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I prefer opposite side for the mag, but a lot will depend on where you wear the holster. For a righty, it'll be hard to get to a mag worn strong side if the holster is at 3, 4, or 5 o'clock.

I picked up this 5.11 leather belt, because it doesn't look too tactical. No real-world experience with it yet, but it seems well-made. 5.11 gun belt

NEBS doesn't have one on their calendar this year, which is a shame because it was an exceptional (and low-cost) event. NEBS event calendar Mason-Dixon BBQ has a few boot camps still coming up this year, but all are sold out for 2022. I recommend them highly, if you can register next year. Mason-Dixon BBQ boot camp You can search for events and classes on the KCBS website, but I know the list of BBQ classes is very incomplete. https://mms.kcbs.us/members/evr_search.php?org_id=KCBA Still, they don't come up often in the northeast. The third and final NJ competition of the year is the Red White and Que contest in Jackson, in October. https://campgroundbbq.com/red-white-q

That episode aired Monday evening, I think they replay it a couple of times this week before the next episode airs next Monday. The show website may have the full schedule. Enjoy! They spend a good bit of time talking about the tradition of Texas brisket.

I've no experience with the range, but I was fascinated when I visited the gunsmith shop at Colonial Williamsburg. They build flintlocks using only tools and techniques available in the 18th century. Really beautiful guns, they only turn out a couple a year, and sell them for big bucks to collectors. https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/locations/gunsmith-shop/

I’m pretty sure it won’t be me, but I want to recommend a most excellent new BBQ show, in which I might have appeared way in the background of an episode filmed in NJ, had I not been travelling that weekend. BBQ USA premiered recently on the Food Network, and I highly recommend it! https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/bbq-usa Chef Michael Symon travels to some of the biggest BBQ competitions in the US, and usually follows the progress of four teams over the weekend. He really captures what goes on at a BBQ contest, from prep, cook, judging, regional variations on Q, etc. I’m enjoying it more than BBQ Pitmasters, as that show stages a competition just for purposes of the show, and they make up a few rules as they go along. Anyway, there are six episodes this season, filmed at: Rythym and Ribs BBQ Festival, Tifton, GA Olathe BBQ Championship, Olathe, KS Cedar Fest BBQ Cook-Off, Cedar Park,Texas @Displaced Texan, you'll get a kick out of this one Smoke on the Falls Competition, Gadsden, AL New Jersey KnoQ-Out, Blairstown, NJ Memphis in May, Memphis, TN The first three episodes have already aired, but they are re-running them, and they are probably available on demand. The one I’m really looking forward to is the one filmed in April, at the New Jersey KnoQ-Out competition in Blairstown, NJ. That was a full two-day competition, with 50 Masters teams (chicken, ribs, pork shoulder, brisket) plus a couple of dozen teams in the backyard division (chicken and ribs only). It airs on Monday August 8 at 9 pm.

I see you are new to the state. Welcome to NJ! Sorry, you are of course entirely correct. They shouldn't vary from county to county. Or from town to town--we see a lot of that as well. Indiscriminate fabrication of arbitrary requirements isn't legal. But it remains pervasive in this state, with but minor progress being made to remedy it. The state has no interest in fixing the problem, and probably would prefer to see it become worse.

I did another practice cook yesterday, still working on competition chicken thighs. They're a stupid amount of work, and I'm still tweaking the flavor profile so far from done with finalizing my comp recipe (even though yesterday's weren't bad at all!) But, since had the smoker running anyway, I took the opportunity to make a BBQ Bourbon Baked Bean recipe I'd been meaning to try. https://heygrillhey.com/pork-belly-bourbon-baked-beans/ I cut the recipe in half, and started with dry beans instead of canned. So...1.5 lbs pork belly and about 3/4 pounds of dry beans. Seemed like a pretty good ratio! Pork belly smoked for two hours, then braised for two more, beans soaked overnight then added for the final two hours of the cook They were tasty!

I'm thinking along similar lines. I plan to do a full HQC-1, largely because I live in a very obstructionist town, and I want to give them one less excuse to hold up my permit processing. Also, your point about it giving a prosecutor one less thing to have fake histrionics about should I ever find myself in court is a good one. Same thing with reloads. I'm practicing with reloads that approximate my planned carry loads, but I won't carry reloads. There is a cost associated with shooting enough of the premium factory ammo to make sure it runs well in the gun, but beyond than that my lifetime cost for premium ammo used in CCW is very likely to be $0

I got one of these so that I'd have something for qualification. Single mag carrier I haven't spent any time with it yet, but it's cheap enough at $20, can be set up for IWB or OWB, clips over the belt so you don't have to thread the belt through it, and it comes in four sizes, which are then further customized by adjusting an internal retention clip to fit the specific magazine you plan to carry.

