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Eye dominance issue is a fairly rare thing. For some reason, half the shooters who do the finger test, think they are cross dominant when they are not. If you find yourself naturally using your left eye when you are left handed, it's because you aren't cross dominant. if you were cross dominant, you would in most cases be trying to use the opposite eye unconciously, as that is how your brain would process the information. Like when you shoot a pistol, it's in your left hand. Do you naturally squint your left eye and site in with your right? I doubt it. When it comes to rifles, there is no new positon for a cross dominant shooter to use. You shoot with the rifle mounted to the same shoulder as the dominant eye, and your nondominant hand becomes your shooting hand... As it applies to close range tactical shooting, you should really be comfortable with shooting with either eye and either hand, which takes practice. As you move through a built up area, be it in CQB/MOUT ect, you should be transitioning the rifle back and forth between shoulders to maximize the use of cover and concealment and minimize you as a target, like when clearing corners and dead space... I'd start with the easiest common denominator and try using a different set of sites. Yes, they are Magpul, which in some circles relates to an almost religious zeal, but they are basically mass manufactured PLASTIC sites. The weren't even built to function as a primary sighting system. They are an inexpensive back up site. I'd start with them and move on from there. You would really have to be dicking your shooting position up, and doing it consistently(which goes against the whole dicked up thing) to have it be you that is causing the big shift... As it applies to your forward rail, if it required that much correction at so short a range, it would be very obviously canted to one side. Look down on rifle from the top and follow the machined rail on the upper reciever onto the rail of the float tube. Look how the lines flow and see if it looks obviously off kilter, like the upper reciever being at twelve o'clock, while the rail is halfway to eleven or one. if it all looks correct, then revert back to the sites, and try a new set...

You will perform best with the handgun that fits your hand. The more it doesn't, the more your performance will be suboptimal. If you've got very big hands and try and shoot a handgun with a narrow/ small grip, you may find difficulty with holding on to it, getting too much finger on the trigger, slide bite and so on. If you have little girly hands like yours truly, a large double stack full sized handgun can have just the opposite effects. Gripping the pistol may be difficult, as will functioning the levers, or reaching the trigger. It often leads to the shooter having to cant the weapon off center in the hand in order to gain the reach. The off axis hold results in magnified recoil, even for lesser calibers, and will negatively impact the shooters abiltiy to deliver fast accurate repeatable hits. When you grasp the handgun with the butt settled in to the middle of the web of your hand, it should extend in a straight line, the slide carrying on the same plane as your forearm, like a continuation of same. All controls of the given design should be easily reached by the intended fingers without moving or repositioning the pistol. If you need to cant the pistol to reach the controls, it doesn't fit your hand properly. If it feels like your fingers need and extra joint to reach back to a lever, it doesn't fit you. If it feels like you need another inch or two on your fingers, you guessed it...it doesn't fit you. As to Smith and Wesson handguns, I've owned in no particular order, a 4506, 4046, 4043, 5906, and a few other models over the years. I've also been a Firearms Instructor for my department for about a dozen years, and we previously carried 4046s. They are heavy for design and caliber; lack capacity compared to similar models from other manufactures; and aren't unfailingly reliable, which is really the first requirement for a defense weapon. I have networked with other departments' Firearms Instructors to learn that ours was not a special cicumstance, and many folks had issues with thier S&W semiatuos. the M&P seems to be the only pistol they've produced that hasn't been a PIA, or POS, or both...

A scope and a rangefinder are two seperate items and combining the two has for the most part resulted in reduced performance from each. Rangefinders vary a great deal in price and value. Generally speaking if you want a truly solid, fieldable tactical type, the minimum starting point is generally a Swarovski, and they go up price and quality wise from there. Lower end units will generally, in practical terms, have about half the usable range they advertise, if that. The optics lack, the units not hardened and durable, and the lasers themselves tend to have too wide a beam at distance resulting in false and misleading readings when the wide beam catches something between you and your intended target. Being able to accurately mil your target with your scope reticle is a very worthwhile skill, but it can be difficult at times due to conditions or fleeting/moving targets to get a solid read, particularly as your window of time shrinks. That's where the rangefinder comes into it's own. It's also a bonus at ranges beyond intermediate.

I'd recommend buying whichever quality pistol fits your hand the best. I'd also recommend avoiding Smith and Wesson semiautos, as they aren't worth the headache...

