20191223
If I were doing this for the money, I wouldn't be doing *this*
As my military career came to an end, I was noticing problems with memory. Forgetting meetings, not having a clear head for them, and tackling low-hanging fruit instead of going after the big, meaningful, change-agent kinds of things.
Now, it seems my memory is sound. I remember names, faces, situations, problems, solutions. There's still plenty of keyboard time, but none of it spend interpreting a regulation or explaining my actions to dim second-guessers.
My work keeps me on my feet and in front of people. I didn't realize that's what I needed.
I may also be losing weight. Now for putting the garage and the radios back in order . . .
Now, it seems my memory is sound. I remember names, faces, situations, problems, solutions. There's still plenty of keyboard time, but none of it spend interpreting a regulation or explaining my actions to dim second-guessers.
My work keeps me on my feet and in front of people. I didn't realize that's what I needed.
I may also be losing weight. Now for putting the garage and the radios back in order . . .
20191213
Update: Yaesu back on the air
Citizen Jed helped me find an Elmer willing to do the surface-mount work on my Yaesu. After some email exchanges, he inspired me to go back through the relevant circuits, and that reminded me of some work I had done in the power supply. It had developed an intermittent between the transformer and the rectifier.
The power supply was not putting out DC. When I went back in, I found that joint had broken again.
I cleaned up some soldering on the aftermarket RC battery pack also.
We're back in business.
The power supply was not putting out DC. When I went back in, I found that joint had broken again.
I cleaned up some soldering on the aftermarket RC battery pack also.
We're back in business.
20191202
SCOTUS transcript is up
Transcript of SCOTUS hearing on NYS Rifle and Pistol Association versus New Yawk is at Dave Hardy's place.
One observation of my own: New York seems OK with the prospect that 'continuous and direct' will be shaped by litigation---premises licensees being prosecuted and spending money defending themselves---rather than clear definitions beforehand that licensees can read, understand, obtain advice of counsel, and train to each other. How, and where in the court hierarchy, does Petitioner lodge that complaint?
Is there not a Constitutional principle that people can know what conduct is lawful before engaging in it? If one accepts that certain conduct requires a license, that license should include that sort of clarity. Those who argue that firearms should be licensed like automobiles owe it to explain just what time, place, and manner restrictions that license will prohibit.
Also: Petitioners' Counsel missed an opportunity to distinguish premises licenses from carry licenses, though I'm not sure it would have helped Petitioners' case. "We're not talking about the right of Petitioners to carry on person with a round in the chamber (yet), just the right to transport lawfully-owned property from one lawful place to another lawful place."
One observation of my own: New York seems OK with the prospect that 'continuous and direct' will be shaped by litigation---premises licensees being prosecuted and spending money defending themselves---rather than clear definitions beforehand that licensees can read, understand, obtain advice of counsel, and train to each other. How, and where in the court hierarchy, does Petitioner lodge that complaint?
Is there not a Constitutional principle that people can know what conduct is lawful before engaging in it? If one accepts that certain conduct requires a license, that license should include that sort of clarity. Those who argue that firearms should be licensed like automobiles owe it to explain just what time, place, and manner restrictions that license will prohibit.
Also: Petitioners' Counsel missed an opportunity to distinguish premises licenses from carry licenses, though I'm not sure it would have helped Petitioners' case. "We're not talking about the right of Petitioners to carry on person with a round in the chamber (yet), just the right to transport lawfully-owned property from one lawful place to another lawful place."
20191129
Adventures in retail
SMDH: a young woman in hospital scrubs visited Wednesday night while I was working my way back through paints, solvents, and abrasives. She said her patient, an elderly gentleman, wanted some sandpaper to sharpen his teeth, and needed my recommendation of what grit.
Though I asserted firmly that this recommendation comes best from a dentist, not a hardware store cowboy, she persisted. We settled on 220 grit after she touched the 3000 grit Wetordry and thought that her patient would think it isn't real sandpaper.
Though I asserted firmly that this recommendation comes best from a dentist, not a hardware store cowboy, she persisted. We settled on 220 grit after she touched the 3000 grit Wetordry and thought that her patient would think it isn't real sandpaper.
20191124
Transition
We have this year ceased to serve Uncle Sugar. Said Uncle having quantified in dollars the future value of our past Service to him, and our decision to no longer serve him, we have taken the Summer of 2019 quite 'off.'
