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Turkey is rapidly becoming a shotgun powerhouse. CZ markets guns made by Huglu, and they are one of the best bargains out there... imagine 90% of a Guerini or Perazzi for about 25% of the money. Also, the new S&W sporting shotguns are made in Turkey.... DanO

Not really Rabbi... just couldn't resist an opportunity to pick on you and the limeys in the same post... DanO

Right... hate for both the finest combat sidearm designed to date and its inventor, whose portfolio also happens to form the design basis of oh, somewhere around half of all current firearm systems. But you're right, the Webley-Scott family of self-loading pistols does represent the pinnacle of British autopistol design... which is pretty much like being the most respected opera critic in Arkansas... DanO

Take a look at the SIG 1911 lineup as well... killer value for money. We run the "base model" Revolution XO at $805! DanO

Definitely interesting... especially when available in a Smith instead of the boat-anchor SP101... I'm thinking maybe the 358PD... scandium frame, titanium cylinder, >12oz. weight, 6-shot... hmmm... DanO

The P7 has the funky 110-degree grip angle only when uncocked. When the grip is squeezed and the gun ready to fire, the grip feels way more like my 1911 than a glock or a luger. DanO And by the way, the snippiness seemed to be started by one of Gaston's disciple's this time....

Generally when a Glock is shooting low it's because the Playskool front sight has come off again... DanO

Another hot little number available for the CZ-52s... I keep meaning to get one for mine... http://www.reedsammo.com/Page.html DanO

Do yourself a favor and check out the FN SLP. I keep falling more and more in love with mine. As smooth and fast as a Benelli, but with the soft recoil of my old 1100. Bought mine to shoot 3-gun, but serves as an excellent HD gun as well. Cheaper than the Benelli too. C'mon Eddie, you know you want to start shooting 3-gun anyway... DanO

Beretta 12S... should get the paperwork done tomorrow... DanO

Now, for the record, I've never railed against Glocks because of the KB factor. You can blow up a Super Redhawk if you try hard enough. Of course, you still have contend with the Glock grip (way too large for no apparent reason and at a strange angle), and the Glock trigger (reminds me a LOT of the little blue plastic pistols we had as kids that shot the little plastic discs, and pennies when Mom wasn't around). And for the life of me I can't figure out why you would build a pistol that a truck could run over and then slap a front sight on it that a stiff wind would blow off. DanO... (Who couldn't really care less what people shoot, but the "Glock Perfection" crowd is just so much fun to pick on!)

well, another victim... DanO

Thanks Don... I'd been looking for a link to that Taylor article. Warmer BS has likely never been spewed, even from a gunrag. (No reflection on you Don, I appreciate the link, and you didn't write it). Two inches at 35M? Sure, no problem . And that's one of the more believable feats Taylor brags about. Chuck Taylor is, without a doubt, the worst shill in a business riddled with them. Doubtless Yeager is blowing his cell phone up begging him to do a write-up of his school... DanO

Okay, we now have a tenative date. We're looking at 3 November, a Sunday. The weather should be perfect, and it should be far enough from Christmas for everyone to spend a little money . The NG range is looking like a no-go (too restrictive), so we're thinking we can "borrow" the Middle Tennessee Shooters Club's range in Manchester. It's an open date for the club, so I've pretty sure we can work it out to use their place. Its an incredible facility for a shoot like this, with seperate bays and indoor plumbing. Maybe the best news is it's 5 minutes off of I-24, so all of you Nashville/M'boro guys can zip right down easy. Now, the tenative lineup: several M4-type variants (including the .22lr conversion, until it gets too filty to run), full-size Uzi (suppressed), Sten, AK74, 11.5" FAL... I know Frank at ETS wants to bring his MP5 down, and who knows what else he might dig up. Which brings me to my next question... how many folks would plop down $20 for a 50rd belt on this puppy? The RPD... 7.62X39, I've been thinking about buying one, but I'm pretty broke, so I'd have to subsidize a pretty big chunk of it by sharing the love. :cool:If I can get commitments for 100 or so belts in the next week or two, I should be able to get it shipped in time for the shoot. Just let me know... and more info to follow on the fun!! DanO

