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Imagine being told your prized 1886 Winchester, chambered in .50 Win. Express, built at the turn of the 19th century, that sells for about 5-figures today, would be illegal to own?

"$300 for automatic assault weapons and machine guns." http://www.northjers...4.html?page=all HACKENSACK – A two-day, countywide gun buyback will be held on April 13-14, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Guns will be collected at places of worship in several towns. Compensation will vary by firearm type: $20 for non-operational weapons; $80 for rifles and shotguns; $100 for handguns; and $300 for automatic assault weapons and machine guns. The program will be funded by the Prosecutor’s Office through money seized from criminal activities, according to a release from the Sheriff’s Office. The buyback will be hosted by the Sheriff’s Office and the Prosecutor’s Office in partnership with local law enforcement agencies. The Sheriff’s Office held a similar buyback in 2010, which netted 708 firearms, including two assault weapons and numerous handguns, rifles and shotguns, according to the release. “Intentional violence and accidental discharges involving firearms can destroy families and communities,” said Sheriff Michael Saudino. “If we can take just one dangerous weapon out of our homes or off our streets, we can make Bergen County a safer place for all residents.” All surrendered firearms should be brought to the drop-off sites unloaded and stored in a closed, fastened case, a gun box, or in a securely tied package. Ammunition should be transported in a separate container. Officers will be on hand to help people bring weapons safely into the buyback locations. At each site, the weapons will be examined and secured by Bergen County Sheriff’s Office firearms experts and officers. Drop-off sites will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. each day of the buyback. The dates and locations will be: April 13 -Garfield: Our Lady of Mount Virgin St. Joseph’s Center, 188 MacArthur Ave. -Hackensack: Mount Olive Baptist Church, 260 Central Ave.; and Rhema Worship Center Church, 156 Passaic St. -Maywood: First Presbyterian Church, 401 Maywood Ave. -Park Ridge: Our Lady of Mercy Church, 46 Pascack Road April 14 -Englewood: Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, 90 West Demarest Ave. -Fair Lawn: Temple Beth Sholom, 40-25 Fair Lawn Ave. -Hackensack: Trinity Baptist Church, 218 Passaic St.; and New Hope Baptist Church, 214 Berdan Place -New Milford: St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 225 Center St. -Teaneck: First Baptist Church, 1592 Teaneck Road In recent months, several buybacks have either been held or planned in counties across the state. At a gun buyback in Essex County last month, officials collected more than 1,700 weapons. A similar program will be held this weekend in Monmouth County and the state Attorney General’s Office announced Thursday that it plans to hold a buyback in Atlantic County later this month.

If you chop those barrels, the ghosts of the Belgian gunmakers who built that gun by hand will come back from their graves and haunt you. Defourny's are well regarded in shotgun circles. Their higher grade sidelocks and O/U's sell for a pretty penny these days. Most of the name brand and guild guns that came out of the Liege and Herstal regions were made in small quantities each year, exhibited a high degree of craftsmanship, and are sought after today. Many makers shared components and services with each other. Nice old gun and nice find.

This might be helpful. Since the SAFE Act implementation, the NYSP has set up a hotline you can call with your questions: 1-855-LAW-GUNS

You have an Antoine Joseph Defourny SxS made in Herstal, Belgium. (Proofmarks are Belgian.) The two "P.V" proofmarks under the barrel breech indicate that it's been proofed for black powder and smokeless powder (P.V under a rearing lion is the smokeless proofmark.) I would check the chamber lengths to verify they are 2 3/4". I would fire only 2 1/2" shells (7/8 oz. or 1 oz. maximum payload weights) in this shotgun until someone can ascertain or tell you otherwise. The top lever is left of center, indicating wear.

12 ga. for variety and versatility. It can cover all bases. In the wrong configuration, it is not the most suitable for a woman of small stature. Don't be fooled into thinking the 20 ga. lacks power. While it gives up some power to the 12 ga., it can be potent in the right loadings, it's just that you'll see fewer offerings and it's slightly more in cost than 12 ga. ammo in some similar loadings. Last year a young man in N.J. killed a nice black bear weighing 702 lbs. during the annual 6-day season. He used a 20 ga. 870 slug gun. It seems it was "enough gun." http://www.newjersey...c-4-2012-a.html

