High Exposure

Can I have it?

They look so weird with the extractor rod out there like that.

A hasty sling is just taking that slack out of the system by some means. You need slack in the sling in order to manipulate the rifle around your body. Slack is great so you have room to drive the gun and run admin functions, but when you are shooting you want it as tight as possible to steady it. Before quick adjust 2 point slings, you had to set the sling length and leave it - usually setting it somewhere in the middle of what was useful for both shooting and manipulating and using another means, like an arm wrap, to tighten it when necessary. Before quick adjusts, you would wrap the sling around your arm to take the slack out and tighten it up. With the quick adjust, you don’t need to wrap the arm to take out the slack. You just need to grab the adjuster and cinch the sling down*. In the end it’s the same thing. * If you have the sling set up correctly to do this.

My heart soars like an eagle! Stupid should hurt

It’s privilege for sure, just not white privileged. She is feels privileged by her position, not her race. ETA: Oh, and fuck her apology. That’s a list of excuses, there is not a single apologetic thought in her useless rant. We are all dumber for having had to listen to her. I award her no points, and may God have mercy on her soul.

Nowadays, breaks are rare. The first time you get sued when a car you should have towed gets in an accident after you let it drive off, you realize it’s more beneficial to not give breaks - if it says tow, you tow. You are less likely to be served that way. And again, cops would love a boss to come up and hint at writing more tickets. Then that cop could retire with all the money he wins in the lawsuit after renaming the town after his dog.

Nope, no quota. We can write as many tickets as we want. Seriously though - Here’s the thing about quotas: the cops know quotas are illegal. If a quota is even hinted at, hell, if a boss even brings up tickets as a measure of job productivity, you can expect cops and or PBA/FOP to bring forth a lawsuit against the town/city tout de suite.

It is not unusual at all. In fact, it is routine most places. I doubt there is any more to this story that want you see. Car is stopped and towed for being unregistered. Ignorant privileged witch comes in and tries to belittle the cops, throwing her weight around and makes a fool of herself. By statute unregistered vehicles - from any state - can not be parked or operated on public roadways and Police are given specific authority to tow them. 39:3-4 - Except as hereinafter provided, every resident of this State and every nonresident whose automobile or motorcycle shall be driven in this State shall, before using such vehicle on the public highways, register the same, and no automobile or motorcycle shall be driven unless so registered. ... snip ... No person owning or having control over any unregistered vehicle shall permit the same to be parked or to stand on a public highway. Any police officer is authorized to remove any unregistered vehicle from the public highway to a storage space or garage, and the expense involved in such removal and storing of the vehicle shall be borne by the owner of the vehicle, except that the expense shall be borne by the lessee of a leased vehicle.

I didn’t say you could be stopped for it, that would be improper. I said you could be issued a summons for it. Example - I stop you for speeding in your AZ registered car with tinted windows. You provide me with a valid N.J. DL, I can issue you for the vehicle’s tint on your N.J. DL.

This is the guidance we have received from our judges and prosecutor’s. The statutes referring to equipment violations say ANY vehicle, not N.J. registered vehicles only. If you have a N.J. DL you are expected to know and follow the laws in N.J. - that’s what you agreed to do when you signed your DL. Driving an out of state vehicle doesn’t not remove your responsibility to follow the laws of the state you are licensed in.

This is false. I can stop anyone at anytime for improper equipment, improper lighting, maintenance of lamps, etc... all of which the tinted light covers fall under. Also, the state gets all the $$ from traffic stops where a state statute was written (maybe a very small portion goes to the town) If you thing a cop cares for one second that he’s generating any revenue for the Boro/town/city/county/state etc... your bananas.

What? Bad stop? If the car was unregistered it was 100% a good stop. Unregistered also usually means uninsured (read your policy, I bet it covers a legally registered motor vehicle). You want to know why insurance premiums suck?

This happens all the time. At least once a tour you get a self entitled busybody butting in. This time it happens to be someone with something to lose. I give the cops credit. They followed their procedures very well. Kill them with kindness and they will often dig their own grave. Furthernore, as a Cop, at that point in the interaction (post investigation and summons) I have no right to tell anyone why someone else was stopped. The other driver was an adult and is capable of handling their own business. It’s not my job or my place to dessiminate why anyone was issued a ticket or arrested without their permission. You want to know so bad? Ask the person that received the summons. How would she like it if the Cop went around telling everyone her business if she was ever stopped or arrested? Also, the tint laws apply to the driver, not the car. If you have a N.J. DL and are operating an out of state vehicle that has tint in violation of N.J. MV statutes, you can absolutely be written a citation if stopped. This is my shocked face....

There is iron in your words. Nice glass and appropriate magnification don’t make you shoot any better. They only help you see better. If you can’t shoot for shit, all the 24x magnification, German glass, and expensive tubes and controls in the world will do, is help you see your misses better that before. That being said, there comes a time when you can outshoot your equipment, and an upgrade in your gear can make or break a shooting season.

^^^ This This is where the very important distinction between best value and lowest cost come in to play. It is like the guy that drops $2000 on a rifle and gear, $800 on tuition for a multi day class, $300 for a hotel room for 3 nights, $200 in gas, $100 in food, but buys cheap garbage ammo to save $100 and ends up missing half the class because the cheap ammo makes his gun puke. I’ve seen it happen multiple times. All that time and money wasted, in an effort to pinch a last penny. I think you will find that extra $1000 for the Night Force worth every cent after using it for a year.

I have had dry chem extinguishers go off in the trunk of my squad car twice in my career. Scary at first, then embarrassing as I trailed a yellow tinted cloud across town..... (Both times the cheap mounting brackets we used to use gave way and let the extinguisher roll around loose in the trunk)

I second GSD/Modern Materiel. They do stellar work.

Tell that to all the Tier One units (CAG, AWG, DEVGRU) that carried MP5s throughout the 80 and 90s. They seemed to make it work. Ultimately it is the Indian and not the arrow. That being said, for what I do, with modern gear I would prefer a rifle caliber.

This thread title reminds me of:

Hey Zeke, my brother’s dog Dax wants to meat you: This is my pup Vader: and Caana, the old lady:

He’s behind the camera!

Can I have it?

Bro, my experience lies in fighting with carbines at CQB to intermediate distances. For the long range game Shane45 and a couple others here are the go to guys. I’m still learning this black magic myself!

That’s a great piece of glass Bully. The Vortex isn’t a bad piece either. Well done!

Awesome! Lets see this rifle! I have been wanting one for years!