Simon
01-28-2010, 09:10 PM
When going through my archives from my old website I found a bunch of pictures of some of the Intimidators I designed for Bob Long back when Bob and NPS were working together.
Here's the pictures of the Naughty Dogs Intimdator.
The gun started out as a design that I was going to make JUST for myself as a "one off", then we picked up the Naughty Dogs with a sponsorship and there was a big hurry to get a custom gun for the team.
I adjusted the design and came up with the concept of the Dog Paws. This gun actually took quite a while to get to the finish design because Rocky kept wanting to make little changes and refinements.
This gun went through quiet a few small iterations and you can see a few of them here. The changes are subtle and involved me making the back thinner with a "step down" to reduce material and save weight.
The final gun here, also changed slightly before production where the side cut to the step moved slightly further forwards too.
I still have the original Prototype of this gun, and got it back well used finally from Rocky. It became a test gun for me and was the first intimidator to have QEV's. It has a special in line QEV's which was (and still is the only one I have ever seen like it). This was way before the Ego came out. It was also the first to have a cup faced bolt with a cut top and used o-rings as a bumper between the bolt and the balls in the feedstack.
Funnily enough when the Ego and Cure bolt was released I found out because Rocky Knuth called me to tell me about the bolts in the gun. :)
Pictures...
Here's the first iteration with just one paw print.
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs01.JPG
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs02.JPG
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs03.JPG
Here's the pictures of the Naughty Dogs Intimdator.
The gun started out as a design that I was going to make JUST for myself as a "one off", then we picked up the Naughty Dogs with a sponsorship and there was a big hurry to get a custom gun for the team.
I adjusted the design and came up with the concept of the Dog Paws. This gun actually took quite a while to get to the finish design because Rocky kept wanting to make little changes and refinements.
This gun went through quiet a few small iterations and you can see a few of them here. The changes are subtle and involved me making the back thinner with a "step down" to reduce material and save weight.
The final gun here, also changed slightly before production where the side cut to the step moved slightly further forwards too.
I still have the original Prototype of this gun, and got it back well used finally from Rocky. It became a test gun for me and was the first intimidator to have QEV's. It has a special in line QEV's which was (and still is the only one I have ever seen like it). This was way before the Ego came out. It was also the first to have a cup faced bolt with a cut top and used o-rings as a bumper between the bolt and the balls in the feedstack.
Funnily enough when the Ego and Cure bolt was released I found out because Rocky Knuth called me to tell me about the bolts in the gun. :)
Pictures...
Here's the first iteration with just one paw print.
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs01.JPG
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs02.JPG
http://www.simonized.com/images/simons/ndogs03.JPG