BigK

soooo jealous

sorry to disappoint you guys, but you wasted your time signing up...I'm totally gonna win this...got my fingers crossed and errythang

That was very cool of you to offer these.   I was lucky enough to get a few unused suture kits from a surgical nurse on the down-low. Good to have, but YES like Luke says, you need to waste one practicing. It's not as easy as you'd think to get it right. I practiced on grapes, rubber gloves, tangerines, and thin foam.

You guys make me sick. You're so religiously intolerant. How do you sleep at night?           </trying to keep a straight face>   Great stuff, I'd love to have a box. Sadly, nothing short of announcing their use ahead of time would make them much of a deterrent, but I like the idea of saving 72 virgins.

I just got off the phone with Cabela's to find out what they were doing about all this. They were very polite, as was I, and explained what others have already said happened. I just wanted an explanation about why some were getting different emails. She said:   The earliest customers who got the 5/24 delivery confirmation email also got the earliest backorder emails (yesterday afternoon). The last orders got a 6/30 confirmation email as they should.  The people in between got 5/25 delivery confirmation emails and may or may not have gotten their backorder emails yet.   That makes me feel alot better knowing for sure they are filling the orders in the order they were placed. I know life ain't always fair, but when it is...it's a good thing.       You are absolutely right. I will be happy just KNOWING I'll get my ammo next time they have it in stock and at a price I was willing to pay.

I got an "in stock" confirmation email followed by a "backorder" confirmation email the next day.   If it turns out Jbee is right and people who placed orders later are getting theirs shipped and those who placed orders earlier are getting backordered, I'm not going to be happy.   They can pull a timestamp from the order submissions and do the right thing.

Nice kit! I didn't even know they bundled all that stuff together like that.    Excellent choice of sights too! Those are my favorites by a LONG shot. I just wish they offered them for CZs too.

Please tell me the crowd was cheering in support of the guy for telling the truth instead of cheering in support of the judge's decision to kick him out.

I was watching the robber's gun for recoil, but I can't tell from the video whether the robber got off any shots or not. He clearly had a better angle and plenty of opportunity.

Since my results don't seem to be typical, I took a closer look at the ones I haven't used yet. They look pretty typical to me. The Dillon has done a good job of evenly seating the primers. They aren't flattened or mis-shapened, so I'm at a loss for an explanation. I did have quite a few that were tough to seat, so I tossed them in my rework bin, because some had flattened cups.   My Glock17 has the factory firing pin spring, my Shadow has a lightened spring, but an extended firing pin, and my P-01 is bone stock. I guess it's possible the cups are too hard, but I don't recall having any issues with these guns back when I used CCI primers.

I've been sitting on a case of Tula small pistol primers since fall. I got a fantastic price on them (thank you DLM), so I just stashed them for hard times and kept using my Winchester primers until they were gone. I finally cracked them open and reloaded about 400 rounds last week. I shot 170 of them Sat. at the range and had more than a few that didn't go bang. I only shot 2 partial mags in my Glock 17 and had 6 bad primers. I gave up and put the Glock away. I loaded the duds into my CZ 75 Shadow and double and triple struck them all and only one went off. I shot about 150 more rounds pretty evenly between the Shadow and my CZ P-01. At the end of the day I walked away with 13 rounds that wouldn't go off no matter how many times I fired them and much better muscle memory for clearing failures. So, it wasn't a complete loss. If I had only given each round a single chance, I think I would have had about 1in 10 that were dead. What do you guys think about that failure rate? Is that par for the course with Tula?

I have nothing against alcohol consumption. In fact, I love a good drink as much as the next guy. However, I don't drink in public, because I carry everywhere I go. So, my only interest in this subject is about my right to be safe from drunk drivers, I will feel NO safer if the legal limit drops from .08 to .05. The people below .08 aren't the ones I'm the most concerned about. It seems like in most of the DUI fatality stories I hear about the drunk driver is way over the legal limit. I'd like to see some stats, though, since I could be wrong on this. If a statistically significant percentage of accidents are caused by the .05 to .079 crowd or they make up a significant percentage of those who blow clean after failing a field sobriety test, I'm for changing the law.

  It did feel like I was writing a Penthouse Letter, now that you mention it. I almost changed the opening sentence to "This kind of thing doesn't usually happen to me, but..."

