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[Will Brink]

Nice. HK makes some of the best shooting toys on the planet (I wish I had a MP5 ).

One thing I really don't want to do is buy a project, I want something relatively GTG out of the box.

Finished upper, finished lower, pop in two retaining pins, gun is GTG. Not much of a project there, but I believe HK is now making a full civilian version of the 416, and or simply go with brands mentioned/search M4C forums for additional info, where you will learn a ton, save money, etc.

Those guys really know their sh%$ over there when it comes to AR/M4 platforms.

[SloppyJ]

Just ordered a Smith and Wesson M&P 15. This will be my first M-4 platform gun. Is it bad that I already have a new quad rail, Red dot, and random other parts to put on it before I even shoot it?

And I just picked this up. They just came back out. Colt mustang pocketlite .380

[ZECH]

Great little carry gun

[bio-chem]

recently i've purchased a Savage 16 .325 used and a .444 Marlin also used. first 5 shots from the .325 with box ammo was shooting under 1.5" I'm very pleased. a bit of handloading and i can't wait to see where this bad boy perks.

[Will Brink]

Shot the "frozen turkey" match yesterday and one stage in particular was a lot of fun.

First things first. I was really rusty, and it showed. I got hit with several newbie proceedurals (such as not retaining a mag with ammo still in it, etc) and such.

I was "OK" for me considering the rust, but FUBARd one stage badly, which sucked out loud.

This one stage I got on film was a lot of fun and messed a lot of people up... scenario: you were dropping your GF off at home, and some gang decided to do bad things to you/her and you have to pull GF down to safety (which started a 6 second timer for that moving target), engage target right at the drivers window with 4rnds to slide lock, reload, and engage the other targets.

Your firearm and ammo are all in a tool box on the floor of car as the scenario is you put it there on your way back from work, which why you see me reaching for everything

Some tried different strategies, like trying to store a mag in their mag pouch and others, but this usually lead to fumbling and or missing the mover while fumbling, etc. I chose to dump the mags on the seat and work from there.

I got two into the stationary target (to the left) and engaged the mover, then back to the stationary.

Each target had to have a least 4 holes in it, with two best shots scored.**

I was a tad slow, but my hits were all good on this stage, so I'll take it.

I think it's important and useful to vid matches occasionally as it's useful as a training tool, get feedback from others, etc.

Mistakes: On this stage (don't even wanna talk about some of the others...) I did a tac reload knowing I didn't have enough ammo to fully engage last target, and threw the mag into the car seat. Me, I considered that retaining it as it was where i wanted it and under my control, but retention = on your person, so got a procedural for that one.

I should have just spun around and gone to slide lock on that last target, dumped the empty mag, grabbed a new one off the seat, and added a few more.

Here's the stage vid:







** = personally, when in doubt, send more love. I'll add extra rnds to targets if I'm not 100% sure where I'm hitting and don't care what that does to the score.

[Witmaster]

** = personally, when in doubt, send more love. I'll add extra rnds to targets if I'm not 100% sure where I'm hitting and don't care what that does to the score.

I'm assuming you were shooting your .45?

That sounds like a pretty cool event. I've never competed but have taken part in multiple tacical shooting (training) engagements. USSA (near my hometown in Okahoma) has some great ranges/scenerios.

[Will Brink]

I'm assuming you were shooting your .45?

No, I have moved mostly to 9mm and the Smith & Wesson M&P platform.

That sounds like a pretty cool event. I've never competed but have taken part in multiple tacical shooting (training) engagements. USSA (near my hometown in Okahoma) has some great ranges/scenerios.

Try some IDPA, you'll enjoy it for sure.

[Big Pimpin]

My brother called me yesterday afternoon and said he and the wife were going to the range and asked if I wanted to come. I said it's probably a bad idea since I've been drinking for the last 3 hours.

[Will Brink]

Some great photos at Wired.com to this review:

Chicks With Guns Photo Book Doesn’t Disappoint

By Jakob Schiller Email Author
October 26, 2011 |


Lindsay McCrum's new photo book Chicks With Guns is just what you think it is: Striking portraits of women with their firearms. What's unexpected, however, is the impact of the photos as a collection.

If viewers don't personally know one of these gun-toters, McCrum hopes the book serves as an introduction to a growing community of 15 to 20 million women in the U.S. who own and use guns.

“Usually women with guns are turned into comic book characters — Lara Croft, Kill Bill — and I thought it would be fascinating to find out who the real women in our country are who own guns,” she says.

After three years and 280 photo shoots, McCrum chose 80 compelling and thoughtful frames for her book. Each photo is accompanied by quotes from the subjects about their history or feelings on gun ownership.

For McCrum, Chicks With Guns is not an attempt to enter the ideological debate about guns. Instead, she says she tried to harness the visceral power of photography to provide a more rounded, honest picture of what women gun owners look like today.

Some of the frames in the book are certainly what one would expect — a policewoman with her shotgun, a woman in a cowboy hat in front of a picturesque Western backdrop. Others are more surprising.

In one picture, a woman holds her naked three-year-old son in her left hand and her grandfather’s shotgun in her right. In another, an older woman stands in the middle of her living room surrounded by dolls and teddy bears (above).

“I’m not in the judgment business and the photographs are not policy, nor are they advocacy,” McCrum says. “I wasn’t interested in glorify anyone or vilifying anyone.”

Regardless of where she stands, McCrum’s portraits of this community seem have resonated with a much broader public. The book sold out on Amazon its first day and McCrum has been busy signing books and dealing with media requests from places as far afield as Field and Stream and Juxtapoz Magazine.

McCrum says all the attention has been humbling and surprising, but ultimately values the access and relationships the book allowed for.

“All these women were extraordinary, they were excited and generous with their time, and I cannot tell you how many told me that were so happy to be seen and heard,” she says.

"I bought my gun — the one in the photograph — at the local gun store in Merced, California. It’s a .38 titanium revolver made by Taurus. My hands are not strong enough to pull certain guns back, so I need a revolver. It’s very lightweight and easy to use.... When I was mayor, I couldn’t practice as often as I wanted to, but now that I’m no longer mayor I go a lot more often. The girls usually go on Tuesday nights. We go to our local gun range, hook up our targets, and then all go down and see who’s the best shot."

Story and pics:

Chicks With Guns Photo Book Doesn’t Disappoint | Raw File*| Wired.com

[Witmaster]

[QUOTE]=Will Brink;2569749]“Usually women with guns are turned into comic book characters — Lara Croft, Kill Bill — and I thought it would be fascinating to find out who the real women in our country are who own guns,” she says.
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This is awesome!! I hope many women read this and take interest.

My wife used to LOATH handguns... despised them. She was a card=carrying subscriber to the school of thought that taught "all guns were evil".

Well, she's now a Realtor, and I've lost count of the number of times she has driven out to remote and isolated properties to show "prospective clients".

I think she realized her vulnerability when a colleague was raped at knife-point in an isolated rural location. The local police think the only reason the victim was left alive is because a lost commuter pulled in the driveway to make a U-turn during the assault.

My wife now carries a P238 "Lady" in her purse and a FN 5x7 in the console of her car. She's probably been to more gun safety courses than I have!

Ladies... I know a great many of you on this site are in excellent physical condition, but... make no mistake.. when steel meets flesh, flesh will always yield. Better it be YOU the possesses the upper hand.

[Boomer182]

I recently got my CHL, and I own a Tarus Millennium CC 9mm, a Ruger CC 9mm and a 12 gauge.