No photos yet, but I had a bit of fun with Black Friday, Christmas, and Year End sales, and I also had a few long-scope items pay off here the last few weeks.

I have had 2 Bartlein blanks sitting on my shelf waiting for my Defiance Deviant to be completed, which shipped today. I bought it 15% off at NRAAM in May, finally got back from DLC application. I delayed it a bit by having another bolt cut and headspaced to the same action in case of a failure during a match. So that’ll get here next week and get a barrel by about the 15th.

My Smith was also clearing out Bartlein blanks, so I bought two more to rebarrel my Seekins Havak, which also should be back by the 15th.

I accidentally bought an Aero M5 (DPMS pattern AR-10) on Black Friday, then started filling up a parts list for it - everything but the optic and barrel were bought on sales in the last month. It’ll be a precision rifle competition rig in 6 creed. Likely be a Shilen tube.

I also ordered a 243LBC AR-15 barrel (6mm Grendel Variant) on Christmas sale which should get here in early Feb. I had the lower, but bought all of the pieces on sale since Black Friday, except the optic. Going to try out the Geissele Mk18 16” handguard with the integral ARCA rail on this one, since it will also be meant as a precision rifle match rig.

Bought a 16” lightweight barrel for my son’s AR-15. Also got a 12.5” SBR barrel, both 30% off expecting the eform Form 1 to go through very quickly.

I also had my stamps FINALLY come through for a SilencerCo Maxim 9 9mm integrally suppressed pistol and a Warlock II 22LR suppressor, so I picked them up the Friday before Christmas.

My son is getting to build his first AR this winter/spring, and my wife got a Sig P320 subcompact. Not really Christmas presents, but kinda such. We’re also taking my grandpa on my mom’s side shopping for a 9mm full size on Monday for his Christmas present. He has wanted something for the house for two years, and has narrowed it down to a full size striker fired 9mm, but hasn’t decided which yet.

I have been angling to build my wife a precision match rifle, and I have a certificate for half off of a Proof steel barrel and another certificate for thread, chamber, and muzzle thread by a PR builder in Texas, so if I can find a deal on an action here in the year end sales, that’ll probably happen too.