Everything posted by raz-0
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One more time Battlecomp vs BCM mod 1 compensators
protip: every muzzle break video is useless. They all look flat shooting. Even no muzzle break with good technique looks flat shooting. What matters is the sight picture which they don't show. To put it in perspective, to miss an 8 inch plate, your dot (between 2-4moa depending on brand) has to move 1-2 diameters in any direction to miss the plate at 100 yards. This will look like a nice flat shooting rifle in profile from 10 feet away in a full frame shot. Add to that that different comps work better/worse for different people depending on technique and ergonomics, and they are well and truly useless indicators of what functions.
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CCT (concealed carry trainer)
I would categorize this as a bad idea in all 50 states.
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ATI FAT BOY
Protip: nobody gives a crap about problems nj laws give us. Oddly enough they don't feel responsible for the consequences of something they didn't have a hand in crafting.
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Question for you Dog people
I've known three husky owners with 5 huskies between them, and at least 7 shepherd owners with 9 or so between them. All the husky owners got bitten, one of the huskies also bit my wife and a kid before being put down. Only one of them gave any warning in that the dog had serious anxiety issues, and that wasn't the multi biter. Also all their owners wardrobes were blended fabrics of at least 40% husky fur. My feeling on them are that they are a high energy working dog that doesn't take well to modern suburban lifestyles. They are wired to burn a lot of energy and sort out a pecking order amongst their doggy peers. Household pet where they get left to their own devices for hours a day seems to be a poor fit.
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The end of airport firearms transport?
The ruling means that if you remove your guns from a vehicle to put them in another (I.e. checked baggage), fopa doesn't protect you and you are subject to the laws of that state and municipality where you do it. Going from places like ny, nj, etc to pa shouldn't be a serious problem. The other direction definitely is. The ruling undermines the whole intent which was to eliminate having to know a vast patchwork of laws to travel with firearms.
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Bass Pro Shops in NJ
It's not just guns. All the big chains of retail seem to set up a store one of two ways: sell something to everybody, or sell everything to somebody. In parts of the country where the stores are spaced apart from the next location, and they need to attract people from all the nearby communities, they usually try to have something to sell to everyone. They aim to sell as much as possible to the customer base. Selection is better. Some place as densely populated as nj, they set up the store to move inventory to someone, and if 25% of the people walking through the door leave cause you don't have what they want, who cares as long as all your inventory turns over. On forums I see people building stuff out of all sorts of stuff from home depot we will never see in one. We get the kind of home depot where there is 127 units of the one and only toilet float, and if it sucks for you, go screw yourself, cause they'll sell through them repeatedly.
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The end of airport firearms transport?
No the ruling means that essentially all methods of mass transit including planes do not provide safe passage, and attempts to use them during an interstate trip opens you to the peril of state and local laws. If you read actual 926a, it appears that it originally did not make any allowances for vehicles without separate storage compartments like a trunk or cargo area. It appears that in adding them and jsutifying amendments, they added verbiage that referenced a vehicle without cleaning up the grammar. I think the third circuit is on very shaky ground judicially as the act says it covers all interstate transport, then talks about a specific condition regarding vehicles with certain characteristics. Essentially nothing changes for us since we are in NJ to begin with, so we get no safe passage protection until we leave the state and never did. It means a lot if you cross a state line before hopping a plane as based on the ruling, you are taking multiple trips under certain conditions. For anything with checked baggage, trip one is from home to the terminal in another state, trip two is form the terminal to the other terminal. Trip 3 is from the second terminal to your destination. Similar for overnight stays replacing terminals with hotels.
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recommend a bolt cleaning tool
I have one, and it is a great idea, but the tolerances on the bit used to clean the tail of the bolt seem a bit lacking. I'm probably going ot pick up an OTIS BONE to try it out.. The design looks machined rather than cast, and it is cheaper. $16 from some vendors on amazon.
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Should I Shoot Competition?
Depends what you shoot. If you have something other than a 1911 with 10+ round mags, get a total of 5 mags and you are more than good to go with a couple of USPSA divisions, IDPA, static steel and knockdown steel. the hardest thing to borrow that is the most useful is a good belt. The cr speed, double alpha, or safariland competition belts are good and will cover everything but IDPA. A wilderness instructor belt with the reinfocement layer will cover that, and do a decent job at the other games. Add to that a cheap kydex holster, (if you own a glock or M&P or other very popular affordable pistol, the safariland ALS hoslters are $30 something bucks for most of them and are REALLY good quality for the money, but an uncle mikes will work for you for some time as will any of the injection molded blade tech holsters). Mag holders will finish the job, and you'l have your whole competition rig.
