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The sources I've read all say you can't train your non-dominant eye to be dominant, so the only solution is to teach yourself to shoot long guns from the other shoulder if you want to shoot with both eyes open. This can work pretty well with younger shooters. I'm cross eye dominant, and just finished my 4th year of trying to shoot trap left handed with both eyes open (I'm a righty). I never got my scores up to where they used to be, shooting right handed, with my left eye closed. Apparently, I'm no longer a younger shooter... So for 2018 I'm switching back to shooting right handed and closing my left eye; not ideal, but my grand experiment in switching handedness failed. On the other hand, if I ever find an event that calls for 25 birds left handed and 25 birds right handed, I should be hard to beat.

Indeed. Insulation delays freezing. Better insulation delays it more. But, without heat input into the space, whatever is inside is inevitably headed towards ambient temperature; the only question is how fast it will get there. I'm babysitting a shop heater propped up on box propped up on a plastic bin propped up on a bar cart, blowing hot air through a custom tin-foil duct into the wall where my frozen drain remains frozen. This arrangement is making headway, though it's not something I can run if I'm not home to watch it.

Their website is good for a range overview and for the address, but the Action Pistol info is badly out of date. Once you attend one match, you are on the email list from which you get weekly emails (during their Oct-May season) describing what they are really running on any given Sunday. The email for Sunday 1/7's match is below. I'm not a member of the club, but I plan to get to this Sunday's match, maybe bringing along my nephew. You don't need to call ahead if you're new, but do identify yourself as a new shooter when you arrive; they'll give you a more extended safety briefing. Targets will be steel plates between 6" and 12" or so in diameter, probably shot at 50 feet. You just need to hit them, these won't be set for knock down. Just shoot at whatever pace allows you to hit most of them on the first shot, be safe, and have fun! It's $10 to enter one gun, $5 if you elect to enter with a second gun. No prizes given, which helps keep the match low-key, inexpensive, and beginner friendly, but they will email out match results afterwards. Most of the pistol/revolver shooters will be drawing from holsters, but that's optional, and I highly recommend that new shooters simply start from a low ready position, with their extra mags on the table in front of them. Sometimes they remember to add a small time penalty for shooters who start with gun in hand, sometimes they don't. Again, it's all pretty low-key. ******************************************* Happy New Year, Shooters! This Sunday will be Steel Challenge. Steel Challenge center fire, rim fire, and pistol caliber carbine. 5:00 Registration opens 5:30 Registration closes - no late entries 5:30 First Shot No major or magnum loads. No 230gr 45acp. No shotguns. Minimum 5 magazines or speed loaders. Please register for this week’s match at the following URL for our club: https://practiscore.com/steel-challenge-clone/register You can register with just your name and email, but if you create a Practiscore account you’ll be able to see upcoming matches and get results online as well. We will still collect the match fee and create squads on Sunday night. Registered shooters will have preference over walk-ins. Match closes at 20 shooters. See you on the range!

It might be a little far from you, but Tenafly has (indoor!) action pistol matches most Sunday evenings starting at 5 pm. This week is steel challenge (5 targets per stage, each stage run through 5 times). It's very beginner friendly, and while they'd like you to have 5 magazines for whatever you shoot (centerfire pistol, rimfire pistol, rimfire rifle, pistol-caliber carbine, each with or without optics), you won't need a holster or belt for the pistol events.

Thanks. I’ll try this or the hairdryer Capt suggested. I’ve been directing warm air at whatever exposed pipe I can get to, but didn’t think to direct air inside the pipe. I assume I pump out what water I can from the line first? I believe the frozen section to be 6-10 feet from the trap.

Our kitchen sink drain line froze for the second time in the 10 years we’ve been in the 1890’s house. It’s very hard to get heat to it in the exterior wall, below floor level but still above ground. Last time it took a week of indirect heat and warming exterior temps to get it flowing. This time we don’t have warming exterior temps in the near future. I’ll be back to running the dishwasher drain into a 5 gallon bucket tonight, because that’s easier than hauling dishes upstairs to the bathroom

Not necessarily. It matters a lot to the bullseye shooters While the workarounds you describe are all helpful, the brain likes aligning concentric circles, and a crisp round dot helps a lot in precision events I simply took my dot sight in to the eye doctor and had them fiddle with the astigmatism correction until the dot was perfect, then had glasses made up with thicker (safety) lenses. It added a couple of points to my scores immediately. I’d done the same thing years earlier with iron sights, letting the doc flip lenses around in the machine until the focus on the front sight was perfect. The eye doctor I’m seeing now told me he’d had a few people come in with dots or slides over the years.

