Good Monday Morning/Afternoon/Evening
This past week was pretty productive for us at the Ballistic Assistant. In case you are curious, we are nearing 6,000 views to the site. Our main focus has been, and will continue to be, providing content to all of you. Hopefully we will develop the site into a useful resource. There is still a lot of work to be done, but we are getting there. We appreciate everyone sticking with us.
Last week we continued the series of write ups on Handloading Your Way taking a hard look at some of the ways to measure/meter powder. All of this is based on my experience, and this write up hopefully covers the spectrum from the inexpensive, to the border line obscene.
Handloading Your Way: Powder Metering
Unfortunately when tearing down the Mauser Action for the Old Mauser to Scout Rifle build, I made a mistake and torqued the action. It was one of those, “I should have bought the proper tool and not tried to improvise” mistakes. We have sourced a new Remington 700 Short Action for the build, and will continue on. We are planning on doing some things that are outside of normal on this build, look for a Design Evaluation post this week detailing what we are thinking for this build.
We also made some progress with the Spud Gun project, there should be an update coming this week or next. We’ve got the part in to measure pressure, we have a PVC “Gun” put together, and are now just working on the ignition system.
Lastly I wanted to give a shout out to Utah Hyrdo Graphics. They did the paint on the VZ-58, and it came out looking quite nice! We are almost finished with this project, just a few things to be done before we can call it finished. For now, here’s how it looks.
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Have a Good Week!
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