Parker

These will work as well. Just a bugger to put into place unless you use a little grease. https://www.brownells.com/rifle-parts/receiver-parts/recoil-parts/recoil-buffers/ruger-10-22-bolt-buffer-prod26667.aspx

Thought so.

Hornady and Sierra for accuracy in the 168 gr. HPBT. Big fan of the Speer 125 gr. TNT bullet. It's a sleeper. Accurate in every .30 caliber I've loaded it for. Varget, 4064 and H4895 are my go-to powders.

The stand on 10 round limitation was made almost immediately after the SAFE Act passed in 2013. Essentially nothing was successful, only more clarifications were disclosed. Putting more than 7 rounds in the magazine at home or while carrying concealed has not changed. You can however load to 8, 9 or 10 rounds while doing exempted activities explained in the 400 Section of the Penal Code where it talks about penalties: at the shooting range, at an IDPA match, at any sanctioned NRA match, or while receiving formal instruction from an NRA Instructor, Law Enforcement Trainer, School or professional academy / training center. ECON laws for hunting haven't changed either, only they've become more restrictive since the SAFE Act. There was always a specific limitation on centerfire capacity when hunting big game, but rimfire was exempt. Now, if you squirrel hunt with your Ruger 10/22 or Marlin lever action .22, you can only load 7 rounds in the magazine.

There was a time more than two decades ago that many rallied and many cared. I think those with any sense today have since fled. I found some old articles of those times, that speak volumes and a number of groups who made a difference when Florio was on a tear. (Yes, taxes were an issue then as well.) http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-06-20/news/9306200276_1_assault-rifles-gun-ban-florio https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/28/nyregion/nra-makes-beating-florio-its-prime-issue.html Curious how many NRA members there are now in New Jersey after reading these articles as the ranks swelled back then.

The actual number of NJ residents who could have potentially picked up a firearm and hunted in 2017 is only 58,162. That's a realistic yet paltry number from 9,000,000 residents. http://www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/pdf/license_sales70-17.pdf

Since the 90's, and the database is online. You could always take former Chief of Tenafly Bruno's advice and contact the chief in your town and ask to see the files. https://www.oathkeepers.org/nj-sheriff-former-chief-show-contempt-oaths-2nd-amendment-infringements/?mc_cid=4848d9f550&mc_eid=521719a865

Can you see your target with those factory sights over the fakery? Something tells me you'll need higher sights.

They've already have this info on file. Based on the number that are "registered" (I.E. handguns.) It would take a minute to spit out the report. "There were 57,507 firearms registered in New Jersey, according to a 2017 annual report – up from 55,672 in 2016, 54,612 in 2015, 51,670 in 2014, 50,712 in 2013, 48,989 in 2012 and 46,605 in 2011." Source: http://nj1015.com/murphy-shoots-for-new-tax-on-gun-purchases-in-nj/?trackback=tsmclip

PA joins the Eastern states in foolishness. Hopefully their hunters will vote, they sell more than 600,000 resident firearm hunting licenses each year, and some 300,000 bow hunting licenses. But the anti-gun agenda is spreading. New Jersey hasn't broken the six-figure license mark combined since the 90's.

Sadly, 5 years later, the NY SAFE Act remains untouched and intact.

If you want to try just the pheasant breasts, marinate them overnight in orange juice. Remove from the fridge the next day, pat dry, warm to room temperature then grill on an open grill for a few minutes seasoned with a little olive oil, S&P. Grouse, quail, then dove are still my favorite game birds to eat in that order.

Every shot presentation will be different, so go with shot big enough and heavy enough to penetrate to vitals from all angles. A pheasant crossing, coming at you, or angling away are easy shots, offering exposed vitals (head, body cavity, wings.) A pheasant going dead-away is the toughest to take down and recover. Over a pointing dog shots can be close, and you don't need much. A good dog is key to finding wounded game. #6 is the standard, #5's are better. Use the largest size shot allowed and you'll be fine.

New Jerseyan's be like; "I justify my living in New Jersey because with my NH, UT, FL permits I can carry in so many other states, provided I go there. Can't wait to go visit them all!" Priceless.

The Mossberg they make today is not the same gun they introduced in 1961. "Utilitarian" is the nicest word I can use to describe a Mossberg made today.

Remington hasn't sold anything memorable or earth shattering since the betterment of their 1100 which was the 11-87, announced in 1987. When DuPont sold Remington in 1993, Remington had a 35% share of the market, split between firearms and ammunition. Many new items they developed flopped that were introduced after the sale. For a company that sold mainly long arms, whose market was traditionally hunters, with hunter numbers declining every year, having declined by more than 30% in just the last ten years; who was buying their guns?

Companies that manufacture guns that are run by figureheads and beancounters who know nothing about making guns sounds folly. It seems that since the debacle of 2012 and negative fallout from Newtown, their plan for survival is selling more and more guns to a smaller and smaller segment of the society. That doesn't bode well for the future of the shooting sports. BTW - the one article cites Cerberus owning the rights to Parker Gun. While true, that occurred when Remington purchased Parker in 1934, but they didn't purchase the Parker Bros. name; hence the name Parker Gun. While you can still order a Parker in high-grade trim and in 28 ga. only, the starting price is $49,000 w/o options. Remington doesn't make them; they are fabricated by CSMC up in CT. At that price, I suspect that they have a very select and limited audience.

