Count me in there, want a Penguin to try out on seals. It would be cool if you had a barrel by October, would love to take a caribou with it.
234 Wildcat Family....ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
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tylerjwitty
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sounds like dougy needs ta hire a fella to make his barrels for all.
what would a 230 moose set a person back in the wallet deparment?
also who would be the supplier for the bullets for these fire sticks?
what would a 230 moose set a person back in the wallet deparment?
also who would be the supplier for the bullets for these fire sticks?
Republic of Alberta
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Got an action and stock ready and waiting. I'd better get my poop in a group and order some bullets and a reamer though.
Tyler it's hard to say on the build cost, as that is not one for which I had intended to buy a reamer for. There is some interest though, no doubt because everyone has a couple hundred brass kicking around even if they don't own an 06.
There is but one supplier, and he has been on board with this hairbrained scheme from the beginning, Marshal at Matrix Ballistics. 1 604 814-5091 or marshal@matrixballistics.com
After reading Douglas's post here it occurred to me that perhaps I am approaching this issue from the wrong end. (Sorta like trying to mount a mule from the tail end...).
Instead of me trying to pick my fav rifle brand perhaps I should be finding a rifle that will work with one of the 1/2 dozen barrels that Douglas is intending to build??
Would that be a more intelligent way of mounting this Molly?
What say you Sir Douglas? If you are planning on building a 1/2 dozen barrels and a fellow was wishing to sweetly fondle a 230 Lynx what make of rifle should he be shopping for that will work with the barrels you are planning on creating?
I am not sure if you are at that stage yet but if/when you do get there, please consider my request placed for a Lynx. Just let me know how much to reduce my kids inheritance by $$$ and the funds will arrive your address shortly after.
DAMN....I am already daydreaming about handing my wife my credit card and sending her off to the Big Stink for the weekend, closing and locking the front gates, throwing my cell phone in the deep freeze and then spending the entire weekend under my shootin' shed roof carressing my new Lynx and sending rounds down range.
Rule #22 of the Cowboy Code: "Don't let so much reality into your life that there's no room left for dreamin' "
Dave
d4d1..........It matters not what rifle or action you want to use as long as it is a threaded removable barrel. Building barrels amounts to taking a piece of 416 SS bar stock 1 5/16" in dia and 28" long and drilling, reaming and rifling it. Now we have what I have sitting beside my lathe, it's called a rifled blank and can be made into anything one desires from this point. Any contour, any shank, any thread the owner desires and any length up to about 27.5-28" Each barrel is then configured to the desired action, contour and length the customer has spec'd as well as chamber of course. Some very busy builders may make a run of say 700 barrels and contour, thread and machine the bolt recess and then put them on the shelf awaiting customers orders for chambering, but I don't anticipate being that busy, in fact I refuse to be that busy, so I will just work from blanks. I may pre contour some barrels if I have a slow time just to reduce lead times for orders but we'll have to see.
Don't really know for sure, I asked Marshal that and he told me that it is a very subjective number and depending on who's formula one uses it can vary significantly. The only way reliably to determine the BC is to shoot the bullet out to various ranges and calculate from there..........through interpolation and making substantial assumptions, the 100 gn RBT will fall somewhere in the .500 range and the ULD should be somewhere in the .550 range, but one MUST shoot them over a reliable chronograph out to about 6 or 700 yds, 500 minimum and then run the drop numbers. 10 shots at each range is minimum and all weather conditions have to be accounted for as well as altitude, then and only then can one attach a BC to a bullet. Marshal has done some of his bullets and has had other reliable shooters do some others but without the empirical data he refuses to attach a BC to a given bullet.
You jumped the gun there Pete.......Should be coming up right about now...........Fly at 'er and try again..........
In the good old days before the crash and before the rule about replying to EE posts, we sometimes got to this kind of number just on a for sale ad.............mind you, there was a lot of post whoring going on. All in fun............
Doug
Just as a point of interest, when anyone on here is referring to Douglas by is user name on here, they always put it as, c-fbmi.
To identify him it should be just, BMI.
This is because his user name, c-fbmi, was taken from the registration of an aircraft he probably once had, which was registered C-FBMI. But, for a long period of time, which included the era when bush aircraft opened up all of northern and remote Canada, The registration used always started with CF, for Canada, then a three letter designation, starting with AAA.
In normal use one never stated the CF, because it was in Canada, so CF-ABC, would be stated on the radio, or if referring to the aircraft, as Able Baker Charlie, or just ABC and not Charlie Fox Able Baker Charlie.
Thus, on here we can refer to Douglas by just, BMI.
(I hope that is OK with him!)
To identify him it should be just, BMI.
This is because his user name, c-fbmi, was taken from the registration of an aircraft he probably once had, which was registered C-FBMI. But, for a long period of time, which included the era when bush aircraft opened up all of northern and remote Canada, The registration used always started with CF, for Canada, then a three letter designation, starting with AAA.
In normal use one never stated the CF, because it was in Canada, so CF-ABC, would be stated on the radio, or if referring to the aircraft, as Able Baker Charlie, or just ABC and not Charlie Fox Able Baker Charlie.
Thus, on here we can refer to Douglas by just, BMI.
(I hope that is OK with him!)
