Shooting Projects

Custom Competition Bolt-action

  1. For events like F-class or PRS
  2. Action: Zermatt TL3 (multi-caliber!)
  3. Barrel
    1. Rebarrel from Hart with the action work (right here in LaFayette!)
    2. Caliber: 300 WinMag or 6.5mm
    3. Long and heavy: 30” to develop max velocity?
    4. Contour to make barrel same diameter as muzzle brake, but keep heavy
  4. Optics
    1. Start with Osprey Global or Arken, 10-40x50 or so, I like mil dot illuminated
    2. Anti-cant level
    3. Picatinny 20-30 MOA scope mount
  5. Muzzle brake?
  6. Make a custom laminate stock: mostly, for fun
    1. Build up from laser cut wood veneer, laminate with epoxy and CNC mill
    2. Backstop Recoil Pad custom built for a specific gun and load
    3. Free float the barrel, use aluminum pillars, and glass bed the action
    4. Custom built-in weight adjustment
  7. Timney trigger
  8. Bipod

Inline Muzzleloader

Best hunting option for range, lethality, legality, season? Thompson Center makes a good entry one. 50 caliber ballistics are very similar to .300BLK

Handmade Recurve Bow

  1. Specs
    1. takedown
    2. PVC or laminated wood
  2. References
  3. Nick Tomihama’s builds
    1. Books
      1. The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible, Volume 2
      2. Traditional Bowyers of America

Ballistic Sgian Dubh: Spetznatz meets Highlander

  1. A 6” drop point blade style, with a short section of the back sharpened to make the tip double-sided
  2. Paired set with armpit sheaths
  3. Cut and ground from O1 spring steel blank
  4. Reciever and tang turned on a metal lathe
  5. Black/blued blade and handle finish
  6. Removable 50# compression coil spring
  7. Hole in tang to make into a kunai