Everything posted by MauserCollector
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Got Something Awesome from Simpson's
The real pictures as promised. It's the only all matching vz24 Guatemalan I've seen. There were only 4,000 made and a lot less survived. Even less survived matching and in this condition. The correct matching parts are the receiver, barrel, bolt, and stock. Also many parts have the circle Z marking being it was Czech Made. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Cost of Youth Sports Particularly Manalapan Soccer Club
I guess we can agree to disagree. Taxpayers are losing out while a private Corporation GPS is profiting huge and IMO certain board members are enriching themselves personally as well. Do the math average of $1900/player with avg of 15 players per team that is $28,500 per team multiple that by 10 teams that is $285,000. Most trainers that work for these type of organizations make $20/hr. They are providing a trainer for 30 sessions and 50 games at 1.5 hrs each. That is 120 hours they pay a trainer for, $2,400 per team, $24,000 for 10 teams. They rent a school gym for 10 sessions and 5 games at $50 each that's $750 per team or $7,500 for 10 teams. They pay for 4 tournaments because the 5th is held by Manalapan and is free that's another $3,600 per team or $36,000 for 10 teams. They pay ref fees for 15 games at $100 that's $1,500 per team or $15,000. Their total costs are $82,500 for the 10 teams. They don't pay insurance that is covered by the club and the registration fee of $200 players must pay in addition to GPS, they don't pay for fields since MSC has their $1/yr rental agreement with the town. GPS will make $200,000 just off the 10 Teams left in Manalapan. 2 years ago there were 22 Teams. If there still was they would be making over $400,000. While the taxpayers who have paid for the fields at the Rec Center and the schools get nothing. In fact those with children that want to play competitive soccer get less than nothing. They get to travel to another town for their child to play at a reasonable cost. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Cost of Youth Sports Particularly Manalapan Soccer Club
Agreed the exodus will end the club. However the bigger problem is why is it costing so much more in Manalapan than other towns? Are people lining their pockets? Why should the club benefit from tax payers with the use of free fields while an outside organization is profiting? MSC is a non-profit 503c organization it seems the non-profit lines are being blurred yet again. If MSC and GPS want to partner and profit that's fine with me as long as they pay $60/hr for field rentals or whatever the going rate is. Not the $1/yr they are currently paying. Also they need to refile as a for profit organization. Sportika built their facility on land they own. They charge the same as MSC/GPS but again they offer 3 training sessions per week plus in the Winter indoor training on a soccer field, not a basketball court in a school gym which costs a lot less to rent. They are a for profit organization. Their rates should be nowhere near the same. I am against the money grab that has taken over all youth sports. The townships are supposed to be where the children who can't afford pseudo academies and academies can play soccer at a competitive level at a reasonable price. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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The Cost of Youth Sports Particularly Manalapan Soccer Club
I know there are a few members here from Manalapan. I have posted about this on the Manalapan Facebook Pages but a certain supposed Pro 2A member of this forum is Anti 1A and feels it is ok to censor and delete posts on his Facebook Group Manalapan Residents. So I am posting here with permission in the hope others share through their own social media and interactions. Manalapan Soccer Club (MSC) decided a week before tryouts this season to force an outside training organization called GPS on all travel teams U8-U12. There was a meeting at which very few questions were answered. However it was clear what the costs would be. For my younger daughter it would cost $2,300 to continue playing travel soccer in Manalapan, or $34,500 for the team. Her and her entire team decided to leave Manalapan for Millstone where it is costing us $500 each for the season. It is a shame it even has to cost that much for a game that can be played in the Barrios of Brazil with a ball of tape. This decision to force GPS on the families of Manalapan was made by the Executive Board of MSC. This amounts to 4 members. When confronted their answer to many was you have a choice play somewhere else. Many did. A club that used to have 22 Teams U8-U12 now has 10 and no 2006 U12 Girls Team. Now it has come to my attention that not only is the cost ridiculous to play soccer in Manalapan it costs more in Manalapan for the same GPS Program than it does in Marlton or Mantua (Clearview). For the U11 & U12 boys and girls it costs $500 more in Manalapan than Marlton for the same exact thing, and $150 more in Manalapan than Mantua. However in Mantua they get 3 training sessions a week vs 2 in Manalapan. That is 90hrs of paid training vs 60hrs of paid training over the course of the season. There are also 4 additional tournaments which cost on average $900 for a team to enter. Each tournament is 4 games. That is an additional 24hrs of a paid trainer on top of the 30hrs of training sessions or 54hrs more paid training over the course of the season. There is only two explanations why the cost is more in Manalapan. Either the executive board cut side deals for themselves, or they did a poor job negotiating. Either way it is the families of Manalapan who suffer. The MSC is a private non-profit organization, however they receive tax payer dollars in the form of $1 yearly field rentals. If they are going to act like a for profit organization, and force parents to spend thousands a year with a for profit organization, then they should be paying fair value for the field rentals. Below is a cost comparison between GPS in Mantua, Marlton, and Manalapan. The MSC initially replied to me with a lie that Marlton and Mantua are subsidizing the costs of the GPS program. I know this is a lie because I contacted both towns and they are not subsidizing the costs. Why would the soccer club lie? What do they have to hide? Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Gun Law Seminar with Evan Nappen
No thanks. He can't even return a phone call or email. I have zero use for him. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
You quoted too soon I made an edit to post Another Haiku Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
You want something oldWith value with history Not more me too guns May I recommend German, Finnish, World War II Walter or Lahti
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
This thread was fun but... I think it has run its course Fart jokes smell the end Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Boxing Comeback is Over. RIP Boxing. Spoiler
Won't pay for any PPV. I can wait til the replay in the morning or download the torrent immediately after the fight. Boxing was dead then the great white hopes arrived. Now that Klitschko is done and Kovalev was robbed twice the pickings are getting slim. Boxing is killing itself yet again. GGG should destroy Canelo. However I expect some sort of B.S. where Canelo wins. Unfortunately the Eastern Europeans are not drawing enough money fast enough for the boxing world so they will fix the fight and instill their light skinned Mexican as champion. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Dashcam video footage to fight traffic citation?
