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October was over in the blink of an eye. The month started with my birthday, and I went around the world for the 45th time. After more than a few late-night noises woke me over the past month. I read about the possibility of short-stroking a pump-action in stressful situations. While I had never personally done it in 333 shots at the range, my concern was that perhaps I could at a critical time. I was tempted by the Benelli M4, but its $1800-$2200 price tag was hard for me to wrap my mind around. One late night in September I came across a Berreta 1301 for a very reasonable price on gunbroker.com almost a month later I had a very late generation one 1301 of my very own. Much to my suprise it had the updated foreend and the pro-lifter that doesn't pinch your fingers when you load. I was pleasantly surprised. I had read that the break in period would be 50 rounds, and I had two jams during the break in. After a deep cleaning, and another 10 rounds I had one jam. Another cleaning and another ten rounds and it was flawless. The manual says that for it's best performacne, cleaning it after using it is ideal. While I had heard that the M4 can cycle 2k rounds without cleaning it, I also heard that the 1301 was just good if not better for the consumer market for a much more favorable price. I ended up going with an Airdus Magpul 590 adapter in FDE (which didn't look much like FDE to me, but they assured me it was) The Magpull SGA stock in FDE, the GG&G Magpul Zhukov adapter, with the Langdon tactical heat shield with the Streamlight large pressure pad adapter. I no longer have to worry about short-stroking the shotgun in stressful situations.

The rentals

My groupings at 5 yards improved throughout the month. One of my favorite guns to finish my range time with is my shotgun. I've been saving the ammo this month in preparation for something new, which will need to be broken in. This month I dug out of the closet my grandfather's plinkster and gave it a whirl using Federal 36 Grain Copper Plated HP. As has been my past experience, the plinkster performs fairly well when using Federal ammunition. 4 in 100 would jam when using Winchester .22 LR.

The rentals

My weekend focus in August was everywhere except on my tech projects from the past months. Some notable events in August:

• AC fixed
• Bathroom sink replaced
• Started feeding the local birds
• Weekend gaming group started back up
• Hyper-focused on the ammo-related hobby for much of my free time on the weekends

One interesting project I did take on was that I had Claude build a system for capturing outlines of “paper punches” and made them vector-based so that i could arrange/rotate and place them on a plane. The goal of the project was to efficiently arrange them so that I could carefully transport my paper punches to the range in the minimum amount of space. I didn’t end up building the actual product, but the tech that I was able to direct Claude to make was pretty slick.

The range was often on my mind in August. Probably didn't help that I was rewatching Yellowstone. For some reason, I'm a sucker for older-style paper punches, be it pump, bolt, or lever. There is just something that is intensely satisfying about performing the motion and hearing the noises that those paper punches make.

The rentals

Between work and other life events, there hasn't been a lot of time spent on project GBH. Most of the time I spent working on it; was working on the storyline. I may need to enlist another writer to help me punch up my in-game banter. This is the first weekend I've touched code since late June. With my daughter in town the past week, centered around family time. The last few days took me deep into another side project. I'm looking to create a multi-pew backpack insert. My intern helped take rough shapes on paper to a digital view that I could manipulate until I found a configuration that would work. I also rigged it up so I could print at 1:1 size as well as export to Shapr3D. Now the question for this project is that of materials to support this creation, as it is placed in my bag and removed without the pew tearing itself out and getting damaged.

6/13/2026
- [ ] Drivable golf cart
- [ ] Hand animation for turning golf cart wheel
- [ ] vegetation generator bound to mesh
- [ ] game type menu for story or freeplay mode
- [ ] Building out the operator home
- [ ] Operator able to set on chairs without hands in driving hands
- [ ] New assets
    - [ ] Golf Cart
    - [ ] Trees, Bushes, Weeds, Flowers
    - [ ] House stuff, houses
- [ ] Procedurally generated river, started work on “deck hand” scene.
- [ ] Menu fixes

6/19/2026
- [ ] Tope tie off mini game
- [ ] bug fixed walking, running, flowing down river
- [ ] drowning prototype
- [ ] river boats turning naturally
- [ ] river boats spawning with variety
- [ ] river boats avoiding tow / barges
- [ ] fixed trees spawning on proc river
- [ ] water not bleeding through barges
- [ ] player not drowning while in barge
- [ ] tested paid version of meshy.ai; models look good from a distance, up close they are quite rough.

6/29/2026
- [ ] Rewrote the beginning of the story.
- [ ] Meshy.ai model of a great blue heron

Highlights from this weekend in GBH:

- [ ] HDR Water (mostly)
- [ ] Fixed cameras for HDR
- [ ] Added boat colors into boat spawn arrays
- [ ] Added a Continue Game button to the menu
- [ ] Started writing prolog, and night one in Inkly
- [ ] boats not passing through each other, but going off like boats would
- [ ] modeled radio, added knobs, power light, power switch, mic, speaker
- [ ] radio-controlled traffic from the control room, a work in progress. Still a bit buggy.