maintenanceguy

As long as you're not stopping in NY, you're covered by federal FOPA and good to go through NY. You need to follow FOPAs transport rules which are similar but a little different than NJ.

That's exactly how we feel in Cumberland and Salem Counties. It's more like Alabama than NYC here too.

+1 great club, good people, well kept.

+1000

I've made some progress in figuring out the problem. I had bought some Federal Premium American Eagle ammo that turned out not to be so premium. This was the stuff giving me bad groups of 5" at 50yds. I've got a little of the good stuff left so this morning I shot the last of my Winchester Super X and brought the groups down to almost 2". This evening I broke out my Remington target ammo. I've been holding on to this because it's one of the few rounds my Beretta pistol will cycle consistantly. With the Remington, I'm down to groups that are about 1-1/2". I can live with that. But I also decided to tackle the possibility of lead in the barrel. Using some aluminum window screen, I made patches and ran them through the barrel. At first, there was a rough section of barrel from the chamber to about 6" into the barrel. From that point to the muzzle, everything felt smooth. After a dozen passes with the window screen, the entire barrel is smooth now and there was a lot of lead dust that came out of the barrel. I'll shoot it again tomorrow and see how tight the groups are. Thanks for the info and suggestions.

I've had this gun for almost 30 years. I primarily use it for small nuisance animals several times a year and sight it in each Spring. Maybe 2 or 3 years ago, the sighting in didn't go as well as usual. The groups were larger than I expected. I chalked it up to my getting older, my eyes are not as good as they were when I bought the gun, and I've got a cheap rim fire scope on the rifle. Still shot good enough to kill the occasional groundhog at 50 yards. This summer I missed as many as I hit. So today I set out to figure out what was wrong. After a very thorough cleaning I got rid of the cheap scope and installed a known good scope off of another gun. The new scope is 16x and parallax adjustable down to 25yds. At 50 yds, I'm shooting 5" groups from a good solid rest. I'm not as steady as I was in my 20s but I'm sure not moving that much. Everything about the gun seems tight. I'm assuming the barrel has finally had enough. I know I once bought a case of 10,000 rounds that I don't' have any more and I've bought plenty of bricks of 500 over the years. My best guess is that this gun has shot 15,000 rounds. I don't know if that's enough to kill a barrel. But my question is: Is it worth replacing the barrel? Will I ever get a new barrel installed tight enough to the receiver to be accurate again considering that 10/22 barrels aren't threaded to the receiver and are only a friction fit? Is it just a paperweight now?

You'll need an FID to transport long guns. You can't transport handguns in NJ unless it's between the range, home, your business (that you own), or gun shop with or without an FID. Gun registration in NJ is voluntary. If you buy a gun here, the permit gets mailed into the NJSP so it's defacto registered. If you move to NJ with them, no registration.

Utah does not issue permits to residents of states that recognize Utah's ccw permit. since NJ does not recognize anyone's permit, Utah will issue to us.

It's a left handed revolver?

Thanks, I've seen that one. In fact, my nephew has that exact same base on his M44. It replaces the rear sight and sits a couple of inches forward of the receiver for a "sport" type long eye relief scope. I can't find such a scope in the magnification and recticle type I want so I'm trying to make mine take a regular scope. I've already cut off and welded the bolt to clear the base above and my aluminum version worked well...until I actually tried to shoot it.

I'm adding a scope to my mosin 91/30 and making a simple custom scope mounting base for it. I'm drilling and tapping the side of the round receiver and mounting a home made side-mount scope base that's similar to the standard issue mosin sniper scope mount base but much simpler. To make this work, I need to mill a groove in a piece of steel angle. The groove needs to be 1/2" wide and 1/16" deep and at least 4" long. This will give me 3 contact points on the 1.220" diameter mosin receiver. I don't have access to a milling machine. I made one out of aluminum angle and was hopeful that it would work, you can cut aluminum with a table saw and I was able to mill the groove using the saw. The aluminum was too soft and loosened up after only a few shots from the mosin so now I'm going to try this with steel. So my question is: Does anybody have any suggestions on how to mill a shallow slot in steel without an actual milling machine. I've toyed with the idea of using a drill press, end mill, and slide vice but I'm sure I can't get the drill press table level enough to maintain a constant depth and my drill press bearings have a little play in them so I'm afraid I'd just chatter and tear up the edges of the slot. I certainly couldn't maintain .500" slot width with any accuracy. Any suggestions are appreciated.

If you're pruning the barrels like the original poster, no choke at all.

Some of us live so far out in Free New Jersey that we don't even have a local police department. We're forced to use the NJSP and wait and wait and wait.

Bought a 1944 91/30 at Cabelas in Hamburg about 3 weeks ago. I paid $149. I think they were normally $169. They had at least 40 in the racks so I had lots to choose from.

We have a portable generator. I plug-connected the power line to our oil fired heater and well pump a couple of years ago. I do not have a transfer switch but I can unplug both from the receptacle and plug them into the generator instead. An extension cord and we've got lights too. We were only out a few days with Sandy but just having running water and heat made it much more bearable. For gas, I keep 5 gal in the generator and have 3 more 5 gallon containers. I rotate gas into my mower all summer just like we rotate food in the pantry. I can go 3 days on 20 gallons of gas if I'm careful. After Sandy, we now fuel up the cars if there is a threat of a storm so I could siphon another 40 gallons if we got desperate. Remember, a lot of portable gasoline equipment ends up in the repair shop because gas sat in the carburetor bowl for too long and evaporated leaving "varnish". The carburetor gets gummed up, plugged up, and the float won't move freely. Run your carburetors dry when the season is over. Turn off the fuel petcock and run the generator until it stalls.

What he should have said is that the law requires transporting firearms unloaded and since NJ law doesn't define "unloaded" an overzealous police officer or prosecutor could construe a magazine as part of the firearm and you could be charged, even though it isn't right.

First rifle was a ruger 10/22 when I was 14. I asked dad for a pellet gun. He felt that pellet guns were too dangerous because everyone considers them toys but suggested a .22 instead. At 18, I applied for my FID and bought a rusted, used, old Remington 1148 12ga. Still have it. Around 21, while in college, I bought a Beretta 21A .22 pocket pistol. It was all I could afford on a college kids budget. Still have it. Around the same time, I bought a Traditions .50 cal black powder rifle. I had grown up around guns but never shot a black powder gun before. I bought in at K-mart in New Brunswick, NJ. I bought a couple of more long guns and took a 20 year break from purchasing guns. The Obama, Feinstein, Biden gun sales team convinced me I needed more and I've bought several in the last year.

No. If I need warranty service, I have a receipt.

His guns must fall into one of the three possible media classifications: Automatic, Glock, or Assault weapon. Sounds to me like the biggest problem he has is a neighbor that can't mind his own business.

I wish I lived in America.

Blue guns' don't have triggers that move. You can't dry fire one.

Thousands killed by bayonet lugs every year. Thanks for making NJ safer.

At Bridgeton Barracks, reference checks and county mental check are done and when they pass, the app is sent to Trenton for the criminal check and approval. Bridgeton calls references within a few days of dropping off the application then you still wait 4 months for Trenton.

Now the NRA can give him an A rating again.

I can't believe how accurate that was.