TGO David

Just in case anyone was wondering, we ask for your Gender during the registration process because it is entirely possible that at some point in the future we will offer a forum strictly for women's carry / self defense / shooting issues and access to that forum will be based off of the answer to the Gender question when you registered. It's been my experience that women aren't as active on forums when men are allowed to mingle among them. Silly, maybe... but accurate none the less. Other than that, we really could care less what gender you are.

It seems that every gun forum has at least a dozen threads going on at any given time about holsters. Rather than do that here, I thought maybe we could just do a thread listing off your preferred holster(s) for your carry gun(s). I'll kick it off... My preferred holster to date is the Comp-Tac brand C.T.A.C. inside the waistband holster. I have one for both my daily carry gun (XD45C) and one for my Kimber 1911. I've been using the CTAC for a few years, previously for my Glock 23 and have nothing but high praise for Randy and the rest of the crew at Comp-Tac. They really do believe in customer service, which is rare anymore it seems. I'm fortunate that my workplace allows concealed carry due to the rather sketchy nature of our office neighborhood, so the XD45C quite literally goes with me everywhere I go anymore. I've found that the CTAC is very comfortable and makes the XD45C very easy to conceal. Lately I've been thinking about trying a Tucker Gunleather "The Answer" holster for my 1911, though. I don't carry that gun very often but do train with it and the XD every time I visit the range (about once a week it seems) so I'd like the option of carrying it if desired. For some reason, it just doesn't feel as comfortable in the CTAC as the XD does. Anyway, enough about that. How about you folks?

Get sober and then get active! Drunken posts are best kept on Tennesspeed.

Ok... let me ask a fundamental question about a Training forum: Is this a forum that would differ in some way from the Concealed Carry and Self Defense forum that we already have? My first thought is that sure it would. But then I consider that Self Defense really should start with good training and I wonder if the forums wouldn't be redundant or at the very least overlap quite a bit. Thoughts?

Just so everyone knows... there may be a day in the future where this site and the "other" site that I host are offline while I change to a different hosting platform. I'm confident than any speed issues that we have now will be resolved once I do that. We've got plenty of hardware horsepower under the hood for a dozen high-traffic forums. It's the server OS that is slowing us down.

Gotta admit, I like tight grouping... but you make a very valid point. I believe the Marines use the saying, "Train how you fight. Fight how you train." Loving your posts so far. Please keep it up!

What a tragic waste of a human being's life. And in front of his children to boot! Do you have any news on what became of his killer?

WOW... wish I could attend. I think I know what the family can get me for my birthday this year though.

I'll definitely add that to the lineup. Thanks for the suggestion!

Very glad to have you here!

I see several classes that I'd love to take. Fighting Pistol, Fighting Rifle and Fighting Shotgun. Ammo looks like it'd be as expensive as the classes themselves!

Which of their classes did you take? This stuff looks like it would be a ton of fun to go through!

David from Rutherford County checking in. Shoot at On Target in Murfreesboro almost every week it seems. Most of you already know that.