with the UPS last week. It was supposed to arrive on Monday and didn't show up until Thursday or Friday, as I recall. Talk about having a sinking feeling in your stomach. If it had truly gone missing, the vendor would have had to just refund my money. The model sold out pretty quickly and they claim they didn't have any extra stock held back.

I do but I never bought dies or components for 9mm. It was always so cheap that it never made sense. Hindsight sucks.

I shoot it too much to let it gather any dust.

In 2019, I burned through 4,000 rds of ammo. 3,000 of it was 9mm and 1,000 of it was 5.56 NATO. That was without taking any classes and I am not a guy that does "mag dumps" either. My range time is intentional and deliberate and I dry fire far more "rounds" than that every week at home. In 2020, I burned through about 2,500 rds of 9mm and no 5.56. In August of 2020, I orchestrated a group buy for my safety team at church that ended up totaling nearly 60,000 rounds of ammo and I only bought 1,000 for myself. I figured I'd go back and get more on the next pass through but I wanted to be sure that everyone else got some first. That next pass through never happened. We got cut off by my supplier because someone in Nashville at one of the gun shops had caught wind that we were getting ammo that they couldn't from the same supplier. That gun shop ratted us out and ended it. I still don't exactly know who it was, but I have suspicions. I don't hold them any ill will either. I might have complained too were I in their spot when the supply started drying up. Business is business. These days I skimp like crazy when I go to the range. I load 3-5 rounds in a mag at a time and make them count. I dry fire infinitely more than I shoot for real. It sucks but it also has made me really focus on fundamentals. If I could find 1,000 rounds of 9mm for less than 50-cents per round, I'd buy as many cases as they'd let me and I'd go back to shooting like I used to. Hell, my life "depends on it" if you factor in my volunteer service at church. I don't have a law enforcement agency supplying practice ammo. My ability to still be proficient is funded by me and me alone. Do I care what anyone else thinks about me for buying any ammo that I can? Not a bit. I hope you all don't care what anyone thinks of you either.

I have a n OZ9 Compact X-Grip. Basically the Zev take on a Glock G45 (G19 length slide, G17 length grip). Fantastic guns!

I told you that thing is the most fun you'll have with a 9mm!

The optic sits so low you don't need taller sights to cowitness with most.

Ugh. Well I just bought a Compact model from an online shop I’ve used before. I managed to get it without being gouged but now this means I’m going to have to shop for a holster and all that other stuff soon.

Yep! Oh. Lucky dog.

TGO has unfortunately, from time to time, been visited by those who lack morals and ethics and would like to take advantage of the good graces and trusting nature of our fine members. This activity almost always seems to increase when social conditions are turbulent, especially if the turbulence is centered around the ability to find and buy guns or ammo. Lately we have had to boot a few people who were exhibiting suspicious behavior. We want you to be aware of this fact and to be sure to check a person's status on TGO before you commit to doing business with them as either the seller or the buyer. This is especially true if the other person encourages you to take communication with them "off the forum" and to email or some sort of instant messaging service. Before you buy or sell: Look to see whether they have have an active account or if they've been banned since you started talking to them. If you are going to meet to conduct business, do it during daylight hours and in a heavily trafficked, very public, neutral meeting place. Don't invite people to your home. Don't agree to meet people at theirs. MOST police and sheriff's stations have space at their parking lot where you can meet for selling and buying with strangers. Other good places are parking lots of busy business and in sight of their security cameras. Trust your gut instincts whether just when communicating online or meeting in person. If something feels "off" or "weird" - trust your gut. Feel free to involve me, @MacGyver, @Chucktshoes or one of the other moderators in a private conversation with the other party, or just contact us off to the side if you have concerns. Some of the suspicious activity that we've seen includes: People answering a Want To Buy ad claiming to have what you want, or that they know a friend or family member who does, and offering to broker an exchange between you and them. When it is fraudulent, this sort of thing often quickly becomes ridiculously complex and harder than it should be to do a simple transaction. Your warning senses should start tingling. We insist that people never list an item for sale for a friend on TGO for a reason. First Person is simpler, easier and often safer. People asking if you will ship a gun to them out of state or if you require proof of residency. Shipping a gun out of state always requires that you send it to an FFL in that state. An in-person buyer has to be a resident of your state. Again, heed your warning senses. People asking you to send money to them via PayPal "Friends and Family". Remember, first of all PayPal doesn't allow you to pay for guns and certain other things with their service. If you do and you get hosed on a deal, you may have no protection with PayPal. Second, sending money via Friends and Family saves the recipient a measly 3% charge but it also means you get zero protection via PayPal if the other person hoses you. Strangers insisting that they meet you after dark, or at a remote location, or at your house or theirs. This is a big NO. Don't do this. People asking if they can send a friend to pick up a gun from you instead of meeting you themselves. This is also a big NO. It can quickly become an illegal "straw purchase". Again, trust your gut instincts. You have them for a reason. It's safer to heed them and risk offending a person than it is to ignore them and end up the victim of a scam or worse. And always, always contact me, @MacGyver, @Chucktshoes or another moderator if you are concerned and just want a second opinion. We're glad to help. Stay safe out there!

