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Ar10 308 Trijicon 35mm reap ir thermal The thing on the side is a Silencerco radius. At night your ability to judge distance is greatly diminished. The radius is a LRF that can be adjusted to the crosshairs of the scope. Anything I see gets ranged. If we are hunting with any NV guys, I use the IR laser pulses to point out targets so everyone knows what and were to shoot. I also run an ir strobe sometimes depending on what we are hunting and who we are hunting with.

I'm so sick of politicians making us jump through hoops for the sake of THEIR power. Assholes!

I wanted to come back to this comment albeit not entirely from the perspective of finding the dot reticle in the dark but just in general regarding the size of the window glass. In terms of days/months/years, I have spent a longer period of time behind a Trijicon RMR RM07 Type 2. This is the one with the 6.5MOA dot. I really do like that larger dot for handguns. That said, I have also had a gen-1 Holosun HE508T for about two years now and recently added both the new gen-2 Holosun HE508T-X2 and a 507K-X2 to my pile of optics. The 507K is their new smaller optic. It's smaller than the 507C and 508T and presumably meant for subcompact guns. I run mine on a Staccato C2 DPO with the "Carry" height (low profile) iron sights because I wanted to try something different and wanted to see if an optic that was little shorter, height-wise, made any perceptible difference in comfort or performance for concealed carry. So far the answers to those to questions are: Maybe and No. The larger glass on the 508T (and the 507C and 509T) is very nice and helps you frame more of the surrounding scene in the glass and will serve you well if you are comfortable carrying the slightly larger optic. Again, the size of them hasn't really impacted me for comfort in carrying either way. The other nice thing about these is that all of the models I have mentioned have the configurable reticle that allows you a 2MOA dot only, a 32MOA ring only, or the 2MOA dot inside of the 32MOA ring. I kind of like that last configuration most just because I tend to favor a larger dot but the large outer ring seems to augment the dot. The 2MOA dot by itself is really nice for precision shooting, but that's not where my interests particularly lie for a handgun. Viva, options!

About 7-8 years ago my Springfield 1911A1 developed a crack in the lower barrel lug. This is my IDPA gun and at the time had had an estimated 30,000+ rounds of hardball through it. Springfield paid shipping both ways and IIRC the gun was fixed and back to me in 8 days. I've also contacted them about small things for used guns I've bought. Such as a missing screw or the take down tool for my Ultra-Compact. Every time they sent what I needed at no charge and it arrived within just a few days. Springfield has some of the best customer service of any gun company. No worries there.

After 2 power outages last year we bought a Ryobi 8500/10000 generator and had Lee company wire the house to take care of most of our needs. We now can power both our refrigerator and separate freezer, most lights and our media room. Most important, without electricity our sewer pump is out so we have about 8 hours of capacity in the tank before things start to back up. Verizon's coverage is so bad in our house that we had to get a booster? to get consistent cell service and it's connected to our Xfinity modem so that when we lose power we have no communication with the outside world. I'm convinced that now that I have one we'll never lose power again, lol. I highly recommend Lee company to wire it to your system. We had 3 other electric companies give us bids and Lee was the only one that really had the experience and a plan on the best way to set up a system for our needs.

Hi all, I ran across this and thought some may find it informative. https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/38-special-200-grain-police-load/387763

Getting my second shot today at 1:00 , at the VA in Murfreesboro. My wife insist on driving me because some have had adverse reactions to the vaccine. Did not have any problems with the first shot. Hoping/praying for the same with the second.

Mike... A bit of perspective here might help. Tennessee wuz a notorious " sheriff's discression to issue " state. Most did it by the " Honorary Deputy " thing when I wuz younger. It held on for a long time here. I think that is part of the howl now... " Polititians losing control of the citizenry "... Remember, Tennessee never had a post Reconstruction Military Governor, but they had a bunch of trash that punished the population like one... The sorriest of em all wuz " Parson " Brownlow... As I remember, he is responsible for the mod to the 2A statement in the Tennessee Constitution " regulating the wearing of arms"... Rememberin leroy...

I do have to admit that I’ve developed a real fondness for the Eotech style donut of death dot/circle reticle. It’s fast when I want it to be and precise when I need it to be.

Backfeed is tricky. You better know what you're doing. Mine is a 240v/50a backfeed, with separate breaker for the genset. All the wiring is right sized. Current monitoring is via this... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08G37ML2R/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Spigot and suicide cord below

I’ve got 2 geothermal units. 4 ton and a 3 ton, each with two 300 foot wells on a closed loop. It’s awesome

$1100 is way cheaper than burning your house down.

It was around $1100 for our house. When I bought the generator, I had planned on just connecting it to an outlet on the porch to backfeed the system. Found out that's a big no-no. Hated to spend that much but feel much more comfortable with the existing setup.

