My friend has one of those faux "Cookbook recipes for the unexpected guests" books that opens into a little gun safe which I found pretty funny. It's always been out of stock when I've looked for it but looks like they still sell one labeled "bedtime stories for unexpected guests."
Do it, brother. A man finishes the work other men left behind. I recently was gifted a huge lot of vintage watch maker tools and boxes. In among the parts and tools were several homemade tools and all hand engraved with his name. I found, while going through part by part, about four watches he had been working on. All the parts ordered. I guess he never got the chance to finish. So since I'll be using the tools he made, and made his living with, least I can do is finish the projects he wasn't able to. I hope some dude finishes my left behind projects when I'm gone.
It's hard to take the test seriously without ordnance gel which has been calibrated.
I want a six inch small frame 9mm tanfoglio barrel so fucking bad because they will just work in a jericho or baby eagle 3 but all of the ones you can buy are bull barrels or large frame 9mm barrels
There's valuable data in both but the gel test is as sterile as you can get in ballistics for discovering general performance and reactivity and comparing it to something else*. Surgeons and hunters could tell you that there are massive caveats for these but it's a great baseline for which all subsequent shots to be judged by. Materiel disrupting or deflecting the shot may be important but so is striking the target at all and eventually you'll have to account for just about every questionable situation that might be brought up through moving goalposts and by that point you're going to be opening up an even more massive debate. Besides, the rifle is still under constant modification so the results will probably be so far off to not matter at all when we get the eventual M7A3 or what have you.
Bluing is actually pretty easy to do yourself. Rust bluing can be done in a stainless steel pot in your kitchen. Cold bluing paste can look good too, especially on smaller things like pistols though I have done it on full size firearms. I did my fathers super magnum with birchwood-Casey's cold bluing paste and sandpaper because I didn't have my gunsmithing tank at the time. As you can see from the picture, it doesn't quite match the Wingmaster's finish but it is functional. Granted, the super magnum has been carried for a few years at this point but generally cold bluing doesn't get as deep as proper caustic/rust bluing.
Just came back from today. The first lesson was an Sig Sauer .22mm with basic targets and a human silhouette. The trainer said I did well for my first try.
Do you happen to look like this guy?
I never asked the ammo type. They just gave me it. If you like, I could show you the targets after the range.
At least a .22mm doesn't have much kick.
Metric and Inch are heavily mixed in caliber, you'll get the hang of it eventually. Just wait until you learn the numbering for Inch pattern rounds are mostly incorrect and for marketing purposes.