Not upset in the least. Here's the problem: Your post got two "likes" from people who felt like the opinion you posted was factual and/or resonated with them. We have no idea how many people read it and didn't respond or post a reaction, and we have no idea how many more would silently read it and be influenced by it over the course of time. Most people will just accept it for what it was, an opinion, and move forward and accumulate other enough opinions and facts to form a decision of their own. But some people will read it, take it as The Truth, stop and go no further. We have to be careful to sort opinion from fact, or at least be willing to qualify our opinions with firsthand experience so that they are approaching something factual. People read what we write here. If they didn't, what's the point of us writing it? So let's back up and take another pass at this using the very last statement in the reply I quoted above. You offered your opinion and you stand by it. What experience have you had with carrying an optic-equipped handgun, concealed, that validates your opinion that it's less comfortable and more likely to snag on things when you draw it? You've thrown those statements out there, so it's your responsibility to feed and care for them.

I am going to try to be polite but sooner or later it becomes important to speak truth and crush falsehoods, so if I start teetering there you're just going to have to forgive me or accept that my intentions are pure. That said, this screams "I have never really tried to carry a gun with an optic IWB or AIWB in a quality holster and supported by a quality gun belt, so I am going to make an assumption and pass it off as an anecdotal bit of wisdom." You're wrong. Sorry. Just wrong. Unless you somehow manage to carry your handgun horizontally in your belt with the slide parallel to the ground, there is no way that a modern dot optic, mounted to the slide and not stacked on a dovetail mount or some other oddball fixture, riding along the same plane as the slide is going to cause you discomfort. I almost doubt you'll even feel it. I sure don't and I am not some Greek Adonis with washboard abs and 0% body fat either. I like tacos. Parts of me push AGAINST a holster and gun. I never, ever feel the optic and it's never, ever snagged on anything during a draw. People also said that about the Model-T. People with pacemakers are truly #### out of luck then.

I am perhaps a little shocked that there is not already a thread about Walther's new PDP handgun, but at the same time I am also not entirely surprised as it generally feels like the whole community of gun owners-at-large is holding its collective breath during these first 60 days of the Biden Occupation. That being said, let's get on to talking about a new blaster! https://waltherarms.com/pdp/ The Walther PDP (Performance Duty Pistol) is positioned to be the successor to the Walther PPQ series. It is Walther's new polymer frame, striker fired, 9mm pistol with a steel slide available in 4-inch and 4.5-inch lengths (a 5-inch is rumored to be coming). The slide uses Glock pattern front and rear sights, features a beveled leading edge for easier re-holstering, raised Super Terrain™ front cocking serrations, and comes standard as an optics-ready platform. The optics-ready aspects of the PDP are a centered around a deeply recessed mounting position that accepts a variety of Make/Model-Specific mounting plates that Walther partnered with C&H Precision Weapons (aka CHPWS) to produce. CHPWS is renowned for manufacturing rugged and reliable metal mounting plates that address weak spots of OEM plates from companies like Glock and Smith & Wesson, and plates that adapt optics to platforms that were otherwise incompatible with them such as Sig Sauer, H&K, CZ and Staccato. This decision by Walther is a damned good one, in my opinion, and will result in a lot of options for PDP owners moving forward. One last note about the optics-ready nature of this gun is that the mounting pocket is so deeply recessed that an Trijicon RMR mounted to the gun provides a Lower 1/3 co-witness with standard height Glock sights. Taller sights would only be needed if your particular optic and mounting plate combination dictate it. Most mass-produced optics ready guns require taller sights for co-witnessing. The only other one that I am aware of that doesn't is the Shadow Systems MR and DR family, and they lack the modularity of a mounting plate system. The frame of the PDP uses a new Performance Duty Texture on the grip's side panels and modular back strap, paired with more traditional grooves on the front strap. The Performance Duty Texture is geodesic in appearance and seems that it would offer good traction without being overly rough. LAV does a good overview of the grip texture and back strap features here: The PDP also continues the tradition of Walther providing what is arguably one of the best triggers in a polymer, striker-fired handgun. The community has long raved about the excellent trigger in the PPQ series and the PDP thankfully does not divert away from a proven recipe. The PDP also sticks with the PPQ M2's preference of a standard button-style mag release rather than going back to the original PPQ's paddle style. As someone who has owned several and still owns one HK pistol with a paddle release, I can say that this does not make me angry in the least. The paddle, while interesting, is weird in comparison to all of the other guns I've ever used and owned that use a button release. I will forever instinctively move my thumb toward where the mag release button should be on any gun that has paddles. So I am very thankful that the PDP does not have them and does have the button style release. Your opinions and preferences might vary. And if they do... you're weird and wrong. Once again here's LAV to explain to you why this trigger is pretty awesome and why you weirdos should try to conform a little more. Last but certainly not least, the pricing on the PDP seems like it should be reasonable once the initial hype dies down. The retail industry has taken note of how quickly the first production runs are selling out, and they are doing what retailers are often wont to do: They are putting them on GunBroker and letting people pay a premium to be among the first to own one. Good retailers are keeping them in store and selling them at MSRP. I love you good retailers who do this. The GunBroker turds can count on me remembering who they were a year from now when gun sales are hurting. If you want one and don't want to pay a $50 - 150 premium, wait. The supply chain will catch up. You won't have to wait forever. DO YOU HAVE ONE? Let us know what you think about it! I will pick one up sooner or later.