I have one of the new Wraith models on backorder. I tried an ATN 4K a while back. What a steaming pile of crap that thing was. Stay far far away from anything ATN. If the budget allows, thermal is the way to go.

Set up already.

YEP!!! The big league competitive shooters definitely do it. Shooting with a dot for a while makes you a better and iron sight shooter, especially in "social distances". I am pretty sure that greats like Brian Enos and Rob Leatham figured it out a long time ago before dot optics were much of a thing. They'd focus on the sights when they had to, but when they really needed to push the gas pedal down they were more than capable of making A-zone hits without them in order to go faster. It really wasn't until I started shooting with a red dot and learning to trust my motor skills to swing the gun to wherever my eyes were already looking that I truly understood what it meant to be able to "call your shots". If I am shooting multi-target drills, by the time the sear breaks and my finger is coming forward off of the trigger, my eyes have already moved to my point of aim on the next target and I'm pivoting toward it. I know before I even look at the last target whether I hit where I wanted to or not because I'm aware of where the dot was when I pulled the trigger and whether it stayed there all the way through the break. I love the fact that guys like Enos and Leatham were doing that with iron sights and running circles around their competitors until the competition caught on and started doing it too.

So my new AR-15 arrived (finally) after being lost in the FedEx package backlog from the winter storms. It is a left handed build with a Stag Arms upper and a PSA lower. Only iron sights at the moment. Trying to decide on a reddot or other optic. I can’t wait to get to the range.

You don't have to spend tons. You have options. A smokeless sabotless muzzleloader conversion can be $400 ish, but it can be as expensive as you want to spend. I run a 275 at 2850 and I run 100-150 fps under what it could do.

TGO David, you'll be happy to hear that I removed the Dovetail Mount that made you wince in pain and put the rear sight back on. I just ordered a Staccato P DPO and should be here in about two weeks then I will mount my HOLOSUN 507c x2 on it. Can't wait to get it and try it out.

Our main breaker is on the north end of the house. main circuit board is in the laundry about 10 feet to the south. Lee ran wiring from our circuit board to just outside the garage, on the opposite end of the house. Now we only have to roll the generator outside of the garage to plug in. Also, it's not visible from the road and thus hopefully less susceptible to theft.

This is my smokeless muzzleloader, but I use this and a ultralight version of this for all my night hunting. You can get a much cheaper version that works about 95% as good.

You’re not wrong...

That was the entire reason ATN was created.

The Holosun 507K is what I run on my EDC. I do like the option of different reticle size and brightness. I can see the possible benefit is seeing more of the surrounding scene in the window. To me the smaller one is just a way to project the dot in my field of vision, but I don’t really try to “see” the target through the window.

Right. I didn't think it would have been for Rush Limbaugh.

We went to Pigeon Forge for a anniversary get away. While there I went by one of the gun shops there while my wife shopped at a nearby store. They had a SW M P 9 MM E Z in stock with a 3.7 length brl. It followed me home. It is a bit thinner than my other MPs and holds 8+1. Got 2 magazines for it also. A few ounces lighter as well. I am not a fan of the 1911 style grip safety but that is the only way they come. this one also has the 1911 style safety on it also which I am not a fan of also. I will need to acquire a IWB holster for it so I can carry it after it proves to me it is a reliable pistol. I will say it is somewhat easier to rack the slide on, which is a big plus for old and arthritic hands. Will let you know how it drives after I kick the tires a couple or three times. I had to pay list price for the pistol 469.00. No deals with todays shortages of firearms. The store was about as empty as I have ever seen. Even long guns.

I sent them a 3" and later a 4" EMP, both for failure-to-feed issues. Both times they opened up the chamber and relieved the feed ramp. Both came back in a week or two and were good to go. I know of a few others that have had the same experience. Some people go overboard with the "full case support" stuff. I have no idea why Springfield makes the chambers so tight on their 9mm 1911s, but they are happy to fix them.

Thanks for the tip for sure! I might could swing that. Sure beats the $1000 plus prices I was seeing

My EMP went back for light primer strikes (titanium firing pin) to get get a proper steel firing pin. It received on a Tuesday and back in the mail on Thursday, so cant ask for much better. They have great customer service from the two times I have had to work with them. Good luck, I am sure they will get you sorted.

I’ve got the Sightmark Wraith HD and I love it. Most people upgrade the IR when they get them but it’s fine for me for now. Coming in around $500 it’s a nice entry level that doesn’t hurt the pocketbook too awfully bad. They have a 4K version out now that’s a few hundred dollars more I believe. It’s usable in daylight as well so you can video you’re hunts even if we don’t have legal night hunting yet.

It’s not necessary to use a TSA lock on a gun case. I didn’t use one last time I flew and won’t use one. Outer luggage yes, but not the gun case.

