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Well either through an error with his dealer or his own error in communication with his dealer my dad managed to get a 986 Pro Series instead of the 929. Claims he likes it better because he didn't want the compensator anyway. The L frame is only a 7 shot, but he's not shooting competition so no big deal. I think the hard chromed trigger and hammer on the full PC gun are better as is the over travel stop, but to each his own. He said he really likes it, so good on him.

My dad is getting back into shooting, hates auto pistols but wants to shoot 9mm.

 

So he is finally leaving listening to reason and is going to buy quality equipment at my urging. S&W 929 Performance Center should be on order soon. N frame, PC tuned action (not bad), 8 shot titanium cylinder in 9mm, 6.5" barrel, and a compensator. Should be hilarious.

We do have a Constitutional Carry law past the state Senate as of March.

Yeah yeah yeah.

Interview and Live Scan complete. Next up is a 8 hour firearms course. 4 hours of instruction on the legal ramifications of concealed carry and 4 hours of range instruction. Then a 6 hour, 650 question psych eval. One level below what all prospective officers must pass. After that it is a neighborhood inspection/interview. Then the Sheriff gets the final say.

 

 

I gave my local Sheriff $10.00 and filled out the paperwork. Then got my temp CCW permit, the permanent came in the mail a few weeks later.

 

Kalifornia sucks. You're stupid to keep living there.

Hickock45 is OK. The other two are morons.

1.) Roadkill

2.) Engine Masters

3.) My vintage iron 7512

4.) Starting Strength

5.) Miscellaneous others

In 24 months you should be able to find a new job in a free state, sell your house, buy a new house, and move. Then still get your CCW in the new place in less time.

You going to run the irons or a dot sight?

Faster or slower?

Nice goal. Sounds like a lot of fun to train for.

Plus being 9mm and no ammo panics going on, it's a good time to buy bulk 9mm cheap and stack it deep. Loaded ammo at first then once fired brass ready for the Dillon later. **** yeah.

Oh, I've read up on it.

 

Already have a Trijicon RMR as mounting plates become available.

 

Do want.

I want one of those.

Nice. Well done.

 

A Colt is almost never a mistake.

Nice. Well done.

 

A Colt is almost never a mistake.

If you have bad astigmatism then you really have 3 choices in sights:

 

1.) Iron sights. Which are tough and do work well if your corrected vision is good and you can bring the front sight into sharp front sight focus. Downside is they're not as refined or user friendly as an optic.

 

2.) Holographic sights like the shitty Eotech. Great crisp dot/reticle image. Unfortunately they eat batteries pretty bad and in the case of Eotechs don't hold zero for shit under adverse thermal conditions. Vortex is releasing a new holographic sight to market and it might be worth a look.

 

3.) Conventional scopes. Probably the best choice from a sight picture quality standpoints if we are talking about a well made scope with good glass. A low power variable like a 1-4 or 1-6 can be very versatile too. I'm currently rocking a Nightforce NXS 1-4X24 with the FC-3G reticle. I like the super forgiving eye box and extremely compact dimensions compared to most other 1-4's (much less a 1-6). The glass is excellent, and the reticle works just fine with no illumination and is tack sharp. Another advantage over the dot sights and holographic sights is that a magnified optic can utilize lens coatings designed to transmit light instead of reflecting it. Thus you have a far brighter, crisper, sight picture. Then of course you have magnification so you can see your target better. Lots of "wins" here for the LPV. Downside is cost for one that is combat tough with good optics inside. Plus even my NXS is still heavy and bulky compared to a holographic sight, much less a red dot like a T-1 or an MRO. Anecdotally I'm not much slower close in with my NXS than my Aimpoint, but past 25 yards the NXS edges ahead. Past 100 yards turned up to 4X the scope murders the red dot, it's not even close for me, faster better hits at say 200 yards with the magnification. Even more pronounced in poor lighting.

I hope so too for their sake.

I love dogs, but I've shot them in the past in Iraq. I have no tolerance for dogs that bite unprovoked. I've seen children with severe dismemberment from dog bites.

 

If shooting is not an option I'd suggest a trip to the vet.

 

I guess they could wait for him to display food aggression again, and literally beat his stupid ass into submission. Probably more humane to just have him put down.

Bring him to me. I'll be happy to shoot him if you people won't. He bites people for no good reason. He's a huge legal liability. Put him down.

Just buy a bullpup.

 

If I had to have a short rifle caliber firearm a bullpup makes quite a bit of sense. Buy a Tavor put a Geissele trigger in it, put a can on the end of it, and an optic. Done.

 

Same length as an SBR but better in every way.

:lol: you really have shitting on someone parade downpacked..

 

Sorry but a pistol length barrel on a .308 is stupid and pointless. Trying to burn a 45.0-47.0gr powder charge in a pistol length barrel isn't going to work well.

 

I'll go one further and outright call most SBR's a total fad that tactical operator wannabe's are obsessed with because they're ******* stupid. If you clear dwellings and do CQB for a living you get good use out of one, and an SBR is a useful tool for that. For everything else they suck. Compared to a regular carbine or rifle they are way more finicky to properly gas. They are far harder on parts. They produce extremely mediocre ballistics. They're super loud without a suppressor. Why would you put up with all that bullshit just to have a shorter long gun for something 99.99999999% of users will never do? It's ******* pants on head retarded.

 

At my Pat McNamara class last year one of the students asked Pat about SBR's. for those who don't know who Pat McNamara is he retired out of 1st SFOD-D as a Sgt.Maj. He's shot a lot of bad people in the face in CQB. His response to the SBR question was that as soon as he didn't have to put up with carrying a shorty for work, he strongly preferred the regular carbine.

:lol: you really have shitting on someone parade downpacked..

 

Sorry but a pistol length barrel on a .308 is stupid and pointless. Trying to burn a 45.0-47.0gr powder charge in a pistol length barrel isn't going to work well.

 

I'll go one further and outright call most SBR's a total fad that tactical operator wannabe's are obsessed with because they're ******* stupid. If you clear dwellings and do CQB for a living you get good use out of one, and an SBR is a useful tool for that. For everything else they suck. Compared to a regular carbine or rifle they are way more finicky to properly gas. They are far harder on parts. They produce extremely mediocre ballistics. They're super loud without a suppressor. Why would you put up with all that bullshit just to have a shorter long gun for something 99.99999999% of users will never do? It's ******* pants on head retarded.

 

At my Pat McNamara class last year one of the students asked Pat about SBR's. for those who don't know who Pat McNamara is he retired out of 1st SFOD-D as a Sgt.Maj. He's shot a lot of bad people in the face in CQB. His response to the SBR question was that as soon as he didn't have to put up with carrying a shorty for work, he strongly preferred the regular carbine.

Pointless.

Kind of want a Colt Combat Unit rail gun in 9x19... so I can have a gunsmith cut the chamber a re throat it for 9x23 Winchester.