A trip or two on the side have been taken, namely to the Mecca of Brownell's and a return to the sweet, sweet humid Central Wisconsin of 2003 or thereabouts.
Now we have accepted a position in retail, serving a new Uncle who hosts big-box home improvement operations. It appears to be, if not 'recession-proof,' at least 'recession-resistant,' and the new Uncle's Roth matching contributions are surprisingly generous.
What we would truly like to find are:
1) a skilled hand at surface-mount soldering, to repair a blown fuse in the battery charger circuit of our cherished Yaesu FT817 transceiver;
2) ranchers in the vicinity of Wheatland, Wyoming, who will host itinerant riflemen to cull their antelope.
3) parts kit to create an AR15 upper that will reliably chamber and fire 7.62.x25mm Tokarev ammunition, including handloads up to 150gr. The term in vogue is 'Moscow Match ammo.' Gotta burn up those tracers.
Strangely, (1) is the choice where we have no progress.
Come on, world. You can do better.
USAF Airman Battle Uniforms do quite well in this terrain and vegetation for (2) given that one launders that uniform in some detergent and equipment that do not deposit UV dyes on it. Though we admit that we see the world through eyes other than those of antelope or whitetail. The whitetail were none the wiser.
also: re point (1): a surface-mount fuse? are you fucking kidding me??? Ask me for an oxymoron, and this one is about 4th down the list, after Braille street signs.
A trip or two on the side have been taken, namely to the Mecca of Brownell's and a return to the sweet, sweet humid Central Wisconsin of 2003 or thereabouts.
Now we have accepted a position in retail, serving a new Uncle who hosts big-box home improvement operations. It appears to be, if not 'recession-proof,' at least 'recession-resistant,' and the new Uncle's Roth matching contributions are surprisingly generous.
What we would truly like to find are:
1) a skilled hand at surface-mount soldering, to repair a blown fuse in the battery charger circuit of our cherished Yaesu FT817 transceiver;
2) ranchers in the vicinity of Wheatland, Wyoming, who will host itinerant riflemen to cull their antelope.
3) parts kit to create an AR15 upper that will reliably chamber and fire 7.62.x25mm Tokarev ammunition, including handloads up to 150gr. The term in vogue is 'Moscow Match ammo.' Gotta burn up those tracers.
Strangely, (1) is the choice where we have no progress.
Come on, world. You can do better.
USAF Airman Battle Uniforms do quite well in this terrain and vegetation for (2) given that one launders that uniform in some detergent and equipment that do not deposit UV dyes on it. Though we admit that we see the world through eyes other than those of antelope or whitetail. The whitetail were none the wiser.
also: re point (1): a surface-mount fuse? are you fucking kidding me??? Ask me for an oxymoron, and this one is about 4th down the list, after Braille street signs.
20190930
20190704
resizing bottleneck pistol cases
all the cool kids say to resize rifle brass such that the shoulder is set back .001 to .003" for bolt rifles, and .003 to .005" for semiautos.
does the same guidance apply to pistol cases with shoulders? One assumes they headspace on the shoulder just like a rifle cartridge.
Asking for my Tokarevs.
does the same guidance apply to pistol cases with shoulders? One assumes they headspace on the shoulder just like a rifle cartridge.
Asking for my Tokarevs.
deactivating M25 tracers
We have a boatload of M25 tracer bullets. Sounded like fun and during the bugger-all of certain parts of the Obama presidency, there were no other milsurp reloading components to be had (at prices I was willing to pay). The tracers were priced attractively for the time, and everything is cheaper by the boatload. They weigh in the range of 138 to 142 grains.
To render them safe(r) for regular range use, they must be deactivated. One intert00bs writer suggested hot glue to fill the cavity in the tail. That writer might have had tongue in cheek, thinking that the hot glue would ignite the tracer compound. Nah, another writer said you really have to nail the cup with a prolonged propane torch to set them off. We filled about a hundred tracer tails with hot glue without incident.
Note: these aren't truly deactivated for purposes of range safety. We expect them to not ignite when fired from our rifles. But beat a few of these into the berm and leave them there, and somebody else can hit them with their bullets, and they'll start the grass fire that we didn't. So, not good enough.
Besides, one application for these tracers is in 7.62x39, but the M25 bullet is some 6mm longer than a 147gr FMJ, and that cavity full of glue takes up space that is needed for propellant. IMR4198's starting-ish charge of 24.5gr won't fit with the glue-filled bullet seated to magazine length.
