Everything posted by raz-0
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Shooting steel in central NJ
It'll work for 200 yard rifle shooting. I prefer 1/2" ar500. It holds up a bit better when laser cut like that is, and the weight keeps you from flipping it when you shoot it. If you are shooting .223 that would probably be fine at 200 though. I use rubber straps rather than chain these days though. Was buying them pre-cut (looked like they were made out of retired motorcycle tires), but I jsut bought a big roll of decommissioned fire hose. Works great and doesn't matter if someone shoots the strap.
- Daily humor thread
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Best pizza you ever had?
20 years ago I'd agree with you. The middle of the bell curve was at somewhere between decent and good. Today? So much crap pizza. The middle of the bell curve is at "meh". Too many pizza places, too close together, and too few willing to support bumping prices a couple of bucks to keep on using high quality ingredients.
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Look at this Beautiful Disaster
Why would they need to be separate? The law regulates the magazine. The magazine must be incapable of feeding more than X rounds continuously. A set of attached magazines cannot feed more than 10 rounds into any given action in this setup with 10 round mags attached to each other.
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Apache "skb/pelican" cases from Harbor Freight
I've got one of them under a different brand name. I also have some genuine pelican stuff and some SKB stuff. The walls are MUCH thinner than pelican, and slightly thinner than the skb (old wire handled pistol case, the ones no longer made in between the flexible rotomolded stuff and their new heavy pelican like stuff). They are made of a similar plastic to the skb. They will do for most purposes, but like your video shows, they will give way before the really top notch stuff.
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60% Off Arc'teryx at LAPG (Code: ARC60)
of course the knee pads which would be a screaming steal at 60% off are not listed on the site right now. Oh well.
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SCOTUS agrees to hear 2A case from NYC
There is. I don't think anyone is going to get filled by it.
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SCOTUS agrees to hear 2A case from NYC
I think the fact the petitioned to have it dismissed because they were proposing alterations to the law and then immediately filed a bill to implement the exact same restrictions via state law might clue in Scotus that they are full of shit.
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Is a Zulu 2.0 stock NJ legal?
To add to the "it's legal" conclusion, multiple adjustable stocks using a similar rod and clamp design that needed tools were sold and approved as federal AWB compliant during the 94AWB period. given that the verbiage defining an assault weapon was the same for rifles between the two, that's a fairly compelling argument that it's kosher. Yes there are in fact people using them in nj, so you wouldn't be the first. They are pretty nice for the money.
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Thomas R. Rogers and ANJRPC v. Gurbir S. Grewal, et al
My take on what is probable. 1) they see the case as legally very similar to the NY case and combine the cases into one. If this is the case, I expect it to happen today as I don't believe the schedule allows for much else. 2) they see the only similarity as being the 2nd and the level of scrutiny. In which case it gets relisted until the NY case is done and whatever precedent is set. At that point it gets sent back saying your conclusion is shit, redo this one.
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questions........
For 3 gun work, especially with a 16" barrel, a 50 yard zero with a ballistic calculator and a CHRONO will get you pretty far 0-200. Or if you shoot a decent bulk m193 equivalent you can even kind of forgo the chrono. If you plan on going out much past 200, get your 200 confirmation as HE said. The 50 yard zero is less awesome for 14.5" or 20" barrels. It can work pretty well with a rifle length 18" barrel provided it's not a super fast barrel. That being said, I'd never bother with a 25 yard zero unless it was baby steps to a better zero or it was a 25 yard rimfire rifle set up for 25 yard accuracy work specifically. At 25 yards, one MOA is just barely over 1/4". A group that is a touching clover leaf from a .223 gun is basically a 2 moa group. Add to that that the tac30 reticle is basically a 2moa center dot at 4x. THat's what you drew, that' NOT going to net out to what you described which is a POA of center mass on a Q target with a POI of the next. On a full size Q that's about 11-12" by my best estimation. Based on your notes on the reticle, your POI is about 4MOA above