deerslayer

My friends say I’m sadistic. Here is a Texas star I set up at a match last year. Hard cover makes the star more interesting.

Not to sound like a heretic, but if I were dead set on a BBQ place, I would go to Baby Jack’s in Bartlett and get the smoked chicken (with sacrilegious white sauce) or Interstate on S Third and get the smoked turkey. I have no idea how the pork BBQ is at either place

Praying for you and your family. You’ve had a bumpy road lately.

Well, he said point shooting > sight/optic, so does point shooting involve the sights or not? What is often described as “point shooting” does not. Some on here have opined that sights are a waste because a shooter will ignore them in a stressful event, etc. I’ve never accepted this. On the other hand, if “point shooting” does make different use of the sights depending on the difficulty of the shot, we may all be describing the same thing. I don’t think that’s the case, though.

Irons won’t fog up or not work due to a dead battery. The other hypotheticals about irons failing are remotely possible, but unlikely. Enos and Leatham don’t “point shoot” unless a target is really close. They use the sights more for some shots than they do others. Enos talks about “seeing what you need to see” when describing an adequate sight picture. Jeff Cooper mentioned a “flash sight picture.” Sure, hard focus on the front sight when trying to hit a golf ball at 25 yards. For many other less difficult shots, using the front sight to varying degrees or at least being aware of the front sight vs. focusing on it will suffice if speed is required. Some have mastered target focusing with iron sights at farther than you would think distances, but that is different from point shooting. I agree that a well-honed index is important, but to disregard the sights or dot at more than conversation distances when in a hurry is a miss for many shooters.

Yep, 40 through Sam Cooper to E Parkway to Madison. Just don’t end up on Union trying to get back to 240 north to 40. The Union-Madison access to 240 has confused many an out-of-town type and more than a few locals. MPC gets my vote. Slice of beef, slice of pepperoni, and a slice of Ultimate Cheese is my standard order. Don’t even bring me a menu.

There's not one really convenient for a quick hop-off-40-on-the-way-to-Arkansas lunch, but Memphis Pizza Cafe would be worthwhile. I was livid when the one in Wolfchase closed and a nappy McAllister's opened where it used to be.

One of the times a dot failed on me was when I stepped out of an air conditioned vehicle into a muggy about-to-rain morning and the glass fogged up for a couple minutes. Co-witnessed irons would have been useless. If one managed to crack the glass, back up irons would still be useless.

...until the optic fails.

I disagree and I have quite a bit of trigger time with a dot gun. Outside of maybe trying to quickly ice an active shooter at 50 yards with a headshot, I can’t think of a self-defense scenario I am likely to encounter where I can do something with a dot that I can’t do with a good set of irons.

Forget all the BBQ war BS and stop by Memphis Mojo. It’s a hole-in-the-wall burger joint five minutes north of I-40 exit 15.

Right but it also includes requiring a psychological evaluation by who knows who to obtain an ownership license (with an expiration date) that must be carried whenever in possession of guns or ammo. There is also 24 hours of training required including live fire to obtain the license. The AG must be notified in writing when a gun or ammo is to be loaned to who, how long, etc. That person also has to have the psych eval and license. It requires a license holder to get a liability policy with an $800 fee (I assume annual cost). It also establishes a database of firearms and owners that is available to the public. Basically, any semi-auto handgun is banned. These are not the things normally specified when Democrats are talking about “common sense” measures.

I don't think HR 127 has a snowball's chance in hell of passing. What worries me about it is Democrats using it to pass other things. "We are not asking for something radical like HR 127, we are proposing modest changes like AWB, ammo taxes, universal registration, etc" and the public may bite, especially if this comes on the heels of a mass shooting. Ask for a mile, take 500 yards.

I sent them a 3" and later a 4" EMP, both for failure-to-feed issues. Both times they opened up the chamber and relieved the feed ramp. Both came back in a week or two and were good to go. I know of a few others that have had the same experience. Some people go overboard with the "full case support" stuff. I have no idea why Springfield makes the chambers so tight on their 9mm 1911s, but they are happy to fix them.

I must have heard it on the radio

Proprioception honing can benefit an irons shooter as well. Building a natural "index" through extensive dry practice will help a dot or irons shooter. Some of the better USPSA/IDPA shooters target focus with irons at most distances. This probably sounds sacrilegious to some and Col. Cooper might roll over in his grave, but they do and they win doing it. I am not talking about Bullseye shooting, but some upper crust action pistol-type iron sight shooters who need QUICK good-enough accuracy (two A-zone hits) can target focus and hold their own against dot shooters.

Biden ordered half staff to honor Rush Limbaugh.

I shot a dot-equipped Glock and a Walther extensively in USPSA for a year or so and found irons to be quicker inside 10 yards. Dots are the ticket for aging eyes, though.

It’s quite common with all generations as the gun breaks in. I have a 24 that started doing it after only 400 rounds or so.

Right, but we were talking about TN after OhShoot posted about TN trending downward. My point about beds was that Memphis crime of all sorts over the past few months has been completely off the charts. If ER and ICU beds are full of covid patients, where are all these daily gunshot victims going? ETA: Four people shot in Memphis in the last four hours.

I don’t buy the lack-of-ICU-beds-due-to-covid argument, at least around here. We a had a famous DJ recently suffer a heart attack and had to go to AR because the ER was full here. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it. I don’t doubt they are full of gunshot victims, but not covid patients. Not sure where you are, but it hasn’t been warming up around here until yesterday.

...if you believe the advertised death rate.