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I dunno. The new movie "Rodham" that's in the works just may help lay the groundwork for someone's next aspiration.

Do you have the extended Tactical Rem-Choke?

So, let's guess at what magic number will they settle on? It's already 10 rnds. now, unless one is lucky to have some grandfathered magazines. Geez, a 10/22 with a ten-round magazine could fall into the AW category. Theatrics is all it is. People have been whipped into a frenzy. After eleven years of CoBIS (gun DNA for handguns) in New York, which proved to be an utter failure, even Gov. Cuomo admitted it was a waste of money and it was discontinued in March of 2012.

I have a hunch this guy isn't popular with the tree-hugger, anti-logging, "save-the-spotted owl" crowds. (I'm glad he corrected himself on diameter vs. circumference.)

I worked in Paramus at a corporate office on Rt. 17 for 15 years beginning 1987. I went to ROS in Paramus quite often, at least once a week. Never bought a firearm there but would browse, pick up reloading supplies, cleaning accoutrements and such at lunchtime or on the way home. That particular store has gone downhill. The land where all those malls sit today used to be celery farms up until the 60's. People used to rabbit and pheasant hunt on the farms right along Rt. 17 up until the early 60's. Time and progress marches on.

I'm sure the police chief was petrified of being vilified in the press if he okayed this. And to think that a century ago, the majority of firearms made in America came out of this Northest corridor of the United States, for most were made in CT, MA and NY. Connecticut has lost almost 50% of their manufacturing industry in a little more than 20 years, and many were firearm manufacturers. Those who left Connecticut recently have no intention fo returning. Winchester is gone, Marlin is gone, Ruger has moved almost all its manufacturing out, the bulk of Mossberg production and employee base is in Texas, and High Standard is long gone.

Nope. But neither situation will ever happen. No one is going to invade us and no one would have the temerity to fight if they did. Today we are watching America drift off into global irrelevance, apart from its habitual destructiveness. It is slowly suiciding itself. I think Abe nailed it: "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." - Abraham Lincoln

The Paramus ROS is deplorable. Those fellows who "work" behind the gun counter could die and no one would notice them for at least three days. ROS in Paramus would be considered a "poser" of a gunshop today. The Paramus location is used by pseudo-hikers and yuppie campers who are too confused to shop at Campmor. I'm actually surprised ROS still has a flyfishing section. ROS-Paramus at one time had more firearms than their Ramsey store. That was until the store was broken into one night. Someone cut a hole in the roof, dropped in, and stole most of the handguns from the locked glass cases. They added safes for storage that week, and began moving a lot of their stock to the Ramsey store. Now their normal procedure at night is to remove the handguns from the glass cases and lock them away 1/2 hour before closing time. When Gabrellian Assoc. redid the building, and made that location a mini-mall, adding all those new stores in early 2000, ROS-Paramus halved the size of their gun and fishing departments. It's never been the same store since.

The 80's? Afghanistan is where empires go to die. The Persian Empires, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids, the Indo-Greeks, Turks, Mongols, British and Soviets all walked out of Afghanistan with their tails tucked between their legs. (How could a guy like Gengis Khan not defeat them?) You are correct, we engage them in a PC manner that's fit for the general public's consumption and viewing on CNN news.

Both are good today. (Reminds me of the almost 90-year old argument about "which is better; the .270 or .30-06?")

Here's a $1 off coupon link if you venture to go: http://www.ocshooter...n/gunshow-1.htm BTW - Excluding the names of the places you mentioned, there are a dozen gunshops within a 50 mile radius of Middletown. Some are big, some are little hole-in-the-wall shops. That's a good thing. Sadly, a few have disappeared since the Walmart, Dick's and Gander opened up in that area. That's been a bad thing.

Handguns, never. Knives, yes. - 2C:39-6. f. Nothing in subsections b., c. and d. of N.J.S.2C:39-5 shall be construed to prevent... (2) A person carrying a firearm or knife in the woods or fields or upon the waters of this State for the purpose of hunting, target practice or fishing, provided that the firearm or knife is legal and appropriate for hunting or fishing purposes in this State and he has in his possession a valid hunting license, or, with respect to fresh water fishing, a valid fishing license; (3) A person transporting any firearm or knife while traveling: (a) Directly to or from any place for the purpose of hunting or fishing, provided the person has in his possession a valid hunting or fishing license;

My grandfather and father told me about using paraffin or beeswax years ago, but I never attempted to make any. (Not many people remember, but this was the illegal way to make slugs in New Jersey if one chose to. It wasn't until 1974 that slugs were allowed to deer hunt with in the state and prior to 1974, the game laws made mention of "no waxed loads.") CO's had a habit of "squeezing" your 00-buck loads to make sure they weren't waxed.) We've come a long way baby. I did see the YouTube video on wax slugs and it piqued my interest. I made a small batch last summer and got to test them. Ingredients included 7/8 oz.of #8 shot, and a bit of Crayola crayon melted to make a combined 1 oz. load. I used a moderate charge of Hodgdon's TiteWad. Anticipated MV with this one-ounce load is rated at 1235fps. (Very slow when compared with the standard velocities of modern Foster slug loads today.) I tried a few with the melted Crayola as a "topping" but didn't like that idea, as running an exposed wax nose through the magazines on my pumps or semi-auto's didn't thrill me. How I changed the recipe was to leave enough room at the top of the trimmed hull and then seated a 20 ga. Alcan .135" cardboard Nitro-Card into the still-hot mixture. (A 16 ga. nitro card would be ideal but I had none on hand.) Once cooled, it seemed solidly set in place. In the beginning there was some trial and error finding the right length to trim the hulls so everything seated flush with the trimmed case mouth. Of course, using different wads compounded my dilemma. As the last step to the load process, I ran the hulls through the final crimp operation on my MEC loader just to put a small inward curl on the case mouth. The best hulls to use are the compression-formed type with inner taper in the combustion area. (If you heat the crayon/lead mixture too much, it will melt through R-P ribbed SP hulls!) I used three different wads; Winchester's pink WAA12SL, Claybuster's version of the old Windjammer (CB4118-12B) and Remington's TGT-12. Of the three, the Remington TGT-12 wad stayed together with the waxed shot charge, proved the most accurate in 25 yd. testing, never yawed or keyholed at this short range. On occasion, the Windjammer-style wad would separate from the waxed load. On more that one occasion at 7 yards I noticed the top nitro card separated from the lead/wax mixture and impacted itself somewhere on the wood.

