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by sillycon
Mon Aug 24, 2015 2:51 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk
Replies: 17
Views: 4950

Re: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk

Bender you recommended changing the baffle design are you saying to step away from the stepped cones (pun intended) or get away from the coaxial spacers to avoid IP/patent issues? Yes....both. Primarily recommending to get away from the Omega baffle design, Other baffle designs are better suited fo...
by sillycon
Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:16 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk
Replies: 17
Views: 4950

Re: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk

TI tube, inset end caps, and thinned blast baffle. Estimated weight is now 14.9oz. Given the absurd strength/weight ratio of TI vs SS, the tube could probably be thinned down to .050 from .065 (or more, if one wanted to push it) but a < 1lb DIY "rifle" can is already nothing to sneeze at. ...
by sillycon
Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:51 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk
Replies: 17
Views: 4950

Re: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk

Thank you everyone for your design feedback. It is very appreciated! looking at your drawing, taking one spacer and one baffle together look like a single "Omega" baffle. That is what the patent is for, not stepped cones. http://www.silencertalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=121887 Wh...
by sillycon
Mon Aug 17, 2015 8:23 am
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk
Replies: 17
Views: 4950

Re: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk

Might want to check with Joe Gaddini before you start making that. why did he do one that was just like that? He owns the patent. I was not aware that there is a patent on stepped cone baffles, and given that there are dozens of threads about cans on here with them that weren't derailed about paten...
by sillycon
Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk
Replies: 17
Views: 4950

My first (ever) suppressor design - .300blk

Given my interest in taking on new and interesting projects, a friend of mine recently asked me to design a suppressor for his .300blk rifle (he's looked for commercially available cans, but has found none which fit his constraints so we're going to go the F1 route). That being said, this is the fir...
by sillycon
Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:38 pm
Forum: Gun Discussion
Topic: Big bore AR: 50 beowulf, 458 socom, or 450 bushmaster?
Replies: 5
Views: 4441

Re: Big bore AR: 50 beowulf, 458 socom, or 450 bushmaster?

The .458 does in fact use standard mags; the issue with the polymer mags in the .458 is that some load combinations (such as those with hornady SST bullets) won't fit (COAL is too long) because of the front rib in the magazine. JHP's and flat-point JSP's are typically fine though. It really is a hec...
by sillycon
Tue Aug 11, 2015 10:25 pm
Forum: NFA Weapons
Topic: NFA question
Replies: 7
Views: 1973

Re: NFA question

That makes me hopeful I might see my Salvo stamp in the next couple weeks. I've got a heck of an itch to play with it finally (the Salvo wait has been about as irksome as the wait on my first MG). Should be quite the hoot to run at my local subgun/"3-gun" match! Now I just need to round ou...
by sillycon
Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:58 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Handguns and drones
Replies: 20
Views: 2482

Re: Handguns and drones

doubloon wrote:Yes and reading 2004-5 makes one think the ATF rulings body is actually a barrel of schizophrenic monkeys with typewriters.
Thank you for that. :mrgreen:

I needed a good laugh after the day I had today, and that "image" was just the trick!
by sillycon
Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:27 pm
Forum: News Stories
Topic: And now, from the city of Chicago...
Replies: 5
Views: 1003

Re: And now, from the city of Chicago...

What really irks me about it is that when I was a kid, I remember being told that the police were here to help good citizens. As I've gotten older, however, that image has not continued to withstand the test of time. Even worse, today it seems as if many cops (obviously not all...) are nothing more ...
by sillycon
Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:01 pm
Forum: NFA Weapons
Topic: NFA question
Replies: 7
Views: 1973

Re: NFA question

Charlotte514 wrote:Yea that's what I thought, just trying to get some good news.
ATF is mailing back stamps for F4's submitted in mid-March; that'd put you about 2-3 weeks out from :mrgreen: .

Good enough news?
by sillycon
Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:40 pm
Forum: News Stories
Topic: And now, from the city of Chicago...
Replies: 5
Views: 1003

Re: And now, from the city of Chicago...

