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When will the paper scores be done? The answer to that is the same as always. When we get around to it. We've had a standing order for volunteers for the job, a couple of takers, and none of them have stuck for very long. The reality at this point is that you can get your scores sooner, or you can have a match to shoot at each month. Heck, it's getting hard to have the match given we are losing more manpower than we are gaining. Yes, NJGF have made a huge contribution to helping hands for the morning construction, which is appreciated, but unfortunately we have a bunch of jobs that need doing, and all the new help is pretty much of one kind (morning construction helpers). Manpower issues Stage designers - It's bad. I have nearly zero reliable stage designers at this point. It should improve some as we were down manpower due to surgery, getting married, burn out breaks, etc. However, others are MIA because they have started running other matches, and CJ stage design is what got dropped. The reality is last year I spent most of the year designing 2-3 stages a match for a match with 5 original stages per match. I got two new volunteers to be added to the stage builder list, and got all of one contribution form each of those people since they joined. It's better than nothing, but we are SERIOUSLY short on stage designers. For all you guys who are there each month helping build, you are already doing most of the job. PMing me your email, and spending an hour or so of your down time at home to come up with an idea every month at most, would be a huge help. If you and a buddy car pool, join as a team and take alternating turns. If you don't know how, I'd MUCH, MUCH rather spend 2 hours helping you out each month until you get up to speed than the hour Sign up - We are losing our current sign up people. That means you either wait for me to do it AFTER I finish building stages like the august match, or we need someone for this. This one's harder to fill because we need to know you enough to know you can do the job right, as shortages on the money side come out of the MD's pockets. Autonomous stage builders - Folks I can hand a stage diagram to, and something usable gets built from it. This isn't a big leap from being build help, so if you want to take baby steps to stage design, and you are there every month (or close enough), taking over building my stage will possibly allow me to cover sign up. Even if you are there randomly, but can do this, DOING it early can help us get wrapped up with construction faster. Scoring - IT takes from 3-6 hours a match after the fact. That's 3-6 hours to learn to appreciate that most of the people who attend a match don't spend much time writing anything day to day, or at least writing it without typing it, and also suck at basic addition. The math and penmanship will astound as will the freestyle interpretive form completion. You will also learn that EZ-Winscore was designed by people with zero familiarity with actual data entry and only slightly more with UI design. It's the data entry equivalent of being kicked in the junk for 3-6 hours. We can't even pay someone to do it as match fees are set by the section and consumables, payouts, USPSA's cut and the club's cut leaves us with basically $0 at the end of the year. Electronic scoring Well, first we will NOT do palms. They aren't made anymore, and as supplies run out they are getting nearly as expensive as better alternatives. However, better alternatives will set us back about $1200. We are asking the board for money at their September meeting, but they have already complained about buying anything with club money that leaves the range. We'll see how it goes. Second, palm scoring doesn't fix any of our manpower issues. If we go electronic, it basically means I will be doing it, and that means either no stage building for me anymore or starting 1-2 hours later. Electronic scoring really doesn't save a lot of time, it just moves that time to the match prep pile, or takes it out of everyone's time on range day. It does make you stop wanting to kill everyone who can't write or add though, so there is that. On line squadding The odds of this happening are near zero. The reality is we have used it for things like the sectional match, and tried to incorporate it with registration for the OB match, and without dedicated ROs for a stage it produces unusable results 100% of the time. You always wind up with squads with no ROs, or very unbalanced squads that we have to fix by hand anyway, or a whole squad of people who don't intend to RO, score, paste, etc. all hanging out together to complain everything is taking too long. Also, to date, none of the solutions we have tried tags who wants to be grouped with who in a reasonable way. For example, the NJGF squad is better than most and got people RO credentials. However it gets big. If I have to split it the way we do it now, I can almost always keep a few of you together if I have to split squads and it takes a couple extra minutes worse case. Online squadding just isn't worth it at the moment, and won't ever be if we are stuck with paper scoring. If you think it is really awesome and want us to reconsider it with electronic scoring there are two things you can do. 1) get your RO credentials so squads with no ROs become and uncommon problem. 2) When we put in place registration, forms, or whatever that has a place to let us know you can run a timer, fill it in. What we owe you, the guy who shows up to shoot and resets and pastes. Not a damn thing. The reality is nobody gets paid, except the club, winners, USPSA, and the guys selling us consumables. You reset and paste so you can get your turn to shoot, PERIOD. I pretty much put in about 10-12 hours a month of my time so you can get your turn to shoot at CJ, and another 4-5 for the old bridge match. Heck, I could show up with the stage designers and the regular helpers, set up a 5 stage match, shoot it, and be home by 3pm while having a blast and wouldn't notice the absence of anyone who doesn't put a little bit of elbow grease into the match. The guys sitting in the parking lot bitching about start times and how long it takes the match to finish are pretty much just obstacles to having a good time. The guys who show up to help regularly are a different matter, but there are only so many hours I can afford to give them. General Advice Bitching about the old bridge people at CJ - Stop it. The people who make the OB match happen are basically the same crowd that makes the CJ match happen. Almost all of them are members of both clubs, and beyond that, 99.9 times out of a hundred the absence of the complainer wouldn't be noticed while the absence of the group they are complaining about would mean there is no match. Asking when the match will start get started - Does it look like we are sitting around? No. Then probably when we are done doing the stuff we are busy doing to get the match set up. You want it started earlier, start volunteering to do some of the above stuff. Don't like the way the match is run? - take it over. I'd love to just shoot and scoot, and I'll even not complain about start times, end times, how long the scores take to get done, and I'll even check the RO box on the sign up sheet. I'm not even picky about who I get squadded with. Heck I might even give you some sympathy when you complain about dealing with the CJ BOD.