Proprioception honing can benefit an irons shooter as well. Building a natural "index" through extensive dry practice will help a dot or irons shooter. Some of the better USPSA/IDPA shooters target focus with irons at most distances. This probably sounds sacrilegious to some and Col. Cooper might roll over in his grave, but they do and they win doing it. I am not talking about Bullseye shooting, but some upper crust action pistol-type iron sight shooters who need QUICK good-enough accuracy (two A-zone hits) can target focus and hold their own against dot shooters.

Just saw this. On Sunday 2-14 about 8pm we lost some power, heat pump went off, sounded like a truck hit the house. Went out with flashlight can't see anything wrong. Long story short huge white pine limb fell across vacant house across the road, and our house and that house was attached to same transformer, it puller both of their wires off and 1 of our hot legs. About 4:30 a.m. monday everyone in neighborhood lost power until about 2pm. I shut off main breaker after talking to a guy that said may not be good for our electrical system. We have fireplace with insert and it has 2 blowers on it, I already had generator sitting on back porch with extension cords because I didn't want to have to go get it out of barn in middle of a ice/snow event. The generator had 2.4 hours when I cranked it up and would shut it off when I refueled it, Saturday morning 2-20 about 9 am we got power back, generator had 100.5 hours on it. Yea we could have done without it, but I kept the downstairs between 60-64 and upstairs around 50. That was when outside temps were 15-17 degrees. Just a tip for everyone that lives in an all electric house, get a auxiliary heat source, a floor mounted propane heater, long enough hose to keep tank outside and at least a 100lb. cylinder. They pull too much to run good on the 20lb barbecue tanks per my propane store. Be safe out there and be prepared, it will happen again, may be 2 years, 5 years or next week.

I haven't found that to be the case but I've done literally thousands and thousands of draw and presentations with the dot on the various platforms that I own. Proprioception plays a huge role in being a fast and accurate shooter with any gun, but especially a handgun and double especially (is that a thing?) a handgun with a dot optic. Here's the thing about iron sights that people often fail to recognize when they make statements about them being faster to acquire than a red dot: Iron sights mask problems with presentation. Most people use them to "steer" the gun on target. Period. End of story. Watch other people shoot at the range. Video yourself or at least be very observant, honest and "in the moment". Do it from a draw or at least a low ready. I bet you'll notice that your eyes flick from the target to the front sight and then to the back sight as you rock the gun into a position level with the target. Your eyes may flick back and forth quickly between target, front sight and rear sight several times through the course of presenting it, lining it up, and pulling the trigger. It happens very fast and typically subconsciously, and it eats up "clock cycles" (milliseconds or maybe even a full second or two). A person who has honed their proprioception -- their ability to innately know where the ends of their extremities are during the full range of their motion -- with a gun in hand to be able to efficiently and accurately match hand motion to eye location can typically outrun a person who's brain is occupied with the task of steering the gun on target and then fine-tuning their alignment. Iron sights have three planes of focus: Target, Front Sight, Rear Sight. Dot optics have one plane of focus: Target People who are fast with irons in close distances are generally using a target-focused (single plane) approach because required accuracy at that distance is relevant to the task. They shift back to three planes of focus for better accuracy, especially at further distances. A dot shooter shouldn't do that and a good dot shooter won't. Their eyes should be focused crisply on the target and the dot simply appears on the target as they bring the gun to bear, using proprioception to get it there. It's the exact same aiming technique that we humans have been using since we picked up a sharp stick [spear] and threw it at another human or an animal. Spears don't come with iron sights. We look at the target, not at the spear, and we lob that sucker with accuracy. Sharp Stick, meet Red Dot. Anyway, about the whole red dot optic at night thing... it's literally a GLOWING illuminated projection inside of a small box. I see that a hell of a lot faster in the dark than I do a small Tritium lamp or three.

Biden ordered half staff to honor Rush Limbaugh.

Young eyes or old eyes, it takes a lot of dry fire practice to reliably get that red dot in your field of view on presentation. And, you've got to get that squared away before you consider moving to trusting it for EDC. But, what it actually highlights for most people is the training scars that they've acquired through years of maybe less than ideal practice. So, going through the dry fire process a lot will actually be working to correct some of those old scars with new, better ones. They're worth putting the time into. Watching your hits go reliably out from where you were comfortable before is pretty cool.