Absolutely admissible Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Boxing Comeback is Over. RIP Boxing. Spoiler
Exactly was making a comeback. Now we have nothing but hijinks. GGG v Canello should be good. Mayweather v McGregor is a joke. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Boxing Comeback is Over. RIP Boxing. Spoiler
This fight is a perfect example of the biased MSM Fake News. The headlines are "Ward TKOS Krusher with vicious body blows". Below the belt means just that. It is below the naval. It is up to the referee to make the boxers pull their trunks down to that point. You hit below the waist line of the trunks you are hitting below the belt. The headlines should read "Another bad stoppage" "Athletic Commission needs to overturn decision and rule no contest or disqualify Ward". The referee should have disqualified Ward. I thought that's what happened at first because it was the only decision that made sense. In addition to the 3 low blows at the end, Ward threw 2 earlier in the fight. IMO the MSM so biased because Ward is an African American and Kovalev is a Russian. Just goes along with the fake news anti-Russian narrative. Personally I am not a big fan of the Russians, but I can at least be unbiased and call the fight how I saw it and not put out fake news. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Boxing Comeback is Over. RIP Boxing. Spoiler
Spoiler Alert R I P Another either fixed fight or incompetent Ref. How the hell do you stop a fight after 3 consecutive low blows then award the fight to the guy throwing the low blows. Andre Ward earned respect as a puncher, but as far as sportsmanship goes he is as dirty as they come. There better be a third bout and Kovalev better turn it into a street fight from the opening bell. If not the revival of boxing by the Eastern Europeans is dead. I'm sure this was fixed by the regular players. Expect GGG to lose controversial as well. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Transporting a rifle - Hard or soft case
In NJ with FID unloaded sitting on your lap if you so choose. My rifles are almost all collectible so I use hard cases to go to the range but no locks. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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1941 Johnson
Congrats that is on my wishlist. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Mosin 91/30 10 rd mag
Pretty cool. How does it function? I want one of those K98k trench mags. Also saw recently that there is a way to modify I believe M25 mags for AG42B Ljungman Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Ballistol
Hoppes. I also like Ballistol. On newer shotgun I would use Slip 2000 cleaner and lubricant. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
That was a cute one But alas you went too far It is five Not six Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
That's it you all officially need a break from the forum. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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The Official NJGF Haiku Thread
Seriously? Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Great 80s movies no one ever heard of...
Blame it on Rio I remember being on Cinemax all the time along with the Emmanuelle Movies the last few were the 80 s. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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First movie you ever saw in the movies...
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo or Apple Dumpling Gang. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Great 80s movies no one ever heard of...
Maybe not obscure but plenty of eye candy. Hamburger the Motion Picture Hot Dog The Movie Screwballs I & II Last American Virgin Delivery Boys Loverboy Valley Girl The Beach Girls Last Resort Private Resort Spring Break Hardbodies 1 & 2 Porky's, Porkys II, Porky's Revenge I really liked the Porky's Movies so I had to list them twice. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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Great 80s movies no one ever heard of...
A little late to the thread so Bird Prince of the City Lucas Testament Just One of the Guys Talk Radio Angel Heart Some great movie mentioned Porky's, Warriors, and Vision Quest are 3 that come to mind. Porky's, Porky's II, and Porky's Revenge I had to sneak around to see because my parents said I was too young (I was). As a wrestler Vision Quest I watched over and over. Warriors even though released in 1979 was on WWOR almost every weekend throughout the 80s. Warriors broken up by Wild West City and Milford Plaza commercials made for a great Saturday afternoon. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk
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A Big THANKS to Griz and High Exposure!
Hate to say it but I agree with Zeke. Get whatever you want now and you can choose to comply later or refuse to comply. Personally I only own one handgun with a magazine that is more than 10 rounds and that's a Beretta 92. Plenty of good choices out there. I like .357 Magnum Revolver MR-73 or Ruger Service Six. You can shoot .38 and both come in a variety of barrel lengths. MR-73 has the nicest finish of any revolver. Sent from my XT1585 using Tapatalk