Paulie771

Hahaha. Oh it’s a great thing. Just expensive anymore and the time is harder and harder to come by.

$40 of lapping compound and the time to rack it while sitting on the couch with the wife watching whatever show she's watching vs. $400 in ammo and the time at the range.

Hello sir. I might something you’d be interested in. I can’t PM right due to new member status. Can you IM me to discuss?

Hello. I might in the market for something like this. I can't presently IM anyone. Can you shoot me one so we can discuss? Thanks!

The dot isn't that hard to pick up if your presentation is good. If it's not, yea, you'll fish for it. Pretty big tell-tale that you need to work on your presentation. Biggest tip I've learned in red dot focused classes is that, if you're grip is consistent, the dot will almost always be high (especially w/ Glocks) and all you have to do is apply more pressure with your support side pinky to bring it down into the the plane w/ your eye. Main thing is to dry fire and work to pick up the dot before your arm is completely pushed out into the firing position. As for benefits, there are many. I'm now 42 but I've had bad eyes for years. Since I took my first force on force course I started carrying w/ XS Big Dots because they were so much easier to see. Now, the red dot does that. Secondly, it allows you to be target focused w/ both eyes open to see better and not have to worry about focusing on your front site. Third, accuracy at extended ranges is an order of magnitude easier. My friends and I start w/ shooting head shots at 50 as our warm up for any range session and they are rarely missed. Finally, if you're having to send rounds at someone at 7-10 yards, you are probably point shooting or, at most, back plating them. It is quite easy to make hits at 10 yards using just the back plate of your slide (this requires shooting w/ both eyes open). Some even put a white dot there to make this even easier. You're not going to be precise, but you can get effective hits on a man sized silhouette w/ a little practice. Personally I believe RDS on pistols offer far more pros than cons.

I've recently purchased a Springfield Prodigy and everything I've read about them makes it sound like SA sprayed entirely too much Cerakote on the slide/frame. I've read multiple threads where it is highly recommended that the slide and frame are lapped up to a 800 or even 1200 grit compound. I've never done this before. I just purchased Brownell's 600/800 lapping compound set to do it myself. Does anyone have any tips for a first timer doing this? Any prep work I should know about? My plan is to simply tear the pistol down to just frame and slide, start w/ the 600, rack the slide while applying pressure in all directions, then when it feels like the 600 is "used up," I'll go to the 800 and do the same then spray it w/ brake cleaner to clean it all off, reassemble/oil, and test fire. Is this a sufficient plan? Thanks!

Hamilton Khaki Field King on a NATO strap. Love it. Swiss ETA movement, domed sapphire crystal, steel housing. I wear it in the locomotive shop I work in as my daily and it takes an absolute beating and still just keeps on ticking. Highly recommend it.

I have Rich at Echo Three Armory in Chapel Hill do all my work. Been using him since he opened up and he's always done a fantastic job. Most recently he cut down a Bartlein barrel in 6CM for my Terminus Zeus action, threaded the muzzle, and chambered it. It is a legit 1/3rd MOA tack driver.

I have red dots on all my pistols now. I use 6 moa on all of them zeroed at 10 yards. If you think about MOA, a 6 MOA dot will cover 6" at 100 yds or roughly the size of an average face. It decrease to 3" at 50, 1.5" at 25, and so on. So it is plenty big for use in a defensive situation and still small enough to use with some accuracy. In fact, I find it easier to use at range vs. a smaller dot as it is easier to track in the window in recoil. As for brands, unfortunately the Chi-commers are leaps and bounds ahead of anyone else in regards to features at price points that make them very hard to argue with. I have used RMRs, Leupold DPP, Sig Romeos, and have settled on Holosun EPS/EPSc and the SCS if you have a Glock MOS. I've never had any issues out of my Holosuns like I did out of the aforementioned brands.

Thought I had an account on this board from years ago but guess it's changed. Long time gun guy in SW Rutherford county. Love long range precision and own a couple rigs for that discipline. Have been carrying daily since I got my HCP back in 2004 after my OIF deployment. Very much into training and am always looking to do more. Recently became interested in competing with handgun/rifles again so will be looking into that more. Looking forward to being a part of this community! If you see this handle on another forum, it's me.