TGO David

You are misinterpreting the screenshot. The POW logo was Marswolf's avatar.

Only if you can remember topics he participated in. We're hoping you guys can help us remember them. I also added MouseGunner to the group.

I am setting up a new category of member that will be used strictly to memorialize our fallen / dearly departed friends. Thankfully the number of departed is mercifully low for as long as TGO has been around and as many members as we have, but I do not want to risk these accounts and their contributions to the forum ever being lost to a routine "purge" of inactive accounts. Can you help us remember who all should be moved to this group?

Publicly I just want to say that I really appreciate everyhting you do for TGO. Your record is above reproach as far as I'm concerned.

I do want to clarify; The person in question actually wasn't advertising something without being a Benefactor, but it absolutely looked like it at surface level. When that happens, without being privy to all of the details, a moderator has to make an on-the-field judgment call. Most of the time they're right. Sometimes, in rare occasions, we find out that the post was benign. When that happens, it's usually very easily cleared up via a private message between parties. The way to clear it up isn't to launch an assault on the moderator or send me an ultimatum. I'm pretty intolerant of people who try to add stress to my life.

You are not wrong at all, but I hope the cycle truly does continue and 2020 isn't the year that the whole thing finally jumps off the rails and ends the loop. So much seems so volatile right now that I'll honestly be surprised if any part of "the norm" is still part of the norm after this year gets done with it.

Honestly it blows my mind that anyone within the 55-75 age bracket can rationalize acting so damned immature when it comes to things like this. Dealing with the publc in some capacity my entire adult life has made it impossible to get behind the idea that only millennials are snowflakes. There are too many grown-assed adults who expect special treatment and stick their bottom lips out like they're trying to provide a perch for a bird to sit on.

Honestly you bring up a good point, albeit maybe not entirely intentionally: Why aren't there threads every week on TGO and other social media outlets demanding justice for the black kids killed in Chicago? We should be pissed as hell about those tragedies also. Maybe even moreso, since they are almost always tied in some way to being a victim of gang violence, and said gang violence is one of the primary causes of the high number of gun deaths in the US each year and a primary fuel for gun control advovcates.

He's mad that ChuckTShoes moderated something he posted that looked every bit like non-Benefactor advertising on the surface. He then sent me a private message telling me how unhappy he was about it, and how it had changed his mind about becoming a Benefactor himself. Rather, he wanted me to know that he was leaving and that he wouldn't be supporting the TGO community that he's used since the year 2010 and made nearly 600 posts on. Basically, he's being a toddler. I don't delete accounts, but I don't have a problem banning them.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm just saying something about the scenario doesn't feel right to me. Maybe we've heard the truth? I don't know. Or maybe the dad was the intended victim and the perp was a really, really lousy shot.

This is a tragic, awful story and that little boy absolutely did not deserve to die. I am not sure that we have all of the details yet and something about the story we've heard doesn't set entirely well with me. Call it a hunch or intuition, I guess. I really wonder what details about the situation will emerge in the weeks ahead.

I suspect you are right, but 2020 isn't over yet. There's still a chance the redneck crackhead contingent will surprise us. Man, that is just an awful story. I don't know what the truth of that situation is, but that poor kid did not deserve to die. It's going to be interesting to see what facts come out about the situation in the weeks ahead.

Well, you've probably still got time but you definitely aren't going to be getting any sweet deals on anything other than Magpul PMAGs these days. I expect that even those will start to go back up in price within 30 days.

Let's be honest, you want to be prepared with as much lawyer as you can afford if you have to shoot someone in self defense. Whether it takes one shot or ten, the public will riot because they've learned that it is an effective way of manipulating the court.

