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17 hours ago, Fourtyfive said:
I thought Natchez did not ship to anyone in Tennessee, that has changed ?
That used to be the case, but they do now. I talked to their customer service at one point and they indicated it was an artifact of the no sales tax for out-of-state sales era - not shipping to Tennessee and Georgia meant they didn't have to deal with sales tax at all.
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Get on the Natchez mailing list. They've been doing "Flash" sales every week or two where you can get a case of 9mm for $300 - $335 plus tax with free shipping. I've gotten a couple cases of Aluminum Blazer for about $340 total. They ship Fedex Ground and it usually gets here (Middle TN) in a day.
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I love shooting my Hellcat, but there is something about the small size that forces my thumbs up onto the left side of the slide, and always manages to keep the it from locking back on an empty mag. Single hand shooting is comfortable, but I just can't get both paws on it and out of the way of the slide, and I'm too lazy to change my grip for one gun.
The 365XL is another really comfortable gun, but I have a similar problem getting a good two handed grip on it.
I have Hogue grip sleeves on both of those to get more girth to grip, but it's just not enough.
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1 hour ago, TGO David said:
This isn't my first M&P nor is it the only one in my house. I think we have about seven of them right now between my wife and myself, and except for this issue of cross-threaded optics mounting screws, none of them have caused me any trouble. We have put actual thousands of rounds through them in a variety of high round-count defensive pistol classes over the past 14-years, in the mud, in the heat, in the rain and bone dry. They've always just worked and always had more than acceptable accuracy.
Ditto. Except for a brief excursion carrying a Sig P365XL I have exclusively carried and shot M&Ps for many many trouble-free years including plenty of the high round-count classes. Those M&Ps are stock save for the sights, I haven't had any need to "improve" them.
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Perhaps not. NSSF subsequently pointed out that it was the insurance companies that settled, not Remington Outdoor Company - it had been split up and auctioned off from the bankruptcy and no longer existed to settle.
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For future reference, with both Fedex and UPS you can sign up on their websites and ask them to hold a given package at their warehouses where you can go pick it up.
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Adding another data point to the subject of bad quality control, I stopped by Sportsman's Warehouse today and asked to see one of these new Compact 2.0 optics-ready models. Take-up in the trigger was rough, like there was sand in it. That's easily fixed, but should not be there on a brand new gun!
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Regarding high speed internet, many counties in TN have been using grants to built out fiber networks. I believe Smith County has gigabit fiber available to every address, and Dekalb is marching forward on that too (Dekalb Service Map). It took me a bit of work to track down the various providers, but a call to the county's public utility commission can get you pointed in the right direction.
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I moved from VA to TN in 2020 and went through the same sticker shock. I made several trips myself with a uhaul trailer and used upack.com for the rest of it. They bring a 28' semi trailer (ABF branded - you've seen them on the highway, usually double-lugged) and drop it off at your place. You get a couple days on each end for the load/unload. You load it (I hired help from uhaul.com, it was less than $500 as I remember) and pay by the foot. They haul it to the destination, though not necessarily directly. The quote for the entire trailer to Cookville was $2,100, but you only pay for what you use (looks like I saved $31/ft for what I didn't use). They'll put up a wall in front of your stuff and then find some other cargo to fill the rest. I contracted with a moving company out of Crossville who provided two guys for the unload for a couple hundred bucks.
It's a little more hassle to coordinate those different pieces, but it saved me a ton of money and the scheduling was a lot more flexible. Maybe this will help anyone else in a similar situation.
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Whoops, I read Cookville in a previous reply and made a bad assumption given that it appears you're on the wrong side of Nashville for it. Sorry about that!
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Dead Zero is just down the road from you, and you won't need a spotter with their electronic targets.
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That sucks. I've been looking for that exact model of the new 2.0 Compact to add a RDS to and step up from my regular 2.0 Compact. I've had no issues with any of my M&Ps over the years, so I would hope this is an isolated issue.
The length of time for service seems to be a growing problem; just about everything these days costs more, takes forever, and may not even be available.
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Welcome! Dead Zero Shooting is just down the road from you in Spencer, they have a 1,000 yard rifle range, plenty of pistol bays, sporting clays, and regular matches.
TWRA has ranges around the state: https://www.tn.gov/twra/hunting/firing-ranges.html
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We got a solid six inches here in Western Dekalb, and a nice 90 minute power outage early this afternoon as a tree took out a power line. Made for a nice break in the workday!
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2 hours ago, bobsguns said:
FedEx delivery guys are subcontractors, are they not? I know they're hourly & not commission-based. Probably have to deliver x-amount of packages in a set time or they're 86ed? That would remove a lot of motivation to do the job correctly, IMO.
The Fedex Ground guys are subcontractors and get paid a flat rate per day. There is a lot of turn over, and that's problematic for us because Fedex Ground uses an address database that is years old. Fedex Overnight and Two Day comes right to us, but any Ground package gets re-addressed the first time it's scanned to a road about two miles away where our house number does not exist. There are notes if they scan the package, and the regular drivers know the deal. However, the day I had a case of ammo coming from Natchez they had a new driver. They wrote the address on the box in sharpie and left it on the ground next to a mailbox with a close number on that wrong street. Thankfully it was still there the next day when the regular driver happened to notice it after talking to us - he then made a second trip to our house that day to deliver it.
I've also had USPS sent a Priority Mail package to the Virginia destination, via Guam.
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It's eight pounds, but Natchez has it in stock right now:
https://www.natchezss.com/hodgdon-h335-spherical-rifle-powder-8-lbs.html
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This is a tough issue. I deal with spammers, bots, scammers, and more in my day job and there's no perfect solution. You put countermeasures in place and they find ways around them, so you find more/better/different ways to impede them while trying not to impact the legitimate users. Benefactor status is probably a good indicator - will a scammer be willing to fork out money in hopes of scamming enough before being reported and blocked?Hopefully that status factors into things as this post will increase my count by 10% - some of us just don't talk much!
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I've got a pair of them and can part with one, PM me and we'll work out the details.
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The Down Zero shooting range is south of Cookville near Spencer, TN. They have a 1,000 yard rifle range, pistol bays, sporting clays, monthly matches for IDPA, Steel, and more.
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I've carried a Shield with a 7-round flush mag at 3 o'clock in a CompTac MTAC holster with a slight forward cant and found it hides very well there, though I do have to buy shirts a size larger to disguise the added bulk. I also carry a pair of 8-round mags IWB at 9 o'clock and find that balances everything very well.
I've never tried it further back on my hip as that would seem to interfere with seat backs, etc, and given that I spend all day in a chair, that might not be very comfortable.
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Belk Grocery and Sporting Goods outside Smithville had one in stock when I was there yesterday.
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I have about a quart of cleaned and deprimed Hornady .22 Hornet brass and about two quarts of clean but mostly unprocessed .32 S&W Long brass (mostly Lapua, S&B, and G.F.L. headstamps) available.
Claim here and PM to arrange transfer. I can mail them or meet FTF in the area bounded by Murfreesboro, McMinnville, Cookville, and Lebanon.
Edit: Both have been claimed.
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I've carried a Shield for years, first the 1.0, and now the 2.0. After shooting a buddy's P365XL I decided to make the switch. The XL is about 1/2" longer on the slide and near identical in all other dimensions to the Shield with a 7-round flush magazine. The XL has 12+1 in that footprint. I use a Hogue grip on both to better fit my hand.
I heard the new Shield was coming, but found an XL at Academy last week and the choice was made.
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Late to the party, but I'll get in line if Karnage doesn't take them.