dakota.potts
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As I've said here before, I'm going to be going to school soon for machine tool technology and taking gunsmithing courses while I'm there. I have a little experience on machines (mostly just mills and surface grinders) and I hope to be picking up a lot more experience, so this is something I've been thinking about lately.
I think it would be a really rewarding project to put a silencer on a Form 1 and design one for my own rifles. The purpose would be for learning, potential resume building, curiosity, and the urge to legally own a suppressor. I was thinking either a simple .22 LR silencer for my CZ 452, or maybe something along the lines of a .30 caliber.
I understand the detailed implications of the question I am asking, and it's not a project I'll be able to take on for at least a couple of years because of a laundry list of reasons (time, money, tooling, experience, living on my own to go to college, etc.) but it is something I'd like to start researching since the type of design I'm interested in is SOT type stuff.
The problem is that all of the resources I'm finding are either grey hat sites that teach you how to make unregistered silencers (for information purposes only, of course), have great pictures but not very much background (cncgunsmithing, for example), or assume you know a lot about the process such as the construction of different baffle types. I'm looking for somewhere I can go where I can start to piece together the engineering, physics, design, and general construction as a whole. Does anybody know any places I can start reading into something like that?
I think it would be a really rewarding project to put a silencer on a Form 1 and design one for my own rifles. The purpose would be for learning, potential resume building, curiosity, and the urge to legally own a suppressor. I was thinking either a simple .22 LR silencer for my CZ 452, or maybe something along the lines of a .30 caliber.
I understand the detailed implications of the question I am asking, and it's not a project I'll be able to take on for at least a couple of years because of a laundry list of reasons (time, money, tooling, experience, living on my own to go to college, etc.) but it is something I'd like to start researching since the type of design I'm interested in is SOT type stuff.
The problem is that all of the resources I'm finding are either grey hat sites that teach you how to make unregistered silencers (for information purposes only, of course), have great pictures but not very much background (cncgunsmithing, for example), or assume you know a lot about the process such as the construction of different baffle types. I'm looking for somewhere I can go where I can start to piece together the engineering, physics, design, and general construction as a whole. Does anybody know any places I can start reading into something like that?