Thearmededucator

I just finished the book “The Guns of John Moses Browning” by Nathan Gorenstein and really enjoyed it. I figured someone on here would be interested in it as well https://www.audible.com/pd/1797127926?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=player_overflow

As an instructor, I’d like to offer some other advice. One, you seem to be jumping into everything simultaneously. For a lot of people doing so leads to frustration and or burn out. Instead figure out your priorities and start there. From your other posts, my first recommendation would be training; preferably even before buying your first gun. That way you’ll base your decisions on experience and not conjecture. Additionally, it’s often not the best idea to try to teach a spouse to shoot. More often than not it goes as terribly as a parent teaching their teenager to drive. There’s too much ego and emotional baggage attached to have consistently good outcomes. (In fact, I have a belief that the ability to learn from or teach something to a person ceases once anyone has seen the other naked in any context.) In summary, find a local range that has qualified instructors (MIL/LEO, USCCA, or Rangemaster preferred. NRA doesn’t cut it for me and I am one) and preferably a rental section to try out multiple types and work from there. Lastly, especially for the wife, it doesn’t have to be all at once. You get much better long term results doing short, regular sessions than you do with long, all encompassing, one hit wonders. A date night range trip or private lesson followed by a dinner out every couple weeks goes a long way for a lot of people.

I think ARs are a great HD choice. Good capacity, accuracy, plentiful and affordable accessories and ammo. The light round and high velocity actually make them among the least likely to over penetrate barriers (they have a tendency to fragment). I choose the standard 5.56 ball round for consistency’s sake. The round I train with will have the exact performance as the one I’d use in real life. Plus its lower cost is a nice bonus, as is the previously mentioned .22 conversions. I recommend putting a white light, a sling, and a red dot on a Smith & Wesson M&P and calling it good I’m not a hunter, but I have friends who use 5.56 ARs to take deer, and they are commonly used for coyotes and boar as well. Unless there’s other things afoot, you have no reason to be concerned about the alphabet boys for having an AR.

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Like the others stated above, it’s not my preference, but there’s nothing particularly wrong with it. They are often more finicky than the .45 versions, particularly when it comes to finding magazines. Besides that you’ll have more weight, lower capacity and higher cost than other options. As a tool it’ll certainly work, just with generally less economical efficiency

To the OP, theres too many variables not mentioned to say with any finality, but at the end of the day it boils down to this: Insufficient placement wont work against a determined foe, regardless of caliber. An insufficient Caliber, though properly used, may still fail when a more capable caliber wouldn't. We do with that information what we will.

In gun circles, my first question is always: “Well who do you plan to talk to? And do they have a radio” if there’s not an immediate need for long range, then HF can wait on the mobile for now. I have a 50 Watt dual band Yeasu 7250 in my vehicle and another one in the house, and that can reach out a good bit across western TN. I would like an HF base eventually, but to me it’s not as pressing

Milling's major benefit is in the security of the mount, any marginal difference in finding the dot is well down the list. Cowitness actually is a detriment in Red Dot systems. The real solution is more time on the dot. Mike Ox has a good book/virtual training course called Red Dot Mastery that I would highly suggest. That said, the secret is the work, if you want to get the most out of the RDS

Gotcha, I apologize for misunderstanding your meaning. Its just something ive gotten into the habit of immediately addressing every time I see it.

I am normally very much a believer in context being king in self defense, but this highlighted portion is unequivocally, empirically, and measurably wrong. Can someone who is good at it beat someone in condition one who sucks, yes. But every single person has a faster and a more situationally resilient draw from condition one.

The real issue here is not the actual trigger, (although that didn’t help) it’s this: If you tear down a bunch of these guns and look at what’s going on in there, you will find in the case of a P320 is that there is one and only one thing preventing the striker from traveling under loaded spring pressure, and that one thing is holding on by approximately the thickness of your finger nail. The amount of engagement is less than the sum of the stacked tolerances of play between parts from itself to the frame. Which means I don’t believe it is true that all of these guns going off were simply dropped. Which means the updated trigger didn’t, and cannot, fix the issue. The gun needs a total redesign. There’s no one or two parts you can change in that pistol that can fix it.

Ok hear me out, the 320 becomes a truck gun, because if it gets stolen and NDs, it’s a moral positive because it most likely will be taking out a criminal…

I have a couple copies... My college roommate was a Chemistry TA and had the keys to the supply room. Can you believe he never let me in there? THE NERVE!

Even good slides have twice the number of screws facing sheer forces. The design of the RMR footprint doesn’t help

Going with a MOS plate is a big contributor for this. Too many failure points. It’s why I wend with the ACRO, its mounting system is basically a picatinny rail like we’ve been doing on rifles for 2 decades now. I trust it more.

Spent the weekend at the Atoka BBQ FEST. don’t think I’ve ever been that wet. Road closures and phone killed by falling in the water made the trip home take 3x longer. I finally had to use my HAM radio to figure out where I was, lol

I prefer a variable power optic over a magnifier, as it doesn’t obscure the target by magnifying the dot

That is literally my dream AK, but unfortunately I cant swing that. Good luck with sale!

Random Conspiracy Theory: What if the protests against Tesla are a Deep State conspiracy to use reverse psychology in order to convince conservatives to accept electric vehicles….

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Seriously. If I didn’t live in Memphis I’d be all over this

No it didnt change my mind. But that said: If someone calls you a Horse, you punch him in the mouth. If a second person calls you a Horse, you call him an A-hole. If a third person calls you a Horse, you probably ought to start looking for a saddle... I have not personally seen one go off, but I know and trust a couple who have. Not worth it to me

Unfortunately, my trade would be a Gen 4 34...

Id be interested, but with young kids Im entirely dependent on time and place

100% Running my M1A EBR would be SICK though...