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I put in 3'-4' green giant arborvitae a couple of years ago. The deer ate them down to stumps. A couple of new decorative pear trees, too, which I'd surrounded with (admittedly light-duty) fencing. The knocked down the fencing, and ate the bark off of the trees, killing them. They also eat our Yucca plants, and every winter they strip all the leaves they can reach off of all of our holly bushes. They seem to enjoy the taste of deer-repellant spray. The deer in our neighborhood are right out of a Steven King novel...

Rather than me trying to put it in words, you'll be better served if you do a google search on 'Damascus barrel'. View images to see what they look like (they have real character) and read the description of how they are made to see why they look that way.

Very sorry for your loss. The shotgun must have some identifying marks on the barrel, maybe on the stock or buttplate, no? Anything? Damascus barrels should be identifiable just by looking, and would typically preclude use of modern ammo, just in case you find replacements for the hammers. Old family heirloom guns are intrinsically cool.

Will it still come with that inimitable Glock trigger, that feels like someone took a 1911 and coated all the trigger internals with marshmallow fluff and sand?

Well, you could get shot down. Fortunately, no one has been trigger happy yet. It's a pretty serious violation, though I've not heard first hand what has happened to anyone locally who violated the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR). The pilot would certainly have some explaining to do...sometimes almost immediately, as the intercept will instruct the pilot to land at the first available field, other times the pilot may be allowed to continue to their destination, but upon landing there they'll be questioned by local authorities. For a first offense, my impression is that a 90 day suspension of the pilot certificate is typical, likely followed by a '709 Ride' with an FAA examiner before pilot privileges are restored. The NJ TFR has an inner 10 mile 'no-fly' ring, and an outer 30-mile 'lotsa lotsa restrictions' ring. It may matter which the pilot violated, and why. Pilots are required to get a flight briefing before every flight, which is one way you'd find out about the TFR. Briefings are recorded or logged, so if a pilot fails to get one, penalties may be worse. If, on the other hand, the briefer fails to mention the TFR (it's happened), the pilot may very well be off the hook. FAA Intercept procedures are here: https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2015/media/Intercept-Procedures.pdf After 9/11, they really started making sure pilots knew them. For awhile you had to state for the record on every briefing that you were familiar them--kinda sobering, I thought.

Being willed a firearm or bringing it with you when moving here from out of state are perfectly legal ways to be in possession without ever having obtained a permit.

I'm still curious about this as well. I assume there is at least a perceived advantage for some, but they just look.....wrong.

When I bought mine, the store had recommendations for local safe movers. Unfortunately, I no longer have any idea of who I used...

Purdy gun! i can't answer the frame question from memory (others here can). But, that grip comes off with removal of a single screw. Not a bad thing to do from time to time, so you can wipe down the frame under it with a light coat of oil. It will also provide the answer you seek.

It was a joke. Here's another: Do you know what the penalty is for bigamy? Two wives.

Generally, yes, there is a strict possession limit for wives. Parts of Utah are considerably more lenient, though.

If you are ordering from Amazon, and click through the ANJRPC link on their home page (http://www.anjrpc.org/default.asp?), they get a little sliver of the proceeds from Amazon. A no-cost way to support the state association. I don't believe you have to be a member of the state association in order for it to work.

Not a lot of moving target options around here...Bianchi Cup matches have a mover, a cardboard target that zips across your field of fire, as one of the stages. It's fun, but Bianchi cup matches are kinda hard to find, and real ones aren't beginner friendly. Movers will show up in other action matches, but you wouldn't usually know in advance if a given match has moving targets or not. The Tenafly Gun Club includes Bianchi stages once a month, in their winter/spring action matches on Sunday evenings. It's a beginner-friendly environment; normally you would start with a draw from a holster, but since it's an inexpensive match and they don't actually award prizes, I doubt anyone would care if you started out holding the gun. Check out GSSF for a very beginner-friendly introduction to action shooting. The Glock matches are action shooting with the training wheels still on; the course of fire never changes and is always known in advance, you always start out holding your gun (no holster work) and you never reload with the clock running. One stage, one magazine. There is a GSSF match in Topton, PA next weekend. The downside is that they make you shoot a Glock...it's a marketing event for them, so other makes of handgun aren't allowed. There are a few unofficial Glock matches around--the Riverdale, NJ club runs one in the winter--that follow the same rules, but let you shoot anything you want. Back in the day, when I still lived out west, we'd roll old tires down hills out in the desert and blast away. Good times.

