deerslayer

Don’t worry about holding anybody back. Be safe and accurate and the rest will come. The tactical-bro types will tell you competitive shooting will teach you bad tactics and will just get you killed. Ignore them - half those guys went to a match to teach everybody how it’s done and got their asses handed to them, primarily because they’re just not nearly as good as they thought. USPSA, IDPA, etc are not defensive training, but they will quickly make you immensely more competent with a gun. I think Massad Ayoob said shooting matches are not gunfights, but gunfights are shooting matches.

Yes most people set it up to close in the back. I use this belt keeper https://arredondoaccessories.com/belt-keeper/ instead of the cheesy one that usually comes with belts. I know Keith Tyler and he is good people. If you are serious about USPSA, he will save you a ton of time and heartache by teaching the right way to do it.

I don’t know, but the guy had to pay $25k/month in child support for two kids he’s never seen.

A hell of a scope and a good price. I have one on my 6.5 and it's a lot of fun at 600 yards.

I also have some of these https://ads.midwayusa.com/product/1026014377?pid=596785&utm_source=google&utm_medium=shopping&utm_campaign=20985075595&utm_content=ag-autoag0000_cmpn-20985075595_sku-59678512345&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20985103897&gbraid=0AAAAAD-kRFSZhnZXHxfMAForco-SPzccX&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI24-2mOWWjgMV7SZECB23QjplEAQYASABEgJJV_D_BwE They work well and are the ultimate in protection with the ability to hold a normal conversation when combined with my Peltor 100s. Unfortunately, they are uncomfortable (for me) after only an hour or two.

Be careful with those orange cone-style plugs. I had the tip of one break off in my ear once. That ended in a trip to the ENT guy.

Here are the ones I have: https://premearhearing.com/products/passive-protection/ This guy travels around the southeast, but others make basically the same thing. Mine are the passive molded ones, but they also have electronic plugs. I carry a small bottle of baby oil in my range bag and put a drop or two on each before putting them in. The baby oil keeps the inside of my ears from getting scrubbed and scratched and makes a better seal when inserted. I have gotten the occasional funny look. Others use sunscreen or just spit to do the same thing. I read somewhere that saliva can lead to ear infections, so I never did that. I learned years ago that the filtered passive plugs are trash. If I am going to be near some jerk with a Win Mag and a brake, I throw a pair of Peltor Sport Tactical 100 electronic muffs over the plugs. Same thing for indoors.

That dry heat can sneak up on Easterners like us. We aren’t drenched and it doesn’t feel the same because sweat is evaporating, so we think we are good. Bam then we are dehydrated before we know it.

I was at Bright Angel campground at the bottom of the Grand Canyon and it was 117F and the humidity was maybe only 10%. It didn’t matter.

You may be related to my father. He kept an icepick thermometer in the dash vent of his F-150 and if it got above 40F, he was in the Lewis Ford service guy’s face. I think I got frostbite in his truck once on the way to school. My sister sent his DNA to ancestry.com or whoever and it said he was 70% Scandinavian. That explained several things.

DA/SA My mother told me if I don’t have anything nice to say…

It’s so hot, Jehovah’s Witnesses started telemarketing.

I’ve managed to avoid jail so far in life. Hope it doesn’t get any hotter, though.

This In the cold, you can add layers but in the heat, you can lose only so many layers before you go to jail.

I wasn’t saying ya’ll are fussing, just making a general comment about the yearly summertime drama the weather people and/or treehuggers stir up and the mentality of people nowadays: Guys at work: The high today is 106!! Global warming!! Me: No, the high is 93. Them: But TV/news/social media said 106! Me: That’s the heat index, a made up number. The temperature is the same as last year and the year before and the year before that. Them: But it’s 106!

Same here. Not sure if it’s getting older or not working outside every day any more (or both), but it seems to take me longer to acclimate. But I still remember summer 1980.

Bump

I don’t understand all the fuss. It’s doing the same thing it does every year for the 5+ decades I’ve been around, except now the weather people stir up everybody talking about heat index instead of temperature. As if things are different.

Stoeger trashes Sig but he will absolutely tell it like it is. Who knows, he may like the gun. I was a little surprised he spent as much time as he did with the two Staccatos. I think he actually enjoyed them.

After my Prodigy plate came loose the third time, I switched to red loctite. The next step was JB Weld. Fortunately, the red has held lol.

THIS. And of course he has a muzzle brake.

I have had great luck with custom molded ear plugs. Several smaller companies make them, but it has to be done in person (usually at a gun show or a big match). I forget what brand mine are but there is a local lady who makes the same thing. Those combined with some 25 reduction electronic muffs usually work well on the rare occasion I shoot indoors. I once had an ENT nurse tell me they could also make some. That may be an option for you.

They may not affect reliability but they are more fragile. I figured that was BS until I broke one years ago.

My deciding factor is finding a relatively slim gun that hits the sweet spot between a grip that is long and prints like a broomstick under my t-shirt vs a grip too short to get three fingers on and pinches a blood blister on my palm loading a magazine. The itty bitty whiz-bang double stacks don’t blow up my skirt. My typical carry gun ends up being something along the lines of a Glock 48 (barely), a Springfield EMP4, or a Sig 365X Macro.

Damn you