Melgamatic

You know when you've spent too much money at Cabela's when they start sending you invitations to trophy hunts by helicopter that start at $25K....

You do not have to be an NRA Instructor to take the RSO course. If you are a NRA Instructor you can take an "in home validation" to become an RSO; if you are not an instructor you have to take a course. http://training.nra.org/training/become-a-range-safety-officer.aspx

Oh man, you picked one of the two or three states worse than NJ for gun laws!

Tell me you don't drink before you post drivel like that.

There is a new forsale ad today for an Armalite AR10. Buy it before I do. http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/58344-armalite-ar10a2-308-rifle/

I agree they are doing great work in Trenton. I've sent them extra donations a few times in the past months. The right to carry is completely uninteresting to me. I'd like to have the right, but to me there are far more important 2A issues.

Millburn is the car theft capital of NJ. Steal a car on Rt124 near Short Hills, be in a garage in Irvington or Newark in 6 minutes. My wife and her friend both had their cars stolen one day from their office (next to Benihana). They had to wait to file a police report because there was a line of people with the same problem. I don't know if it is still true, but Short Hills Mall used to lose 10-20 cars A DAY at the peak of car theft, around 1994. I don't know if it's gotten better or worse, but parking at the Short Hills Mall is like buying a lottery ticket with 1 in 100 odds that you lose your car. Again, 8 minutes into Newark on an Interstate highway. After stealing my car, it got wrecked, and I saw the wrecked car in the junkyard (they let me recover my stuff). I found a big keychain belonging to the thieves along with other things that probably could have lead the cops to them, but the cops don't really care so much about car theft. Later that night, cops woke me up at 2am at my door. They were chasing my car through the streets of Newark, and I guess they were coming to find the owner. I told them I was pretty sure it wasn't my car, since I had seen my car with blown airbags and broken axles earlier. So, they had taken the license plates off my car after the crash and put them on another car just like it! I told the cop that this was pretty smart, and he gave me one of the best lines I've heard to this day. "They're not stupid, sir, just mis-applied." I like that.

And, it isn't a Pelican.

I think you are thinking of Milli Vanilli. Vanilla Ice's main snafu was taking the beat from Queen's Under Pressure.

Golden Rod. Works.

Took the hour drive up to Mastodon this morning to pick up my two NJGF lowers. First call at 10:05am or so failed, second at 10:15am also failed, and then I had to go home. Even worse, Joe got billed for both called. The number answered, said "billing will begin after this tone," got the tone, and then got a busy signal. So, the number answered, billed him and then gave busy. He has to keep track manually of all these failed calls to try to get reimbursed. So, NICS today was no better for me than a month ago. I can't get there for another 2 weeks probably, so I'm annoyed at NJ.

I think you've been watching too many old Star Trek episodes. http://youtu.be/IDD3-2_wLR8 Skip to around 1:30...

I don't think I'll go to the Roadway Inn shows again, at least for a long time. They are very, very crowded shows. The aisles are very narrow, parking is super tight (although free), and I've not seen anything worth buying there for a while. The ex-VF show is much better. I bought a goose call there last year.

I bought 10 today online, and also a LPK, but managed not to do them in the same order, so the second order didn't get the free shipping. I put a comment about this in my second order, and got an email within a few minutes telling me that my mistake had been fixed and shipping was refunded. Thanks for the excellent customer service!

If the troop trailer is close by (not a backpacking trip), it stays in the trailer (along with toothpaste, etc). If it's a backpacking trip, food never leaves bear containers except when being cooked. Almost all campgrounds now have bear boxes (which are usually construction job site boxes). Food is packed-in in bear proof containers, and then the backpacks used to carry the food are stored outside the tents at night (although we've not had any molested). At out summer camp in the Adirondacks, the cooks from each patrol hike to the commissary (~1 mile away), get the food, bring it back and cook, and then take the garbage and any left over food back to the commissary. No food is ever left in the campsite.

