Good Monday Morning!
There has not been any new content this week. It has been a pretty busy week for us, so I have not had the time to do much else but eat, sleep and work. This is not to say all is lost. The good news is we are moving in to a larger house with a two car garage. A garage to me has never been the place to park my vehicles, it is my workshop space, and I have laid claim to it. Most of the projects done on this site we done in some borrowed space at work. Since changes jobs, this space is no longer available, that and a broken leg, has really slowed me down.
With the additional workspace there are many things I hope to accomplish, the first being getting back to the roots of why I started this website. I truly want to develop a reference site for those engaged on a hobbyist level and those who are professionals. While I worked in the industry a large part of my time was spent collecting data. This data we used for all sorts of things. A particular comment from my boss has always stuck with me. “The amount of data we collected would likely have a tremendous value to those both interested in the industry and those who work in the industry. ” That single comment has stuck with me, and has been the driving factor as to why I created the site in the first place.
While I introduced the concept of the Powder Catalog in September 2019, I have not been able to make much progress. There is a tremendous amount of work to be done here, but it is my intent to work on developing this database, along with a Primer, brass, and bullet databases. The eventual goal is to have a lab set up to do pressure and velocity testing. I am committed to providing the information free of charge, while I may offer items/services for sale at some future date, my intent has always been to develop the foundation and databases first before trying to “commercialize” the site.
There is a lot of work to be done, and it won’t be done overnight, but I feel the move we are making brings me one step closer in to getting these things underway. We will continue to do side projects, some of which are related directly to the site, others not as much. (The VZ-58 build brought a lot of people to the site that might not have otherwise come.) In the meantime I am grateful for the progress we have mad thus far. The site is averaging about 30 views a day, with nearly 11,000 views since it’s launch in September 2019. I know these stats pale in comparison to well established web blogs, but I am humbled to know that 36 people have liked the content enough to subscribe.
I have had a few comments on what appear to be bugs or issues related to the site, one which indicated music started playing when one or some of the pages were opened. We do not have a music plugin for the site, so I am baffled as to how that might happen. I’ll reach out to WordPress and Blue Host to try and resolve some of these issues. I’m still learning a lot about how to run a webpage, so bare with me as we sort these things out.
In the meantime if you have suggestions on powders you’d like more information on, shoot it to me in a email at jayandrew338@gmail.com, or leave a comment on our Facebook page. As we make progress on setting up the shop, there will likely be some pictures posted on Instagram, so follow us over there.
Stay Safe Out There,
The Ballistic Assistant