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Kudos on a fair and balanced article. There’s always going to be errata (even we don’t get all the facts right amongst ourselves). I’m glad she hooked up with Rosie and Ant. People need to hold their fire the next time a reporter comes around trying to do research and asking in a humble manner. Some of y’all act like sexually frustrated guys at the bar who unload their neuroses on any girl that is willing to listen to them.

Ebony and Ivory

Every year, it happens. We hear about some baby, toddler (yeah, pets too) dying of heatstroke in the back of a locked car. There's always the outrage - how could that parent let that happen? I've asked that question myself at times. Well, here's a very interesting article about a young couple, and the mom thought she had left their young daughter at the daycare - literally looked at the feed from the daycare center throughout the day, thinking all was well - only to realize with horror at the end of the day that the child was in her car in the parking lot at work - dead. It goes into some interesting analysis of what happens in a person's brain when this happens - frankly, I've always suspected there was SOME reason other than neglectfulness (because some of these people really do seem like loving parents), so it was sort of interesting to see the "brain science" angle to it. It seems that a small interruption in routine often triggers these events - and it discusses how competing parts of the brain create a "false memory" of a routine drop-off that didn't actually happen that day. So, sure, we can all sit in judgment of this woman - or not. That's your choice. And I'm not going to argue that point. But, if nothing else, the article recommends an interesting "safety check" to hopefully prevent it... it's called the "bag in back" technique - read on! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-mother-whose-lapse-led-to-childs-death-seeks-to-prevent-further-hot-car-casualties/ar-AAwDV8B?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz And now that the warm weather has arrived, it's just a very timely reminder that a car can heat up seriously fast - so please don't leave any living creature in your parked car - even if it's in shade or the A/C is turned on - it's just NOT worth the risk. And you might want to use this "bag in back" trick when you DO have a kid or pet in the car. The mind is a funny thing - and it can play tricks on you. Why not go the added step of an extra safety precaution to prevent a terrible tragedy?

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Speak of the devil! For sale right here on our very own forum and at one heck of a price!

*Meets the legal barrel length if you want to use a 14.5 barrel. *It protects the rifling at the end of the barrel. Regards, TokenEntry

There are other threads here on NJGF about what everyone is drinking these days, but I thought it would be interesting to start a new thread that just focuses on beer, ale and a really good hamburger as part of the meal. I have some favorites and I bet many of you do as well.... In our stateside travels, my wife and I really enjoy exploring and tasting the local craft and micro brews that are becoming more abundant and available all around the USA. As a rule, I prefer the freshness of draft beer over the same beer that is available in a bottle or can. Yet, as far as consistent bottled/canned beer I do have some favorites. I have done a fair amount of traveling in my life and after having tried and have enjoyed draft beer and ale all around the USA, Germany, England, Ireland, Belgium, France, Poland, Hungry, the Czech Republic, Holland, the Scandinavian countries, Australia, I have developed some favorites. My favorites tend to center on the various beers and ales from Belgium. While technically there are no “styles” of Belgian beer, there are some common, but not universal, characteristics and features, including a spicy phenol aroma, fruity esters and an effervescence from bottle-conditioning/re-fermentation. I also appreciate that Belgians have a different style of glass for each type of beer. The ones I like the best are those produced by Trappist Westvleteren, St. Bernardus Abt, Oude, Palm, Chimay, Houblon Chouffe, La Chouffe, Westmalle Trappist Tripel, Saison Dupont, Duvel and Brouwerij Huyge. My usual “go to” Belgian ale in the winter months is Duvel Belgian Golden Ale (8.5% ABV). I like it because it combines the lightness and effervescence of a Pilsner with the complexity and sheer alcoholic oomph of a Tripel. It is made from a combination of Pilsner malts, Bohemian hops and a unique yeast strain, using a very specific and complex brewing and refermentation process that takes over 90 days to create. It results in a strong golden ale with an aromatic scent and intense taste. Pouring it from its bottle produces a dense head and lively, almost citrus bouquet. It has a slightly peppery and floral scent and a zesty fizz from a high CO2 content. Finally, the taste is wonderfully balanced and smooth, with a slightly spicy flavor In the warmer months, I enjoy the Delirium Tremens (8.5% ABV) from the relatively young Belgian brewery Brouwerij Huyghe. Its white bottle makes it stand out from most other bottle beers and ales. It is a top-fermented, heavy pale blond beer of the tripel type that uses 3 different types of yeast, pale malt, Styrian Golding and Saaz hops and it re-ferments in the bottle giving it a slightly cloudy haze. On the bottle’s label are pink elephants, crocodiles and dragons, depicting the various stages of inebriation you may go through after a few glasses. The full body taste has distinct malty aroma and a slight but refreshing fruity touch of orange zest, green apple and apricot and a long finish of dry bitters. There are hundreds of excellent hamburgers in our country and I will admit that taste is subjective and therefore, fast-food McDonald's, Arby's, White Castle, etc. hamburgers have a place somewhere, (I am being nice…), in that pantheon of rankings. So my question to all of you is what restaurant hamburger(s) have you had that made a lasting impression on you? FWIW, probably the best hamburger I have had in a restaurant is at Raoul’s at 180 Prince St. in Manhattan. It is called Raoul's Burger au Poivre and consists of a pepper-crusted La Frieda brisket burger patty that is a blend of whole, heavily marbled brisket, chuck and shoulder made from American Black Angus Beef. To this, they add thinly sliced red onions, triple-cream Saint-André cheese, and some peppery cornichons, and dressed watercress that gives the entire combination a nice zing, all sitting between a delicate and chewy challah bun. This burger also comes with triple-crème cheese fries and has a sidecar of cream-and-cognac au poivre sauce served on the side as a dipping sauce. So what are your favorite beers, ales and hamburgers, (other than what you may make yourself....)? AVB-AMG

