BigK

Excellent point, I respect your perspective. I've heard them bad-mouthed so many times it's not funny. I assume those people are just ignorant about these guns. I'm guessing they figure that any gun that costs under $200 OTD must be crap, but they're wrong. I went to a training class back in May and the instructor said someone brought one of his HCP classes. The instructor had never even heard of one and several people in class laughed and said they were guns for criminals. I was glad to hear the instructor say the guy with the C9 shot as good as anyone else with no malfunctions.

Good point Mike.357...I don't have a bass boat, but I do have kids and a pool. The amount of trouble is definitely NOT worth it sometimes, LOL.

I think they are comfortable out of the box, but wait til you've sweated on it for a couple of weeks and it forms to fit your hip! You won't believe how comfy it is then.

I would not throw my kid out for making a mistake, no matter how big the mistake is. I think that is tantamount to giving up and wrong. In fact, regardless of what I'd let my daughter believe I'd do, I'd never react like this father did over this type of situation.

It had ready been pointed out earlier in THIS post that your irreverent referral to The Holy Bible as if it's just any old book was offensive. So I'm not the only one who felt antagonized by that comment. You were not quoted out of context and it does not take an explicit declaration with Christianity singled out to see your intent.

My mistake, perhaps. Last I knew, he was with the airport police at BNA, which I thought was a division of Metro. If I have gotten this part wrong, it's my bad - not his, I didn't realize they were not affiliated before I opened my big mouth. Sorry. After doing some looking...I see that they are NOT affiliated in any way, but...the airport police are CALEA accredited, adhere to POST standards, are trained at the TN State Fire & Police Academy as well as the airport police academy.

Jeff charges $65 for HCP classes and does a good job at it, IMO. I liked having taken the class from an LEO rather than a private citizen. That other perspective is priceless.

I have no doubt that you are intelligent enough to know what "reverence" is and what beliefs are held sacred by Christians. That is why I don't believe for a second that you don't realize that comments like... ...are very antagonistic and inflammatory to Christians. Based on your history on TGO of making anti-Christian comments and the reactions you've gotten, I think you carefully choose to use comments like this. I may be mistaken, but I get the distinct impression that enjoy antagonizing Christians for their faith. I do not recall a single instance when someone belittled, mocked, or took jabs at your or anyone else's lack of a religion. Assuming you have no religious faith and hold no ideals with the sacred regard that Christians have for God, the Holy Bible, and Jesus; how is it that you are so offended when someone else does that you feel the need to "put them in their place"? Our faith should not detract from your lack thereof.

It's never banned when SOME people suspect that your sense of morality might be based on it. They can't resist the opportunity.

Mine too. If you liked his style in the HCP class and enjoy shooting, you'll like this class.

I told my 14 yr daughter the gist of the story. Aside from the boys still being alive to tell the story, she seemed to think that's similar to how it would have gone down at our house. ...I've decided not to mess with her expectations on this one.

Perhaps I could have been more clear... You can force someone to salute you, you can force someone to call you sir, and you can force someone to follow orders. These are merely gestures that allow respect to be implied, but only a fool would infer they were being respected from these demonstrations alone. I respect lots of people and every one of them has earned it. I fake respect to far more people out of fear of reprisal. I do NOT believe Obama respects our soldiers or what their service stands for. I think he fakes this respect for cameras out of fear of reprisals by the public on election day. I respect the office of the presidency, but I do not respect the man who is currently making a mockery of that post.

We'll never get a fair shake from today's mainstream media. If they got their way and guns magically disappeared, stabbings and bludgeonings would go up dramatically. Violent crime has always and will always exist, regardless of the existence of guns. Then the weak would be at an even bigger disadvantage against the strong.

I wish my daughter always acted like I raised her, but she doesn't. Luckily, it's the small stuff, not the big stuff. She gets good grades, hasn't gotten pregnant, isn't doing drugs, and hasn't been caught hosting a threesome, so I count myself lucky. People are individuals and have their own sense of morality (or lack thereof) and their own degrees of self-control. I have 3 siblings that were raised under the same influence that I was, yet 2 of those 3 have struggled to do what they learned to be "right" most of the time. One will clearly never learn, but at least the other is finally seeing the light. Their actions are absolutely NOT a reflection on my parents and the values they tried to instill. I know b/c I have the same values my parents have and cannot see how they could make the decisions they've made.

What can you do in a situation like that? Most dads might want to scare the crap out of the boys and maybe even kick their ass. The daughter deserves something too, but not this much. All-in-all, this dad did what many of us might want to do in that situation, if there were no consequences. At least now, we know what might happen, if we do.

Respect must be earned. It is not given out of duty...that would be fear. Regardless, it cannot be a NON-political picture of a President doing his duty, b/c the White House released the photo for purely political reasons.

I think the IQ of the electorate is what really needs to be questioned! He's at least smart enough to get a whole bunch of 'tards to vote for him.

Think the ghost of James Brown was controlling his teleprompter?

I'm not sure how often they have the classes, but he had them stacked pretty close together this spring and early summer. Right now he's out of town doing some advanced training of his own for the PD. At the last class I was at, IIRC, he said he'd be gone for 3 months. I'll shoot him an email and see if he responds...I'm ready to take another class too. I'll let you know what he says when I hear from him.

Truly awesome to hear!! I LOVE ABs and can't believe you found a puppy so quick. When my wife got me mine, it took months to find one locally. I hope it work out and the new family member helps to ease your pain, bro.

I liked Amanda. She was pretty cool. Too bad she sucks at shooting offhand with a rifle. My wife was actually looking forward to this season, b/c of Amanda (must be a "nurses stick together thing"). Now she's let down and won't watch anymore. Any way...I thought the team challenge was one of the better ones they've had. The elimination looked like it would be fun.

I liked the last BG show, but it wasn't worth the money, especially since the RK show in M'boro is so much bigger/better. A/C or not, I'll keep going there from now on. I find way more deals I wish I hadn't passed on at RK.

I've been wanting one of these bad boys ever since the Shot Show videos came out. They've made several improvements since then, including chokes. I'm anxious to see if they come up with a heat shield, b/c that tac rail looks like it'd be melted plastic in no time.

I'm not a Mike Seeklander fan, but he kind of got screwed a little bit in the season 1 opener. Yeah, he missed the target, but they gave them a spotter for a reason...teamwork. I've shot with a spotter several times and without proper calls for adjustment you're screwed, because you have to focus on so much, including follow-thru that you can't also watch where your shots go. I think most rifle shooters could have done better, so he still shot like crap, just saying it wasn't 100% on him. I've seen him shoot waaaay better.

I'm trying to talk my 15 yr old daughter into coming to the Zombie Match too.