Everything posted by bulpup
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Squirrel Problem
Negative. Shotgun and a bow are allowed in season. There is a separate muzzle loading season during squirrel season. Check the links in my previous posts in this thread.
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People uncorking!!!
Wow. I missed this whole page. Trunking is used so that a few frequencies can be combined in a way that allows the area to have more dedicated groups than frequencies. It is not an encryption but born out of economics. Most places that do trunk can be set up on a proper scanner using information found on the Internet. The only reason I never had a trunking scanner is that they generally cost more.
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People uncorking!!!
Can anyone reccomend a good inexpensive trunking scanner?
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Firearm Thefts From Vehicles
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=7264 I saw this going by on ht e forum news feed. NRA says it is false.
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Snow Geese Fatwah
Cool, we can be like this guy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkaV6ptbJ0E&feature=youtube_gdata_player So I I am thinking if we did group up somehow, each person could get a dozen decoys. That way as a group the spread would be pretty big.
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Chinese security guard training, Day 1
Eh, I know it is against the policy, but read it. seriously, just read it. http://blogs.reuters...stick-security/
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The new Mossberg black gun
First one ordered with a bayonet lug?
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The Truth About Gun Safes
I like your screen name
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Snow Geese Fatwah
Look on the NJ dep pages in the first link. down the bottom you have the likely places. However, the snow geese do appear tough to trick. Sounds weird onsidering how much I see without even trying. http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/wildlife_pdf/sngohunting.pdf
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Squirrel Problem
Booooooo anyway, they are clearly dangerous.
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The new Mossberg black gun
I LIKE IT!!! Very steam punk. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120891/
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Snow Geese Fatwah
http://www.state.nj....snowgeese12.htm Conservation order on Snow Geese. Unplugged shotguns allowed, no bag limits. This looks like a good way to get out into the woods and get your feet wet in hunting. Starts Feb 16 and runs into April, after the deer hunters have cleared out.
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Squirrel Problem
hmm. interesting now that I look the guide over a bit. http://www.state.nj....dighnt22-33.pdf page 6, look at "wildlife damage control" Then go up to page 5 and read "safety zone" Also, http://www.state.nj....dighnt56-69.pdf Page 7, Left side column, "General Small Game Hunting Methods." Allows bow on small game. It appears to me that a homeowner that has a bow hunting license, has no other houses within 150 feet of his or her own home and within the squirrel season can legally hunt squirrel from a second story window - as long as they are shooting down. interesting. I had been told that the 150 foot bow safety zone was for deer only. It doesn't actually say that in the guide. Maybe in the actual statutes?
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Squirrel Problem
A few things that are maddeningly unhelpful for you Squirrel season ends Feb.20 There is a 450 foot limitation of proximity to a building for a loaded firearm while hunting Bow's and crossbow have a 150 foot limitation------for deer hunting only You can't use an air rifle or a .22 to hunt squirrel. Trapping and realeasing has to be cleared beforehand. If it were me trapping and releasing at a nearby WMA would be the way to go, after a phone call to the WMA tomake sure it was okay.
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Tennessee tourist arrested for bringing pistol into 9/11 Memorial
I like the way you think
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3d drawing of 5.56
I thought for sure this was my 3rd chance to win an AR-15 in a raffle
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Tennessee tourist arrested for bringing pistol into 9/11 Memorial
She gets off with a wrist slap and every point of entry in NYC will get a very clear sign informing all who arrive that there is no concealed carry without an NYC permit. Then the next one will go to jail.
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"Strangers knocking at Night" article
I read this and it stuck me as a little funny. People in detroit can get permits to solicit door to door until 9pm? No one should be knocking on my door at 9pm to sell me something. The article makes me think that the reason they put the info out there is because no one answers the door for the permit holders. Perhaps I am overthinking. Strange article. http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/crimetracker/Know-what-to-do-when-a-stranger-knocks/-/1719402/8253204/-/7lph7q/-/index.html
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Electronic Pickpocketing
Chase sent me one without even asking me about two years ago. I remember reading the documentation and thinking the next thing how easy it would be for exactly this happening.
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New (old) Mark II--what to do before firing
Everyone should know how to strip their weapon for cleaning. Even if you already know, I would do that first no matter what, give it a good inspection, make sure that it was put away 10 years ago inthe correct order and check the insides of the barrel. I don't consider my MkIII to be that big a deal to take apart and it gets easier the more often you do it.
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Shipping Wars on A&E
Anyone watching it? I am surprised this show is actually pretty facinating to me.
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Can you guess what this is? If you guess right you win a prize!
spray insulation trimmer
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Can you guess what this is? If you guess right you win a prize!
I don't know but I thought I was nuts with the foam filler.....