We poked holes in the copper cups of another hundred with a masonry nail, and immersed the bullets in mineral spirits to contaminate the tracer compound. Some pale gray powder popped out of some with the nail. More was found washing around in the mineral spirits after the bullets were taken out. They air-dried for an hour then tumbled in clean walnut.
These fit with 27-plus grains of H4895 (compressing?), and plenty of room for 27-plus grains of WC844, in the x39 case. Two charge-weight ladders are ready for next range day.
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| Unaltered M25 tracer bullets, showing cavity and copper cup in tail. |
To render them safe(r) for regular range use, they must be deactivated. One intert00bs writer suggested hot glue to fill the cavity in the tail. That writer might have had tongue in cheek, thinking that the hot glue would ignite the tracer compound. Nah, another writer said you really have to nail the cup with a prolonged propane torch to set them off. We filled about a hundred tracer tails with hot glue without incident.
Note: these aren't truly deactivated for purposes of range safety. We expect them to not ignite when fired from our rifles. But beat a few of these into the berm and leave them there, and somebody else can hit them with their bullets, and they'll start the grass fire that we didn't. So, not good enough.
Besides, one application for these tracers is in 7.62x39, but the M25 bullet is some 6mm longer than a 147gr FMJ, and that cavity full of glue takes up space that is needed for propellant. IMR4198's starting-ish charge of 24.5gr won't fit with the glue-filled bullet seated to magazine length.
We poked holes in the copper cups of another hundred with a masonry nail, and immersed the bullets in mineral spirits to contaminate the tracer compound. Some pale gray powder popped out of some with the nail. More was found washing around in the mineral spirits after the bullets were taken out. They air-dried for an hour then tumbled in clean walnut.
These fit with 27-plus grains of H4895 (compressing?), and plenty of room for 27-plus grains of WC844, in the x39 case. Two charge-weight ladders are ready for next range day.
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| L to R, unaltered M25 tracer, tracer with glue-filled cavity, tracer with punctured cup and oil-wet tracer compound. |
20190617
Idea number 4024, pickup safari rack
The Family Truckster---'01 Ford F150 SuperCrew---has a bed so short as to be nearly useless.
Its uselessness is compounded by a fabric tonneau cover stretched over it, with aluminum tube staves that brace it across the bed from side to side. When rolling the cover out of the way, the staves get off track and tangle.
I've also wanted some structure that extends above the bed, for lengths of lumber or a place to attach an enhanced HF antenna.
So how about a rack that normally rests on that same surface where the tonneau and staves sit. One at front and one at rear, on hinges. Roll the cover out of the way, and hinge the two racks upward to form a rigid steel frame. Two braces pop in between the two racks for front-to-back stability.
There's almost enough room for these two racks to extend above the line of the cab and still fold flat, facing each other.
Its uselessness is compounded by a fabric tonneau cover stretched over it, with aluminum tube staves that brace it across the bed from side to side. When rolling the cover out of the way, the staves get off track and tangle.
I've also wanted some structure that extends above the bed, for lengths of lumber or a place to attach an enhanced HF antenna.
So how about a rack that normally rests on that same surface where the tonneau and staves sit. One at front and one at rear, on hinges. Roll the cover out of the way, and hinge the two racks upward to form a rigid steel frame. Two braces pop in between the two racks for front-to-back stability.
There's almost enough room for these two racks to extend above the line of the cab and still fold flat, facing each other.
20190210
Good idea #728.3
After having gotten a good look at the M-Lok attachment standard, it occurs to me that handgun makers should be abandoning the trend of putting Picatinny rails on pistols, and adopting M-Lok slots on them instead.
They look less obtrusive. If you don't want to rail anything on your pistol today, the slots won't get in the way, and will more cleanly conform to holsters, compared to the Pic.
And tomorrow, if you want to put the weapon light or the laser on your 1911's dustcover, you can. And when that doesn't work out the way you had hoped, the accessory comes back off and the pistol returns to its original envelope.
The accessories themselves would be a bit lighter and less clumsy too.
A 1911 or Gloock dustcover with slots would be barely noticeably larger than a dustcover with no doodads at all. Best if these slots were blind so all the junk in the world will not pass through them and interfere with the pistol's operation. Or the pistol ships with rubber slugs for each slot, which pop out with a screwdriver.
