Thought for the day:
Master the basics.
Work: had a long work day yesterday, not much time. Did a 5 mile fast walk and jog on a local high school track.
Question of the day:
This came up recently. Do you know the difference between a single action, double action, and striker fired semi-auto pistol?
One of my favorite places. It’s a spring fed creek that runs and builds from way up in the mountain. The further up you go the better/more tricky it gets.
Yeh, I have trouble holding onto em. If i hadn’t broke the pocket clip…or had i put it up til i got a replacement clip, probably wouldn’t have lost it.
The good thing is i like buying them, at least when theyre not exhorbitant and thst one isnt.
One thing with this one different - the AO was a bit tight outta the box. Some Brownells Action Lube cured the problem tho 
I will say SOG had quite a nice edge on the blade. I’m impressed. I appreciate them saving me some time handling that personally
Thought for the day:
Don’t sit with your back to any doors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Workout:
My version of a filthy 50: plate raises, box step ups, pushups, band punches, crunches, chin ups and leg raises.
Skill training: left hand handgun shooting only.
Question of the day:
No, this isn’t a joke question:
Can you drive a vehicle with a manual transmission? If not, I would suggest staying inside the borders of the United States.
3 on the tree or 4 on the floor?
Ha. 3 on a tree. I have never hear that before. The only time I have ever seen one was at a classic car show.
Thought for the day:
Unhappy it is though to reflect, that a Brother’s Sword has been sheathed in a Brother’s breast, and that, the once happy and peaceful plains of America are either to be drenched with Blood, or Inhabited by Slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous Man hesitate in his choice?”
– George Washington
Training:
Karv Maga, TKD and Kali katas.
Question of the day:
A hundred feet of para cord will do you no good unless you can tie a knot. How are your knot tying skills?
Pretty good. I was a tree cutter for a long time and consider it an essential skill for that type of work.
That being said, it’s probably past due to break out the ropes and practice a few.
Knot tying skills are pretty good, though I too need to pull out a length and refresh on some of them.
Former Navy, so I’m solid at the basics (bowline, square, and clove hitch). Also a rope rescue technician, so I’ve got a few more in the toolbox that I have to pull out occasionally - double loop figure eight on a bight, inline figure eight, water knot are the main ones.
Just to throw this out there, ALWAYS get a second opinion. I’ll try to keep this (fairly) short.
So, my wife’s first handgun (still have it of course) is a Springfield full size double stack 1911. No, she is not a little tiny thing. She dislikes Glocks and other polymer frame pistols, doesn’t like the way the weight feels in her hand. The double stack 1911 was bought for home defense when I deploy (at the time the only gun we had was her single shot 20 gauge - it’ll make a mess, but you only get the one shot). When she got her carry permit, I got her a Bersa Thunder 380 Combat (rubber finger groove grips, green on black color). She had been talking about going back to a 1911 for carry as well, so she picked up a Springfield 1911 Micro Compact GI Edition in 45. The GI sights suck, so I had her get tritium sights done by a gunsmith. This is where the story picks up.
Get the pistol back from the gunsmith, it shoots consistently low at 5-7 yards with 230 grain FMJ. As in, I was taking my time and was hitting 5-6 inches low. Take it back, they mess with it, shoot it from a vise and tell us 4 inches at 5 yards. They then tell us that is due to the 3 inch barrel, and to get 180 grain as that will bring up the POI. Goes completely against everything I’ve ever learned about guns, but most of that has been with rifles so, hey, they’re the gunsmith right. Ask them about fitting a shorter front sight, to bring the POA and POI closer to each other. They don’t do their own machine work (slide had to be milled for the dovetails), they send their stuff to Browning for the milling. Browning only makes one size front sight. Buy lighter ammo. No other ideas from them.
I end up at another gunshop looking for something (forget what) and get to talking with one of their guys, he agree with me about the heavier/lighter bullet conundrum. It then occurs to me about putting a different rear sight. So, through some playing around - including me ordering the wrong sight - we end up with a taller rear sight installed on the pistol, and the POI is maybe an inch or so low at 7 yards with 230 grain FMJ. ((if anyone is confused on the height of the rear sight fixing the POA/POI, by raising the rear sight a little - we’re talking about 50 thousandths of an inch - it causes you to bring the front sight up to meet it, raising the angle of the barrel in relation to the sights and thus raising the point of impact))
Why go through all this trouble rather than just getting 180 grain bullets? Well, for one, 185 grain .45 ACP is typically jacketed hollow point rather than full metal jacket…not exactly what you want to use for target practice, or an 800 round 2 day shooting course for that matter. But the larger point being, the gun should be able to run good on basically whatever I feed it, and not have to get some hard-to-find stuff to be able to shoot it at all.
