monkeylizard

Private land or a private/reservable range would ideal.   Is anyone who is interested in attending a member down at Charlie's in Spring Hill? His upper range would be great for this. If not, maybe someone could give him a call and explain what we're up to. He's a pretty agreeable guy and may say "come on down." He knows what TGO is as we've had a couple of meet-n-shoots down there before. He'd probably charge us $10 or so each if he's willing to let us come without having any members.   http://williamsonshooting.com/contact/

Blunderbuss. Dual action: firearm and smokescreen.

fstbk65, I'm not clear on your post. Are you saying you'd like to join a demo and can bring your cans, or are you offering to host a demo on that private land?         To everyone: I don't think that we're dead set on Gallatin Gun Club. I'd prefer a piece of private land somewhere for both privacy and access issues. GGC seems to be our best alternative to that at the moment though, in order to handle the size of the group.

Whoever has the cheapest cost per round with shipping.   http://gun-deals.com/ammo   If he's OK with steel cased, Wal-Mart has had some 500-ct. spam cans of Tula for $113 out the door over the past few months. Hit or miss on availability.

States you CAN what?   The federal Safe Passage Act applies to transporting firearms from one place where they're OK to another place where they're OK and passing through a place where they're not OK. The OP is not passing through NJ. He's staying there. Federal SPA does not apply.

It was Moonraker. He helped Bond and fell in love with Dolly at the end.   A similar switch happened with his character in Pale Rider, from bad-guy's hired muscle to valuable part of the good-guys' team.

Exactly the quote I was thinking of. :up:

I liked him in Pale Rider and his cameo in Happy Gilmore. I've talked with people who have met him and they all spoke highly of him.

      Marco Polo didn't introduce pasta to Italy by bringing it back from China. It was introduced in the 7th century by Arabs from Libya when they invaded Sicily, beating Mr. Polo by about 600 years.   George Washington did not have wooden teeth. His dentures were made of gold, hippopotamus ivory, lead, animal teeth (including horse and donkey teeth), and probably human teeth from slaves.   The accused in the Salem Witch trials were not burned at the stake. They were hanged or died in prison. They could still turn you into a newt, though.   The Twinkie does not have an infinite shelf life; its listed shelf life is approximately 45 days (25 in its original formulation) and generally remains on a store shelf for only 7 to 10 days. Tallahassee will be continually disappointed.   Bats are not blind. While about 70% of bat species, mainly in the microbat family, use echolocation to navigate, all bat species have eyes and are capable of sight. In addition, almost all bats in the megabat or fruitbat family cannot echolocate and have excellent night vision         This worthless information was brought to you today by the letters M and T and by the number 6.

He has the shiniest AK in the sandbox. :up:

It's mini-Pinkman

Don't forget that wood shrinks with age.

NFC hasn't taken off here because banks charge higher rates for those transactions, the standards aren't completely set (Google vs. Isis vs. merchant-backs standards), and , until now, Apple has stayed away from it. Retailers have been hesitant to employ devices to take payments from phones when the most popular phone in the country doesn't support it and Android is inconsistent across hardware whether or not they support it.   I'm an iPhone user. My bank doesn't issue the magic NFC credit cards, as far as I know. I've never asked, and they've never pushed one. Until now, I've never had the option of using NFC payment. iPhone6 changes that. Apple will create the critical-mass of people needed for retailers to implement mobile readers. Best Buy had them and actually has started taking them out because of the low adoption rate. I suspect they'll be putting them back in.   Sometimes it's not about what a product can do, it's about how it does it. Apple understands that. IBM didn't and it seems Android makers don't either. For every 1 person that will buy a product because it has a 3% performance boost over the last generation of gigawhatsit zippidy-doo-da chipset *eyesglazingover*.....there are 100 more that will buy it because it looks nice and is easy to use. Look at Samsung commercials. They tout the products specs, blazing speeds, huge screens, etc. Look at Apple's commercials. They show people using the products in every day life. Non-Apple people will see their Apple friends using Apple Pay and decide they want to do it too, only to find that the Android-based phone in their pocket already supports it and has for years. They just didn't know it.   My wife asks me how to do something on her Android phone. My parents ask me how to do something on their windows laptop. Neither of them ever ask me how to do something in iPhone or iPad. Go figure.

TBH, I didn't know that a 2x4 wasn't 2"x4" until I was in my late 20's. My dad was career military, so we always rented houses or lived on base and moved every 3 years. There was no construction work of any kind in my youth (or walls any color besides white). If I had measured a gap that was 2" wide and I needed a board to fill it I would have expected a 2x4 to do exactly that, not be 1/2" too narrow.   Now that I know, it's second nature, but I only learned that because my father-in-law is Bob Villa's long lost brother. If I didn't get to learn construction stuff from him, I'd probably have gone my whole life thinking that a 2x4 was 2"x4".   Home Depot and Lowes have a LOT of novice customers. It's not just for the pros. I don't mind Cali making them add the actual dimensions to the labelling. It's akin to a truth-in-advertising issue. I seem to recall seeing the actual dimensions in smaller print on the tags in the lumber yard at my Home Depot, but I can't be sure of that.  The $1.6m fine is B.S.

