RifleShooter

Would you mind sharing where you get American Eagle so cheap? I can't find it for anything less than $5.50/20 online, and it is way more than that in the local stores. Thanks! Arnie

Oh, probably something like he did in 1997, when he won the Masters by 12 shots....

Wow! I gotta start saving my pennies for a trip over there...

Cool! Nice family you have there... Arnie

Being in the sun should definitely speed things up. I recently replaced some boards on my deck with new ones that were literally dripping wet with the pressure treatment liquid. We installed them butted tightly to each other, and within a week they had dried so much there was a 1/4" gap between them. I would think putting them in the sun, with something holding them up so they get air circulation on all sides, would be the best thing you could do for them. Arnie

Well, I am buying an AR from another BE reader, and he is not going through an FFL on his end. I talked to the FFL here that will be receiving the gun, and he stated that, since it was an individual and not a dealer, he would not be sent a copy of the FFL. He said if there were any question about whether the FFL was legit, the seller could use the FFLeZCheck service on the ATF website to verify that the FFL was valid. All you need is the FFL number(actually only the first 3 digits and the last 5), and it will tell you if it is a valid number, and to whom it belongs, with the address. Since this was the receiving FFL telling me that an individual could ship the gun directly to him, I figured it must be okay. Nothing I could find on the ATF website said the seller had to give the gun to an FFL to be sent, just that the gun had to go to an FFL on the receiver's end. Arnie edited to add FFLeZCheck website: FFLeZCheck

Here are a few more: http://targetz.com/ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/TPHaller/page3.html http://reloadbench.com/pdf.html http://uspalma.com/Targets/targets.htm http://glockfaq.com/targets.htm http://beartoothbullets.com/misc/targets.htm http://mytargets.com/ http://doubleought.com/printable_targets.html http://airhog.com/targets_1.htm http://www.recguns.com/targets.html http://crankylabs.com/gallery/target

Nice! Very, very nice!

Way to go! May you have many more!

That's awesome! My son is about to turn 6, and at the gun show last weekend, I got him an airsoft Glock. I needed one to practice draws and things for IDPA, and of course he had to have one just like Daddy's. :-) He has a little trouble pulling the trigger(I think the airsoft ones are heavier than the real stock Glock), but he is really having fun shooting with me. One day I hope to do something like what you did with him.

Does the Comfortech stock somehow bypass the rule about 'devices for recoil reduction'? I would love to have a shotgun with a recoil reducing stock, but I thought that would put it into Open, rather than Tactical? I don't want to play in Open any time soon. I'm trying to get stuff together to play in some 3 gun matches, and there is so much information floating around, it is hard to make sense of it all. Thanks! Arnie

Congratulations! What an awesome wife you have! BTW, when you get the LoadMaster, don't bother reading the instructions that come with it. They may be short, but they are uninformative. Don't watch the videos on the Lee website, they will just confuse the issue. Get the FAQ from the website, and read that to learn how to adjust the dies. The other stuff is, well, to be nice, just plain wrong. The FAQ is actually pretty good. If I had gone with that the first time around, I would have bypassed several problems I had getting things working. Arnie

I thought I was going to fall out of my chair laughing! The things some people will believe...amazing... Arnie

I have not gotten my lower yet, simply because the local dealer ran out. He had some on order, and was supposed to get them on Friday, but I did not have a chance to check with him. However, I am wondering much the same thing you are, as I want a flat top myself. I have been told that the upper receiver and the barrel are two of the most important pieces of an AR as far as accuracy is concerned, so getting a good upper receiver is quite important. Having said that, I don't really know how to find a good one. The uppers I have heard good things about come from DPMS, Bushmaster, Sabre Defense, Armalite, Rock River Arms, and probably a few more I don't recall at the moment. How do you choose? Are any clearly better, or worse, than the others? Arnie

I suppose you are lucky that they were not close enough to tape their sheet to the 'big red button' that shuts off the power in the computer room... Arnie

Congratulations! It is always sweet when you finally get something for which you have been working very hard. Way to go! Arnie

Just a comment about the extended controls on the 34. IDPA allows any Glock to use the extended controls, since they are a factory option now on all Glock models. I have them on my Glock 19, which is my carry gun and my IDPA gun. So you could install them on a 17, if that is what you like better. I highly recommend the extended slide release, especially for IDPA, since most of the reloads on the clock will be at slide lock. The extended mag release is nice too, but only really necessary if you have problems with the stock version. Arnie

8 out of 10. Like several others, I missed the 'no waiting' and the arm-waving for a left turn. It would be harder to figure some of those if you saw them while driving...