The 94 ban grandfathered. All subsequent ban bills had no grandfather clause. At the federal level, I would argue the odds of a bill with no grandfather clause being passed is nearly zero because they would have to compensate you for your property. I doubt the SCOTUS would let them skirt that. AT the state level you get things like NJ where there was an effectively inaccessible registry to keep them, and you could always dispose of them in another state, so they could argue they were not denying you the value of your property, just limiting the avenues by which you can realize the value of your property.

They can be in there pretty good, same with the front. It's doable though.

Uh, how'd you talk to the owner? Did someone buy it back from the large faceless French company that bought it years ago?

I'll leave my comments to this. 1) It annoys the hell out of me that they tried to spin this as another mass shooting, even after they knew better. 2) if your officers are having NDs which are due to lack of familiarity with a gun with a very serviceable 5-6lb trigger, and your answer is to saddle them with a 12lb trigger that makes it harder to use the gun properly, you have a problem and it isn't gear. You either aren't training your people properly, or you are trying to blame the gear for bad judgement on behalf of the officers. Whatever the cause, it made these officers' job harder.

Well there was only one ar-pattern rifle lsited, and they cna call it an assault wepaon, but it looks NJ AWB compliant to me. No muzzle device, no bayo lug, fixed stock.

the mp3 500 might have been it. The big pic at the top here looks a lot like it. http://bikeglam.com/2011-piaggio-mp3-500-three-wheeler-motorcycle/

OK, maybe you guys know the answer. I know of the t-rex and the can-am spyder and a few others that are like them with the wide snowmobile type layout. However, on the way to work yesterday I saw a police officer riding a three wheeler that was very upright with two close set wheels up front. THe styling was very BMW-ish circa 2005 or so before they went to all the n-gon headlamps recently. Black and a graphite gray. Closest thing I found were these suckers at the top of the page here http://www.powersportsmax.com/index.php/cPath/227 Anyone know what the heck he might have been driving? It was in the New brunswick area, in case he was actually on duty and someone knows what they are running that way. It was odd, and it will annoy me until I figure out what it was.

When the hoarders hoard, the machines run at 100% duty cycle or more. Your supplier is anyone who can get the parts on a truck. Qc goes down hill. Then you bring in the sub contractors. That's a big part of why I got my hoarding in back in October. I'm not so worried about bans, but I want to avoid this stuff.

Well, the firearm is the receiver as specified by the ATF. So in a 1911 you could, for example, have a machinist take off the big hideous roll mark on the slide. The serial is enough for the ATF to do a trace, but there is a minimum amount of required manufacturer info, so I suspect that is covered.

Some designs, it's easy to tell if it would pass the batfe test outlined in the pws letter, which is at least a reasonable defense. A miculeck brake will pass, the Nordic comps will pass, the Benny cooley comps, Jp tank brake, Troy medieval, a2 style comp, rainier mini comp, f-2 comp, sure fire comp, AAC mini comp, firebird comp, Titan, rolling thunder, etc. pretty much anything with at least one large baffle chamber with sizable ports to the sides will, or anything with a capped end and large slots on the top half. Things like the levang linear are less obvious, but it was a comp during the awb. I'd assume then that the Troy claymore and other similar ones are good to go. The battlecomp and the like are less obvious, but YouTube videos would lead me to believe they'd pass the test.

