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For cheap 55s, varmint nightmare from midsouthshooterssupply or hornady bulk. I like the soft points. For powder, I like ramshot tac. Works under a lot of bullets for .223. Varget meters like poop, but I don't think it is physically possible to fit a dangerous amount into a .223 case under a 55gr bullet. Lots of guys swear by it, but tac was cheaper, more accurate, and more versatile.

Moneyball is a fictionalized account of actual events. Murderball is about quadriplegics what amounts to full contact wheelchair rugby, more or less.

There's not enough gas in 22lr to operate the ar gas system. The dedicated uppers don't even have a gas tube. The inserts just don't make use of it. All the 22 options are just blow back operated.

I get tired of the political documentaries, but still like a non political one. I like winnebago man. I'll second murderball. Planet earth is also technically a documentary. The BBC version with David Attenborough is the version to spend your time on IMO. Definitely good on blu ray on a nice tv. The other F word wasn't bad. dogtown and z-boys was good The endless summer is a classic. Trinity and beyond is another good one.

Yes, people really are just that stupid. I'm all for freedom of speech. People forget it isn't freedom from consequences though. People need to stop trying to protect this idiot from himself and let him learn a lesson.

I was talking about the midway bags. The CED bags are actually significantly different than the shooters connection bags. They are still made well. Most CED things are not made here, so I assume that bag is not either.

Get equal length headers if you don't like it. It's kill some of the subie sound. Or leave the stock exhaust on. At least on the legacy, it flows reasonably well. Especially 2007+ once they got rid of one of the cats.

The news sure tries to make it appear that way lots of the time. The reality is that violent crime is trending downwards for whatever reasons, but people broken in the head are broken and don't react to the world in normal ways. When they aren't buried in the stats, they get more attention. We are sending a lot more soldiers home in pieces and not in body bags. We are seeing more pressure related brian injuries making it home. We are relying on a volunteer force in place for longer and longer periods, and we are making winning on the battlefield harder by saying that war shouldn't really kill anyone. THEN we aren't getting them proper care and treatment after the fact. It isn't helped by the fact that our society tells us that men shouldn't ask for help or be so weak as to need medical attention. That pressure is probably significantly hire within the military population. We are breaking more of them and not ramping up the efforts to fix them at the same rate. Also, outside of vets, we have shut down a lot of state funded psychiatric care. That is very often the only type of care available to a lot of people with mental problems, and if the only way you get in to the care that is left is after a judge determines you a threat, well more often than before that is going to be due to actually demonstrating that fact.

Yes, but it will be reported all over ass another mass shoooting with a shootout with cops, well at least above the fold they'll imply that, and then when actual details come out that says that's not true, not a peep.

Yeah that sounds about in line with what I had been told. My previous post on the subject is not to bash the cops, but the way the nypd is run causes problems.

Keep in mind vickers was talking about the ratio of trigger pull to firearm weight. A stock glock is about 2.5:1. The ny2 setup is 6:1. At 9 lbs, even with a 20lb trigger it would be less than 2.5:1. Sucks, but is doable.

Used place by me with awful prices on the cars has a 2006 turbo legacy gt for $13,500. That's at least three I have seen recently in your price range.

Just FYI the midway bags are the cheap Chinese knock offs of an American product sold by shooters connection. Midway said they wanted to sell his stuff, and when he wouldn't cheapen the design, took his bag to the Chinese and basically said sue us. So for all you folks that talk about buy American.... Chuck at shooters connection has provided enough good service to me, I won't touch the things.

Thanks to everyone who has shown interest in the thread or via pm. I appreciate it, and the more volunteers, the less anyone will get stuck doing it every single month. Unless you like that. As for originality, don't worry about it. The most important thing is that the odds of your tired ass idea being similar to my tired ass idea is low. If one person is doing to much, that's hard to avoid, and that makes thing boring and repetitive. In general, I usually either start with a skill I need to practice (a perk of designing and building, you know that at least one stage can be good practice), or pick one gimmick, dedicate no more than 1/3 of hits to it, and throw targets around it to make a stage. Also keep an archive of your stages. Worst case you repeat an old one if you are tapped. The stages you design early though will come in useful later if you are hard up for an idea. You just recycle one of them and fix all the mistakes you learned from. Most of the time you'll wind up with something way different. To make it good, think about how it flows, make it differentiate classes, and make sure there are choices to argue over (even if they seem stupid).

