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I enjoy the feel and heft of well crafted metal and look forward to the peace and whatever time I have to zone out when cleaning my guns,sharpening and honing my chef's knives or prepping and cooking. Besides the fact that the smell of gun and honing oil makes me horney

I too read some of the Taurus reviews and after some more reading I realized that most of the negative reviews were quite old .Taurus was committed to dispelling those reports of shoddy fit,finish and unreliability by revamping their entire manufacturing processes as well as offering a lifetime warranty. That being said we all know they are no S&W. I regularly shoot my Taurus 605 .357 steel with a 3 inch barrel and I have become quite accurate at 7 yards, no misfires or any issues after over 500 rounds and am quite comfortable with it being my primary HD gun. Enjoy your Taurus,it's quite a firearm.

Forgive me but just the fact that you have logged the "thumbs up" make it appear otherwise.

I have no desire to solicit approval from strangers by displaying stickers of any kind,and my "pair" likes to reside along with the rest of me at home ,not on the side of the road attempting to answer inane questions from a over entitled gentleman with a bad haircut.

Agreed,I leave nothing visible in or on my car.While most LEOs are fine,conscientious folks, I don't want to be the focus of that one overzealous young Turk trying to Kojak his way to another stripe or commendation.

While not a closet gun owner,I do not broadcast the fact that I own and shoot them either. No stickers,hats,or pointed conversations,but I'm that way with all my hobbies and interests unless asked. I find it easier when dealing with an increasingly unaware, judgmental and opinionated populace to simply fly under the radar and avoid their glare and uneducated barbs. Years ago I had a heated exchange with a young lady about cruelty and overfishing when she noticed my cased speargun and now I make every attempt to avoid Idiots,hypocrites and charlatans in anything other that casual conversation.

Welcome George. Give yourself some time and read as much as you can on NJGF, chock full of info,decades of experience ,expertise,opinions,firearm minutia,humor and personalities. You'll like it here.

I go through a couple just about every summer in the Adirondacks usually 50 miles south of the Canadian border and ICE,ATF,park police,customs,agricultural are all present at the random stops. They have yet to find my whole milk cheeses and boudin noir.

Thanks. just stocked up on some .357 jhp.

Just out of curiosity,Is New Jersey alone in this type of stall tactic?. I know NY is impossible unless you're connected but are there other states where this type of licensing circus is common?

Yeah. As soon as I saw this report a couple days ago,the first thing that sprang to mind was that it had to be some European firm's idea of being cute and cutting edge since the US is always a convenient target. Sure enough.... a Dutch firm.

Thanks. Didn't see that.

conspicuously absent is the kit for their orphan gun, the P250. no surprises there.

I apologize if my posts was vague as to the point I was attempting to get across. Again ,I largely agree to the gist of the article just not to the examples,evidence,anecdotes and in turn, it's relevance.

Perhaps you misunderstood my point,The very fact that the philosophy of policing for the people has shifted to a more Militaristic stance means that they are taught that they ARE indeed an elite force. I have no disagreement with that.I also have no disagreement with the article author's opinion that most LEOs consider a legally armed but largely untrained public to be at the very least ,a paperwork nightmare and at most ,a potential threat to career and life. My issue is with the author's use and example of his years with the NYPD as proof positive that cops today everywhere are 1:Untrained.2:Unarmed. 3:Uncaring.4:Undisciplined.5:Uninvolved.... Lots of un's with no corroborating evidence other than his own silted view and to me, odd if written recently.

I too attended college,lived and worked in Manhattan and have, seen NYPD's tank/tanks and SWAT team in action twice,once in the west village in the process of breaking up a squatter's protest and the second right in my old Washington Heights neighborhood in the raid of a drug gang. In a previous career, I was also exposed to quite a few NYPD officers and all were dedicated, hard working and carried a firearm at all times and by no means held that their fellow citizens were incapable of fending for them selves. You and he should know just how resilient the average New Yorker actually is.I venture that your friend's rather skewed opinion, regardless of the validity of articles by the Times or reports on Fox et al, all of which I take with more than a average grain, is based on the old guard of retiring LEOs inevitably considering the incoming,and in most cases, better trained and educated ranks ,not as worthy as them selves. The facts,at least in my opinion does not support his thesis. Sorry.

You indicated that this was written "a few years ago",how many?My reason for asking is that it is the opposite of some articles I've read recently documenting that police forces have increasingly become in fact more militarized.Technically and arms savvy and better educated in their use and geared toward conspiracy and terrorism as opposed to interacting with the public on the whole, and have for some time,in fact countering your friend's opinion. The articles,most recently one in the NY Times, quoted a 1500% increase in SWAT tactics roughly in the past 20 years, and mentioned that Ray Kelly and the NYC police department has had and used Tanks and militarized tactics for decades mainly because of the so called war on drugs and 9/11. They don't reflect on LEO's opinion on private gun ownership as your friend's article do but it does strike me as odd if the article was written recently.

Tissot PRC2000 crono

I like Tags and Tissots. Tag Black Coral 1000 that I got in 1985 and have had rebuilt 3 times. Now Tag says it's too old and they don't carry parts and o rings any longer. Tag stainless and gold 2000 with blue face I bought in Hong Kong on my honey moon in 1997. Tag Monaco stainless I bought second hand in Seattle, sexy and with a history. Tissot PRC 2000 stainless black face chronometer, my everyday watch I got at duty free in Singapore. Tissot Couturier white face with leather band, my suit watch. Except for the Monaco,none are particularly expensive but I tend to fall in love with workmanship and well engineered things. next on the wish list is a IWC Portuguese Crono.

I agree that CC is just another right that NJ sees fit to deprive it's residents of but IMHO if I was to expend my energies and resources right now, it would be toward the strengthening and clarification of NJ's Castle Doctrine such as Wisconsin did recently. Nothing scares me more than the thought that in a tragic moment of defending myself,family and property, I am put in a position where I can lose my freedom and assets to the very people I was defending it against. I believe that this is a more immediate and pressing issue than CC.and perhaps even more realistically attainable.

...age of Viagra, Hoss.......It's like currency in my neighborhood. some of these old timers can't wait to get up in the morning if for nothing else but to titillate the old ladies.

Hell I'm both....living in Monroe and 1/4 Chinese.

I ran another 200 rounds through the 75b this afternoon and the trigger is smoothing out and she comes back on target almost immediately. Still shooting left but groups are tighter. Phil at SS is relieved that I'm still in the red at 7+ yards and so am I. Love this gun!!! Thanks for the encouragement Phil.

I visit friends around the Portland area and they complain that there has been an influx of suburbanites drawn to relativity low land prices,taxes and regulations,also followers of the slow food and locavore trends love the Portland area because of the proximity to both field ,stream and ocean.Not to mention many of the most respected Restaurants in Maine. I personally love Jay's oysters and Gritty Mac Duffs.Unfortunately along with the migration of their tastes,money and influence comes a certain uneducated stance on firearms and hunting while ,ironically enough , they celebrate wild game cuisine. The whole "I'll eat it but don't care to know how it got to my plate" crowd has begun to entrench themselves and their ideals into Maine but Mainers are strong,proud and stubborn so I don't see them rolling over anytime soon.

The heft,ergonomics and sexy machining of a 686 is what I like.