NJCK

Had inventory when I was in today. Still checking and logging FPIDs for ammo too.

Well, there's generally no change with the insanity of .223/5.56 and 9mm from what I've been tracking online and at brick and mortar. Today, two places I walked into were selling the limited amount of low-grade .223 at $1/round! I've also taken note that .308 had disappeared pretty well in desired brands and weights. What I find odd is that online retailers have been cleaned out of most calibers of ACP and popular calibers of everything else, but yet I can find it on the shelves all over in the Delaware Valley. For instance, I picked up 10 bulk boxes of CCI MiniMags today (and there were at least 25 more in the cabinet) at typical brick and mortar prices, but every online supplier had been out.

While I can see the rant, so will it be used to support the other side... Those who are currently "figureheads" to speak for the legal, responsible gun owners of the US have been doing a horrendous job IMO! The very fundametals of public speaking seem to be being ignored! I'm and engineer for crying out loud, but I had an entire series of courses on public speaking when studying for my degrees and they've served me well in my career. Rants, blaming things out of left field, etc. can all have a nice sound bite taken to twist what the real ferver of the discussion meant. The anti-gun side has it easy because they thrive and rile emotions for support = east. We pro-guns must overcome emotion (not easy) with logic, sound conviction, and with a position to educate versus mud-sling. Offense is easy, defense not so much, and we're not showing well so far but it's early.

Wow! I used to see those selling for $10.99... Crazy times...

Plenty of .22LR around here, including CCI MiniMags going for their regular brick and mortar store price. The .223 I know to be in-stock in two places I've been today is being gouged to ever loving death! I am in no way paying $1/round for .223. That is simply absurd.

Unfortunately, not in 5.56.

While I haven't sent anything in for the last 3-4 years, Colt never took more than 3 weeks to turnaround. I can't fathom 6 months! I just got a Sig back from Exeter, 10 day turnaround for a full service and trigger swap and tune. During the summer I sent a favorite shooter of mine to S&W to have it brought back into spec and reblued. Five weeks turnaround and the blue is so beautiful I almost don't want to shoot it again! Almost!

I hear you, but you try to change up an ornery ole Vet's rifle that much!

I've not shot Limited-10. I've gone back and forth between revolver and open.

LOL! It's pretty accurate except a chunk of Houston these days... Too many former Bay Area folks moved there when the real estate bubble burst... It's been pretty wild seeing the sudden shift the last ~7 years have brought there... Now let's see... Who would be similar... Utah, Kentucky, W. Virginia, N. Carolina...

I struggled where to put this topic, but settled on here... I need some help with an old friend of my family, "Doc", who is a decorated Veteran of the Vietnam War. I'm in Indiana this weekend with Doc to celebrate his and my late father's birthday (they were born on the same day and became friends during the war). Unfortunately, he has been suffering the effects of exposure to Agent Orange, and cancer will be his last fight. Doc and his wife have lived on the same sprawling piece of land since they purchased it after the war, and they have a constant coyote problem. In his prime, Doc was an expert shot. However, treatment for his cancer and other medical problems have deteriorated his sight significantly, and he has much greater difficulty keeping the coyote away from his chicken, old hounds, and his home. I witnessed this for myself this evening with what should have been an easy ~90 yard shot. He needs more than irons at this point to get it done. Doc's varmint rifle is a true-to-form A2, and it's not much of a leap to understand why. Nonetheless, we are dealing with a fixed carrying handle. I have no direct experience with optics of any sort on an AR as I shoot my own by irons only, but given my experience with them on my shotguns I think a red dot type would be his best bet. I am aware that a "Z" mount is made that can attach to the carrying handle for mounting the red dot forward of the handle on an A2, but don't know who makes a quality one. I could also use some suggestions for the optic. I need choices in the 100s of dollars range and not the 1000s in this case so I can get it done for Doc. I appreciate the insight!

My beautiful wife! Engineering Carpentry/Cabinetmaking Classic cars, muscle cars, and twisting wrenches Camping and hiking My lawn!

You will be very pleased with your choice! The Tac-Elite shoot beautifully! It will be more nose-heavy to you at first because of the difference from your Kimber because of the barrel. Assuming you're a traditionalist and have it chambered in .45ACP, the Tac-Elite will make you a better shooter with how it counters muzzle flip so well and a crisp 3.5# pull! I have a highly customized CQB with the match barrel that I had built with a 10-8 rear sight to work with a gold bead front and it's a tack driver!

