mmmm...i love ribs!

Thanks Greg I enjoyed your video.

Continued lot verification testing. It'll take quite a bit of shooting, during better conditions, to declare a winner. First round of the day was out a little bit, but not by a ton.

@steelbanger I have no doubt they started. Not available yet though.

@bigfoot I started with a "meat probe" type K sensor, but quickly found that the response time was too long. It was allowing the temps to swing by over 30 deg from high to low even though it was being controlled by a PID. The PID is only as good as the information it is being fed. This probe is much more fragile, but responds crazy quick. My temp swing is now only about 4 degrees at 180 or 5-6 degrees at 300.

@lottie Two starlings and an English sparrow today. I missed one sparrow but got one at about fifty yards with CCI Quiets. The Purple Martins are hatching right now and the darn sparrows and starlings will kill them. There is a butcher bird working the nests too which is a banded mockingbird. Not supposed to harm them but I can give them a near miss.

Ahhh, you young pups. That ‘pop top’ can of Hercules bullseye brings back memories. Never used bullseye but more than my share of 2400 in those same cans. And is there anybody that remembers any of the ‘Hi-vel’ powders? Probably not many but ponder a full charge for a 30-06 at 30-35 gr.... but was great tgt load back in the day.

@orkan Didn't think about digital calipers usually I keep a cheap dial caliper on the work bench. You're having some fun with that rig and it's just the beginning.

We made it back to the range yesterday for a round of pistol shooting. I took my Beretta .40 and a Stainless Steel S&W 2206 .22 rim fire. If you can find one of these 2206's grab it, they are really good pistols and aren't in production any more. Mine has adjustable sights and a really good trigger that is adjustable for over travel and is all Stainless Steel. I found a place to buy a threaded adapter so a suppressor can be used. They are kind of made like a Model 41I wish I had bought a blued version as well. My friend took one of his Ruger Mark II target style 22's and also his Glock Killer and the new CZ Shadow he bought recently but had to send it in for a repair. They kept it a couple of weeks and this was what they did to correct the FTE situation. "Work Performed: Polished extractor, adjusted breech face lead in. Function tested and test fired good with 115 gr S&B FMJ. If issue persists recommend trying a thinner recoil spring buffer." He ran through several magazines fully gripped two handed with 124 grain hand loads and got one FTE. It was almost like a stove pipe jam the brass sticking out sideways the other times it was sitting in the action in line of the chamber but jammed with the next round underneath it. Had to drop the magazine out to get it cleared. I keep telling him to mark the magazines it might be one of the three doing this. Anyway, it did it once and other than that all our other hand cannons worked fine. I don't know much about CZ pistols or any for that matter but if it's a match gun I would think it need to be shot quite a bit to smooth it up and maybe feed it some decent ammo. Just sayin. :)

Great job on coating and rifle well done.