MphsTiger1981

Smart Carry/ThunderWear or Fanny pack. Most small revolvers and semi autos can be carried in the Smart Carry/ThunderWear type system without much trouble. I would recommend wearing some sort of undergarment like Second Skins under your running shorts with a crotch holster to avoid chafing. I also have a MountainSmith fanny pack I use for nutrition like Hammer Gel and Enduralytes in the front, and a small pistol/revolver in the back portion. Granted it's not a fast access, but you are still armed and that is rule #1.

you can tell from his laughter while he's shooting, this guy really likes what he's doin' and it shows....

Looks good. much faster. thank you.

Common sense is quickly becoming more and more like porn. I don't know how to describe it, I just know it when I see it.

+1 for the shirt. Orange recliner, not so much...lol..

+1 Bass Pro has almost the same signage as you walk in the door.

I'm afraid I disagree with you on this one, Wyatt. Anything that begins with taking away the right of an individual person (in this case property owner) and gives more rights to a group (even if it is a group I belong to) makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Nice conversation starter, though. This should be an interesting thread.

Some good advice has been already given to the O/P so far. I would point out that there is a distinct difference between a bulging disc, and a herniated disc. Surgery is seldom the recommended solution for a bulging disc, and as someone pointed out, bulging discs are more common as we age. The common symptoms of a herniated disc are experiencing radiating pain, i.e. shooting pain felt in your buttocks, behind your knees or into the ankles and feet. A bulging disc is a weakened condition and might herniate with something as slight as stepping off the curb, or sneezing. My dad had two disc herniations within six weeks of each other, both required surgery. That said, his relief was instantaneous. The other thing the doctor told him to do after his surgery was lots of walking. Not jogging, running or skipping rope, but walking. If you lift weights, consider stopping for six to eight weeks as well as any other motion that causes you pain right now. Good luck!

+1 on the Samsung.

Good that he's interested in getting a gun. Because he's so "out" I thought maybe he'd like this one from gunbroker. Ruger LCP .380 Raspberry NIB

Sorry, not to be nosey, but just curious, where did you find yours? I understand they are a little hard to find right now, as are the SR9's and SR9c's. I saw one that come in to a friend's shop Thursday and it sold yesterday.

Probably going to be based on a case by case basis. If you're at the Home Depot in shorts and flip flops wearing a Chattanooga PD hat, it's unlikely to be a problem. However, wear that hat with a black shirt and bdu's with a Sig holstered on the hip and you're likely to get some unwanted attention. just my $.02.

This is fairly common with the Kel-Tec pistols. I'm assuming from your description this is a second generation P3AT, which they call the FrankenBolt Version. First thing Monday call KT and tell them you need the extractor, extractor spring, firing pin, fp spring and the button (retaining) screw. They will ship this out to you at no cost and it will be there by next Thursday. They have some of the best customer service in the gun business, even for cheap guns. Until then, take it all apart once again. Spray some gun cleaner down into the firing pin channel and hose it out really good. After this take either a pipe cleaner or a Q tip and swab it out good. Chances are you've got some gunk in the fp channel. Hose it down again with the cleaner then let it dry or use a can of compressed air to blow it out good. Reassemble carefully making sure that the flat side of the firing pin is up against the retaining screw. Be careful not to strip the head of the hex screw trying to overtighten. It does not have to be more than barely hand tightened with the allen wrench. put just a dot of blue loctite on the end of the screw near the button head, careful not to let it run down into the firing pin channel. If you have any questions or need more information, skip on over to the KTOG.org which is the Kel-Tec owners group. Great folks over there and you can find more than enough information about this from several threads on this topic. You may have some gunk in the channel, a worn firing pin, or a bad extractor. Either way, it's no big deal and something you can easily solve yourself. They really are easy to work on. good luck, Robert. p.s. I meant to ask, have you been dry firing this pistol without snap caps?

Have you shot the Sig yet? If not, I recommend you do before considering a trade. I shot one recently and I loved everything about it BUT the long double action trigger. It's a very accurate pistol with the ability to morph into several other calibers, etc. but I still recommend you shoot one for yourself first. If you like it, then sell your XD to an individual and buy the P250. Just my .02.