The standard slot seems to be about 32mm long, which could be hard to fit on a compact pistol. Maybe an abbreviated slot length could be had, if the accessories' toggles were closer together to match.
Hey Polymer80, get on this willya?
They look less obtrusive. If you don't want to rail anything on your pistol today, the slots won't get in the way, and will more cleanly conform to holsters, compared to the Pic.
And tomorrow, if you want to put the weapon light or the laser on your 1911's dustcover, you can. And when that doesn't work out the way you had hoped, the accessory comes back off and the pistol returns to its original envelope.
The accessories themselves would be a bit lighter and less clumsy too.
A 1911 or Gloock dustcover with slots would be barely noticeably larger than a dustcover with no doodads at all. Best if these slots were blind so all the junk in the world will not pass through them and interfere with the pistol's operation. Or the pistol ships with rubber slugs for each slot, which pop out with a screwdriver.
The standard slot seems to be about 32mm long, which could be hard to fit on a compact pistol. Maybe an abbreviated slot length could be had, if the accessories' toggles were closer together to match.
Hey Polymer80, get on this willya?
20190203
Savage Scout 11FCM and MEN milsurp NATO ball
not bad. Now I need to download some Android app that can measure a photo of a shot group and pull out the group size.
This is a five-shot group at 60 yards. Flyer lower left. The rest of that ragged hole was cut by 4 bullets, not three. The group was shot with no defined point to shoot at, just my attempt at "center of the paper plate" using a Vortex Crossfire II Scout set at 2.5 power.
the tears in the paper plate are from spalls thrown from Grendel bullets hitting steel about 6 feet away, lower left. Ignore them. There's a story behind that steel I was pounding with Grendel but that story is for sometime telling in September.
Lest one think that there's another flyer hidden under the nickel, same plate with the nickel moved:
Ammunition is MEN military surplus, 147gr NATO ball, lot MEN16E0836. That ammo was priced very attractively about 2 years ago. Shots were 2583, 2598, 2602, 2602, and yes, 2602 fps. PACT chrono. The widest extreme edges of that group (hole at 12 to hole at 3 o'clock) come in just under .750".
This is a five-shot group at 60 yards. Flyer lower left. The rest of that ragged hole was cut by 4 bullets, not three. The group was shot with no defined point to shoot at, just my attempt at "center of the paper plate" using a Vortex Crossfire II Scout set at 2.5 power.
the tears in the paper plate are from spalls thrown from Grendel bullets hitting steel about 6 feet away, lower left. Ignore them. There's a story behind that steel I was pounding with Grendel but that story is for sometime telling in September.
Lest one think that there's another flyer hidden under the nickel, same plate with the nickel moved:
Ammunition is MEN military surplus, 147gr NATO ball, lot MEN16E0836. That ammo was priced very attractively about 2 years ago. Shots were 2583, 2598, 2602, 2602, and yes, 2602 fps. PACT chrono. The widest extreme edges of that group (hole at 12 to hole at 3 o'clock) come in just under .750".
20190106
Stripper clips and guide for 6.5mm Grendel
The case head dimensions for the 6.5mm Grendel cartridge are close enough to those of the 7.62x45mm Czech that their stripper clips work. 7.62x39 clips won't because they're curved to follow the tapered case body.
One or two eBay sellers had the stripper clips. They're 5-rounders. For a 25-round magazine (C-Products in this photo), 5 clips fill it.
The GG&G stripper clip guides for 5.56mm ammo can be modified to take the Czech stripper clips. Bend outward slightly the rails that attach the guide to the magazine, bend outward a bit more the rails that hold the stripper clip to the guide. Your mags will get a little scratched.
The Czech clips have bumps that stop the clips from entering more than about .500" into the guide. The first clip will strip into the mag OK but not following clips, because there's too much gap between the end of the clip and the top of the magazine. The cartridges pile up instead of schmoozing on into the mag.
Your Dremel, with a cutting wheel, can carve open a slot on each side of the guide to let those bumps in so the clip seats deeply into the guide. The slots need to be long enough so there is barely enough space for one cartridge case head between the top of the mag and the end of the clip. The bottom round of the clip should be almost touching the follower.
The slots will be the width of about two thicknesses of cutting wheel, to accommodate the bumps. See the red markup on the photo. A needle file down the insides of the clip guide rails will help the clips to slide in squarely.