And in Husseins Amerika, this is surprising why? :?: Yes, how I long for the halcyon days before Obama... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege WTF does Obama have to do with it? I don't like the SOB, but he has no...
by sillycon
Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:38 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: cheap cnc machine
Replies: 12
Views: 3176

Re: cheap cnc machine

You could "get away" with something like an X2 mini-mill converted to CNC, but even that is going to be pushing it. Realistically, for what you're looking to do (making baffles), you'd be better off with an older manual bench lathe like a Logan or South Bend. If you've got the space for so...
by sillycon
Fri Jul 24, 2015 1:31 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Handguns and drones
Replies: 20
Views: 2482

Re: Handguns and drones

If that is a software controlled solenoid pulling the trigger, I think that counts as a machine gun. How so? One shot fired per pull. If it was configured such that you used a momentary switch on the radio, and holding that switch fired more than one round (thus the switch being the trigger), then ...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:33 pm
Forum: Silencersmithing Forum
Topic: What's the best way to direct gas rearward into a reflex volume?
Replies: 13
Views: 2831

Re: What's the best way to direct gas rearward into a reflex volume?

http://translate.google.com

Also, if you use Google's Chrome web browser, it can be set to automatically translate pages into your native tongue.
by sillycon
Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:25 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Handguns and drones
Replies: 20
Views: 2482

Re: Handguns and drones

Found it: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." :mrgreen: Seriously though, it will be interesting to see how all this pans out. I have to wonder how long it will be before we have...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:15 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Wait times...
Replies: 4
Views: 1089

Re: Wait times...

Just spoke to a very nice woman at ATF yesterday on the phone. It's summer, and a number of the people handling Form 3/4s are on vacation with the kiddos! Yay... Current turn time on a Trust Form 4 is back to 5-6 months. FML JW Silencer shop is currently showing 4-4.5 months for their form 4's, but...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:12 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Incompetent Dealer
Replies: 11
Views: 2404

Re: Incompetent Dealer

There is one particular dealer who comes to my mind when it comes to serial number "mix ups". Is this in south Florida?
by sillycon
Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:53 pm
Forum: News Stories
Topic: And now, from the city of Chicago...
Replies: 5
Views: 1003

Re: And now, from the city of Chicago...

And in Husseins Amerika, this is surprising why?

:?:
by sillycon
Wed Jul 22, 2015 4:18 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: Handguns and drones
Replies: 20
Views: 2482

Re: Handguns and drones

At one point (in the 90's), one would find kits in hobby catalogs (Tower or such) which facilitated the attachment of .22 rifles to the larger R/C helicopters; at that time there was never any worry back then about if it might be illegal. I can't imagine that it somehow made it on the books between ...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:10 pm
Forum: Random Talk
Topic: Are there women really that bothered by their husbands viewing pics?
Replies: 23
Views: 3725

Re: Are there women really that bothered by their husbands viewing pics?

Opposite views on "relationship fundamentals" (money, sex, child rearing, religion) don't tend to mix/end very well. E.g. If one spouse enjoys such things and the other is offended by it, they're probably in a doomed relationship anyway. If you like porn and she doesn't, it's time to move ...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:03 pm
Forum: Legal and Political
Topic: $200 Form 4 Tax
Replies: 10
Views: 2323

Re: $200 Form 4 Tax

The idea of the trust bank account for the transfer tax check is "legal CYA" so that there can be no argument that the trust purchased the item vs. the individual. When I couldn't get a bank to open a trust account without major headaches, I asked my trust attorney about it and they sugges...
by sillycon
Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:34 pm
Forum: Silencer Talk
Topic: No Silencer Magazines?
Replies: 26
Views: 4093

Re: No Silencer Magazines?

ericdraven wrote:still pisses me off i got a friend in NZ where you can walk in buy any suppressors right on the spot and walk out . :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
If only they could do the same with the firearms necessary to make a suppressor useful. ;)
by sillycon
Tue Jun 23, 2015 3:19 pm
Forum: Gun Discussion
Topic: Big bore AR: 50 beowulf, 458 socom, or 450 bushmaster?
Replies: 5
Views: 4441

Re: Big bore AR: 50 beowulf, 458 socom, or 450 bushmaster?

So far as I recall, all three are proprietary brass. Back when I was faced with the same decision some years ago, I ended up opting for the .458. Reason being that while store-bought ammo could be had for the .50 Beo, (at the time) the .50 was limited to pistol-caliber bullets which had jacket separ...
by sillycon
Mon Jun 22, 2015 6:40 pm
Forum: News Stories
Topic: Winning hearts and minds
Replies: 7
Views: 984

Re: Winning hearts and minds

68% of likely voters prefer living in a neighborhood where gun ownership is allowed. 22% prefer living in a neighborhood where nobody was allowed to own a gun. And the remaining 10%... don't want to live in a neighborhood? From a different news article, the other 10% were the undecided folks (e.g. ...