I came in on the tail end of it, just in time to see the last challenge. What I saw was entertaining, at least to me. I'll have to hand it to the kid who won, I would have never bet on him. My money would have been on the guy with the Delta Force background.

True, but the first one will probably be put up on the northern Texas border to keep out all the carpet baggers. I believe it was no other than that famous Tennessean Davy Crockett who was quoted as saying, "You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas."

Just for a little different perspective, not all of the people who are looking for someone to rob or harass are gang bangers or meth heads. I was thinking of this yesterday when I was looking at the Commercial Appeal on-line. They had the list of the area's most wanted. The first guy up was a stocky caucasian guy who was wanted for aggravated assault. If you look at this guys mug shot, most of us have known guys like this. A bully, who is going to take whatever he wants from anyone who doesn't have the nads to stand up to him, and even if you do, he's probably the guy who is going to have a smile on his face while you're fightin' him. You look at a big guy like that and wonder if that little .32 in your pocket is going to stop him unless you hit him in the face or some place critical where he simply can't continue. It's unlikely a guy like that will let a little blood stop him from finishing you off and taking your watch, wallet, wife, daughter, whatever. For me, this guy is just as much the face of the wolf as the dude with the red or blue bandana wrapped around his head or hanging from his pocket. These guys do a little jail time and they probably spend most of their free time in the yard lifting weights, staying strong. Its times when I'm out and see guys like this on the street, that I question "stopping power" of whatever I happen to be carrying at the time.

+1 to what hipower said. The revolver just seems to have more personality than the polymer guns do, at least to me. The polymer guns are more like tools, revolvers seem more like family.

:up:Very nice!

Something similar happened here in Memphis a few months ago (shocking, I know), but at an apartment complex in a part of town that is not considered to be "bad". Two young urban yutes approached a young man who was walking from his car to his apartment. The yutes pulled a gun, began screaming and demand his wallet. Turns out the victim worked at one of the local gun ranges and was armed. He was being compliant but according to witnesses, the perps began cursing him for taking too long and threatened to shoot him if he didn't hurry up. The victim put his hand back as if reaching for his wallet, but instead pulled his pistol and shot the closest threat twice center of mass, and hit the other one once before he turned and fled. The one who was hit twice was d.r.t. No charges were filed against the shooter, and they never publicly identified him for fear of retaliation as the two young yutes apparently were part of some local gang. Yep, if I'm gonna be robbed, if I have a choice, I'd much rather be armed when it happens. I'm no Wyatt Earp, but I would hate to bring a knife to a gun fight.

MouseGunner, My first wife had Melanoma also. If you are able to travel, the folks at John Wayne Cancer Research in Santa Monica, CA are one of the largest and most respected cancer centers in the world, specializing in Melanoma research and treatment. We went out there for a year or so while she was treating. I highly recommend them if you are able. God bless your road to recovery. Thanks for all your hard work with the Mouse Guns website. I've always been a huge fan. MphsTiger.

Wyatt, I'm not very familiar with the Amanda Knox case, other than seeing some of it on 48 Hours or some of the other network news shows. Nor I am not an expert on Italian law, but if I'm not mistaken, and I may be, their legal system is loosely based upon the Inquisitorial System as opposed to our adversarial system of law, so it's sort of like comparing apples and oranges. An inquisitorial system is a legal system where the court or a part of the court is actively involved in investigating the facts of the case, as opposed to an adversarial system where the role of the court is primarily that of an impartial referee between the prosecution and the defense. I agree that the media needs to back off and allow the system to do it's job. In a case like the one yesterday, it was actually two trials, one in the courtroom and the other by the media, i.e. the talking heads on TV, newspapers, magazines, blogs on the internet, etc. Whether we call it a "justice" system or a "legal" system, I agree with you in that if I or one of my friends or family was on trial, there is no place I'd want that trial other than here in America. Our system is flawed, but as you point out it works better than any other system currently in place in the world.

We do not have a justice system in America, but rather a legal system. For those of us who believe there is a life after this one there is a justice system where we will all have to answer for our lives lived.

My RIA came with a set of Pachmayr Signature Grips that look just like that. Very nice.

+1 S&W 642 in one pocket and a Kershaw Leek in the other.