"Clays" is a broad term. If you are talking the skeet game, pattern for 25 yards because your shots will be less than this distance provided you shoot every bird at the crossing point (center stake.) Dawdle on the bird and you could be stretching that distance. For trap and sporting clays courses I would pattern for 40 yards. You could be shooting trap from the 16 yard line or the 27 yard line, so you'll be breaking birds on average from 30 to 40 yards away. You'd want to know what pattern your gun is throwing especially for edge-on presentations. For small game hunting, I check my patterns out to 40 yards. When using buckshot for furbearers, I check patterns out to 40 yards.

1"/yard for ALL lead shot is the general rule of thumb. Choke designations began with the British: 1/4 choke or Improved Cylinder 0.010" of constriction 1/2 choke 0.020" of constriction 3/4 choke 0.30" of constriction Full Choke 0.40" of constriction It was determined more than a century ago that a good shot pattern and choke would be one that delivers 100% of the shot into a 40" circle at 40 yards. Game doubles had both their barrels regulated to hit dead-on POA at 40 yards to achieve this, so that 100% of the pattern would be on target. American chokes today are designated as follows and should adhere to this standard: Full choke will produce a 40 inch 100% pattern @ 40 yards. Modified choke will produce a 40 inch 100% pattern @ 35 yards. Improved cylinder choke will produce a 40 inch 100% pattern @ 30 yards. Cylinder bore will produce a 40 inch 100% pattern @ 25 yards. For a pattern to be effective, from #9 shot through 00 buck and the target intended (clay disc, small or big game,) it was determined that each choke designation deliver 70% of its shot within a 30" circle. Anything outside the circle is a flier, while the pattern density inside the circle ensures that a small clay target or a fleeing rabbit wouldn't be able to slip through the pattern. Multiple hits are preferred to be effective, so density without patchiness is preferred. (The infamous "blown pattern" is one not tolerated.)

So true. That's because without the merits of a wad, like the FliteControl, those soft lead pellets deform and those with a flattened side from scrubbing along the barrel as they exit or mash into each other now become fliers and gravitate toward to edge of the pattern. (ALL sizes of lead shot show this attribute when fired, even #9's!) Lead shot, hardened lead shot, copper-plated shot, nickeled shot, shot in a wad, shot without a wad, shot surrounded by buffering (SuperGrex, PSB, MIX47 or some other type of buffer) all behave differently. ROUND shot flies truer. Hardened shot flies truer. (I.E. Steel shot shoots tighter than lead shot, if chokes are equal; because it stays round.) Chokes, forcing cones and bore size all contribute to good or poor patterning. Velocity plays a small factor as well.

At the celebrated distance of 7 yards (a long room's length,) depending on the load; your pattern should be 7" when using buckshot. A distance of five yards could be winnow that spread down to 5". (standard rule of thumb for pattern is 1"/yard) Knowing that, you can easily miss in haste and the heat of conflict. The assumed benefits of a "scattergun" in close confines aren't so scatterly.

I still load paper for upland in old doubles and also for nostalgic reasons.

Waxed shells I reloaded some years back - Crimped end removed, Crayola as the wax, 1 oz. of #8 shot, 16 ga. card set on top with wax. Rudimentary at best. TGT12 and 12S0 wads tested.

Are you talking about cut shells or cut shells with waxed shot? The efficacy of a cut shell is further enhanced should you first wax the shot. To do so means you would have to open the crimp to add the wax. Doing so would risk the integrity of the original crimp (probably an old style roll crimp) unless you were starting from scratch and reloading a fresh hull. Early shotguns were more tightly choked than today's shotguns. (There's a lot of good Parker's, Fox's and L.C. Smith's on the market today that are missing a few inches of barrel length thanks to Bubba the gunsmith who thought that the most expeditious way to open the choke was to cut off a few inches of barrel and screw on a new bead front sight.) A tightly choked gun wasn't just a specialty that only a goose gun possessed back then. The popularity of the PolyChoke for single-barrel guns from the 20's to the 60's opened up (no pun intended) a new era for shotgunners before choke tubes were standardized. Most old pre-WWII American doubles were choked tight (usually M/F) unless they were configured as a dedicated skeet gun. The advent of the plastic wad column changed patterning results as well. Cut shells are a "thing" with YouTuber's.

Threads I've read in the internet universe extoll the virtues of "cut shells" and all seem to have been used by some fellow's grandpappy "during the Depression." Mind you, buckshot was available then, and Foster slugs came out in the 30's. So why cut a shell? Perhaps the "cut shell" was borne out of illegal use. You know, before slugs were legal in most states for hunting? Or maybe used by hunters during a regular small game season hunt where they carried birdshot but had a few cut shells for poaching an opportunistic deer? And how did they manage to get a paper shell to work properly before the advent of the plastic shot column, which didn't evolve until the 60's? Just a hunch, but I doubt paper shells worked as well as planned or imagined since the shot column sat between an overpowder fiber card and an overshot cardboard card; sandwiched by a roll crimp. How that made its way down a bore and through a tight choke then got to the target intact is a mystery to me. (Remember, fixed chokes were tighter back then before the advent of shotshell wads. The plastic wad column today helps keep the shot together longer, prevents some scrubbing in the barrel and eliminates flyers in the pattern.) Before slugs were legal in New Jersey, the compendium denoted the use of "strung shot" and "waxed shot" as illegal to use or possess in the field. Only buckshot 4,3,2,1,0 & 00 were legal to hunt with during the big game seasons. Wax shells seem to work, I've loaded and tested them, but they are a lot of work to construct and I would never use them over a Foster slug load which is readily available.