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I want this stock: http://www.botachtactical.com/caaarssnst.html Only the length adjustability is a NJ problem right? Buy it, get it pinned at the right length, all the other adjustments should be legal, no? Here's the close-up: http://ep.yimg.com/ip/I/botach_2053_520348799 Sexy! Perfect for my CQ S&W MP-15. -Melgamatic

This was my thought too. I suspect my homeowners insurance is going to skyrocket if I have to list my firearms and their values like I do for my art and jewelry. I have an additional rider for those, and pay extra, but I think the firearms are going to set off alarm bells in some adjuster's program.

According to google maps, it is a 57 minute drive from the Bridgewater Mall to the Monmouth County R&P club...

This is the original tactical Zombie forum: http://zombiehunters.org/forum/index.php and there is a lot of great stuff there, bug out bags, first aid, weapons, etc, plus great fiction. This story: http://zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=35300 "Mom's Journal of the Zombie Years" is fantastic, and is hundreds of posts long (read her entries adding to the story, skip over the comments in between if you want). _melgamatic

Are you referring to "less than lethal" loads for your shotgun for home defense? Is this because: 1) You want to give the guy a second chance to come after you once he gets up? or 2) You want the guy to be capable of giving solid testimony in his lawsuit against you? I'm not sure those are the rounds you want for home defense...

I was at the Hamburg, PA Cabela's today, and they had 500 rounds of Winchester 22LR in a wooden little box for $26. They had hundreds of them.

Ft Dix and Monmouth County have the same positive attributes. From Central Union county, Monmouth takes me around 45 minutes to get to (it's 3 minutes off exit 100 on the Pkwy), but i think from Bridgewater it's probably further....

Depending on where you live, Monmouth County Rifle and Pistol Club. 50 yd and 100yd rifle ranges, plus three pistol ranges, all outdoors. Nice group of folks, lots of fun activites, extremely low-key. Annual membership is $100, plus $175 your first year. Not a lot of rules, fill up your magazines, do whatever you want as long as it's safe. http://geocities.com/mcrpcnj/[/url I think the application is on the website, and although you don't need sponsors let me know and I'll give you my name for the top of the application (and then I get $25 off next year)! To join you just need 2 personal references (not club members), you need to come to a Sunday morning range orientation and very informal interview, and one monthly membership meeting to get inducted. That's all there is. -Melgamatic ]

I don't believe this is true. Certainly official crime stats don't seem to back it up. Where is that data coming from? The FBI's UCR (uniform crime report). Here's a quote from the 2008 Preliminary FBI UCR: They don't have a category for Home Invasion on the data you can download in spreadsheets. Is that in "Violent Crime" "Property Crime" or "Burglary" or what? If there is a more detailed breakdown I can't find it on the FBI website. The URL is: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2008prelim/index.html and the page with the spreadsheets are: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2008prelim/downloads.htm -Melgamatic

I guessed I have been known to cause panic in chat rooms.

I don't believe this is true. Certainly official crime stats don't seem to back it up. Where is that data coming from?

This is what spotting scopes are for! I bought an inexpensive one at NJ Firearms Guild for much less than $100, and it comes with a nice little tripod for the bench. Makes sighting in much easier!

Box Of Truth is one of the best shooting websites out there. Simple concept, very nice guy doing the well-written articles. Not strictly scientific, but closer to scientific than I'd get. It's sad the "T Man" died, but he seems to be producing some new content.

I'm looking roughly for a 308/7.62 AR-15, but the Armalite models appeal to me the most and appear to be of very high quality. What's your suggestion? It will take 6-12 months to order one, so I'm looking at lightly used models on gunbroker, and also trying to find a retail store that has one.... -Melgamatic

I dunno. I hate fake suppressors. What's the purpose, other than to look gangsta? I have a real S&W MP-15, and I love it, but it looks fine without the fakey-doo.

Does anyone know of any stores in NJ that currently have an Armalite AR-10 in stock? Thanks, Melgamatic

Ray's is gone forever. There are lead abatement / environmental issues which may take a while to resolve before anything can happen with the building. I know that one reason it was hard to sell it to another party who would keep it as a range was that enormously expensive lead abatement would have to be performed on the site. Ray's had a great selection. They were always grouchy, and sold at full price, but they had a lot of stuff and the pistol range was ok.

There aren't really any formal stalls. There are three pistol ranges, one 50yd rifle range and one 100yd rifle range. There are benches at each range, and you move them around if you aren't happy. There is probably comfortable bench space for 4-5 riflers at a time under normal furniture arrangement, and 2-3 at each pistol range. That said, there are hardly ever anywhere that number of people. The trap range goes across the two rifle ranges. One great thing is that there are activities all the time. Bowling pin shoots, cowboy action shooting, CMP/NRA military shoots, trap shoots, action pistol, and 3-gun starting soon. The calendar on the website is usually up to date: http://geocities.com/mcrpcnj/

I am a recent member. I was there today, and it was wonderful. Good points: friendly members, 0 hassles, extremely cheap. Bad points: completely outdoors, 100yds max, that's probably it. It is a very small place, but 0 hassles and a lot of shooting for the $$. -Melgamatic

Poconos with my parents Friday night to Sunday morning. Went to the Allentown Gun Show with my dad Saturday morning, may visit Dunkelbergers again Sunday on the way home!

"They reserve the right" does not necessarily mean they always apply the limit. I think the guy I dealt with 2 weeks ago in Woodbridge would have let me buy whatever I wanted; we had a nice time talking, and I had a feeling he didn't get many customers he could enjoy chatting with. When carrying my 3 cases of 223 down to the counter he kept asking me if I was sure I didn't want more!

We need a new rule around here: if you mention Dick's in a posting, you have to tell us which location! Actually, that should apply to any chain store!

All the primer is on gunbroker.com at $75-$150 per 1000. And it's selling with multiple bids. Check this one: http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=128641181 Small pistol primers, 3 thousand primers, with 10 bids, about to sell for $215 or around $70 per thousand!! I feel like writing those sellers' names down, and then making a stink about not buying anything from them once the rush is over.

http://www.orvis.com/wing-shooting-school.html As they say in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, "If you have the means, I highly recommend it."

Dick's is attached to the mall (you can enter the mall from Dick's, although I've never wanted to do that), all the way at the far end of the mall, as far from Rt 1 as you can go. If you go down Woodbridge Center Drive SE from Rt 1, you can see the mall on your left, and it's the very last part of the mall, probably 3 traffic lights (all of which turn into the mall) down from Rt 1. (It's not actually Rt 1/9 at this point; Rt 1/9 splits just north of the mall). The address is: 366 Woodbridge Ctr, Woodbridge, NJ? - (732) 621-8400? Google map url: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 35963&z=15 -Melgamatic