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  1. Someone mentioned last week in the Home Defense Shotgun post that others were high on the 930. Is it possible to mount a light to the 4 plus 1 version of this shotgun? I believe the 4 plus one with normal stock is NJ legal...at least that is my interpretation of Vlad's post outlining the evil features determined by NJ. Thx

     

    Heck, you cna bump it up to 6 rounds and it's legal. That's what I did. Cheapest way to get a light on it is get a +2 tube, and a nordic magazine tube clamp with rail segments. Then you can mount any of your wepon lights, or get a v-tac plastic light mount.

     

    Or you can get the aimpro tri-rail and mount any rail mountable light on it. I also have one of those on mine. THe aimpro guys were not that easy to get ahold of to give them my money though.


  2. Ok.. it says PSYCHIATRIC, PSYCHIATRIST, or DOCTOR. That means an MD. Implied in that terminology is one having a condition serious enough to warrant treatment with medication. Your average therapist, you are lucky if htey are a PhD or PsyD, usually they have a degree in social work and some certificates.

     

    For Q26, if you were not being treated by someone who could prescribe you DIRECTLY (i.e. not by calling up their buddy who finished big boy med school), not checked into mental hospital, or not treated at a mental hospital on an outpatient basis, the answer is no in my opinion as that is what the question specifically asks.

     

    If you are on anti-psychotics, MAOIs, seratonin re-uptake inhibitors, anti-anxiety meds like halcyon, lithium or any crap where your perception of reality goes to hell if you come off it because you think you are all better now, or makes you see/hear things, encourages sucidal ideation, or otherwise makes you not interpret reality well at times BECAUSE you are tkaing it, then you should probably answer yes in my opinion.


  3. Ok, if you don't have word or powerpoint, you can download Open office at http://www.openoffice.org/

     

    If you do use open office and wnat to submit anything, make sure you export the page with the diagram as a pdf file, as there cna be some issues going back and forth between word and OO with these templates.

     

    For tmeplates, you cna download them all zipped up at the following URL.

     

    http://bloodimage.com/stage_building_examples.zip

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  4. A bill is a bill is a bill is a bill.... Doesn't matter what it is. If you don't pay your cc but u do pay your mortgage, your credit rating still goes down. Any time you have a bill that doesnt get paid on time your credit takes a dump...

     

    Story: My father with A++++++++ credit, never missed a bill in his life.... had my dim wit brother use one of the family emergency cards with out telling him, he didn't realize there was a balance, and missed payment by one day, his rating went down a significant amount and he was PIIISSSED. All it takes is one missed bill to drop your rating, even if you've never missed a bill in 20 years and you payed it one day late.... Credit bureou's are very quick to drop your rating, and are very slow bringing it up.

     

    One day late? No, that doesn't happen. They have to report the account in delinquency for it to appear on your credit, and they wait way more than one day for that. One day late, will however get your rate for the card jacked, mainly because they are waiting for any excuse to do that. I've missed a couple of payments by the due date, mostly in the early days of electronic payments where things didn't go quite right. Not a one showed up on any credit report ever. But we are talking literally missing the grace period by one or two days. Almost nothing official happens in less than 30 days, including credit reporting.


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    Lol, well my friend saves his brass, but doesn't reload. I figured if he paid for the primers, powder, and actual bullets, I'd just reload it for him once I got good at it, just to save him cash. I'm not looking to go into business with it lol.

     

    Hell, if it's just ammo we're going to use at a range, I'd likely put a lesser powder-charge in it, so i'm not really worried about causing damage to components from too high of a pressure in the chamber.

     

    Hmm new to reloading, and you aren't worried about making ammo for someone else. You are EXACTLY who shouldn't be making ammo for someone else.

     

    Did I mention not following the manufacturing laws is a felony?


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    I also figured I could reload my friend's .30-06 shells, for a few bucks. We usually take my 8mm, and his 30-06s out to the range, and last time I had to cover the ammo for them, ended up spending like $70 on .30-06, and shotgun slugs.

     

    I never did get that part of the cash back.....

