July newsletter
Written by Nathan Foster on July 14th, 2026.
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Hi guys, I hope this message finds you well.
This is just a general catch up to keep you apprised of what has been going on at our end.
First and foremost, we have started making regular videos again. Full transparency: with so much noise on the internet and YouTube now, we were forced to make an effort to stay in business.
After publishing Rifles, second edition, I went back into research mode. But in doing so, I neglected the all-important aspect of business – marketing. And of course, nowadays, there are countless numbers of people trying to make a quick buck out of google advertising via short vids with flashy titles such as “why the 6.5 x 9mm Parabellum is best” and so forth.
A special thanks to Joe (Life Below Zero) for giving me a wakeup call regarding the need to get back into video land and to Steph for coming up with a format that allows me to chat without adding further burdens to my work load.
We do however need your help. Due to the fact that we don’t allow google to place advertising on our videos (i.e. don’t feed the globalists), the google bots have been downranking our videos and not sending alerts to our subscribers. So if you happen to have time at some stage, I would very much appreciate it if you could have a look at the vids and perhaps hit the relevant buttons to get things going again. Stephs format is based on reader / viewer questions so if you have any questions, please feel free to put them in the comments section under the videos and I will do my best to answer them.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/@Ballisticstudies/videos
Ok, what else to report…
I had another Fierce Fury rifle brought to me a few weeks back. This was the Self Entitled And Vehemently Bitter (SEAVB) model which features the lightning conductor barrel wrap. Again, it was shooting all over an A4. I buddied the client through the bedding process, converting it from the Sako 85 style lug set up to the A7 (Tikka style) set up. I was concerned that the Fierce Passive Aggressive recoil lug might be epoxied in place but as it happened, we were able to walk the lug out. The bedding job thereafter was relatively straight forward though it did require a generous fill in the void left by the old lug. The client is quite happy with his Fierce Apoplexy now. I thoroughly suggest this accurizing process for anybody who owns a Fierce Resentment rifle.
This weekend just past, I helped a client who is working on a Nosler M48. As so often happens however, the learning went both ways. The stock had been damaged during a hunting trip and had to be replaced and then bedded. I have never gone through the replacement process for a Nosler M48 and figured it would be as simple as replacing the stock with another Howa M1500 stock. But no. As it turns out, the location of the tang screw hole for the Nosler is further back on the tang. The hole spacing for the Nosler is approximately .125” (3.175mm) longer than the hole spacing for the Howa. Definitely something to keep in mind for future reference! I can only guess as to why. Perhaps this was done to avoid any rights issues with Legacy Sports / Howa or to accommodate the slightly different trigger guard or both.
I don’t really have much else to discuss – or what I do have to discuss, I have been saying in the videos. Otherwise, when I am in research mode as I am now, I don’t like to report so much, simply because I would rather have the full body of information completed before discussing anything. But also, I do of course want to eventually publish again at some stage, so some info needs to be retained as a saleable item.
Well that’s about it for now guys. You are always in our thoughts. Wishing you all the best.