I'll start with the usual caveat about always doing reliability testing with any ammo you plan to use for defensive purposes... But a Mossberg 500/590? Like any pump shotgun, it should be completely reliable when fed anything remotely resembling the size and shape of a shotgun shell of appropriate gauge. I'm betting it will work just fine.

Very good points, Bob, I once got a good deal on ammo from a forum member here, selling for a friend, who had gone to the store and purchased two boxes of Remington 22-250. The friend thought he had bought 500 rounds of .22 LR. It must have been a shock when he finally opened the boxes. At least there was no danger of inadvertently chambering the wrong round. And yeah, I can kinda see how a casual shooter with a .22 LR might have looked at the boxes and made the wrong assumption about what they contained.

I've always wondered if that stuff actually worked. Gasoline is a really good solvent; I don't know what you could dissolve in gasoline to make it an even better solvent.

He's in Bedminster until Aug 20, so there is a 10 mile no-fly zone, and a 30 mile highly-restricted zone until then (and every time he visits). It really sucks to be an airport, flight school, student pilot, or private pilot in NJ right now.

Why?

It's right up there, but it's so hard to choose the single dumbest gun law in NJ. Would it be... Needing a permit to purchase in order to retrieve your consignment gun from the dealer? BB guns are defined and regulated as firearms? You can't have a bayonet lug on a semiauto? You must pin an adjustable stock on a semiauto, but it doesn't much matter where you pin it? Slingshots are illegal? You can buy, sell, use, and transport to the range hollow points, but you can't move them to your new house? That thing on the end of the barrel of your semiauto may or may not be legal, depending on some unspecified diameter of the hole in the end, and what the manufacturer happens to call it in their marketing materials. You can't stop to pick up a gallon of milk at the A&P on your way home from the range if you are transporting a handgun? Or something else entirely?

Back in the day, pilots would have needed a radio operator's license, but that requirement was dropped for domestic flights some time ago. More recently certificated pilots won't typically have one, unless they plan to fly internationally. I don't know how to go about checking with the FCC to find an old license.

Our tax dollars weren't accomplishing much. The 30 mile Temporary Flight Restriction that surrounds and follows whomever happens to be POTUS inconveniences thousands of people, and puts small airports and flight schools on the verge of bankruptcy if they are unfortunate enough to be near a presidential vacation spot . It's security theater, just like the TSA inspections at airports. It's supposed to make people feel better, but it doesn't really do anything useful. First, commercial airliners--you know, the only planes that have ever actually been used by terrorists to inflict damage--are essentially exempt from the regulations. The average light plane, which might have 200 hp or so up front and be capable of almost-but-not-quite keeping up with a box stock Corvette, are the ones getting run down by all of that multi-million dollar military hardware. Second, these intercepts often don't happen until the plane is right over the target. In the photo in this thread, the plane is reportedly right over the golf course where Trump is a spectator. A couple of times a weekend, a light plane flies right over Bedminster or Mar a Lago or Camp David or wherever the active TFR might be. The military isn't preventing a light-plane threat from reaching the President, they are chasing away planes already shown to be non-threatening. Is that really worth the enormous expense? I'm not defending the pilots; TFRs are published (though sometimes on extremely short notice) and pilots are legally required to get a flight briefing before they fly--at which time they would be alerted to a TFR. I am suggesting that the TFRs could be a lot smaller, and a lot less restrictive, without much impact on security, or the theater in which we view it.

The claim is that tax funds aren't used; it's all funded by forfeiture funds seized from criminals. But yeah, the state spends a lot to seize those funds, and in my opinion they do tend to overuse the forfeiture statute at times

I'm also wondering if they'll pay out for a non-functioning air rifle.

And then there's this option: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4692566/How-FAKE-BOOBS-save-life.html "Having them fitted could be the difference between life or death, experts say"

I'd been guarding my schedule hoping I'd be able to make it (admittedly, I originally thought it was in Chester, which isn't too far, as apposed to Chesterfield, which is), but it's not in the cards for tonight. Have fun--it should be a good time.