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Hi I'm new here, just joined after watching a bunch of slavguns videos. Thought I'd introduce myself after chatting with krdshrk during a live premier. I'm Ian, a full time Air National Guard member at the 177th. Bought my first gun in 2018 and now have fun little (my wife would disaggree) collection. I live right down the road from Shooters so that tends to be where I go to shoot

No worries gents. Nappens on it. High priority big money case. Were good.

Thanks for that. I can't stand 10 minute videos when all I really want is to see the article I can read in a minute.

Nick — pictures but don’t send it back till I see it we could always run it through a lee factory crimp die if it will help — that should iron out any issues as long as it’s not over crimped

Really? That's SAD considering they've been around since the 60's...

Part of my job for the last 25 years has been hiring contractors for all sorts of projects. I've hired hundreds and hundreds of them. My advice: Find someone your neighbor or friend liked working with. Finding a quality contractor is the most important thing. Get 3 quotes. Throw out any that are low enough to worry you and any that are high enough to worry you. If all three are in the same neighborhood, you can trust the prices are good. Don't worry about the nuisances. Don't worry if the contractor thinks it's 150' vs. 120'. There is some number he needs to make to make your project worth his time. Doesn't matter how he gets to that price. You don't know how he's calculating workman's comp, equipment rental, benefits time, liability insurance, or 100 other things that are priced into your job. Worrying about 30' of edging misses 99.999% of what went into your quote.

Others can jump in here, but it's about the paperwork. You will need to do a transfer at a federal firearms license dealer (FFL), which will include a background check on them. You will also need to do a Certificate of Eligibility (for long guns) or they will need to have a permit to purchase a pistol (P2P), which requires some more background checks to be done. ALWAYS keep a copy of the paperwork.

I'll take some pics before the end of the weekend

Welcome! Glad to see you here! Keep an eye out for meets and events!

Hi Ian. How's your brother John doing? OK, just had to say it. Welcome to the gun world and the forum.

Welcome!

Welcome & Thank you for your Service.

Oh, good. Life is so much better with the law requiring that P2P's be issued in 30 days or less, so I expect NJ will follow this with equal diligence.

9mm 9mm, I'll take some pictures tonight after work

Maybe its just me, and the accounting principles I have learned... but thats not acceptable in my mind. A contractor should be able to accurately determine how much each square foot costs his business, and how much he needs to charge to make a profit. Adding square footage to inflate a price makes zero sense to me and its an indicator the contractor hasn't created a cost structure. Square footage determines how much prep time is needed, how much material is needed, how much labor is required, and the time to run any machines.. adding footage that doesn't exist means you would be paying for things you're not receiving. I wouldnt request a 20x20 foot deck, and be ok with someone quoting me to build a 25x25 foot deck, but then only building it to 20x20 specs. I may not argue over a few feet for surplus materials if thats how its described, but 30 quare feet is not a small area to just pretend exists to make up shortcomings for price. If you want to charge more, raise your per foot price.