How well does your .643 pattern with specialty turkey loads @ 40 yds.? For starters, your choke tube should be placing all or at least 90% of the 2 1/4 oz. of pellets inside a 30" circle at 40 yds. From there, you need at least half-a-dozen pellets in the head/neck area of a turkey for a clean kill. Once you've established what range your patterns place that needed number of pellets in the small area of the head/neck of a turkey, you'll know what's best to use and what range not to exceed. (Practice on those turkey head targets.) All loads pattern differently. You'll find that weight of the payload as well as the size of the pellets you are shooting vary in pattern results. Here's a hint: if the pellets are more on the fringe of the 30" circle and not centered in the core, your choke constriction may be too tight and could be constricting that lead too much. An evenly dense pattern is better than one that's too tight in some areas but has patches in other areas. The tightest choke I've used is .660, and I've also taken birds with a .687 and .690 choke, shooting #5's or 4x6 Duplex loads. I've used 2 oz. and 1 7/8 oz. loads mostly but have gone as light as 1 5/8 oz. Test as many different loads as you can afford with your tube.

There's a storm a-brewing in N.Y.

Only if you have the Spartan"s extended tubes designed for steel shot. If you have only the flush-fitting choke tubes designed for lead, you can use steel shot but only use the IC & MOD tubes. http://www.remington...ls/310-320.ashx

You could contact Remington and have them look at it. I don't know what year your 700 is for they have a few variations of their trigger. http://www.remington...model-40-X.aspx And for those who feel confident in doing their own work for problem resolution: http://www.quarterbo...700trigger.html

Remember that you should shoot a variety of loads to determnine if in fact they provide the ballistics stated. Most don't have access to a chronograph to verify velocities, but know that published velocities for all shotshells from the various manufacturers are taken from a 30" barrel unless otherwise noted. The velocity won't be that far off given shotshell powders are fast-burning, but there will be some loss comparing a 30" barrel to an 18.5" or a 20". Always test loads yourself at various distances. Not a Slugger, but something similar. Trajectory of 1 oz. Federal slug @ 1500 fps. This gives you an idea of where to impact at 50 yds. in order to zero at 100 yds.

For more info - The ASSA website & forum: http://slugshooting.com/ ShotgunWorld has a separate slug shooting forum as well. Depending on what week it is, those banned on ASSA come back to ShotgunWorld and those banned on ShotgunWorld show up on ASSA.

Quick answer: A zero for 50 yds. will put most slugs .3" - .4" high at 25 yds. and 4.5" - 10" low @ 100 yds. Long-winded answer: Foster & Brenneke slugs (I assume you are shooting slugs designed for smoothbore) vary in weight from 7/8 oz., 1 oz., 1 1/8 oz., 1 1/4 oz., to 1 3/8 oz. And velocities vary greatly too, from as low as 1,200 fps for reduced recoil slugs to as high as 1,800+ fps. If you intend to shoot out to 100 yds., you may want to know which slug shoots where, so test them thoroughly in your smoothbore. At 50 yds., most slugs from smoothbores average 3 MOA (or 6 MOA @ 100 yds.) This is another reason why you should test as many permutations as possible to see what shoots best in your shotgun. This is one link with drop tables for various slugs. If you search you can find others: http://outdoors.lcparks.com/slug.html If you search further on the internet, you can find downloadable ballistic tables if you want to be anal about research and analysis. (Then again, slugs are not the most precise projectiles to be anal about.) Federal used to have a downloadable executable for ballistics and they had a separate section in there just for all their slug and sabot offerings. You might find something browsing a slug shooting forum as well.

S&W 649? Or have I really strayed from the mark?

So, the N-frame is close(?), but it's not a M20 or an M23? I'm stumped.

Bloomberg is a bit frightening lately. His tentacles stretch across the continent into every blue state with his ideals.

An old K-38 Combat Masterpiece?

Darn! (I wouldn't mind having one someday.)

S&W 38/44

Some more newsy pictures. Some are great: http://www.wgrz.com/...?storyid=203219 http://www.freerepub...95/posts?page=1

That was a similar concern for the Cabela's in Xanadu...er, I mean American Dream. Then Cabela's said they would only have a cased gun "display" but not sell any, yet sell clothing and fishing gear. Then they bailed entirely. That place needs to sink into the wetlands.

I think the replacement 10 ga. barrel set the guy back $360. A set of barrels (used) for a Beretta O/U run about $1100-$1200, less fitting costs. Expensive mistakes.

Townships by me in Bergen County have been doing this since the 90's. Started around the same time Eddie Eagle came into the schools. All you need is to show proof of residency and you get two free gunlocks. Typically, they have been cablelocks from Master. Hillsdale, River Vale, Montvale and Woodcliff Lake have doled them out in just the last two years if I recall the towns correctly. They typically post the announcement in our community papers like Pascack Press or Community Life.

Some interesting signs -