Jamie Jackson

Beautiful. Pretty darn awesome actually. Congrats!

I've used the Berry's before with no problem in a .380 Shield. I have been using Hoosier's Hi-Tek coated bullets in 9mm and .38/.357 a lot for the past couple of years. Hoosier's has some 95 gr. .380 bullets at .355" listed currently. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend their bullets. Quality made, fast shipping, and just good folks. https://hoosierbullets.com/380-caliber-95-grain-round-nose/

Thank you. I'm pleasantly surprised with my TX Compact. Federal Automatch is what I have the most of in my stores, CCI Mini Mags have always been a favorite of mine. Thankfully my TX isn't being too picky. I have 4 of the 16 round mags and 2 of the 13 rd mags and all function very well. The 16 round are actually less expensive. Go figure. I haven't noticed any excessive wear, but will certainly keep an eye on things. Rhett Neumayer with Demonstrated Concepts (has a Youtube vid or several) has put a bunch of rounds through one without issues. He's an incredible shooter imho. If anyone will wear one out he will.

Just thought I'd mention I finally I shot over 2200 rounds as of yesterday. Work and life interfered with my shooting... I had my 2nd Fail to Feed, but it was a somewhat bent 10+ year old Golden Bullet and I just wanted to see if it would feed. Nope I don't know if mine is an anomaly or if this is the normal for the TX series. But I'm quite pleased with this little .22 especially in combination with the Holosun. Great pairing.

@peejman The green beans are Landreth's Stringless Bush Green Bean. I've been using them for a couple of years and they definitely have produced more and for longer than any other green beans I've tried. I get the seeds from https://victoryseeds.com/ Everything I've tried from them has had good germination and production.

Crazy isn't it? I normally get 4 pickings. The volume is diminishing, but the suckers are still producing. I normally cut them down at 4. I guess these just want to live

I'm with you on this. 100% I carry an LCR in an AHolster, but have certainly carried my 640 this way for a long time. I can have, as I've read elsewhere, a "Clandestine low ready" using this method, without telegraphing it to the world. I do have, and tried with my S&W Shield in an AHolster. Getting that full assured grip just wasn't consistent for me. Nor did it ever draw as smoothly as a J Frame sized revolver. Pocket carry is generally as a 2nd gun, but sometimes as a primary. The environment will dictate the carry method of course. Just my $.02 worth

The antacid is a necessary condiment! Those peppers are nice and hot Thank you Sir.

Oh yeah. Jalapenos are doing well. So Friday afternoon I decided I needed to eat a few. Thankfully I had cream cheese, Mexican cheese and bacon on hand. Any suggestions of the photo thing? Drat!!!!

As I only have raised beds my volume of production is limited. Even though it's not been the best year of production so far it's not been bad either. I've been eating out of the garden several times a week for a couple of months now. I've managed to scald, peel and freeze 6 gallons of tomatoes so far (mostly Roma) with plans to cook them down into a marinara sauce in a couple of weeks. I'd like to have 8-10 gallons so I'll have enough to can. My bush green beans plants are on their 6 picking now. I usually pick around 1-1.5 gallons a week. I blanch and freeze about 1/2 of them and eat the rest. I agree they are nearly as delicious blanched and frozen as canned though. Just don't have the volume to can...yet. I have two 4 foot sections of pole beans coming up now. Fingers crossed I did spend the past couple of weekends canning. I put up a good bit of Kosher Dill pickles and Kosher Dill green tomatoes and some vegetable mix (onions, carrots,green tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini...all from my little garden). I bought a head of cabbage and a couple of bell peppers and canned some Green tomato Chow-Chow. It is awesome, but I like such stuff. Kroger has peaches on sale for $.99/lb right now, so I picked up 15 pounds. I canned quarts of spiced peaches yesterday. I didn't have any Allspice berries, so I used ground Allspice, cinnamon sticks and whole cloves. The ground Allspice gives the finished product a bit of a darkness to it. I used the peach peeling to boil down and made peach jelly from them. They all Set!!! (That's a big deal if you make jelly! ). Curious. No matter what 360 orientation I set my photos they seen to load in a cockeyed orientation. sigh

The Good Lord was quite obviously with your daughter, and you. Thank you Lord. As Mac and others have said, the modern engineering is remarkable! I've been on the ER receiving end of many, many MVA's or MVC's over the past decades. Automobiles are safer now than they've ever been...but God's hand was evident here! Seat belt injuries can be pretty severe, both superficial and internal. I'm sure your daughter was thoroughly examined/scanned. I Pray for a speedy recovery for her. I can't, as a father, imagined how difficult this was for you and the family as well. I didn't know this about the I-phone's capabilities. That's pretty incredible. Prayers for you all KahrMan.

Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery @pop pop. My respect for, and avoidance of, confrontations with gravity grow more each year. Gravity is simply indiscriminate in it's ability to abuse us, especially as we age... and recovery takes a bit longer each time. I've done a good bit of home remodeling in the past couple of years, all with "aging in place" at it's core (I'm knocking on 70's door). Stair Lift, walk-in shower, grab bars and handrails etc. And still have the walkers, shower chairs etc. my beloved once needed readily available. I've seen too many negative outcomes from injuries during my past 50 years in Health Care. The mind may be willing. But... Again, speedy recovery Sir.

And Pickles. Kosher ill pickles, Kosher Dill green tomatoes and Kosher Dill mixed vegetables out of my garden. Disclaimer. I have already shared all of these with friends and family, I had around 28 pints all together. ARRRR another tilted photo. My cyberskillz are weak...

