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  1. Speaking only of my own experience shooting 3-gun Open division with a dot-sighted pistol, your mileage may vary:

     

    The handgun dot sight excels at hitting small (or distant) targets fast.  Things like TX stars, 4" plates, and distant steel transformed from painful to routine.

    For full-size targets up close, even after a lot of practice with the dot, I was never any faster than irons, and often a touch slower because of height-over-bore and muscle memory shooting irons.  And that's almost certainly the kind of shooting I'll need to do if (God forbid) I end up pulling the trigger for keeps on the street.

    So in summary, for me, for a carry gun, the RDS isn't worth it.

    Now, as the tech improves, the sights get even more bulletproof, weather/foreign object resistant, and maybe we start to see things like integral RDS, where the battery, electronics, and wind age/elevation adjustments are built into the slide, and only the  sight window sticks up, and that dot starts to appear right where the front sight used to be.... that might mean a whole new ball game.

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  2. They are indeed.  But my line of (admittedly flu-riddled) reasoning being a slight curve would add some slashing ability and give up very little penetration.

     

    I've taken to carrying a push dagger next to my spare pistol magazine as a pure "defense/weapon retention" tool.  The push knife design allows a longer blade in a carryable package than a traditional fixed blade, and the punch is one of the most basic defensive instincts.  Clamp weapon hand down on the gun, draw knife with support hand and punch.

  3. On 12/28/2016 at 9:46 AM, robtattoo said:

    Oooh, I love Remmy 600s!
    Any chance of a piccy or two?

    Sent from a mountain somewhere, using telepathy.
     

    I don't think I have any pictures of it, but I can bring it by to show you sometime.  It's not as light and handy as it used to be... it wears a suppressor all of the time now.   :devil:

  4. Lightweight rifles in cartridges like .243Win are handy and awesome.

    Lightweight rifles in cartridges like .300WM and 7mmMag are handy and brutal.  Even .308 can sting a bit.  I have a light little Remington 600 in .308 that felt like a really manly gun until I put a Limbsaver on it. 

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  5. An AR-pattern gun in 5.56 is a much better fighting tool (if you're fighting humans anyway) than an AK-pattern gun in 7.62x51, IMO.

  6. 1 hour ago, SWJewellTN said:

    Yes, but unless they are funding the construction themselves the building is not "theirs" until closed.

    Exactly... unless the homeowners just wrote a check to build the house, SOMEBODY has an insurance policy of some sort on that investment.

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  7. Okay, my "care package" trip is officially on now.  Truck is rented (Thanks for the hook up, Penske and Mike's Tire in Tullahoma), heading up to Knoxville on Saturday morning.

    Donation drop-off points have been established at Bacchus Fine Wines (my place) and Templar Shooting Sports (the new inddor shooting range) in Tullahoma.  

    Bottled water, sports drinks, non-perishable food, blankets, pet food, pet crates, batteries, toiletry items... basically anything you'd need if your house burned down, or if you had just spent 18 hours keeping peoples' houses from burning down (lots of tired first responders up there working hard).

     

    Shoot me a private message or just ask here if you have any questions or want to donate but can't make it to Tullahoma.

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  8. I'm trying to get some donated stuff together and up to Knoxville, where they have "staging areas" to get the stuff up into the mountains where it's needs.  Done with work in a couple of hours and going to see how much it would cost to rent a box truck.  I'll drive it up myself.

     

    I'm thinking bottled water, Gatorade, non-perishable food, blankets, pet food, pet crates....

    Anyone in the Tullahoma area wants to help, just let me know. 

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