I am calling BS on that, it should shoot nearly point of aim with either 230 or 185.
I have a Springfield Officers Model with a 3 inch barrel. It shot 3 to 4 inches low out of the box. Called the company, they said it was made for a 6 o’clock hold. WHAT? I don’t like that hold and it will fuck you up in a combat situation (IMHO). So, called them back and asked them to replace the sights, they said take it to a gunsmith. no, it is still in the safe.
Not to mention the cost and wear on the shooter and pistol.
IMHO, there no excuse for any modern pistol to not shoot point of aim at 15 yards, I don’t care if it a 3 inch barrel, with today’s milling technology that should be child’s play. point of aim with a 230 grain bullet at 15 yards should be standard. Hell, the 1911 has been around since, well, since 1911 and you still cannot make one that is accurate from the factory? Sorry, this isn’t helping any but the situation with Springfield has left a bad after taste. I agree with you, you should should not need specialized sights just to fire from 15 yards.
Thought for the day:
From MGunz:
it’s the change in our thought process. It’s the norm today (in the United States), for people to just be fatter. Overall kids are more overweight, as are their parents. Frankly, it’s very common to see whole families that are very over weight. Don’t take my word for it, go to any Wal-Mart or Buc-ee’s truck stop and take a look around. However, it’s now something that you’re not supposed to comment on. It’s not politically correct and with so many people now overweight, they’re having their own influence on everything. Airlines make bigger seats, restaurants bigger chairs and most major clothing manufactures have lines of clothing to accommodate for the overweight people. Overweight models are a big thing now too, recently a famous fashion magazine had a very overweight model on their cover to make that very point.
If you have ever spend any time in a third world country, this statement really hits home when you return.
Training:
off day, spend about 6 hours over all chopping and splitting fire wood. smoked my ass.
Question of the day:
I cannot imagine anyone on this sight having the above problem, but, if you have children, are you planning activities to provide a healthy life style?
To be fair, we didn’t try shooting the pistol until after the sights had been changed out the first time. She literally bought it and took it to the gunsmith (recommended by the shop she bought the pistol from). So it may have shot well with the original sights - don’t know, the GI sights suck, and we both wanted better easy-acquisition sights on the pistol. It just took more time (and money) than I would have expected.
At least the two sets of replacement sights I bought (separate from the original milling package) weren’t very expensive.
In related news, we are going to a Dave Spaulding (Handgun Combatives) course in MS next weekend - his Advanced Covert Carry course. I’ll try and keep notes to give a decent write-up and review after we get back.
Yeah. I take my kid hiking/mushroom hunting and fishing with me throughout the year. He also likes to do push ups with me during commercial breaks, so a few nights a week we’ll get down and bang out sets of 20, watch a TV segment, repeat. We do the same with weights too. He has his own 3 and 10lb. dumbells that we play with, but I’ve taken the 20 off of him for a while because he strained his back “deadlifting” it. Enthusiastic, but bad form. I should have kept him a little more in check on that.
I’ve also put an airdyne in the living room so that I could ride and watch tv, but it turns out he loves the thing too. He’s too small to actually ride it, but he figured out how to stand on the pedals while working the handle bars. It started out looking ridiculous, but now he has built up some muscle and coordination and actually works it. On any given night he’ll spend at least an hour on the thing.
So all told, we end up doing a lot of stuff, but it isn’t completely structured. I’d rather, at this point that it just be something that we simply do. Next year (spring) we’ll start doing bike rides on the local trails where the objective will be to just go in the same direction for a given amount of time. In theory he can probably go for infinite miles, but actually he only just turned 7.
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I do solemnly swear the democratic presidential hopefuls in my country seem to have almost all lost their damn minds.
I might ought to either cut down on the coffee (prolly not) or midday news viewing.
Something doesn’t sound right. Common factory zero for duty style pistols is 25 yds or meters. At 50 yds those pistols will show <1” drop difference between 185 and 230 grain duty ammo. You aren’t going to dial in multiple inches of difference by changing factory ammo at a few yards.
I hope you and your wife have a good training session. Dave Spaulding is a true gentleman and scholar, with over 40 years of experience. He is the true definition of Triple Canopy’s saying " the quiet professional".
I think your son is very fortunate in having a father like you. Building bonds with him now will give him a guide post for becoming a man. All my respect. From what you have told us about his workouts, I believe he can kick my ass now.
Yes, I agree. I believe the very fabric of our Constitution and country are under attack. To the polls we go, our only hope.
Yes, I agree with you.