If it's dark enough in the house to benefit from a red dot or laser, then it's dark enough that his TLR-1 is probably the better option. As someone above said, I doubt a red dot is going to be all that useful in this type of situation as we're not talking standing on a line at the range and taking your time to line up a shot.
We're talking the sound of a smashed window at 3am, bloodshot eyes, tremendous grogginess, heart rate elevated to where it feels like it's jumping out of your body - grabbing the gun and pointing it in the right direction at that point is a challenge, let along trying to acquire a target in pitch black through an aiming reticle.
400 rds per month? I surely do not shoot as much. Plus I still live in a small apartment so no space. Will have to stay with my $0.30/rd average @ Academy (Winchester FMJ 9mm).
I finally picked up a reloading kit at the Cabela's after hours party last night. It's a Lyman kit with a T-Mag II turret press. I don't have a bench at the moment (might just use my computer desk when I get a new one) but am wondering about die sets. Can I just buy any die set (RCBS, Lee, Hornady, etc)? What do you guys use?
Grr, still want to get a 1911. Anyone know of a SSE FFL in the San Jose, CA area?
I'm pretty sure Metal Dog Tactical off of 1st Street will do them, but their website doesn't mention it :hmm:
I finally picked up a reloading kit at the Cabela's after hours party last night. It's a Lyman kit with a T-Mag II turret press. I don't have a bench at the moment (might just use my computer desk when I get a new one) but am wondering about die sets. Can I just buy any die set (RCBS, Lee, Hornady, etc)? What do you guys use?
AFAIK the threading size for dies is basically standard so they should all work. I'm a fan of Lee dies for their reasonably priced carbide dies and the factory crimp dies.
Plus I still live in a small apartment so no space
Here's a weird anomaly that I feel is worth noting. No one knows how to sight a Kahr. This is the second one I've owned and I just figured it out. Even the company that makes the damned guns does not agree with me, it would appear.
Here is what people typically use for a sight picture:
It's hard to capture on a camera, but with your arm extended, the front sight pretty much fills the squarish notch in the rear sights, much like any other firearm. This feels familiar, and the instinct is to center the dot in the opening, just as you were leveling it with dots on either side of it.
Congratulations; you are now trained to shoot people in the dick.
What I very strongly feel is the proper alignment:
Despite Kahr not actually telling anyone this, it really seems like they made the rear sight like they did for an actual, well-thought-out reason. I don't mean the paint...I mean the actual shape. See the recesses, and how you get those two points at the top? Use those points to bisect the circle.
Congratulations; you are now hitting what you aim at.
I shot some pretty hilarious targets previously. I had some of those five target papers that inexplicably had unused top targets, but with target-sized groups on the white below them, heh. To look at it, it was just like...okay...you're doing something wrong...very consistently. But were you completely missing the target directly beside, directly above, or directly below your grouping?
She lined up, good form, took aim and proceeded to shoot the target right in the crotch.
Pretty damn good ammo deals here (starting at midnight) if you just want rounds for plinking and can grab some before he sells out:
www.ammoman.com/ammo-by-the-pound
Only posting the link because I don't plan to buy any
Damn! .40 is out of stock
Scored some .45 and 8mm at Walmart today. boxes each. I bought 3 boxes of 9's when I got there, got some other stuff I wanted and then back to the ammo section. I noticed there was another guy working that area so I bought boxes of .45
Dick
I just don't get it. We have no shortage of ammo here. Last weekend my local gun place had racks full of cheap ammo. They even had bulk brass ammo in a bag. That was new.
They were out of +Ps. Does that count as a shortage?
Dick
I just don't get it. We have no shortage of ammo here. Last weekend my local gun place had racks full of cheap ammo. They even had bulk brass ammo in a bag. That was new.
They were out of +Ps. Does that count as a shortage?
Today's Black Rifle Friday sale was a success.
Scored a brand new AR-15 (flat-top, forged upper/lower, standard furniture, included a 30-round GI mag and a very nice padded rifle bag) for $549. It was built well too, by the best local AR shop in town. Waaaay better than a barebones M&P15 Sport, which usually sells for about $100 more.
Also grabbed some $5 PMAGs.