OK, a bit of a presumptuous thread title, but I'm just back from an almost-cross-country road trip that took me through 16 states, from NJ to Idaho and back. The goal was to get out to visit Mom, for the first time in almost a year. My wife wasn't ready to get back on a plane ('flying aluminum germ tube', in her vernacular), she's never seen most of the interior of the country, I'd not taken any vacation yet this year, and so the plan for a 16-day, 6000 mile road trip was hatched. The good news, Mom is fine. Her assisted living facility locked down tight back in March. No visitors in the facility, period. Harsh, but they've not had a single covid case. If they had been in Cuomo's NY, a quarter of the residents would be dead. Recently, they started allowing in-person (masked, socially distant) visits, so we scheduled our trip to take advantage. We originally planned to camp (minimizing risk of bringing the virus to Mom), but learned that nearly all hotels have Covid protocols in place, deep cleaning between guests, no maid service during a stay, grab and go breakfasts instead of the buffet, etc. so we wimpled out and decided to not take a chance on snow camping once we got to higher elevations. Most of the states we passed through require masks when indoors, but are pretty much open for business. Mask compliance in the the common areas of the hotels, restaurants, and in stores ranged from maybe 80% in most states to perhaps 60% in a few...Indiana, Wisconsin, Montana seemed particularly low. Mask use correlated with age; older, at risk folks nearly all wore them, the young-uns didn't care so much. No confrontations over masks anywhere we went, everyone just went about their business. We had lunch with a friend of mine in Billings, and in a week a Covid flare-up had Billings hospitals at full capacity, with new patients being sent to nearby towns. We drove long hours most of the way out, did a quick tour of Notre Dame since our route took us through South Bend, then enjoyed the Chicago Skyline after dark, without the slightest interest on getting off the beltway to actually go into Chicago. Interestingly, and I take this as a further sign of Chicago disfunction, EZPass works until you get halfway around the Chicago beltway, then abruptly it is no longer accepted at the toll plazas, and you have to use iPass, which of course we didn't have, and all of the cash lanes were shut due to Covid, but also to stick it to any non-locals passing through without a valid pass. I'm still waiting to find out what blasting through those last 4 or 5 toll plazas is going to cost me. Sightseeing really started in South Dakota, with a few hours in Badlands national park (where I lost my drivers license, apparently when purchasing a multi-park pass). Both Dakotas have badlands, and they are both very cool to visit. Besides the fascinating geology, we saw a lot of elk bison, and pronghorns, and a bighorn ram, just 30 yards off the road. I grew up in prime bighorn range, and this was only the second or third one I've ever seen. Next up was Mt Rushmore, and a drive-by of Wall Drug. Montana was more of a focus for us, both to visit a number of towns we're considering for retirement in a few years, and also to visit Glacier National Park. I'd not been there in decades. We lucked out with the weather. It was warm and dry, they'd not yet had any snow this year. The Going to the Sun Highway is the road that bisects the park, carved out of a mountain face most of the way (it's a National Civil Engineering Landmark), and most years it is snowed closed by mid-Oct...and not plowed open again until early July. It gets a LOT of snow, there are sections where drifts and snow slides can bury it under 80 feet of snow. But we got to drive it in both directions, with only a little smoke from distant wildfires partially obscuring the highest peaks. We crossed into Idaho and followed the Salmon river south for half a day. It's some of my favorite country anywhere, and it happened to be the first day of Elk season so every turnoff was occupied by trucks, horse trailers, quad runners, etc. I had to smile at all of the gun cases we saw carried through the hotel lobby that night. Saw quite a few nice racks on trucks, too. Almost every general store seemed to carry ammo, alongside the groceries, fishing tackle, auto supplies, etc. My home town has a Sportsman's Warehouse, like a Cabelas, but less gentrified. Biggest guns and ammo department I've ever seen, so I had to check it out. The inventory of guns was definitely low, but they didn't seem to be quite out of anything. Lots of revolvers, shotguns, bolt action rifles. Quite a few semiautomatic handguns. Just a handful of ARs, and their usual good selection of .50 cals. They had quite a bit of ammo as long as it wasn't 9 mm or .22, I didn't see those. They had a pretty good stock of reloading supplies, most bullets and many powders, but primers did seem to be completely sold out. Prices on anything in stock seemed normal, or very close to it. They chose to sell out rather than price gouge. We didn't do much sightseeing on the way back, other than a diversion to drive around Bear Lake, a rather large and incredibly turquoise body of water spanning the Idaho-Utah border. A week after we left Glacier, they had five consecutive days of snow with highs in the single digits, lows in the minus single digits. Two days after our stay in Des Moines, they got 9 inches of snow. As I said, we got lucky with the weather. And I avoided getting ticketed for driving without a license!

Thanks my fellow ex Brooklynite.

Not all the way through, no. The base of the case prevents that. If the cartridge does not go in to the base or is very tight/gets stuck, that's bad. Edit to add: just google plunk test for images and videos.

OBRPC has 2 locations, an outdoor range facility on Jake Brown Rd (Behind Blonder-Tongue, one of my suppliers in a past life, and a 24/7 indoor range nearby. Best part about being a member with access to the 24/7 indoor range is that you're ALWAYS on your way to the range with the unloaded handguns in your trunk!

Also ensure it is a REAL No5.... It can be a cut down no4 mkxxx that was done after the war to make you think it is a no5.. You will have the lightining cuts..do NOT only go by receiver markings. Pics?

Yes there are wide variances between barracks, and agree; your mileage may vary! And Sgt. Hollar at Augusta is excellent. No delay in that pipe. Sorry for your degraded experience. And last but not least, aren't exemptions wonderful?

It's nice. I'm not a member, but I've shot a number of matches there. I think it's the second largest private club (after Central Jersey) in the state.

This pretty much answers the question.

To be clear, the FID is required for handgun ammo. Any ammo that can only be fired from a long gun (e.g. .308 or 12 gauge) does not require a FID.

Sending them the FID is bad enough and I avoid those sellers. If some place wants my DL thats a deal killer for me right there-NFW.

Also, many sites are charging taxes. Add that into the final cost as well.

Many of you have seen the change at Drudge, not sure if you're aware of this new site, who's trying to replace them. This is all the stuff you're not seeing on the Liberal stations. They are breaking out a lot of the Hunter information, and more. Revolver News https://www.revolver.news/

The story I heard was that Matt Drudge's gay boyfriend needed to be bailed out, so Matt sold the farm... Unfortunately, he sold it to a Liberal... and you see the result today.

They're billing themselves as the Drudge replacement. Drudge today has no mention of the Biden scandal, they definitely switched over to the dark side.