Salvaged from Web Archive. Shooting Chrony is out of business and the noplab website that published this article with a copy right of 2003-2014 has been shut down as well. Shooting Chrony offers remote controls for their line of chronographs. The single button model sells for $16 and the 2 button model for $19. If…
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Salvaged from Web Archive Shooting Chrony sells a PC interface cable for use with the Chrony for around $23. If the parts to build the interface are not readily available or constructing a board with surface mount parts is an issue then buying the Chrony interface cable is a good choice. The Chrony uses a…
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Salvaged from the web archive. The serial port settings are 4800bps, 8 data bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. Each line of a response includes a carriage return (0x0D) and line feed (0x0A), the initiating command does not. A serial terminal emulator application, Hyperterm on Windows or Minicom on OS X and Linux, can…
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I was looking into building a 2011 on the cheap and in my hunt for parts I found this Sarco kit that often gets negative reviews. In fact for all the bad reviews I found, I only found one positive one on Youtube. Surprisingly, these kits are hardly ever in stock and so when I…
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“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.” Why do anti-gun politicians always reference hunting and wanting to protect that? We know that they’ve probably neither shot a gun in their life nor ever experienced the…
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One of the things that I’ve wanted for a long time was a Bullet Trap which is generally a small box that catches the bullets. You can find an example of a bullet trap on Amazon.com. Here is a pic of the “Champion Heavy Duty Metal Trap” I, however, wanted something bigger. Much bigger. So…
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So you are ready to lighten up the double action on the trigger? Here we go. We are going to use a hammer spring from Wolff and since they don’t have any for the mosquito, we are going to use one for the P226 and similar *WITH* plastic hammer spring base insert. Note there is…
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I recently built my first dedicated .22lr AR-15. Since I already owned a CMMG .22lr conversion kit, I decided to just order the .22lr barrel from MidwayUSAcom with the barrel adapter. As soon as I had it all installed I noticed light strikes on the .22’s. So I reached out to CMMG. They had no advice,…
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Despite my not so favorable review about the AA customer service, I did end up buying another AA conversion kit and when one looks at the features they still have the best conversion kits on the market. I bought this kit last Fall, so this a post is actually about an issues I had with my…
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Why did Sig Sauer name their gun the Mosquito?…. because it is the gun that stings your pocketbook twice! The story starts about 2 1/2 years ago. I walked into Al & Bob’s Sport’s Shop and picked out the very hot handgun, NRA’s gun of the year: “The Springfield XDm”. With me were my wife…
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