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Yes, but if you spend thousands on a rifle, you're nearly certain to actually get the rifle.

Maintain a relentless focus on the front sight.

The smart thief will just tow the home away, to ransack at his leisure. :-)

I remember taking ammo to school for show and tell! But that was a different time and a different place.

I've got some handgun load development to do, which started me looking at chronographs suitable for indoor use. This would be under fluorescent lights, which causes problems for most chronographs...so I'd probably need one set up for an alternate light source--ideally, battery operated, so I don't have to run an extension cord. I'm open to suggestions for good chronographs to consider buying, new or used... ...but it also occurred to me that instead of buying one, perhaps I could trade range time for the use of one. So, I'd be happy to guest in at SCFGPA anyone with a chronograph that I can use while you're there. And yes, in the extremely unlikely event that I shoot your chronograph, I'll pay for the damages. :-) It'll be a few weeks before I'm ready for the chrono session; 8 pm or later on Tuesday or Wednesday evenings are the best times for me that also avoids conflicts with the SCFGPA schedule. Let me know if you're interested. Thanks.

Sometimes it does. As I write this, the EOTech lawsuit thread is just 3 threads down in the New Content view...

So you're cool with cocaine and everything in the opioid family? :-)

I always use the same ones. They've never been contacted, either. You'd think skipping steps would make the permitting process move faster, but it doesn't.

Lotta pilots on this board! I'm a PP-ASEL since 2005. I think you're getting some good advice about the pitfalls. As a career path, it certainly is a way to spend a great deal of money in return for earning a very small return, at least for a time. And as some have noted, if you really love aviation, that may not matter. In addition to what you are learning here, I'd get active on a couple of pilot bulletin boards, especially those that focus on commercial pilots. You'll get a lot more feedback there, from those in the field. As for initial training, you can save some money if you find a non-profit flying club near you that accepts student pilots. That's how I got started; unfortunately my club is short an instructor at the moment, so for now we are only accepting certificated pilots.

Can't shoot it in a .22, though.

It's still about the best use for golf balls that I've seen Certainly better than using them for golf

That's a beautiful sight! What did it look like two hours after show opening?

[quote name="Nickjc" post="1031978" timestamp="1459164211 Not a path I would have taken anyway..... this is not colorado.... A bad plan not thought through unless it had 100 pcnt chance of succeeding Colorado tried to recall 4 legislators and failed with two of them. The margin was very thin for one of the successful recalls, and both Republican candidates elected to fill the recalled positions were replaced by Democrats just a year later, in the next general election So Colorado shouldn't have tried? They didn't have a 100% chance of succeeding.

T&T reloading had HP-38 a couple of weeks ago. And while not on this list, Midsouth had lots of bullseye and red dot as of a week ago--and I'd not seen red dot anywhere for a couple of years

Any love for Glaser Safety Slugs when there are other occupied bedrooms on the other side of the sheetrock? They've been almost impossible to find in recent years, but other than that...

Midsouth Shooters has a lot of powder available at the moment, including some pistol powders I've rarely seen for some time...Bullseye, Red Dot, WST are a few that caught my eye. I've not seen these at Powder Valley for quite awhile. Not all size containers available in all powders, but a lot of options nonetheless. $21/lb Bullseye, $137/8 lbs WST, to name a few. There also seem to be a lot of primers available. $28/1000 for Win large pistol, to name one that I track. Hazmat $26, shipping reasonable. Not much .22, though. http://www.midsouthshooterssupply.com/Home

I've found that the Boonton detective one has to go through both to apply for, and to pick up permits, is the roadblock. He won't return phone calls, it can take weeks to get an appointment, and he misses a lot of them once scheduled (maybe work related, maybe not...no good way for me to tell). A couple of years ago, he missed so many scheduled appointments (and I missed so much work waiting for him) that I finally staked out the police department in order to catch him. Ironic, huh? The chief, in my experience, signs off in fairly short order. Always under the 30 day limit. But it can take a long time to get those permits in hand, and I was never able to bypass the detective and deal directly with the chief, even once when I was told that the permits were ready to go, but they couldn't give them to me...I had to make an appointment with the detective. Very disheartening to finally pick up the permits and see that a month of the clock has already run out on them (though Boonton has renewed them for me in the past).

Johnny Cash?

They do come through, with some pretty good prices, but as has often been noted here it can take a LONG time to see delivery. Like, months. Don't order anything you need in a hurry.

Looks very nice. still think it's wrong to put a fixed sight on anything billed as a 'competition' model, though.

Trillion?

"Precise", actually. Group size is a measure of precision. That's the hard part, as you need to tune your technique, gun, and ammo to maximize precision. Accuracy is a measure of how close your group is to where you want it to be. Accuracy is easier to achieve; you adjust your sights.

I don't know anything about this particular gun, but I suspect it's a rare derringer that has a full box of ammo fired through it over its lifetime. It's probably not going to wear out.

And NJ did outlaw soft-cooked eggs in 1992.

The better range was in Barton Hall, next to the public safety offices. 12 point, 50 feet. The other, newer but not as nice, range was in the basement of Helen Newman. Also 50 feet, maybe 8 point. Both were still there in the mid-80s