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That's up there with "Do you still beat your wife?"

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osted 02 March 2016 - 01:41 PM raz-0, on 02 Mar 2016 - 12:56 PM, said: New Jersey is the ultimate in "nanny state".

There has been a billboard up on the White Horse Pike (Rt 30) in Berlin NJ sponsored by the ANJRPC for several months. This one says "Your mission: defend the second amendment" with a portrait of George Washington. The ANJRPC has never had a strong presence in South Jersey, and I think these billboards are an attempt to expand down here. Hope it works.

Bit of a ride from South Jersey...

I thought so too....wait till you see the purchase price.....

Did you go during Summer Camp? If your Troop went up there by themselves (outside of the summer camp period), it's doubtful that you would have done anything with Rifle.

Its all good! you're shooting 38's in a 357....Just crimp them right into the cannelure. I can second the comment about beware of double charging...I usually use Bullseye, and double charges are my only real fear. When I am using a single stage press, I will load up 50 on a loading tray and bring them over to a light and look down into EACH case before I seat and crimp the bullet...just to be sure. .

I was up there for summer camp in 2012 as a leader, and as I remember, they had a couple of different makes - *I think* they were mossbergs and savages...maybe a remington, too. I remember they were looking at something newer; perhaps the savage Rascal. All are single shot bolt action, all open sights, all shooting 22 LR. Boy scouts can shoot rifle and shotgun (bow, too), with approved range officers/instructors (NRA Trained). Merit badge work is done at approved ranges only...almost always at summer camp. And yes, most of the younger scouts WANT to shoot. info on the merit badge is here. This is Rifle...its easy enough to find the shotgun. Rifle isn't too hard - shotgun is; mainly because they are shooting clay, and have a mininum number they have to break. https://www.meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Rifle_Shooting Cub scouts can get bb shooting belt loops or patches...I forget which. Archery, too. Explorers - Venturers, or whatever the call them now, are the only ones that can shoot pistol. General info on boy scouts and shooting sports is here: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/OutdoorProgram/ShootingSports/shooting_faq.aspx By the way, Forestburg is a VERY good camp. My only complaint is that most of the camping areas are on top of the hill; the lake, dining hall, and most of the activities is at the bottom of the hill, so plan ahead! Forestberg also offers Ham Radio merit badge, and license training. During summer camp, they even have license exams on thursday night. 3 of my scouts passed W2MC

Not hearing much comment $400?

NJ you need a separate license for smokeless, another for black powder....Typical NJ...tax em to death, then wonder why everyone is moving across the state line.

I know several who have the Ridgeline...It sounds more like what you are looking for Me? I have a Ford F250. On its best day it does about 15 MPG. around town about 13. Towing around 10. But its a truck; not a car. Many of these high-mileage vehicles I could stick in my truck bed...and still get about 15 on its best day, around town 13, and towing around 10. You get the picture. But if I didnt have an F250, I couldnt pull the horse trailer around, haul fencing, posts, lumber, sandbags, concrete, etc etc etc oh, and its a 1999....did i say they last and last and last.

Sounds like fun! Probably bring the new (to me) Beretta!

Done....slid in under the wire! Guess I AM goin hunting next saturday!

I dont know much about the depford PD, and I know even less about Gloucester County and its emergency services radio. I spent about 30 years in burlington county on the vol fire service there, but they went trunking about 10 years ago, so without a trunking radio, all you will be able to hear is dispatch (which never moved from 154.220) and a couple of the fire police frequencies. My club is the south jersey radio association. The club is turning 100 years old this year, and our claim to fame is we are the oldest continuously meeting amateur radio club in north america. Continuously meeting is the key - there are "older" clubs, but many of them are tied to universities (where the membership came and went - sometimes not meeting for years - and others that shut down for ww 1 and ww 2. Anyhow....the web page is www.sjra.org and the testing info is at http://sjra.org/basic-page/amateur-radio-license-exams We test the second wednesday of the month. Have fun! Jon W2MC

Of course....because its a HAND gun...not a HANDS gun. Anyhow - I shot .22 bullseye in college and 3-gun bullseye for a few years afterward. Shooting a "decent" group at 25 yards is not that difficult; it just takes practice. And by "decent", I mean shooting a target where you can cover the group with your fist. Shooting a "competitive" target? A target where you can cover the group with a quarter or a half-dollar? It's NOT easy; but I've met several shooters who can do it. Heck, I knew one shooter in college who, for kicks, shot smallbore rifle targets with a high standard supermatic. And he scored better than half the rifle team!

I'm not looking for a tremendous amount for the radio. Make me an offer

yup - who always wins in the end? The Lawyers.

Yes - What it feels like when you're shooting is the pump comes back a little way; then stops. Some will tell you to polish the chamber....I did that, but the chamber is not the problem. You can test this and see exactly what is causing the problem. With the barrel only (and off the gun) insert a herter shell into the chamber. Take your fingernail and use it like an extractor to slowly pull the shell from the chamber, with a little down pressure toward the feed ramp. Essentially you're mimicing the extractor action. When the brass clears the mouth of the chamber, the rim of the shell will now drop onto the feed ramp (because its no longer supported by the brass, but by the plastic hull). If this is the problem, the rim will drop into the roughness of this unpolished area and get hung-up on the rough cuts. There is an easy fix....polish the feed ramp until the tool marks/grooves/roughness are smooth and cannot grab and hold the rim of the shotshell. I secured the barrel on the workbench, and took an old & tired bore brush that I wrapped steel wool around, and using a drill motor and a short piece of bore rod, worked the steel wool-wrapped brush back and forth until the whole ramp area was polished smooth. Test to see if the tool marks still grab and hold the rim. Keep polishing until they don't. On mine; several of the deeper cuts are still there, but they are now smooth and cannot grab & hold the rim of a shell. EDIT - as I think about it, I think I used a dremel and a felt wheel with polishing compound on it, too. You get the idea...polish, not grind!

Is the brass higher on the Rio than on the Herters? Newer 870 "Express" shotguns have a problem with tool chatter marks on the shell feed ramp. High brass allows the shell to step-over the tool marks...low brass can drop the rim right into a cut, jamming the gun. See this thread for a more complete discussion: http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php/topic/75815-870-ejection-issue/?hl=%2B870+%2Bextraction#entry960259

Oh, I caught the reference...remember, Berlin is the next town over from where I live. Its just not germane to this situation. What keeps going thru my head, as I look at this, is that if our roles were reversed, and it was me caught-up like this jailer...would he have any pity on me, or would he just slam the cell door and walk away.

I wish I had saved the "Rifleman" cover that proclaimed "50 State Concealed Carry".

So the NRA is finally realizing that we DONT have CC in NJ?

Actually, no, Smokin .50. Its not a bunch of crybabies. Its a cry of righteous indignation....what makes his life more valuable and worthy of protection than our own?

I remember; years ago, driving from Vermont into New York, where signs were placed as you were leaving Vermont warning that the Sullivan acts in New York State mandated 5 years for concealed carry----something that was perfectly legal in Vermont. Perhaps its time for Pennsylvania to do the same, as a warning that the draconian laws of NJ don't care who you are, and recognize or reciprocate with nothing not issued by NJ.