JustEd

btw, I belong to both. ORSA is large and the creme de la creme of shooting venues, it has EVERYTHING. Gatlinburg is much smaller and the road up the hill is all gravel. While small the club has a plucky "can do" attitude. Very grateful to have both of them available to me. Great people at both of them.

Gatlinburg Sportsman's Club has a pretty nice steel pistol range set up. https://www.gatlinburgsportsman.com Don't know if you meant rifle or pistol. If rifle, ORSA would be the place to go. http://orsaonline.org/ Both are membership ranges. However, Gatlinburg may allow a visitor. You should contact them via email for a look see: gatsport@live.com PM me if any other questions.

What stance should one take on violent home intruders? Savage them

Glad to see a classic arm coming back. The SA looks like the one to check out, don't know anything about this one In a free country a long long time ago, me and most of my friends chose customized 1911’s over the Hy Po. Were we wrong? Was the 1911, not the best of the 20th century? If not, why did it win all the competitions?* The 9mm round was looked at as some foreign whimpy cartridge back then (not now). *In retrospect it might be because thats mostly what people shot. Ok some 38 holdouts I actually shot a couple of matches with a friends SW model 52.

And only a 180 day minimum lead time. Well that’ll give us all time to save up.

Congrats

If it was me, I have a good gunsmith who could tell me if it is fixable or if I should get a new slide from Smith,

Were lucky that there are so many good choices. Were unlucky that all those good choices keep us so b broke

Just used a hammer to set a roll of caps off. Works but not all go off on one stroke. Don't remember what the caliber of the hammer head was

SMGA in Sevierville has the Sig P365 XL with the Romeo red dot for 599.99. I loved my p365 but went to a Hellcat OSP before these came out. Guess its 50/50 either way.

Can not compare but its certainly not 9-10 lbs.

Saw one of these at Bud's in Seveirville last week. Did not shoot it but it was available for rental at their range. Picked it up and seems nice, but the trigger pull is quite heavy. A y'all-tuber said his lightened up after shooting it awhile. Not sure what that translates into in the real world. Think the most relevant observation was that it is the modern day replacement for the venerable "Chief's Special." I can see how it would have an appeal to people enamored with that oldie but goodie.

So true....

The trend seems, like your LCP, to higher capacity everything. Guessing it is a marketing trend. Possibly newer buyers aren’t aware that an autoloader can be quickly reloaded?

Wonder if there will ever be a G69?

Pardon my sarcasm, not towards anyone here.... ”Sir, do you have any 30 super carry in stock?” ”If we do, it’ll be right next to all the 380 acp ammo” On a serious note, it looks “TO ME” like it is an effort to give really high capacity to 380 sized handguns. Look forward to an introduction of high cap LCP like guns. A new marketing craze is born I do so dislike marketing ploys and toys.

In the future..."All restaurants will be Taco Bell"

I guess that should be "prices for popular ammo" rather than "popular ammo prices" cause they ain't popular with me

Bought some, lost some. Gotta get a bigger boat, they keep falling out. Glad to see that some of firearm prices are coming down, at least at SMGA and Bud's in Sevierville. Popular ammo prices seem to be stuck though.

I run a room dehumidifier in the room where my ammo is stored. I never store loaded ammo, powder or primers in a non climate controlled garage or room. Have no way of testing it, but suspect the steel ammo cans with a rubber seal prevent some of the seasonal moisture from getting in. The advantage of a whole room dehumidifier is that it helps keep the guns dry as well. Disadvantage to the portable electric dehumidifiers is that they are noisy. Every summer I weigh the advantages of having a whole house dehumidifier installed. Havent pulled the plug on that yet. Notice that I am not as concerned as much about the rest of the house as I am about my guns and ammo

Yep and there is where my opinion comes from. I reload for accuracy and low recoil (speed). Hence the factory springs work fine for me. I have been accused of using talcum powder rather than gunpowder

I was trying not to offend Some people are adamant that you must have a full length steel guide and enhanced spring. Personally, I think Glock got it right.

On my gen gen iii19 got brass in face using an aftermarket one piece recoil spring. Glock springs did not do that. Not sure why one would and the other not???

Then again to put everything into perspective...I’ll never buy steak in a restaurant again due to prices.