Sprog #4's Birthday Pink Rifle Build - Stage #1

My youngest daughter turns 19 this year on Veteran's Day.  November 11th.  For her birthday present I decided to give her a rifle.  However.  I want her to KNOW that rifle, so I'm giving it to her a piece at a time.

Her first piece,

From GWACS Armory, a Pink, CAV Arms-CAV 15 MKII  AR-15 Lower receiver.  Shel at GWACS sold me this lower for $50.00 off because it is a "Blem".  Honestly, Barb and Tony at the Sooper Sekrit Gunstore, where I do all of my transfers, and I searched for over 20 minutes while waiting for Megan to get there, and the ONLY blemish we could find was a small nick between the magwell and the trigger guard.  If GWACS considers this a "Blem", I need to buy more of their "Blems".

She'll be putting a PSA LPK in it because I already have two of them in the parts box for spares.

I will be getting parts for her rifle as I can afford them.  What I would LIKE to get her is really out of my price range.  I was thinking a pink cerakoted  A4 upper, with a custom Hello Kitty Dust cover also in pink, a boron nickle bolt carrier, and if I could afford it, I'd love to get her a Huntertown Arms DOLOS with a pink Yankee Hill Machinery free float smooth forend, with a 18" 1:7 .223 Wylde chambered Green Mountain Rifle barrel and an A2 flash hider.  Add on a decent optic and MagPul BUIS, and find some pink 30 round magazines.

Now, Megan will be "Building" this rifle herself.  I'll be helping her, but the vast majority of the labor, will be HER labor.  So she KNOWS, how to repair her rifle.  she's already said, that she plans of turning her rifle from "Pink" to "Pink Camo" once it's built.  And she has torn down my AR's to help me clean them several times, so this project is not beyond her skill level.

But you've seen what I would "Like" to get her.  What I will probably wind up doing is stripping the anodizing off one of the A4 uppers I already have and having it cerakoted to match her lower, then getting a standard carbine barrel and MagPul furniture and then add a PSA BCG which I already have in the parts box.

::sigh::

My wishes are larger than my pocket book.  Plus, I still need to look in the parts box to see what other parts I already have, and what parts I need to get for her.

However, I WILL be documenting her putting her rifle together.  I hope, I will have all the parts so she can build it before her birthday, so on her birthday, she can take it the range and test it out.

Once she finishes her lower though, I'll take an upper off of one of my AR's so she can test it and see that everything functions right.  Which will probably be this Wednesday/tomorrow, which is her day off from work.

So keep an eye out for posts tagged ""Sprog #4" to keep updated on her progress.

PSA - Don't Use Ceramic Water Filters for Surface Water!

NOTE: This does NOT include Katadyn style positive pressure filter such as the Katadyn Pocket filter.

Of which I have one.

The Katadyn filters to .02 Micron, whereas many gravity types only filter to 8 or 10 micron.  See the difference?  .02 micron versus 8-10 micron.

Now I have a kit that I use for tap water which is the 2 plastic buckets with a gravity ceramic filter.  I built it for my mom as her water softener puts too much salt in her water and she needs to watch her sodium intake.

I will be giving away one of these kits next month.  I have to make the video first on how to make it.

So Gravity Ceramic Filters ONLY remove bacteria and other stuff but NOT Viruses/Virii.

So DO NOT DEPEND on a Gravity Ceramic Filter to protect you and your family from viruses UNLESS it filters down to .02 microns.  And I don't know of ANY gravity ceramic that does that, only the positive pressure Katadyn Pocket filter.  there might be others, but I have a Katadyn so that's what I recommend.

If you do not have any other type of filter, you will have to still treat the filtered water with either boiling, iodine or bleach.

My back up is bleach.  Specifically Pool Shock bleach.  I'm going to have to find the video about how to use that to post it up.

If you are going to store a powdered bleach yourself, get a 5 gallon bucket with a tight fitting Gamma Seal lid for it.  It is very hygroscopic and the fumes and esters from it will corrode anything metal within 15-20 feet if it is not properly sealed.

ETA: Here is one of the videos about using pool shock to purify water.



With her description.

Published on Dec 12, 2013
Did you know liquid bleach goes bad(as far as water purification) after 6 months? Then, if its stored in high temp areas it lowers that 6 months. How many gallons do you have stored and need to change out for a product with longer shelf life? This pool shock is said to last 3-5 years according to my pool guy in my area. Please, do your own research on this, but its something I wanted to share with you all. Also you will see that I store(with the pool shock) a bottle with a dropper, this is for an accurate dose on drops per gallon of water. I recommend you do the same.
So as soon as I get the email back from the EPA I will do an update on what percentage they call "high test" and let yall know.

Also Backdoor Survival has a good article on using Pool Shock to purify water.

 http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/how-to-use-pool-shock-to-purify-water/

then there is this video.

PSA Public Service Announcement - Credit Card Fraud

This guy was spotted wandering round with a (POS) device. All he has to do is key in a price less than £30 and then touch the device on the pocket that contains your wallet and you’ve just been charged automatically on your touch pay enabled credit/debit card

This was taken in the U.K. but I've seen those  Point of Sale (POS) terminals for sale on Ebay. Some of them for less than $100.00

Oh and here in the U.S. they can hit you for anything under $50.00 without needing a PIN on a chipped Debit card.  On a chipped Credit card, Well They didn't ask for a signature, PIN # or even look at my card when I spent $4,459.00 on my daughter's new flute.

I think I'm going to invest in one of THESE

PSA - PTAC Upper & Rifle Kit Deals | PA10 Blem Stripped Lower Only $74.99

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