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I'd like to see the surf lapping at Ocean Ave. Now that would be awesome!

Stepped out for lunch today to hit up Max's for some dogs and afterwards, wandered over to the boardwalk to see what the surf was doing. Generally, the waves on Monmouth county beaches are pretty tame but with the storm approaching, they're wicking up pretty good! I grabbed a quick pan of some of the waves breaking with my phone. cCmhH4G1z_I

Yep, i think that about covers it.

Ray I don't know about your targets... But mine don't shoot back. False! Hit the steel guide that holds it up and watch that bullet come back atcha! ahh, the classic 'return to sender'!

I have an all matching norinco with a gray bolt. Would that be an original configuration?

Or in other words, why does the profile diameter vary all along the entire shank especially in the M4 variants? Is it for attachment of standardized barrel hardware or is there something to do with harmonics perhaps?

isn't that just some sort of clotting powder? that stuff is commonly available and in many first aid kits.

I have the BAD lever on my gun and find it a very useful accessory. Its a pistol carbine that sees a fairly high roundcount every time its used so there's lots of bolt manipulation going on.

Shane, That's actually a very salient point. Because of the buffer tube it uses, the adjustability of the PRS LOP is more akin to swapping out a buttpad than being a collapsible carbine stock. If not, anyone whose put a limbsaver on thier A1 stock may have created an assault rifle!

Well i went today and it was a really good show. i managed to spend a few bucks on ammo and accessories and would have spent more but i ran out of cash. There were several dealers selling milsurps. There were plenty of $90 round receiver mosins there and even more hex receivers in crates. A couple snipers, about 10 finn M39's scattered about 3 dealers. Plenty of mausers as well (yugo, Czech and RC germans). Even a few interesting things such as unissued SKS's amonst the normal yugo and romanian SKS's. Several Schmidt Rubins, and of course various Garands all over the place. Modern rifles and handguns were aplenty as well. Lots of good ammo deals abound, especially if you want to buy a case. One dealer had pallets upon pallets of cased ammo. there was a reloading booth there too with lots of powder and primers. All this plus your usual assortment of parts, accessories and some memorabilia made for a nice show.

i'll be hitting this one up saturday as well.

too bad you just posted, i have a pretty substantial cabelas coupon that will likely go to waste.

I have the super nova tactical 18" with pistol grip and ghost ring sights and really enjoy playing around with it. I picked mine up barely used at a substantial discount but thats probably the only way i would have purchased one for the occasional use it gets. It will chamber 3 1/2" shells which are absolutely unreal to shoot as you need to brace yourself and make sure both your hands are holding on tight! The sights are really nice for precision shooting. I recently shot some slugs at 100 yards against a 10" square with a good hit ratio. I've handled (not never owned) a 500 and the quality of the benelli is definitely above it but both are very utilitarian machines that will do the same job. The premium you pay for the Benelli is for more modernized clean-sheet engineering and styling. The ergos are very good and the safety is at your fingertip just forward of the trigger making the swipe down from a rest to engaging the trigger a fluid movement. One downside is that benelli replacement barrels are stupid expensive if you want to swap to a longer hunting or clays barrel. The receiver is made of a combination of plastic and metal but does not look or feel cheap and is not considered structurally inferior because its not solid steel. The receiver has a metal internal structure with a plastic overmold for a weather resistant exterior. Unless there is a clear cut issue with the materials, i think those arguments are silly in a world where plastic is so prevalent in firearms.

Captain Obvious to the rescue! /thread :mrgreen:

I'm planning on going saturday. Anyone else interested in attending? http://www.maacpsse.com/maac.html

Paul, i saw your earlier post and was hoping it was the case so i called NJSP to clarify and the example i posted regarding various exempt and non-exempt purchases was what was cited to me (although i was hoping otherwise). Reading the statute regarding exemptions, they refer to either purchasing pre-approved, exempt handguns in a single "transaction" or as multiple "transactions" interspersed inside of the normal 30-day window. For the latter, it would seem that the restriction is lifted *only* with respect to the other exempted handguns explicitly listed on your approved application, not to other non-exempted handguns that were not listed on the application. Assuming the above, you could separate your exempted handguns into separate transactions with no 30-day wait in between those, but your non-exempted "purchases" must still adhere to the 30-day wait between any and all other handgun purchases. The exemption does not seem to give permission to buy "any gun, any time". 1/1 - you buy 1 handgun (then wait 30 days) * apply for exemption of 3 specific handguns * 2/1 - you buy 1 approved exempted handgun 2/2 - you buy 1 approved exempted handgun 2/3 - you buy 1 approved exempted handgun (then wait 30 days) 3/3 - you buy 1 handgun The scenarios are still a little fuzzy though and i don't know how you would stagger your exercise of exemptions from a single application within the span of several normal 30-day purchases with the current interpretation. Such a scenario is cloudy and probably easiest to just handle all your exemptions as a single transaction or as close as possible to avoid the gray area.

