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my wife looked at the PX4 Storm and loved it, but she ended up liking the Ruger SR9 even more. But with that said, she tended toward the Compact more than the Full Size for overall fit to her hands. She is not small, but she did like the feel in her hands of the Compact. I agree with, As Brian said, try shooting both sizes if possible at RTSP or Heritage Guild or wherever before buying. My experience with the PX4 is that shootability and recoil of the Compact and Full Size was about the same.

Nappan says the transfer for target practice can only happen at a licensed target range Reading the section below, instruction can be anywhere :-) This is actually pretty crazy law! But, the for instruction, the transferor must be an licensed instructor as defined below. Relevant section of 2C:58-3.1. Temporary transfer of firearms 1. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of N.J.S.2C:39-9, N.J.S.2C:58-2, N.J.S.2C:58-3 or any other statute to the contrary concerning the transfer or disposition of firearms, the legal owner, or a dealer licensed under N.J.S.2C:58-2, may temporarily transfer a handgun, rifleor shotgun to another person who is 18 years of age or older, whether or not the person receiving the firearm holds a firearms purchaser identification card or a permit to carry a handgun. The person to whom a handgun, rifle or shotgun is temporarily transferred by the legal owner of the firearm or a licensed dealer may receive, possess, carry and use that handgun, rifle or shotgun, if the transfer is made upon a firing range operated by a licensed dealer, by a law enforcement agency, a legally recognized military organization or a rifle or pistol club which has filed a copy of its charter with the superintendent and annually submits to the superintendent a list of its members and if the firearm is received, possessed, carried and used for the sole purpose of target practice, trap or skeet shooting, or competition upon that firing range or instruction and training at any location.

Ironically, the reading of this quote by Nappen also makes target shooting someone else's pistol at a private property illegal as well. You can only legally do that at a licensed range.

Evan Nappen's Book "New Jersey Gun Law Guide", 2009 Edition, on Page 59 in the section entitled, "Exemptions for Possession: Residence or Land Owned or Possessed" asks and answers the following question: May a firearm be temporarily transferred to one's spouse, adult family members or adult friends while at one's residence or on land owned or possessed? His answer is "No, there are no provisions in NJ law for temporary transfer of firearms to an adult at one's residence [...]. However temporary transfers may be made to minors pursuant to N.J.S. 2C:58-6.1 [...]" Mr. Nappen seems to be on the side of No. Now, my belief is that make sure the spouse has a NJ FID and a buys a pistol to show the she is not prohibited, then leave it to the courts and good sense, sigh.

i will 23rd that Savage MK II. :-) You can go very cheap and get a great shooting bolt action. I also have an older Marlin, but they have all gotten pretty bad in quality in recent times. Savage is the best budget bolt around. Do consider putting optics or tech sights on them though, the blade sites are not the easiest to use. I have a 4X scope on mine and it is fun shooting out to 100 yards. a 3-9x is even better. For battle sight type setup, look at http://www.tech-sights.com/sav200.htm

I have put at least 1,000 rounds through my MP15-22 Performance Center model and got good performance, no FTF/FTE at all. It is pretty accurate as well. Not quite as good as the Mini-mags or standard velocity ammo, but at 25 yards, I get 1 1/2" groups. Overall very good ammo for the MP15-22. I would consider it above average and usually a pretty good price. I have shot it through my Bolt Marlin and Savages with similar results at 50 yards. If you are hitting spinners and plinking cans, this is perfect ammo.

I concur, my wife is a handgunner, not into rifles at all (or shotguns). But just about every time I say "hey, how about some range time?" She lights up and says, let's go! She puts me to shame with a 1911 too, so good way to stay humble. Rifles are "quality time" with my sons :-)

Hey, the beltman mentioned above (http://www.thebeltman.net/) has a note that he'll cut down his belts when you lose weight! get what you want AND get it sized to fit your reducing size :-) BTW, I too needed to lose weight and I lost 50+ lbs. you can do it! (i need a new avatar on the left !)

you guys are amazing. I need a new belt, and voila, all the leads just show up on the interwebs! I too have bought too many junk man-made belts from Kohl's, etc. I did find a nice all leather belt from Eddie Bauer a year ago, but they don't seem to carry it anymore (it was $50) and I have lost enough weight to need a new belt. I am going to give the Beltman a try. Those are exactly what I am looking for!