The stupid demonstrated in this thread is almost painful...

Agreed. Bad example. It's late...

Politicians may not specifically run a given department, though in many locals, the Governor, Mayor, DA, is considered the CLEO. Even in places where he isn't like Trenton for example, the person he places in charge, be it a DIrector or Commissioner, you know, the one who is beholden to him, does. Who is holding the purse strings? Police Departments do not make the laws. They administer and at times, enforce the law. Why is something so painfully obvious a point of contention...

As long as he made it look presentable with some strategically placed shrubbery ... Bad guys are always going to be holding. I'd like to see good guys given every fighting chance. Having to follow the law shouldn't mean be handicapped by it. Class Threes are already legal in something like forty two states. The percentage of legal Class Three weapons that are actually used in a crime are measured into something like a hundreth of one percent... So, no Brother, I'm not worried about the good guy with his CCW getting drunk and having an arguement with his wife...I'm much more concerned about the three or four parasites that are waiting to take his car, and maybe his and his wife's life, when the couple stumbles out of the bar :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: :ph34r: ...

Now on this, I respectfully disagree...I think everyone should have access to Class Three. I think the GCA is BS, much less the BS that is the NJ AWB, and am not personally a fan of open carry. I fully support an individual's right to concealed carry, and would love to see the law changed to reflect that. The Second is not about hunting, and to a lesser extent, not just about personal defense. It has much broader and much more important purposes... As to how it would impact you professionally? Not at all, or at least, it shouldn't...I'm of the mind that if your training department is doing thier job, you are already doing it, probably subconciously...Someone once said, "be polite, be professional and have a plan to kill everyone you meet." It may seem a bit extreme to the uninitiated, but the basic premise is that anyone could have the potential to kill you. The person with the unregistered or unliscensed or stolen gun, is just much more likely to be the one to try. You should never base your level of awareness on the basic information you receive on the call, like "there is a firearm at the residence". Make it easy. There is a firearm at every residence, in every car, on every pedestrian you speak with. Every single solitary call should put you on alert, as the difference between a nothing call and a deadly force event can be tenths of a second. "Be polite, be professional and hae a plan to kill every person you meet."

I feel your pain, but such is the position of most folks these days...then again...I might just be showing my naivety again...

So, have you filed yet? What are the damages you are seeking for this affront? Has a settlement been reached yet? Yet another soap box...Your options are fairly simple...you either suck it up by living behind enemy lines to the Second Amendment, try and fight the good fight by intelligently picking the time and place of the battle in lieu of simply jumping unprepared into a fight, as a few of the folks around here do...or you move to Free America(It's East) where buying a firearm isn't significantly more difficult then buying a pair of jeans...

Oh yeah, and ditto...again...but I'm a little cynical...or maybe it's just my naivety showing again...

Naive? That's a new one. I've been accused of a number of things over the years, but naive? Okay... What are his damages now? Is he going to get paid? Hardly...He'll be very lucky indeed, if he sees his FPID and Pistol Permit in anything remotely related to the immediate future, and now has a number of additional hoops to jump through with appeals, court dates and decisions, not to mention attorneys fees if he's not going Pro se, court costs, filing fees, ect...on the plus side, he'll be able to really pound that anti establishment drum so many folks beat around here, so it's not a total loss... So am I correct in assuming that were you in his position, you would have taken exactly the same stance? Because the form in question, which is simply a repetition of questions already asked and answered, is of such outrage? It must be the photo and notary that is so outrageous...However, I'm assuming by your presence here, that you alreeady have your FPID...strange how many times I've seen that line of thought offered...You should fight! No, I mean YOU should fight...I'm good right over here on the sidelines... To be honest, I must be what's wrong with this state, America, and human existance as a whole too, because my opinion is that this is stupid...plain and simple...there is a time to fight and a time to concede...guess which one this was...Yes, after the fact, he could have helped to effect change without suffering for it, so the next person in line would not have had to suffer the righteous indignation of the damnable form. Apparantly no one before him did...either...It never ceases to amaze me, that some folks pick a fight and then are stunned when they get hit...Ben Franklin mused on it long ago..."Those who in quarrels interpose, often end up with a bloodied nose."