     

    To sell ammo you reload, you need to be licensed as an ammo manufacturer. If you reload using a persons components, you don't, but you will need liability insurance, and will want to form an llc to protect you from lawsuits

     

    To load rifle safely, you need a press, a powder scale, a powder measure, a case trimmer, some case lube, and a case gauge. This plus a loaded, in spec piece of ammo, and you can load safe rifle rounds. You'll probably want some more kit to go for maximum accuracy and for convenience


  7. The deal with sti/sv mags is that they all interchange. At least as much as they work right without a little tlc in the first place. That's mainly do to low volume of production, and tolerances for the molds for the grips and mag dimensions stacking.

     

    By and large, I find the 15 round 126 mags with the factory follower to work well. The shorter tubes seem to be more rigid, and thus you are more likely to get one that is in spec. Most of the really bad problems seem to stem from people trying to make the 140s hold 21.


  8. You can engrave a gun, you think all those tacky guns with a buttload of scroll work all come from the factory?

     

    You can't deface, obscure, or move the serial number. There are also batfe requirements to have a manufacturer's mark on the gun. So if you wanted to etch something in a blank space on your AR, it really isn't a problem.


  9. Its not cry baby stuff. The difference is we dont cry about regular people, why do they cry about us?

     

    Here, I'll explain it. People bash a lot of occupations in general. Cops get it in specific because we know what they do, and we see them out there doing it, kind of like teachers. However, cops get it extra hard because they don't leave us alone. Why don't regular people leave cops alone? Because they don't leave us alone is the short answer. We have specifics to gripe about.

     

    When you bust people for speeding, and drive around with a thin blue line sticker on your car, and then lots of you give that car a free pass.. people don't like it, you are screwing with us while taking privilege form your position when none is apportioned by law.

     

    You bust us for using cell phones, while half the cruisers have the driver yakking away on theirs. More of that privilege taking.

     

    I'm only touching on generalities. I can come up with a lot of real world examples of MUCH, MUCH worse without even having to hit up a news report. Add them in and the bad apples get pretty bad. But I'm jsut trying to illustrate that for a lot of people, bad police behavior is not some general thing, but can be boiled down to specifics. Try to find someone who never had a bad episode dealing with police, and I bet you don't find too many people.

     

    The world is full of a-holes. I don't think cops as a population are more than one standard deviation away form the average. The problem is that when they are, they are a-holes with authority and their job is to drive around and try and inflict that combination on you whenever they look not busy enough. So in the end, the bad ones are a-holes with authority whose job description includes seeking you out and subjecting you to it. Ask even a reasonable cop to choose who they are backing with limited information, and they'll choose the a-hole in uniform. That makes the reasonable guy look like one of the a-holes.

     

    The rate of a-holes in the world of politicians probably tops every other demographic. They also have authority, but by and large they don't interfere in my personal space trying to prove it. When they make a bad law, you don't worry about the politician showing up, you worry about the cop showing up. Even the reasonable cops will say "hey, that's our job." True, but if you enforce the laws of a-holes, you look like an a-hole.

     

    Then there's the matter of degree. When I was a teenager, I know plenty of people who got whacked with a ticket that represented about 1/3 of a weeks worth of full time minimum wage pay. They didn't get away with something that the cop could get away with. That was pretty run of the mill "bad" experience, and in the grand scheme, not too bad. There weren't a lot of folks who could be financially screwed by that. These days, for a similar ticket, you can be looking at about $200, or 2/3 of a week of minimum wage labor. Without going up the severity level (heck sometimes with less points than the speeding ticket) you can hit $500-750 in fines pretty easily for stuff cops get away with. For a LOT of the population, that causes severe financial hardship. From the public's position, that privilege taken by officers not afforded by law is getting to be pretty significant in the grand scheme of things.

     

    Sure, you probably think it is a stupid law, but you probably would still enforce it if your superiors said it was going to be key on your performance review. So for the guy that has to figure out how to pay for food this month because you picked him to fill the quota, how do you think you look? Even if you didn't have to, that guy whose side you take blindly did it multiple times, so...