you POA. If you zeroed at 25 with a group that was literally a three hole cloverleaf, but it was hitting at the top of your center dot. The center dot and the clover leaf could cover up to ~3MOA of shooter error while looking prety much spot on. If "pretty much on" to you means within half an inch, while now you could be up to 5MOA off and think you are good to go. When zeroing, IMO, you need to zero at a distance where minimum unit of resolution is smaller than your minimum unit of giving a shit. For example, my scope's smallest dimension on the reticle where I can aim is .5MOA. That is defacto my floor for being able to aim. At 50 yards, the size of a bullet hole is about .5MOA. Chasing <.5moa gorups with that scope is a waste of time, effort, and ammo. And at closer than 50 yards, the bullet is basically bigger than my point of aim. So I want to go for .5 MOA, I need to be shooting for a zero at at LEAST 50 yards. Because .5moa at that range is a barely enlarged bullet hole for a .223 gun. Assuming you are shooting m193 neighborhood bulk 55gr FMJ, I took the velocity form one of my middle of the road 16" barrels, based on the ballistics by the inch tests, I whacked 150fps off of it for a 14.5" barrel. Plugged in a 25 yard zero for my calculator and I get 5.5 MOA high at 100 yards for a dead on .25 yard zero. So with the "resolution" issues I described plus the straight up ballistics, you could be off 8.5 MOA at 100 yards. And just double checking, that';s for a red dot mount I had. Flat top + say 30mm ADM recon-x mount you'd be at 6.8MOA high at 100 with a dead on zero. You may be as much as 9.8 moa high at 100 if you have "resolution" problems. (at 100 that is 10.2", so we are headed into the ralm of what you saw on the Q target). With a significant height over bore to overcome (which you ahve with pretty much and LPVO and a mount), a 25 yard zero is a PITA and just garbage. Don't do it IMO. You can either re-do it at 50, which would put you about 1.6" high at 100, and .5" high at 200, and about 8" low at 300. So your first holdover dot would be about 325 yards, your second about 397 yards, third about 455 and the ole in the outer ring would be about 540. Close in you'd shoot aiming just below the center dot at 25 (i.e you are compensating for sight offset and holding high). Redo it at 100, and at 50, you put the center dot just below your POI (i.e. dot the i hold ). At 25 you'd be somewhere on the upper post. At 75 put the dot on it, at 100 put the dot on it. At 200 put the bottom of the dot on it. First holdover dot is about 280. Second is about 360, third is about 440, hole in the ring is about 515. If you just adjusted at 100 and made that your zero,
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The Need to Get into Reloading
9mm, unless there is a severe panic, is always slim savings, although it will be hard ot not beat the quality of the cheap bulk stuff. .45acp should ALWAYS be a savings unless you don't recover brass. The brass lasts FOREVER since it's hefty brass and a low pressure round. Additionally, go to matches and stuff. You will find a good chunk of .45 shooters are too good to pick up their own brass. When I ventured into reloading .45, I purchased a half case of ammo to generate brass. By the time I was done shooting that case I ahd about 1500 pieces of brass. I stopped reloading .45 after a couple years and easily have a 5k+ stash of brass still sitting around. Hitting up ammoseek, the cheapest new manufacture in brass is magtech. Perfectly good plinking ammo, $0.233 a round. Plated .230gr bullets are $0.117 LPP are $0.03. brass is effectively free powder is about $0.012 (based on my load of 4.5gr Titegroup under a 230gr bullet for major power factor). Total about $0.16 per round. $160 a case vs $233 per case is a decent savings. This is typical. Soft ammo market you will save about 1/3 on .45acp. HArsh market it will usally be half unless the panic hits reloading components too. Granted, relaoding savings can be eroded rapidly if you don't manage your hazmat fees by splitting a big order or ordering in bulk. Shipping for a case of that magtech is $71 though. Shipping is included in the bullets price for me. Order the hazmat right, and shipping with hazmat will be about $36. shipped and hazmatted, the cost would be about $196 for the relaoded ammo, The chepaest new manufacture brass cased ammo, shipped I cna find on ammoseek are $304 (magtech) $275 (speer lawman) $289 (geco) $269 (magtech, and won't ship to NJ)
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Game of Thrones
I would argue that, yes, another half dozen episodes would have helped things be better and not rushed. I would ALSO argue that you could have stolen those half dozen episodes from previous seasons. The moral of the story? Don't wait for GRRM to finish shit and pace things faster than his writing goes form the start. Also posisbly don't buy unfinished shit.
