1. Helped a friend with a .300 blackout build this weekend.


We took his 16" Daniel's upper apart and swapped barrels with an 8.5" Rainier' Arms barrel in the same caliber. He was tired of the additional length and weight when shooting suppressed, so he wanted a full time suppressed rifle. This involved TIG welding the suppressor to the barrel to permanently attach it so he was compliant with BATFE rules. Ending length came out perfect at 16.25".

2. Found a neglected .20 caliber Sheridan Bluestreak rifle. Corrosion on the brass pneumatic tube, rust on all the steel parts, and the stock was pretty scratched up. Pumped it up and the rifle shot great out to 25 yards, so it was worth restoring.


Brushed off the rust and corrosion with a wire wheel, sanded down the stock with 220, and then once the clean-up was complete started refinishing. I was abled to salvage the bluing on the triger and the rear sight, so those stayed blue. After taping off a number of parts I hit the main body of the rifle with some high temp flat black.

The stock turned out to be walnut, which was a surprise to me. I hit it with some golden teak oil, let that sink in, and then hand rubbed the finish. Turned out pretty good.

Hard not to love Double D's...

...and old Blue Streaks. I still have my early 1970's version starling swatter in the same caliber. Beeman-sourced 0.20 pellets were a vast improvement over the Sheridan fodder. Very nice, Andy.

The TIG welding went very well. One of my friends welds for a living, so it wasn't anything for him to set up a jig and weld per specs. It isn't coming off without a bit of work with a grinder.

The Blue Streak is much louder than my supressed 10/22, which was suprising to me. I have a good selection of pellets for it already, but some silver bears are on the way from Pyramid Air.

Nice work.

The suppressed rig looks great.
I have a Blue Streak with a Sheridan-supplied Weaver 4x on it.
Many fun times with that and yeah, they're louder than you'd expect.