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  10. I've done a fair amount of reading on this trying to get a sound answer.

     

    Basically, from the science types that try to figure this stuff out, and the answer is that pretty much everything with a .223 is a compromise. The two things you don't want are a very thin walled varmint hollow point, or very thin varmint round with a ballistic tip. At close range they both fragment severely and not into very large chunks, and they do so at < 8" of penetration. They largely seem to be following the FBI guideline of 12" of penetration. Except they don't seem to apply that to larger calibers.

     

    On the top of their list for effective up close and far away were the following.

     

    1) Heavy hollow point match bullets - they maintain more energy farther out, and at longer ranges you tend to get at least 2 decent sized chunks creating a permanent wound cavity. One form the lead, and one ormore from the jacket. Up close, You tend to get similar performance although it's usually just a portion of the lead part and a portion of the jacket, usually the base.

     

    2) Heavier bonded soft points. They do most of their damage form expansion and tend to stay in one piece. They tend to fragment into 2 or more larger chunks up close and fast, and at longer ranges they simply expand and create a decent sized wound channel. They come wit the caveat that the soft point can cause the feed ramps to foul and cuase feeding issues without frequent maintenance. (I think this might be a full auto with a carbine gas system and recoil buffer issue. I've been testing out some JSP loads and I'm 500 rounds in on a midlength with rifle buffer, and I'm not even seeing lead on the feed ramps, much less a build up that would cause fouling.)

     

    3) 100% gilding metal varmint rounds. The projectiles produce pretty awesome results. Up close they tent to fragment into the base and however many petals they were skived for (producing 3 or more permanent wound channels), and at range they tend to simply expand well and prod usce a single good wound channel. THe caveat on this one is that they are expensive, and they are light for size, which means you don't get as much energy down range, or as much resistence to wind drift as the above two options.

     

    IMO, what research that has been done has somewhat fuzzy results that's not entirely to be trusted for several reasons. Just a couple are that they were all done to recommend generic bullet types, but were done with a limited selection of projectiles form which they expanded the conclusions to fairly wide product categories. The bonded soft point and gilding metal conclusions are probably solid because the offerings are so limited that it appears they would have had to represent most of the available offerings or tack down something that isn't sold to the general public or marketed anywhere. THe hollow tip match conclusion and vamrint conclusion disregard a LOT of bullets on the market, some with markedly different construction from others.

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  11. So which of you guys who attended want to jump into designing stages? It's really the other half of fully understanding the game, and it doing it will make you a better USPSA shooter.

     

    Anyway, seriously. We always have a need for more stage designers at CJ and old bridge, and we try to mentor a lot for new designers if you need/want it.

     

    If you are interested, PM me you email info, and which clubs you are interested in OB or CJ, and we will get you included on the email lists for stage designers.


  12. Ray had numerous offers to sell the shop. It was rumured that The Bullet Hole tried to purchase it twice, but both times Ray sabotaged the sale because he never really wanted to leave. He was forced by his kids who basically ran the place to sell out. They had it after having been working there since right out of College. I also hear that Lou's Gunshop also made an offer at one time. The lead clean up was no small feet. I do not know what plans the car dealership has for knocking down the Iconic building.

     

    I don't know that they really do. THey wanted it as an inventory lot, and I don't think the number of extra cars you could park there would be worth the cost of knocking it down.


  13. From wht I understand the owner had recieved multiple offers over the years, and finally the nissan dealership next door offered him a large sum of money. That plus the fact none of the kids and or grandkids seemed really interested in taking over the place and he decided to finally take the offer. nobody plans to reopen it as a large sum of money was paid to turn it into what it currently is.. an inventory lot for rt 22 nissan.


  14. Wow they changed, last time I did anything in that town it was 5 days a week during business hours. Keep a calling on Wednesdays during the open hours and other days.

     

    Not anymore. it has been the 1 day a week 10am thing since some time before feb 2008, which is when I picked up my last permit in woodbridge. They had been whittling it down, the last couple before that, it was 2 or 3 dyas of the week.


