Critique my .22LR design
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Critique my .22LR design

30mm OD 25mm ID main tube with 2.5mm walls internally tapped to M27-1.5

The ID will need to be skimmed to 25.4mm for the tap and for the 1” freeze plug baffles and spacers.

6.5” long overall

Front cap is in 2 parts. 1st sits inside the tube to compress the baffles to the rear and center them against one another. Then the front cap threads over and flush with a shoulder.

Rear cap is similar except has a direct thread 1/2 28

Things I might change:

The blast chamber is small. I would probably just reduce the angle on the 1st baffle.

My front cap assembly may be changed to make tightening the inner threaded ring easier. Possible having male threads on this part also that the front cap threads to. Current intended on tightening with a custom pin spanner wrench

Planning on clipping the baffles with a jig.

Designed specifically to minimize machining on a lathe while keeping concentricity

Questions, comments, critiques?

u/Tacomouse — 5 days ago
▲ 5 r/NFA

Press forming baffles (Form 1 suppressor)

Has anybody used a live center in something like an arbor press to form baffles from stainless steel discs?

Drawing up designs for a form 1 suppressor and working through all the problems with how I’m actually going to machine/turn/thread/press various elements given the tooling limitations and skill I have.

I want to see if anybody has used a (sacrificial) live center tool for a lathe in an arbor press and a “extrusion” hole to form baffles. Live centers are typically 60* so if I’m able to press a disc of stainless steel to that cone angle and drill out the bore I could stack it with spacers for the internals.

Problems I foresee is that the center could thin out or punch through and widen way past what I’d want for a specific caliber projectile.

I want to start with a .22lr for my first but potentially make 5.56 and .30 cal in the future.

Thanks

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u/Tacomouse — 7 days ago

Raccoon or groundhog? [Pennsylvania]

A groundhog lives mere feet from these tracks but I swear I saw a raccoon last night. Help settle a friendly debate

u/Tacomouse — 12 days ago

Production immediately after paging maintenance

I’m giving it 10 minutes before I walk about because they call me to fix something but don’t say what and there is no one here to tell me.

u/Tacomouse — 14 days ago

New pile

I have the grinding from 3 large tree stumps (2 spruce) and (1 cherry blossom type tree) started moving those browns into the bin and layering with greens as I get them. Gave her the ceremonial first piss and plan to wet it with a hose and give a turn occasionally because everything is pretty chunky. Probably will seed it with some box store compost.

u/Tacomouse — 18 days ago

Pretty lady sitting on the balcony at her man’s house

This little lady usually rests her head in a tube to the right edge of the tank just out of frame but I caught her ass sitting on the balcony of her man’s house after what I can only hope was some crabflix and chill.

I also saw our man leaving her house the other day so somethings definitely going on between them…

u/Tacomouse — 29 days ago
▲ 147 r/Roadcam

[USA] Open highway shoulder pass

August 2025 pass on shoulder in open highway less than 3 seconds from taking the exit.

u/Tacomouse — 1 month ago

Guy at work hit with these charges

Hope this is the right sub or if I should post elsewhere.

Anyway, Dude wasn’t in work a few days in a row and bosses wouldn’t say why so we did some snooping and turns out he got picked up early one morning. He was previously hit with a DUI in 2012-2013 but did some ARD program (idk what that means for 3rd offense) and recently had another in late 2025. I think he’s still on probation for the 2025 one? Research says he’s getting anywhere from 6months to 3 years but I wanna see what y’all think. Not my charges and no legal advice required or requested, just open discussion.

Pennsylvania

u/Tacomouse — 2 months ago

How to break the suicide run/nuke meta?

TLDR at bottom,

With the new larger map coming out in the near future I’m foreseeing an issue in the current meta that would only get worst. That of course being suicide nuke/radar anti air runs. It’s arguably the most effective way to quickly dispatch of enemy stratos/boltstrikes/LADS/CIWS, Basically all radar anti air. Just load some kingpins on a vortex or if more than 1 target in a small area needs destroyed, optical munitions on a lesser craft like the compass and fly out of radar band launching at the last second inside the WEZ of radar AA and presto, no more pesky radar AA shooting down your Ifrit nuke. And with the larger map the appeal of flying all the way back to base for minimal ”perceived” reward is low even if you manage to survive the initial launch of munitions which is secondary to getting munitions away. What changes would be added in an update or what changes in the current vanilla game as is via mission editing do you think would help encourage ensuring the survival of the airframe?

Some ideas I had personally,

It’s counterintuitive but hear me out, reduce effectiveness of Radar AA against munitions so that it may encourage longer range and more survivable attacks, coupled with IR defense changes (flare effectiveness and re-acquirement) as well as smarter positioning of IR sites further around a base you could limit how close a low flying plane could get. Would also need to rework how saturation attacks like that if the darkreach could perform but that’s easily done on mission editing side.

What could also help is “smarter” AI launcher operators so that they use missiles more smartly and try to not launch at a plane 30 km away that’s notched 10 missiles already. Also reaction time of these operators is insane. This however is extremely time consuming in a development standpoint

TLDR; current meta is to sacrifice an airframe to destroy critical AA, solve by encouraging longer range more survivable attacks via a Radar and IR rework and/or better IR Pickett style defense around limited radar sites (for those of use that attempt to mod/make missions)

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u/Tacomouse — 2 months ago

What/when to prune with these double branches

As pictured, 2 branches that seem way close together. Which one should I prune and how do I cut with them being so close to one another? Should I wait until after the growing season since I just planted these trees from pots?

u/Tacomouse — 2 months ago

Altercation opening proof of viability (5 mins edited)

I slimmed down the chicane to better replicate the agility and payload of smaller helo platforms and destroyed all but 1 enemy anti air and got several air-to-air kills on an almost vanilla altercation run.

current drama aside it was very fun to fly, and the extra agility and speed helped me escape from 2 tricky situations and perform a flank of the highway strip.

u/Tacomouse — 2 months ago

Red devil looking very orange after his molt. Gave him some food (top right) to keep his strength up

u/Tacomouse — 2 months ago