siderman

hey guys- I was on the brink of getting one of these last year but my $$$ went elsewhere. What're the signifagant changes in these vs the "older" ones? Gonna start making notes on these again.

Since when? I've bought 22 & 9mm there, on sale of course.

Good ole Iowa! My dads family was/is an hr South in Centerville and also Davenport, Ames...Spent my first 20 summers out there visiting but not too much anymore. What a nice serene and comfortable place to live. Miss the State Fair too! As for moving?- wherever my kids/grandkids are I dont want to be far.

I'd go for a 357 mag.in SS. Kinda hard to beat the crap out of one like the GP100, that gun just by its robust build defaults to a decent club. A semi, IMO is more prone to attracting gunk with all the levers, slide, mag interior, open action if cocked/locked...Plus the revolver is just point and shoot, totally one handed if needed.

This attitude i dont get. If I'm gonna take the time and effort to visit a gun store i want to accomplish what I went there for. If someone is being a dick, get pro-actve on your own behalf, pull out your card and ask to see whatever it is you want.I've always found presenting the card wether the sales guy asked or not helps move things along. I'm not letting someone else waste my time.

Gotta put the NJ state flag on somewhere. Kind of an oxymoron(?) considering the subject but still need to be proud & loud.

If it was me moving I'd get the truck and use it for what its intended for- haulin stuff. You want it anyway so nothing lost there. Get a cheap cap for it so your stuff is fairly secure and weather tight.The bench, dont know what it is but its big and you can prbly make another out of relatively cheap lumber and also be able to custom fit it to your new digs. The safe- can you move it by yourself? Does it have to be as big as it is now (or bigger?).Maybe re-assess the safe or keep it, not too big but awkward for moving.

Targets- you've pretty much got it right. I believe they have em for $25 or just make your own according to plans on the website, just 2x2's squared together. Mag limit- per NJ laws, 15 in semis are fine. Rapid fire is generally frowned upon but I've "heard "rapid every now & then. Just get the chamber flags there, cost next to nothing, $1? Have fun and welcome. EDIt- LOL Dang I type slow ! no replys when I started my reply ! LOL

Welcome- always nice to see another better half in the sport !

close enuff- tactical tan

I have a tactical jacket. Its a tactical parka, with a tactical Gortex exterior, a tactical removable hood and lots of tactical interior pockets. If i get too warm I make a stealthy tactical move to open up the tactical zipper. Ita a practical tactical jacket.

The Cougar 9 was my first semi HG and still have it. Your right, does feel geat in the hand and for a smaller sized pistol packing 15 rds is awesome. Piece of cake to clean too. I still think its by far the best deal out there for a quality gun. No probs, but being the brl is 3.6" gives a shorter sight radius. Keep an eye out for $15 mags on sale at CDNN. You can, if interested, interchange the mags with the CX4. Have fun!

For what its worth to ya- CR membership is going up $30 3/1 from $210 to $240 for the initial single adult yr. Last meeting to sign up before increase is 2/5. And yes, slugs at rifle range only.

but thats a sucky division you said, so.... Eagles didnt make much noise with the big boys outside their div did they? Giants earned this trip to super Bowl buy winning every game they had to.That includes beating the 1 &2 place NFC teams on away turf and basically an extra playoff game with Dallas. Dont worry you still got another game to root against them. Win or lose Im glad the Giants had a season to be proud of. Giants are IN THE SUPERBOWL- nuff said

The NFC East is not a bad div they just tend to beat each other up . Outside the div the Gmen they beat the Pats, now in the conference game. They tied with Green Bay till time expiring field goal then beat them as a #1 seed later. They are now of course matched up against San Fran who they lost to but came close to tying but for a dropped pass. Sounds worthy to me. I will admit tho that if the eagles get their act together next year...

fixed that

Ravens also a re-match, and a chance to avenge that loss. GO BIG BLUE !!!

Finally stopped by as i was nearby for a quick check of the place.Passed this place many times over the yrs because its around the corner from the pos Lodi NJDMV place and never knew it was a gun shop. Nice guy, few guns in stock but that may be because they are moving out to a new place early March in W Paterson on 46. I asked if he's the one opening the new range around there and yup, new shop & range. I asked how many ports he replied IIRC 19! 25yds I asked? Nah, thats kids stuff he said! But the range will be a few more months down the road. Nice, new indoor range thats resonably close to me.

LOL- reminds of a trip to the Worlds Fair long way back in Knoxville. My GF, now wife, and I were tooling down the Blue RidgePkwy(?) and i was naturally goin fast as there was NO ONE anywhere, one car every 15-20 mins. So i am whipping around this long bend doin 80 in 55 and there was smoky sittin there. Well i see his lights flash on and so i just gave it up and pulled over up ahead. The cop who stepped out of his car was huge. Classic tall, big belly, mirrored shades. And he's holding his revolver in his hand! Walks up to the car, friggen taps the car with his gun!!! as he approaches the window. Didnt ask for any papers just went into this speech about" we all down hea ahr keepin an eye out for all you folks from up north comin down to owa fair down hea."in a strong drawl and then strts with " how far do you think you gonna get dis-respectin owa laws down hea..."I'm just taking it all in , not feeling to comfortable either when my wife cuts him off with a srategic bitchfest at me for speeding, I told you so, yada,yada, which he seemed to enjoy and then says "remember boy, ya caint outrun the radio" and left. My wife and i looked at each other and off we went. Did the speed limit for the next 2 hrs and thats that. Till the next time but thats another state and story.

sweet, congrats

All factory stock ,just a buff of the ramp which was really already nicely factory polished. So far all I've really done is to shoot about 250 rnds to get the feel and do the "break in" whille using dif ammo. My best group (ever) was a 1 1/2" full mag hole in the bull at about 30' so I'm definatley gonna put in some time and of course more$$ figuring out what it takes to get better reliability. From what I can see 98% of FTF probs in 1911's is the mag and these ACT mags dont have the best rep out there. Gonna stsrt to keep a concious ehhort of logging in the guns use as far as excact moments of probs, using 7 rnd mags, making sure its clean/wet, etc.. Time is on my side so for now its a range gun and just gonna have fun. BTW its Citadel (Armscor/RIA) which is the RIA Tactical twin with txtrd grips but Citadel labeling

Did/can you get around to checking out SA's new compact 45 XDS ?

never been there altho its not far- what kind of place is it? Decent gun inventory?

Thanx for ideas guys.The mags are new, came w the gun but I took apart(and gun) and cleaned before I put the first rnds in and again as part of the putzing around process. Already have about 250 shots fired so the mags/gun have been used and "breaking in". I'll get a couple of big name quality mags and give it some time with those but so far not enamored w the 1911 for dependability. Right now its a range gun and it better start feeding more reliably, certainly not to be trusted yet for home defense.No prob there, my GP100 is the go-to for.that.Its not as bad as I make it sound but any probs need to be addressed. I also noticed that dif brands of bullits have faint difs in their shape so gonna try to break it down to brands,

I believe every gun is ultimately a HD gun and failure is not an option !!!