A broke stripper in Baton Rouge

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I took all three strippers to the club today. (That was for you, Ron.) The original skinny one and the two thicker ones. I wasn't shooting great, but I confirmed that POI is the same for all three at 50 yards, so I'll be using the thick stripper with the original air hole orientation and the thick one with the inverted air holes will be my backup. They are much stronger than the original design, so I feel pretty good about this. I also printed one with female 1/2 threads for the LGV but I don't know when I'll get around to testing it.

So unless something crazy happens, this should conclude this chapter of "fun with strippers".
 
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scotton said:
I took all three strippers to the club today. (That was for you, Ron.) The original skinny one and the two thicker ones. I wasn't shooting great, but I confirmed that POI is the same for all three at 50 yards, so I'll be using the thick stripper with the original air hole orientation and the thick one with the inverted air holes will be my backup. They are much stronger than the original design, so I feel pretty good about this. I also printed one with female 1/2 threads for the LGV but I don't know when I'll get around to testing it.

So unless something crazy happens, this should conclude this chapter of "fun with strippers".
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You live a more interesting life than most!
 
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scotton said:
I've identified a weakness in my 3D printed strippers and moderators. The weakness is their weakness.

I was getting ready for the Cajuns Classic and I wanted to use the new vented moderator design but the dope was off on the closer yardages and I didn't have time to re-dope. I decided to go with the tried and true stripper, since my dope was pretty solid for it.

I got out to the bayou, had a slow start and then I got into my groove. Then, with four lanes left, I went into shotgun mode. Really struggled. Checked the scope mounts, stock screws, smoked crack, nuthin!

I was sighting in for day 2 and I reached out to make sure the stripper was tight. That's when I realized it had broken 3/4 of the way through and was hanging on by a thread!

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Well, mystery solved. I thought I had packed a spare, but all I could find was the vented moderator. I had about 10 minutes to get re-zeroed and get the dope figured out. I think 20 more minutes would have been great. Surprisingly, I only did 3 shots worse than day 1, but it was not a good feeling having no idea where the pellet was going.

The vented moderator is also susceptible to snapping in half, so I went back to the drawing board. I was thinking I could print some baffles to go inside the HW97 muzzle tube, and maybe print a new end cap with some vent holes in it. I wasn't really feeling this, and as I printed the 3rd of 5 baffles, I had an idea. I really like the cone concept of the air stripper, but I don't want anything that is going to hang on the outside of the end cap. So why not make a vented endcap with a cone on the inside? So that's what I did.

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When it prints, the cone is a little narrower and the air holes are a little smaller, but I'll test this out tomorrow and see if the concept works.
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So now what?
 
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