Barely related, but if you've got a bank account, you've got access to a Notary. Mine has never charged me to have something notarized... PS I agree with Jules. He didn't say, "take it on the chin." He said, "get yours, then get payback." Reading is fundamental....

http://www.jonestactical.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=5 After breaking the plastic buckles on some of the better known nylon duty belts, I've been using one of these daily as a duty belt for the last few years. It's been, in a word, outstanding. I know folks that use them for competition, as well. The belt doesn't inhibit movement, and creates a stable platform for mounting your holster, so the handgun is always in the same place when you go for it.

That doesn't look like it would be very pocket friendly

Thanks for the heads up. I spoke with my Major and he mentioned that he's had to fill out a few reference letters for Officers over the last few months. I guess Bordentown Township is not the only one enforcing it. He said a few came from guys that live down the shore. He also said he'd mention it to my Administrator, our CLEO, so he could keep and eye out, and get it returned quickly. I'll let it go for the initial processing, but if it becomes an every time thing...

H. Upmann, CAO, Partegas, El Rey Demundos, and Romeo and Juliets are smokes of choice. I also supplement with the DE Acid line, and am a big fan of the Kuba Kuba and Nasty. I like to lounge with one of my pipes, too. I don't smoke cigarettes.

It's a nice range, 25 yd indooor pistol and .22, 50 yd pistol and .22 outdoor, 100 and 200 yd rifle range, 25 yd plinking range, a trap range, a bow lane, and they used to stock the lake. My Dad and I were members there for a few years. There a few very cool older guys that would give you the shirt off thier back, if they thought it would help you. There were also A LOT of arrogant range nazis though; folks that would rather stand around, counting how many shots you fired, instead of shooting. They had a five round per mag limit at the time. Hope it's not still in effect. It drove me nuts. Me? I like to shoot when I go to the range, not try and police the other shooters. Guys would drive thier cars back to the plinking range, it's back behind the 200yd rifle range, just to tell me they thought they heard me fire seven rounds. There was a lot of explaining that one in the tube and five in the mag gives me a six shooter. I was back there doing some close in stuff with my AR and my buddy with his Mini 14. Another range hero came racing back there to tell us that he would report me for full auto fire, which was also verbotten. I had to explain that we were both firing semis, but that it was two rifles firing. He then sat there and watched us shoot for more then a half hour, just to make sure we weren't lying. They had a two round per shotgun rule too, that only applied to the trap range, but some of the idiots would try and enforce that on the plinking range, as well. Rapid fire was strongly frowned upon as some idiots don't know the differnce between rapid fire and full auto, and unless you were a Cop in full uniform, drawing from a holster was also a no no. I tried just carrying my mags on my belt, so I could practice rapid mag changes, and still got reported. Thankfully, they decided not to punish me for it(range suspensions are not unheard of), but advised me they didn't want me to draw anything, including five round mags, from my belt. Ultimately, the idiots were the reason I left in search of greener pastures... Good luck...

When I mentioned to the Detective that I'd been using non LEO family and freinds as references for years, he said it would get kicked back at his department due to my job, and I'd just need to add the aforementioned anyway...

I'm a little more concerned with things like my CLEO not returning the reference letter, or leaving it laying on his desk for weeks at a time. Is there any form of remedial/ corrective action in the policy letter, to deal with this?

So, I moved recently, and in doing all the paperwork to change the address on my FPID and dropping for a few handgun permits at the same time, I had a new experience. The Detective that was processing my paperwork advised me that as a LEO, I had to list my immediate supervisor and CLEO as my two references on the application. I don't have major heartburn about it, for the moment at least. My immediate supervisor and I are freinds, and my CLEO seems to think well of me, as well. I could see where this could be a problem down the line, if I am working for folks I don't care for or who dislike me. Moreover, I'm wondering how it will impact me professionally, as they will now in a defacto sense be kept abridge of every new handgun I purchase, since I have to use them as my references... Has anyone else experienced this? Is it a new law or simply a departmental policy for the new agency? Thanks in advance...

I have a POF P308 Recon, as well. It's a great rifle...

I have had most of the covers mentioned, but my personal favorite is the Tango Down SCAR pannels; very grippy even when wet wet, without being clingy like some of the rubber versions, and fairly low profile. I have little girly hands, and have no problem wrapping my fingers around the forearm of my SCAR 16S with all sides covered.