  15. They were not at the range. Everything I am regurgitating was from their booth at the actual show. The engineer's train of thought was that if someone had plastic ammo they would only be firing plastic ammo, and therefore the chamber would not get hot. They have achieved match-ammo accuracy. They did not think about a gun that had just fired lots of brass ammo and then switching to the plastic before cooling down. Hope this clears things up.

     

    Ok, I'll change my assessment form stupid and lying, or just stupid.

     

    You don't need to fire lots of brass ammo, the heat comes form the gasses. Oddly enough, the barrel is metal and thermally conductive, and the chamber is part of the barrel. It also has every round fired in it while each case only has one round fired from it. The heat comes form the chamber walls. The plastic is an insulator, which means that heat is absorbed more slowly and released more slowly. SO yeah, it might have a lower tendency to cook off a round, but at some point the chamber will be hot enough that even "slowly" means more heat than the plastic can deal with holding, and more than it can shed before it fails. A mag dump to empty isn't the worst case. It's when you have heated up the chamber through rapid fire, and leave a round sitting in the chamber.


  16. I think DPMS has a marked difference between a custom order and a stock item, even in the 5.56 lineup. I've seen plenty of nice ones.

     

    The reality is that given the proliferation of DIY and quality small vendors, that all the ARs on the market have been improving in quality. I think the only place where it is easy to differentiate them are barrel quality, and bolt carrier group. Even then, ther'es more end purpose and personal preference type choices being made there than any absolute quality differentiation.


  17. Spoke with one of the guys producing this stuff @ SHOT. They have run thousands of rounds full-auto through M16s with no noticeable increase in chamber temp. Also, while the ammo will "absolutely not be re loadable".... it is possible to reload it. The one question the guys could not answer for me is what it does in a chamber that is super hot from firing brass rounds, which the engineer assured me he will test out probably this week. Finally, price will be cheaper than match-grade 223, but more than your typical range-blasting 223.

     

    So it won't be more accurate, will be more expensive, isn't reloadable, and they have tested it full auto, but they haven't tested it in a hot chamber wile also making sure that only bolt actions were at the range for shot?

     

    I'm thinking your engineer is either stupid or hiding something.


  18. Sounds like some of you guys, especially you Vlad, could use a powered vibratory sorter to process that kind of volume. A local NJ shooter by the name of Jeff makes such a beast and priced at $400-500 depnding on options, its much more reasonable than a commercial unit.

     

    http://www.ultimates...e=index&cPath=1

     

    $400 is a bit steep. Especially since .40 winds up mixed with .38 and .357. With the pans, the rimmed cartridges dangle and are easy to deal with. Not really worth it for the few hours a year I spend with the pans.


  19. I played with the .223 version that was out a few years ago. It melted in hit chambers, it bent in mags when feeding energetically and it shot like ****. You can probably solve some of those problems not all of them, If I was going in harm's way I would want the heavier brass ammo over the plastic one that can get bent, attacked by cleaners, attacked by deet, melted, etc.

     

    Plus if it ever catches on it will the government another way to control ammo, as it wouldn't really be re-loadable. Or maybe just give the ammo makers more power to charge whatever they want as you can't reload.

     

    Yes, but I'd like to know what powder they used. It was the cleanest burning .223 I have ever seen.


  20. The reason most target stands have holes someplace in the "legs" is because with jsut one anchor point, you don't prevent rotation. Which is an issue if youa re constantly messing with the target to tape between shooters like at a match.

     

    Also, the average USPSA shooter helping to clean up counts very much as an unskilled gorilla... it'll tax the welds.


  21. I read the linked thread, not very convincing. One loud douchenozzle with zero content complaining. One guy who seems smart but doesn't know what nitro carburizing actually does for a barrel. One dude complaining about old management. One legit gripe about their dual spring extractor ripping off bits of case rims (which I believe, their dual spring extractor rather than running longer due to redundant springs binds up when one gets weaker than the other by too much. So instead of one opportunity to fail, it has two.)

     

    I wouldn't spend my money on them for several reasons, but most of them aren't specific to lwrc.

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