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That is an abomination. There's no such thing as a Philly chicken cheese steak. If it's not beef, then it's not a cheese steak. Same for chicken gyro... pressed lamb scraps or nothing. They need to name it something else.

This looks nice for skeet: http://www.newjerseyhunter.com/article68240.htm

As long as nobody suggests tattoos. That's been done.

Good advice. The 500 takes a Medium size pad. Some WalMarts have them, you just need to check around. They're real Limbsavers, but are branded in Winchester packaging.

7 months? There oughta be a law (oh, there is). Anyway, congratulations on your new shottie, and welcome to the group. Different groups of us get together occasionally to make orange dust. Check the events forum for a time and location near you. Ken

Of course not! My father is gay! That's because you're not black. My father's black. Father issues??

Lynn's Walther won't eat the Thunderbolts. Federal bulk pack, Mini-Mags, no problem. But it won't consistently cycle the Thunderbolts.

Stop picking on Matt. I'm sure he looks faaabulous in his. Not everyone can get away with that look, but I have a inkling that Matt pulls it off just fine (intended double entendre).

Shot there for the first time on Sunday. It's a membership range, but they welcome walk-ons to shoot there. It's a nice place, a bit off the beaten path, and very friendly (if somewhat curmudgeon-ish) regulars there. They have standard trap (left/right), wobble trap (left/right/up/down) and skeet. Open Sunday from (I think) 9:30 'till sunset, and Tuesday from 2:00 until sunset. Standard trap all day, wobble trap until around 12:30 (Sunday), and then skeet. The wobble and skeet ranges overlap, so they can't run them simultaneously. The guys said that most of the people who come there are interested in wobble and skeet, so there's usually not much activity on the trap range, especially once the weather turns cooler and fewer people come out. I really don't know dick about skeet, but this seems to be the go-to place for it in the North NJ area. $4.00 per round, and an additional buck for the club (irrespective of the number of rounds). Only 15 minutes from my house, just off the Rt.15/517 junction. Seems like an okay place for a handful of guys to show up at for an afternoon of Sunday clays.

Nice. Looks like you guys had a great time.

The weather cooperated today and I made it out to the two local trap ranges with Mark and Troy. A fun day of blasting clays, with good company and nice weather.

We didn't make it out to the range today. The weather kept us inside. Pretty steady light rain all day. I hope tomorrow is better.

Dan doesn't seem to be around right now, so I'll play "Substitute Schoolmarm". Glass houses and all that...

Your Welcome You're Welcome. Gawd, I hate that.

Please elucidate/disambiguate (that's for Dan)

My best round was a 9 the first time there, and a total of 31/100. I promise, you'll do way better than that. You're just way too shy about it for such an otherwise jolly fat guy.

I was noticing that. Dunno if there's something scarey about that. Just be glad they're not Postal workers.

I'll probably see you there. I'm bringing Mark (Malsua) to check out both ranges (Hercules and Sparta) if the weather doesn't suck. Gonna shoot a couple of rounds this time??

Possibly. Lynn wants some trigger time, so we may be there for a while tomorrow. I don't know what time yet. Are you around Sunday?

The report said that the bullet hit the siding and bounced off. If it was deliberate, someone needs to work up a new load.

It's possible. I've never tried it... just not a vector guy. If you want, I can send you the 300 ppi .psd file and you can take it from there. ETA: Assuming that everyone who's interested is okay with the design.

I have the full size .40 and love it. Fits my hand and points well for me. Eats anything I've ever fed it, and have had zero FTF/FTE over more that 4,000 rounds (including weak hand, offhand, upside down and sideways). I like the mag safety (others don't) and I like, but don't love the DAO trigger (Troy had his worked, and it's much nicer than stock). Takedown is unique, with an internal release that has to be manipulated, but there's no trigger pull or registration marks to align. Very accurate and quick to get back on with. I haven't shot any of new PRO flavors, but I understand that they're at least as nice.

Because they've got a Bozo running their laser department? I do industrial lasering for a living. Lasers are vector devices. While you can get a decent engraving from a lossy bitmap, why would you? Maybe they've got cheesy laser software. Maybe and maybe. I deal primarily with offset printing where 300 dpi bitmap is the rule, and I don't know much about the other types of production, but I do know that a vector will deliver a smoother mechanical product than a bitmap. In fact, the artwork for the NJGF shirts had to be converted to vector .eps files before the screen printer would take it. I'm not arguing with you, just passing on the information that I got from Maks, who got it directly from Spikes.

Oddly enough, these guys require a .jpg image for their etching system. I didn't understand why, since .jpg is a lossy bitmap and a vector file would be smoother, but mine is not to question why. K

The original gun outline is a bitmap, as is the map, and tracing them is outside of my skillset, so the best I'll be able to do is scale it the actual required size. If anyone is an Illustrator guru, I'll happily send the original psd file. K ETA Mark, that looks nice. If I was a rifle guy, I'd go for it. The original is at 300 ppi. I downrezed it to 72 for the attachment.