TGO David

IMO, it beats having someone work-over a Glock frame for you since the P80 frames already have almost all of the things people commonly have a "plastic surgeon" do to their Glocks. If you want a more aggressive texture, but one of the special models that P80 makes for Brownell's from Brownell's marketed as their "Aggressive Texture" series. Catchy name, right?

Fantastic! I loved my P80 enough that I bought a serialized version so that I wouldn't have to worry about explaining the law concerning 80% lowers to a cop if I were ever to be detained. Now I've got a range toy and a "Not a Glock" that is fantastic for carry when I feel like carrying something that isn't a Glock 19 but almost is.

It looks like a Squared Away Customs "Kilo" but there may be quite a few that use this design. https://www.squaredawaycustoms.com/kilo/

The only outdoor range in middle Tennessee, that I know of, that hosts some training option from time to time is Strategic Edge in Chapel Hill. There is a new training group called Treadproof Academy with what looks to be a superb facility off of I-840 near Fairview. They have already pulled in some good nationally known instructors such as Kris "Tanto" Paranto. Their range facilities aren't open to the public as far as I know but are limited to use for their courses. The club that @BCR#1 mentioned isn't relevant to this conversation at all. That is a very exclusive, high-end hunting club catering to social elites who want a highly curated hunting experience and a few pistol pits and carbine lanes. It's not a bad operation at all and it's nice to see something like that happening locally, but the buy-in for it is on par with a very exclusive country club. If that's your style, I can connect you with the owner. He's a great guy and I'm overdue chatting with him again.

Correct on all points. It's not ready yet and I'm not sure when or if it will be. I am not impressed with the way the software works.

Tony Cowden [click for bio] recently and rather unintentionally kicked-off a small storm of "discussion" on his Instagram account with the following post about using a target-focused sight picture with iron sights: In my own constantly evolving experience at the range, which pales immensely against Tony's 22 years of service in Special Forces, I have observed the same thing. A year ago I made the transition to running a Trijicon RMR red dot sight on two of my handguns, either of which you will find me carrying 99.999% of the time. In order to become proficient with the use of a red dot sight on a handgun, I have fired a few thousand rounds at the range and invested what I would guess is at least 200 hours of dry-fire practice into it over the course of those twelve months. Running a dot sight really only works if you quit looking at the dot and adopt the practice of looking at the target instead. Once you force yourself to figure that out and make it the default way your eyes and brain work together, your speed and accuracy increase with a dot fairly quickly - if not exponentially. At least it worked that way for me. What I have found since then is that I am instinctively running iron sights the same way, because I've reprogrammed myself to stop putting the sight into crisp focus and instead "average" the sights and the target together on the same plane, or bias my focus toward the target. This works exceptionally well for distances under 20 yards which, frankly, is where handgun work for civilians statistically occurs in the first place. It was no surprise to me then to find that high-ranking competitive shooters have been doing this for years and really just don't talk about it much. Or at least not much outside their circle. Perhaps it's part of the secret sauce (said halfway jokingly) because I know more than a few competitors who have attested to successfully running matches and scoring very well without sights of any sort on their firearm. Granted, familiarity with the gun and muscle memory play a role there... but so does the adoption of target-focused sighting. Anyway... I'm curious how many of you find yourselves doing this intentionally or otherwise, and how it's working for you. If you've never tried it, maybe give it a whirl at the range and begin working it into your sessions over time to see if you find that it accelerates your ability to put hits on target with "combat accuracy".

I've not seen it before but I would imagine if anyone has, it would be P80's tech support. I'd be interested in hearing what they say.

Polymer80 has a good tech support department. I'd contact them and send that photo.

A little bit that and a little bit Remington Precision Rifle.

