Glad to hear you've landed and are surviving!
How far was your shot on the Axis? I've heard they taste amazing, how would you rate it vs elk or whitetail? I'm hoping to hunt them on a trip to Hawaii in the next couple years.
I am working on a project or 2 for Gil, and well he got me thinking of what else could use for myself so started making a list, cartridge carriers popped up, my daughter thought it was "cute".
Was nice having a couple extra days off for Christmas, did a fair bit of prototyping.
+1 on using the lip stick to see where it is contacting. And like RL said you typicaly need to clean up the overspray and splatter on the B&C stocks I've even had some masking tape that never got removed.
Did these to go with the daughters Christmas knives, i get them one every year(buck prince this year). Scaled down a pattern for the smaller knives I typically get them, next is a full size for my buck 112.