TGO David

I had asked a question about reloading over on XDTalk and was sent the following in a private message. I have not investigated this yet so I cannot speak to the accuracy of the information, but it is something I will be following up on when the time comes.

That's odd and certainly deviates from what I have experienced myself with the XD and the experiences of others that I have read or heard. I know that the Glock is a reliable gun, but the XD has proven to be just as reliable in my own experiences with it. I have 800 rds to date through my XD45C and it has never jammed. I may do an experiment with our XD9 Service and not clean it for a thousand rounds just to see how it does. It's not a carry weapon so it won't be putting anyone in harm's way to do this. In fact... I just made up my mind. 1000rds without cleaning. We'll start the experiment with my next trip to the range with it.

There's a job waiting for you predicting the weather around here too.

Glad to have you here, Scott. Make yourself at home!

Very interested in hearing more about this. I have owned Glocks for years and recently standardized on XDs.

Dave, from one Dave to another... good to have ya here.

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/Fiscal/SB0011.pdf SUMMARY OF BILL: Expands circumstances in which a person may use deadly force in self defense or in defense of a third party. Creates immunity from criminal prosecution or civil liability in such circumstances. Tennessee desperately needs this bill to pass. Contact your representatives!

I definitely don't intend this statement to be construed as any sort of official stance of TGO, but my mentality is that if a firearm is properly concealed, no one should be aware of it's existence no matter where you are. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6... that sort of thing.

A Training Forum has been added to our lineup. Enjoy it!

I knew we did the right thing by including blackpowder discussion areas here! Glad to have you with us. Hope you visit often.

Very glad to have you here! Likewise very glad to see a public educator who is pro-firearm rather than against.

Very happy to have you here and to hear that TGO is filling a need. It's reassuring to me to see folks like yourself sign up so quickly. I couldn't agree more. I still track the Tennessee Firearms Ass'n for word on any improvements in that area, and it seems like there's not even any movement among our elected officials to remedy the situation. As you said, with this change of guard, maybe the situation will finally be addressed. Thanks for signing up!

May drop it down to 3 or 4. One character makes it possible for replies to be nothing more than a smilie or two. That gets really annoying over on Tennesspeed.

Welcome, Shay. Glad to have you here and we'll overlook the geographical differences. Well, no taxes for now at least. Let's hope that the old men on the hill keep it that way.

We've got an XD9 Service that I'll probably be shooting a lot more as time passes now due to ammo cost. I'd still like to keep shooting 50-100 rds of .45ACP at least once every week or two so that I don't become too accustomed to the lower recoil of the 9mm. Especially since the XD45 is my carry gun.

John, welcome to the forum! Nice to see some folks interested in reloading signing up. That's something that I'm afraid economics will force me into taking up myself before too much longer.

Welcome! Glad to see you here and glad to see that word is spreading.

Welcome to the zoo! We're hopeful that this forum really takes off and so far it seems that there was definitely a need for it. Glad you signed up.

This is unfortunately a problem that I'm aware of. Suspect it's a server caching issue on our side, but will investigate it further on Monday.

Thanks, I'd be interested in hearing what prices you find. I just did some checking around online and none of the places that I visited had brass cartridge FMJ .45acp for less than $130 per 500rds. That's more expensive than WWB at Wal-Mart. :-\ I may be naive about it, but I refuse to shoot Wolf or other Russian steel case ammo as it's just needlessly hard on the extractor mechanism of our handguns.

Welcome! Glad to hear that word is getting out.

I agree. Bass Pro is another alternative for us but their ammo has historically been $2-3 higher than Wal-Mart per 100rds. From what I understand, Academy Sports and Outdoors has good ammo prices but I've never been to check. Middle TN now has Dick's Sporting Goods stores, but likewise I haven't checked their prices either.

While buying our 22LR this afternoon, we happened to be at the Smyrna Wal-Mart sporting goods counter when their district managers and their store "buyers" (responsible for determining what goods are in what stores) were making their tour of the place. I spoke with the district manager and asked him about their plans to discontinue selling rifles in store. He confirmed that they are indeed doing this and that from now on only one store per district will sell rifles. The store for our local district is going to be the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Franklin, TN. I asked about ammo and he said that they have no plans to take ammo out of the stores at this time. Just rifles. I also asked if he realized that Sam Walton was an avid hunter himself, and he sort of sighed and said he knew exactly what I was getting at but his hands were tied as this is a corporate decision. Worth noting is that the 100rd box of Winchester White Box FMJ 45acp target ammo has risen in price from $22.xx to $26.xx This in the past week. :-\ Also worth noting is that back when I worked for Wal-Mart in college, they still sold handguns in the store. That changed in the mid 1990's and they said that they had no plans to remove rifles. Notice a trend? If you enjoy buying your ammo from Wal-Mart, you might want to write your store manager and store district manager a letter expressing your concern over this trend and ask them to please continue selling ammo. It's a shame that they won't be selling rifles as widespread anymore.

I understand. Would an "Events" forum be perhaps more universally beneficial? Not only notices about training but also notices about things like gun shows and such? I don't want to dilute the effectiveness of any forum so if that idea seems a bit over simplistic, please do not hesitate to say so. Also I would like to mention that anyone can add events to our Calendar. Once an event is added, a moderator will approve the event and it will then be listed publicly.

The bad news is, you can only choose at registration.