Will Carry

http://i.imgur.com/Tz0m3.png This is a funny reply from another forum on modifying an AK-47. Do to the language I can't copy and paste in on TGO.

I'm seeing the interchangable backstraps as the newest rage in handguns. I have'm on my XDm-40 and Glock 19 gen 4, I see Beretta is now offering them on their Storm. I tried them on my XDm and Glock and to tell you the truth, I couldn't tell one from another and can't say any of them make me a better shooter. I went back to the backstrap that came with the pistol. Am I missing something? Or do you have to be a compeditive class shooter to know the difference?

As you get older your eyeballs get harder, less ellastic. This means that you can no longer focus up close. It only gets worse and lasers can't cure it. What I do is a) learn to line up blurry sights,(In a self defense situation you won't have time to put on glasses) wear reading glasses. The bad part about wearing glasses is that the sights are in focus, but the target is blurry. (My vision is 20/20 beyond 3 feet.) I have found that 1.25 reading glasses work best for me. The sights are clear and the target is just a little blurry. Laser sights and red dot sights also work great.

WD-40 is great stuff. It does have limited lubrication properties but I wouldn't use it on a fire arm. I use it on work benches to prevent rust. Once the solvent evaporates it leaves a thin film of oil.

Man has survived because he is a social species. When the SHTF you social group will be very important. Probably more important that what arms you have. A lone wolf doesn't live for long. You must run with a pack, with a group of good, strong, morally upright people. I think you should have a flint lock and a bow and anything else that works. You'll have to learn how to fight with all weapons, with your bare hands. You'll have to learn to live off the land, to ignore pain, ignore weather, to eat things that would make a Billygoat puke.

"The best weapon you can carry is between your ears." I went 54 years before I started carrying. I sometimes wonder if carrying a handgun has dulled my instincts for survival. Of course I can't run any more (plantar faciitis), can fight anymore (facets disease) the only good thing is I still look tough. I'm 6'3" and 225lbs and I don't look like a victim.

That's a great turn around. They had my M85 for 6 months. That was a couple of years ago. I really liked my little M85 snubby. I always wanted the pimp version with the gold and pearl.... I traded my M85SSUL for an XDm-40. (plus cash). There's something about the snub nosed 38sp that appeals to me. I have a S&W model 36 now.

Hey Ya'll...watch this! My mother used to work at the emergency room in Bay Minette AL. One night they brought in a guy who had been run over by a VW Beetle. They were riding through a pasture with the guy standing on the running board. They were trying to get close enough to a deer so that he could jump on it and kill it with his knife. Alcohol was involved.

GLOCK "SAFE ACTION" PISTOL THE top product among the small arms of the world is without doubt the GLOCK "Safe Action" pistol. It employs innovative safety features which makes the pistol easy to operate. Glocks have three safeties, a trigger saferty, firing pin safety and a drop safety. They are called "double action only" pistols. They are double action not single action. 1911s are single action.

The 9mm is the cheapest pistol to shoot of all centerfire ammo. It's not a bad self defense round either. I know you didn't ask about that but I just thought, if you are new to shooting, you might not know. The 40 S&W round is like a 9mm on steriods. It has the stopping power of a 45acp, more or less. The .45acp is a big slow moving round. It has much less pressure than a 40 S&W. Before I bought a 40, I would get a 9mm and a 45acp. Although I love my Springfield XDm-40, I don't shoot it much. I shoot 9mm and 45acp mostly. Getting back to your original post.....If you pay the extra money for a Sig, you will get it back when you sell it. They retain value better than any pistol I know of besides H&K. I consider Sig and H&K the best polymer pistols on earth, but I own Glocks and Springfileds because they are more affordable, just as reliable and to really appreciate the difference you have to be a good shot and I'm not a good shot....yet.

It took me 6 months to get my M85 snubby back. The cylinder pin would get stuck and would not lock up with the frame, making the gun inoper...inoperab....a paper weight. Even after it got back it would still stick. I did learn how to remove it and clean it but I sold it asap. I really like the Taurus line of pistols and revolvers. I think they are very inovative and they are affordable. It's just a hassle to have to send it back, even if it is under warrenty. I wish they would get rid of the lifetime warrenty and make a better pistol.

I am planning a canoe trip down the French Broad River this spring to catch Smallmouth. I was thinkng late May or early June but I ain't a Smallmouth fisherman. What would be the best time to catch Smallmouth in the shallow waters of the French Broad up at the North Carolina line?

Thanks Buttonhook!

