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Had an alarm with good monitoring, metro PD's response time was pitiful. (just under an hour, then 4 more waiting for an officer to come back and write up a report) Burglers were in and out in under 10 min. Neighbors saw a white panel van but thought little of it. It happend in broad daylight around 10am in a very densly populated neighborhood. (Lenox Village off Nolensville Rd.)   There were over 100 burglaries in Davidson County last month alone. . .

  I started with the locks on the house, they are the first line of defense to protect the guns and everything else in it. We had a loss of over $20K in a burglary before I started taking security more seriously, even with insurance it was a lot of work replacing what was lost and getting the money out of the insurance for the replacements.

  They are only carried by high security locksmiths, most that deal with government installs using Grade 1 locks can order them for you. The dealer I've linked below has the added option of a dealer exclusive keyway. This means that Abloy won't even sell a key blank for your lock to another dealer, only the originating dealer for the lock set with your approval or direct from abloy to the consumer adding yet another layer of security.    Abloy dealer 

Reading the thread I thought of one more thing, if your like me and you can't sleep comfortably on the ground it might not be your pad. You may just be doing it wrong.

I bought a safey razor last time I was headed overseas since it's a pain to fly with a straight razor these days. I end up using it far more than my straight razor now and it only costs around $10 a year for blades. Razor Blades

  You can't practice landing a chopper on a plywood building and expect it to be the same as an urban rooftop. The updrafts and wind currents between the buildings make for a very unique flying enviroment that must be practiced in to become proficient. These highly skilled pilots have to do this all the time to keep the skill up, regardless of whether they are working for the military or an air evac.outfit locally. They frequently do it right outside my office window to the point that I end up wearing my hearing protection more at my office than at the range. From talking to the pilots there is just no other reasonable way to train for this type of flying without being over real buildings that give real control feedback and visibility limitations.       Practicing at Vanderbilt

Did you see if they had any scissors?  :ugh:

Sure it will, I occasionally use mine to strike a stuborn primer twice, kind of a pain to do with a glock but not a necessity either. Otherwise as long as you train with what you expect to use, then yes results wise they are rather similar. Trade-in Sigs are available just like glocks and float around $500 for a p229, not factory fresh but a good way to satisfy a curiosity.

Machines designed to serve 2 purposes often excel at neither.  :2cents:

Look for squaw wood. These are branches that have died but not hit the ground for one reason or another. often they fell from higher up and got entangled on the way down. They will be much drier than anything you find of the forest floor. Start your fire with them, get a bed of hot coals and then you can even burn reasonably wet wood.   When building a fire, don't get ahead of yourself, start with very small kindling and slowly work the diameter of the wood up.   Remove layers quickly as you begin to hike other wise you'll soak them with sweat and they may not dry before you need them again. Always better to be a little chilly at the start of a strenuous hike than get cold when you stop and only have wet layers to put back on.   Wear dry socks and a warm hat to bed, can't count the times I've woken up with a cold head from roling my neck out of the bags hood.

If it's really secure, you shouldn't be able to make a video circumventing the access control in seconds. This is not on the people exposing the weakness but the product manufacturers and designers. Americans are conditioned to look for what is cheap and readily available. (i.e. Wal-mart) If you want security neither cheap nor readily available should be on your list of features. One reason I recommend Abloy when people ask about my locks is that you CAN'T walk into a hardware store and buy key blanks, and you CAN'T find them on the lock isle at Home Depot so 99 out of 100 professional thieves won't know anything about them other than they are like nothing that they have encountered before. If you want something secure you have to be willing to go farther out of your way to secure it than someone will be willing to go to access it. That padlock above has NO spring activated latch to be able to bypass, the key must be turned to allow the bearings to retract to open the lock. You've now made the weakness the lockbox itself rather than the lock. The advantage being that if there is no sign of forcible entry(spring latch circumvention typically leaves no trace) many insurance companies will make it much harder to be reimbursed b/c you didn't take sufficient means to secure your valuables.

damnit now I want satco.  :rant:

    Yeah, I could see that. My taxes are confusing as all get out, so it's worth the small fortune that I get charged to just take care of them. If they screw 'em up. . . that becomes my attorney's problem. :)

I too usually start with lee dies and upgrade if required, over the years I've found several worthwile upgrades but most are pretty small costs. One was upgrading lock nuts on my expander, seating, and crimp dies to the ones from hornady, I've found that this makes them more consistent. Another small upgrade was to buy an RCBS #16 shell holder for use with my 9mm dies, this was because the RCBS is better suited to the job than the Lee that is trying to cover more calibers with that single shell holder where the RCBS is for 9mm cases alone.     I'm currently using an RCBS Rock Chucker for everything but decapping. I decap in a smaller Lee press set up with a lee universal decapping die before case prep. My best frind is now running a hornady lock 'n load. (his Rock Chucker sits dormant most nights)     My friend can turn out 9mm ammo much faster than I can hourly, but I can change from one load to another much faster and easier for experimentation in my different guns and I have much more control over each stage of the process. Occasionally I'll find a load I really like and I'll bother to ask him to change his LNL setup to my load's specs for a day and crank out 2k-3k rounds. It takes about an hour each way to change the setup on the LNL so 2 hours of an 8 hour day is lost to setup, but if I really like a particular load well enough to want it in volume it's worth it.   I generally load 2 nights a week at a very relaxing pace, while listening to music or an audio book. I find it enjoyable and it's quite relaxing. While it's not impossible to relax with a progressive press, I find it harder b/c there is so much more happening at once.

    I should specify, not just any CPA will do, I found a good CPA with references.

I use a CPA, after being audited I'll never go back to using software again.

I know several people PMed me after a spare set of 9mm dies. A-H Reloading off fourth ave. had just gotten 3 or 4 sets of Lee 9mm dies in stock when I was in there for lunch a few hours ago if anyone is still looking around Nashville.

Well some of the .38 brass I'm reloading has been reloaded way more times than I can count, I'm almost finished shooting through my grandfather's stockpile of .38 but the're no clue how many times some of it's been reloaded in the 40+ years the brass has been in the family. I can tell you that they older brass weighs more than the new brass I've found in the last few years, and it makes a much different sound when dropped. Most of it's old enough that the headstamps aren't listed online, but I'll report back here if any wears out. 

Lee Carbides work well for me, my buddy uses RCBS dies and his reolads seem to go bang just fine as well. :)

  Sure there are, look closer at the 2nd girl from the right's belt. I would bet each of the others has at least one magazine on their person as well.

  Allows the gun to be carried unloaded with the magazine in the ready.   http://www.zahal.org/products/magazine-holder-mamach

I ordered 500 rounds@ $14.95 per 50  came to $168.xx with shipping. ;)   I'm hoping the nearly month long quoted shipping delay is a typo. . .

Looked but the site states that they have a 24-26 DAY shipping delay. ?

http://grayguns.com/lubrication-of-sig-sauer-pistol-rails/   These guns take very well to a quality grease(I use froglube or tw25b) being applied reasonably liberally to the rails. I've owned some guns that need just a few precise drops of rem oil in the right spots but my new sigs function noticibly better when a proper grease is evenly applied to the entire rail. (My p226 is much less picky about lube but I believe that has more to do with the fact that it has10k+ rounds thorugh it)