Just think of it next time "but they have clays so cheap" crosses your mind. http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/02/dicks-sporting-goods-hired-four-democrat-gun-control-lobbyists-april-records-show/

That reminds me @Zeke still owes me a case of Sam Adams. Burgers. One of my favorite burger places is Broome St Bar & Grill, Broome St Manhattan. They serve them in a pita pocket.

Given what's out there, I can't see anyone blowing anything out of the water. Vortex gets mentioned because they really did shake up the industry. It'd be hard trick to upset the status quo as much as they did. There's what the big dollar guys are doing. What is there vs the ~$1k quality entries isn't big enough to be huge news. The only things I can see as possible other than marketing BS is. 1) An affordable 1-10x scope, or even a 1-10x with good behavior comparatively to the decent 1-6 and 1-8 scopes at a reasonable but expensive price. Right now MArch has a 1-10x, but it's in their hunting line for a reason. Also, 8x is pushing it for usefulness. 10x unless FFP and with NO trade offs isn't going to be desirable for a lot of the LVD market. 2) Lghtness. THe grey ghost precision/ kruger KC6 carbon fiber scope shaves some weight and actually beats the weight of swaraovski. But they barely shipped any, and now they are not to be found. If Bushnell brings something liek that in set up well at 1-6x for $1299 msrp with a decent reticle and illumination, the LVD market will notice. Those are the biggest splashes I can imagine, and they still aren't going to be huge news. Probably not any bigger than bushnell shaving a couple hundred off their tactical elite 1-8x and making the various reticle sku properties less ambiguous would. I suspected the 1.1x thing might be moot. They all aren't true 1x if you are under several yards distance, buit the vortex razor and the trijicon accupower 1-8 do a real convincing job until you get to room scale distances. Even then it's pretty minor. The price of them definitely is not moot though. S&B aint cheap. Their new 1-8 short dot even claims to have a close quarters mode for true 1x at room scale distances. But it's also $4000.

Chillax brother. The Body Shop went out of business years ago. It was a sad sad day for California burgers. I have not had one as good since.

^^^HOLDIN' OUT ON ME FOR LUNCH! I'LL REMEMBER YOU. lol!

The absolute best burgers I ever had were at a strip club on the northern end of the Jersey shore. When I worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel, the guys in our department used to go there once a month on Fridays for, uhh lunch. Best 8 oz California cheeseburger ever. Beer...fuggedaboudit, it's Yuengling or nothing

I'll bet you have white gloves and boots to match.

Good everyday beer: Yuengling Enjoyable, sipping beer: McEwans -- it's Guiness without the bite Missed-haven't seen in awhile: Anchor Steam Wouldn't drink if it were free: Budweiser, Hudepohl

No, but your original post on this thread certainly was an infomercial. Are you a bot....? Just adding my thoughts on this topic, specifically regarding blue jeans and how they have evolved over the years and where folks can find a pair the way they used to be made..... AVB-AMG

It's not about being a man or being a sissy, it's about winning. With a good brake coupled up with light weight reciprocating parts (bcg/buffer) I can double tap a 17" circle out to 50 yards with splits running around 0.15-0.18 seconds I can't do that with a naked muzzle. If you watch this video you'll see what i mean. Look at the muzzle, if it wasn't for the smoke or the sound you'd have no idea the rifle is firing. Here's another video where you can see the brake being of benefit. Again, without the audio you can barely tell the rifles firing. I could not shoot those 5 targets that quickly without a muzzle device. So, that's why I use one, and also why every single 3-gun champion does as well.

Germans always make French inventions better. Just look at firearms during WWII. Lol. What was this thread about again? Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk

Thanks Gents. I really mean it. As usual you have educated me. I will still be twitching from the guy at the next table. LOL. As for my jerkness - yah a little intentional though. Hey I used to be an Altar Boy but got fired for sneaking too much wine.

Did she up her insurance policy on you recently? If so, then YES... you're in danger. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

A french originated word that means a very erotic threesome, usually with a girl and two guys Keyword "usually". I dont wanna know any more.... We are good. I still sorta respect you

Little danger of not voting the right way. I'm an independent but the last time I voted for a Democrat was 1972. I'm not likely to make that mistake again. (At least not deliberately. That's unless you find me in a nursing home with an "I Voted!" sticker.) The problem is that Florida weather is intolerable for 3 months of the year. (In that way, Florida is much like New Jersey, it's just a different 3 months.) We were looking at houses here in New Jersey but closer to the beach. Than Sandy happened. We were told that one house we had liked had 4 foot waves in the living room. Which scared the willies out of us. Most recently, Trump's tax reform capped the deductibility of SALT. If I'm going to waste my money, I can think of better things to waste my money on than a bloated, inefficient government.

