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Thanks! Wish they came in a blued finish, but at least I now know where to find one.

Are those extended cylinder latches available as an aftermarket part? If so, from whom? I've been unable to find them.

I quite agree! Every time I drive to the airport I'm reminded of how thankful I am that many of the folks in cars will never have a chance to be so inept in the air. Hadn't seen the Maverick before. Been reading about the Terrafugia for years, as it's been 'almost' ready for sale since about 2007...

Not yet, but they've applied for it. They are asking for an almost 40% increase in the allowed weight for a light sport aircraft, so I'm not optimistic...but it will at least likely reach the market within a year--just not under LSA rules. For the curious: http://www.terrafugia.com/aircraft/transition

The storm of the century dropped 2 1/2" here...3/4" of that during the overnight hours when the most deadly effects of the record-breaking blizzard were to hit. And last night I'm pretty sure I heard one of the talking TV weather heads referred to this as a possible extinction event... (after all of the other superlatives had been used up)

I've always had good luck anticipating what I want to buy by 4 or 5 days and using the free shipping option. Even cheaper!

China isn't part of the North American Free Trade Agreement. If you are referring to international trade in general, it predates NAFTA by quite a bit. I'm not saying this sounds like a good idea, mind you; I'd rather my chickens were processed locally...but if I was the business owner, I wouldn't be happy if the government was all up in my business, restricting sale and purchase, requiring all manner of permits, likely subject to bureaucratic whim and capricious delays...arguments familiar to us here.

Spoiler alert: the bear wasn't talking on a cellphone. ;-)

I've only gotten over there once, and it was more than a year ago, but at that time he had a sign posted explaining the supplemental purchases needed in order to buy powder or primers. I don't recall exactly how it worked; no idea if it is still current practice-sounds like it isn't.

If I felt I needed one... ...I'd be shopping for a new range, not a new vest.

The Christie administration is responding to Operation Fast and Furious?

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It would give one a rough idea, certainly, and for real-world scenarios I could see different distances being more relevant. But, 40 yards is the accepted distance for formal patterning, that extremely tedious activity where one fires a round, draws a 30" circle to contain the most pellet holes possible, then counts the holes in the circle and compares it to the number of pellets in an average shell of that loading. Then one repeats the process a few times. This determines the actual choke performance (Full, Mod, etc), which may or may not agree with how the choke is labeled. It also gives you an idea of how uniform the pattern is from a given choke (they vary), and where the pattern is relative to the aim point (on a trap gun, one usually wants it to be high, (often 60% above, 40% below the aim point, but different shooters have different preferences). My understanding is that not all of this scales linearly with distance, so folks stick with 40 yards. I haven't done it for years, I'm not looking forward to it very much, but it's a new shotgun I plan to use for competition, so I plan to suffer though the counting...

Mr. Montgomery doesn't live in America. He lives in NY. Hope he's awarded court costs after what will probably be a long and expensive fight to get his firearms back.

Dave, Thanks for the offer! I may yet take you up on it, but as you say, it is a haul to get there for me. For the moment, I'll look for a closer option, but keep this in mind. The league shoot sounds like fun. Is it trap, 5-stand, or something else?

Hi, I've got a new shotgun I need to pattern for trap. I have a handful of load/choke combinations to test, and will probably need to shoot at least 20 patterning sheets, at the standard 40 yard patterning distance. The question is, where? Does Cherry Ridge have a pattern board, or allow one to be set up, on their 5 stand range? I don't get there too often, so I don't remember. Their other ranges wouldn't be practical on a weekend, when they call a cease-fire for target change every 30 minutes, since I need a new patterning sheet after every shot. I never bothered to get a NJ hunting license, so the WMAs are out, although I guess I could wait until the next NJGF shotgun shootout. I'm a member at North Jersey Clay Target Club, but they inexplicably set their patterning board in concrete less than 25 yards from the back of the trap fields--40 yards would put me well back in the parking lot, so that's not an option. Do other trap clubs in the area have patterning boards? Thanks in advance...

So leave the ez-pass home that day.

I'd happily shoot up a bunch of this were it available...but I do object to the name If it is in a bulk pack, it is NOT match or target ammo!

Don't Bilco doors usually lock from the inside?

I confess, I had no idea such things existed. While I've never seen a modular safe, I feel more comfortable with a traditional safe---but I've also had to pay to have mine moved twice, and the moving costs now exceed the cost of my safe, so I see the attraction of a modular safe. Are the seams nearly seamless? Minimal risk of getting a pry bar in?

Boonton, not so much. No extra paperwork, but good luck getting the appointment they require in order to apply. Good luck getting the appointment they require to pick up the permits once issued. The deliberate foot dragging adds another 4 or 5 weeks to the process.

Griffin and Howe In Bernardsville doesn't ask for any anything, plus you get to wander among the racks and pick up and examine whatever* strikes your fancy. If you haven't been there, it's worth the trip. OK, nearly all of their inventory is high-end eye candy I can only drool over, but after walking in and shouldering a $98,000 Holland and Holland without producing any paperwork, I find it really annoying to have to jump through all the hoops before I can handle some old $200 beater pump gun at another shop. *Not quite everything is on the racks, the guns above $100K seemed to be in cabinets. Priciest one I saw was a $299,000 Perazzi set. Egads.

Greenspan, in parsippany. I brought in an ultra dot sight and he worked the lenses until we had eliminated all traces of astigmatism, then built the prescription into thicker safety lenses for shooting.

As is so often the case, it depends on your frame of reference. A bullet NEVER rises, relative to the axis of the bore. It is dropping from the instant it leaves the muzzle. It will often rise, initially, relative to the ground, because the muzzle is angled upward to allow for bullet drop.