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Shootoff app/DIY laser trainer cartridges

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Anxiety building for the pitch I've got to give to a major carrier Tuesday about some fancy shit they want us to make them...

Also scored a treadmill for super cheap from a garage sale. Fucker works, too.

Remembered that a while back someone was talking about dryfire training stuff and I just happened to have a box of 650nm 6mm laser diodes and figured.. what the fuck, it's better than actual work on a Sunday.

So first round is getting worked out in my .460SW because that's what was in front of me.

POC seems to work.

3 AG13 batteries, 2 nails cut to size, a really weak spring between the case head and the batteries, a stronger spring up top off the back of the laser housing, laser housing, laser diode, and a very slight crimp to keep it together.

Firing pin hits the nail that sticks out the primer hole (drilled out) just so it sits flush with the rim, nail pushes batteries and the other nail forward into the negative contact on the laser housing which completes the circuit on the positive contact on the housing which seats against the case wall, and a little blip of red light comes out.


Pretty excited to start dry-firing at plates with the 460V. If these things last any length of time I might pick up a projector, too.

Aint any way in hell I'm dropping dozens of dollars on a laser pointer.
 
Just a few kinks to work out.
 

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looks good......yeah no idea why these things are so expensive......literally a $3 laser pointer stuck in a piece of brass.

theyd sell TONS of those things if they dropped the price to $10-20.........but aint no one spending $100 on them.