World and US events over the past few months have manipulated the firearms industry like nothing I have seen before. If you were with us inside the gun community during the Obama years, you undoubtedly remember 2012-2013 and the crazy run on ammo, mags, and any rifle that wasn't a bolt-action brown wood hunter. 2020 has, no pun intended, blown all of that away. If you doubt the accuracy of that statement, ask yourself when the last time was that you saw a new Glock 19 going for $700+ and buyers barely hesitating to pay those prices. You are doing lucky if you find one in the $600 range at the gun shop, and they rarely last long at that price if you're lucky to see one. And remember just eight months ago big online retailers like Brownells were running daily deals offering percentage-based discount codes in order to entice buyers to open their wallets? Those days are long gone. The egregious environmental protection restrictions placed on ammunition manufacturers under Obama shoved a lot of ammo production overseas, only to then have the door slammed on importation by politically motivated tariffs. Domestic production slowed even further as inventory ramped up for the GWOT and to catch up on demand from the Obama era and then began to stagnate in warehouses due to public dissinterest. If there was ever an industry that could use some seriously talented demand planners, it's the ammunition industry for sure. Where you used to be able to buy all of the 5.56 ammo you wanted, by the case-load, you now see cases of ammo being parted out and sold in baggies at premium prices by retailers acting like street hustlers slinging meth. So, what's next? My prediction is that standard capacity magazines will soon become very scarce -- once again -- thanks to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals finally making the commonsense ruling that California's ban on magazines with capacities over 10-rounds is unconstitutional. Any Californian who didn't act during the previous window of opportunity surely will be doing so now. Supply will dry up quickly and it will take several months for it to catch up. The November election certainly won't help ease pressure on the sale of mags, ammo or guns either. If you're reading this and thinking "Geez, I need to hurry up and buy some mags", I wouldn't dilly dally around. Act while they are in stock with your preferred retailer. The price couldn't possibly go down, and I suspect that availability will become scarce at least until January 2021.

I think with an N95 mask and thoroughly washing your hands afterward, you wouldn't have much to worry about. I was wearing a thin "gaiter" style face/neck covering and have gotten a little carefree when it comes to washing my hands with sanitizer or soap and water after being in public. If I contracted it, it was entirely my fault for being lackadasical about common-sense protocols.

Thanks man!

Astigmatisms are hell on red dot usage, but I've found that if you focus heavily on the target, the dot will stop "blooming" quite so much even with the red dot sights that seem particularly worse about it.

I love the look of a good mirror finish. What angle are you sharpening that at?

I will wait until a reliable antibody test is available, but I have reason to believe that I had my encounter with COVID-19 this past week. On Tuesday I had an outpatient surgical procedure done at a doctor's office. They were taking good precautions to screen people with thermometers, enforce masking, etc. but on Friday I began to suffer some pretty unusual symptoms and isolated myself from the rest of my family. I suspect that if I was exposed, it happened at that office since I have been working from home 100% of the time since March of this year and we go very few other places. My symptoms: Dry cough for the first day Overnight fever that sent me into chills that I couldn't make subside Chills and muscle aches for the next 24 hours A sensation of heaviness on my chest, albeit no real difficulty breathing Joints aching, eyes watering and burning Incredibly thirsty Loss of appetite All of this finally abated last night and today I just felt rather puny until lunchtime. Now I feel infinitely better, but not quite 100%. I will say that all throughout this pandemic I have been taking Vitamin D2, my normal multi-vitamin. I had extra Vitamin C and Zinc on standby, and starting taking those two yesterday. If this was indeed my brush with the virus, it was akin to having the flu but the symptoms were a little... unusual. Also if it was COVID, I would attribute generally good health and a prior, long-running regimen of daily vitamins and supplements for minimizing both the duration and the symptoms. My suspicion is that if I had been exposed previously, I shrugged it off without any difficulty but that my immune system was preoccupied with recovery from surgery this week and that may have left the door open for that sucker to sneak in.

The break-in period for a Glock is more about the shooter than it is the gun. But running your preferred ammo through it isn't a bad idea.

Nope.

Unless you already have a pile of primers, projectiles and powder, you're not going to fare much better as a reloader.

Yep, I have seen new and used P07's for sale on Gunbroker lately.

Be nice or be somewhere else. Sharing solid information is always appreciated, but serving it up with a backhand just makes people stop listening and isn't consistent with the sort of atmosphere we try to maintain around here.