I spoke with NJSP Lt. Shueleter today about the timeframe of exercising normal purchase permits and approved exempted permits. Essentially, you always have to wait 30 days between purchases both before or after executing your batch of exempted permits. To clarify, you may exercise your batch of permits all at once of course, but you mus wait 30 days from your last purchase (whether it was a simple single purchase or another exempted multi-purchase) and you must also wait 30 days to your next purchase from executing your exempted permits (whether it be a simple single purchase or another exempted multi-purchase). examples of approved exercising of both types of "purchases" interspersed with each other (day spans simplified but assume actual 30 days): 1/1 - you buy 1 handgun (then wait 30 days) 2/1 - you buy 3 approved exempted handguns (then wait 30 days) 3/1 - you buy 1 handgun (then wait 30 days) 4/1 - you buy 1 handgun (then wait 30 days) 5/1 - you buy 3 approved exempted handguns (then wait 30 days) 6/1 - you buy 3 approved exempted handguns (then wait 30 days) 7/1 - you buy 1 handgun (then wait 30 days) Essentially you always have to wait the 30 days between "purchases" when a "purchase" can be either, a) 1 single, non-exempted handgun; or, b) more than one pre-approved exempted handguns.

Correction to the statement above after speaking with NJSP Lt. Shuleter: one does not not need to have purchase permits on hand prior submitting the exemption application to your issuing authority. You can either, a) submit the exemption application with your normal permit application and those permits will be used for the exempted permits; or, b) you may submit the exemption application with permits you have already acquired and those will be the permits approved for the exempted purchases.

No the mag is in the proper orientation. She's shooting the new style, necked-UP ammo designed for maximum knock-over power. Like any caliber, they have different ammo designed for different purposes and have different names for each. Such models include a light grain screamer called "The Candy Cane ", a heavyweight crusher called "The Hammerhead", and lastly, the ultimate penetrator, "The Mushroom Stamp".

*gasp for air*

Glenn, im a bit of an x25 junkie myself and i've played around with those very same inserts in several Mosin's with poor results. The inserts i used were from sportsmans guide and the first and most annoying issue is that the fired shells stick in the inserts something awful. I had to bring a dowel and a hammer to drive the fired case out of the insert every single time! I then resorted to liberally oiling the insert which allowed the shell to be removed easier, but never did it just "fall out". Secondly, regarding accuracy, it was pretty poor. I'm not sure if its that the bore was substantially different enough to have the rifling engage the bullet or the spin rate is all wrong but shooting this from a rest at a paltry 25 yards produced a very inconsistent pattern. I tried it first with a sewer pipe bore M44 (slugged at .314) and after getting frustrated with that, i tried a tight Finn M39 (slugged at .310) and the groups did not shrink at all. The upside is that its super quiet and the "recoil" is non-existant. If it worked well with a particular gun, it would be great for training or plinking. Now i know the x25 can be accurate as i have seen good groups with my x25 pistols and my new x25 AR upper but these inserts with the long guns just couldn't produce. I would be hesitant to buy anything "converted" that didn't have some sort of accuracy guarantee, otherwise its truly a crapshoot. G/L with the mcace guy, i've been trying to contact him for years but he never replies. It was then that i saw the adapters that SG was selling and jumped on those. I have some extra, new in package, adapters that i bought but i wont be using them. I'll part with one if you're interested in experimenting. http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=650814

I use this one personally.

Took it to the indoor range today and shot it at 25 yards with the magazine resting on the table to help steady it as i'm pretty shaky and new to shooting rifles standing. the groups were decent and shows the potential, i just need to work on myself.

+1 for the Eezox as a protectant lube. I use it on all my milsurps that shoot corrosive after a cleaning. I also follow the general rule that if it slides, use grease and if it rotates (or the space is too tight to apply grease), use oil. Your choice of actual product is up to you but i think that while there are some differences in products and some are measurably better than others, as long as you are fairly regular with your cleaning and lubrication, you needn't get too caught up with the "battle of the brands". As an aside, to all those old coots that swear they dab a little Hoppe's behind the ears and hang Hoppe's soaked air fresheners in thier cars, they have clearly not had a whiff the the 21st century called Eezox!

Random generic "answer" websites with dubious credibility, anonymous editing and no references are hardly an authority in my eyes. In all my reading and searching for my TT collection, i've never found any discussion of a german manufactured Tokarev pistol like the EG Suhl Makarov's. OTOH, there was plenty of capturing and reuse on the battlefield and if enough similar resources were amassed, reclassification and reissue would be employed. But of course, this is wholly different than explicit manufacture especially since capture/reissue can be either negative (RC mausers) or positive (Finn M39). http://luger.gunboards.com/showthread.php?t=19790