Melgamatic

No one has heard of this? PS: Merry Christmas! Two hours left, and the 10 year old is getting excited. He'll be even more excited when he gets then Remington 1100 20ga tomorrow! -Melg/dave

I bought some expensive stuff at Cabela's a few weeks ago, and in order to get a big discount, and also not have to pay interest on the purchase for a few months, I got one of their credit cards. (Also got a hat, $50 coupon, other stuff). If I only use it for Cabela's, and pay it off, it will end up being a good deal. Anyways, just got an email for an "Employee Pricing Sale" coupon, good thru 1/2/2010 (non-transferable, BTW). Good in-store only. Does anyone have any idea what kind of discounts are available? There is no limit, so it might be time to stock up on some bullets, powder,etc, but wanted to know if anyone knew the rough discount before I took the 2 hour drive. -Melg/Dave

Is the M1A rifle mostly the same as the M14 rifle? Are there normal production versions of the M1A rifle that are NJ legal? -Melg/Dave

Wow, that's really terrible about the horses. I feel like calling the NJSP and telling them how the guy was driving earlier. He should be charged with harming animals, or something....

A glowing recommendation!

I need to order a bunch of pies in the Florham Park area this week, any recommendations? I like Italian Village in Madison, but it's on the cusp of being too far away. Thanks.

On each pit, there is a number board, and then below it a big piece (4' x 4', maybe) of concrete wallboard, like heavy duty plasterboard. Just stapled to that, and then you raise the board. It is counter-weighted, so you don't have to do anything with ropes or pullies, just push the board up and it stays up. Guy we met was shooting these giant target, maybe these: http://www.midwayusa.com/viewProduct/?productNumber=511728 which are 35" 35". Giant. We were using normal 100yd targets and with my scope, and with my buddies Garand, we were never off the paper, so we didn't really need those big targets...

Had the 200 yard range to ourselves, but a guy who was just leaving clued us in. Drove down to the pits (it would be a very long, wet, icy walk today), got our tiny targets posted. Got back to the car before we realized we hadn't raised the boards! I clicked up 10 clicks from my 100yd sight-in, and put 15 shots in the middle of the target. Only one 7, a few 8's, and all 9's and 10's with a bunch of X's. On a 100-yard target! I will be spending more time on the 200/300 range!

Left Cherry Ridge range around 11:30am, got home just now in Union County, 4 hours later. Usually takes 45 minutes or less. 2 hours without moving more than 50 yds total on Route 23. Then two big accidents on 287... So, while in stopped traffic, miles long, on 23, a big dualie pickup truck with a very long horse trailer (8 horse?) comes flying up the shoulder. It's really wide, and misses the mirror of the car in front of me by an inch at most. What a jerk. An hour later, we're slowly coming up to the accident on 287. Hm, looks like a big trailer. Hm, looks like a big horse trailer. Hm, looks like the same a-hole pickup truck that flew past us on the icy shoulder. Didn't look like any horses were in the trailer, but the pickup was way up the side of the road, 30'-40' up a hill, having broken through a lot of guardrail. Sometimes Karma is truly wonderful.

agreed.

It's 200 until 1pm, and then 300 after 1pm if people want to shoot 300yd. Or, everyone can decide to stay at 200, apparently. Just not sure how the target pits work, target changing timing, etc. Yes, I am a member. Cherry Ridge is 45 minutes North, and Monmouth County is 45 minutes South. I do more shooting at CR these days, but still go to Monmouth for more informal shooting with my son and also for the more fun competitions.

Can someone who has shot at the 200/300 yard range at Cherry Ridge give me the rundown on procedures? During normal shooting hours, do people stay in the pits, or do people go down, setup targets and then come back? Is it the same 30 minute schedule as the 100yd range? Do people walk or drive down to the targets? Thanks, Melg

You could only do it with handloads. All competition benchrest shooting is only hand loaded, usually actually at the range depending on atmospheric and range conditions. There are 0 benchrest shooters using commercial ammo! I have always gotten smaller groups with my own loaded ammo!

Are you talking about a specific range or the state in general? My son at 10 shoots all the time, and did when he was 9 as well. Monmouth County doesn't care as long as the parent is there. Cherry Ridge doesn't let kids shoot pistols until 12, I think, but there are clubs in the state with 22 pistol teams for much younger kids, I believe. -dave

No, just went to the link. May have been unavailable for some time intraday. My stock is OK, glad you guys got what you needed.

Gone.

Hopefully you said something like, "OK, you have lost my business forever by gouging on these to this terrible extent. You are a poor businessman." in very polite tones. What a jackass.

Yeah, I agree. I also went this summer, and the shows were identical (down to the same vendors in the same locations). It is big, but perhaps only 5% of the tables at most had any new guns. Many had nothing but Nazi war relics. The big room has pretty much nothing but old crufty guns, with some very expensive fancy old guns, too. One table selling new ammo, no big deal. No one selling powder or primers except for one guy selling them for $60/1000. Tons of daggers, old knives, old uniforms, old paper relics from WWII and older etc. I'm not going to go again. Next time I say I'm going to go you guys remind me of this, ok? I did drive 30 miles West to Cabelas, and had success there, including Rem Benchrest Small Rifle primers for $33, yeah. -Melg

Anyone else going to the big Allentown gun show today or tomorrow!

When I got back into shooting around a year ago, I didn't understand why anyone would ever want a bolt action gun. Now, I find myself far more interested in bolt action, very accurate rifles than my (also very accurate) semis. I'm building a 6mm BR tube gun for competition (Hart barrel, Pierce custom action, Eliseo CSS tube gun chassis). Now, I want a bolt action 223 that I can shoot all my great handloaded 223 ammo with when I'm not using my competition Colt HBAR. I don't care if it's single load or magazine (I probably would just single load most of the time, like I do with my 308 Remington 700), but I want it to be accurate, free floated barrel, etc. Any suggestions? I'm going to head down to Cheyenne Outfitters later today to see what they have (they have a lot of bolt action 223's in stock, they told me on the phone this morning). Any specific brands to pick or avoid? -Melgamatic

4537kps down, 1305kps up Ugh

If you have Comcast cable internet service and pay for Boost (I think it's $9 a month extra for some extra speed), could you tell me how fast your service is? I suspect mine is terribly slow... -Melg

Really? Just reading NJAC TItle 13 Chapter 54, and the rules for "assault weapon" pistols seems to be So, it's got the detachable magazine outside of the pistol grip; what other features does this have? I think it's legal as long as it's less than 50 ounces....or, is there another clause in the law I am missing?

Agreed. The Constitution has had many serious flaws, which we've fixed by Amendments. It's designed to be self-repairing. I'm not sure what serious flaws it has remaining, but the fact that someone thinks there might be a serious flaw isn't so worrisome, at least without knowing what they think it is...