I have a MK III and it eats LRN Mini-mags with no problem, but not the most accurate. I find that CCI Standard Velocity and Wolf Target work real well. I have also shot Eley Club Xtra from Remington and it is VERY good but pricey, like all Eley ammo. DO NOT Shoot hollow points, LRN/CPRN only. My Ruger MK III Hunter jams all the time with HP ammo. In general for target shooting ammo under 1,100 fps will be moderately more accurate due to being under the sound barrier. For plinking, I have found any 1050-1255 fps round nose ammo to work great. Stingers or yellow jackets or PowerPoint or other HP or very high speed ammo is problematic. CCI Blazer / CCI AR Tactical / Rem. Thunderbolt, / Winchester M22 are all great plinking ammo.

i just obtained a mosin full of cosmoline, a 1936 round receiver model. after cleaning it, the bolt was very sticky. i took the bolt completely apart, cleaned it even more, then put some Rem Oil on the spring and internal components to get rid of any residual water. It cycles much better now. Before shooting it, I plan on doing a better lube job with a heavier gun oil. Make sure the bolt (and chamber are) good and clean. bolt dis-assembly is described here: http://www.surplusfirearm.com/2012/03/23/mosin-nagant-bolt-disassembly-reassembly/ BTW, I love how absolutely simple these guns are. My only other surplus gun is an M1 Garand which is somewhere on the other end of the spectrum.

you guys this is not helpful. we need him.

I understand the competition reason. but frankly any decent sized website ilke Cabelas or Sportsmansguide should be pushing enough volume through their web interface to put in some real-time controls on prices and sales. Amazon, at the very high end, but even some small newer sites like luckygunner have figured out how to use that stuff to their advantage. They are managing several orders of magnitude larger inventories, so their infrastructure should be big enough to handle it. I bet the real issue is that Cabelas and SG are good examples of old school Snail Mail catalog retailers who are really geared to the slower turnaround that you get with catalogs and their entire purchasing / marketing / sales infrastructure is on that time line. I laugh every time Cabelas sends me a shooting catalog full of pages and pages of out of stock ammo! You would think they wouldn't bother to spend the money to mail them out, but frankly the galley proofs for the mailers were probably reviewed 6mos. before mailing. if they stopped writing them now, the would be missing the mailings in another 6 mos. when stock will begin to normalize again. They are basically screwed due the turnaround time on catalogs production and mailing. The catalogs just become a very expensive reminder that I should be looking at their website.

i know luckygunner is a very high priced site, but I use their site as a gauge for the demand. They are actually quite different than CTD and other gouging sites. They are essentially running an exchange for ammo. They publish exactly what is in stock and they have evolved their prices this year to keep it so there is always ammo in stock, but to do that they are adjusting their prices daily. Watch the prices of Blazer Brass / PMC and related FMJ 9mm ammo. they have found a price where they will sell while they keep a few rounds on line. Then watch the trend line. I haven't carefully tracked it, but about 3 weeks ago, those rounds were selling for 80 cents a round, last time I checked some were down below 70 cents. I see them as an efficient seller. Micro Economics 101. I bought a 1,000 rounds of Blazer Brass 9mm from them in early FEB for 40 cents a round because they were already raising prices but were keeping ammo on the shelf long enough to allow me to buy without TOO much panic. Compare that to the daily frantic calls to buy good priced ammo at Cabelas that persists even today. You have to be very lucky/quick/not busy with life to get those deals. Luckygunner supplies a valuable niche, but maybe not one you need. BTW, when the market is in stasis/equilibrium, LG is not a great place to buy ammo unless you are going bulk. their shipping on small orders is very high. But buy 1,000 rounds of handgun ammo and the prices become very competitive. I think their real target customer is small police departments that don't have enough volume to put out an RFP or make long term purchase committments. We live in "free" country for a whille yet. Being Free (not having price controls for example) allows for this type of variety in the market. It allows for stupid like Cheaper than Dirt. But stupid does pay a price too. CtD lost my support in the last panic in 2009 so their current behavior is just as I would expect. BTW, did you notice that on LG, they have Eley Ammo everyday at only about a 50% premium over its pre-panic prices. That is a real value for competition shooters who live and die by that stuff. If they had left the price at the normal 20/cents per round it would have been all bought as a substitute for mini-mags and both plinkers AND competition shooters would be SOL. I love efficient markets, but i like good prices. can't have both all the time.

read the book, "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes. he explains a lot about why that was true, but there were many fat people then. it was just the very poor, not the healthy working classes or the rich. Today everyone is fat. BTW, Shorpy is a great site, I have been visiting it for years!

sportsmans guide does not have a modern order management system. it is common to get those kinds of delayed cancellations. they are great place to buy stuff when the world is stable. I stay away in times of turmoil :-) Their website is really stuck in the early 2000s. Actually it is surprising how bad most of the websites are when it comes to real-time inventory and order management. Even Cabela's has some serious back office support issues.

no online ammo sales is the real killer.

