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I finally got around to shooting my M&P compact this past Monday, and IT ROCKS... Very reliable "out of the box" and did not hiccup once while shooting. The short grip on the gun was a small problem, however... when I used the short magazine, it cut across my ring finger and ruptured the blood...

This is a very sobering story about someone who was a customer at our gun shop. Butch was a nice guy who loved trading guns and as long as any of us knew him was never unarmed. This past Monday morning, someone showed up at his home, knocked on his door, and shot him dead in his own house...

Dealing with gun shoppers all day is turning into a lesson in just how stupid some people in the public really are. They come in and "ask your opinion as a gun dealer", and then argue with everything you tell them, while waving guns around like a monkey with the last banana... muzzle sweeping...

I sell guns every day at our shop. The majority of people come in asking about "what's a good carry gun"? Then, we have the people who come in and won't have anything but a specific brand, or some "special gun" they've read about in one of the gun rags. They all have a "list" and only want to...

I work in a gun shop now, and we don't work on a commission... all straight salary. Yesterday, one of the guys I work with just got totally incensed that I sold "one of his customers" a gun from stock... and then proceeded to tell me that I shouldn't wait on "his customers". Well, after the...

To read the advertising, you'd think you could run right out to your local gun shop and pick up almost anything on a moment's notice, but working in a gun shop will teach you differently. I've been reading and hearing about the LC-9's, the Kel-Tec PM-30 (maybe PMR-30), the Remington R-1 1911...

Actually, an R-9 I've read a lot of threads about the Browning FEG clones, and seen it both ways... some people swearing by them, and others cursing them, so I traded a gun I wasn't particularly fond of and got one. Most of the critiscisms I've read involved the weight of the trigger pull...

I left the range early today... it wasn't safe. Some church group showed up and just overwhelmed the facilities with people... doing all kinds of unsafe things... pointing weapons in all directions to load... waving them around... and just being a pain in the ass by crowding the stalls. I...

I shoot at a public range most of the time, and we've had trouble with people "breaking in" on days when it's closed and tearing up things and making a mess that the range officer has to clean up. The gate into the place is made of pipe, and not very substantial, which allows them to simply...

How do you not know your sight's missing? I was at the range on Friday, and picked up somebody's rear sight off the floor.... nobody said a word. I know it's relatively new, because it's got green fluorescent dots on it... but I couldn't get anybody to own up to needing it... so either...

I shoot a lot, and I shoot a lot of different calibers and types of firearms (mostly pistols), and I have a pretty good collection. Now, when I read THR, I notice a lot of bluster about calibers, manufacturers, etc. that is really not very fact based, but more oriented toward a particular...

Like anything to do with business, I always feel like I was a day late and a dollar short when it comes to filling out my gun collection. The gun store (that I was already mad at for lousy customer service) had a "baby Browning" .380 in immaculate shape that's been sitting there for several...

Last weekend, a couple of my buddies went to the range with me, and while we were shooting our rifles, there was a particularly arrogant and pushy guy shooting from the table beside me. You would have thought he was our drill sergeant, the way he was telling everybody what to do... and he was...

I bought a new SR-9 when they came out and of course it is one of those being recalled for retrofit of the trigger mechanism... but it's been over a month since I registered with them for recall, and I haven't heard a word from Ruger about when they're scheduling the guns to be repaired or...

I was in the gun store where I usually do business yesterday, and they had several SIG P226's there which had "just come in". I patiently waited on the sales clerk to come over to wait on me, and the guy was "intercepted" by another customer as he was walking over to me.:cuss: This guy...

I bought a Beretta 92FS at a gun show a few weeks back, and had I been able to shoot it before buying, I would have probably have bought another SR-9 instead. I've been drooling over the 92 for a year or so, and was really disappointed in its performance on the range. Tinkering with the...

Zastava anyone? One of my buddies put a Zastava 9mm in his store this week and I wondered if anybody has any history with them. The gun looked and felt okay, but I wondered if the manufacture was suspect or what? $225 is kind of a low priced 9, but the look and feel of the gun was pretty...

I had a blast this morning. I went shooting on Thursday and lucked up on an "ammo deal" that gave me way more ammo than I'm used to having, so I went and burned some today. I had a "basket case" model 4006 that my friendly gun dealer replaced, and I zeroed it on Thursday. Today, it' was all...

It's been a few years since I've reloaded much ammo, but I'm preparing to get back into reloading because I'm running out of co-signers to buy ammo at the shops.:uhoh: Eons ago, when corrosive ammo was all over the place, we washed the brass in a detergent solution before putting it into the...

I posted a request for information on the gunsmithing board about the interchangeability of parts for a Beretta 70S Garcia and other model 70 parts and haven't gotten an answer. Anybody here got any ideas? http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=356892 WT