WestKentucky
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I had always wondered what a different rifle layout would feel like that was built specifically to fit a right handed person, essentially abandoning a traditional rifle layout, and starting over. Sounds odd... I’m odd so it works.
The issue:
A traditional rifle layout has thetrigger group and grip areas of the rifle essentially vertical. It’s not ergonomically “bad” but a more natural stance is more like that of a boxer with the arms upand the hands at roughly 30ish degrees from vertical.
The evidence:
I acquired a set of 45 degree AR sights which seemed to work well enough on the trigger, but everything else was just wrong because the AR is traditional vertical layout. There’s something to this though as it felt good in the hands but on the shoulder it was very funky. Tweaking the forend on the AR made it even better as I could put the AFG exactly where I wanted it.
The solution?
This is the tricky part. Adapting a design doesn’t seem to be a good idea because everything is engineered to load, function, and eject based on a vertical layout. Angling a repeater seems questionable as there is s high probability of a spent shell coming back into the ejection port (or never leaving it) and jamming things up. A single shot seems workable if a new stock was built, or a traditional gun could be used if a reciever was heavily modified.
Does anybody else ever have these crazy thoughts? Feedback on this one? Ideas on what to use if I chase this?
The issue:
A traditional rifle layout has thetrigger group and grip areas of the rifle essentially vertical. It’s not ergonomically “bad” but a more natural stance is more like that of a boxer with the arms upand the hands at roughly 30ish degrees from vertical.
The evidence:
I acquired a set of 45 degree AR sights which seemed to work well enough on the trigger, but everything else was just wrong because the AR is traditional vertical layout. There’s something to this though as it felt good in the hands but on the shoulder it was very funky. Tweaking the forend on the AR made it even better as I could put the AFG exactly where I wanted it.
The solution?
This is the tricky part. Adapting a design doesn’t seem to be a good idea because everything is engineered to load, function, and eject based on a vertical layout. Angling a repeater seems questionable as there is s high probability of a spent shell coming back into the ejection port (or never leaving it) and jamming things up. A single shot seems workable if a new stock was built, or a traditional gun could be used if a reciever was heavily modified.
Does anybody else ever have these crazy thoughts? Feedback on this one? Ideas on what to use if I chase this?