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Shouldn't be canceled unless something comes up or the weather remains total crap. The latest we will post cancellation is 7am the day of, because we need to be there at 8am and it takes an hour to get there. It's usually earlier. Check the website night before and before departure if the weather has been questionable. we have about 40 people registered.

Isn't that in the handbook. You look out the window, and if there's no flying pig, application was well over 30 days previous. IF the flying pig is on fire, yet still has a small mountain of snow piled upon it's head, it was less than 7 days.

Under NJ law, that would be a transfer. So no, you can't.

It does. Schumer is already calling for a ban on it. Then he gets to see it turn into a first amendment fight. I've tried to explain materials technology to people and how we are well past the point anyone can manufacture a handgun easily, and we are nearing the point where you need about three people, some education, and high five figures for crafting some nasty biological agents. You can see it writ large in trying to control who has nukes, but it applies to small scale as well. Perhaps even more. The system clamors for cheap and efficient. You got it.

I think you all missed it. The assembly committee had some true believers. They tried to argue with us. The senate bills aren't about conviction, they are about politics. Sweeney rolled a bunch of stuff up into one giant expensive bill that takes five years to take effect. He left as soon as he saw we were pissed probably because he is in between a rock and a hard place (I.e. his constituents and his party). It can die in budget committee, it can die on Christie's desk, heck he can even work at both. He can also say he did something for the party on the issue. The host of dems passed everything. They want to make it Christie's problem. If they were true believers a handful of those bills would be dead or full of poison amendments.

Sign up is open. It's mothers day, I will not be there. Depending on participation levels, it may be canceled, so check the web page before heading out.

You fail at the math.

Our new(er) stage designers did a pretty good job. Nice stages, only some bullet proofing issues rather than anything major. I had a majorly mixed performance.

CZ is pretty cheap, teh witness equivalent will probably shave a couple bucks off. Maybe the stoeger cougar in .40. It's the same as the old beretta cougar, and cheaper. MSRP is like $450. There's one on gunbroker new for that as buy it now. There's a used cz-74 in .40 for start of $415 with 8 days and no reserve. I've seen the stoeger for as little as $329

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/130769/nosler-bonded-performance-bullets-22-caliber-224-diameter-64-grain-spitzer-solid-base-box-of-100 Fairly new to the market, one of the very few bonded core .224 projectiles available as components. $39.99 a box of 100. limit 5. I ordered myself a few boxes because I was interested in this stuff showing up even without the panic.

Let see, stuff I can get right now. brass... $90 per 500. bullets 64gr bonded, limited to 500. and $200 at that. What I can maybe get.. primers at about $60 per 1k. What I can't get.. powder. I'd need 2lbs to load all 500 of those. Call it $40 maybe. You are at $330 to load that 500 rounds. $720 to load 1k if you could get stuff. Not really cheap, but WAY nicer bullets than those in ammo selling in that price range. Now is a rough time to get into reloading, it isn't some safe haven at the moment unless you planned ahead.

Do people really think this is hard? All this stuff except for two questions were covered in my 7th grade science class back in the 80s. If you have some dyslexia, I can see how the wording of some more would potentially mess you up. The chart at the end is scary.

If it is .45 it is major unless you are hand loading for really light loads. Max round count is 32 per stage. You really want 5-6.

Good article. I'll shoot steel cased, but not copper washed steel jackets. They are just too hard, and in the land of pinned muzzle devices the economics change. Also, their standards were pretty lax form my perspective. They were happy with 4 MOA groups from a rest, and failure was keyholing. The reality for most people is they would have been going WTF well before 12 moa keyholing groups at 50 yards. Also I tend to practice 3 gun type drills and the rate of fire is way more than off a bench for accuracy. How much you heat up the barrel is probably a huge factor in how much steel jacketed reduces barrel life for you. As much as one person I know who kept on shooting wolf after they went back to steel jackets form copper jackets, his round count to WTF is kind of linearly proportional to their round count and starting and end point. Which is interesting.

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I've got one of the belts for 3 gun type stuff. Not because it is awesome or the best, but because after trying it I found I could make it through the day with less lower back pain when carrying the gear. It's also easy to take on and off without a lot of screwing around.

They work very well they have a slick plastic leaf spring in them. What they aren't is small. If you mount them pointing out like that you can carry a lot of mags. But they poke out a lot. They can also be mounted like most mag pouches, but then waist real estate becomes a premium.

