TGO David

Terrible news! Prayers for his family, indeed.

This is the second time I have heard Jared Reston give an account of the incident that nearly took his life but within which he prevailed. This is also the most in-depth version of the account that I've heard him give. It is very much worth watching in its entirety. Yes, it is nearly 2 hours long. Watch it in chunks if you have to, but please, watch it. Very good stuff. It might save your life some day.

WOW! Nice to see one of these out in the wild, and on TGO to boot. Thanks for taking the time do do a write-up and post pictures. I love seeing new stuff and know a bunch of the other members do too. I'm really going to be interested in hearing how your continued experience with the H9 go over the next few months. If that H9 were mine, one thing you can be sure of is I wouldn't part with it. Ever. Even if the design ends up a flop somehow (highly unlikely!) that first generation Hudson has got to become a collectible firearm.

Glad to hear it. Our 4-year old added Mr. Doug to her bedtime prayers tonight. She's pretty persistent, so I think God heard her.

My family and I have had you in our prayers, Doug. Looking forward to a good report back!

Will say a prayer for him!

I had to double-back to see what you were asking about. As relates to the Dan Wesson Titan, I can only assume they mean it is a cast carbon-steel frame rather than a forged steel frame. Most of the time they will designate whether a frame is carbon steel or stainless steel, cast or forged. That gun appears to be cast carbon. Hope that helps.

I would have taken the phone provided by the older man straight to the police and let them nail the SOB. Is this not still an option?!

I had to go listen to Smells Like Teen Spirit to get the major chord version out of my head.

Done!

Well, yes, that is the most logical and obvious reason for the 19X to exist. But I still want to make fun of it.

It really seems like a designer at Glock was staring at their drafting table, picked up a small drafting square, pondered it intently, and two hours later suddenly said "What if we made a gun where the slide and the grip were the exact same length?!" and it, like, totally blew his mind.

Every time I see a gun shop fold up and go out of business -- and quite a few of them did just that over the past 14 months -- I become increasingly grateful for the shops that remain in business. Operating a retail store of any sort is often a very thankless job. For every good customer who values and appreciates you being there for them, there have got to be at least two dozen or more who act like spoiled, petulant children and take you for granted or outright mistreat you. And worse yet are the fools that act like this and don't have the money to back up their air of self-importance or superiority. A gun shop with only retail sales to propel it has to be the quickest way to put a business owner in debt, the hospital, and Alcoholics Anonymous. We're fortunate to have a lot of good folks condensed here on TGO but keep in mind that you guys aren't the only ones who darken the doorsteps of gun shops. You're the "for every one" crowd. The two dozen or more others behind you aren't the bright part of any counter-clerk's day.

I read/hear requests for those two things all the time.

Glock seems to have hired some of the product development people that Ruger could no longer afford to keep on retainer. The folks who have made a living dreaming up crap no one wants or needs instead of designing the products everyone keeps asking for. Like a single-stack Glock 19 sized handgun, or a Glock carbine.

I grew up in Paducah and lived there for my first 25 years. What range/facility do they have now that can accommodate this class??

Which model 75?

That is a work of art. I bet it shoots as flat as a BB gun!

It's hard for me to believe that there are less than 12 hours left in 2017. Personal resolutions aside, what are the guns, gear, training or related things in your crosshairs for the year ahead? I keep telling myself that one of these years I am going to make an effort to attend SHOT on a media pass, but I never seem to really want to do it when the time comes (November time-frame) to make the reservations. We actually had some TGO media passes a few years ago but I felt much the same about it then as I do now. It seems like a lot of work just to cover the same things that every other blogger or media personality will cover, ad nauseam. More realistically, I would like to finally get some round-table podcasts going and hopefully do a quarterly round-table in person with members of TGO. I would also like to pick up one of the Springfield TRP 10mm handguns, for no other reason than I have an unjustifiable fetish for the 1911 platform despite all of the logical reasons not to. I hope to make it to the range at least as much as I did this year but ideally more. Lastly, I think I would like to attend an emergency medical training course or two.

If they make a kit to use large Glock mags (.45ACP, 10mm) or chamber it in 357SIG, I will be all over it. I already have the 9mm "pistol" angle covered with my MPX.

That'll get the job done.

Therein lies the problem. Tight 1911s are finicky by nature. The original military spec for the 1911 was loose enough that you were to be able to disassemble a myriad of them, mix up the parts, and reassemble them with no problem and a perfectly functioning gun afterward. When folks started hand-fitting them for the tightest tolerances possible in the pursuit of microns of improvement in accuracy, they invited Murphy's Law into the equation. Modern service pistols aren't as persnickety as tight-tolerance 1911s. A few mags of ammo through them is all you should need to satisfy your own superstitions. Honestly, if a modern service pistol doesn't choke in the first mag or two, you should be good to go.

I see little reason to require 500 rounds through a modern handgun before you feel comfortable carrying it. Run a few mags through it. If it works, carry it.

This is the first year that the girl has really been excited about Christmas and we're doing the Santa Claus thing. It's magical.