I'm favoring 4 o'clock carry, with the grip canted well forward. It prints less behind my hip, and the forward cant reduces printing even more, and also puts the grip right where my hand naturally goes when I reach for it.

Far more enlightening are the actual data from the big global trials. Clinical trial link for Recovery trial, on hospitalized patients Trial summary, HCQ failed in hospitalized patients Clinical trial link, for ORCHID trial on hospitalized patients Trial summary, HCQ failed in hospitalized patients Clinical trial link for post-exposure prophylaxis Trial summary, HCQ failed to provide protection post-exposure Another clinical trial link for post-exposure prophylaxis Trial summary, HCQ failed to provide protection post-exposure Clinical trial link for pre-exposure prophylaxis Trial summary, HCQ failed to provide protection pre-exposure To make sense of the data published on the Clintrials site, these free courses will help Introduction to applied biostatistics Interpreting randomized clinical trials

Can’t happen. You can’t expunge more than one crime and three disorderly persons offenses in this state. Those are pretty generous limits, in my opinion. https://www.njcourts.gov/selfhelp/expungement.html While the OP is undoubtedly a troll, denying permits to repeat offenders is how the system is supposed to work.

Now ask your friends in constitutional carry states what hoops they have to jump through.

Well, he was in a donut shop, so it all seemed plausible.

Here is the latest incomprehensible plan cooked up by the Biden administration: Biden administration proposes removal of four major hydroelectric dams So Biden is committed to ending our dependence on fossil fuels and converting us over to an all-electric economy. He acts like he is trying to do this by the end of the year, so abrupt are his policy changes. But, the big hydroelectric dams on the Columbia and Snake Rivers interfere with salmon migration. That's absolutely true, relatively few salmon make it past the fish ladders and big oxygen-poor reservoirs above the dams. I'd love to see the salmon runs restored; my home turf is upstream from those dams. But the dams (and locks) also make it possible for ocean-going vessels to make it all the way upriver to Lewiston, Idaho, an actual seaport, 465 river miles from the Pacific ocean. From Lewiston, vast quantities of wheat, timber, and other agricultural products are shipped from producers in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. Estimates of the cost to replace the (cheap, and relatively green) hydro power generated by those dams range from $11 Billion to $34 Billion dollars, with the various proposals never actually addressing how that lost electricity would be generated. But the administration does have a plan for moving the 800,000 tons/year of products that could no longer be moved by ship and barge. Diesel trucks and locomotives.

So the contents of the letter are bogus? That is consistent with the advice to disregard. But, 'Sent out by an unauthorized person' could also mean the letter is real, but not authorized for distribution outside of official channels.

The renewal letter says you can watch the video and complete the application from a PC, but it is unclear as to whether you can upload a picture from there, or still have to send one in. And I haven't yet started the process. The website is http://bcd.utah.gov

I like what Utah is doing with the latest renewal (mine is due by the end of the month). With a smart phone, you can watch the newly-required firearm safety and suicide prevention video, fill out your renewal application online, enter your credit card number, and take your passport-sized photo with your phone. No paper, nothing to mail. Renewal for non-residents is $25, and is good for 5 years. The paper process still exists if one prefers, but it requires mailing in the application and a photo. Straightforward, no vague requirements, and so much simpler than the nonsense NJ put in place.

