Got a permission slip and was able to go to the range today

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Wife gave me a signed permission slip today and I headed to Range 14 @ Fort Dix this AM. I met one of my friends from work and his dad (a former marine) and brought with me 3 garands, SA Inc. M1A, AR15, and a Yugo Mauser. His dad had not touched a garand since 1966 in advanced infantry training. He really enjoyed himself and shot pretty good @ 100 yrds.

They went back to shooting some handguns and I brought out my AR just to double check my sights for a class I am taking next week. So I load in a 30 round PMAG let my friends father have some trigger time, when all of a sudden I notice the "kid" (baggy pants hanging below his but, t shirt 3 sizes to big, and sloppy looking) who is actually calling the line at the range walk over and tell me I can't use my 30 round mag. I explain to him I am an LEO show him my ID. The kid then becomes very befuddled and says well only load them with 15 rounds. This is the first time I have ever been hasseled by anyone at the range let alone some "kid". This totally pi$$ed me off. Well it started to rain and I only got to fire 1 of my garands. I guess it was better that we left, I was about to lose it on this kid. (I forgot to mention he gave me a bunch of grief earlier about my targets, told me I couldn't use plywood as a backer, I told him I'm not and using cardboard) His attitude sucked.

Garands left to right
6 digit SA VAR barrel mixmaster parts
Recent CMP Springchester with birch stock I sanded and refinished
March of 43 all correct SA, just reparked by Shuff, with a boyds reject stock that I finished.

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