TGO David

Welcome! If it won't snow here, maybe you can send some warm Florida weather our way instead.

Beautiful dog! When the day comes that we get to move out of town and into the country with a little more acreage, I'd love to have a Shepherd again. Such incredibly smart animals!

Welcome! Love Sheps... you'll need to post pics of a few of yours once you get a moment to do so.

Do you have the serial # ? I think the state police do maintain a database of stolen guns, and should yours surface, you might stand a chance of getting it back.

We went "live" on Friday, January the 19th... a week ago tomorrow. Thanks for the compliments!

I hope so.

But you can download the catalog as a PDF from their website.

I carry too much crap in my pockets. The cell phone and mag holder for my 1911 get clipped to my weak side.

By the way, I voted "sometimes" as I only have a spare mag holder for my 1911. I'm ordering a spare mag holder for my XD45 soon to correct that problem. I don't really like the mag holder that Springfield sends as part of the "XD Gear" kit so I'll be going with another from Comp-Tac.

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I've got a Ken Onion 'Chive' assisted opener and a Kershaw 'Blackout' assisted opener. Those are cool knives.

I have an 870 Express Magnum, Home Defense model. 18" barrel, extended mag tube. Buying parts or accessories for it is like buying them for a Chevy 350 engine... everyone has 'em.

Bushmaster M4A3 pre-ban clone here.

I have absolutely no such delusions.

We're glad to have you here with us as well.

I should also mention that every article that I've read so far about reloading says that you want to do it in an environment completely free of any distractions. No TV, no radio, no other people talking to you. Just you and 100% of your attention on reloading so that you can minimize goof-ups like double charging a round. It sounds like someone like me ought to stick to buying cheap target ammo and let other folks reload.

I did some basic math today to figure out what the return on investment would be to reload my own .45ACP ammo. For these figures I used the following items: Hornaday 185gr JHP bullets ($16 per 100) Starline .45acp brass ($15 per 100) CCI primers ($20 per 1000) Accurate No.5 powder ($15 per 1lb) Assuming that the Hornaday 185gr bullet needs a 10.2 grain charge, you're looking at roughly $0.02 worth of powder for every cartridge. This means that the first batch of cartridges will cost you right at $0.35 per cartridge or $35.00 per 100 rounds. If you collect and reuse your brass, subsequent cartridges will only cost around $0.19 each or $19.00 per 100 rounds. Figure that Winchester White Box FMJ target ammo is around $28.00 per 100 rounds at Wal-Mart, you would realize a savings of $9.00 per subsequent batch of reloads. Now assume that it costs you $800 to put together a good reloading bench, that means it would take you roughly 89 batches of 100 rounds each to recoup the cost of your reloading setup. If you only shot 200 rounds per visit to the range and visited once a week, four times a month, you could conceivable pay for the reloading setup in just over 11 months. That's a hell of a lot of shooting.

Color me curious, but I was wondering what sort of bladed tools you folks carry around with you? Mine's a SOG Flash II Tanto (serrated) folder. Automatic open, etc. Second one up from the bottom in this picture:

Alan, welcome aboard. Glad to have you here!

Welcome! I think most of us suffer from MIGB Syndrome.

Shane, I increased the hosting limit to 10MB for members. If you want, you can always ZIP up photos like that, email them to me and I'll post them under my account so that it doesn't deduct from your storage allocation.

Countless XDTalk members have used him with success. I think this is the case of a vocal minority getting air-time because they were unhappy with something. Kind of like how Delk gets the shaft a lot on Tennesspeed because a few people don't like them or something they did, but countless others you never hear from are tickled to death with them. AJames has gotten nothing but praise from 99.999999% of the people who have used him.

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Reef, AJames over on XDTalk will install and laser boresight and sights that he installs on your slide for free if you buy the sights from him. He also does this for a $15 fee which includes return shipping if you just send him your slide and sights. https://www.shop.xd-hs2000.com/displayProductDocument.hg?productId=26&categoryId=15 He's down in Alabama so I bet turnaround would be really quick.

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