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  4. Posted

    Clean looking boom stick, Dan.

     

    How do you like the ALG line vs a Geissele line? How much does your rifle weigh?

     

     

    Eric

     

    Thanks Eric. She weighs in at 8lb 5oz with the flashlight and eotech sight on. Mind you, it is a mid-weight barrel, not a pencil or govt contour.

     

    I'm very happy with the ALG trigger. It is the standard pull of a milspec trigger, but with a tremendously better feel and break. There's no perceptible grit or slack. I have the geissele SSA-E and SD3G to compare. SSA-E is a two stage, super smooth take up, and a light clean break.. very nice but more suitable for a DMR type rifle. The SD3G is a single stage super clean and light break with a crazy fast reset. Man it is fun to play around with, and would be great for gun games if I ever get into that. It would also be a good bench shooting trigger, though the SSA-E is also. I wouldn't run in in a class or anything like that, zero forgiveness. In all, the ALG is my new go-to basic improved milspec FCG. You can't beat the price for what you get.

  5. Posted

    Posted this in the NJGF Photo threat, but being an AR I then realized it should be here:

     

    Latest franken-AR build. So far she has exceeded my expectations.

     

    Spikes lower, Anderson upper, ALG ACT FCG, PSA lower build kit, Magpul furniture (stock permanently altered to be fixed), Midwest Industries Keymod rail, YHM slant brake, YHM gas block, BCM BCG, Faxon 14.5" QPQ Nitrided 4150 barrel (brake is pinned and welded to over 16.5" barrel length), KNS anti rotation pins, BCM keymod forgrip. Lower and upper are Magpul FDE Cerakoted

     

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  6. Posted

    Latest franken-AR build. So far she has exceeded my expectations.

     

    Spikes lower, Anderson upper, ALG ACT FCG, PSA lower build kit, Magpul furniture (stock permanently altered to be fixed), Midwest Industries Keymod rail, YHM slant brake, YHM gas block, BCM BCG, Faxon 14.5" QPQ Nitrided 4150 barrel (brake is pinned and welded to over 16.5" barrel length), KNS anti rotation pins, BCM keymod forgrip. Lower and upper are Magpul FDE Cerakoted

     

    AR_MI.jpg

  9. Posted

    Err I disagree.

     

    First of all I look at who goes to the range. There is a very distinction difference in the average age of shooters today from when I started. The shooting population is much younger.

    Secondly, most of the school age kids I know (and it isn't many I admit) seem to think school is a strange joke. They learn how to deal with its odd rules, but don't buy the BS

    And lastly: Call of Duty and the million games like it. The people trying to shape the kids minds in schools run head first into what the kids do outside schools. Lets face, it guns are cool, and the squares are never going to convince anyone that cool is bad.

     

    I hope you are right, and I do admit that I notice some of the same observations. This doesn't mean that they aren't trying their best to use educational institutions to brainwash our children, but only that it may not be working as intended. Perhaps it will have the opposite effect in that children indoctrinated this way will look at guns and gun rights as delicious forbidden fruit in a rebellious against-the-system way.

  10. Posted

    The silliness of this case notwithstanding, my instincts tell me that he should know the law and under no circumstances answer questions or volunteer information. Is this poor guy living on cloud 9? "Hey officer, here's my illegal gun!"). 

     

    It would be nice to have a seminar on handling this type of situation. Q&A style, perhaps with pre-screened questions. What if they sold tickets for $50 or 75? Would any of you pay that for a three-hour meeting? I would. Would making a couple of thousand dollars for spending a weekend with NJ gun owners be worth it to someone like Nappen? I'm surprised this never happens.

     

    There are tons of resources online on how to behave and respond to LE while being respectful and maintaining your rights, I'm not sure it would warrant a class.

     

    I think a class on how to live in NJ while owning guns would be worthwhile for someone who is new to it. The same thing could be accomplished by reading Nappan's book.

  13. Posted

    What also worries me... if true, is that he stated when he refused the search originally, he said the cop replied "do I have to get a dog out here" or something to that effect. That could be code for , you have no 4th amendment rights in a traffic stop. Unless the cop truly had a reason to believe there were drugs in the car, this comment would disturb me as much as the flintlock gangster-gat illegal possession of a handgun charge. So was he stating that because he smelled pot or other drugs, or because he wanted to retaliate because the victim was giving him a hard time? We'll never know.

     

    Another lesson as others said is to keep your mouth shut. In a stop like this, the cop is not there to be your friend. They are looking for trouble to snag you up. Do not consent to anything. Provide only legal documents and your identity. Do not answer any questions like "where are you coming from, where are you heading, do you have weapons in the car, have you been drinking tonight". Just say you reserve your right to respectfully remain silent, and it is nothing to do against you in a polite way. If he did this, the onus would be on the state to prove that he was not going to or from a gun shop or range, and this would most likely not be happening. For this to happen, he must have answered the questions which basically provided testimony that he was outside of possession/transport exemptions.

  15. Posted

     That is why they are teaching all school children that guns are bad and even pointing a finger will result in an instant Pavlovian electrical shock. We face future challenges to say the least.

     

    I know it is off topic, but this is huge. Kids can't talk about, draw, or even have pastries that were bitten into the shape of a gun while in school. The anti-gun rights folks (progressives included) are playing the long game. They know it will take a generational change to enact their 2A repeal/gun-ban faux utopia plan.

  16. Posted

    Some of us will need to see a legal opinion on this. If M855 is classified as armor piercing will possession of it now be a felony in NJ?

     

    I haven't reread the statute yet, but I believe 'armor piercing' ammo is prohibited in NJ.