Looking Good Rob! That'll be some good eating! My garden has been riding the struggle bus this season what with the heat and the rain... I have been eating out of it daily and managed to put up some green beans, turnips, and rutabagas though. I spent the past 2 weekends waterbath canning, Prep takes longer than the actual canning of course. I decided to make some Chow Chow. I had to use store bought cabbage and bell peppers... limited growing space in my raised beds and such. But I got 14 pints put up over 2 weekends, The onions, carrots, green tomatoes, and jalapenos came from my garden. I had to resize the canned jars and for whatever reason it tilted the photo. Gravity is not to be blamed.

I think this would be a pretty good gun for a young person's introduction. I wear a medium size or 7 1/2 size surgical glove, so I have smallish hands and the grip girth and trigger reach is fine. Should be for the kids.

You know David, if someone had asked me 5 years ago whether or not I would recommend a Taurus product I would have said "No". A year ago "Maybe" (I still want to handle a 856 Toro in person). Now? "Probably". I'm actually surprised and obviously very pleased with this Tx22 Compact. Especially at it's current price-point. Give me another week and I hope to have between 2000-2500 rounds through it. All I'm doing at this point is a quick bore brush with CLP through it after a range session and keeping the slide lubed. I honestly didn't expect to like it so much. Or that it'd run so well and be so accurate. Hat's off to Caleb Giddings and the folks at Taurus at this point.

I picked up my TX 22 Compact on July 7th, ordered through Range USA, Took it inside the indoor range, removed the slide and inspected it, put a bit of Lucas Lube on the rails. I shot 150 rounds of various .22 ammo through it. CCI Minimags, Federal bulk, Remington bulk, Federal Spitfire and CCI Stingers. 100% feed and ignition. Great ergonomics and a surprisingly nice trigger. I was impressed. My old eyes were challenged with the factory sights, so I ordered a Holosun 407K for it and two 16 round magazines. A couple of additional range trips after putting some orange paint on the front sight with a total of 1000 rounds through it. I had one FTF out of a box of 50 Federal Punch. But Caleb Giddings, marketing manager from Taurus, warned this round may have difficulty related to the rather flat bullet profile. I did have 4 Failure to Fire rounds out of the same box 325 rounds of 2008 Federal Automatch at this point. I mounted the 407 on 13 July. Really easy mounting, effortless. It only took 12 rounds to have it zeroed at 15 yards. I like the 6 MOA dot and the window size is decent. No co-wittiness with the factory sights of course. Oh, I also purchased 2 of the 16 round mags and they run great. As I type this I have a total of 1200+ rounds through it. So 5 Fail to Fire and 1 FTF. To me, that's pretty darn impressive for a .22 RF semiauto. An extra bonus is that it fits the Dale Fricke Archangel holster I use for AIWB carry for my G19. Thanks for the insight and input on this thread. And the TX series is made to be dry fired by Taurus,

Incredible deal! Congratulations to all.

Welcome and a second for ORSA (Oak Ridge Sportsman Association). Members only, but the info is on their website. Easy to join. Windrock Shooting Range in Oliver Springs isn't much further out for where you'll be and it's both a pay & shoot or membership. I think Windrock uses Facebook more than their website FWIW.

Kevin? New avatar! Welcome back!

@tmauto769 @Beltfed Thank you for the offer Thomas. You are a gentleman Good Sir. I probably have more powder than I'll use in this lifetime LOL. So obviously I need to shoot more often! Really appreciate the offer my friend.

Definitely a "Team Fanny Pack" guy here. They were quite normal back in the 1990's, and tend to come and go in use. I still have an older Desantis in my holster box in the basement/reloading area. I frequently wore one while in scrubs going to and from work even less than 10 years ago. It's amazing how much gear they can hold and how little attention the general public pays them. And pushing 70 no one pays much attention to my attire anyway. Might have to dig mine out. +1 to fanny packs!

Obviously not @Moped here, but over the past 40++ years I've cared for patients shot with just about every caliber. Placement and penetration trump just about everything else. I'm certainly not saying this would be my preferred caliber by any stretch. As implied, it's a very niche type thing. People are very unique in how they react to being shot.Like @pop pop said, not a good "Man stopper". But more effective than a harsh word or sharp stick. I carry a G19 and an LCR in .38 the majority of the time personally. But what Claude (Tactical Professor I mentioned above) talks about is that very niche incident when it's all a person can utilize due to circumstances and primarily as a "Get off me!" tool to break contact. Very specific context. Apologize for the thread drift on my part. Really looking forward to receiving and shooting my TX 22 Compact. Heading to the range to celebrate our Independence!

Totally agree on the carrying of .22's my friend. Claude Werner (Tactical Professor) probably has a lot to do with that and it's difficult to argue with his logic and experience. Oh, it was definitely a worn out range mag on the one I tried. It's amazing it functioned at all with that thing. And the gun looked like it hadn't been cleaned this year! OK, maybe once

I finally had the opportunity to shoot the "rental" TX22 at my local indoor range. I say "rental" because there isn't a charge due to my membership. I like that, The TX22 fits my hand great. The trigger is surprisingly nice with solid reset. The sight picture is clear and crisp even to my old eyes. And I had no difficultly keep all the rounds in the X on the targets I print for Rastoff's Challenge out to 10 yards. The only problem with this range rental gun was the magazine was for ####! It allow the top round to angle out at >45 degrees...This particular gun fed Federal Gold Medal match .22 fine...not much else. But it was obviously a magazine issue. I ordered the TX 22 Compact when I returned home. It should be in by the first of next week, or sooner. Question for the group. Has anyone run any of the 16 round TX magazines in a Compact? The Compact comes with 13 rounders. The interwebz and videos seem to demonstrate this is GTG, but thought I'd ask here. Thanks for all the good info folks. Happy Birthday America!