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Asking for a friend, cough, cough. I should have asked this years ago but I've never gotten to the point where I wanted to travel out of state to shoot a match. What are the rules? Especially for permit states like New York, do I have to go to Pennsylvania and get a non-resident permit and then do one of those classes that gives you reciprocity with a bunch of other states and so on? While avoiding NYC, NJ, and DC like Kryptonite? Or do I somehow get a "match letter" (print it out or does it have to be on stationary and stamped with something?) and bring it along with pistols in locked boxes and separated ammo storage... then I'm good to go once I arrive at the out of state range and only there? What about flying out to Colorado to shoot? Just keep it locked up and carry the match letter? But otherwise like taking a hunting gun out west? I simply haven't seen this addressed anywhere and even the search engines come up with a lot of bogus sounding stuff. Thanks

If you like dramas rent it. Not much action but if you spend the time to watch it then it’s good. Not Rambo

For years I’ve been squirting too large drops of Loc-Tite onto threads which is sloppy. Or squirting a few drops into a blob and rolling threaded parts through it. Maybe covering 50%, sometimes more. When I remove a part I’ll have to wire brush old dried compound off. Whats the sophisticated Enos Expert way to do it right? Secondarily, if I buy a little MagPul rail the bolts will have a thin dried year’s-old coating of thread locker pre-applied. Since it’s already dried on, isn’t it like the dirty parts before I labored to clean? If I just rescrew a bolt with old dried on Loc-Tite on it am I getting nearly the same benefit? Should I not bother cleaning old Loc-Tite off scope rings, etc.?

What’s odd is going to a match without testing the gun and then, it being as whacked as it sounds, not complaining immediately and getting your money back. With such a small community I find it hard to believe they wouldn’t make it right.

Considering this is the Brian Enos forum you should be listening to Brian Eno (Roxy Music, glam rock, weird experimental British rock...). Aren’t they one and same? Google seems to think so. They look similar.

It's out on cable now, I was 16 years old when it happened and I remember thinking the Israelis were pretty bad ass to do something so bold. So it was good to see a well-produced historical drama that explained some of what was going on. However it may not have enough action for some of you guys, it's a drama not a thriller. The strange thing is they incorporated modern dance into it, which really was stupid BUT stay and watch the last post-ending scene with the male dancer because it's f-ing amazing.

Franchi Affinity with mods, slightly more than a M3K but closer to Benelli in quality.

Pretty good action movie for Netflix, stars Jason Momoa (big badass barbarian guy in first season of Game of Thrones, married the hot blonde). Fighting and shooting sequences aren’t absolutely fake or stupid but they do draw some blood. Great Newfoundland scenery too. Wondering what gun the leader of the bad guys is using? FDE and Black, AR furniture but not an AR....

https://www.targetsportsusa.com has been very good to me, especially since I live in NY State. http://www.outdoorlimited.com has been good as well. Both of these for burner Federal or Fiocchi 9mm, 223, and Hornady 6.5 CM. They will also deliver to residences in NYS without any BS. Finding good prices on 12g is tougher especially if you don't like the big box stores or want anything a step better than the cheapest. But there is LGS that serves a lot of sporting clays shooters and half of the times I visit there are usually $55/flats of decent Federal clay loads. I tend to avoid Rio, Estate or Remington Game Loads but for no particular reason other than snobbishness.

My NY beats your California for “worst” losers! There are still a few matches though.

Everything written by Tom Wolfe is great, I think he was the best writer of the last 50 years. TC Boyle (or T. Coraghessan Boyle) is pretty funny. Disgraced former Fox host and colonel Ralph Peters has written a series of fictional novels about a detective involved in the Civil War under the alias Owen Parry. Military and history fans will like them even if the author is a POS. Mark Helprin is a hell of a good writer. Try A Soldier of the Great War. Some of the classic mountain climbing expedition accounts are good, try “K2 the Savage Mountain” and “Games Climbers Play”. It’s a bit morbid but there is an annual “Accidents in North American Mountaineering” that is fascinating.

http://www.redrat.net/work/photographic/homeland_security/collection.htm lol you're paying taxes for this guy to be an artist