     

    This ammo is not defined as armor piercing in NJ. NJ's AP ammo definition includes that it must be designed to be used primarily in a handgun, and also does not meet the other tests such as hardness.

     

    It is not illegal to own or use at the federal level after the ATF ruling either. It is only not able to be sold any longer.

  17. Posted

    Here's a good article on the power that the ATF has over determining if AP ammo is both used for handguns and whether or not it is used primarily for "sporting purposes" http://www.captainsjournal.com/2012/12/10/atf-ruling-on-sporting-purposes-exemption-to-armor-piercing-ammunition/

     

    The intent of the original law back in 86' was to curb AP ammo that was designed for and primarily used in handguns. Think .357 ammo with a tungsten core. Because there are no protections in the broad power the ATF has over its definitions, they are now taking the fact that there is a whole new class of handguns that use ammo that was initially and primarily used in rifles.

     

    Every time someone makes available a handgun that takes a rifle caliber cartridge, this triggers the super heroes at the BATFE to spring into action scrubbing the environment for any rifle ammo that could be defined as AP, then subsequently stamp it as "non-sporting purposes".

     

    We had it happen to the russian 5.45 7N6 stuff once someone made an AK74 based pistol, and now SS109 because of all of the AR based pistols out there.

     

    All of this was to supposedly save cops from exotic soft-body armor piercing handgun ammo. IMO, it was more about using any excuse they can in order to pump more cream filling into the anti-gun rights agenda's pie hole.

  19. Posted

    Another +1 for Bucks County, especially along the Delaware River is really nice, though I think prices can start shooting up along with property sizes shrinking. I worked with some people who lived there full time, and trained into NYC. Prices could be similar to Flemington in NJ for instance, though at least its in friendly territory.

     

    I spent lots of time up at Big Bass Lake in my younger days, a close friend's family had a house there. This is going back ~20 years ago. It was great, though I remember in the latter years the area started having problems. It was the first and only time I had a gun pulled on me because some wannabe gangster thought I said something about his trashy car he was driving (I was just hollering to my friend in the parking lot of a fast food joint). Not fun.

     

    The challenge with PA is finding a place where the price is right and area is nice, many times the price is right because the area has some "challenges" with crime and other issues.

  21. Posted

    We just had our 20 year old Sears dryer repaired, came with the house and we've been here for 7 years.

     

    We were talking about washers. He said stick with the old school top loading agitator types. He was telling me of the types of problems they develope and tend to be throw aways when they go. We have a LG front loader now that works fine for now, But I think I'll go back to the top agitator when this blows up.

     

    They get the job done and are easier and cheaper to fix when they break.

  22. Posted

    Yeah they take out 98%-99% of all contaminants. A good quality small under counter RO can be had for around $500. Yeah I know Lowe's an home Depot sell $200 units as well. But you get what you pay for. A whole house RO system is insane price wise. And there's no way I'm flushing my toilet, washing the car, or watering the lawn with RO water, that's just crazy to me. But people do it.

     

    I believe the city of Miami makes 10% of their domestic water from a huge industrial scale RO plant, from sea water. It's a pretty cool system, desalination at its best.

     

    Desalination plants, very cool but very pricey to operate compared to free water from the ground. But if there isn't enough fresh water, civilization has to do what it has to do. I imagine California will start expanding their desalination capacity out of necessity. They've already started for the most part http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20140615/nations-largest-desalination-plant-looking-to-provide-drought-proof-water-supply-to-southern-california

     

    Another thing to consider is that RO also removes trace minerals from the water. For the most part, not a big deal in 1st world countries as we get most of what we need from our food. I can atest that it can cause problems, as I lived on all RO water on an island in the pacific for 2 weeks with a fairly minimal diet. By 1.5 weeks, I was not feeling right. Light headed/brain fog, general weirdness. The medical person gave me a packet of what amounts to a massive amounts of electrolytes in powder form and was told to drink it. It did the trick. He told me without taking supplements or the proper diet with minerals like veggies and stuff, your body relies on fluid intake for minerals. With RO, they just weren't there.

  23. Posted

    Yea, well is another story. RO all the way, especially since you aren't paying a metered water bill. I have a friend on well who still buys bottled water for drinking due to fears of contamination. He seems to not be able to wrap his head around how RO will be able to handle anything that gets pumped up.

  24. Posted

    I agree that a static ion exchange media will become ineffective more quickly then other systems, this is why the particular filter that I utilize only has a 600 gallon lifespan while the non-ion exchange version is rated up to 2000 gallons.

     

    RO is definitely king, the scorched earth of water filtration. It's also good to mention that they come with a price of water wastage of a ~1:4 good:flush-waste gallons. I'd definitely be OK with that if my water test came back full of industrial wastes and/or heavy metals in high concentrations, but to remove some rust, small particulates, and chlorination byproducts would be overkill in my opinion.

  25. Posted

    The only one worth getting that actually does anything is an RO (reverse osmosis). Anything else is just a carbon filter. They make sewage taste good but really do little for removing harmful contaminants like lead.

     

    Sure RO is going to be the most effective, but I disagree that anything else is "just a carbon filter". Example I gave uses an ion exchange membrane stage that is capable of reducing lead in drinking water. Non-RO cartridge systems are also effective for removing biological contaminants like bacteria and spores.

     

    My original reply I gave should have been less about what I use, and more about letting the OP know that his best bet is to get his tap water tested, then apply the proper technology to fix the problems that the results provide.

     

    If my tap was full of lead, I'd be going RO in a heartbeat. Since its not, I stick with my multistage element that also incorporates the ion exchange for reduction of what trace amounts are there.

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