Dubious Don #56333

Nope. Crying don't make them fall out. Excess tears do make them a bit unstable, vision will be a bit dogy until things dry a bit. I live in AZ, blowing dirt can be an issue but the eyes are built for this so especially with wraparound eyepro, which I normally wear anyway, it's not been a real issue. Dry eyes is more of an issue. I carry a bottle of eyedrops for this very reason.

To show the horrors of war?!?? Dunno. I didn't like that part either. But I've no doubt things like that happen. Hollyweird has always been that way. Specifically showing "the bad stuff". I thought the action scenes were pretty good, considering. That's how they took towns with armor. House to house fighting is brutal in any era. Just ask soldiers who were there about places like Fallujah. American tanks really were that outgunned. They were no match for German 88's. Do AP rounds glance off the frontal armor of tanks like that? LOL. Why do you think the frontal armor of tanks is steeply angled?

I ain't never been in no "gunfight" neither. Have I been in "use of force" incidents with my agency? Yep. Surely was. Bunches over the last forty years. When you say gunfight, brings up visions of Matt Dillon facing the surly cowboy on main street in Dodge. They're not the same thing. But I get your drift Do you need to be a race car driver to "teach" defensive driving? Having been a student (multiple times) Of the Bondurant School, which taught racing to race car drivers and high-speed driving to police, security, military up to an including the boyz that protect our President, of their cadre that I remember only a few were actual racing competitors. But they were ALL fantastic teachers. That, was Jeff. And his staff. I would venture to say that the number of his students who successfully used what he taught them number in the hundreds if not thousands. If you count in that number the people who never went to one of his classes or to the school he founded but read his books/articles that number goes up quite a lot, I'd imagine. That in itself validates his teachings. Cooper Color Codes It's MORE than that. The book you seek is called Principles of Personal Defense. Originally written in 1972, it is still available at the Gunsite Pro Shop. The principles are; Alertness Decisiveness Aggressiveness Speed Ruthlessness Surprise The Tactical Wire article was pretty good. Why it's not always the best shooters (scorewise) that win gunfights but those who can THINK during the fight works the same when you're an instructor. To be an instructor is so very much more than simply reading from a lesson plan. You have to have the ability to transfer that knowledge to your students in such a way that they retain it and can call it up when its needed at the drop of a hat. As for sayings I'd say this one 'those who can, do. Those who can't, teach' belongs in the same rubbish file as "fudd".

Well. I'd say Tank Hoover got that right. Nice article on Elmer's Bio. Was he a Fudd? Not in the sense that name holds today. Are his accomplishments "outdated" today? Not hardly. He showed us the way on a LOT of things. Did he blow up a SAA or two? LOL, heard that he did looking for that "load". Did he make long range shots that most of us can't? Yeah. he did. Was he a pretty sharp guy? Oh yeah. If Elmer's a FUDD, so are Askins. Bill Jordan. Jack Weaver. Jeff Cooper. Ed McGivern and a ton of others. I'd say he's in good company!

"The Duncan-Carter Hearing Protection Act was delivered by GOP sponsors U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan of South Carolina and Rep. John Carter of Texas and aims to deregulate suppressors as a safety measure to help promote their use in protecting hearing." http://www.guns.com/2017/01/10/hearing-protection-act-introduced-to-new-congress/ I would urge y'all to contact your congress-critters and Senators about this bill. Remember suppressors and silencers are the same thing. Stress these devices would still require the same paperwork and background check, along with all the regulatory protections that a handgun would.

Pro Ears 200 behind the neck @ 70 bucks Caldwell E-max behind the neck @25 bucks Howard leight, which is my new favorite (sorry ProEars) doesn't have a behind the neck model that I can find. I'd go with the ProEars, they're pretty good.

ATF regulations ain't per'zactly easy to navigate much less the patchwork of laws across the US. MASS, NY, CA and a few others.....oh so not worth a sale. Should an out of state dealer/PP send a firearm and violate the law unknowingly....well, that ain't an excuse should you make an error. They'll hammer you. Not worth it.

I got one of those, won it at WR as a matter of fact and I still use it for WB !!! They didn't make very many, it was made by para and is pretty basic. Sweet running iron. If you're not going to buy it, tell me where it is and I will! $725 is a bit high but...

