Howard

That is news to me too. RAW would be nice on the phone, but you are still working with a tiny image sensor and lens. Some of the new 4/3rds mirrorless cameras will give DSLRs a run for the money though.

Well what you say is partially true, but only partially. More mega pixels is not the be all many thing it to be. In fact, more mega pixels can actually give you a worse image. To some degree it is a marketing ploy that consumers don't understand. The more mega pixels you cram on a chip the more digital noise (bad image quality) you are subject to. The problem is the chip on a cell phone is very small compared to a DX or FX DSLR and a given number of mega pixels on one of these chips is very different than on a full frame (FX) camera. Also (as far as I am aware) you can only take jpg images on cell phone not capture in RAW mode. RAW mode is what gives a DSLR the power to provide true quality images.

You are 100% correct, I just phrased it that way because I hear so many people say you can't take a good picture with a cell phone. You can, it is just harder to do. Amplifying what you said, it is funny when you are carrying "professional" photo gear and people see it and say something like you must be a great photographer with that gear, while no one would go into a person's kitchen and say you must be a great cook when they look at your stove.

Took this one with my iPhone 6+ while walking my Huskies yesterday morning:

But why would you want that? I typically use this stuff for USPSA or IDPA where I need to make 125 PF, anything above that just gives more recoil. I like the way 147 shoots, but want it to be as close to 125 PF without going under that.

Do you know what the power factor is of that ammo? I could not find any info on their site, but on other sites it showed up as 985 FPS which would mean it is 144.8 PF which is very high for 9mm. I like 147gr ammo, but the stuff I shoot is more typically about 130PF.

Shot the Mid Atlantic Sectional USPSA match at Ontelaunee on Saturday. Left the house at 5am to get there. The match was great, wish I could say my performance was as good. Had my best shot at 6:45am as I turned onto Gun Club Road:

Yea, that is what happens when you try to do things the "easy" way

I hate Sears, their customer service sucks and it seems it's always a hassle dealing with their employees. But, I needed some drill bits and the sale looked good so I decided to bite the bullet on this. Got on my computer and ordered online for in-store pickup. I saw they had a nifty new app for your phone for curbside pick-up too. As I expected things went south far and fast. When I got to the Rockaway Sears I pulled into one of the two specially marked spots and fired up the app. They claim you will wait 5 minutes or less and someone will bring the product right to your car. Well the app would not work at first telling me something about network errors, yet I could get mail and view web pages. Then it told me I had to be in the store to use the app? That made no sense, was I supposed to drive through the store? So I went to the in-store pickup and there are no humans there, just a kiosk. It asked for my phone number, and it pulled my order right up. So far so good. That is where the problem started. I said yes that is the order I wanted. It then insisted that I insert the credit card that I used to place my order. Well I used a credit card that I use only for online purchases and don't carry that one with me. So, no go. No person in sight so I try the app again. I then figure out that to use it you can't use your LTE signal on your phone, you have to log into their guest WiFi. So, I do that and tell them I want my order. It tells me I will have it in under five minutes and a countdown clock comes up on my phone. Great I think, and go sit in my car waiting for my order. In 90 seconds a kid comes up to my window with my drill bits. He is ready to hand them to me when he tells me I need to show him the credit card I used to place the order. I explain I don't have that but can show him my driver's license. He does not know what to do, so he says hold tight he will get someone else. A minute later a slightly older kid comes up to my passenger side window and tells me without the credit card they cannot give me the order. I tell him then cancel it and ring it up with another card. He tells me he can't do that. I tell him to get me a manager. So I follow him in and wait 10 minutes for the manager. She gives me the same crap. She then disappears for five minutes and says they will have to cancel the order and I can give them a credit card to ring it up with. I give her the card and start to follow her and she says this is an employee only areas and I should wait. I wait another five minutes and she comes back and tells me to follow her. We go through another door which also says employees only. She rings it up. I told her that I appreciated her assistance but issues like this is why I almost never go to Sears anymore. Did not even get a response from her, just a deadpan look. After a few minutes she rings it all up gives me about 20 feet of receipts and says to go outside and someone will bring it to me. Well it was a good price on a nice drill bit kit, but it will be a cold day in hell before I go back there.

