FN Herstal SCAR

[MikeQuigley]

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[Justin]

I've been looking into one of these for a long time now. A friend has one and I love shooting it, but they're still so damned expensive unless you get one used.

[MikeQuigley]

I probably can't get one here in NJ anyway because of the adjustable and folding stock. I bought an AR with an adjustable stock but it has pins in it so it doesn't move.

[Mike in Denver]

Originally Posted by MikeQuigley

I probably can't get one here in NJ anyway because of the adjustable and folding stock. I bought an AR with an adjustable stock but it has pins in it so it doesn't move.

Old people do this...go off topic to tell a little story. Sorry Mike, but I notice that you live in NJ.

In 1984 or 1985, can't remember exactly when, a company sent me to NJ to start a job with the FAA. I thought it would be near permanent, so I rented out my house in Denver and drove to NJ. The job was to be in Somers Point, so I rented a house in Brigantine. The job never started, but I was out there from September to April.

I'd grown up in Texas and lived for about 6 years in Colorado. I had a number of guns. I didn't want to store them or have a friend keep them in Colorado, so I had just packed them up and taken them with me across the US in my Volkswagen Rabbit to New Jersey. When I rented the house in Brigantine I just put them in a closet, except for the pump shotgun which of course, I kept by my bed.

I had a police riot Ithaca 37 shotgun, a Chinese SKS, a couple of semi-automatics pistols, a bunch of revolvers, some antique guns. I don't know, maybe 12 guns total. Probably 4,000 rounds of ammo.

Now in Texas had the police come into my house and found this, they would wonder if I was a pansy who just didn't much like guns. In Colorado, the cops would shrug their shoulders and consider my guns about average. I wonder what the fuck would have happened if by any chance the cops had come into my house in Brigantine, NJ and found my guns. I'm guessing I'd still be in jail. I simply did not know that any place in the US frowned on gun ownership.

Mike

[MikeQuigley]

That's funny, I was born in Somers Point and lived in Brigantine about five or six different times, first with my family as a kid, then sharing with room mates in my 20s, and then finally my own apartment on 34th st a block from the beach and a block from the Circle Tavern.

[Mr A.Anderson]

Originally Posted by Mike in Denver

Old people do this...go off topic to tell a little story. Sorry Mike, but I notice that you live in NJ.

I had a police riot Ithaca 37 shotgun, a Chinese SKS, a couple of semi-automatics pistols, a bunch of revolvers, some antique guns. I don't know, maybe 12 guns total. Probably 4,000 rounds of ammo.

Now in Texas had the police come into my house and found this, they would wonder if I was a pansy who just didn't much like guns.

Mike

I literally Laughed Out Loud! Great story, Mike.

[Mike in Denver]

Originally Posted by MikeQuigley

That's funny, I was born in Somers Point and lived in Brigantine about five or six different times, first with my family as a kid, then sharing with room mates in my 20s, and then finally my own apartment on 34th st a block from the beach and a block from the Circle Tavern.

This is weird. Very freaking weird. I drank in the Circle Tavern a few times, but it was not my favorite. There were two bars I went into a lot, and I can't remember their names. One was to the right only a mile or so after the end of the bridge coming into Brigantine. The other was almost on the beach, and not too far from the Circle Tavern.

The Circle Tavern had a strange property that I noticed. It had three sets of regulars. From about 11 in the morning until about 6:00 PM the regulars were mostly khaki wearing retired men and fishermen. Starting about 6 until a little past midnight the regulars were fairly normal kids...a lot of whom worked in the Casinos. About 1 or 2 in the morning the normal kids left and the Goths or whatever they are called filled the bar.

Mike

[MikeQuigley]

St Georges Pub is in the little plaza as you get to Harbour Beach Blvd and the one on 44th st down by the beach is called the Beach Bar. There's no shortage of alcohol in Brig. The best one is at the Brigantine Hotel, in the summer they have an outside bar right ON the beach. Drinking margaritas and watching bikinis, life was good.

[Mike in Denver]

Originally Posted by MikeQuigley

St Georges Pub is in the little plaza as you get to Harbour Beach Blvd and the one on 44th st down by the beach is called the Beach Bar. There's no shortage of alcohol in Brig. The best one is at the Brigantine Hotel, in the summer they have an outside bar right ON the beach. Drinking margaritas and watching bikinis, life was good.

The Beach Bar is definitely one of the two I hung out in. I checked it out on the web and it's changed a lot since 1985, but that's the bar. St. Georges Pub doesn't ring a bell. The other bar I drank in was a long bar, attached to a liquor store, and a restaurant. Probably long gone now.

Now I've really taken this thread off-topic. Sorry.

Mike

[MikeQuigley]

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