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Anyone have kids in college?
Also, remember purpose. This isn't managing retirement funds, this is to house funds given to a kid for tuition that will be shortly withdrawn to pay tuition. If I had a deal like that, I would treat the funds in an exceptionally risk averse manner.
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.22lr at Cabelas 2100rds+ammo can for $99 shipped
got a tracking number. For those waiting months, call cabelas.
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Will a Government shutdown halt NICS and permits?
Grr tapatalk being spazzy. Anyway, the Internet didn't explode last federal shutdown. I'm pretty sure the tinfoil hat crowd that exists on every gun forum everywhere might have made a peep or two. Tons of people had to work without pay, and lots of stuff not requiring mailings and checks still went on.
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.22lr at Cabelas 2100rds+ammo can for $99 shipped
Hmm, got my email confirmation, but no alert from my cc company for a charge.
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Gearhog - $20 for $40 gift cert to Brownells.com
Hey don't feel bad. I got the email on this deal a couple hours after buying a $40 sight from brownells.
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.22lr at Cabelas 2100rds+ammo can for $99 shipped
When was the last time you purchased it? I have some bulk packs from a couple years ago and they were $16.99 from cabelas in person. Haven't seen the 40gr bulk packs in forever either. Given what the dollar is doing in terms of commodities since that last purchase, and that bundled with a plastic ammo can they were about 17.80 per bulk pack, and that the steel ammo can right now will run you about $12-14 as a single, it's a pretty reasonable price.
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Will a Government shutdown halt NICS and permits?
This. It didn't affect nics the last shutdown. You know when blood ran in the streets and everyone starved due to a shortage of paperwork.
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.22lr at Cabelas 2100rds+ammo can for $99 shipped
Looks like I got one. Anything can go to crap when you are running production lines 24-7. But before the panic, it was my favorite cheap bulk plinking ammo.
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Textbook misinformation about the 2nd Amendment, this time from NJ.
Right vs. left out of it, when I was in HS, I got in some significant trouble for disseminating documentation about an assembly hosted by a really odd motivational company. They claimed they could get your student pop in line with any administrative objectives via their awesome coolness that teenagers would be magically attracted to, and oh yeah, subliminal messaging. I don't know which was worse, the total creepiness of said company and the administration using them, or the tens of thousands of dollars pissed away on methodology that had been clinically disproven repeatedly. Their chosen message was along the lines of behave, take your vitamins, obey the administration, don't question authority, and study hard for your standardized tests. Their justification was more or less "it's for your own good." Dip your toe in the text book selection process too. Indoctrination is an appropriate term, although not in the way most people bring it up. It's less about what those who object to their parental dogma being contradicted by institutional dogma, and more about turning the populace into a docile shade of unobjectionable ultra beige that gets maximum funding with minimal work.
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Case tumbler
I snagged the giant harbor freight vibratory tumbler on sale. Got it for like $135. It does 18.5lb of payload. 1000 rounds of .233 plus rice comes out at about 16. I give it 3-4 hours. 2 hours is functional, 4 cleans it up nice.
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So will prices go up again you think?
I don't think you will see much in terms of serious viable proposed legislation. The only upside for the gun grabbers is during the upcoming campaigns to be able to claim that if their opponent hadn't opposed some legislation, something like this would never have happened. The reality is that gun grabbing, regardless of polling, doesn't get bodies to the polls. Looking to actually screw over a voter in terms of lifestyle and property owned does. As for prices, there might be a bit of a run, but people are pretty spent out, and there is a glut of rifles and parts in the AR-15 pattern market to absorb it. We'll see some back sliding in prices I suspect, but like others have said, I don't see the conditions to support some of the peak prices we saw.
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Travel with Guns Warning
It's long, but interesting. He has some pretty complete info on airline quirks and international travel as well http://deviating.net/firearms/packing/report.html He uses surplus mortar round cases with abloy pucks on them.
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.50 muzzel loader bullets banned?
I've gotten then to fix mistakes before. It's been a while. First thing is to find out why it is restricted. Where id start with that is finding out where else is restricted.
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CJRPC crowd last night....
Not going to happen on the gp range. We've caught too much heat for skipping rounds off the ground on the rifle pits while people are working on the power lines. While they might allow rifle, they won't do pistol. Best you could do is manage to convince them rifle rounds that are jacketed and moving over 1000fps aren't bad juju in the plinking pits.
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Case tumbler
I use the cheapest white rice in giant bags at Costco. It's only good for a few cleanings, but it is very low dust and cleans stuff up nicely. As for the folks debating volume, vibratory tumblers come in different sizes just like wet tumblers. Mine will do 1000 .223 cases just fine.
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