First, run Wilson mags and your Sig should behave nicely. Second, IMO going from a Kimber to a Wilson is not a step up. It's an entire staircase! Inquiring minds want to you, what did you select for the goodness?

+1000 TJ and the rest of our founding fathers would be disgraced as we diverge farther than ever from "a more perfect union."

Personally, if you're a new shoot you can spend about $1100 in total and get a Ruger SR1911 and a 9mm SigPro 2022. Yes, the purests will arm-wave at the SR1911, but who cares! Grip angle, trigger, and fundamental operation is the same. Further, they're well built, nicely balanced, and shoot well. I have one as well as a number of high-end 1911s and talk from experience. Now the SigPros are excellent and offer 3 grip sizes so you can find a nice fit and are ridiculously accurate shooters and the triggers are very consistant from the factory. Again, I talk from experience as I own two German-proofed 2022s (9mm and a .40S&W) and an Exeter 2022 in .357Sig.

Most interesting... Had no idea lowers were possibly treated as such. Maybe this plight is real...

I think that takes the cake... Polce detectives displaying badges and armed made a diner nervous. I probably would be inclined, as a detective, to investigate precisely why the diner was nervous about a sworn officer carrying his firearm...

Totally with you, and a NICS check is to determine whether or not the gun is being transferred to an individual that can possess a firearm. Nothing to do with the specific gun or who has owned it. Hence, I smell BS and a young one creating more drama than probably the real problem of not checking his FFL's requirements for accepting a transfer from a private party.

So I was reading a rant over at another forum and this smelled like BS/contrived or simply a misunderstanding of a young NJ gun purchaser. I'll boil down the facts: 1. PA Buyer purchases a home-built AR from a PA Seller who built the rifle via FTF in early 2012. 2. PA Buyer shoots 500rds through it and decides ARs aren't for him, and puts it up for sale. 3. Potential NJ Buyer has interest and they work out a cash deal for the rifle sans the hi-cap mags and the rifle is otherwise GTG with fixed stock and a target crowned barrel. 4. The PA Seller lives in far out North-Central PA, and upon receipt of payment from NJ Buyer ships the AR to NJ Buyer's FFL with a Bill of Sale, which reportedly contains the name/address of the seller and the name/address buyer. NJ Buyer goes to FFL to have AR transferred to him, and reportedly says the NJ FFL refuses to transfer the AR because the "seller is not the apparant owner." Now the rest is unclear, and likely the ranting NJ Buyer has it wrong, but is implying that this was learned by way of a NICS check and eluding that the original builder of the AR is the owner and now he has to get the guy he bought it from to contact the original builder and get a bill of sale to prove everything. Correct me if I am wrong, but in PA isn't the FTF sale of a long gun to another PA resident simple cash and carry with no NICS and not even paperwork like our COE? So even if the original builder got a NICS on the lower he used, there's no repository that keeps the serial vs owner (sans tinfoil hat, but I mean one that would inhibit sale), right? Mailing it to the NJ FFL was definitely correct, and a Bill of Sale sufficient so the transfer should have been trouble free with the NJ FFL and NJ Buyer filling out an NJ COE and getting a NICS . It is my thought that the real problem is that the NJ FFL did not want to be responsible for receipt of the AR from a private individual without a copy of the seller's driver license (I know mine will only receive from private party if a copy of DL is included) and/or wanted an explicit statment in the Bill of Sale that stated something like, "I Mr. Seller am the legal owner of .223 AR XYZ having serial ####, and have sold it to NJ Buyer", and wanted to have something more traceable to the seller in his books. Especially in light of not getting any sort of quick NICS in NJ at present and the craziness of the times... What do you guys think?

I think the two Sgts I know in the unit would like that very much...

How ya doin' neighbor!

Stunning! What an amazing find!

Actually, sounds to me like he's been burned on an out-of-state purchase. You can cancel credit card transactions. You can even cancel payment on cashier's checks AFTER they've been cashed for a period of time and funds are recalled. I'm actually wondering if it's a specific shop that I once dealt with for a very desireable 1911. Fellow would not accept payment by credit card, would not accept payment by certified funds, would not hold it for me, and would sell it to me in person only. Needless to say, the gun was that desireable and that insanely priced that I dropped everything and drove to pay the man. He did ship it down to my FFL for me without quibble. Do tell, who is it and what firearm?

Kudos!