Have you considered upgrading your Mark III with a Volquartsen accurizing kit and disconnetcor? I think you'd be hard pressed to spend $150 and see better results.

I did get to hold one of these in 9mm at a gun show once. I was instantly smitten, myself. The sights are just so clean and simple and the grip...ohhhh. I think I spasm'd a lil when the guy told me to go ahead and dry-fire it. The slide just glided backwards like it was on ball bearings and that trigger made the sweetest lil "tick" as it engaged. It just hung there like it was balanced on a pin head waiting for my finger to give it the slightest urge rearward. It barely moved under almost no pressure at all and had the cleanest, most positive break I ever felt. Keeping the trigger pressed, I racked the slide slowly and hardly recall moving my finger forward at all when I felt that satisfying lil "tick" again as the trigger reset. Only a high-end 1911 can even come close to that feeling.

The only explanation for why you want that gun so bad is simple...impeccably good taste. I traded in that superpower for some 2 boxes of .223 ammo.

Yeah, as Keal G Seo put it, I make a big deal out of it to hopefully get them to rethink a stupid policy. Therefore, as Randall53 said, I took it up with the manager. There's no point hassling a cashier over a store policy, so I wouldn't waste my breath. Besides, as you put it, she doesn't care. She's just doing as she was told and has no authority to get anything done about it.The manager, on the other hand, does have some influence. He also cares about revenue and making customers happy. Back when I was running restaurants, some of our best suggestions and ideas came from customers (some of whom were mad about policies). Protocol dictated that I document the incident and submit it to the powers that be. A perfect example...at one point NO pizza joint would accept a cell phone number for delivery orders. At a few corporate meetings, we managers explained that we were turning away tons of orders, because not everyone still used a land line. They weighed that against their old reasoning (security of knowing the address matched the phone, mostly) and abolished the rule. So, enough complaints can get things changed. The things that cost them sales losses and make customers mad, get changed fastest.

I won't give my email address either, but at least I "get" that. They're hoping to advertise and maybe get me to come back in there. I get enough SPAM as it is, though. The zip codes and area codes are the similar. They ask in order to see what geographical area they're serving to gauge the need to expand. Again, I "get" that too. It could actually help me in the long run, if they open a closer store.

I know what you're saying about all the drama and mostly agree. I try to watch shooting competitions on The Sportsman's Channel and Outdoor Channel a lot. Even the big matches like the Bianchi Cup, the Ruger Rimfire Challenge, and the IDPA Nationals get kind of boring. The announcers try to liven it up, but it's dry and hard to sit through. The pouting some of theTop Shot contestants do about being picked for elimination, I could do without. Ganging up on a better shooter who's not in your click, I could do without. So, I guess it depends on what part of the drama.

Mad respect, bro. However, caveat emptor, ya know?

I love this show. Seems like forever since the last season ended. Anyone know how long it's been?

There are surely principles you hold dearly enough to stand up for. This is one of them for me. You're welcome to roll over and relinquish your right to privacy, to not be hassled with idiotic rules, and bow down to corporate CYA bull$hi+. Me, I'll take the unpaved road and attempt to affect change where I can. What are they gonna card you for next? Where do you draw the line? Bottom line: they don't need to see my papers over every stupid little thing I buy, so I won't put up with it.

I got carded at checkout for a Birchwood Casey Perma Blue kit! I refused based on general principal and my keen sense of self-awareness that I'm an a$$hole who likes to stir up trouble. I know it's not the cashier's idea, so I asked for a manager. She goes to get somebody, no doubt rolling her eyes as she tells him, because he comes over with an apologetic sigh. I waited until he's just about to start his 'shoulder-shrug-with-palms-rotated-upward' gesture to shake my head disgustedly and say 'don't tell me it's company policy'. He does anyway, admitting he agrees it's stupid, but they have to follow the rules. I avoided asking him if he EVER drives too fast on his way to work and skipped asking if Walmart asks for his papers to buy bleach and dish soap. I just cut to the chase and asked if he wanted my money or was I going to have to go somewhere that did. I walked out with my bluing kit and my HCP and DL never left my wallet.

The issues were resolved before I got my gen 4 G17. That was 2 years ago and mine has been flawless from the start.

With velocities just over 1000fps, I was going to ask if used any powder at all, LOL.