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State Mental Health Facilities
NIce! Saved me some typing. The particulars about this I did not know. However I add that all that is the legal end of the mental health picture. Usually only after some serious crime has been committed, or series of crimes. It take a long time for a person to get there and be kept there. Pilgrim State on LI was a 13,500 bed facility and was full. This one is 500. You aren't putting money in their pocket, you are putting it in the mental health practioners or facilities pockets. I can't point to you exacly how the funds go where, but suffice it to say that this mental health system should not suffer from funding because people (politicians, voters anyone) thinks that money for mental health goes into paying people that "claim" something. The money goes to treatment. And not everyone agrees the system is broken, as you say. In fact the drug companies are already claiming that they are responsible for the reduction in crime and not the police or CCW laws. There is a lot of evidence to support that too and I believe we are foolish to discount psychotropic drugs and say that CCW brought violent crime down. I believe this because the crime rates still went down in non-CCW cities. However, there is a flaw. Those people have to put the drugs in their mouths for them to work. Some paranoids will not do that, some can't afford them or can't get to where they are given them. Also, there are those people that will never go to see a "shrink" because they fear they will be put away (which won't happen) or that they will never be able to get a job or that their guns will be taken away - Sorry I had to add that last one, but just imagine, if you were truly a paranoid schitzophenic, the last thing you would want to do is see a doctor that can take your guns. Jared Laugner might very well have avoided help because of this. My mom would have been one of the doctors you would drop them with at the state hospital. She was doing this during the PCP craze too. She went out and got herself a second degree black belt in jiu-jitsu just to feel a little safe at work. No guns allowed of course and no one wanted them there because the people that came through the door were not like other people. They really would end up taking that gun from you somehow. My stepdad still has a problem with people being between him and the door. But to add to your point it really should bother people that the "homeless epidemic," has a lot more to do with dumping the mentally ill in the street because no one want to pay for the facilities. Imagine, all those insane people with no way to tell the time. Why is that important? How will they know when to take their meds?
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State Mental Health Facilities
This is just a little something I thought might be of interest to you all. As some are aware, my family are mental health practioners. I was talking the other day to my step father and he mentioned the history of one of the places he worked at in the very early part of his career; Pilgrim State Hospital. It was a facinating history lesson on how mental health care was practiced then and now but I won't write up all the vast details but I did look up the facility and found a nice quick write up that sums it up nicely http://en.wikipedia....chiatric_Center The reason I thought this would be interseting is because of so much false information I hear people repeating about what can and is done about mentally ill people by the state. I feel it almost directly affects us and our gun rights. In a nutshell (pardon the pun), there really are no state mental health facilites anymore. At a time when budgets needed to be cut, psychtropic drugs came along and allowed people to think that "institutionalizing" was no long needed and far to expensive for state budgets to carry. Budgets were slashed and the drugs were the answer. The reasons to continue talking about this are very important to me. My upbrining exposed me to many of the craziest of things, albeit as second hand stories from my parents. What it boils down to for me is this; In this country there really is no way you can be "put away," for being mentally ill. Those kinds of facilities do not exist anymore. Private facilities are expensive and do to your insurance and bank account the same thing having cancer does. The few remaining facilities that have permanant residents are there by court order, not by a doctor or a family member. Those that would have been sent to large facilities are now given drugs and released instead of monitored in a closed environment. Currently, most insurance policies have very strict limits on how often you can see a psychiatrist to "talk." For me, it is very relevant to the discussion of gun rights because although we have a mental health check, the best anyone can do to help the mentally ill now is give them drugs and hope that they take them. (This, I would like to mention, is one of my personal reasons for owning a firearm for self-defense.) but also that the best mental health care available is only available to the wealthy and passable is available to the insured. The poor and uninsured are left with overwhelemed facilities that are sometimes too busy to respond to immediate needs and directed to give medication so that they can move on to the next patient. In fact, even the insured are up against insurance company demands that a doctor talk to you for up to 15 minutes then write a prescription. This is crazy. Consider the following; The worst cases are not going anywhere but home with a bottle of pills unless directed by a judge. Mentally ill usually find it extremely challengeing to hold a job, therefore are uninsured and poor/homeless. The system is so overwhelmed that the mentally unstable find it hard to actually get help when they feel they need it, let alone when someone else feels they need it. So I submit to you that in our our best interests, second ammendment and living life, that you consider the following; "Lazy" is not a mental illness State budgeting for the mental health is not going to pay for a lazy person to get welfare. That is the welfare department. Completly different. IS this you? "Most lazy people on welfare are looking for a free ride." That might be true, but they usually complain of physical disabilities, maybe anxiety. The real hucksters do not want to be listed as mentally ill - because they would have to take medicine. Welfare money to feed poor people that have mentally ill familiy members is money well spent. State budgeting for mental health is going to directly affect who is actually going to get that red flag in the mental health background check. The reason I write this is fairly simple. Everytime, and I mean everytime I mention to people that the metal health money should not be cut from a state budget the response has ALWAYS been that we should not have to pay for "lazy people,' to get welfare. Lazy people getting a free ride on welfare is NOT a mental health care issue. It is not even close. Cutting money to mental health programs affects the ability to find and treat the next Jared Laugner. Just some food for thought.