MonmouthShooter

Thank you all for the solid advice. I hope to make it out to the range this weekend and give all these pointers a shot.

My wife and I finally got 2 of our guns out of NICS jail this weekend. It took 3 weeks! A month ago, NICS took 8 days. Things are getting worse... I was thinking of picking up a 1911, but since I am out of Pistol Permits, I am not sure if I want to go through another 2 months to get the permit, and another month of INSTANT NICS I love NJ.

After all the discussion, Friday I took a ride to Cabelas (I was not about to wait 3 weeks for NICS in NJ!). Out of the list of suggestions, they had the Savage 111 (with the Nikon 3-9/40 scope) in stock. So now I am a proud owner of a Savage .308 rifle! I took it out to Range 14 yesterday, and took a few shots. All I can say is that I need to work on my shooting With my target at only 100 yards, I was able to hit a 3 shots in a 1" group, and the rest were all over the place, some missing the target altogether. This will take lots of practice... PS: While at Cabelas, I also picked up a Ruger 10/22 takedown for the kids to shoot. They had a blast with it yesterday!

I am confused. This is found on the NJSP website: http://www.njsp.org/about/fire_hollow.html According to this, I am allowed to own, keep at home, and transport HP ammo to the range, and use it there. This seems to differ from the opinions in this thread. What the NJSP website DOES NOT say is if I am allowed to use HP ammo in home defense situation.

Yeah, I found that out the hard way! LOL. They guy at Cabela's told me to grab those shells when I was buying the shotgun. Nice sense of humor! Like I knew any better... I have a couple of boxes of 2 3/4 00 buck on order. Hope they hurt less

Went there for the first time Saturday, but did not have my shotgun with me. Shot my 9mm. Had a blast! Love the place. I need to come out there with some people who know what they are doing and show me the ropes.

Got to test-fire my shotgun yesterday! Took it to brick armory, hung a paper target, ran it back to 15 yards, took a shot Blew a 10' hole right in the middle of the target! The only shells I had were 3 1/2 inch 00 buck. I did not expect the gun to kick so hard. Almost knocked me on my ass! I need smaller rounds!

Thank you all for your feedback! After reading everyone's responses, I decided that I will go with a .308 caliber. As for the rifle, It will be between Remington 700 AAC-SD, Titka T3 TAC, or Savage 16/116, depending on what I can find.

They sell targets, but not ammo. When I went there, there was plenty of lanes open, but I hear from everyone that that is not the norm, and usually you have to wait. Thanks to everyone for the feedback about the spent brass.

I decided to look for a place to shoot outdoors and with Range 14 being about 40 minutes away, I decided to go there and take a look. The place was great! The people working at the office were extremely helpful answering all my questions, and the membership price / range fee are pretty reasonable. $60 to join, $4/hour per person (up to 3 guests allowed) to shoot. So all I needed is 1 membership, and my wife and 2 kids can shoot with me without their own memberships. The Range Officer was loud and obnoxious, in other words was doing a good job keeping everyone on their toes I made a noob mistake (nothing serious) and got yelled at. No problem, will not do that again! Overall, I loved the place, and will be heading there on nice weather weekends, but will still do the majority of my shooting at my home range (Brick Armory). Here is a noob question that I forgot to ask the guys at Range 14: What the hell do I do with my spent rounds? Do I pick them all up and just throw them in the garbage? I have no use for them myself, and they dont have a bucked for them. Do I just leave them? Any suggestions? Feel kinda stupid with this one.

Let's suppose that the budget and the cost of the cartridges was not an issue. If you were to buy a bolt action rifle to shoot at the range, what rifle and caliber would you go with? The only thing I already decided is that I want bolt action. I used to shoot a bolt action rifle as a kid, and am kinda nostalgic about it. Everything else is up in the air.

I am a noob, but my first was a Glock 19 gen 4. Before buying it, I shot Sig p226, H&K p2000, and the Glock 19 gen 4. Picked the Glock. My wife has a Beretta M9A1. I love that gun!

How about using a laser bore sighter to check the sights? Just a thought from a noob....

I will PM you.

Can you give me some info about that?