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Most schools in Jersey have closed down most of their shops and home economics programs sighting costs and relevance to the state's core curriculum standards. They rationalize it by saying that is a student desires to follow a vocational education path, they can attend one of the many county vocational schools. I taught "shop" for 35 years in a blue ribbon, avocational high school and had in excess of 4,500 students who were interested in learning things that involved manual dexterity and artistic thinking. It is a shame that the next generation of students will have little hands on skills and there will be a great shortage of service technicians as the current ones get older and retire.

Many ranges no longer rent to a single shooter.

Very nice looking piece, congrats!

Welcome to the forum from Toms River

My PD also laminated mine before they handed it to me.

I would just give it another week or so and see if it comes through.

Tires are very hard to put out once they catch on fire!

Yeah, I bet they asked for their names and address so they could send it to them?

Welcome to the forum from Toms River!

Welcome to the forum from Toms River

My son was at Targetmaster today picking up a case of 9mm and they had Federal XM855L - 62 grain FMJ Ball. 420 rounds in an ammo can for 299.99.

O/T but I saw three of these in IBSP earlier this week.

Damn, Shawn, you beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing!

Three cheers for Olympic Arms!

Thanks Maks, I forgot about all the newer ones since I have not been in the market for anything new lately. Many are pretty far from me so I don't visit just to window shop. I did visit the folks up at Mastodon when they did the first NJGF Lowers and they were very friendly and competent. I do follow the posts and see that there are a lot of people who are very happy dealing with the people you mention.

I agree 100%. It just seems like we had Brick (yuck) and lost them, then we had and lost Shore Shot, then we had and lost RTSP all just in the last couple of years? Fortunately for me and so many Central and South Jersey folks, we have an outstanding FFL in Tony to deal with.

I wonder why it is so hard to keep a brick and mortar vendor on a forum. It seems as soon as a customer has a beef because they were not waited on fast enough or got a part fast enough, or got their arses kissed long and hard enough, they blow them up the forums as retaliation. Why is it that we feel that, just because we belong to a forum, we feel entitled to special treatment or discounts? If I owned a business and were being slammed by people on these forums (I am speaking generically here) I would not spend any of my business's money supporting them either. It costs a lot of money in rent, utilities, insurance and salaries to keep these places open, you would think the masses that scream for more places to shop and hang out would be more understanding? Especially in a state that makes it so hard for these places to stay in business? Who you going to go to when Obama make it illegal to do business through the internet? Just my .02

I preface this by saying I am not a hunter but I did not know you could hunt with either an air rifle or rifle (.223) in Jersey? Is this all new? If you can use a .223 for coyote, does this mean we can hunt with an AR? If so, that would make it a hunting rifle, no?

Haha, never been there since I have two indoor ranges 15 minutes from my house and Range 14 is less than 25. Maybe Randolph Township Shooting Partners then?

Roxbury Township shooting partners?

Great guy, smooth transaction. Thanks again!

Yes, 1400, thanks.

I bought a Winchester 1300 - 20 gauge a while back from a forum member. It really looks like new! Today was the first time we took it out and I had a couple of boxes of cheap bird shot (7/8 oz.) and it would not cycle. It fires fine and was very accurate, it just would not cycle. One of the other shooters in the group said he thought the load was too light and these older Win Semis were made to cycle with a heavier load. like 1oz. I thought I would ask here before tearing it down and looking for trouble.

I think you could have them shipped to a FFL that is going to pin them for you?

Mike, welcome to the forum from Toms River.