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Their website doesn't seem to address port sharing, though it does say that for now only immediate family members can be guested in. I can say that last Friday afternoon, there were two guys sharing a gun and a port on the pistol range (one shooting, one seated, then they'd swap). The RO didn't say anything when he wandered by. But for most of the time I was there, they and I were the only ones on the range--can't be sure if things would have been different if the range was crowded or if they'd both been in the port at the same time.

Amen

I've not heard news of indoor ranges reopening, but the North Jersey Clay Target Club in Fairfield reopened today for members. They're not yet reopening to the general public--I suspect they want to see how well they can handle the crowds and social distancing requirements with a smaller group first.

It's about time. Let's light this candle. Godspeed, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken. (space geeks of a certain age will get the two references from the Mercury program)

Nationwide, private transfers account for a lot of guns. Plus everything ever sold before 1968. And everything in those categories legally owned by folks moving into NJ. You don't think Governor Gopher and his lapdog AG are salivating over the chance to mine and abuse that data? Consider how much time and effort they waste trying to shut down legal online ammo sales. Besides, it's none of Zuckerberg's damn business.

I had a great afternoon at the range. Got there just after 2 pm, RO at at the gate asked where I wanted to shoot, I said pistol would be my first choice, but I could use almost any range. I got a 2:30 pm ticket for an hour on the pistol range, and when I asked about other ranges, I got a 3:30 ticket for the plinking range. I got to the pistol range just as they were starting a target change, and since there was space I joined in immediately. The pistol range was close to the max 10 capacity, as was the 100 yard rifle range when I drove by. After pistol, I drove to the plinking range just as two others were leaving; no need to wait till 3:30, there was no one else there. I had it all to myself, and when I left after 45 minutes, I noticed there was absolutely no one on the 200/300 yard rifle range. I checked with an RO, then drove down to hang a target, and spent 45 minutes alone on the 200 yard line. Before leaving Cherry Ridge a little after 5, I drove past all of the ranges again. Plinking had remained empty since I left, the pistol range was down to one shooter, and the 100 yard rifle range was down to three. I don't think the shotgun or archery ranges had a single shooter the entire time I was there. Tomorrow, the range capacity is going up from 10 to 25 per range, so get out there and shoot!

Thanks for the status report. I'm headed there this afternoon, hoping to get on the pistol range, but bringing gear so I can accept any range that is open.

Here's my thinking on the issue. Masks have some effectiveness against Covid-carrying droplet transmission. They're not useless, as some will argue, and everyone knows that they aren't 100% effective. So if I'm out in public where social distancing isn't possible, I'll wear one. If I'm just out for a walk or a drive, I won't. But here's my other consideration. I've long been concerned that it is hard to go anywhere in public without being recorded on multiple surveillance cameras. So when I am wearing a mask (and usually glasses I don't need and a ball cap) in public, I figure I'm also screwing with the surveillance state. And that makes me happy.

It should, but he'd just retreat to his villa in Italy, while waiting for the lawn to be re-sodded at taxpayer expense...

Ah, yes. I've seen a few of those. And I helped build one. Structurally, they're all railroad ties...an enormous number of railroad ties, always with an outhouse positioned on top, and always with a novel method for lighting the thing. I think pallets and anything else the students can find get added to the interior as added fuel. That, and a hundred gallons or so of kerosene and/or diesel. I also saw the one linked below go up in 2010. I was right up against the fence, waaaaay too close, but I had no idea how they were going to light it. It was pretty impressive. And these are built by the freshmen! Rose-Hulman 2010 bonfire-explosive ignition The year before that, the bonfire was comparatively small, but the engineers built a freakishly-accurate trebuchet to light it. Rose-Hulman 2009 bonfire

Fair point. I sell fewer and fewer things on Craigslist, for exactly the reasons you mention. And it's very possible I have such great success with Craigslist Free because I either don't have multiples, or I've only got a couple, not huge numbers.

This. Every time I've got crap to get rid of and I'm contemplating having to buy a bulk waste disposal permit from my town, I first list it in the free section of Craigslist. So far, I've not found anything that someone won't take, and since it's free, there is no time wasted negotiating price, and I don't even have to be home when they come to get it. I just leave it on the lawn. And then it's gone.

I guess no one has wanted to waste the effort to take it down. But someone did take down the speed limit sign that used to be there. :-)

Even that isn't guaranteed. I live on a road that years ago was reclassified by the town from public to private (one of a couple of dead-end roads they did this to, affecting maybe two dozen houses). As far as anyone can tell, it was a cost saving measure, as the roads were in awful shape, and the town didn't want to re-pave, though it also let them stop providing leaf pickup and snow removal. I wasn't here when that happened, but all attempts to fight it at the time failed. So now we have to pay for those services out-of-pocket, and two years ago the road I'm on finally got to be so bad, so unpatchable, that the six homeowners who live on it ponied up the money to have it re-paved. Not an inexpensive undertaking, and my blood still boils when I drive to the end of our privately funded road and see the public street sign the town left up. And you can be sure the bastards who abandoned the homeowners here did not reduce our property taxes by one damned dime.

This should get the outdoor match season back underway, in some form or another (I'm mostly looking at the GSSF match in Jackson in June; one of the few early summer matches that Glock didn't cancel or postpone). But, my home range is indoors, so I can't practice-beyond dry firing-for the outdoor matches until the indoor ranges reopen.

Yep, but then governor gopher would issue an executive order outlawing iron and aluminum. He's not one to give much thought to downstream implications of what he does.

So very true...

Are there any left? I'd heard someone was buying 'em all up.

That's the correct explanation. Sometimes even gunshop babble gets it right.

Weird. A month or more ago, ground beef was really hard to find in Morris County. The last few weeks, it's almost always in the stores, and prices aren't too bad. Chicken is much harder to find right now.

I...I don't remember. It's been so long since I've seen chicken in the store.

That is indeed correct, just requires some unit conversion to get to ft-lbs, because the imperial system of measurement is stupid. What weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

No, that's the universal gas law. Boyle's is P1V1 = P2V2 You've been away from the subs for too long

If that's the purpose, wouldn't you put beans in it?

I don't have a good answer. I mostly try to pick up only my own brass, which limits (but doesn't eliminate) mixing of calibers in what I bring home. There are a few commercial solutions out there (Google hits for brass sorting) but I've no experience with any of them. I'll be curious to hear if anyone has a strong recommendation. And yes, sorting by head stamp really sucks, especially with 5.56/223, or 9 mm if you are trying to get rid of the military brass with crimped-in primers. What sucks even more is finding and destroying the *#&!#* small primer .45 brass that finds its' way into your .45 brass supply.