madmax52

I'm no expert here but from my understanding you only get to taste the shotgun shell once..not sure how he'd know the difference. Thanks for the insight.

I was telling my buddy about a Sig Sauer that I saw at Wal-Mart in passing and he proceeds to tell me that gun manufactures intentionally put cheaper parts into gun that they sell to wal mart to keep the price down. I know it sounds asinine but then again it is wal-mart. The only reason I really wonder is because he "says" that his brother bought a Remington 870 there that malfunctioned and he sent it back to Remington to get it fixed. While on the phone with the guy there he was told that since it was a wal mart gun it had cheaper parts in it. But like I said, by the time it got to me it was "2nd hand" information. Thanks for any feedback.

I've never been to any matches and I'm just wandering if any of you bring your families when you come to shoot? Are any of the ranges anywhere close to "family oriented"?

I shoot my M4 with the stock on the 2nd position from the bottom. I have short arms and adding body armor to that equation puts me quite a ways from my sights so I have to collapse it down. It really made a difference for me when I got to switch from the M16A2 to the M4.

I'm new to the competitive shooting world, but it sounds to me like muscle memory. Same thing for us in the military world. We train,train,train,train,train,train,train,train,train, etc.. then all of a sudden one day the poo hits the fan (buzzer goes off) and you just react. When it's all said and done with you don't remember much, but you're either alive at the end of the gun fight or just shot well in your stage. Just remember though; practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. IE: when you practice make sure you take the time to do it right and when " the poo hits the fan" it'll be right then also. Congrats on your first shoot

There isn't much that I like about the M9 other than it's easier to carry to the chow hall than my M4. That's the only time I use it in country. I usually give it to my turret gunner when we're out on mission. Never know when the poo is gonna hit the fan driving through a village. Higher ups get...unhappy.. when you shoot the 240B or .50 cal in town.

I also agree with everyone that is telling you to go to a shoe store and get fitted properly. My first 5 years in the Army I wore the wrong shoes and I hated running. I went with a buddy who runs a lot and got fitted. As it turns out I over pronate and wearing Nike and Asics was killing my feet. Now I wear Saucony. Don't be afraid to spend a little extra money on a good set of shoes either.

I have always been a fan of Sony cameras. Heck, I've got 3 at the house right now. However, I brought a Cannon PowerShot A1000IS to Afghanistan for the year. It was one that I bought for my wife a year or two ago. I had actually bought her a new Cannon hence the reason for bringing this one. Let me tell you; this thing has been a fricken trooper. Everything that you can imagine has happened to this camera. It has been dropped, thrown, shot at (not hit fortunately) and I fell on it into 3 feet of water this winter. Granted it was in a pouch on my chest rig, none the less it got soaked. It actually quit working so I bought a new Sony Cybershot. 3 days later my cannon started working again. I guess it just had to dry out. Granted its not a Cannon Rebel EOS but for a digital its a rugged champ. One of my team members has one also. His zoom quit working, but his is a trooper too.

I read this book yesterday. I couldn't put it down, plus I didn't have anything else to do. It's about Vassili Zaitsev. The movie "Enemy at the Gates" was based around his role in the battle of Stalingrad. The book chronicles his life from the time he was growing up in the Urals until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. He mostly recounts life in the military from being an Accountant in the Navy to being a Sub-machinegunner to becoming a Sniper and his exploits in the Army. I highly recommend this book.

The Walking Dead Scrubs Jericho Highlander: The Series Big Bang Theory. I love TV. I could probably fill an entire page with shows that I like or thought were the best when I was younger.

Why die tired?

Ok thanks for the replies.

A buddy of mine is going to let me borrow his M4 until I get my own to shoot in multigun. He never uses it. I'm just wandering what kind of issues that I might run into transporting a weapon that I don't own if I get pulled over or something.

Thanks for the warm welcome and all. Ive been reading quite a bit over the last week or so. I think I've figured out my long term goal as far as shooting goes. Sure, anything can change and all, but I really want to do a setup like 3-gun Sweden's Gen4 G34. Now I just need to get out to the range and start working some of the drills that I have gotten from the forum here.

Im going to check out the gen4 glocks when I get home. I love my 32 that I bought back in 06.