We have bears walk through the campsites in all our Boy Scout camps in NJ. You can be brushing your teeth at the latrine and a bear will walk through the camp 10' away from you and not pay attention. You might freak out, but you usually only see them once they are very, very close. We keep a very strict "no food in clothes, backpacks or tents" policy, and for most campouts no food in the campsite at all if the camp is a dining hall camp and not a patrol cooking camp. Last weekend at a district-wide Cub Scout Family Camporee, one Cub Scout disobeyed all the rules, and hid a few marshmallows in his backpack for a late night snack. In the middle of the afternoon, a bear came out of the woods, walked straight across the campsite directly to the boy's tent, ripped the tent open, walked over to the backpack, ripped it open, took the marshmallows, and then walked out of the camp. Straight to the food, ate the food, left. The boy wasn't in the tent, fortunately. I bet the hunter had a granola bar or something in his pocket. The bear smelled it, came up the tree to get it, saw that the human was still there and decided the food was going to be too hard to get.

can we have people who think this is true stop commenting on NJ law threads?

I'm a big supported of Cabela's, and buy a TON of stuff there. I also use my Cabela's credit card a lot, including for business, to the tune of well over $200,000 a year. I spent almost $3K there in the store last weekend! I went to the website and did a search, got to this ammo, and it's $14.99, not the lower $13.99. I can go directly to the $13.99 link, and it will let me buy that, too. SO, is Cabela's screwing me because I spend too much with them? I went to the computer of a guy at work who has never been the the Cabela's website, and he got the $14.99 price, too. I wonder what profile of user got the $13.99 price?

5 minutes is approximately 0.00005 of the amount of time it took 2 weeks ago, so I'm ok with calling it instant.

So we all can see if instant NICS works!

I wouldn't go there for the range, because I don't ever shoot indoors. Yuck. But, the line at the counters to buy guns has always dissuaded me.

RTSP seems like a very nice place, and I know many people here are very happy with their customer service. I think their posting of daily gun arrivals on facebook is really an excellent thing. However, I've never managed to buy a gun there, despite my intentions. I've never been there when there wasn't lines of people at the counter. Completely jammed. I can't really take a day off just to buy a gun, so I'm out of luck at RTSP. I'm happy for them they are so busy.

None. I bought 2 of the 4 boxes of CCI 22short. I didn't see a single box of 22LR. They had a few primers, and good selection of powder. Brass was in short supply. They had a ton of guns, though. Cases and racks completely full.

I didn't tell you because I don't have pictures yet, and didn't want to get the "this thread is useless without pictures." Savage 110BA in 300 Win Mag. I've been wanting one for a while. It was a hard rifle for local FFL's and sponsors to get, so I was surprised to see one sitting there on the rack. They had at least one Mosin because the guy next to me was buying one. Wood was OK, but bolt was the shiniest Mosin bolt I've ever seen.

Drove out to Cabela's this morning. It's 90 minutes from my house. Got there around 10:20am, expecting mayhem because of Father's day and a Saturday morning, but the place was not very busy. Walked over to the gun counter, saw a rifle I've been trying to buy in NJ from our sponsors (but they've been unable to get it). Took a number, and it was only 3 higher than the last number to be called, so got waited on about 3 minutes later. Did the gun counter paperwork, then walked over to the FFL computers. Very nice young lady helped me, and I was done with the paperwork maybe 8 minutes later. There was some confusion since the gun I was buying has many "evil" features and they weren't sure it was NJ legal. I shouted over to the three guys discussing it that it was OK since it was a bolt-action, and the law they were worried about applied to SA only. They said "Hmm" and walked into the office. Within 5 minutes they were out, and I was ready. We got the cell phone call that the background check was done within 10 minutes. I did more shopping, then checked out immediately at the gun buying counter. No waiting. They didn't require me to be walked out as long as I was ok with a strip of Cabela's stripped security tape closing the box. So, hard to find rifle purchased quickly and easily, no hassles. Great time, and the least crowded I've ever seen the place!