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Game of Thrones
They didn't flush his story of being a targarean, I just think it failed to be explained explicitly. My take is that Dany got a bit paranoid and doesn't trust her factions to guard her, so drogon got the job. Had John not been a targarean he would have just gotten eaten. He had to be a targarean to save westeros from Dany freeing everyone with murder.
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Thin blue line
That didn't pass the sniff test so I looked it up. They hit a permit for a 40x25 flag and they are displaying a 40x80 flag. They aren't being told to not fly a flag they are being told to comply with the ordinance and the permit and fly a 40x25 flag. The fact their petition is deceptive makes me think the council aren't the only assholes in town.
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Thin blue line
You think you are being sarcastic, but sarcasm ceased to eb differentiated form reality in april of 2004. https://www.aspiregear.com/blogs/news/what-do-the-thin-line-colors-mean
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Restricted markings on lower
There's only two reasons for that mark to be there that I know of, and only one matters to you the consumer. 1) There's the third hole and it's a post 86 machine gun you can't own. 2) It was originally manufactured for government sales, and thus was not going to have excise taxes applied to it. The excise taxes only apply to finished rifles, but not for government/LEO sales, so for receivers it matters not. So it is possible they had an overrun of receivers compared to finished rifle orders and just dumped them into the retail market.
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Game of Thrones
There's been 7 years of character development. It's time for some shit to get DONE. I will offer the counter point. The shitty writing has been failing to resolve or even advance a shit tone of critical story arcs, leaving us to finish them all in the last season. If we had had actual progress and character resolve some arcs, we could have cycled osme of them out and maybe had more seasons. but no. GRRM's response is that same shitty attitude he takes to writing them. He'd like to have forever. Well Mr' neck bead, your cast has hit to move on to, and the grim reaper isn't going to wait until you are happy with it either.
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March 25 - NJ finally up in smoke?
Due to my siblings, I grew up around white suburban drug culture. Working in construction and home improvement while in college, I got to see even more of it. For a while due to school I lived in a not so hot area with a large minority population. I also got to experience their drug culture. I could care less about drugs, but they are everywhere and I've seen them bought, sold, traded, and used. I'm sure I'm not alone with that. So first up, how suburbia and urban areas are exactly the same regardless of race, income, etc. The consumer ALWAYS wins. Someone always shows up to sell them the things they want. This is why prohibition ALWAYS turns into a shitshow of failure. The primary differences are at either end of the supply chain. In white suburbia vs. urban or semi-urban minority areas, the bulk of the supply chain is removed from organized crime. It is what I would call sole proprietor small business and enthusiast hobbyists. in the urban-semi urban areas, while you do have people that fit that description, the organized crime org chart reaches down to retail sales interactively. This means the distance between you the consumer and big violent disagreements about distribution access is very small. Legalization that provides distribution methods that aren't that close to organized crime can do nothing but reduce end user violence for this population. At the other end of (i.e. the consumption end), there is a huge obvious delta that is readily apparent. In suburbia, or frankly any area with more money, drug consumption is primarily indoors and private. The poorer the neighborhood, the more likely it is to see public consumption. Riding the bus through Irvington, you would see drugs being consumed EVERYWHERE. The front porch was popular for weed and booze, even underage. But public restrooms, the bus, sitting on the curb randomly it was everywhere in the public space. IN suburbia everyplace I saw consumption needed a warrant for the police to access unless you created exigent circumstances. Keep the stink down and keep it relatively quiet and you weren't getting a supply. Also in suburbia I was never actively solicited for the sale of drugs. In urban environments I was. This, IMO, is why you see a lot more poor minority arrests. They are making it easy to bust them. Anything that reduces the ability for the police to say "saw them smoking what appeared to be a joint and smelled marijuana smoke" as probable cause will likely be an improvement for that population as it would mean less arrests and less jail time, especially for low end drug charges where your ability ot afford a decent lawyer makes a HUGE difference. The line will be sorted out when the rich kids go slumming to the urban shops and get busted. If it moves that line to make it harder for police, less poor minorities will wind up in jail. If the business provide a social location outside the home, perhaps that will move use off the stoop and behind closed doors. That will help them too. The fact some dude thinks the average urban youth is choosing between Jesus and Drugs when they wake up each day is not relevant. Education and a job might help, but Jesus doesn't come with free education and a job. The drug trade has provided more jobs in that community than going to church has. If you eliminated every cop who smoked weed, drank to the point of breaking the law (DUI etc), or did roids (also an illegal drug as procured by a heck of a lot of cops), you would cut a huge swath through the current population of cops. Your teachers? THey definitely smoke weed. They drink like no tomorrow, smoke a lot of weed, and there's a lot more coke, ketamine, heroine, etc being consumed than you would like to imagine. If they get drug tested at all, it's pre-hire screening. Your investment banker and their bosses.. holy fuck the stuff going on there. they usually have designated hitters on staff to procure their drug of choice. If you are lucky, they are not using company funds to buy it. skewed towards weed, coke, stimulants, and ritalin last I was anywhere near this type of shit. Doctors? riiiiight. They get so much sleep and have so little stress. None of them are self medicating at all..... not a one. The list goes on and on. You deal with functioning drug consumers every day. Very often they aren't even the blindingly incompetent ones. It's time to stop pissing away money pretending shit works differently than it does.
