MacGyver

I’m going to want to see some real data on those heavily tapered mags before I take a chance on one. Neat concept. But that’s a complicated geometry.

I’m afraid the pistol preferences of trolls will remain a mystery...

Oh, my sincerest congratulations to you guys. Y’all are going to be great parents.

Been married nine times...maybe it’s you.

I'm getting tired of these threads...

Seems like I saw @PackinMama on a few weeks back.

We could talk for two hours on that by itself. I've got a microcontroller based system that will control airflow and thus temperature to practically a degree or two, but I almost never use it. Heart of the matter on the BGE and the Kamodo Joe like David has is that they're so thick, you can pretty easily do an 8 hour run without touching the vents.

Glad you’re home my friend.

He hasn’t been able to get online in the hospital. I’m certain he’ll read (and respond) with some detail once he gets home.

I hurt for these victims and their families. I often think that in trying to protect our children and keep them safe as much as we do these days, in some ways we've done them a disservice. The bully plays an important place in a child's development - and when we step in to deal with it as adults, we might just be depriving our children - and the bullies of important lessons. Life isn't fair. It's full of people who will abuse their power to pick on the weak. It's important to learn the skill of standing up - that it has consequences, and you might get hurt - but it's worth it. It's also important to let bullies try it out - and maybe some of them will figure out that it doesn't feel good in the long run. Maybe some of them will get hit in the nose. Regardless, most bullies historically have learned that there's always someone stronger than you. But, we've screwed this up - we've tried to keep our kids from experiencing any discomfort - and don't let them work through things on their own. We shouldn't be surprised that we see escalations. As a forensic investigator - online cyberbullying definitely adds a different component - that often amplifies the problem. There's not really a solution here other than to be aware of your child's use of technology and a lot of conversations about these hard topics. By the time they're in middle school it's too late.

Being a non-stabilized round, I’m not sure we can assume that. A 4” group at 50 yards is fine for CQB accuracy, but that bullet is unstable enough by 50 yards that the group could potentially be much larger at 100 yards. Somebody correct me if my thinking is off.

I’d love to get ahold of one of these, a high speed camera, and some XM855 tracers. I’d be willing to bet that once that bullet starts to keyhole, the trajectory would get really interesting pretty quickly.

Got a quick update from Doug yesterday. Hopefully he’ll be coming home on Thursday.

I find that most often I run into Murphy when I don’t pay proper attention to Newton.

That's sweet. Have fun with it.

People have been rifling barrels in one form or another since the 15th century - for a reason. I wanted to call this an autoloading musket - but then realized I was being unfair to muskets as there were plenty of rifled variants.

I'll check them out. I don't discount the energy delivered to a target - pushing a 98gr round that fast is going to dump some energy when it hits something. I question what the shooter is going to feel (and recognize that some of that is going to be subjective.) It's a cool design. I like how they appear to have lowered the bore axis. At first I looked at that beavertail and thought, "wow they're serious about that." But they have to be, I guess. Without it, it would be like the Model 97 of the pistol world.

I'd want to see some measured data there. That sounds great in a marketing piece - but Newton still has to sign off. And, he's a jerk...

Seems like an expensive way to try to save $200. Truth of the matter is this is a SHOT show gimmick to get some free press and generate some traffic to their booth. The range day articles even indicate as much when they talk about production models will be 300BLK but range day models being 5.56 "to save on ammo costs."

This reminds me of the NAA Earl that I had a while back. It wasn't very practical, but it sure was fun to shoot. https://northamericanarms.com/product-category/firearms/1860-magnums-the-sheriff-earl-hogleg/ Might scratch the itch with something that generally less than $275 on the street.

No way I'm putting my suppressor on a rifle that's throwing a non stabilized round... While I get the fact that practical effects on accuracy might be mitigated at CQB distances, unfortunately bullets rarely stop there. This seems like an easy way to break the "know your target and what's beyond it" rule in spirit.

It’s pretty.

We’ve all got our vices...

I’m almost entirely convinced that you get better service and a better relationship at a dealer that’s outside of a major metro market. I don’t know what it is - maybe it’s that there’s always someone walking in behind you in a big dealership. Maybe it’s just a small town thing. I traveled to buy my last truck after I just couldn’t find anyone who much wanted to sell me one here in the Nashville area.

Do we have any more documented evidence of this most recent bash Beretta thread then we do any in any of the others of late? It seems like we’ve got plenty of, “I know a dealer who says” but it doesn’t go any further.