Things you only do once: Leave a cabinet door open when I bend over to pick up something that just fell on the floor. Especially when I have just recently moved to a new city, and know no one. Driving myself to the emergency room with a bag of ice on my head in a manual transmission car was quite a feat, especially considering the head trauma I had just experienced. I suppose it was good that I had to wait an hour or so in the ER, since by then my head was numb from the ice, so I could not feel it when they started poking around up there. 5 staples in my head were enough to convince me that no cabinet door shall ever be open around my head again. I now have cabinet door radar in my head. Arnie

Thanks guys! I will be picking up at least one Essential Arms lower at the end of next week. This info makes me feel much better about them. Arnie

Thanks Jerry! I saw someone do a Tac Reload on a video, and it looked ackward at best. I just tried your technique, and while it is not completely comfortable yet, I can see how it is supposed to work, and it is SO much better than what I had tried previously! Now I just have to practice it to the point that I don't have to think about it. Thanks! Arnie

My wife and I just saw the second show today, having seen the first several days ago. I am currently shooting IDPA, and can't even get her to come to a match, much less shoot in one. She has no problem with guns, shoots my Glock at the range, and wants her own Beretta Px4 and CX4 combo, but she just is not into guns like I am. The closest I have come to getting her to shoot in an organized event was when I showed her the Babes with Bullets video. She thought something like that would be great, without all the guys around... Anyway, normally when a show about shooting comes on, she leaves the room. Not always, she does like to see some of the new guns on Guns and Ammo or something, but she generally shows casual interest, if that. When the Big Dog match started, she loved it! She thought it was great that the shooters were put outside their comfort zones, and looked like mere mortals at least some of the time. She said to me, 'That is how those matches should be, give them something they don't use all the time, and see who is the best with it'. I was floored. In a good way. As for me, I thought it was quite an interesting set of shows. I was disappointed that we did not get to see more of the ladies shooting, and sometimes I got a little lost, as large segments of stages were skipped. However, given the time constraints, I thought it was pretty well done. Having said that, the last stage was terrible. If a match were just about who could run the fastest and still shoot two rounds towards each target, that would be one thing. I thought matches were about hitting the targets. I don't like it when a competitor can point the gun in the general direction of a target and pull the trigger twice, and then run like mad to do it again, and have a chance of winning the stage. If you are having a competition about shooting, make them hit the darn targets! Or at least try. To sum up, we liked it, we would watch more like it, and with a few changes it could be even better! Arnie

I experienced one of these(depending on your point of view) during my IDPA classifier a couple of weeks ago. I experienced my first failure to feed, due to a malformed case which somehow made it through the Lee FCD, and did not realize the gun was not fully in battery. When I pulled the trigger, down went the muzzle, about 3 inches, obviously in anticipation of recoil that was not present. So, do I have a flinch? Or is this post shot, since it appeared to happen just after I pressed the trigger, and I only noticed because there was no corresponding *bang*? BTW, the nasty round locked up the gun, and it took me about 30 seconds to clear it. Would not go into battery, would not open. Nasty, nasty problem. Luckily I got to reshoot the stage, since it was the classifier. I brought the faulty round home, and checked it with the barrel to see if it would chamber. It did not. I tried it again, it did. Tried it several times, half the time it seated just fine, half the time it stopped short. Some of the time I could fully seat it with a little push, sometimes it was no go. How do I test for something like that? Sometimes it worked flawlessly, but other times not. Do I have to test every round multiple times? Anyway, should I be concerned about the 'flinch/anticipated recoil/whatever'? I *think* I am doing it post shot break, but I am sure if I had dummy rounds in the gun, it would show up every time I got to one. Does that make it a flinch, or not? Arnie

I carry a small Gerber with a partially serrated blade. It fits nicely in the flashlight pocket of my 5.11 shorts, along with the Surefire G2 Nitrolon, of course. I use the knife pretty much every day, the light much less often, but I don't go anywhere without both. Arnie

Isn't that what they call a Tactical Reload? Or a combination of that and the RWR. Tactical Reload says get the new mag, drop the old mag into your hand that also has the new mag, load the new mag into the gun, and then you can move while stowing the empty. Lots of guys around here do a Tac Reload when moving between shooting positions when the stage works out to make that a reasonable thing to do. That is, when they have one round left in the gun, and are moving to a new shooting position. I have not mastered the Tac Reload yet, but it would seem to be a good idea, in that you don't have to dump a round, and you still get to move from cover as soon as you seat the new mag. Arnie