Old Glock guy

Good point, but I think the sentiment has taken a hard left turn, and the antis are a lot more open about their intentions than ever before.

Sometimes I wonder how he finds the strength to stand up to the relentless BS that he faces day in and day out. Most people would have said by now, "F all of you, I'm out of here."

Incredibly reliable. I hear that some people even clean them once in awhile.

Hello and welcome to our gang. Nice safe!

Good point! Ya got me on that one.

Has anyone ever taken their 10/22 apart for cleaning, then put it back together, and found that the trigger wouldn't work? I've had it happen twice now. The first time was a couple of years ago, and I was going to install a BX trigger anyway, so I popped the non-functioning one out, put the new one in, and everything was fine. Until last week, when the same thing happened again. (Perhaps the moral of this story is that I shouldn't be cleaning them.) I did some research, and found that when you move the safety into the middle position to permit the stock to be removed, the safety detente becomes disengaged, and the safety can rotate 180 degrees, which prevents the trigger from allowing the hammer to fall. The solution is to rotate the safety back into position, but ii is at the bottom of the trigger group assembly, so I was unable to access it without completely disassembling the trigger group I ended up with a bag of parts that I thought I would have to bring to a gunsmith after this pandemic lockdown ends, but thanks to the wonders of You Tube, I was able to get the whole thing back together. It seems to be working OK now, but I guess the true test won't come until I can get to the range and put some rounds through it Anyway, I hope this never happens to you, but chances are it will, so now you know what to do about it.

Geez, Jim Acosta still manages to get into White House press briefings, and he's far more disrespectful to the president than Alex is to our governor. Every time I see this thread listed, I open it hoping I'm going to read that I can shoot at Cherry Ridge!

I would agree with you that it's wasteful to get rid of a mask after you use it for a few minutes. I believe a week in the sun is more than sufficient. You would probably be OK with just a day or two.

Welcome aboard! Lots of good, like-minded folks here, and lots of great info.

Forget fingerprinting. When can we start shooting at Cherry Ridge again?

Depending on how efficient your town is, you should be able to obtain your FID in 30 days or less. I'm sure you've heard by now, but just in case you haven't, gun stores in NJ are open again as of yesterday. RTSP in Randolph is pretty good. I've bought a few guns from them. Prices are decent, not great. For more info on the stuff that interests you, check out AR15.com.

Let me ask this question: If people purchase guns for the first time, as has been happening, how are they going to figure out how to use their new guns if all the ranges are closed?

I totally respect people who reload, and I can see how one could save money, and create more accurate rounds for those into precision shooting. But what I don't get is just as ammo becomes scarce during crisis times, isn't the same true for bullets and primers? Call me lazy, but I would rather work a little harder at my job, put the funds into buying factory manufactured ammo when it's relatively inexpensive, and store it for a figurative rainy day.

I just want to know when I can go back to Cherry Ridge and start shooting again. (Looked for, but could not find the emoji with a tear.)

Nice find! And some good work to get it up and running again. Good luck with it.

Can't believe I posted this over two years ago, and I still haven't gotten one. Any updates from current users?

Curious how all of you are spending your plentiful idle time, especially now that all the gun ranges are closed? I feel like the nerdy guy who loved to read in the Twilight Zone episode where he finds himself in a large library at the end of the world, with no one else around and nothing but time on his hands, only to break his only pair of glasses. We went out for a couple of family hikes on the weekend, but the trails were so crowded, we might just as well have gone to the mall. Not coincidentally, I received a notice from the trail conference that people should stay home, because the trails are too crowded to allow for social distancing. I spent yesterday taking inventory, sorting, and labeling all my ammo, which I had not had a chance to do since moving last fall. I won't say how much I have on a public forum, but let's just say it's enough that if it ever made the news, I would be labeled some kind of maniac, probably no different from the rest of you. Other than that, I've been getting out for morning runs on some quiet trails near my home, hitting our makeshift basement gym in the evenings, doing some reading, and watching some shows and movies at night. This whole thing would be a lot more of a painful ordeal if the power was out! How about the rest of you, how are you spending all that newfound time?

I don't recall our having much say in it. I thought they weren't supposed to be able to legislate away our rights...omo.

As I understand it, Murphy's emergency order mandates that all public and private, indoor and outdoor ranges be close for the duration.

I'm pissed that I can't go up to Cherry Ridge to shoot with all the newfound free time that I have available. It's outdoors, and if we only use alternate benches, we can maintain social distance, so I don't get what the problem is?

Is that Occam's Razor?

Did I say I was stressing over water? I could just as easily have mentioned toilet paper I was merely making the point that people have been needlessly panic buying those items, so why wouldn't they hoard a drug that could provide a potential cure?

If it turns out to be effective, which looks likely at this point, good luck getting it. It's hard to even find water in my neighborhood.

I am very much inclined to agree with you. OTOH, we were scheduled to leave for Florida tomorrow, and we cancelled our trip, so while it all seems like BS to me, I'm reluctant to disregard it completely.

Damn, that thing looks awfully bristly!