WHY I WILL VOTE FOR TRUMP AGAIN!

HOW I FEEL ABOUT TRUMP: 
You've been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons.. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement.. You want them gone immediately!.. You call the city and 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job.. But there is this one guy, and he guarantees to get rid of them, so you hire him.. You don't care if the guy swears, you don't care how many times he's been married, you don't care if he has a plumber's crack, you simply want those raccoons gone!.. You want your problem fixed!.. He's the guy.. He's the best!
Here's why we want Trump: Yes, he's a bit of a jerk; Yes, he's an egomaniac; but we don't care!.. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere.. We want it all fixed!.. We don't care that Trump is crude, we don't care that he insults people, we don't care that he's been married 3 times, we don't care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O'Donnell, we don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorist.. This country became weak and bankrupt, our enemies were making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in; "AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED”.. And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want..
We're sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, sick of the Republican Party, and sick of illegals!.. We just want this thing fixed.. Trump may not be a Saint, but we didn’t vote for a Pope.. We voted for a man who doesn't have lobbyist money holding him back, a man who doesn't have political correctness restraining him.. We all know that he has been very successful, he’s a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he's also NOT a politician, NOT a cowardly politician.!.. And he says he'll fix it.. And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong, or looked at and called a liar.. Also, we don't care if the guy has bad hair.. We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW!!!
You are welcome to copy/paste/share this.. Thousands of people who haven't voted in 25 years seem to be getting involved.. And the more people get this message, the more that will understand why Trump was elected..The raccoons have got to go!!!

Summary for the last post

Well sorry to say, but I didn't get a very good response to the last post.  So here goes what I believe to be a good answer.  If you picked any of the following three in any order than you are running on a full tank.  Grip, Sight Alignment/Sight Picture, and Trigger Control should have been picked in an order of importance.  You see they all work together and assist each other at enabling you to be consistent with good accuracy.  Remember, I am talking about combat accuracy.  Each should be mastered separately so that when they are all combined they equal a perfect skill.  Till next time, See Ya!

Your Opinion

To all you folks that shoot on a pretty regular basis, I have a question to ask you.  Which of the following fundamentals would you say is the most important when it pertains to hitting the target accurately.

STANCE
GRIP 
SIGHT ALIGNMENT/SIGHT PICTURE
TRIGGER CONTROL
FOLLOW THRU

You can leave your answer in the comment section.  In a week or so I will total up your replies and post the results.  Then I will offer my opinion and articulate why I feel the way I do.

This should be interesting.

Some good information to pay attention to!

The armed response to an attack is about applying the fundamentals: Move, Communicate, Use Cover, Shooting (if necessary), and Thinking. If you’re unarmed – remember “unarmed” is a state of mind; there are always weapons at hand – the response is pretty much the same, except instead of shooting it may be necessary to use improvised weapons. These same fundamentals apply to an “Active Killer” situation. It’s important you understand these principles, and equally critical you teach them to family and friends.

Your first response to danger should be moving. You don’t need to know the exact nature or details of the danger. Something unexpected happens – you see sudden, unnatural movement in the crowd, or hear gunshots, which won’t sound like they do on the range. Move!

Moving makes you a difficult target. Dropping to the ground and curling into a ball is not the solution. You move to escape, or get to cover and the protection it provides. It may be necessary to get to your family or friends, meeting at a pre-established rally point.

Moving in a frantic crowd is difficult. You don’t want to get trampled. Fighting against the flow to go in a different direction may require moving next to the wall where traffic is lighter. Maintaining contact family members is a problem in frantic crowds. Learn the techniques, and practice them.

Communication with your family and friends is critical in order to co-ordinate your response. It’s a good idea to have code words or phrases – something that would never come up in general conversation – used to get your partners’ attentions. “When one of us says ______ that means pay attention. This is important.” Communication with law enforcement should be established as soon as possible. Understanding the commands officers issue when they arrive on scene, and what they expect you to do is crucial; you do not want them mistaking you or a family member for a threat.

Learn how to use cover. You don’t want to be close and tight, where instinct tells you it’s safe. Creating distance from cover opens up your field of view, normally gives you more room to maneuver and greatly reduces the chances of eating debris and fragmentation created when bullets ricochet off a hard surface.

Be careful about actually engaging the threat, unless it’s your job. Conditions will be less than perfect; it’s not going to be like a nice day on the range. You don’t want to complicate matters for the professionals who will be arriving to deal with the danger. And if you get injured, who is going to take care of the rest of your family?