You guys are all out of your minds.... cake is where its at!!! DanO

To the best of my also feeble recollection (worked on to many AR15s without a helmet), retail was supposed to run around $1400. Even if that does get bumped up a couple hundred bucks, (as so often happens when products leave testing and have to be built and marketed in the real world) its gonna be a world beater. My first words to the Magpul guys after I handled the rifle and heard the price point were, "Build a big factory!" and I stand behind that statement. This one bad mutha! DanO

Just FYI... the RRA .308 is still not shipping, and probably won't anytime soon. I talked to the Rock River guys at SHOT back in February, and they said it was still at least 6 months away, probably more like a year. They just can't seem to get the kinks worked out to their satisfaction. Add to this the enormous backlog of pre-orders (they've been hyping this gun for almost 2 years now), and it all adds up to picking a DPMS or an Armalite. This all sucks, because I really want one myself. To their credit, however, they aren't going into production until the gun works... wish some other companies would follow that example.... DanO

Hmmmm... we also seem to have the world's longest-lived democratic government, and around a 195-year streak of not being invaded... coincidence? I think not! DanO

The SVD, or Dragunov, pattern rifle, is based loosely on the Kalashnikov pattern, but the similarities are largely superficial. Both rifles are gas operated short stroke piston weapons, and the safety levers are very close in appearance and, but the similarities pretty much end there. SVDs were built exclusivley on machined receivers, and their removable fire-control modules are vastly different from the AK. SVDs also have no provision for automatic fire, and the SVD has a 2-postion adjustable gas system. Many clones of the Dragunov, such as the Romanian and Yugo guns, however, aren't much more than AK pattern rifles stretched and strengthened to handle the 7.62X54 round. These guns, and the outward similarity between the SVD and the AK, seem to confuse lots of folks, as the "AK47 Dragunov" reference is pretty common. Hope that helped. DanO C'mon Urse... Kalshnikov rifles might have been used to kill a whole mess of folks, but has anybody actually used the sights on one yet? I mean other than to pry open stolen UN food crates?

Yeah, but they can be gunned down at 200 meters while they struggle to put a 7.62X39 round into the same time zone as their attackers... :D DanO Oh, and by the way, Rabbi, thanks for the plug, but we sold that rifle, and now we're trying to find an aftermarket supplier that can make us a stronger free-float tube for the 2008 model... the Picatinny-rail mount espresso machine keeps warping the tubes we use now...

I think what he meant, Molon, is that the sight is just a waste of time, unless of course you get the special Com-Bloc calibrated MOTF* reticle, then you can really extend the effective range of most AK variants to their limits. I've heard of man-sized targets being hit with ranges as long as 30, even 35 meters with that setup. DanO *Minute-of-Tractor-Factory... a popular unit of measurement used to state the circular error of probability, I mean accuracy, of AK variants.

Hello fellow TGO'ers... with the coming of a new month, comes the coming of a new Slushee Question, and this one is simple. On a defensive sidearm, do you want a manually activated external safety or not? No espousing or bashing the merits or detriments of particular gun models, just open discussion about which system makes the most sense to YOU on a defensive semiauto. Of course for Rabbi, I guess the question should be if you carry yours with the flint IN the lock, or just have it in your pocket. Enjoy, and lets all get smarter!! And before it gets said, yes I know of course the thing to do is just pick (or be issued) a system and train, but that's not what we're talking about here. DanO ... who is trying to figure out where my H&K P7 fits into this...

The M&P is the best of the polymer breed to date, particularly from an agency-issue standpoint, since it can literally be fitted (at the user-level), to fit practically any officer's hand, and can be disassembled without pulling the trigger. If Glock didn't have a 20 year head start in LE, and had to compete on a level playing field with the XD, M&P, and even the Taurus 24/7, they'd be an also-ran... that just happens to make the coolest e-tool ever. DanO

Mossberg makes a fine little pumpgun, you should be happy with it. Just to clarify, you are getting the model with the shoulder stock right? The pistol grip shotguns look cool in the movies, but are pretty useless in real life. Enjoy! DanO

You know, we've got a nice little PA-64 in 9mm Mak down at the shop... you seem to have a thing for Polish ordnance... First Annual Cabbage Shoot and Kielbasa BBQ at Molon's next month!! DanO