Recent content by jpendergrass1

Hello all, I am an avid gun user, as most of you obviously are. I am currently living in Orlando, FL getting my masters in audio and sound engineering and I live alone and I really do not do too much when not going to school. Back in South Carolina, my father and I were members of a shooting...

I was one of the unfortunate people that purchased ammo from an online vendor at a HIGH price. 250 9mm 124 grain FMC for almost $300 and they turned out to be reloads, which they all have fired thus far, but still, reloads are normally cheaper than normal loads. I was in the process of getting...

The exact reason I got the SD9VE rather than an M&P. I wanted more of a full size gun as my CCW and my instructor told me the obvious: large guns are harder to conceal, and the surprising: some states have limits on lengths for concealed weapons. For the price, I could not justify spending the...

I'm guessing here: Maybe when the spring of a magazine is pressed to its full extent (full mag) then it wants to release that energy more to give it relief and go back to its natural state (empty mag). With a full magazine, that spring is pushing up on the next round with much more force than...

I called Apex yesterday because I was buying their trigger kit and asked them the difference in pull force. They said, word for word: "There is no set force that we set the trigger pull to. All guns are made differently and each part is not 100% the same as another gun of the same model. The...

I cannot believe I did not even think of snap caps... Yes, pretty cheap, about $17 at Academy Sports for a pack of 5 (granted they have them in stock). They are good to have to practice as well, even though modern semi's are able to be dry fired, if there is a way to put less stress on the...

I've had the same thing happen. When I first start shooting, I hit low left. Then, I remove the magazine and do a dry fire and I am amazed at what I do. Due to the long trigger pull, once I have it pulled back about 3/4 of the way, I start anticipating the recoil of the gun and begin putting...

As a SD9VE user myself, I noticed this at the range. Funny enough, yesterday I went to the range and shot about 50 rounds and I got home late, jumped in the shower, then realized I needed to take my dog out so I put on the shorts I wore earlier. I put my hand in my pocket and actually found 2...

I recently purchased an SD9VE and I have been very surprised. I was dead set on buying a Glock 17 or a SIG 2022 but I could not justify spending $520 on a 9mm when there was a S&W SD9VE sitting in front of me for $319.99. So I purchased it and took it straight to the range and shot 200 rounds...