What's their excuse now?

probably cause they didn't have to pay anything for their current inventory.  So they don't care if it sells or not because they have no money invested in it.  I guess as long as they make enough to pay the rent and insurance, that's good enough for them.  Their employee overhead is probably cheap too cause their employees are probably volunteers or getting paid minimum wage...which is why they don't know shit 

I believe this all stems from when they used to make Black Talon ammo. Best performing and nastiest round you could buy. Winchester started getting a bad rap from the politically correct doctors about how the Black Talon would do more damage and was harder to remove and dangerous to the doctor to remove from someone fighting to live. So they tried to control it for LEO only but the political damage was done. So they started making the Ranger SXT and tried to make it LEO only. Funny joke was that it was rumored that SXT stood for (Same eXact Thing). I personally don't think that the new Ranger Bonded is as good as the Black Talon/Ranger SXT. If you have a chance to to pick up some BT or SXT for self defense I would and please let me know where you can get it.

Otherwise I am loading my own SD rounds with Hornady XTP bullets in 147gr 9mm in my revolver.

I've been wondering for a while.  Are Ranger T series and Ranger SXT the same thing?  From what i've seen in expansion test, they look the same, but was wonder if there were any differences that the eye couldn't see.  I also agree that the Winchester bonded isn't nearly as good.  Those "talons" that protrude from the SXT/T Series after expansion is MEAN.

Anyone know if any shops carry hornady FTX ammo in 9mm, .40 or .45?  I've seen some expansion tests on youtube with this ammo and it has done well.  Especially when clothes/denim are involved since it usually plugs up the hollow point cavity in most other ammo.

Winchester's bonded Ranger ammo is LEO-only. Winchester asks that it be sold only to LEO as a condition to selling it to the dealer. Gotta have a cop buddy buy it for you.

That's what i've heard from magnum about a lot of the "good" hollow point rounds.  Gold dot, ranger T, HST etc.  I managed to get 1 box of 50 rounds of gold dot from magnum after purchasing my 1st handgun from them, however they never sold me another box of any of the brands previously mentioned again.

rofl they stole that idea from robocop.

I HATE looking for stuff on Brownells. You can't narrow the categories down to something specific. For example, I tried searching for an AR15 magazine. The most I can do is narrow it down to is AR15, magazines, then in stock. The I'll have to search through 81 items to find what i'm looking for.

At least let me pick what caliber @#$%^

yea.  I like brownells selection, but their website sucks 

i just checked their website and it's on their calendar.  I guess you have to manually check every so often and make a manual note of it?   

go to HPD firearms division and apply?

When i was there to register a gun one time, a haole guy was in front of  me and he requested to apply for his ccw because he ran a security company and was from the mainland.  I still remember that after he requested for the application, the guy behind the window was like  "You know how it works here right?"  and he repeated himself several times.  The guy was like "yes, i have a ccw permit in florida blah blah blah"....obviously he didn't really understand what the guy behind the window was really referring to rofl.

Applying for a ccw in hawaii kinda reminds me of the witch hunts that happened log ago.  During those witch hunts, when they captured a woman whom they thought was a witch, they would do a test to confirm if she was one.  They would bind her legs and arms and throw her in a lake.  If she could survive underwater, then she was a witch and was executed.  If she could not survive under water, then it would prove her innocence.........but then she'd be dead so it really didn't matter anymore.

That same kind of scenario is like applying for a ccw.  You could apply for a ccw because you are seriously fearful someone is a threat to your life.  The chief of police will deny you because you could be exaggerating or whatever.  The only real way to prove if someone is a threat to your life is if that person kills you..........but then you'd be dead so it wouldn't matter anymore. 

My next gun coating is going to be in NP3+ with Robar.

What gun are you coating and why did you decide to go with np3+?

Haha.  I went to go read the reviews of the various gun shops we have on oahu.  I'm quite surprised at some of the reviews that OGC got.  I've only been there 1 or 2 times since they moved to Kalihi, but I've been there many times before that and each time i've gone there, Carter was a nice guy.  Strange how some of those people either had a completely different experience or are over exaggerating things.

I've also been to Magnum quite a few times too while Brian was still there and he was always helpful.  I think X-Ring is lucky to have someone like Brian at their shop. 

I guess maybe i'm just lucky?

I thought that titanium ar that costs $100000 is overpriced 

Oh and this too ($5000)