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I bought this rifle about 6 months ago. I'm pleased with the WSM round and the accuracy of the rifle. The adjustable accutrigger is nice. I've got mine adjusted to the lightest setting and it's feather light. The price was good for the quality received. Savage has a reputation for affordable accuracy and this rifle delivers. But... There are two things I really think Savage screwed up on. 1) The magazine sucks! Getting the magazine to snap into the rifle is a nightmare. Every time you insert the magazine, you have to push it in half a dozen times to finally get it to "click". Even when it seems to be snapped in firmly, it sometimes falls out of the rifle when you pull the trigger. Magazines are difficult to load and just feel sloppy when loading rounds into the magazine and when trying to insert the magazine into the rifle. Poor design. 2) The bolt handle needs to be lifted to be able to slide the bolt fully closed. Gravity acting on the bolt handle causes the bolt handle to sag just enough to stop the bolt from sliding fully closed. Because of gravity, you have to remember to lift the bolt handle each time you glide the bolt forward. If you don't remember, the bolt goes almost all the way forward. It feels like it's forward. So, believing the bolt is fully forward, I snap the handle down to lock the bolt. The rifle is designed so that the bolt handle digs into the synthetic stock when you do this and makes divots in the plastic. It also scratches the bluing off of the bolt handle. Overall, a nice shooting rifle and the price was good but these two things frustrated me several times at the range this morning. Bolt Not Fully Forward - Digging Into Plastic Stock

Just called the local barracks. Trooper who handles firearms permits is not in today. So I called Trenton at the number given earlier. 609 822 2000 and followed the menu options: options were: firearms info/handgun permit info/ Make sure to listen to the recorded message until the end then you get to talk to someone. A very helpful lady answered the phone, asked for my SBI number and pulled up my record in seconds. She said my permits were approved on the 18th and I should be hearing from my local barracks soon. Seems strange that everyone who has called Tenton was told that their permits were just issued a few days earlier. Unusual coincidence. But that means it was 3 months and 1 day for Trenton to approve permits. Of course, I don't have them in hand yet. If you're wondering about the status: call the number I put in bold above.

1) Every politician (federal, state, local) and judge that has ever, even once, voted or ruled to infringe the right to keep and bear arms would find themselves unable to continue to serve. How that happens really doesn't matter but I'd enjoy it more if it's painful. 2) Their replacements would repeal every illegal infringement on the 2nd Amendment including the National Firearms Act of 1934, the Gun Control Act of 1968, Gun Free School Zones, and all the rest. 3) Schools would teach gun safety in elementary school and live fire firearms safety training would become a mandatory graduation requirement for high school. High school rifle teams would be as common as football teams.

I was told that a trooper from each barracks is assigned to mail duty twice a week to deliver and pick up mail in Trenton. I wonder if something changed. Bridgeton barracks used to turn around permits in about 5 weeks while everybody else was waiting 3 months. I figured that the Trooper assigned to permits was on top of his work and not letting things sit on his desk. I now have a set that I've been waiting on for 3 months and 2 days. Same Trooper at the local barracks. I'll call tomorrow.

I hope so but I'm afraid everyone's given up on Operation Strike Force. Big Intro but nothing happened. If they start having some successes, people might start reporting problems.

I hire contractors for a living. Small projects of a few thousand dollars up to several hundred thousand dollars. 1. Check recent references. You want to talk to three people who hired this contractor in the last 2 months, not the same 3 names they've been handing out for the last 5 years. 2. Have the contractors tell you how they are going to do the work and what materials they will use. Some estimates say "replace roof". Who knows what you're getting. 3. The advice to get a 3rd estimate is a good one. We often hold a public bid where contractors all submit their proposals to do a project and we open all of the bids at a meeting and all the contractors can come if they want. We're looking for the lowest price. But...when 3 contractors are all within a few thousand dollars of each other and one contractor is $50,000 less than the next guy, you're going to have problems with that contractor. Right now, you don't know which price is the right price. A 3rd quote will help with that. And, if two contractors are in the same ballpark and one guy is much, much less, don't go with the cheaper guy.

It's been done - over and over again. No NJ court is ever going to side with the Constitution or with Heller/McDonald. The 3rd circuit federal court has already ruled against us and will do so again. The only chance is SCOTUS except (1) They turn down every right to carry case that they get and (2) NJ would just ignore the ruling if we won. SCOTUS has no enforcement mechanism so why would NJ change?