What about all the husbands left in car's while the wife goes shopping? Are we not in danger as well? All kidding aside... ONLY asshats and irresponsible people would leave kids or pets in the car during hot weather. In fact NO ONE should leave kids left alone in a car anytime... The world is not what it once was.

Sig Sauer P320 X-Five 9mm $849.99 plus NJ Nics (15.00) and NJ Tax MODEL: P320 X-Five CALIBER:9mm BARREL:5" ACTION:Double Action Only SIGHTS:FS: Fiber Optic/RS: Adjustable FINISH:Nitron

Um.....no. Bid rigging and bidder collusion is VERY illegal. For a NJ example: https://www.justice.gov/archive/atr/public/press_releases/1997/1227.htm

I personally like the noise, nothing like a full mag of some angry 556 rounds. Works for me!!!!!!

No they were AR's

I think most people get a brake because the standard issue flash hider is not legal in the PRNJ. It wouldn't look right with just the threads exposed on the end of the barrel. So, if you have to pay for something to be permanently installed, the brake is the better choice. It provides a benefit of reducing muzzle movement which allows for quicker target re-acquisition, where as a nut provides no benefits. The cosmetic appeal is an important factor too. Like cars, people like to customize their rifle. Look at all the different types and colors of hand guards and butt stocks. There are different colors of magazines. The original M16 fixed stock and triangular hand guards from the Vietnam era are perfectly serviceable for what they are, but most people don't choose that for their privately own guns.

Sorry to hear that.

I'd never opt for a revolver that's powered by something that looks like a mousetrap spring. (P/N 12)

Actually in this regard they are quite useful. I think what bites a lot of us in the ass in NJ is that since most places don't give a crap about flash hiders, everything pretty much comes with a threaded barrel these days. But here in NJ you can't, so the option is weld on a useless nut, or a useless but cool looking brake, so most people go with the brake. I know I did on a couple rifles.

For trap, you'll be shooting at 16 yards to the trap house, so Improved Cylinder. Your just interested in breakin' em, not smokin' em, yet! You need to pattern your choke and shells to get a 20 inch circle at 30 yards. Otherwise you will be spinning your wheels trying to see where you are aiming. Winchester makes a AA tracer target that sometimes helps.

I like how pretty they look.

Who said there were any women involved?

This. Pretty much all 10/22 aftermarket barrels are bentz chambers as well, so makes it even worse. Also if going for accuracy, stick to subsonic in the 10/22. I have replkaced said pin with a synthetic buffer similar to what Parker posted. I recommend them over the coated steel ones as the coated steel ones can shred the coating faster than the all polymer ones give up the ghost.

Wow, that looks amazing! Someday....

I think @Zeke was referring to a more recent controversy...? The link you provided was the one the CDC released during the Obama administration - in which, on the one hand, they admitted DGU's were "common" - but on the other hand, they hemmed and hawed and said "gee, the studies vary widely... we really need more studies to validate this" etc. Within the last few days, it turns out that one of the top researchers, Gary Kleck, whose studies show DGUs are very common... stumbled upon UNPUBLISHED data from the CDC. The CDC had added DGU questions to some large sweeping survey and conducted it 3 years in a row. Their findings appear to align with Kleck's data - and yet they NEVER published it. So, think about that for a minute - to be squawking "we need more data to validate this" - but then to SIT on your own data that does validate it. It seems they buried their own data because it showed something they didn't want to see - data that didn't align with the agency's known anti-gun stance. Here's one of the articles describing the recent controversy: https://www.ammoland.com/2018/04/cdc-failed-to-report-strong-evidence-of-defensive-gun-uses/#axzz5EML6LUus

Actually Minnesota and now Colorodo laws suck too. They are blue states. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

OK so Remington is a no go on any 1911 for +P, and Springfield is OK with +P in 5 inch or longer barrels only. I see no reason for its use in the 1911 platform, but to each his own.

I’m still significantly faster with a RDS inside 200 yards. That is also the experience of many others that I know are in the process of using LPVO. I have found that the Steiner P4Xi is the best value out there for the money. It is so much better than the Vortex Strike Eagle - even though it is “only” 1-4 v 1-6*. I would also run the Steiner as a duty optic, but I would not run the Vortex SE for anything but fun or training. Also, The Vortex Razor HD 1-6 seems to be the big choice for a lot folks in the know for a duty optic. It is very nice for sure, but it almost 4.5x the price you can get a Steiner for if you are patient. *In a very unscientific test of a sample of 6 conworkers, no one could tell if the scope was at 4x or 6x if I set it and handed it too them.

Before anyone starts ordering parts or modifying mags I would wait for the final bill (after senate votes). At that point I’ll ask for guidance from the njsp on what’s acceptable. Some people have said the bill as is would not even allow modified mags.