Every dead 1.8t a4 I have known has seen nothing but a life of boring commutes. The oiling system is designed wrong. Why do you think VW went to a 10 year warranty for a while. It's because there engines were craptastic. My wife had the na 1.8 that came out during that warranty. 6 ecus before she dumped it. I sit on them, I like them. You'd have to pay me enough to buy a spare care that wasn't a VW/Audi to drive one.

This. Especially if the target is not large, the cost difference is relatively small.

It's not to test the safety, it's to test that you have sufficient and safe sear engagement and is a perfectly valid test for that. Yanking on a trigger with the safety on subjects it to much more force than mortaring it would, but for accidentally tripping the sear, mortaring it is about the most obnoxious real world thing you will be doing to it. I do the mortar test with and without the safety engaged. The hammer should not trip in either circumstance IMO. OTOH I can only smash the but into the floor so hard.

For CJ, the pits all have at least 11 yards by 20 yards of usable space. The biggest pit is 13x22 usable for shooting. Also at CJ, rounds can't be shot into the ground because of club rules, so no lay down targets. Other than that, if you are iffy, just submit the stage early, I'll give you feedback on anything obviously problematic. As for the tools, you can look for sketchup tutorials, or you can do the powwerpoint or word doc thing (I find powerpoint to be easier, especially if you are using openoffice instead of microsoft office). here's a zip of the powerpoint templates, a coupel of examples, and within the zip are a couple more zip files of word doc examples and templates. http://bloodimage.co...ng_examples.zip

My opinon? Don't buy a turbo charged audi/volkswagen engine. I know a LOT of people with destroyed engines from oil sludging and the turbo fouling at under 36k and then denied warranty coverage. Even when audi was doing the free maintenance thing. They claimed proper maintenance wasn't performed despite them setting the schedule. Even if the 2.0 is 5 times better than the 1.8 was I wouldn't pay money for a new one, much less used. Heck, I even know someone who has a 2001 a4 v6 with 27k on it that is having reliability issues and she doesn't abuse it. IMO audi think their cars are for rich people who can afford ot throw them away after 3 years. I drive a 2005 legacy gt turbo, and in all leather it is nice and that generation falls in your price range, but the dash mounts are engineered like poop and it rattles in most of them. But other than that it ticks all the boxes. 2008s are going for about 15k I know a few guys that have gotten into a similarly aged/slightly bmw 335xi in your price range in good codition, but it required some horse trading and knowing people. If the AWD working well is important, I'd look at the subaru. If not, I'd consider an infiniti g35x. It's not the best designed AWD system, but the cars run pretty well and I know many happy owners of g35s.

Those actually look like they'd fit my criteria for a good USPSA tread. You'd be surprised how little boot and sneaker construction differs these days though. Heck, looked again and they are <$60 in size 15. Might have to grab a pair even if they are a gaudy red color.

This. RRA does the final finish machining in house though, or at least they used to. Now that Stag has more retail product oriented manufacturing, that may not be so.

Cool that makes two for september then.

Don't cut the spring. Sure it FEELS nicer. But an unreliable trigger that feels good isn't worth much.

Just speak up at a match to someone scoring with the palms. It takes about an extra 1-2 minutes per shooter for a few shooters to get the basics across, if that. Worst case they follow you around watching you score for a bit after that which takes the same time as scoring would anyway. Unless the squads are small and it means one less person nobody can spare, it's not a big deal and nearly always worth the effort of showing someone who actively wants to help out. As for the other posters asking about electronic scoring and complaining about CJ. Do your CJ complaining in a CJ thread. I've made one jsut for it here. http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/39548-whining-about-scores-electronic-scoring-and-online-squadding-and-manpower-shortages-cj-edition/

I'll reference my new thread rather than repeat myself in a bunch of threads. http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/39548-whining-about-scores-electronic-scoring-and-online-squadding-and-manpower-shortages-cj-edition/