The form is extra illegal unless they have some tax documents to file for your cohabitants. The ssn is not supposed to be used as an I'd number.

<p> Yes, because the pws comp came out during the federal awb. No idea why that version of the letter is dated 2007. Maybe a resubmission for the .308 version. Guess they still test if you submit. Who submits though.

Top gear uk, as we know it (clarkson, etc. ) has only been around since 2002. Top gear us is getting much better at the set ups. The off-roading of mini vans had all sorts of potential, for example. The personalities on the show just don't seem to close the deal.

For uspsa or idpa, I recommend something with aggressive tread. I'm still wearing my bates m-9 boots, and the tread is about perfect. Trail runners work for multi surface traction, but they tend to have a forward tilting foot bed which can kick the crap out of your back knees etc. if you have issues with them. Some guys wear cleats, but they are a no-no in idpa, and SUCK if there's a surface in the stage that isn't dirt, sand, grass, or gravel.

Exactly, and they have an attitude like that. So you want people in a position of authority that will walk all over you to have that behavior tolerated when you may have to deal with them on any given day. Basic phone manners isn't a lot to ask for, and that behavior is unprofessional.

sparkfun also has all sorts of cool hard to source doodads to wire into thing at reasonable prices for onsies and twosies as far as sensors and ICs and whatnot.

If you want the FN sourced hammer forged barrels, daniel defence, palmettos state armory, bravo company, spikes tactical, etc. have them. They are basically the same thing except for profile, which may vary. The down side is that a lot of the cold hammer forged barrels are not as accurate as the button rifled chrome plated barrels they seem to be replacing. I cant find the lnk right now, but one gunsmith was gauging the muzzle end of barrels he was getting and was seeing the CHF offerings being opened up slightly at the muzzle end. As an anecdote, shooting a BCM 16" button rifled right next to a BCM 16" CHF with the exact same ammo (xm193, lc-08 form the same case of ammo), I was getting better groups out the button rifled barrel. Outside of that, reasonably priced and readily available, you have rainier arms stainless steel barrels. Many of them are made for them by black hole weaponry. You have black hole weaponry, but you will have to wait. There's JP, but you'll have to wait. There's criterion, which are chrome lined, but designed to actually be more accurate. You may or may not have to wait. Benny Hill of triangle shooting sports thinks highly of them. There's superior barrels and ar-15 performance is you want melonite rather than chrome. They only list in their online shop what is in stock. There's tons of good barrels out there. The above spans the range form $185 to about $700,

Usually they can, but when the hoarders get going AND there are ginormous military and federal leo orders in the pipeline, the entire us ammo manufacturing infrastructure can, and gas, become saturated. Hell last time it got really bad, S&b was making some of the wwb, and fiocci shipments were put on hold because they us companies were buying their components at a premium for 5.56 and 9mm. Precision delta was making nothing but 9mm and selling it all to manufacturers, AND running their gear past maximum service intervals to keep up.

Not that I know of. However, they buy enough that when production is hammered and the timing is right, they can consume most if not all of a production run. Depends on how back ordered they get. Also wwb gets farmed out to subcontractors when production is slammed for extended periods. Previous shortages, S&b was making large amounts of wwb. If they just brought a sub online, all the initial production could be sucked up by the big boxes.

Welp, guess we ruined you now.

congratulations, and more power to you. Also, if you haven't heard of arduino, it's pretty cool for things like this where you may be tweaking the controller a lot. I've had some fun with it, and the programming language is pretty accessible.

a castle nut spanner/wrench? you wll need a new tube buffer and spring if moving form a pinned collapsable that is set up on and actual carbine length buffer tube.

Uh the bullets are SUPPOSED to be shattering on the plates. That's not what causes splatter unless the plates are not angled properly. What causes splatter when large chunks stay intact and come back. The guys trying to game steel with their very low power factor ammo are the worse culprits. That dude making 90pf out of a revolver can have a nearly intact bullet come back at you. There's a reason why a lot of places shooting steel recommend a 140pf. Below about 700fps you run into that danger zone where things don't break up well and you get chunks bouncing back at you. I've shot tons of plated bullets at steel without issues, but I also don't bother messing around with anything much under about 135pf. Probably the least dramatic load for steel was precision moly coated 170gr at 137pf. 805fps, and swaged soft lead wire. Those things disintegrated on the steel and would leave you nice giant black circles while still having pretty low recoil.

Depends on the gun. I used the buffer technologies ones as well as a brand no longer available on my trp operator with zero issues over about 14,000 rounds.