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I prefer Shooting-specific safety glasses such as Wiley X and others simply because their lenses typically tend to wrap around the head enough to block most things that might get in your eye from the back side of the glasses. I was an RSO for both IDPA and USPSA and during a match one afternoon...

I've never worried about it. I just get accustomed to whatever glasses I'm wearing. But my prescriptions aren't that strong and I can shoot using regular non-prescription shooting glasses most of the time. However I am 74 now and I'm starting to feel that luxury slip by the wayside. I used to...

Since I've finished installing a red dot sight on my pistol and got it cleaned up just I'm sitting here watching the end of "The Hunt For Red October" for about the 10th time.

We don't get quite that far out but pretty close. We hit 100 in the summer off and on, and in the winter we will see numerous days barely above freezing and a few well below freezing. I'm an RSO at a state-owned outdoor rifle range on Sunday afternoon. One day last winter the high was...

We did to!! Rain and 40 degrees. That's what we look forward to every year.

Yep, you guys are absolutely right. I just thought about the good parts of the year and not the winter. It does make a difference in your point of view. We do occasionally get cold here, I think our record cold temp is something like -10f, and we do occasionally have some bad inclement...

I can't stand indoor ranges.:sick:

Happy Turkey Day to everyone and thanks for letting me be a part of your playhouse this year.

I was 12 at the time. Old enough to understand that someone important had been killed but to young to really understand the ramifications of that act. My grandmother took it very, very hard. She had met JFK once, I think, or perhaps it was his mother, or maybe both. Any way she had a letter...

I went through the museum at Wright-Patterson several years ago and saw the XB-70. It is, as has been said, a remarkable and gorgeous airplane. It reminds me of a Concorde on steroids. It's sad that it had such a limited lifetime

Compare the con of it catchings on jungle vines to the pro of the bad guys not knowing where you fired from. I think I would let mine catch on the vines from time to time, but I wasn't there either.

Absolutely! Thank each and every one of you for your service. We are only secure in our freedom to pitch lead downrange thanks to the sacrifices you folks have made. Thank You! We owe you a lot.

Do it! By all means DO IT! I shot USPSA/IPSC and IDPA for several years and it was absolutely the most fun I ever had with a gun. And in addition to being great fun it will improve your shooting abilities faster than anything else I can think of. Standing still shooting at a target that is...

Thanks for the welcome. I envy you if you got to play with the Starfighters. An unusual airplane with virtually no wings and a helluva lot of engine. I never saw one fly but I've seen them on static display at museums. Beautiful birds.

OK, that clearly answered my question and pretty much in the direction I expected. I remember back when I was in high school there was an ultrasonic cleaner in one of the classes I was in and I used it to clean a piece of jewelry. It separated the thing into the setting and the device it was...

Has anyone used an ultrasonic cleaner to clean the slide of a 1911 without any disassembly? I mean just take the slide off the gun, dump it in the cleaner, and turn the cleaner on. I would have to get some gun parts cleaner solution for my cleaner but other than that it seems like a good idea...

Please don't ban them on my account. I appreciate the prompt service but they were just having fun. How about instead of banning them we just make them clean everyone's guns for a year or hold up the target stands while we shoot or something like that :p

I quit shooting USPSA and IDPA about 2005 and at that time there were about 4 clubs shooting IDPA within about 25 miles of Nashville as well as at least 2 (and it sees like there were 3) clubs shooting USPSA but one of them at Oak Ridge was about 140 miles away. Still, we could shoot both...

Thanks for the welcome. I have a close friend who lives in Portland and was out there in 2014. It is an absolutely beautiful place. I've been a member of a lot of forums, all of them with members far more knowledgeable than me so I know when to sit back and listen and when to add my 2 cents...

Again, my thanks to all who posted. It's so interesting to meet a bunch of like-minded folks and I'm glad to be here.