Last gunshow I went to was the Crossroads/Small Arms in Dec. Me and my buddy got a table, filled it to the brim...twice and sold every gun we brought, LOL. Stuff like a Snider in .577 for $150 a Mauser 71/84 for $200 ( which like all my stuff was way more than I paid for it ) The wife's S&W Shield for what I had into it. ( No, that's already spent on her new Kimber, LOL. ) Yeah, I think we did ok. We usually do. There was a time when we would do a show and sell most of our stuff and have to make a run home during the day for more stuff. There was a time when prices were more reasonable, too. The internet sites are driving prices up. The internet in general is making it tough on brick & mortar stores like the one I work at ( Yeah, SEMI-retired now, LOL ) and gunshows reflect that but there are deals if you look for them. $11,000 for a Ramo1919 done up to look like a 1917 water cooled. What a deal. ( Actually, it really WAS a good deal ! ) Remington 1903A3 in exc condition, $575. Really good deal. S&W model 10 heavy barrel, nice, $700. Not a deal. Takeoff M4 uppers, 14.5" with bolt carriers in very well worn/desert pickup condition $500....definitely NOT a deal when I can get a brand new upper in pretty much any configuration for way less than that. 22 magnum in cci, rem, nice stock for $18/bx of 50. Powder primers, primers for $26/1000 My store price is $37 and I think Cabela's is $32. There were lots of collectibles; more than I had time for and that was a three day show. I did pick up a real nice vintage holster made by Texas lawman/detective Oliver Ball. No, gun shows aren't what they used to be but there's still deals and fun to be had !

All of the information you seek is readily available on the internet, courtesy of Google, LOL. We no longer have airborne alerts and our readiness posture is the lowest it has ever been. Airborne alerts stopped right after the breakup of the Soviet Union. Ground alerts, except for ADIZ are no longer. That tip of the nuclear triad has been blunted. Nuclear duty in the armed forces isn't a joy. PRP, no lone zones, constant security checks and.....use of deadly force is authorized. I wouldn't know about gold in Air Force survival kits, I was in the Army and we didn't have no gold...LOL. We still have land based missiles, all are on 24/565 alert of course. We still have our nuclear submarines. Somewhere around 14 depending on who's figures you believe. Who knows how many are on patrol at any given time but they run with two crews to maximize the time spent at sea. 24 trident missiles apiece, each with up to 8 warheads but I think they're limited to three on each. Used to be the captain, weapons officer and exec had independent launch capability under very narrow circumstances. That all changed during Clinton. (Seems da hag didn't like it not being under her absolute control...LOL) Have they changed proceedures? I don't know. Been out of that for a long time. At one time with a Strategic Air Command run by Gen Curtis LeMay, no one dared attack us. Now? Not so much. I do believe that we are vulnerable to a first strike because of some of these current policies.

Yes and more, LOL. The S&W action depends on two springs; trigger spring inside the rebound slide and the hammer spring. (mainspring) Both bust be matched, this is a SAFETY factor. The trigger spring must be of proper tension so it returns the trigger forward FASTER than the hammer spring pushes the hammer. I will be direct here; some nitwits (not you, other people I um...know) chop off a coil or two off the rebound spring and call it good. If you want to shoot yourself in the butt someday, this is a good plan. Here's why; The internal safeties on the S&W design DEPEND on proper weight springs to function correctly. There's a ledge on the rebound slide behind the trigger that contacts a matching ledge on the hammer. There's also a hammer block that also works off the rebound slide. Both of these DEPEND on that trigger spring (rebound spring) to power the slide forward BEFORE the hammer goes down. Changing only the rebound spring is a bad plan. Get the Wolff kit. Once installed there's a test to see if its done correctly. Unloaded. Cock the hammer, put a pencil down the bore resting on the breechface. Tap the trigger to release the hammer so the trigger springs forward. (I use a magic marker) If the spring tension is correct the pencil is going nowhere. If the trigger spring is too light the pencil will fly out of the barrel. This is why those kits come with one hammer spring and two or three rebound (trigger) springs.