The difference is that the existing platforms for those thing tend to be disparate and if not difficult to use, then certainly were never mainstream, aside from the growing screens.   Apple doesn't really invent much new stuff. What they do is package up different things together and make them play really well with one another in an interface that's clean, simple, and intuitive. Add in a clever control or two, and it's pure marketable gold. They didn't invent the mouse or the GUI, but they were the first to put them together in a format that was easy to use by people who aren't programmers. They didn't invent the portable MP3 player, but the iPod became the standard by which all others were judged. Why? It was easier to use. They didn't invent the smartphone, but the iPhone is what took that concept to the masses. My parents can use an iPhone. They can also use their iPad mini because *surprise* it works just like their iPhones, which work exactly like every other iPhone and iPad in the world. I can hand my dad my iPhone and he knows how to use it. I can't say that's always true about any 2 android phones/tablets.   Nothing today surprised me. Nothing was a technological breakthrough on its own. But put them all together and the Apple Watch may be the first real wearable that gets widely accepted. We know Google Glass isn't going to be it. The watch and iPhone 6 will certainly be major factors in advancing digital payment methods.

Come back on Thursday. They're sponsoring that episode.

  1961. The original true 2"x4" measurements were for green wood. The boards shrank as they dried, so you never really got 2"x4" for finished products. Different species and conditions of wood shrink differently, so the final product was inconsistent. The current standards call for 1 1/2" x 3 1/2" for the finished dry product. The mills today know how much each species will shrink based on its current moisture content, so they cut the green wood as large as they need to so that the dried product ends up at that 1.5"x3.5" size. Over time the dimensions have changed, but the current ones were settled in 1961 by the Committee on Grade Simplification and Standardization.   You can still get true 2"x4" green lumber. You just won't find it outside of a real lumber yard.   This worthless information was brought to you today by the letters J and Q and by the number 9.*           *Also known as Wikipedia.

    Never. Way too much money to be made there. Keep in mind that California's economy by itself would rank it as #8 ion the world if it were its own county. No major retailer would leave that kind of market over a $1.6 million slap.

AFAIK, what peejman said is correct. You need a NJ license of some kind to possess a firearm. As OS said, the federal safe passage act won't apply since you're not just passing through.   Leave them at home or don't go.

  Maybe. Lots of people said that about the iPad.   Apple did have the Newton, so they're not perfect. We'll have to wait and see. With the cult of Apple being as strong as ever, I say they could put a turd in a white box and people would buy it.

  FIFY!

Don't worry LI0NSFAN, you're not the only one. My TGO set is still sitting in the safe too...along with a couple of other stripped lowers. I have the LPKs for all of them, just haven't taken the time to build them.

YEA! Now that feeling of panic that I get when I reach in my pocket for my phone and it's not there will be combined with that feeling of panic that I get when I reach in my other pocket for my wallet and it's not there.  :panic:   Seriously though, I think it will finally make alternative pay methods take off. We've had various non-cash/non-swipe-card things available, but they haven't been widely adopted by retailers or consumers. This will change that.   As far as the iWatch, at first it seems a bit gimmicky to me, but I can see how in 10 years we'll have wearable technology everywhere and we'll look back at the iWatch and see how it was the first widely adopted wearable. One big problem that I can see is that it will make it easier/more tempting to read texts/emails while driving.....

If anyone's a member at CHMR (formerly Owl Hollow), maybe they could check with Charlie about getting use of the upper range by his house. It's further away for some of us, but it would give the most private setting that I can think of. I know that it's only 25 yards, but there'd be nobody else on that upper range.

I think that we're all clear on this, but to eliminate any misunderstandings, this is a suppressor demo. It's not a free-for-all shooting day.   We'll need to fine tune some details about exactly how we'll structure the demo, but I had something in mind of having two or three lanes to setup on (more if needed), with only one operating at a time so that we can all hear each can. Maybe setting up two similar rifles side by side with different cans to hear the difference between them when that's appropriate. Perhaps Mike can weigh in on this and what may be a good way to setup.   What I don't want to happen is to have us scattered along the range all doing different things. I say that for a few reasons. First I know I want to see and hear every can in every caliber that's being demo'd and I suspect I'm not the only one. Second, we members are responsible for our guests. It's hard for us to be good hosts when we're all scattered around. Lastly, this is not an official Gallatin Gun Club sanctioned event, so we won't have the range reserved just for us. We need to be mindful of any other GGC members who happen to show up.