Hey guys, thought I would post my project up on here. If this isn’t kosher I can take it down, just let me know.
Those of you that are also on 68forums may have seen these already, maybe not. I’ll give you all a quick rundown of what it is, and how it works. A little over a year ago I set out to make a low profile brass catcher. Main uses would be hunting and range trips. Those of you that reload know how annoying it can be to pick up all your brass after a range trip, or digging for it out in the bush when you’re hunting. I shoot my 6.8 more than anything else and save all of my brass. While the price is coming down, it’s no where near as cheap as 5.56 brass. I wanted something that was low profile, easy to put on and off, and could hold at least 30 rounds. After some brainstorming and messing around with stuff I came up with a design, which can be seen below.
There are already a few of these in circulation, and reviews can be found on the 68forum. I will post a link when I can so that people do’nt have to search for it, and maybe some of the people that already have one will post up their review here.
Up until this point all of my mounts have been hand made. This leaves great variation between each one, none are the exact same. My goal is to mass produce these brass catchers, and doing so there is NO way I’ll be able to hand make all of the mounts. What will I do? I’m going to get an injection mold made! The problem: molds are very expensive! (At least for me it is.) The solution: put my project on RocketHub and expose it to the nation!
If I can get my project funded I will be able to produce a high quality product that is the exact same, every time! I’ll be able to hopefully distribute my product across the nation to be sold in gun stores nation wide. If you wouldn’t mind taking a minute and at least checking it out, that would be greatly appreciated!
Question about this thread. The guy is basically fundraising for his project.
I know the policy on group buys is that they need approval. I am concerned that people could lose their money on this, and we have fingers pointed at us since “we allowed it to happen.”
He should have asked a staffer, first, is all. Matter of etiquette; ping him and remind him that if he’s posting something on space other than his own, it’s still considered polite to ask BEFORE wiping one’s butt on somebody else’s curtains, at least.
That Aimpoint Micto “iO cover” that Tango Down ended up picking up and producing was originally a Kickstarter effort; dude who was doing it pinged a staffer about starting a thread about it. Because folks were sending money to Kickstarter and understood (or pretended to…) the risks, it was given the thumbs-up
Barring violent objection from others: Same thing as Kickstarter; if there’s blow-back from fraud, it’s on the dude, not anybody where the “opportunity” is shown. Should be good.
If we were to pick nits, dude shoulda been told it was being pulled for review, to prevent just that. I’d state that, and blame the lack on oversight (it has the benefit of being the truth), if you’re of a mind to, close it.
I contacted the guy via PM, he very politely responded, and I think we are all simpatico now. I’ll soft-delete the sidebar discussion, and we’ll move the thread back out.
I’ve had a few people ask me if these will work with large frame ARs and the answer is yes, they will. Bag capacity will be less (obviously) with larger rounds but will work fine.
Theoretically yes, however I have not run into that issue and I have been at the range on some hot days and done quite a bit of shooting on those days. The mounts will no longer be kydex though, that’s why I’m doing this rocket hub thing. So that I can have the mounts injection molded.
