Nice! Sean, have you tried coneing your freeze plugs? Its simple to do, just put a ball bearing up against the hole and squeeze in a vice. The plug o.d. will change unless you put the plug into something to keep it from it, like a section of pipe about 1/2" long fitted so the plug just fits inside. I'm sure this is old news to you anyway, but I'm just starting to wrap my head around this stuff. Here's at sloppy drawing of what I mean. I tried it and it makes beautiful cones.
i purposely left this a "flat" set up just to see how much difference there would be. it was more just seeing if this would work with the pressures & so on .... you cant trust anything someone says on the net of "oh listen its so quiet" & then after you blow your face off you find out that they were running subsonic custom loads instead of full power surplus stuff..
now that we know it does work & hold up to full power surplus loads, the fine tuning can begin.
the "good" freeze plugs that we use are not too hard to make cones out of with some tricks ive learned from SubSonic & a few other can GURU's...
not sure im even gonna go that route with this. as big & heavy as this can is, it might need a different internal design if maximum quiet was the goal. it just wasnt my goal at the time.. feasibility/safety & no hearing protection was the goal up to this part.
have i got you talked into doing one of these now? if so, it will be great to see where you can take it on your run thru... we may come up with something totally different to "go inside" ..
I'll be sticking to the no-machine building, as I have no machines! Well, except for a drill press. I was at the range a few weeks ago and someone had one of the Maglite brand homebuilds with coned freezeplugs on a 22/45. I was very impressed. Action sound and bullet impacting the backstop was about all I heard. I refuse to buy a sup for the insane prices they charge. Happy building! John
Man I hope so. I want to meet more of the Gunco and WG guys. Got my WG t-shirt so now I can blend in. And if some yahoo makes a smart-arse comment about my kilt like that turd did last time I'm gonna curb stomp 'em. Ummm, Sean, You do got by back, right? LOL!
3 of my favorite things all start with F. LMAO (f***kin, fighting, food)... the order they fall in can vary. ROTFL
beside if you & me cant cover it, we'll let DemonDave go all commando on them, doesnt take much for him to have a flashback...flashout.
but maybe you better wear something under that kilt if your planning on having a rumble. :bawling:
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