During this process i've been looking a lot up online from youtube to Udemy.  all of these are great sources, however they rarely have implementations that work 1 for 1 with what we're working on.  This week i was attempting to implement weapon swapping based on a Udemy tutorial that i had been watching.  I really like their implementation because the other way i knew how to do it required several different animation blue prints for each weapon type.  However after about 2 hours of following the tutorial i realized that his implementation required me that change large chunks of my code in order for it to work.

Ultimately i decided to just do it the way i knew how to in order to keep from rewriting my code base.