Wirebrush the slots to clean up your work. If you're obsessive, degrease the guide(s) and reparkerize or zotch them with teflon/moly.
I think a rub or two of paraffin on the clips themselves will help the cartridges slip out of them.
20181208
reloading 5.56mm with CFE223 and 55gr FMJ----with update
Sounds kinda boring and vanilla, right?
Lake City never-fired pulldown cases, still have the Uncle Sugar primer. I miked a pile of them for head-to-cone length and separated them into cases with .003" or less under nominal, and those with .004 or more under nominal, and used these shorter ones for this trial.
Generic 55 grain FMJ (Hornady? IMI? Milsurp? can't remember) but they've been tumbled in molybdenum disulfide powder in a pill bottle for a few hours.
Hornady's manual, on the page for 5.56mm NATO instead of .223 or 5.56 Service Rifle, says CFE223 goes max at 27.6 grains Hodgdon's site says 27.4. With a 20" barrel, a startling 3200 fps.
So I rolled 5 each starting there and going downward to 26.6 gr in .2gr increments, so I would start shooting them at the bottom of the charge weights and move up, stop at first pressure signs. 16" Bushmaster barrel. I should be able to stretch 3050 fps out of that with 55 grainers, maybe?
Nope. 2826fps. The bolt wasn't locking open until I shot the 27.4 grainers. Cases come back out with HTC of about .002" over.
Feedback, people. Meanwhile I'm pulling all that are left, and starting over.
Update 20190201: Small sample size, but 27.6gr yields 2834 fps. 27.8gr, 2865fps. 28.0gr the MV dips to 2862, 28.2gr @ 2916fps.
I'm moving back to WC844.
Lake City never-fired pulldown cases, still have the Uncle Sugar primer. I miked a pile of them for head-to-cone length and separated them into cases with .003" or less under nominal, and those with .004 or more under nominal, and used these shorter ones for this trial.
Generic 55 grain FMJ (Hornady? IMI? Milsurp? can't remember) but they've been tumbled in molybdenum disulfide powder in a pill bottle for a few hours.
Hornady's manual, on the page for 5.56mm NATO instead of .223 or 5.56 Service Rifle, says CFE223 goes max at 27.6 grains Hodgdon's site says 27.4. With a 20" barrel, a startling 3200 fps.
So I rolled 5 each starting there and going downward to 26.6 gr in .2gr increments, so I would start shooting them at the bottom of the charge weights and move up, stop at first pressure signs. 16" Bushmaster barrel. I should be able to stretch 3050 fps out of that with 55 grainers, maybe?
Nope. 2826fps. The bolt wasn't locking open until I shot the 27.4 grainers. Cases come back out with HTC of about .002" over.
Feedback, people. Meanwhile I'm pulling all that are left, and starting over.
Update 20190201: Small sample size, but 27.6gr yields 2834 fps. 27.8gr, 2865fps. 28.0gr the MV dips to 2862, 28.2gr @ 2916fps.
I'm moving back to WC844.
20181118
The Collective needs martial poster artists!
Sourced from one of the social disease networks:

What the artist should have been going for:
One more bold, dramatic face fixed on a bold, dramatic future somewhere in the distance, off to the reader's Left.
20181019
another wish list item
I've always gotten an adrenaline rush from ELP's "The Barbarian."
Since youngest Toad, now in excess of 6 vertical feet of stature, has joined his school's marching band, I suggested that somehow The Barbarian could be arranged for a marching band. I can hear it in my mind's ear.
While looking for a marching band arrangement, this you tu b came up. Who knew that, yet again, ELP repurposed a classical piece as spaceman progrock?
These guys---3 Hungarians and a Usonan---knocked it the fuck out of the park.
Since youngest Toad, now in excess of 6 vertical feet of stature, has joined his school's marching band, I suggested that somehow The Barbarian could be arranged for a marching band. I can hear it in my mind's ear.
While looking for a marching band arrangement, this you tu b came up. Who knew that, yet again, ELP repurposed a classical piece as spaceman progrock?
These guys---3 Hungarians and a Usonan---knocked it the fuck out of the park.
20180930
well we just sit around here
Midway 1292: new motor from Grainger costs more than a new tumbler.
New tumbler: Amazon is undercutting MidwayUSA something sick.
Amazon: "hey why not stream some music from a bearded Justin Timberlake while you are sitting around in your house waiting for your tumbler?"