It’s also important to understand basic trauma medicine. The ability to apply a tourniquet – to yourself or another - is a proven lifesaver. That’s assuming you have one with you. Just because you’ve been injured doesn’t mean you’re going to die. Research how much blood one can lose before passing out, then have your family watch while you pour that much fluid on the ground so they understand that injured and bleeding doesn’t mean death.

To apply these principles and skills you have to pay attention. You’re looking for questionable behavior, keep track of where the closest cover or exits are. You have to be able to make decisions, rapidly and under stress. These are all learned skills.

It’s also your responsibility to pass this knowledge on to others. Your “team,” which is likely family and friends, must have a plan. Then you’ve got to practice it, no matter how much they complain. You wouldn’t let them drive without car insurance; don’t neglect to teach them life insurance skills.

Until our existing laws are enforced there are going to be bad people doing horrible things with firearms. Accepting that violent events occur anywhere, anytime is the first step to solving the problem. You create a plan, and practice in advance. This is the key to survival. Or not – it’s up to you. Just remember that personal protection – surviving violence – is an individual responsibility.

Tiger McKee is director of Shootrite Firearms Academy, 

Hi folks, sorry that I haven't been posting anything lately.  I just have not been in a very great mood lately.  I am having a difficult time understanding what the hell is going on in our great nation.  In addition, being a resident of the socialist state of NJ it compounds my disbelieve that we are still citizens governed by of The Constitution of The United States of America.  If we are not careful we are going to lose our great country.  Well enough of that for now.  

Attached is a good article on the new Glock Slimlines.  Thanks Rich Grassi, Tactical Wire

January 15 : 2019  

GLOCK Slimlines Accuracy and Handling Tests

Due to the uncharacteristically wet season, the range was a mess. I was able to do accuracy work with the little GLOCK Slimline pistols. I limited the initial exam to two loads per gun as I was rushed.
Shooting from the bench at 25 yards, I found that the guns will, at their best, shoot into around two inches at 25 yards. This assumes a properly secured machine rest. In human hands, expect 3 – 4 inch groups at the same distance.
The following results were recorded:
G43X

Federal “Micro” 150 gr. HST	5”	3 1/3”	Vertical stringing (grip)
Hornady Critical Defense 115 gr.	5”	2 ¼”	Strike 4 ¾” low at 25 yards

G48

Super Vel 115 gr. Solid Copper HP +P	4”	3 ½”
American Gunner 115 gr.	3”	1 ¾”

Vertical stringing tells me that my grip is inconsistent. I don’t see that as a regular issue with either gun, but happened intermittently for me. I’m thinking I need more friction -- perhaps Talon Grip will release a G43x-G48 version of their carry-appropriate grip “tape.”
As to the low point of impact, it’s apparent that both guns shoot to the “dot,” not to the top edge of the front sight. Holding intentionally high gave a good elevation but I was tending left at least some of the time. Add the inconsistency of my grip to my natural tendency to push left and we have the windage issue. Legendary Lawman “Marshal” Chuck Haggard has since tried to coach me on this issue and we’ll see how that plays out in future range trips.
As to the ammunition, the Hornady American Gunner load continues to surprise me. It’s very consistent and very accurate as well as being a ‘value priced’ offering.

Using a hasty rest at the bench on 25 yard targets, a pair of loads was tried from each gun. Below, the G43 magazine is a great deal thinner than the G43X/G48 magazine -- to keep the magazine from being longer while still giving a 10-round capacity.

During a morning when the range deck was frozen, keeping me from having to trudge through a bog, I shot the comparative standards with each gun as well as the ‘abbreviated Feeb’ (my fifty-round version of the current FBI qual) and practice drills with the guns. I found I did “okay” with the GLOCK 48 using Federal “Aluminum” practice ammo. It was a complete BOLO with the G43X and the aforementioned Hornady American Gunner load. I could cry about the cold temps, digging the gun out from under layers of clothing, the eight weeks since I’d fired that course, or any number of other issues, but these are the things one should expect when facing the event you least want to face.
That makes it a good test.
The G48 was at least under 40 seconds cumulatively – only slightly. Only two guns were slower for me before this experience. With the GLOCK 43X, the time was bad enough before the five seconds added for penalties – a real record for me on this course of fire.