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Excellent shots. In sometimes hunting with a camera works better than hunting with a bow or gun. You don't bring home any meat but you don't have to dress out any either.

I agree that what we really need is better educated children. I have a problem, not with teachers salaries, not with unions but with this "No Child Left Behind" policy. I the real world slow runners get left behind by fast runners. Dumb kids get left behind by smart kids. I am no genious. I wasn't the smartest kid in school but I do have other traits that have served me well. Instead of going to Vanderbuilt, I went to Nashville State Technical Institute. Instead of being a brain surgeon, I work on Bioreactors. That's just the way it is. Holding the smart kids back until the dumb kids catch up, is stupid. Friday my company got sold to the Japanese! Fuji Films bought us. I guess we'll be doing jump'in jacks every morning. There will be plenty of rice in the break room.........

I have never been a part of a union but blaming unions for the fact that we have lost our competitivness just ain't right. There are other factions involved. Like CEOs giving each other millions, no billions, in bonuses for doing nothing. I think we are all to blame. Unions, big money, all of us. BUT we ain't beaten yet! When we put our minds to it Americans can still work harder and smarter than anyone in the world. Just not cheaper

What gives you the idea that teachers only work for 9 months? You think it's easy teaching a classroom full of 13 year olds in today's politcally correct society? If the people you know that would LOVE to only work 10 hour days then tell them to go to college for 6 years and get a masters degree in education. Then you can get a job teaching screaming young-uns from the ghetto and make less money than a plummer's helper. If they can hack it for 30 years then they can enjoy the $55,000 salary. Starting pay for teachers is much less. I'm tellin' ya dude, teaching is one of the hardest jobs you can imagine. The only good thing about teaching is when your kids are off from school, you are too. It makes it possible for a woman to have a career and still raise children. My wife was a good teacher and a good mother.

Are any of you guys married to a school teacher? My wife taught school for 30 years. She worked 10 hour days and longer. When she retired she was making $55,000 a year. She didn't do it for the money, she did it because she loved teaching. We can hardly go to the mall without some person coming up had saying "Hi Mrs. Carry!" She knows most of them by name. I am proud of her. I would not make it through one day teaching 7th grade science. As for unions. I have never been in a union. They are not big in the south, but I thank the unions for things like: overtime pay, payed vacation, weekends off, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, health insurance, work place safety and a few more. Are unions more corrupt the CEOs? I don't know. I'm just a simple industrial mechanic who has been lucky enough to make a living all these years by the sweat of my brow, as a blue collar worker. They were so worried about unions moving in to the south that they took good care of us non-union workers and for that I am grateful. I don't know if unions are good or bad. I know right wing commentators say they are bad and left wing radicals say they are good. I don't believe anything those people say.

Crazy Man from Middle Tennessee? I think I know you. Do you live around Wartburg and own a double barrel shotgun?

This was a terrible accident. My prayers go out to the family. Channel 5 news reported this on their nightly news tonight. I have been watching WRAL since Jesse Helmes gave his nightly commentaries in the 1960s. I must say that WRAL is as anti-second ammendment as any TV station in the country. As I listened to their report of this tragic accident I heard them say "Even though he was doing the right thing by checking the safety, the gun still went off." This statment would seem to indicate that no matter what you do, a gun can still fire and kill innocent people. Even if it's just a pellet rifle. I tried to explain to my wife that this was a flawed statement, but like a million people watching TV tonight, she could not comprehend what I was saying. Raleigh second-grader dies after accidental shooting :: WRAL.com Safety is the Alpha and Omega of gun ownership.

She has trouble pulling a double action trigger, even on my silky smooth Model 36. Her only choices are 1) Having a pistol handy that I have racked a round for her. 2) Learning to shoot single action only or 3) Any ideas? PS. I offered to buy her a NAA Black Widow buy she doesn't think a 22mag will stop an attacker. She wants a 44 magnum. "I only want to shoot one time" I think she said. Bless her heart........

Yes. That is very interesting! I read "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose. It is a great book and is a must read for all Americans. Only one reply so far today? Lewis and Clark's scientific expedition is one of the greatest feats in American history. One of the last great explorations. They didn't even know about the Rocky Mountains! It insured our manifest destiny: to have one country from sea to shining sea.

I have seen no hard data to suggest that magazine springs get weaker if the magazine is left loaded. I have seen data that suggests otherwise. I really don't know but I do rotate my magazines every month or so.

I use PowerBall in my pocket pistol. It feeds great. I ain't shot anyone yet with it, thank God, so I don't know more than what I have read.