TGO David

Paul put an end to the rabbinical prohibition on pork in the New Testa... oh... right.

I am seriously thinking about shooting at Dickson next weekend. Anyone else going?

Welcome! 101st and next Metro PD... one battlefield to another, eh?

Dude, you seriously need to cut out the big Crayola fonts and colors. It's annoying.

Make these people come to YOU from now on. Why leave a gun state for a no-gun state?

You know what ex-wives are good for? Paper changers.

I've not heard of them before now. If no one chimes in, you'll have to give us a report when you're done with your class.

Ignore everyone from East Tennessee... they're a bunch of troublemakers.

Chances are it's a Bar-Sto, Wolf or other 3rd party barrel.

You'll need to have the barrel fit to the gun. Fit being a verb in this case. It's going to take a gunsmith to do it, so I'd start hunting around for one.

That sight retaining pin shouldn't be sticking up like that. The other problems you listed may just go away with break-in.

When I sent my old Smith & Wesson M&P 40 off to have the trigger lightened, the gunsmith used some of Enos' Slide Glide on it. I was impressed with the way that it clung to the moving parts and it lasted for a good 500 rds or so of sustained shooting. That's my only experience with it.

Barrel / slide length have very little impact on IWB comfort with a 1911 unless you go for a true long-slide version. That said, I'd still recommend a Commander length (Pro Carry) version instead of the Ultra Carry. Better accuracy and you'll likely have better reliability out of the longer slide version than a shorter slide version.

Sounds good. Wish I had time to pull that together for tomorrow night, but it'll have to wait for some other time.

Any morning above ground is a good one. This one will be better once I have coffee.

S&W 442 with Speer Gold Dot 135gr +P in a DeSantis Nemesis pocket holster. Bianchi Speedstrip with five more rounds in my other pocket.

Hello and welcome.

The K&D that I had was a work of art. But I didn't have it long enough to attest to it's long-term durability.

I have always owned CTAC holsters until recently then started buying their MTAC kydex and leather hybrids. The MTAC is a much better holster than the CTAC in terms of long-wear comfort. That said, I do not find that there is much of a difference in draw between a good leather holster and a Kydex holster. I prefer my leather Milt Sparks Versa-Max II over my MTAC. The VM2 is an example of what good leather should feel like. 90% of the stuff Galco produces is mediocre; so don't base your decisions off of that. Galco does produce custom holsters but the cost and wait time is similar to leather from good leathersmiths like Milt Sparks, Tucker, K&D, etc.

From my conversation with Sean, it sounded like a Friday night match would be in mind if this happens again. We did this on a Friday night at the first of the year and it was perfect. Everyone could sleep in on Saturday if they wanted. Saturday nights are almost as bad as week nights since some folks go to church on Sunday morning.

Reliability: Kahr Economy: Kel-Tec I'm a reliability kind of guy. I don't care if it's cheap if it won't hold up.

I'd look at the Kahr PM9 (#PM9093N / PM9094N) then. This is their 3.0" barrel version with night sights. The 93N is the stainless slide and the 94N is the blackened slide version. Source: http://www.kahr.com/PA-1_9mm_pm.html

I've never wanted to be an AR15 magazine so much before in my life.

Those are good. The "Hand All" or whatever they call the slip-on-grip is the one I would avoid since Hogue makes replacement grip panels like that for the gun.

Sean @ On Target and I were talking about that last night. They did a Friday night match back during the first few months of 2007 and I really enjoyed it. It was easily one of the most fun matches I've ever shot. He seemed open to the idea of doing a nighttime shoot again sometime.