1) guns. I have to buy more guns and more safe space to have the basic gear for the household. my household, your hosuehold, whatever. It might be one pistol one rifle, might be more. 2) ammo. By focusing on 22lr, .223, and .40 which are what I primarily shoot at matches, I was able to sock away a multi year supply of powder, primers, and components for the rate at which I shoot. I'm the least stocked up on 22lr as I started shooting OBRAMS matches, and honestly negelected it somewhat thinking it wouldn't get this bad. Now lets say that I went the diversify route, and got a 10/22 magnum and a 17hmr barrel. I'd be out the cost of a gun, which when I stocked up would have been about $500-600. At the time about 6000 .40 bullets, 15,000 pieces of once fired .40 brass, 6500 55gr JSP .224 heads, or about 6000 pieces of once fired lake city brass, or about 14,000 rounds of bulk 22lr. What would I have gotten? A rifle I can't get ammo for right now except for the random in stock setting at a LGS for about $10-15 a box of 50. Not very gougy, but also about the same odds and price of snagging 22lr. Had I done that and wanted to stockpile say 2000 rounds, I'd be out $800. So diversity on the off chance someone has some 22 WMR or 17 HMR around costs me $1300 in addition to what I spent (couldn't afford that), or it means I would have had ot buy $1300 less of what I did buy, which would mean I would be running out WAY, WAY sooner. Now 9mm would have been cheaper than .40, and I have guns in that caliber already, but I prefer .40 as it is more versatile for what I do. I already have the makings for a couple thousand rounds of that already just form leftovers after moving to .40 for comeptition. .45? I have a gun for that too, but lets say I didn't. At least $550 for the gun, and each 1000 bullets would have cost me about 25% more than the .40 bullets. That's a 25% (greater due to higher brass prices too) premium to cover the same amount of shooting on top of that $550. without the gun, that'd mean to split between .40 and .45, for every round of .40 I replaced with .45, I'd get about .8 rounds of .45. If I had to buy the gun, and could afford to do that AND stockpile, I could have just gotten about 4000 more .40 heads, a couple pounds of powder and 5000 more small pistol primers leaving me with 1000 to flip for profit or hold onto.Or once again, fgor the cost of the gun, 14,000 rounds of .22lr. I have one rifle in a less common caliber. Pre-panic you were talking about $1.10 per round for ammo. Can't find it now either esxcept for cor bond and buffalo bore. The former is $119 a box of 20, and the latter is $60. So...... 5.45 upper for my AR? You see any 5.45 around? .300 blackout? Each upper if done cheap would have swapped even for about 2-2.5 thousand rounds of m193 equivalent.. The only thing I was kind of wishin I HAD done was build the 6mm-223 upper that I have been perpetually contemplating. Even now I can still find SOME components for that, it's really accurate, and it's easy to find bonded core bullets for. It's also a wildcat, but at least it is built off of .223 brass necked up a teeny tiny bit. Still, 2-2.5 thousand rounds of LOADED ammo, even more of components. a .308 AR? $1200. Heck I SOLD mine to pay for some stockpiling because I don't want to pay to feed it and I don't want to carry it's 10lb weight without optics, magazine, or ammo around (mine was an older model with a bit heavier profile barrel). The cost to buy in if I didn't have it? To lay in the rifle, 5 mags, and 1000 rounds of ok ammo would have set me back the majority of my money spent on laying in my supply of what I did buy. 20 ga shotgun? You see the pattern, same applies. It's basic math. If you are going to burn money to solve the problem, burn it as far ahead as possible and stockpile when stuff is cheap. It'll save you a bunch. You can say they aren't expensive calibers, but they don't have to cost $5+ a round to not make sense if you plan ahead. They just have to cost 150% of the cheaper more popular cartridges to not be worth it. If you have to buy the gun to boot, and you don't have infinite piles of money, the opportunity cost is staggering. 100,000 rounds? No, but I have three years left to wait for everyone else to cry uncle financially. For REAL SHTF, if I would consider trading ammo, what's more likely to be in demand? .223, .308, or 30-06? If things are that bad, would you hand someone a rifle and some ammo in trade for something and feel comfortable about it? Even just ammo? Avoiding the TEOTWAWKI scenarios, there's also the matter of aiming into the recovery. When people do cry uncle, or production catches up to orders and the distributors, retailers, and customers are all holding lots of inventory, which do you think is going to dip more? .223 or 30-06? Do I have other calibers? Yes, mostly in oddball guns I found interesting but don't shoot much. I can play .22lr bingo. Or I can trade for stuff I have more than I need for my 4 year plan.