This was already done 4 or 5 years ago. It was called "apply to be denied". It flopped. There was a legal case moving through the courts at the time. Several people who had been denied a carry permit sued NJ, or actually the judge. The case made it to the 3rd circuit court. Google "Piszczatoski" for more info. NJ started approving the plaintiff's permits to make the case go away, so plaintiffs kept changing and the the name of the case kept changing. I think the final was Drake v. Filko. One of NJ's arguments was that they already issue permits to more than 90% (I forget the percentage) of applicants. Of course that's because nobody applies because everyone knows you won't be approved. NJ gets a few hundred applicants an year from the politically connected and approves those. So, there was a plan for thousands of us to apply. Enough people picked up applications that the state police barracks were keeping a pile of blank applications at the front desk. Then there were two problems: 1) The case was over and decided. It was unlikely that the supreme court was going to hear the case. At that point, proving that NJ really did deny permits didn't seem like it would accomplish much. 2) The application to purchase a firearm asks if you were ever denied a carry permit. A lot of people were afraid that being denied a carry permit would result in being denied a purchase. The biggest reason it failed was that nobody could agree on how it should be done or what the plan was once everyone was denied. In the end, a few dozen applied and were denied but nothing came of it.

Without seeing the job: remove existing doors and door frame from opening remove the threshold pad out opening with 2x lumber to make the opening 1/4"-3/8" bigger than your new door frame. Add plywood to the exterior to bring the surface flush with your existing wall sheathing add drywall on the interior to bring the inside flush with the interior walls, tape, joint compound, sand, repeat. figure out how to waterproof the exterior. building paper or Tyvek should be tucked under the existing building paper and layered to make sure water runs off the paper as it runs down the wall. There is no one way to do this since all homes are built a little differently. But really think about how water and gravity work together. A leak into the wall will become a big problem 10 years from now. Install the door using cedar shims between the frame and opening to get the frame plumb and level. use two shims opposed to get a flat, expanding, double shim. Screw right through the cedar shims. and into the new lumber you added to change the opening size. Fill any voids with fiberglass insulation. Expanding foam expands a lot and can warp your door frame. Decide what exterior trim you will be using to pretty up the outside. This is probably the difficult part. A door with extra wide trim looks odd. Maybe two layers of trim - one large and painted to match the siding and one small and painted to match the door frame. Caulk and paint - makes a carpenter what he ain't. Once upon a time, when I did this for a living and had all my tools organized and ready to go, this would be a one day project but a full day project to do it right. If carpentry isn't your thing, I'd tackle this on a 3 day weekend to make sure you have plenty of time to get it done.

I agree. 20 years ago, I never saw a woman in a gun shop. 1/3 of the people in gun shops now are women. Many are there with their husbands but they're not just along for the ride. They're usually both looking at the guns and asking questions, deciding which gun they are buying together. I realize it's off topic but I also never saw any people of color in gun shops 20 years ago. They make up a pretty significant buying group now. I've even seen a few black women shopping for guns all buy themselves. The probability of seeing that 20 years ago was about as close to zero as you can get. Frankly, I'm glad. The more people that take up shooting, the better off we are. I want someone in every family and social group who loves guns. The next time someone bring up an anti-gun theory anywhere, there should be someone there to educate them and invite them to the range.

My wife will reluctantly go shooting with me if I ask. She has tolerated me for a long time. It's been important to me that she could use a gun in an emergency if she had too and she's been kind enough to go along for the ride. On the other hand - there is a woman at work in her mid 30's who wants to buy a gun...get this...for fun. She'll use it for home defense but primarily wants to go out and go shooting at the range on the weekend. She had never shot a handgun before so I invited her to the range. I let her shoot several handguns and we talked about the different actions, calibers, etc. She hasn't bought one yet but is considering her options. I suspect that's pretty unusual. I've known a few women who liked to shoot. I've known several who would put up with it to spend time with their husbands. I know a couple of women that grew up hunting and now go hunting with their husbands or sons but probably wouldn't go on their own. I only know one who did not grow up with guns and is interested in shooting for fun.

