Wojo

I have a SA Loaded Marine Operator and that trigger is my favorite out of all my handguns with the exception of my worked Dan Wesson revolver. I have not checked the trigger pull on it, but can tell you that is lighter then my Sig Elite.

Dan, Art and GFH are all first rate.

The area from Curly's Ice Cream 23 South was shut down to at least Jackson / Alexander Ave. I know from what I saw, this flood is the same if not a little bigger then the one we had last year. I can't imagine what 23 / Pompton Ave in Little Falls / Cedar Grove is like or Rte 46 around Pinebrook...has to be a mess.

Took a drive around Pomton Lakes, Pompton Plains, Wayne...the Pompton Lake damn on Hamburg Tpk by the CVS is closed because of the volume of water is hitting the bridge and just under the roadway, but will likely winding up running over the road while the crest is still coming. Riverdale and Bloomingdale along Hamburg Tpke is shut down in large stretches because the rivers are running along the curb lines. The Wojo Clan is way up on a hill and is doing well.

Golden Sakura in Riverdale. Not sure if the floods impacted it or not..they should be okay. But I would still call because the Hibachi tables are in the basement part of the restaurant. Right off Route 23 before you get to Route 287, across from the NJNG Armory. The outside looks a little strange, but inside is fine and the food is good. I was last there New Year's Eve. Oh BTW, it is located in Morris County, ... within a mile from both Bergen and Passaic Counties so you have your Tri-County demand met. Edit - drove by the place and it seems to be fine. Who knows, maybe some water in the basement but that street wasn't flooded...a couple blocks way got hit pretty good however.

Get the Tech Sights for that 10/22 to really maximize your time there. Just about all the instructors that provided loaner rifles and many of the other participant 10/22's had them on. I just ordered a set from E. Arthur Brown Company , or you can try the OEM, Tech Sights.

Not as much as I would like, too often according to my wife. At least monthly. I also practice weekly doing dry fire drills / home made sims rounds and literally block out time on my calendar to do it.

FWIW, the FBI trains their people A LOT more then the locals do. FBI Agents have to qualify 4 times a year whether you push a pencil or are part of the HRT / Hostage Recovery Team. Yes the special operators get more advanced training then the intel geeks, but even the rank and file agents are more proficient then your average Joe Friday. I get to have some training every year down at their Fort Dix facility and they have some neat simulators inside that will get your adrenaline elevated is all I can tell you.

Not in the top 20 for FATALITIES because they have vests now... and have radios...and GPS in the cruisers to pinpoint where they are when the call in for back-up... and medical kits in the car that other LEO's can patch them up until EMS arrives. Any idea how many lives are saved yearly because of that vest?... and the new strategies that have been developed because we live in a more violent world? Of course not, you are too busy playing X-Box and haven't spent much time living in the tough arena called REALITY. If that technology wasn't available those numbers would be thru the roof genius. Do us all a favor and remove the ability to call 9-1-1 from your phones so you can live up to your words of never needing that type of assistance. If there was a cop at every intersection to save your fleeing skirt lifted butt, then you would complain there are too many cops. If a lunatic is chasing you, how about you grow a pair and take him down mano a mano style? (translated means hand to hand, not man on man). I really don't mean to be stopping on you like a Drill Sargent, but your logic is FUBAR'ed boy. Your lack of facts or objectivity is making you look like a window licker on the short bus. Think before you type.

30 years ago we had Motorcycle gangs, The Mafia and other organized crime elements that all costs, tried to avoid getting into shoot outs with police. Now, it is more commonplace. The phrase 'suicide by cop' really didn't exist 30 years ago. Some of us in our late 40's, remember 30 years ago, some here weren't born yet. I graduated 30 years ago and used to party like a rock star in Manhattan. Time Square used to be a tough neighborhood, now it is outdoor mall. Newark, was and still is a war zone. The media is fanning a lot of this and blowing it out of proportion. We didn't have active shooters shooting innocent victims but we had hit squads taking out rivals (not exactly innocent bystanders). Small time drug dealers have been replaced by Bloods, Crips and MS-13 organizations doing business. I don't like having a police state, but I also don't like the notion of having all these new threats killing a lot of innocent people. If we don't keep our boots on the necks of this scum, then what? Yes, many LEO's need to learn how to turn it down a notch or two when dealing with the regular public. That sadly is an occupational hazard. Corrections Officers treat everybody like they are convicts...have you ever worked a security detail with those guys? Don't get me started on that one. I do a lot of presentations on Workplace Violence. People fail to realize that when you are a first responder to an incident, you have no way of knowing who the good guys are or who the bad guy is. An employee badge or company dress attire means squat. If you are hiding something, have your hands deep in your pockets and they come out quick when you are told get down, you're going catch a bullet or two. Can things improve? Hell yes. Should everyone have better firearms AND better situational awareness? Damn Straight. Should more people be involved with their communities, churches and other civic events so we are in better touch with each other, of course. Too many (not directed at anyone in particular) go home and live in a vacuum. Too few people know their neighbors next door, never mind a few houses down. We used to. And that works to the advantage of gangs, terrorists, meth-labs, wife beater, pedophiles, etc.

