Howard

I was there at 8:30am this morning and it was not that crowded. It all depends when you hit it. Once the expansion is done I'm guessing there will be a lot less waiting - 21 ports will kick ass!

Yea my wife said they were real little guys just in golf shirts. I asked if they were tucked in or not, figuring if they were untucked maybe they were covering guns. She aid they were tucked in. Since they were tucked in I wonder where they had their weapons concealed.

I'll have to remember that one if I see him there again! Good one.

So we have this great deli food market here in Randolph called Burrinis (http://burrinis.com/) . My wife came back around 3pm and says to me guess who I just ran into at Burrinis? Like I had a clue. She said it was a guy and his son. She walked right up to him. He goes there quite a bit and lives in the next town over - Mendham. He had two security guys with him and two black Suburbans out front. Yup, it was the rather large governor. If only I went I could have discussed the need for his veto. Darn I wish I went.

Was taken with my old Nikon D300 with a Nikon 28-300VR lens. I wish I had taken my D800e, but you shoot with the camera you have with you.

Black bears really scare me. We had one in our back yard about 15 years ago that was 20 feet from the two Huskies I had at the time and they were just in a staring contest. I was concerned the dogs were going to try to attack it, I knew that would not turn out well. That bear was at least 400 pounds. Last summer there was another large one across the street from me coming around behind my neighbors house as you can see below:

I thought when there is a bear you were supposed to make yourself look very big and make lots of noise -- guess that is not the case.

Details in post #11 but about 40 feet. That is why I always keep one of my dslrs with me in the car, you can actually get much closer under cover of the car than you can ever get on foot.

Well I know you said you don't like Glocks, but I still would highly suggest one as a primary HD weapon. The reason is they are simple and highly reliable. In a panic situation simple is good, they were designed to operate very similarly to a revolver - you aim and pull the trigger with no external safeties to deal with. The Gen4 models come with two removable back straps so you have three choices in the size of the grip. I love my Gen4 G22 .40cal for HD because of reliability and capacity. I have put over 1,500 rounds through her and have never had a single jam or failure of any sort, I wish I could say the same for some of my expensive 1911s. The other advantage to this weapon is capacity, it holds 15+1 rounds of .40 cal versus only 6 for the 686 revolver (7 in the plus version). I have a 686+ too, but would be concerned with over penetration with .357 mag in the home. You can use hollow point or other expanding rounds in .40 cal which have great stopping power and much less chance of over penetration. I recently took a two day defensive handgun training course and the most recommend weapon was the G22, glad I already owned it. You are right on with accuracy being important, but it does not have to be pinpoint accuracy. A well placed .22LR shot will do a lot more for you than a missed .45cal shot That said your goal in HD is to be able to place a few rounds on center mass quickly, that is very different that being able to hit a quarter at 15 yards. Also keep in mind that most HD situation will likely take place at between 7 and 21 feet. Think about that for a moment, how far away from you would a bad guy be if he entered your bedroom?

Under current NJ law (they are working to change this possibly soon) no NICS checks are needed for private party sales.

Since it sounds like you are starting at square zero you first need to get an FID card. When you apply for that there is a box that you can check that you want "x" number of pistol purchase permits (P2P). Depending what town you are in you might be able to do this at your local police department or you might have to deal with the state police.

Well that sucks, guess I have more than a month to wait then as I took it 5/1/13

Cute doggie. We saw one a few weeks ago that was black and white and looked like a mini Husky.

I would guess I was about 25 yards away. I was driving down Radtke Road in Randolph and saw it on the right side of the road. It ran across the road and into the woods, I quickly grabbed my D300 and shot at I think 170mm and then cropped this about 30%. Edit --- I guess I am not that good a judge of distance, checked the exif data and it said the focus point was 12.6 yards away and this one was actually at 250mm, there was another one that was at 170 my bad.

No I would never kill a poor little fox with a gun, I used my Camera!

In an attempt to discourage violence, a Kalifornia elementary school hosted a "toy-gun buyback", during which students could turn in their play weapons for a free book. "If we want the older kids to not think guns are cool we need to start early" the schools principal said. http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/columnists/article_efa1f2a0-d87d-11e2-aa0d-001a4bcf887a.html

CreditKarma.com is great and does not impact your credit. It reports on all your cards outstanding, balances, score, and much much more. I believe it even sends out period emails as your score changes.

Its even harder to believe that someone else's kids grew up to have such a screwed up view of the world that they think such laws make any sense.

Photography, you get to shoot things with that too

Everyday I continue to be more amazed at the stupid things liberals say and do. Not long ago I was said something to a liberal about the black female congress woman and another congress man by name in a picture. He told me it was racist and sexist to say that and wanted to know why I called the other by name. I explained that I knew the name of the other one but did not know hers and was trying to describe her so he knew who I was talking about. He said it was degrading. I asked if it would be OK to describe her that way to the police if she had just robbed me, he told me that was different. Idiot!

Here is my newest toy, got to try her out for the first time today. Was not in the market, but when I saw it I said I had to make it mine: S&W Performance Center 1911

I got it at RTSP, they had another one but not sure if it is still there.

Finally cleared OGAM last Weds and put my nics in. They came back the next day, and I rushed over to pick up this sweet new 1911. Unfortunately today was the first time I got to actually try her out. She hits EXACTLY where you point her, now if I could only become more accurate in where I point her I would be all set S&W Performance Center 1911 .45acp

I have a Kimber conversion kit that works great, if this works its a steal at less than half the price of the Kimber unit.

When I took up shooting in February my wife's first reaction was to tell me if I got a gun I would be getting a divorce too. Well she gradually accepted my having the guns, but did not want to touch them or even see them. Well this morning she went with me to the range and actually fired a few shots. She was very nervous about it but I have to give her credit for actually going and giving it a try. Thanks Honey!!!