Worked for a hotel. We kept the rooms looking nice for guests. We had a rolling cart with the tools we'd use to do a monthly "preventive maintenance" on each room. We had all the regular tools for fixing leaks, replacing bulbs, tightening screws, etc. We had a small air brush with all of the room's paint colors in little jars. We would do touch up paint with the air brush because you could feather it out so nobody could tell. We kept caulk on the cart in the same color as the wall paper. If we couldn't order caulk in that color, we had paint custom mixed in that color and mixed it with white caulk in a cup. Sometimes wallpaper seams open up and a little caulk, spread with the finger makes that disappear. We had an epoxy repair kit to fix the edges of the kitchen or bathroom counter tops. Guests like to open beer bottles on them and they're always getting chipped. We also had a set of these furniture touch up crayons in several wood finish colors. Scratches or chips in wood go away when colored in crayon. It's just an illusion.

The biggest problem with polls of gun owners is that so many gun owners won't answer a strangers questions about their guns or their position on guns. There is no way to get accurate data.

Seems like you could prove the speed on the display is correct (or prove it isn't). Pick two objects along the road. Time how long it takes for the edge of your image to get from object 1 to object 2. Measure the distance. V=d/t.

I just don't get it haiku is quite strange to me doesn't even rhyme.

Doesn't seem like a problem to me. If you like it - participate. If you don't - move on. I don't see any benefit to worrying about things I don't control.

If the players and their families don't want this, the exodus will stop it. If enough players and their parents do want this and you don't, moving on is the right thing to do.

Guadagno is democrat light - conservatives won't want to vote for her. Democrats have Murphy so they won't vote for her. She's not charismatic. She hasn't taken a real stand on anything. I don't see how she's electable. And Murphy has right on his website that he will sign all of the Sweeney gun control bills that Christie vetoed. I think we'll be lucky if it's 10 round limits since there was a lot of discussion about 7 round limits from the assembly public safety committee 3 years ago. 80% chance of Murphy winning. 90% chance of Sweeney bringing the anti-gun bills back. 100% chance of Murphy signing them. .80 x .90 x 1.00 = 72% chance of us losing the right to own 50% of the guns in NJ.

Hottest day of my life was probably 25 years ago. 100°, no shade, 100% humidity, I was working on a roof top AC unit. The black roof deck was 160°. I tore up a towel in my truck to wear it as a head band just to keep the sweat out of my eyes because I couldn't see. The salt from the sweat was stinging my eyes. I really felt like I was working under a broiler. The sun was relentless. I was having a hard time figuring out the problem because it was just too hot to think clearly. I get the AC fixed and head downstairs to tell the secretary that it's working. Her office was part of the building I was working on so her office had gotten up to about 80°. They had the lights off, pulled the shades down and were all sitting very still at their desks. She says "thank G-d, it's unbearable in here."

Dutra Sheet Metal in Vineland does a lot of stainless fab work for us. They're good and their prices are reasonable. I realize they aren't in your neighborhood. I can't imagine you can have something custom fabricated for less than buying it from the guy who already has his jigs made, already has patterns in his CNC plasma cutter, is buying the unusual fasteners or other odd parts in bulk, and knows exactly how many hours it takes to make one unit from start to finish.

Notice the careful dance around the issue of carrying a weapon outside the home. The judge knows it's protected by the 2nd but doesn't want to say it's legal. He wants to hint that it isn't legal - without saying it. So he just says that having a weapon outside the home "may not be" "manifestly appropriate". I mean, who knows what that pesky old Constitution means anyway? I'm just a Supreme Court Justice. I'm as baffled about the whole thing as anybody else.

I want a real, indepth investigation into the DNC email hacking that leaves no stone upturned and I want the results made public. Whether or not it happened, I want to know. If we have a president that colluded with a foreign country to break laws to get elected - that's important stuff to know. If we have a political party that made the whole thing up and a media that knowingly went along with the fraud - that's important to know too. But I'm sure that in 5 years we'll be right where we are now with accusations flying but no facts.

Thank you, thank you, and ouch!

I like to go to the range early on a week day, when the place is empty. My range has a couple of manual traps set up for members to use any time. It's not always easy to find someone who wants to stand around pulling the trap release for me. So I built a remote control trap release. I shot a couple of boxes of shells with it for the first time this morning and it worked flawlessly. I spent more time and money on this than I had expected and probably would have been better off just buying a voice activated automatic trap. But, spending more money and time doing things the hard way is how I roll.

2-1/2 hours each way to Cabelas in Hamburg PA. 1-1/2 hours to Oaks gun show. Although I probably wouldn't have taken either trip if there wasn't other entertaining stuff there to see. I did drive 1-1/2 hours to Toms River just to buy a gun but it was a very specific gun I had been looking for. Normally, I stick within an hour of home - but I live in the sticks so everything is a drive for us.