Been there, seen it, done it. My solution was to go to an eye doctor who shoots. He spent about an hour with me early one Saturday morning with my SIRT pistol (this NJ can't take a real gun to the eye doctor). Anyway, what I had him do was optimize the lens for my right eye for the exact distance to my sights and optimize the left eye to about 15 yards. It took a little while to get used to this, but now that I am adjusted to this setup it works great.

That is really funny! "FORCE FELONS TO TURN IN THEIR ILLEGAL FIREARMS" HA Ha HA

I would avoid buying used online, as you have no clue what you are getting. New online from an out of state dealer is fine, but keep in mind that after shipping and FFL transfer fees it might actually be cheaper here. RTSP often has a decent selection of used stuff and they will stand behind them. The other option is used face-to-face here in NJ. That way you can see what you are getting before you buy it. I don't have an issue with the DA/SA on some guns. Check out the CZ75b, great gun at a reasonable price. You can do a lot of work on them to make the DA much lighter too.

Try before you buy. Either find someone that will let you shoot theirs or go to a place like RTSP that will let you rent a whole bunch for a flat fee and see what feels good in your hand. I am confused when you say you have three permits and your first permit expires in two weeks. Assuming you applied for them all at the same time they should each be valid for 90 days, and assuming you don't live in an ass-wipe town you should be able to extend them for another 90 days. As for competition, I think you will find that with the exception of static steel there is not much you will use a .22 to compete with. Since you say you are near OB I would suggest you try Knockdown steel, USPSA and IDPA there and see which you like. You will need a minimum of 9mm for those matches.

Saw this on Facebook this morning: Governor Christie's email list of news agencies (his contacts) released as per a Judge's order due to a lawsuit from NJ Watchdog. The file has 28 pages of National and local press contacts with their email addresses. This might come in handy in the future, everyone should download a copy of the pdf file and keep it as you never know when you might be able to make use of it. https://watchdog.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/10/Lagerkvist-v.-Gov-Office-Tiered-E-Mail-List.pdf

I paid the ten or 12 bucks and it will be delivered to my house on Friday

My parent's friends house was robbed a few years ago. The bad guys just took a chainsaw to the wall of the house by the back deck and cut through the siding and the sheetrock and were in. Police said there were in faster than breaking a window.

^^^Very good idea indeed!

I was just thinking how all over the state, and many other states, there are signs up that penalties are doubled in work zones for speeding and other safety offenses. Perhaps we should institute a similar plan for gun offenses and double all the fines and jail terms for anyone breaking the laws in the five inner cities. Since that is where all the congestion is and where most of the problem is perhaps it would serve as positive motivation.

The below article (it is very long) should be a must read. It looks at all aspects of gun control and explains in detail why they fail. Some great info that even some on the left would appreciate if they took the time to read: http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/06/23/an-opinion-on-gun-control-repost/

6 to 8 minutes to RTSP, about 40 minutes to Shongum.

Draw up a lease and pay her $1 to rent your room so it is legally a second residence for you.

More left-wing BS, ALL GUNS MATTER

Here is the latest about an otherwise honest citizen be arrested and prosecuted for doing nothing wrong in the People's Republic of New Jermany: Published on Sep 28, 2015 New Jersey just keeps adding to its tally of gun-control victims. The latest: Mia Higginbotham, whose crime was trying to legally transport her legally owned firearm out of the state. She and her husband researched the TSA rules and were following the instructions to the letter of the law. But in the blink of an eye, she found herself arrested — not charged with a federal crime, but charged with a second-degree New Jersey felony. As she fights the case, Higginbotham notes in this exclusive report from Ginny Simone that, "I'm one step below a murderer in the eyes of the New Jersey court."

STI was the one that told me not to use them as they could not get them to work. The plastic follower holds the cartridge at too low an angle and it tends to nose dive on the feed ramp.

Surprised to hear you have Wilson combat mags working in a Trojan. If you want to buy more I have some I would sell you. I love my STI Trojan, but have had loads of problems with it. When it works it works great. I sent it back due to lots of feed failures and then machined the frame and the feed ramp, they also told me they could not get it to work with the Wilson mags and suggested Tripp or Metalform mags (Dawson are made by Metalform I believe). I recently sent it back for a broken barrel link. Turns out the one they put in when they built it was too short, don't know how they screwed that up. Anyhow, I love the gun and wish you good luck with it.