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Dangerous range policies?
THe big bore hand cannons I can understand. recoil management issues can turn dangerous there. I'm not sure the complaint about the AK. Long guns in general require more effort to point at me because you are a dumb ass, especially in a range with ports. If the range is built to take the hits, why would I care? A rifle someone is obviously doing stupid shit with is less bad IMO than a small pistol with a "tame" cartridge being used in a stupid manner more obscured by a port wall. What's polite and not punishing in terms of noise and pressure wave in an indoor setting is a different question.
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1.93 Optic Mounts
For competition, I would get the most offset you can first. Accommodating the eye box, shooter, and gun can be a no-win situation without sufficient offset in a cantilevered mount. To date I have found the adm recon-x is the right thing at the closest to the right price. it has 3" of offset, and is 1.5" to centerline. 1.55 if you get 34mm rings (which is what I run). To get the ADM high mount that is 1.93 on 30mm rings, you have to cut back to the 1.93" offset of the plain old recon. For ther brands it is worse. The MI mount peaks at 2.8" of offset, the hi version is 1.4" of offset. I've got a big melon, and my biggest issue is how much I have to crank my neck back when doing prone off a low rest. A higher mount makes that worse. The only thing I would see higher being better for would be weak side/weak eye mount braced. But I also use an a-1 length stock. I'm not sure there's an absolute answer as everyone is different sized and shaped, and what gear you have chosen can effect the ergonomics of how you mount and use your rifle, so...
- Thomas R. Rogers and ANJRPC v. Gurbir S. Grewal, et al
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Game of Thrones
HBO was pushing ideas for five spin offs. They said they were going to produce two. They canceled one. Now it us one left. Set 1000 years prior to got. They have a director and are in theory going to start work on the pilot this summer.
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Home Owner's Insurance Policy
I used to have state farm via an agent. They were screwing me on auto so I moved all policies from them. I went to NJM. Saved about 6 bucks a year on homeowners, but got an extra $50k of coverage. In theory they sent an adjuster around when I moved the policy, but I never saw them and they didn't make me change or fix anything. Also my State Farm homeowners wasn't really going up by any real amount. About $60 in 8 years. I think shopping around is good. However having discussed this with lots of people and having read up on practices, there's a few things that affect long term outcome. 1) Most businesses that have you pay for ongoing service from their business will seek to maximize their revenue from their existing customer base. At this point they ALL use third party services to evaluate how likely a given customer is to leave or stay. If you get flagged as likely to leave easily, they will generally tend to turn the screws a bit less and a bit less rapidly on you. If you are flagged as unlikely to leave, you will get FUBAR. 2) If you respond to an ad, you will be flagged as having been acquired by an ad, and generally, that means they will expect to recover acquisition costs sooner rather than later because you are clearly attached to acquisition costs, and you are likely to leave when approached with other ads. 3) The more niche you insurance, the quicker they seem to mess with you. i.e. the guys with boats and motorcycles got screwed more sooner.
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Game of Thrones
BBC is making his dark materials. HBO is just buying the distribution rights here. They are going to do the spinoff for their fantasy offering. We'll see how it goes. Myself, I enjoyed it but I'm done with got.