I'm back from the Mason-Dixon BBQ Brisket Bootcamp. It was a lot of fun, and very educational. I highly recommend their bootcamps (held at their shop in Greencastle, PA) if you can manage to get into one--they sold out for 2022 a couple of months ago. We started at 6 am. They had 23 smokers available, from Weber Kettles used for indirect cooking up through big stick burning offset smokers and a couple of pig roasters. One student had dropped out, so we had 19 students, and 22 briskets, each about 14 lbs. I opted to use a Backwoods cabinet smoker, which worked out very well, burning lump charcoal with apple wood chunks. A local butcher took us through the anatomy of a brisket and gave tips for trimming one, then a competition cook took us through another one with more of an emphasis on trimming for competition. Each student received a different premixed injection and paired base rub (the base rubs, SPGs, are all variations on salt, pepper, garlic). We then picked an overlay rub. Briskets were prepped by 8:30 am, and on the smoker grates by 9:30. This was the 'hot and fast' class, so smoker temps were in the 275-325F range, depending on the smoker. The beer, which started flowing at 8 am, helped keep the cooks from overheating. They had a handful of staff members circulating all day, helping out and answering questions. The youngster on staff had recently been accepted as a student at the Culinary Institute of America. Downtime, both morning and afternoon, was spent cooking brunch and lunch on the smokers or a Blackstone griddle. We made omelette cups, french toast roll-ups, biscuits and gravy, sausage queso, quesadillas, cider-braised kielbasa, and probably some things I've forgotten. All were excellent. Just past noon, the briskets were pulled when they hit 160F or so, and wrapped in foil to which nearly a quart of au jus plus leftover injection was added. Back onto the smokers for a couple more hours. When tender, they were pulled to rest wrapped in towels for 45 minutes, then the points were separated to make burnt ends, cubed, tossed in sauce, and put in foil pans to return to the smokers for half an hour to set the sauce. Half an hour after that, the flats were sliced, and returned to the juice in the foil to stay moist. Both burnt ends and sliced flat were the best I've ever made, and the brisket was done in just 6 hours! I came home with nearly all of the brisket, and all the gimmes from the class; knife, hot gloves, injector. Plus, I got to sample probably 20 rubs and a dozen sauces...before heading into the extensive shop to buy my favorites. The picture from their 'sauce room' shows maybe 1/3 of the inventory. I've attached a few photos.

FINALLY, we can own slingshots!!

I assume these are the 5.11 leather belts? I just bought a 5.11 nylon belt, thinking it might be useful for casual summer carry. It's fine as a belt, but it's pretty flimsy--no real resistance to twisting or bending. It was inexpensive enough that I may keep it as a belt, but I don't see it being useful as a gun belt.

I just read a form letter that Mom (in Idaho) received from their Governor. It begins: “Dear Fellow Idahoan, Idaho leads the country in economic prosperity. For the second straight year, we achieved a record budget surplus.” It goes on to announce permanent tax cuts and a 12% rebate of taxes paid last year, because that money really belongs to the people Mom’s check was enclosed. It’s a rather different approach than that taken by the greedy bastards in Trenton.

I used to fly out of Newark with some regularity with handguns, but it's been at least 10 years. I'd get there plenty early, and bring with me copies of the airline policy on checking guns, and the Federal law that backed up the airline policy...because occasionally you'd get a ticket agent who was convinced that it couldn't possibly be legal, and you need to be able to convince them that they need to check with a supervisor instead of just telling you 'no'. But usually it was straightforward, at least back then. Assuming they still use the orange 'Firearm' tags that you sign certifying the gun is unloaded, etc, those tags go INSIDE the suitcase. Many years ago they had to go on the outside, which was like a big fluorescent 'Steal Me' sign on your suitcase. That policy changed to inside-the bag quite a while ago, but you don't want the one agent who didn't get the memo to put it on the outside of your bag. I wonder if shipping the air pistol is an option? NJ would probably consider it illegal, as they pretend it's a real gun, but wherever you are going almost certainly knows better...and the Feds don't care. But that might leave you with the problem of getting it back into NJ, if that is your intent. If it's a one-way trip for the air pistol and if you aren't too far from PA, I'd consider driving across the border and mailing the gun, especially if you can use a non-NJ address for the return address. It IS legal to ship long guns to yourself...not sure about handguns. USPS and UPS both allowed it, though again the counter clerk will be convinced you can't do it, and someone is going to have to look up the law for them. Shipping to yourself, if you are physically present from where it is sent, and then are physically present to receive, is legal because it is NOT a transfer.

I've seen it too. My last renewal had to be expedited because I had a business trip coming up to a country that required the passport be good for at least 6 months after arrival. That's not uncommon, but I didn't realize it at the time. I had the photos taken at Walgreens and Fedex'd them off with the renewal paperwork...and just days before my trip, they were rejected (too dark, and dimensions slightly off). So I had to repeat the process. My passport finally arrived just hours before I was to board my flight. Way too stressful...and expensive. Always check the passport expiry requirements of the country you are visiting!