When I was new(er) I wish one of the classes or experts offering advice had mentioned the way clothing can interfere with draws and reholstering. And more attention to draws in general. So much emphasis in the general gun world is on concealed carry and wearing your shirt out in order to hide your gun that we may forget that it introduces an extra risk. If I wear a different style shirt every other day then I may be fumbling that much more in a CCW situation. At least if I have a tucked-in smooth shirt for a match it's one less thing to get in the way. At the penalty of showing off my man boobs ;-/ Anyone with a few extra pounds isn't willingly going into a stretchy tight shirt. Maybe start talking about clothing in the various new shooter info pages that float around? I rarely see it mentioned. Anyone know what happened with the ND guy? Is his leg OK? What did they do for first aid? etc.

It'd be banned in knife free England.

Two Atlas Titans

The plastic forearm of the Franchi Affinity moves forward-backward a mm or two with the Nordic tube cranked down, no wiggle or anything that would affect anything in practice. I suspect I could slip a rubber O-ring in there to tighten it up but I haven't gotten around to it yet. Or ever, it's not a big deal but it is irksome. And I seem to remember my M2 had a similar thing. Other niggle is the recoil pad and stock are an odd design that makes it expensive and time consuming to adapt to a gel recoil pad. Far easier to leave it stock and live without the recoil reduction you might gain from a fancy Sorbothane pad. Otherwise I love the Franchi and it shoots everything very well so far. I do have the compact junior stock stock left over, make me a generous offer.

Both Thor and the Khan approve

Use what you've got until you've done a few things. Shoot lots of other people's guns to save yourself the hassle of buying and selling them ?

Yeah stipling takes patience. I wouldn’t cut a hollow plastic stock myself, much less try to grind a recoil pad properly ~ I know the limit of my smithing skills after screwing up several guns. If it’s anything more than assembling an AR or swapping springs in a Glock I give up and pay for a pro.

The Franchi smells like prosciutto when you stipple it. Looks like that top left corner needs more work... it's a two night job to fill it all in. There is a secret compartment in the bottom of the wrist, not sure what to put in it, I think a non-extended choke could probably fit but you'd still need a wrench.

FWIW the Taran Tactical oversized safety drops into the Franchi Affinity but if it rotates (and it can) it could hang up on the trigger housing. 10 seconds with the Dremel will take off a 1/32 of plastic that touches, now the safety rotates freely (which is slightly annoying but doesn't matter).

Yeah I see some nice M4-Scar-oddball electric rifles and for pure fun running around in the backyard range they look like a lot of fun. Wouldn't mind getting a reliable one.

I've had a green gas 2011, performance fell off under 70 and it was unusable under 50. I guess I want an electric pistol but I don't know of anyone who makes a decent one. Does one exist? Any other tips for cold weather shooting? I think I'd have more fun with an electric rifle than a gas pistol that doesn't work 8 months out the year. Any suggestions on electrics in general?

Thanks. Be careful removing material, you can go too far... there are threads about this, how not to ruin your receiver. You're right, the shipping costs of flats of shells make mail order birdshot uncompetitive. I have a local gun shop who will sell flats (cases of 10 x 25 boxes) of birdshot/clays rounds (12g, 7.5 to 8 shot, 1 oz to 1-1/4 oz range or close) name brand ammo for prices similar to the big box stores... $55 to $65 a case or flat. But we have a big community of sporting clay fudds here in the suburbs... look for the place that sells fancy Italian over and unders, those guys shoot a lot. Otherwise most people hold their noses and buy at a big box sporting goods or Walmart. Perhaps if you were a serious clays shooter you'd spend more on target ammo but I don't know anyone who does. People do have preferences based on testing their patterns but when there was the mass ammo shortage a few years back people shot anything. Personally I use mostly Federal, never had a dud and it seems cleaner than the foreign made stuff and it isn't Remington. I don't shoot much but I try to keep 8-10 flats at all times. Those would get me through another ammo shortage or apocalypse if I'm prudent.

Welcome, there is a lot of knowledge here. Well, over there actually, not here with me ?