Melgamatic

I don't shoot them inside! We already have had several forum members test positive for lead exposure and have to go through chelation (sp?).

This is the plane you want if you have to fly to Asia! http://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Singapore_Air/Singapore_Air_Airbus_A345_B.php

For Asia we got first class, but for San Fran or London (my two main places) it was BusinessFirst, which is almost as good but much, much cheaper (but still awful expensive). BA to London was fantastic, with little pods. Domestic first class is sorta awful, really, on the long flights. You might be better off in coach if you could get either a bulkhead or exit row. I changed jobs recently, and will be doing almost no travel. That's a big plus, but on the other hand it's amazing how fast your airline status drops, and all of a sudden it sucks when you don't get great upgrades, early boarding, etc. I flew Virgin enough back and forth to London almost every week for a while, and went from "no class" to "platinum" in about 3 months, and then stopped that route and ended up back with no status in another 12 months...

The seats on the Concorde were tiny little seats, with no legroom! I had a seat that was 48" wide, and at 6'6" I could lie flat out on my back on the bed!

I fly a lot, enough that I spend 200-300K miles every year or two to upgrade my laptop. I fly international, I fly domestic. I can tell you a horror story about every single airline, and I can tell you a wonderful story about helpful employees on every airline. It's just the way it is. Every airlines schedule is mixed in with every other airline, and every other airport. If Lufthansa has a delayed flight in Germany due to weather, it could screw up your flight from EWR to MCO. You never know. Actually, I can't tell you any horror stories about Singapore Airlines, but that's a pricey ticket and only a few airports. I paid $19,000 for a ticket from Newark to Singapore to Sydney and back home. That was a nice flight, slept like a baby for 17 of the 19 hours.... (I didn't didn't personally pay for that ticket, of course!)

Lead is really bad stuff, and if they weren't willing to comply with environmental regulations I'm OK with them closing. A lot of environmental regulations are silly or way past reasonable guidelines, but lead is bad.

I buy a ton of stuff from Wideners, always with good service. I suspect they are confused by the rules, and you should call them. For a long time they had this South African 50BMG ammo which was fantastic. I still have a ton of it, and also the projectiles for reloading.

Well, except for the Governor....

Considering that the average police officer has ZERO concept of what is legal or illegal in NJ, considering that the Attorney General and NJSP aren't entirely clear what guns are legal or illegal based on their own rulings and laws, and considering that the average FFL isn't quite sure, I'm pretty sure your neighbor isn't going to know. If your neighbor doesn't like you, it's going to cost you your guns for a few months and thousands of dollars in legal fees. I don't know what country you think you live in, but in America we don't ask neighbors to spy on each other. This is what they do in North Korea or the Eastern Bloc. This is exactly what you should be afraid of, and what will turn America bad. You can gripe all you want about Obamacare, and whatever programs you don't like that the govt or the President is trying to do, but HERE YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE OF A NON-AMERICAN, SOCIALIST, BAD and EVIL program!

The problem is that if you get wrongfully involved in something like this, bad things will happen before you are proved innocent. You will have all your guns taken away. You will spend many thousands of dollars in legal fees. Once you are cleared, it may take months to get back your guns, and you may not get them all back.

Buying a small bunch on Gunbroker is probably the easiest way. The brass is worth ~$1-2 each, but if you wanted just one or two I'd send them to you for the cost of postage.

I did end up going to Pocono Manor for sporting clays yesterday. It was fun, but I'd really call it "An offroad ATV trip through the deep woods and then some shooting at some stations that roughly resembled sporting clays." I called early in the morning, and got a 2pm reservation. We showed up at 2pm. The guy asked if we had our own gear, and we said yes. He said, well, take the green cart and off we went! He had to lead us to the first target (him on his ATV, us in our golf cart) because it's 1+ miles away, through the golf course and then into the woods. No paperwork, showing of any kind of ID or anything. There are maybe 12 stations. "Don't even bother trying station 5, it's always broken." Also, a few other stations didn't work at all, and a few stations had only one working thrower instead of two. We probably had 7 or 8 working stations, and maybe 12 working throwers. Since they are in the deep woods, the throwers are on 12V car batteries, and some of them were out of juice. They had a big "Cabela's Family Day" on Tuesday apparently, so many throwers were discharged. The paths between the stations were rough dirt and boulder trails, more like an offroad ATV course in Mexico than a sporting clays resort in the Poconos, but it was fun. Some of the trails were extremely steep, and we ended up having my B-I-L getting out and pushing the cart up one very rocky and steep slope because the cart couldn't quite make it. My only other gripe is that the shotgun holders on the cart were rough plastic, and I was quite concerned about getting my nice shotgun stocks scratched. Other places I've been have padded holders that are almost like a gun case held open, but this was just two plastic V's with velcro. We solved the problem by having my BIL hold the shotguns steady in the holders as we went over the more rocky terrain. On the other hand, there was no one else there (or probably anywhere within a mile), and you could shoot as much as you wanted. So, for a "sporting clays" facility it's pretty much as rough as you can get. For a nice day in the woods shooting stuff, it was fine. My BIL had never done this before, and he had a great time and really enjoyed himself. He turned out to be an excellent shot, probably hitting as many as I did. We shot around 125 rounds, and they charged us $50 (which is low, but on the other hand, things were pretty rough). I can imagine going back again, but I would be thinking about the "ATV through the woods with some shooting" instead of "sporting clays."

I have three or four of those cards mouldering in my wallet. Since the range is as far away from me as it is, they could be giving our free annual memberships for all it does me.

Has anyone shot sporting clays at Pocono Manor in the past year? Wondering how the course was, condition of the machines, etc. They appeared to have some problems 2-3 years ago based on various postings around the net, but haven't seen any recent information. I know about other places (LVSC, etc), but my PA house is in the northern Poconos, so this place is not very far. ThanksIA

I think it's quite representative of most of the internet stuff posted here! COMPLETELY TRUE!!!

Except for 22LR, I think you can get more for brass from reloaders than scrappers. You have to separate it, but you don't necessarily need to clean it.

That's a very good point.

I don't know how you cut and pasted that first article, but all the URLs are malformed, etc. It was 14 months ago, I remember the story. I also remember it was their Chinese distributor sponsoring the film, so who cares. What brought this to your attention a year + after the story?

It has nothing to do with Mac/PC. Perhaps you have an old or bad browser installation? I have only Macs available to me at work and home, and have been able to do price quote many times!

For some strange reason the NRA never calls me. I've never asked to be put on a do not call list, but maybe I got added onto that list accidentally. ON THE OTHER HAND, the freakin' 2A Foundation is relentless in calling me, sending me emails, calling my cell phone, always asking for another $25. I'm getting close to being impolite, which is not like me.

Because it's an hour and ten minute drive, if you don't hit traffic.

I've done a lot of shooting on the 200/300 range, and only a few times was there anyone else there with me. Especially when I brought my snow shovel and brush to clean off the benches.

It's Indian ammo. Can be technically reloaded, but is very inconsistently made so not necessarily the best for reloading. Are these rounds sealed with the black tar-like stuff around the bullet?

OK, I don't have problems with busybodies or ROs, but I am pissed off with the brass things. Half my 30-06 brass is from those garbage cans!

I've never seen an ambulance out of the garage with its engine off. At the Union Plaza Diner, you can often see three large ambulances idling for an entire meal (if they get through the meal without interruption).