Source: https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/06/05/kalashnikov-винтовка-свч-30/ The SVCh-308 is loosely based on the scaled-up MA Dragunov design and is being developed for the three most common military rifle cartridges, the 7.62×51 NATO, 7.62x54R and .338 Lapua Magnum (also known as 8.62x69mm). Between the two 7.62mm versions, the rifle has a very high commonality of parts. The .338LM SVCh-8.6 rifle however, has a necessarily larger receiver, magazine housing and bolt group. The SVCh rifle has an inverted U-shaped receiver, made from steel and a solid top that offers a stable platform for optics, with integrated Picatinny rail. The trigger and magazine housing unit is made from lightweight alloy. The rifle features short stroke piston gas operated action and rotary bolt locking. A manual gas regulator ensures smooth and reliable operation under all conditions, with or without sound suppressor. Rifle is fed from detachable box magazines. In 7.62x54R version, it uses magazines compatible with the Dragunov SVD sniper rifle. In 7.62×51 NATO and in .338LM it uses proprietary magazines with standard and high capacity. This rifle features ambidextrous controls. A side folding stock is adjustable for length of pull. Standard accessories include detachable folding bipod and quick-detachable tactical sound suppressor.

Apex Tactical Specialties has released their Heavy Duty Striker for the FN 509 series of handguns. Pre-ordering is available as of this writing. https://store.apextactical.com/WebDirect/Products/Details/193350 The Apex Heavy Duty Striker for the FN 509, FNS and FNS Compact is a direct drop-in replacement option for customers with FN 509 and FNS series pistols. The striker is machined from a billet of stainless steel and heat treated for enhanced durability. But Why? Unfortunately the FN 509 uses an MIM (metal injection molding) striker which has been known to break, particularly with repeated dry-firing. FN recommends that dry-fire be done with snap caps only and never with an empty chamber, for this reason. Many other striker fired handguns have no such problems. Savvy FN 509 owners have been known to source the cast steel striker from FNS model handguns, which is identical albeit not manufactured via MIM, but supply of those can be difficult to find. This new Apex billet striker should solve both any reliability concerns as well as address sourcing problems of finding FNS strikers.

This article is fairly thought provoking in its application of the Mises Institute's Rules for Bureaucracy to the current situation with the NRA. https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/firearms-news-investigates-nra-part-1/363984

Eh, this whole thing is a journey. Never a destination.

I am quickly progressing to to point where I wouldn't have a carry gun that I couldn't put a red dot sight on.

I was honestly very impressed with the Canik TP9 Elite Combat that I played with at NRAAM in Indianapolis. I know some people get wrapped up with the fact that it's made by the Turks, but the Turks know how to make some nice firearms. Besides, if the fact that the founder of Kahr was involved in the Unification Church (moonies) didn't bother people, the Turks being Muslim shouldn't bother anyone either.

Send it back to Sig. They'll fix it. Mine has been dead-nuts reliable, but obviously they had problems with early production runs. I've had problems with Smith and Wesson M&Ps, Glocks, Kimbers, Remingtons... you name it. These are mechanical things made by people. You're going to have problems sooner or later if you buy enough and shoot enough. The measure of quality is whether the manufacturer stands behind it and fixes whatever the issue was.

Let me know what you think. William, the retired SEAL who runs our safety program, is one of the sharpest guys I know on this subject. The safety protocols at our church are no joke. It's the first time that I've been able to go to church in a decade or two and feel like the folks charged with being vigilant and protecting the congregation have it under control and I can relax enough to focus on WHY I am at church.

Thanks! I'll be sure to pass both of those things along to her.

Thanks for the plug!

We had a recent conversation about the current state of affairs of the NRA and of course recorded it for you all. Listen here: https://www.shootersnation.com/podcast/0057-the-national-rifle-association-nra-dumpster-fire-part-one/

Lucky guess! I'm still on my first cup of coffee, so you can rest assured this will never happen again.

No idea what you're using this for but the blue wheel is a Geneva wheel which times an intermediate motion. Maybe you're using this to sequence an annealer or something?

Welcome to TGO!

Last night wasn't bad for us here. I hear that it was bad in plenty of other places, though. There's another squall line moving south into Kentucky from Missouri right now and it's supposed to hit the KY/TN line in about two hours.

Looks like we're about to get Round 2 of Mother Nature vs. Middle Tennessee tonight. The last round on Wednesday was bad enough. My family and I were driving home from Leiper's Fork to Thompson's Station when it hit and our 30 minute commute turned into a +2hr drive with a lot of re-routing, trees down, utility poles down, power lines down, roads flooded, etc. I've never been more grateful for a highly modified 4Runner than I was that night. Lights, winch, armor, HAM radio... we used it all. Folks west of Nashville are already getting this stuff tonight. Stay safe!