Here is a big factor on how you are going to be viewed from the very beginning, what type of rally are you attending and what side are you supporting? Right there is going to begin the bias of your situation. Say you are attending a rally about an Islamic extremist. If you are supporting him, you are going to fail in the eyes of LEO's. Attend the same rally but are across the street, holding an American Flag not looking like a trouble maker and your chances of being harassed are greatly diminished. Rallies are risky to be carrying in. If things go sour, you just might be herded up with everyone and then during the pat-down before going into the Paddy Wagon, you are going to be singled out and sat on the Group W bench for further questioning. Would I CCW in Philly with my FL CCW? Yes I would...have done it a number of times. I am presenting at two speaking engagements coming up in war zones that I wish I could carry, Baltimore and Mexico City.

As a standing NRA LE Instructor in Patrol Rifle and Tactical, I can tell you that our active LEO's are grossly under trained and now with budget cuts, even more so. I know some will disagree, but I stand by my statement. Even with the abysmal training programs, I still fully support having a patrol rifle in every car. Once they leave the academy, few see a significant amount of training. This statement is more towards the beat / traffic / admin's with a badge and gun types. The guys who routinely knock on doors, serve warrants, parole issues are pretty good. The NRA LE Instructor development program is to train department 'top-guns' the skills needed to go back and train their guys...Train the Trainer. Most veterans are familiar with this type of instruction. We hear a bunch of horror stories about guys that don't want to carry anything more then their sidearm and HATE going to the range for training and loathe qualifying. The active shooter is a new problem that LE agencies still haven't been able to grasp. A big part is still the mind set of, "It will never happen here". The idea behind having a carbine, tactical - not body armor in more cruisers is to engage active shooters once you have a 3-4-5 person team to go in and by any means possible, stop the carnage as quickly as possible. The average, not every, the average response time for SWAT to pull into the parking lot is 45 minutes. At that point in time the only thing left is the crying and finger pointing. IIRC, the average shooting spree only lasts 6 minutes and the mean average is quite large. Most are way under six minutes and a few last much longer, but in the long run it is over pretty damn fast. Shotguns versus carbines... PD recruits now have a larger percentage of women and smaller framed men then in years past. A 12 gauge scatter-gun is very, very intimidating to them. A 5.56 with a short stock is much easier to handle even for the small framed and small hand types. A shotgun is just scary to many people. Dropping down to a 20 gauge wouldn't make much sense. I personally think each cruiser should have both and a variety of ammo choices. Keep'em loaded with 55g soft points and double 0 as a standard. And if needed, load up some bean bags, pepper balls, breaching rounds, FMJ, zombie repellent, what ever. Give them the training and the tools they need. The streets aren't getting any safer and it seems that every department is downsizing so you better be improving the training on the other end with all those cost savings. Gnosh on them apples.

I am looking at building a new reloading bench and improve what I had. My existing in part of a 8' long in the wall storage unit I built in my shed that has a 20" work table where the presses sit and all the dies, materials (less powder and primers) are stored. even with 2 layers of 3/4" plywood and 2x4 legs, I am not happy with some of the flex I get loading some tough cases. The next go is going to be 3 layers of 3/4" plywood on a more robust 2x6" frame with the legs bolted to the floor. I am considering doing the entire top with abutted 2x6's and then laying a prefab kitchen counter top on it to make it look 'special'. You can never over do-it when it comes to bench strength. Unless of course the floor starts to sag.

Looking forward to the range report....Federal factory seconds is kind of like buying a refurbished Ford Pinto, one needs to be careful.

Kinda of like when no knock warrants are served to the wrong address because no one verifies the information or looks at the number on the residence.

