El Chapo

How common were auto pistols before the 1980s among non-military shooters? If cops weren't likely to face people armed with autos on the streets, they probably were just carrying what virtually everyone else was carrying.

It's hard to say without knowing what military he's supposed to be in, but if it's ours, there is nothing correct about that. If he is supposed to be wearing a Class B uniform, he would be wearing ribbons on his left chest and there are none. Those shoulder boards are not correct at any rank. It goes on and on from there. When I was in the Army, we didn't wear a Class B version of our dress blues, although that changed later so there has been a white shirt uniform in my lifetime but not when I served. The Class B shirt would be have been green in my day. AF would wear a blue shirt (and blue tie) and the Marines' greens are a different color green. I suppose the Navy's officer service whites would have a white shirt, but their aviator wings are gold and look nothing like that shape, and their shoulder boards for a Rear Admiral look nothing like that.

Probably more a function of personality than degree. My wife is a Nurse Practitioner/Hospitalist. If you ask for "the doctor" (aka, a physician) she will be happy to tell you that the residents will be with you when they are free.

I have heard of this and even using a roll cage as an air tank. I'm not sure they have enough volume for it to matter, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. My K5 Blazer has electric onboard air setup and a 5 gallon tank. It takes about 2 minutes per tire to go from 10 PSI to street pressure.

That seems like a good start. Once to get to 2-3000 presentations I bet it'll get a lot easier. Also practice your draws in front of a mirror and practice picking up your dot before your arms extend.

I have very weak eye dominance and I a red dot is the first time I was able to shoot with both eyes open. I also just got the most incredible training tool I have ever seen, a Meta Quest 3 and the Ace shooting game. It is so real I walked into the wall. Hopefully that will help me find the dot.

I never liked green fiber optic tubes in my sights although I did try them and one of my guns even came with it. I replaced it with red a long time ago. The red dot is a lot more natural for me because that's what I'm used to looking at on my front sight. I do agree with the big dot; mine is 6 MOA. I'm shooting a 2011, so it has a narrower slide and the RMSc cut. The Vortex Defender CCW is one of the larger windows available for this bolt pattern so that's what I'm running. Like I said, this is my first dot pistol so I'm not that familiar with all of what might be out there but it's doing the job for now. A few of my cowboy friends and I will be going to the state level USPSA match in September so this is the division I'm picking for that.

A conclusion can follow from a single observation. Is there a magic number where "conclusions" are acceptable? 35 incidents is a pretty big sample. The 63% hit probability is a big deal. The national average is in the neighborhood of 20% the last time I looked at the data. During the 8 years where I would have been involved in investigating OIS incidents, I don't recall any where multiple shots were fired and the hit probability was anywhere close to 63%. The aggregate was, as would be expected, close to the national average. I think what I would take away from this is that people who don't shoot very often or very much do better with a dot than with sights because the dot is hard to ignore. I recently got my first pistol with a dot and it remains to be seen if I can shoot it faster. By the winter I will have an idea by looking at my scores, but right now the jury's still out.

If I was dead, I wouldn't care what my guns sold for. I got my money's worth out of every single one of them. I wouldn't spend one minute of my time left on this earth focused on that.

It's sad how far they fell. I remember them winning the longest world series game ever and sweeping the series.

That is wonderful! That's what I love about SASS so much, the culture of people. I hope that never changes.

I think Christmas songs or Yankee Doodle probably fit into that category. I'm not sure I know a single word to "Dixie."

I hope we never get to a point where gun giveaways become the norm. Big prize tables ruined PRS and probably many other shooting sports. SASS has the best people because there is no million dollar prize table for winning. I'd rather see vintage guns raffled off or given away randomly to match participants than winners, if we must.

The last time I watched it, the cars held 40 gallons of fuel and still had turbochargers. What year was that?

That's a shame. But that's also why I left my home state in 2010 and won't return.

Friend of mine accidentally answered a question incorrectly on a tablet like that and was banned from buying firearms from Sportsman's for 30 days. Still to this day he has no idea what he answered wrong. And he's an IT guy by trade who does cybersecurity for the DoD and has a TS/SCI clearance.

20m would be better. 2 hamsticks

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Do you use PC bullets with real black? I have been and now I hear maybe that's not for the best, but I haven't had any issues.

I'm surprised the triggers are so heavy even after polishing. I have done nothing to my Piettas except the Wolff "Shooter's Pak" sku 32325 and installed a pair of the lowered hammers. I recently bought a trigger pull gauge since I've never had one and thought I ought to have one in the toolbox. One of mine has a 2.5 pound trigger and the other is 3.5 pounds. I could have never guessed that they were that light nor that they were different than each other. They still pop CCI primers all day long so the mainsprings must not be that light. 4.2 pounds isn't heavy or anything, I'm just surprised to see a slicked up gun heavier than mine since mine are basically factory parts besides springs, which I only changed because the bolt spring was misbehaving.

Right. Which is why I would never buy it.

I had a bad experience with a Dillon tumbler a while back and I no longer buy anything from them that they don't manufacture in its entirety and covered by their lifetime warranty. Caveat emptor!

All you need is a C&R FFL ($30 for 3 years, renewable indefinitely) to avoid this, assuming the courts don't do it for us.