New tumbler: Amazon is undercutting MidwayUSA something sick.
Amazon: "hey why not stream some music from a bearded Justin Timberlake while you are sitting around in your house waiting for your tumbler?"
Midway 1292 tumbler
It just blew up.
I was cleaning up some 6.5 Grendel brass and some Lake City 7.62 after success at a range. Stopped the tumbler to have a look, figured they needed a little more cowbell.
I flicked the switch, and sparks jumped out from beneath the bowl, then smoke curled up from within.
Motor is smoked. It had a good run, I probably bought it in '92 or '93, before joining my Sainted Wife in matrimony.
Though running it on the floor of a dusty garage might have hastened its demise.
Maybe somebody has a replacement motor.
I was cleaning up some 6.5 Grendel brass and some Lake City 7.62 after success at a range. Stopped the tumbler to have a look, figured they needed a little more cowbell.
I flicked the switch, and sparks jumped out from beneath the bowl, then smoke curled up from within.
Motor is smoked. It had a good run, I probably bought it in '92 or '93, before joining my Sainted Wife in matrimony.
Though running it on the floor of a dusty garage might have hastened its demise.
Maybe somebody has a replacement motor.
20180804
Hello, Miss Margaret
Luth-AR out back, Wolff extra power buffer spring, home-milled 80% lower, no-name eBay modular trigger, Voodoo integral bolt carrier, DeadShot 24" Grendel barrel and bolt, Odin click-adjustable gas block, no-name tubular handguard. Athlon 4-14x44 FFP.
and I'm out a 20-year-old drill press, it roasted as I was finishing the milling in this lower. The Polymer80 jig kit was handy, it will probably make it through a second lower. I'll do a new lower for Bobbie Jo.
Anybody make a pistol grip that looks like a Springer XD?
20180711
maybe this can be witnessed only in flyover country
or again, maybe not:
along the shoulder of a US highway as it passes through the former economic dynamo of the town, there poddled an electric scooter, facing against the traffic, with a guy sitting on it, using one leg to try to push it along.
So let me get this straight. A person who depends on an electric scooter to get around, riding a scooter with maybe not enough power left in the battery, or a motor nearly worn out, using one leg to boost it.
If he's strong enough to boost his own electric scooter, maybe he does not need an electric scooter.
At his rate, I've been home half an hour since driving past him. I could probably find him and capture some video.
along the shoulder of a US highway as it passes through the former economic dynamo of the town, there poddled an electric scooter, facing against the traffic, with a guy sitting on it, using one leg to try to push it along.
So let me get this straight. A person who depends on an electric scooter to get around, riding a scooter with maybe not enough power left in the battery, or a motor nearly worn out, using one leg to boost it.
If he's strong enough to boost his own electric scooter, maybe he does not need an electric scooter.
At his rate, I've been home half an hour since driving past him. I could probably find him and capture some video.
20180629
tracer for 6.5mm
it's begun to annoy me that tracers are not available for 6.5mm, compared to US or Soviet calibers.
The prospect of forming a cavity in a boattail and filling it with barium nitrate, magnesium, and other pyrophoric unobtainium compounds doesn't thrill me either.
Applique tracer devices stuck to otherwise non-tracer bullets intrigue me. Glowammo seems to have disappeared, and may never have been introduced in rifle calibers anyway. And there may be a reason they were not introduced. Velocities too high for human eyes to track the glow or for the device to hang on to the tail, chamber pressures too high for the applique to withstand?
So I wonder if a phosphor compound could be mixed with ground glass filler and an epoxy, and dabbed on the tail of a bullet? Would the intense heat and light of the burning propellant cause the phosphor to light up, but not burn up?
The prospect of forming a cavity in a boattail and filling it with barium nitrate, magnesium, and other pyrophoric unobtainium compounds doesn't thrill me either.
Applique tracer devices stuck to otherwise non-tracer bullets intrigue me. Glowammo seems to have disappeared, and may never have been introduced in rifle calibers anyway. And there may be a reason they were not introduced. Velocities too high for human eyes to track the glow or for the device to hang on to the tail, chamber pressures too high for the applique to withstand?
So I wonder if a phosphor compound could be mixed with ground glass filler and an epoxy, and dabbed on the tail of a bullet? Would the intense heat and light of the burning propellant cause the phosphor to light up, but not burn up?
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