Some better pictures of the event. All the pictures that were taken was in between the down pours. You can see the puddles and the streams of water which of course was all tilted back toward the firing line. I had the pleasure of laying in one of the deeper troughs of water. RWVA - Appleseed After Action Report

I don't think there was time. He was on stand-by, was called, then cx'd and then was called saying you need to be here ASAP. He left yesterday and I have not had to chance to talk to his mother yet. I was away all weekend at the Appleseed Shoot. He promised to call me to let me know what is going on. He is also worried about some of the a-hole personalities and I told him I would mentor / coach from a far to help our hometown boy.

A couple of pics of the event... I picked up another Patch and thankfully won a target shoot on Saturday which the winner got a brick of Ely ammo which was used on Sunday for my son's Jam-o-matic. I spent a lot of time talking to Josey Wales - Nick, seen here. He is responsible for NJ and I am going to try via my lowly committee person with ANJRPC to get a Appleseed event at CR. Because of range demands, this Appleseed will have to be limited to 22LR so we can do it at the Silhouette range in 2012. Nick and I had a lot of discussions and I can see he is going to be part of the NJ/NY activities for some time. Great guy as were all the instructors. Saturday - the Dry Day Sunday - The Moist One Getting the patch for my 228.

Shopping malls and schools have hallways and open areas that will not allow an accurate hit from a shotgun or a pistol caliber AR. In a stress fire situation it has been proven LEO's do not think about bullet drop or to compensate for it. You need a flat shooting round that is good for 200 yards. School hallway 8-9 foot ceilings 100+ yards in some of the larger ones, shopping malls have insanely long shots if you look at some of them. How fast can you fire 10 rounds at two or three targets with a shotgun? Sully from SLR15 Rifles taught our AR Armorers class. He told us of a situation where he was an active LEO in his town where a BG had staked out an officer at his home. When the cop left his home to go to work, he was shot on his front steps. The BG fled but the cop was able to call and ID the BG. They got to him as he was entering a mall and were exchanging fire from pistol caliber AR's in the parking lot at a decent standoff distance. Then he entered the mall where they finally took him out. They found his pant legs covered in lead fragments because the pistol rounds were impacting a few yards in front of him and then splattering him with lead. In the heat of the battle the guys with pistols and AR pistol's never compensated enough for drop. As trained, they aimed for center of mass. A 5.56 round finally took him down in the mall.

Post Report - As expected a great time was had. Weather; Saturday was nice and Sunday varied between damp and full blown soaking wet. I laid in a puddle the majority of the day as was soaked to the bone. John Q Public joined the fun on Sunday and can attest to the the conditions. No whiners or complainers which was good. Everyone dealt with the wind and rain and acted as good rifleman should. The youngest shooter was a little girl who turned 10 on Saturday and just was a trooper throughout both days and always has a smile on her face. My main objective was for my son to have fun and improve his shooting skills which he did. He learned how to deal with mega jams from ammo and a POS Mossberg Plinkster. He dealt with it, never complained about the rifle or the weather. All the way home he kept asking about when we can do the next one. The instructors from RWVA were excellent as one would expect. Josey Wales - Nick, Viet Vet- Rick and Dakota were from NYC and NY state. All good guys. I can't thank Dakota enough for the attention he gave to my son on Day 2. A word of advice, if you go as father / child, boy friend and significant other, make sure you are split up. The instructors will take care of your partner. Otherwise, you spend more time leaning over, checking on them, doing things for them, asking how they are doing too much and you miss out. It is mutually benefiting to be separated. It took me until after lunch to 'let go' of my son next to me and on Day 2 they moved him away to another shooter who needed a lot of instruction. Having two novices next to each other really allowed the instructors to do their thing. Get off the couch and the computer and support this program.

Well, the Thunder-turds sucked as did the Golden zhits in my 10/22. I would up putting it in the trunk for the rest of the Appleseed until I figure out what to feed it. Another discovery, my new Mossberg Plinkster should be call the shitster or jamster. Both Remy rounds mentioned above jammed on almost every magazine. The Ely purple box worked better, not great, but better.

Please don't tell me that you are a smoker and you pick thru ash trays looking for half smoked cig's or fish around McD's looking for half chewied nuggets. I kid, of course you don't...right?

Is that you Iggy O? I really need to find some time and try my hand at this. Equipment isn't an issue after seeing the video's that's for sure...it is the time factor.

Whew...that's reassuring.

Great night of talking and teaching. But I feel old. When I pulled out my Dan Wesson 357 to talk about wheel guns, I stated that I bought this in Alaska in 85 and it has flown with me hundreds of hours it has seen some severe conditions and still looks damn good, and I hear, "cool that is the year I was born". I had to laugh.