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Understood Troy

I read it in the papers but it is online too. http://www.app.com/article/20100421/NEWS/4210355/1280/LOCAL04/Man-wounded-at-Brick-Armory-shooting-range LAKEWOOD

Whoa!

Welcome from Toms River.

Holy crap, I just read the article in today's APP. So much for making your firearm "safe" when you leave it on the bench? I totally missed this somehow. What kind of "High Power" rifle was it anyway?

Way to step up to the plate, 1563621. That is awesome!

Hahaha, we bought that boat from Comstock! And I bought my old 32' Luhrs from there as well. Unfortunately, I would not go back to buy a boat there again. They delivered the boat filthy, the excuse was that they didn't have time to run a hose out to wash it (even though they had several weeks between the sale and delivery...I guess our mistake was paying cash for the boat?) and there was a damaged hatch strut the salesman promised would be repaired or replaced and then they refused to do it after delivery. Yeah, it may seem pretty minor, but I used to sell boats in the 80s locally and we would never deliver a dirty boat! And if I said something would be fixed, it was fixed.

Yes, it is. Good eyes! Do you have one also? Probably not going to get any fishing in today, I really want to run it out a bit and then maybe hook up our automatic oil changer. We mounted it all up last year and only have to hook up the power (which was a real pain to find hidden in the power panel) and attach the hoses.

There are always a few fishing rods on the boat. We put this rod holder on the back of the bridge a couple of years ago!

Dan, I agree 100%! It is not a question of guilt or innocence, it is due process. I certainly do not want him to ever walk into a school again!

Going to put the boat back in the water late this afternoon. Then we will have to take a run through the canal and out the inlet for a little shake down cruise? Probably be out too late to make it tonight.

I think if you were to actually poll a group of teachers, they would not be opposed to a wage freeze? But why stop at teachers, why not have every union public employee accept a wage freeze? Hell, we pay taxes for all those employees! In NJ since the mid-70s, if you work in a school and the unit you work for (teacher's, secretaries, custodial, bus workers) are represented by a union, you have to pay into it. I believe Blackfox is correct, it is 100% dues to belong and 80% to not belong, but you are paying regardless. If you do not join and if you ever have an issue with your supervisor or administrator, how hard do you think the union is going to fight on your behalf? Tenure is not some magic wand, it just protects the teachers for being fired "without cause". Sure, it makes it harder to fire a teacher but not impossible. Inappropriate behavior, insubordination, failure to meet acceptable test scores all constitute just cause. A lot of schools get around tenure by only keeping teachers for three years, then dumping them and hiring a new batch. Most school boards have been requiring new hires to pay into their health benefits costs since around 2002. In most cases the laws prevent them from attaching the benefits of previously hired staff, but eventually, the "old guard" will be gone and all school employees will be paying into their benefits. Teachers have always payed a percentage into their retirement plans. Did you know that teachers were not able to open a 401k? Now we have class curriculum's, course objectives and competency exams. For example, all freshmen Math classes have the same curriculum and at the end of the year they all take the same test. In the past, teachers were allowed to make up their own exams for their classes, so it was easy to structure a test that your kids could pass and then these same kids would not pass the "standardized" tests. Why are test scores so important? Because the amount of state aid and federal money is dependent on test scores. Some districts try to skirt test scored by having a large population of "classified" students, who are exempt from taking the standardized tests. This is all orchestrated by the administration in an attempt to make their school look good and not lose state and federal money. With NCLB, they may now have to take the "Alternative Testing" unless they have an IEP which exempts them from even taking that test. The teachers are only the pawns in this game. A statement like "98% of our students passes the state assessment tests" really means 98% of the students we let take the test passed! Many of the students we knew could not pass were exempt because we have classified them. Yes, the system is broken, but bashing just the teachers or blaming them for everything is not going to fix a thing!

This is not NY, we have no rubber rooms here to send the teachers so they can play games, watch TV and read their papers! Show him the door, he has already broken tenure rules by his behavior, there is no saving him. He will be suspended until his case goes to court, then he is done (you all heard of innocent until proven guilty?). There are no pensions or benefits for that guy if he has only been there for 7 years, even if he was eligible, if he is found guilty he would forfeit it all anyway.

Check out the Marlin X7 long action in 36-06

Thanks Chris, I just thought since it was half the distance from me to Ft Dix, it might have been a nice alternative.

Chris, is it a range or a hunting club? Seems JAMESBURG is a "Driving club", which I assume is a deer hunting club?

I pass two clubs on Route 70 in Manchester (I believe) on the way to Range 14 each week. Does anyone belong or know anything about them? One is Park Rod & Gun Club and the other is Jamesburg Field and Stream Hunting Club.

I will be in Sandy Hook doing the MS Walk today otherwise I would have picked up my brother and joined you guys.

Thanks! :laughing-rolling:

Got this from someone in my club today.

So where do they come from, 5 years and never heard or seen any and all of a sudden they are 100 feet from my house?

Yeah, there is almost always one of us there that will sign you in.

Yesterday I was working in the front yard and I hear a Turkey in the woods across the street. A few minutes later I hear it again. About a half an hour later, my wife was sitting on the porch "supervising" my work progress and we hear it again. This is the first time I have heard a turkey down here in Toms River. We see Deer practically every day but I did not think there were any Turkey in there. Too bad the area (600+ Acres) is posted as a wildlife sanctuary, so there is no hunting.

Yeah, like Keith said, there were empty tables all day and even the Trap/Skeet was light. Heard a lot of Automatic fire from the Army ranges.

I was at Shore Shot a few weeks ago and they seemed to have quite a few. I know they have several people there that are very knowledgeable about them.