Layers of clothing hampers the draw -- and reholstering. Below, the 5-yard, 1-hole effort with the G48 using Winchester "White Box" didn't create a 5-shot 1-hole group -- but it wasn't bad.

Aside from the layers of clothing – something that would affect any gun on this kind of evaluation – the thinner frames of these samples were harder for me to index than the typical ‘fat’ frame of the standard GLOCK 9mm pistol. That’s not something I expected, as the non-double stack guns were always better for me before I went with G19 as the regular carry piece in 2001. I found I needed more ‘grip’ on the guns too.
Doing the abbreviated Feeb on the QIT-99 target with the G43X ended with two down, on the left. That wasn’t terrible, but it’s a course I normally clean with about anything. I used 124 grain FMJ loads from Black Hills Ammunition for this course.
Using Winchester “White Box” 115 grain FMJ and the IALEFI-Q target with the GLOCK 48, I shot singles, pairs, singles from guard, a pair of five-shot strings at 25 yards and the ‘one-hole’ drill from five yards. There were three hits outside the ‘rings’ at 7 o’clock, and all but two in the rings were in the “x.” I felt a little better.
While the “one-hole” at five yards wasn’t, both five-round strings were tight.
These are new guns, a new form-factor for GLOCK. I didn’t expect sterling results from the start – but it’s nice when that happens. I’ll continue my work with them and keep you posted.
- - Rich Grassi

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Skill Set: Working the Fundamentals

Skill Set: Working the Fundamentals

You attend training to learn defensive tactics and principles. Next comes practice, learning through repetition and acquiring the ability to apply these skills on demand and in defense of life. Going to the range to practice marksmanship is a worthy endeavor, but only one part of the “big” picture. You have to work on the fundamentals of the threat response: moving, communicating, using cover and shooting if necessary. During this practice you’re also developing the mental abilities to solve a defensive problem.
Moving is an immediate response to danger, whether you’re armed or not. (Remember that “unarmed” is a state of mind; there are always weapons available, even if that’s not the intended purpose of the item.) Moving gets you out of harm’s way. Escape or avoid the danger. You move to cover and the protection it offers. There are bystanders or family between you and the threat – moving creates a clear angle of attack. The threat is trying to hit/cut/shoot you. Moving makes it more difficult. Shooting while moving is definitely a skill that must be practiced.
You communicate with the threat. “Stop! Leave my house!” They may comply. Communication is required with family or friends. You tell them where to go or what to do. Communication connects you with an armed partner, coordinating tactics. Communicating under stress doesn’t come natural. Like any skill it requires practice.
There is very little “natural” about using cover. The first principle is to maintain distance between you and the object you’re using for protection. Distance prevents you from catching debris and fragmentation if bullets are hitting the hard surface you’re behind. Keeping some distance from cover lets you see more of the environment on the other side of cover, and puts more ground between you and the treat. You have to learn how to position your body to expose the least amount of your body necessary to locate, identify and if necessary engage the threat. It takes work to get this right.
Finally, we get to the “shooting.” Marksmanship is mandatory; shooting tight groups is good. But bulls-eye shooting is different from defensive marksmanship. You learn where to place your hits on the threat to stop them as efficiently as possible. Ultimately some form of reactive target must be used. Something that requires varying hits in different zones to get the “stop.” You work on close large targets, and smaller targets at longer distances. You learn what you can hit, and how fast or slow you have to fire to hit.
The only way to learn these skills – again: moving, communication, using cover and defensive shooting – is practice. These are not instinctual or natural. Instinct tells you to hug in tight and close to cover, which is not where you want to be. It’s natural to focus on the threat while shooting as opposed to the front sight. Instinct tells you to root to the ground when fighting; we want to be moving. The only way to learn the required skills is through practice. At the same time you’re overriding the instinctual part of the brain that’s screaming at you to do the wrong thing.
The best way to learn defensive skills, and to improve, is dry practice. With a dummy pistol you practice drawing, moving, communicating and using cover, working towards the thousands of repetitions required to learn and apply a complicated sequence of actions. For many, dry practice is the only way to develop these skills. A lot of “firing” ranges don’t allow you to draw from the holster, move, use cover or fire multiple shots quickly. With a dummy weapon you can safely practice at home, any time.
The next time you’re thinking about going to the range to burn some ammo consider staying home and working on your tactics for that time. Yes, shooting is good, but it’s nowhere near all you need to know. Put in some hard work, so when the time comes you’re assured of being ready.
Tiger McKee is director of Shootrite Firearms Academy

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