For shotgun?

Campgaw Reservation is the location in Mahwah. http://www.co.bergen.nj.us/bcparks/PrCampgawMountain.aspx All you need to acquire to use it is an archery permit. Instructions for how to acquire are on the Bergen Bowmen website. http://www.bergenbowmen.com/ (click on "range" for details)

Another state that is going bankrupt. Illinois State Police have state issued credit cards which they use to buy fuel. Gas stations throughout the state were refusing to accept the credit cards when troopers tried to fuel up because they were not getting paid. That's pretty bad. You'd think they'd try to fix some of their real problems there.

Tikka's are made by Sako in Finland. Both Sako and Tikka fall under the Beretta name, the parent company. Any Sako or the lower-end Tikka is a high quality name in a rifle and they have been around for years. Ithaca LSA (Light, Strong, Accurate) rifles were made by Tikka.The Browning rifle imports from 1959-1974 used Sako actions on their Safari line of bolt-action rifles, in the small and medum-sized actions. (These old Browning's are sought after today by collectors, and folks who can stumble upon an older Ithaca LSA 55/65 can usually find them cheap.) Browning's A-bolt made by Miroku was introduced in 1985. It's a solid rifle but has never had the following of your basic post-64 RemChester's.

OAL will be controlled by a number of variables: how close you want the bullet seated to the lands, the length of your magazine box, whether you are crimping the bullet in its cannelure, and how much powder you put in the case. This is a pretty inclusive read to guide you to what you are looking for. You'll find the same info in your reloading manuals when they arrive. http://blog.sinclair...-seating-depth/ Some more forum sites for rifle shooting and/or reloading dope and how-to's: http://forum.accurat...r.com/index.php http://www.longrange...com/forums/f28/ http://blog.sinclairintl.com/

I agree. I've found that a lot of old load manuals are somewhat more gracious when it comes to powder charges than newer manuals today, which seem less forgiving. I was one of those guys who read a lot by O'Connor, Keith, Askins, Milek, Jamison, Davis, and Hagel and would always try loads they would list in their articles and/or books. Some of Hagel's loads were off the chart but worked extremely well for me in many cartridges. (His 7mm Rem. Mag. loads will never be found in any load manual.) Powder brands and types were limited in selection forty years ago when compared to today's dizzying array. Not related to the original post, but I've found the most inconsistences with slow-burning shotshell powders in colder weather (minus temps up to freezing.) Not so much the powder's fault, but more attention needs to be paid when reloading with the right components. I know not to use straight wall hulls like Federal's (although they are confirmed in load data manuals) and I stick with tapered hulls like R-P or AA's for my hunting loads in 20 ga. http://www.ballistic...tcoldpowder.htm I have not experienced any issues with metallic cartridges but I'm pretty fastidious when it comes to those.

You can Google "Powley's Internal Ballistics Formula," but you'll need a slide rule and a propellor beanie to comprehend it. (Only kidding.) This was done for IMR powders. However, math scholars will delight in looking at this. Some variables remain constant, some change, however temperatures are not taken into account. And as loads get "warm," outside temperature comes into play and may give signs of pressure not seen at colder termperatures. Warm loads that shoot fine at 15 degrees may not do so well in 90 degrees. http://www.mindsprin...ber1/powley.htm or http://www.scribd.co...256/Powley-Math

I have a Hornady manual which has 7.7mm Jap data. Since it's old it only lists Hodgdon & IMR powders, nothing from Accurate. 47.8 grs. of IMR 4350 is max. for the 174 gr. bullet according to this manual. I know if you nose around on http://forums.handloads.com/ you'll find a recommendation for IMR 4064 powder as a good all-around one to use for the 7.7.

Found a pic on the internet. The Johnny Eagle Lieutenant 1911 came with one magazine & 6 rounds. The rounds were loaded into the spring-loaded magazine, just like the real thing. You pulled the slide back to rack a round in the chamber. When the hammer fell, it drove a firing pin forward, which struck the base of the shell, which popped the sping-loaded projectile out of the case and down the barrel. (They didn't go very far though, but had enough oompf for a basement setting.) You had to manually rack the slide for each shot. It was exactly the same size dimensionally of a real 1911.

Go visit their Connecticut store. You'll feel like you should have brought a bottle of wine and some appetizers with you. http://www.griffinhowe.com/connecticut.cfm

Nicely done.

Of course.