Exactly right. The dust hasn't settled from the Equifax and Yahoo breaches, or even the Target and Home Depot breaches that preceded them. 2017 also gave us the Wannacry and NotPetya malware outbreaks, some of the most destructive ever. So why, why, why would anyone go on a hacker website and download software of unknown origin that wants you to enter ALL of your financial information...SSN, spouse's SSN, kids SSN's, birthdates, address, your W2's, 1099's, etc. etc.

The Glock pistol certificate is still for sale for $380. If anyone wants more information, PM me.

Anybody is free to make money shorting bitcoin; if traders are borrowing money and can’t cover subsequent margin calls, replace “professionals” above with “idiots”

When I moved to NJ years ago, NJ refused to recognize my Idaho drivers license when I had to surrender it and get a NJ license. The genius at the NJ DMV said it wasn’t valid here because Idaho wasn’t a state (WTF!!) and the words “Drivers License” didn’t appear on it, even though it was issued by the Idaho DMV and had checkboxes on the back for motorcycle operator, daylight only, corrective lenses required, etc. They told me I couldn’t drive here until I got training and passed a road test with their examiner. i had to argue the point up through two levels of supervisors before they finally agreed I had a valid license and didn’t need a road test.

We’ve got a lot of oversized single pane leaky windows, and when the quotes for replacing them came back roughly equivalent to a year of college tuition and board, we instead got custom cut cellular shades for every window. Unlike pleated shades, cellular shades are double layer and trap air in the cells. They’re all cut to fit snugly in each window, and they do an impressive job of insulating the windows (of course, we don’t raise them much in the winter)

That pisses me off too. International and US law both hold that it is legal to receive any frequency you want (if the transmitter wants privacy, the burden is on them to encrypt). Transmission can be regulated.

You’re right, I didn’t realize one could be pardoned from PTI

Not pardoned, but they could drop the charges.

Is eighteen police officers in a town of 9200 kinda on the high side? Maybe they didn’t have enough to do until they hatched this scheme. And isn't Leonia another north jersey democratic stronghold? Kinda ironic for them to be trying to close the borders and keep out the outsiders.

Heavier guns soak up recoil, so a steel framed 1911 would be perceived as softer—and the triggers are oh-so-nice. A low bore axis will also help, by reducing muzzle flip. I’m not sure which of the steel framed guns have the lowest bore axis

First time we've ever been accused of that!

There have been a few people advertising brass here recently; a search should turn up the names. I don't recall if it was once fired or not.

I won two this year (these are the gun prize certificates Glock awards at the GSSF matches), but I'm redeeming one myself, so I only have one for sale. But it sounds like Matroskin's permit will expire before he could use it, so this one is still up for grabs. I'll get some scans of the paperwork tomorrow and email them to you, if you can PM me your address. I can't attach files of any size to emails within NJGF. These certificates get sold with some regularity on the Brian Enos or the Glock forums, or occasionally here. The scans will show which guns the certificate is good for without upcharge, and what the upcharge is for the models that aren't fully covered. I'll also include a copy of the blank transfer form, and the dealer instructions for doing the transfer.

Probably not. For the prize guns, the dealer can't pull one off the shelf--they have to be shipped from Glock to the dealer (even though there is no difference between the guns).

I don't have one to sell used, but I'm selling a Glock pistol prize certificate for $380 (they're transferrable, Glock includes the transfer form with the certificate). You'd need an FFL to forward the paperwork to Glock, then wait for the gun to be shipped back, so it takes time to receive the pistol, but the price is hard to beat, and the certificate is good for anything Glock makes (with a small upcharge for the G4/G5's, and a larger upcharge for the MOS or longslide models). I'd be willing to meet at the FFL doing the transfer (if in northern NJ) to sell the certificate and you can initiate the transfer from there.

Or you live in NJ.

I don't know that it's the 'old' position. International shooters (Olympics, World Cup, Pan Am Games) mostly shoot bent leg prone, and I think that's the dominant form you'll see at US competitions like Camp Perry. I've not seen any trend away from bent leg to isosceles in the precision events.