$100/hour is a very good estimate of the cost of a non-supervisory government employee. it may be high for clerical, but anyone with seniority will have a salary of at least $80K/year or $38.50/hour. figure benefits and overhead are 2.5 as a general rule. that makes it $96/hour. BTW, 2.5 is a low conservative estimate that include salary, health, vacation, SS tax, holidays and basic Overhead for desk, phone, e-mail, etc. but not any other services needed that are not personnel related like cars, special tools, etc.

the dollar collapse and breakdown of normal economic normalcy is I agree the primary scenario. Ironically, the worst case scenario of that model looks a lot like Zombie but instead of the undead you just have starving mobs with no plan but to eat! anyway, self-defense over the long-term including cooperative arrangements are likely to be valuable as well as tangible assets that can be eaten, traded and consumed until the economy can re-stabilize are the keys. I read a very good article on zero hedge a few years ago by one of the major posters there who lived through the breakdown of Soviet/Russian system in the early '90s. That would be a good model to study if you want to be a practical prepper. A key part of that article pointed out that the state infrastructure doesn't evaporate, it is simply enlisted in a new and often sinister role. If possible have friends who are the police, fire, commissioner, mayor, etc. as it becomes more tribal and territorial as central power disintegrates, these positions have tremendous if only transitional power.

Thanks, so you are confirming my suspicion. No value in a C&R license, you might as well go all the way and be a full FFL if you want to buy/sell.

So I have never really understood, is there an actual value to being a C&R FFL in NJ? It requires a going through the process of obtaining a full FFL license right?

The big picture here is: 1.) Someone was doing some data mining to find this guy. sounds like they used gun show records and he showed up as someone to go after. Who knows that the threshold was. 2.) they did get a felony conviction, the fact that it was for a separate charge, it was their reward after doing all the work on the "big one". He lost his 2nd Amendment rights regardless (and the conviction was for essentially a crime he was entrapped in.) 3.) imagine what it cost him to get this far in the process of dealing with ATF. All I am saying is that don't be naive about the efforts a federal bureaucracy may go to get their quota of scalps. There are lots of discussions here on the merits of just how securely to store and secure firearms and ammo and mags to fend of trouble if you are stopped. I think the same range of discussion should be considered here. What level of sales will bring you to someone undesirable's attention? That is the question, the answer may be lower than you think.

If you don't think this is a real risk, read this article on TTAG today about a retiree fighting to remove a Felony conviction that resulted from information tracked against him from his attendance at gun shows in Florida. The ATF have methods, means, money and motive to make you a look like a felon and then turn that into reality in the court system. He was as this article points within the limits of the law, but close enough that they put the nail to him. They don't need motive to ruin your day, your gun collection, you bank account and possibly your life. They did significant research on this guy including collecting his credit card and hotel receipts as well as tracking his activities at gun shows. Unless your activities are 100% off-line and via cash and face to face, you can be tracked if desired. The Continuing Saga of Don Williams, ATF Agent http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2013/06/foghorn/the-continuing-saga-of-don-williams-douchebag-atf-agent/

Figure anything posted on the Internet has been archived, analyzed and collated for later analysis. That is not paranoia, that is the fact. I could probably with just a little homework build a database from the publicly available data on Google, this forum and gunbroker and gunsamerica and in a day or two have a list of the top sellers of firearms that are not listed as FFLs in well known public databases. Then I just run those queries for about 3 mos. Voila, I have a set of persons of interest to investigate. If I can do that, an investigator whose job is to enforce a law, could get some resources to do the same searches. If it is digital, consider it is being tracked. Off-line is a whole different situation.

just wait, they are saying that the cold Spring has delayed them until early June. I expect they'll start showing up later this week or next.