I've written about red dot optics on handguns many, many times here on TGO. They are the way forward. Period. I probably have more money invested in dot optics and having slides milled for them than most folks have in handguns. I own more than a few and I have spent countless hours getting pretty good with them and good at teaching people to use them effectively. They aren't a fad and they aren't a niche anymore. They've become mainstream because they work and they are a vast improvement over iron sights. And as long as you stay with proven brands like Trijicon and Holosun, they are reliable even for duty use. Seeing that Staccato P with that crazy dovetail mounting plate just hurts my soul. Those mounting plates will get a dot on your gun for cheap but they are like buying a sex doll and thinking it's anything like the real deal. It's just not. The height over bore is wonky and it will feel alien and unnatural holding the gun lower than you normally would just to get a decent alignment with the optic and your eye. I also dislike most of the OEM mounting systems that use plates to affix various red dots to the top of the slide for some of the same reasons. The Glock MOS and M&P CORE systems both put the optic higher than they could be if the slide was just machined for for the specific optic. The MOS and CORE plates also don't provide much material for the optic's screws to go into. This leads to failures and people assuming that red dot optics on handguns is a bad idea. C&H Precision Weapons (CHPWS) makes improved plates for the Glock and M&P that makes it a little better. FN USA has a better plate design for the 509 MRD. CZ USA has a pretty good plate setup for the P10C OR. Shadow Systems has the best design, period, for using a variety of optics in the MR918, MR920 and DR920 lines. The optic sits nice and low in the slide and is held down by the longest screws I've seen yet. I've got a few Staccatos now. The 2019 and 2020 DUO models were pretty good but Dawson Precision makes the plates for them and believes in THICK material. The 2020 and 2021 DPO models are better and Dawson's plates for them seem to be thinner and more in line with what CHPWS makes. My 2021 C2 DPO with a Holosun 507K is damn near perfection. I am anxious to get my hands on the new Walther PDP. They seem to have really designed that gun around the CHPWS mounting plate system and set them pretty low into the slide with good mounting hardware. I think it'll be the gun to beat if you're lookin for a sub $1000 gun with optic this year.

Just to chime back in here. I recently purchased another from our local sporting + outdoors chain and they let me purchase with old address on my license because I had already made the correction electronically. I just needed my confirmation number from tn.gov and all was well. I could easily see this varying from store to store, though.

We've dropped below 2000 deaths per day (7 day moving average) for the first time in 78 days. There are generally 5 things that the drop is attributed to - these are cumulative (they all work together): 1. By far the biggest - hospitalizations have been reduced to the point where there is better capacity to keep you alive. It sounds crazy when you make this a supply chain issue - but fewer available beds and taxed staff will result in more deaths. All other things equal - you're a lot more likely to leave the hospital alive right now than you were in December. 2. Warming temperatures leading to lower infections. People being able to spend more time outside is a good thing. Sunlight and heat are good at destroying the lipid layer that surrounds the virus. As humidity goes up - those water vapor droplets will attract virus particles and drop to the ground faster. It's easy to get complacent right now - but if you're going to be in a group of people - you can be a lot more comfortable outside. 3. Vaccinations are up - we're way behind the curve in Tennessee at large - but a decent number of our highest risk people have been vaccinated. Nursing homes are almost done. Since that made up for a lot of deaths - getting those folks vaccinated helps a lot. 4. A smaller pool of available hosts - Almost 12% of Tennessee has tested positive at this point. There are simply fewer people who can come in contact with it, get infected, and as such pass it on. 5. We don't know but we'll take it - I know this one makes a lot of folks mad - but the surest way to know whether or not you can trust a scientist is to ask them about what they still don't know. There are still a lot of unknowns. 5 years from now, I hope we have a lot of those answered once we can catch our breath and look back at this pandemic from a forensic perspective. But, for now, there's still some stuff we don't know. And since cases are going down - we'll take any help we can get.

Beats power outages, ruptured pipes, and closed schools.

It would cost more to make a quality revolver than something like a Glock I would imagine.

The bottom line is that one of Biden's goals is to end on-line ammo sales. Simply put, he wants to put Fenix out of business. Its not just a statement. Its about self preservation. The owner says this on the web site.

My parents have a dual fuel heat pump. The emergency heat is propane, they have an in-ground tank. Another point to note, most HVAC units will benefit from switching the air handler to "on" rather than auto. The HVAC works by moving air through the house, but a lot of units "on" time isn't enough to fully circulate the air. It can take several minutes for the unit to get the air moving, so short cycle times leave warm and cool spots in the house and the extra cycles increase wear on the system. You might think running the fan 24/7 will use more electricity, but our electric bill went down $40/mo in the summer due to more efficient operation. You also get cleaner interior air. Newer systems usually have 2 speed fans so the low speed runs all the time and it switches to high speed when heating or cooling.

Funny how differnt states do things. I too was surprised by the TN system when I moved here as TN was supposed be "a freedom state". Simpe things like in Idaho where I moved from, if you had a concealed carry permit, you didn't need a NICS or background check. You filled out a 4473, handed them your permit, they wrote the permit info down and put "NA" for the background check. Gave them your cash and away you went. This is how it should be in a gun firendly, free state.

Look fer yourself! I certainly did not know this. Wow!

Not only is ATN trash, they were also guilty of ITAR violations in helping export 3rd Gen night vision gear to Russia.

Haha I bet.