Howard

Actually Underdog, my wife called the police when we thought the dog had been attacked. I had a long conversation with the officer and he saw no issue with having the gun in case the bear charged me and had no issue had I shot it. He told me his father recently fired a revolver at a bear in his back yard under similar circumstances. I would never shoot it just to shoot it, but if it went after a person or my dog it would have gotten lead poisoning.

They were not around 25 years ago where I live, maybe in Sussex but not in my neck of the woods. And in my area of Morris County there has been a huge amount of development in the last 10 to 20 years. I think we may be getting them because of the huge amount of area of woodlands we have maintained so as new areas are developed they find our undeveloped parkland and make it their new home.

Oooh, that was cruel Louu! The bear would have been no problem, unless he shouted "STANDBY" and then had a loud thing that went "BEEP" !!! As for this being bear area, well not really - we never had them here 25 years ago. Its only because of development in other areas that they have migrated this way.

I think the mama was deeper in the woods as a little while later a woman drove by and said she saw two bears cross the road about 1/2 mile from the woods behind our house.

No problem with nature, just don't like bears in my back yard when my dogs are out there - I like my dogs MORE than I like bears

Here is a second view, and then a crop of the first:

My dogs scared this bear up a tree and the puppy ran though the fence and down two blocks to get away. It's a cub but a VERY large cub. It went up about 30 feet up the tree and was hanging on for dear life. Was quite scary as Sasha was no where to be found until a nice man pulled up in the driveway and said his wife found her two blocks away and she walked her back. After it got down from the tree and left the area I went down with the first thing I could get my hands on, a 1911 .45acp to go look for the puppy. Not sure if that would have been enough for protection, probably should have taking the revolver with .357 magnum.

Well you may be hard pressed to come up with a receipt for a firearm purchased 20-30-40 years ago, but say you have continuously lived only in NJ for the past 10 years - how are you going to explain that new Glock gen4 gun you are in possession of? It could have only been obtained through a NJ P2P or through a copy of a Will. They can check the state records for the P2P and if you don't have a copy of that Will; well you do the math.

Not that YOU would ever get caught, but didn't you violate the law by illegally giving someone a handgun as well?

Guy, don't shoot me! I live in the pond just outside Troy's Work!

WHAT? You want to kill me? Well then, I think I'll just fly away!

There should not be a reason you have to be a member to compete. Any IDPA or USPSA match I have ever been to is open to anyone that wants to attend.

So Roxy and Sasha were playing in the yard and I had the Iphone handy so here is a short video clip of them. Sasha is now 7 months old and Roxy is 3 years.

I have not taken the USPSA RO course but have done the IDPA SO course and got certified - it was well worth it. You will understand the competition so much better as you will have a much firmer grasp on all the rules. Knowledge is always good, go out and get some

I talked to my FFL about this a while ago as they would routinely put a rivet in Glock mags to make them 15 rounds. They had previously been told by the state police that this was fine. During the last campaign to further neuter our mags they approached the state police about retrofitting existing 15 round mags to 10 rounds and were told they could do that but the police would no longer accept the rivet method. They told them they had no problem with the existing ones out there, but did not want that done anymore. Well since mags are not serialized or date stamped this makes absolutely no sense - how would someone determine when a mag had been altered. The laws in this state are so screwed up.

Yup, kicked it just a little too far and it went into box three while I was shooting from box two (had to stay in box two). Almost lost it outside of box three when I was there too. Guess I don't know my own strength

OK, here is the Homer Simpson moment where the barrel decided to go its own way and cost me 8 procedurals http://youtu.be/G3JOo94LCvU

Tell you what Dave, I am willing to embarrass myself, I will post the video later. It was not from the Slice-The-Pie sport, it was from the be safe and shoot however the heck you want sport, they just threw something in there that tripped me up - big time.

Its always fun, and managed to do ok on some of the stages. The camera is great as I get to see what I do right and wrong and can learn from it. Plus I don't have to look at the camera

Thanks Dave, but not only do I not have one but I have never even come within 8 feet of one After my 8 procedurals (per shot taken) because I let a barrel roll two feet too far perhaps I have earned a time out. It was definitely a Homer Simpson moment ....doh!

HaHaHa. After yesterday's match I think I might do better with a timeout

Thanks but CJ is outside the radius that I am allowed to travel

So next weekend is the dreaded 5th weekend of the month, are their any matches in Northern or the northern-part of Central NJ on tap?

Just picked one up recently myself, its really a blast. Put a TRS-25 red dot on her which allows for 1/3rd co-witnessing of the iron sights. You can find the 10 round short mags online for about $14 if you need more.

I took my 26 year old anti-gun daughter Got her to use my Ruger 22/45 with a red dot. She also tried my Glock G34 but thought the 9mm was way too much recoil. Hey, at least she tried - that is a first step. She even now agrees NJ gun laws are dumb, but only because they impacted her. I was going to a match at Old Bridge a few weeks ago and she wanted to know if I could drop her at the train station at Matawan on the way. I explained to her that was an unnecessary deviation and I could not Boy does she hate NJ gun laws now that they impacted her plans.