Thread: A wee project for myself

Originally Posted by gundoc

Most of the external parts made, barrel fitted but not yet chambered. Now all the little parts that you can't see need to be made (trigger mechanism, mag catch, suppressor internals, Picatinny rail). I have mocked it up for the photo with my 3x Weaver which I will use (if I can't see it clearly with the 3x then it is too far for the 9mm).
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Thats fucken awesome mate, well done.

I hope the Aussie authorities dont see this and track me down, I could get done for incitement and encouraging others to make cool shit.

I have just got all the aluminium parts back from the anodisers. I will blue the steel parts and have it fully assembled next week. I will nip up to the range and zero it at 50 metres (should be about right for most things with the 147 grain bullet) and post the results.

hey gun doc the saw is here if you want to check it out

Very cool @Rock river arms hunter might like this

All finished and up to the range to sight in. The 147 grain loads I had scrounged from somewhere were supersonic so no good for evaluating the suppressor, and only mediocre accuracy. I will pull it down and check everything before I work up some proper loads. Not the best result I was wanting but I think it looks OK.

Stripped it this afternoon and found the suppressor alignment was spot on, but the suppressor was full of lots of fine copper fragments. I pulled a cartridge and the projectile is made of powdered copper. The ammo was made for police use on an indoor range and fragments on impact. It probably works fine in a polyagonal Glock or MP5 barrel but is bloody awful in a conventionally rifled and ported barrel. Little pieces break off the bullets as they exit the bore, having been structurally weakened by the sharp edges of the rifling and passing over the ports, and the bullets go all over the place. I have a good supply of JHP 147 grain bullets so I will load up some sample loads and head back to the range for accuracy and velocity testing.

Originally Posted by gundoc

Stripped it this afternoon and found the suppressor alignment was spot on, but the suppressor was full of lots of fine copper fragments. I pulled a cartridge and the projectile is made of powdered copper. The ammo was made for police use on an indoor range and fragments on impact. It probably works fine in a polyagonal Glock or MP5 barrel but is bloody awful in a conventionally rifled and ported barrel. Little pieces break off the bullets as they exit the bore, having been structurally weakened by the sharp edges of the rifling and passing over the ports, and the bullets go all over the place. I have a good supply of JHP 147 grain bullets so I will load up some sample loads and head back to the range for accuracy and velocity testing.

Its good when it turns out to be a nice easy fix!

I loaded a selection of loads and went back to the range this afternoon. As I was mainly checking velocities I was not worried about accuracy but I wound up with 30 shots in a large ragged hole at 25 metres. The top velocity was only 985 fps so I will go a bit higher (about 1050 fps) and do a 50 metre accuracy test. The frangible bullets were the problem.

Sooo rough idea on cost if some one wanted one made ?

Originally Posted by Markgibsonr25

Sooo rough idea on cost if some one wanted one made ?

I queue is beginning to form I believe

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Originally Posted by Markgibsonr25

Sooo rough idea on cost if some one wanted one made ?

To be honest I am not overly interested in making any for others at this stage (I am too busy enjoying my retirement) but I have started doing some drawings on my own design action just in case I relent and decide to produce some. I will put up a post on this site if that happens!

And you guys are way behind, I asked long ago

You might get job-offers from "mossad" ( cool is part of their criteria)

Originally Posted by rewa

You might get job-offers from "mossad" ( cool is part of their criteria)

A lot of other words come to mind as part of their criteria too......

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The attached photo is a 50 metre 10 round group, 20mm vertical by 28mm horizontal, 147 grain JHP at 1020 fps. That will do me for short range goats etc. The suppressor is working well with that load, easy on the ears from an enclosed shooting bay without muffs.