the amendment was defeated. Which means we are looking at the original Schumer bill plus whatever amendments pass. The content of the Schumer draft is regarded as having a poor chance of passing the Senate, but that doesn't mean it won't. If it does, it is unlikley to get through the house without amendment. If it is amended, it has to go back to the sentate to justify the two versions until both houses can pass the same text. Given that they couldn't get 60 to pass a compromise that most of the pro rkba crowd would accept, odds are they won't have the votes to approve a house version. So... it isn't done, but odds are low. The thing could effectively be rewritten several times between now and the last vote on it.

Not really definitive. I stockpiled well in advance of the election, and it was made much easier and fiscally possible by sticking to 2-3 calibers. Which of us has more ammo to shoot?

I love my nice knives, but my answer is keep it cheap and easy to sharpen. Anything with good edge holding will be harder to sharpen, and if you are cutting up boxes every day, the tougher edge isn't going to hold up that much longer. The only thing I have found that will dull an edge faster is cutting up carpet. Honestly, if the sharpening bothers you, go get some of these http://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-Folding-Utility-Knives-3-Pack-010-008-HKY/202509668#.UW7W4jV_D6o They are probably a much better fit for your day to day than something fancy. Or if you do get something fancy, get a good old box cutter to go with.

Really? Because I don't believe any police were ever ordered to sleep in their patrol cars in one of the parking lots down the street form a place I used to live, but lots of them did it. Like other jobs, people do the jopb they feel they are being paid to do. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it isn't. I'd argue since the NYSP are bitching about officer discretion being taken off the table as a tool to keep a cap on the fallout form the SAFE BS, that you have a disconnect there. My guess it is more based on self interest than morals or ethics though. I think they are looking at the prospect of things like dealing with a broadly uncooperative public who were once on their side for all policing issues because of this law at least, and possibly getting shot by people who used to be interested in helping them out at worst. The reason a lot of the rights are there in the bill of rights (IMO), is not because they are some lofty ideal but because they are the steps on the path to tyranny and failure when ignored (a couple are in there just to prevent gaming a claim of obeying the others). The state police are worried about being the point at which that is illustrated, and they should be.

Set up a cartel, spend lots of money on advertising to convince people they are a traditional engagement item, then force people to buy a giant pile of crud to get the handful of nice samples, then charge what you want and tell them that if you refuse the offer, they get no more... ever. The diamond market is rigged. There is NO good way to unload a diamond purchased via retail channels without taking a big hit except maybe if you are a skilled amateur jewelry maker.

Hey, last two matches we wound up missing a timer. That means we are down two. This match the orange box went with it, so it might be buried. Everyone check your bags please. Also, we recovered a number of forgotten items. If you lost something, ask.

Nobody makes an actual holographic sight that is worth it given that they are not much savings over an aimpoint, and that they have had engineering issues (some of which have been fixed in some models), and QC issues. Also, they are counterfeited aggressively to the point that some vendors are getting knock offs into inventory, so be very careful where you buy. Also, if you have not used one already, DO NOT BUY ONE WITHOUT TRYING ONE. I can't emphasize that enough. The hologram approach to the reticle can have severe issues for people with astigmatism. I'm one of those people, I dig their reticles, but they aren't very usable for me. If you want a tubeless dot, here are some decent ones. I don't believe any of them have the circle dot type or reticle nor a 1 MOA center dot. C-more railway, tactical, RTS and STS Trijicon RMR leupold delta point insight mini red dot sight (MRDS) vortex razer Then you have the many version of the Dr. optics mini reflex theres the Dr. optics, JP firepoint, burris fast fire, etc. There's also the old OKO sights. I don't think they are made anymore. Are they aimpoint good? Mostly no. Will they work? Yes. Are they eotech durable? Some. You will not that a lot of the ones on my list also are not a huge savings over aimpoint. Some cost more. All of the really ow mini dots require mounts for an AR, so tehy will wind up in that territory as well. Cheap is cheap. It's easier to build a sturdy, durable tube sight than an open style red dot.