If you could build from scratch

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I like the idea of pistol caliber carbines, and particularly tube guns. It would be fun to tinker with roller/lever delayed blowback. I'd also love to tinker with weird stuff like gas delayed blowback and Keltec style hybrid blowback. I'd probably piece together all kinds of bizarre carbines and armbraced pistols. And and at least a few bullpups.

A bullpup 9mm carbine would be really cool. Not much else other than vaporware and $$$ Tavor/AUG conversions.

T/C Contender. Not an antique, and I would consider it a "normal" gun, not a target gun.

I bought a used one with a 10" barrel not that long ago for around $300.

Thief!

I thought about that, but a frame assembly is $400, and then a barrel is another $300. It's at least a $700 pistol for anybody else.
 
I would make an all stainless CZ 75 based rifle in two models. One would be a 9mm, and one would be in .45ACP. Dan Wesson type interchangeable barrels would allow you to switch it from a pistol length barrel to a 16"+ one in a minute if desired. This is on a planet where no ridiculous laws about SBR's exist, of course.
 
2 guns I would like to build would be,
1/2 scale model 1874 Sharps rifle chambered in 22 LR
1/2 scale Trapdoor Springfield rifle chambered in 22 LR

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I'd build a falling block action. Smooth, strong & light!

I'd create a wildcat cartridge to go with it. The case would be rimmed & hold 50 or less grains of powder & be a caliber between 6mm & 7mm (probably 6.8mm). It would have a relatively long neck & steep shoulder. The barrel twist would favor 110gr to 120gr bullets.

Hmmmmmmmmm....
 
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It’d cost $200 in a tax stamp... But I’d build a Ruger Standard pistol, with a 10 or 12 inch barrel. Add a tangent sight to the barrel. And have a stock/holster for it. A snail drum would round it out.

Someone, somewhere, maybe here on THR, wondered why Ruger never added the sight to their 6” version. It got me to thinking about getting one rebarreled. The little looking around I did, most said it’s a no-go because of how Ruger manufactures them. But it can still be a pipe dream...

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What is It? I like it but I'm bumfuzzled.

I keep looking at it getting more confused. Set triggers under a bolt rifle action that can't possibly have a chamber due to the length in front of the bolt. Who made that grip? Anheuser Busch? But it's so polished and pretty.
Is that the Bladerunner movie gun?
Yep!
 
A bullpup 9mm carbine would be really cool. Not much else other than vaporware and $$$ Tavor/AUG conversions.
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Of course, they have been saying, "real soon now," for years.

Okay, I will throw mine in. A .380 Colt Government style (including things like the Browning 1911-380) in DA/SA.
 
Slide (pump) action 458 SOCOM that takes AR mags and has an integrally suppressed barrel. I can see myself (quietly) flinging 500 grain LRN hollow points at the neighborhood deer.
 
I'd go with a properly scaled Thompson in 22 lr and a pump action 9mm in browned steel and high grade walnut. Also a three shot break action 357 with a built in suppressor. Think contender styling with a squared rectangular barrel box.
 
He will build you one that is not heavy
Absolutely, but what I had in mind was taking the whole weight reduction issue a couple of steps further, including exotic alloys and composites. I mean carbon fiber barrel sleeves and such, maintaining the classic shape but causing the traditionalists to have a stroke once they see what it's made of... :)
 
I'd like a version of the Model 1898 Schwarzlose automatic, set up for 10mm Auto or 9mm Winchester Magnum.

The Schwarzlose used short-recoil operation and a rotating bolt; it's very similar to the Auto Mag. The original ones were mostly in some wimpy smallbore calibers such as the Europeans preferred back then, 7.62 Borchart, Schwarzlose' own 8mm, etc.

It's a big gun, and rather beautiful in a steampunk sort of way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzlose_Model_1898
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/th...pistol-was-way-ahead-of-its-time-e1e3ff33a533
http://www.horstheld.com/0-Schwarzlose.htm

The other would be an updated version of the Frommer Stop. It's also a rotating bolt design, and for some reason was limited to .32 and .380 ACP. In .357 Sig or .40 it would make a nice carry pistol. The spring-on-top design looks odd, but it's a variant of some of the lesser-known Browning patents. Most people think they're ugly, but they're a mechanically sound design, and wth proper attention to detail, should be able to handle arbitrarily-powerful cartridges.

http://candrsenal.com/pistol-frommer-stop/
http://candrsenal.com/disassembly-the-frommer-stop/
 
Built this one a 243 Brux 28" barrel Remington short action trued, aluminum bedded stock shoots 1/3" groups when I do my part
 

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