Melgamatic

I don't know when you go, but I rarely see more than 1 out of every 3 or 4 benches full, and often the place is empty. No one has ever gotten in my business at all, ever. I might ask someone about a rifle, or they might ask me what some unusual rifle is, but that's it for the talking. I don't go Saturday or Sunday mornings, but the place is nearly empty all the time to me. 8 months out of the year I'm often the only person in the entire rifle, pistol or 200/300 range. Even beautiful Saturday afternoons after 3pm there might be 6 people in 40 lanes...

Pic please. Is there a comp on the end of the barrel, or a bull barrel?

Any club that isn't strict about not going near the benches during cease fire is a club I'd not enjoy. The chamber flags are no big deal, and even small informal clubs require them (MCRPC, for example). Also, I've shot 100's of times at CR, and sometimes haven't had enough flags for all the guns I had out, and no one ever hassled me.

Once this all happens, it goes to the DOJ for prosecution. They will not prosecute, and the whole thing festers.

If you really want a precision rifle, you need to start from scratch. Like single hole at 100yrds, benchrest competition precision. Start with a Rem 700 pattern custom action. I got mine from BAT Machine; you can have any caliber or customizations you want. For real precision, go with 6mm PPC. http://www.batmachine.com/products/products.htm For the barrel, again get a custom barrel. Talk through the rifling, length, etc, with them. If you want, you can have the barrel shipped to the action people, and they'll put them together for you exactly true (90.00000 degrees), timed correctly. I got my barrel from Hart Barrels http://www.hartbarrels.com/prices.php Finally, you need a stock and trigger. I got my precision rifle stock from Eliseo at Competition Shooting Stuff: http://www.gotxring.com/ Tube rifles are the way to go for total precision, but there are plenty of precision Remington-style or other benchrest style stocks. For trigger, I'd use a Jewell, etc. Got mine at Great Scott http://www.greatscottshooters.com/trigger.htm With my rifle, at 100yds, if I manage to read the wind right, I can put 5 6mm rounds into a hole around 12mm wide. For me, this is amazing. For a benchrest competition, this is so bad that I'm 100% worse than the next worse shooter. But, it can blow your normal rifle friends away. For a precision rifle, don't start with a factory rifle and try to fix all their mistakes.

yuck

They aren't protecting their business by going past what the law requires! I look forward to their call on Monday when I cancel my $1000 order.

For me (and I understand it's just me, and that it's nothing on you), this makes me never want to order from them. The anti-gun people are bad enough. Actually, this makes them anti-gun people; they are adding additional laws/regulations on top of those imposed by the government. You can complain about NJ, or Obama, all you want, but here is a private company adding gun laws that you'd scream about if they were new government laws. Order the ammo, and then when they demand your unnecessary paperwork, tell them to cancel the order because you're not going to support them making life even more regulated.

Why do they need that? You don't need a FID to buy rifle ammo anywhere in the US?!

Wolf Target Match almost always come out as the most accurate 22LR ammo available. It's close to top of the heap!

BTW, I added this range to the NJ Gun Map: http://njgunmap.com/

Another of their pages says 9am to 3pm. I think that schedule on the front page was maybe their winter schedule?

I don't know about this team, but the swat team in my county is mostly (maybe entirely?) made of veterans with some pretty heavy experience. The two snipers I met both had multiple tours in the desert doing heavy lifting. So, I agree the camo doesn't really hide them here (the guys I've seen are usually in all black), but I don't think they are "playing army dress up" - it's what they've worn for work their adult lives.

Just drive to Range 14. If you get there early you will have no line. Pay your $60 and shoot. That's about the only place that's going to let you shoot tomorrow without being a guest.

Range 14. No problems. Only 200yards, though.

Maybe. Months go by without them having a BMG allowed day. Other days you can go there and the RO's are not aware that it might be a BMG day. It sucks. ANJRPC does as much to harm the owner of a 50BMG as cease fire nj.

Have you shot this rifle yourself?

I am not trying to be impolite, but I don't think you understand what a 50 BMG can do! Many 300yd ranges do not allow the 50 because it does too much damage to their range (at 300 yards)! In a 25 yard indoor range, a 50BMG would penetrate the backstop and probably the next two buildings. At 200 yards, a 7.62x39 has 882 ft-lb of energy. The 50BMG has 11050 ft-lbs of energy, or roughly 12x the energy. At 200 yards! Range 14 allows 50 BMG. You need to tell them when you sign up so they put you in the right lane (they don't want the 50BMG in all lanes, but I'm not sure which ones they put you on). They also want to check your rifle out, although that's only happened once in the times I've shot my BMG there. Cherry Ridge allows you to shoot the BMG on alternate, random Thursdays for a couple of hours, when they feel like it, and when they feel like putting it on the phone line, and when the RO feels like allowing it. Bullets must be non-magnetic, because they've had brush fires started on the rock wall beyond the 300yd targets with steel-core ammo. That is, effectively our NJ official NRA range does a better job preventing you from using your BMG than any anti-gunner in NJ.

This is a nice idea, but I think it doesn't work legally. Nothing to stop you from adding a 16th link. It's no different than having a high capacity magazine (in this case, infinite), and you promise not to put more than 15 rounds in.

Nicola Bocour has a law degree from Seton Hall. She's been on the board of directors of Ceasefire NJ since 2005, and created New Yorkers Against Gun Violence in 2007. She is currently a legal researcher at Columbia University.

iPad's take pretty nice pictures....you just have to remove the vaseline from the lens first.

I tumble in walnut, then dump into that rotary round basket thing and rotate over a 5-gallon bucket. I've never had it take more than 10 revolutions in each direction to get 100% of the media out of the brass, rifle or pistol. -DAve

It was a joke. But, as later mentioned, if you let a DE back like that, it absolutely won't cycle correctly and you'll get all sorts of FTL, FTE issues. He didn't have girly wrists (that I could tell), but he needs to hold the gun more firmly.

The 50 isn't that much different, but it's a little rougher. The guy in the picture has weak girly wrists (also, I hate shooting indoors, but shooting a 50DE indoors seems like asking for abuse). You need to load the 44M close to full-strength to get the action to work at its best. My lighter loads for my 44 revolver and 44 lever gun weren't up to the task at first.

You know, I used to think that exact thing. And then I got a Desert Eagle in 44 magnum, and it's my favorite handgun (and I have a lot of very nice, expensive and commonly-beloved handguns). It has very low recoil, is extremely accurate, and just makes you grin when you shoot it. Unlike most of my other recent purchases, it did take a few hundred rounds to smooth out, and unlike all my other handguns I actually clean and lube this one after each usage. Reloading 44 myself makes it affordable. A long time ago I shot a DE in 50, and it sucked. I think the guy didn't maintain the gun, and maybe the 50 is just not as nice. A Desert Eagle in 44 is a really fun gun. However, I also wouldn't compare it to a 1911. I'd buy a nice 1911 first, and then when I got tired of it I'd pick up the DE. -Dave