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How are you on here now? If it’s your phone, you should be able to recover the password that way.

Photo of the totality my wife took with her SLR: There was some bright pink/ruby light at about 7 o'clock that was really cool. You can see a hint of it in the photo. Moment of totality looking West (From the VT side towards Plattsburgh NY) over Lake Champlain: If you zoom in, you can see Venus at 5 o’clock a little less than halfway between the eclipse and the mountains.

Ok. That was awesome!

Took the wife and kid up to Lake Champlain (South Hero, VT) for a few days to see the eclipse from the totality zone. It is so nice and calm here. The weather is crisp (going to be 61 today, but we had snow flurries on Saturday) and clear. We booked our place last spring - so we got a cheap rate. Got our glasses when we booked our cottage. Hope everyone enjoys it and stays safe!

Wouldn’t say he was solely responsible in developing that as a rule. Or that he was the only one teaching it. I mean, on its face, Rule Three seems to be a pretty self evident rule - until you become a firearms instructor and see how dumb people get when they pick up a gun. Also, if you watch any of the old training videos for Military or LE (WWII and Korea era) you will see some pretty disturbing gun handling being taught - or at any rate, not corrected. But, he was the one to condense the rules down to only four (I have seen accounts of instructors having over a dozen “safety” rules) and to push them to be a universal standard. He is also responsible for the creation of the 4 conditions of readiness, the color code of situational awareness, and is the primary creator of the modern technique of handgun shooting as we currently know it.

I hope so. If I could only change one NJ Gun Law, it would be to deep six any and all magazine restrictions. That law, in my opinion, has the greatest effect on gun owners in our state.

Rule 3 as we know it didn’t become universal until 1976 when Cooper started teaching it. Before then, trigger finger disciple as a universal rule was non existent. The common belief was the faster you could touch the trigger, the better. A lot of the holster designs are “classic” and made more for looks than utility - in my opinion. Personally, if you are carrying in a holster that doesn’t cover the trigger, you are behind the power curve. You have either not kept up with modern TTPs or you care more about appearance than function. Either way - that’s a no-go in my book.

Re: the Clip Draw - I didn’t think anyone actually used them. I’m all about AIWB, but there is no way in hell I’m carrying a gun at appendix without the trigger being covered. As to the leather - I don’t think I’ve ever seen holsters like that with the trigger exposed. Seems counter-intuitive to me.

I’m having a hard time envisioning a holster that does not cover the trigger… Can you give me an example? The idea alone seems silly…

left no Cam Bar Right Cam Bar The camming bar gives another point of contact past the clips for the belt to push the holster in more.

The Tenicor has a wedge built in to the holster. I’m using a Tenicor rig. Not using Vedder. IMO, of all the AIWB rigs I have tried, Tenicor is far and away the best.

What belt are you using? Are you using any kind of wedge? Get rid of any plastic clips you have and use Discrete Carry Concepts belt clips. Make sure the clips are sized to your belt. Make sure you have some kind of a belt camming bar on your holster. I carry my G19 with RDS and light (TLR7a) in a Tenicor Sagax Lux on an Ares Gear belt every day and have no issues. The Tenicor holsters come with an integral wedge and adjustable camming bar. They are great holsters. You should try them - (you may have to get a different light, not sure if your setup is compatible).

It’s still March. The data isn’t reported to the State portal until the next month. Every Chief of Police has to upload the previous month’s CCW data (approval/rejection) to an online portal on the first of the next month. March’s data won’t get uploaded until AFTER April 1. Look at the data. There are no results for March 2024 This is per NJAG Directive 2023-02

Got it. My light and laser setup cost significantly more than that.

Here’s a companion video to that NJ Spotlight News article in the OP. Interesting stuff… www.pbs D O T org/video/nj-spotlight-news-marxh-19-2024-1710862630/ It’s about 25 minutes long (I broke the link so it doesn’t track back here. Cut and paste into your browser and add a https:// in the front and replace the D O T with a . ) Skip to 14:25 to hear Col Callahan speak on this a bit.

Hmmmm… in 2023 shootings in NJ dropped below 1000 - that’s around a 30% decrease… I wonder if there is a correlation.

Yes exactly - it’s a chunk of dumb lead and copper, not a not a GBU from an F-15. The laser dot only predetermines the impact of your bullet if you execute all of the rest of your shooting fundamentals perfectly. The best are the shooters who think a laser can replace a white light for low light defensive shooting since they don’t need to “see their sights“ anymore.

I agree with your assessment. Without a lot of training, pistol lasers just aren’t worth it. If the laser is mounted at 6 o'clock to the barrel and you can see the laser dot above your sights at some distance, you have a converging zero at whatever distance your laser dot, sights, and bullet impact meet. As you increase that distance the laser dot will rise higher above your front sight. As you decrease that distance, the laser dot will fall under your barrel. For parallel, imagine a second laser replacing your sighting system. From your muzzle to infinity, the distance between those two beams will never change.

Ok…. I had a very detailed response typed up, but I deleted it. Hey man, if it works for you, I guess carry on. I have spent a large amount of time using lasers on rifles shooting under NODS or with a Promask and they have a place. But for normal people, with limited training and experience i believe most people are better served buying ammo and getting professional training on traditional self defense TTPs with iron and red dot sights a better investment than buying a laser aiming device. I spent time with pistol lasers as well, and I believe they are useless on pistols unless it’s an IR laser and you are shooting under NODS, but the proliferation of pistol RDS and passive shooting techniques have made pistol lasers obsolete, in my experience.

@ESBIs this for rifles only? Or are you talking about lasers on pistols as well? Do you mean a laser boresight tool? Or are you using a visible aiming laser to zero your red dot sight? I agree. A properly zeroed laser can be a useful backup sighting system. Do you prefer parallel method or a converging zero for this? What distance do you zero your laser at? How accurate are your impacts using a laser as your “heated moment” aiming device? Is it more accurate or less accurate than using your red dot/optic/irons?

Gotcha. Do you find lasers to be a useful addition to your firearms?