https://youtu.be/DA-XgiMPff4

Daddy Thumb gives some good advice, I'd recommend watching it whether you're all gucci'ed up or not. He doesn't even poor shame. Just good solid advice, especially for some of the newbies.

I like garand thumb hes always has good points

Yeah Garden thump is aight

Added it to my Watch Later playlist

Lower I’m looking at buying. Aero lower and BCM parts kit. What do y’all think?

I think it's a decent purchase. Aero is decent Intermediate, haven't had any issues with them. And BCM never dissapoints.

I think it would work well.

Yup, Crye stamp of approval

Cool. My neighbor is a shooting instructor and he said it would be a good buy as well. I’m poor but I want to buy decent gear.

That is a great attitude and plan to have.

You have the SOTAR cult approval

Brownell's can eat of bag of dicks.

Not brownells fault at all but okay?

I’ve also been experimenting with home made armor. Saving up for RMA or Hoplite stuff but wanted to learn how to make halfway decent shit for if shit really really goes down. Pretty happy with this first plate. Gonna wack it with a 12ga magnum slug and a SKS this weekend. Happy with it so far.

I am simultaneously mad and impressed

Why are you mad lol?

@Crye_Salesman
I know it's not their fault, but still BS.

Because I would generally consider that to be a terrible idea, but your product and results actually look decent

I build a lot of crazy shit. I watched the one vid of the dude that made the home made plate, and did it better. I used a fiberglass microfiber and a fiberglass bonding agent and used more layers+ had consistent pressure over the entire product, and used a garage to keep a more consistent temperature to cure it.

I’m gonna order some dirt cheap steel plates to be able to make them curved.

Im also currently working on building a candlepic bowling ball cannon.

@KnightArkane what is it made of

ive heard you can just layer a shit load of fiberglass

it doesnt work for anything but small arms

I’m sure some of those lowers will still be ending up in Canada

well layering fiberglass is essentially the same thing as layering kevlar, just lower strength

@MrCaviar 5.56 went straight through. I’m gonna test a magnum slug and 7.62 this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jiIQOgwtI

not surpised

That’s the vid I based it off of. I used more layers, fiberglass microfiber and a different bonding agent. I also used a better compression so there were no bubbles and it was consistent all the way through. Mine cost close to $45.

well theres gotta be a way to make it stronger

maybe a thin sheet of metal on the front?

Or in the middle.

maybe

Any forward grip brands yall would recommend

Railscales

@Sparrow that’s mostly likely going into “gen II”. This was 30 layers combined. I’m thinking maybe 2 pieces, 5 normal layers, plate, 10 layers, plate, 5more layers. I’ll most likely leave 1/4 inch of material round the outsides of the plates so it binds nicely. Then sprayed with bedliner as a last little bit of binding.

JFC I spent entirely too much time on this thanks to some misplaced hyperfocus, but several people just had to go on about how their anderson rifles have never had any malfunctions after infinity billion rounds and everything they make is just pure fucking gold and can't go wrong.

Sure it belongs in memes but, I mean c'mon