Nathaniel Firethorn
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This is going to be neither fish nor fowl, so feel free to move it to Semiautos if it fits better there.
Summary conclusions: Fun to shoot, reasonably accurate AFAIK, a bit impractical, but what the heck?
I acquired a Mech Tech carbine conversion unit from AKJ Concealco last week, simply because I wanted to have some sort of rifle capability without owning a whole nuther firearm. I believe that the unit I got was the last unit available for a Glock 19 frame on the whole Internet.
The picture shows the CCU with the sight rail system, which I didn't get:
From what I know about Sten guns, the CCU is built like one. Steel bolt slides back and forth in a piece of powdercoated pipe.
Put a red-dot scope on it and took it down to the range to zero it. The instructions said it wanted hot ammo, and I have some +P on order but it hasn't gotten here yet. So I ran about 75 rounds of Sellier & Bellot through it.
At 25 yards, shooting from bench rest, I managed 2 inch groups. Could prolly improve this with practice and a better setup. Only one malfunction - a stovepipe. So the S&B was hot enough. Recoil was very mild, as you'd expect in an 8-pound gun. However, the CCU did emit a loud twang after each shot to let you know you'd fired it.
Downsides: The CCU does not have a drop safety. So avoid dropping it. The instructions are kind of cursory. Took me a couple of minutes of head-scratching to figure out how to lock back the bolt. (Future generations should be told to push the bolt knob into the circular cutout.) No easy way to take the CCU down for cleaning.
Hope this has been helpful, or at least enjoyable.
- pdmoderator
Summary conclusions: Fun to shoot, reasonably accurate AFAIK, a bit impractical, but what the heck?
I acquired a Mech Tech carbine conversion unit from AKJ Concealco last week, simply because I wanted to have some sort of rifle capability without owning a whole nuther firearm. I believe that the unit I got was the last unit available for a Glock 19 frame on the whole Internet.
The picture shows the CCU with the sight rail system, which I didn't get:
From what I know about Sten guns, the CCU is built like one. Steel bolt slides back and forth in a piece of powdercoated pipe.
Put a red-dot scope on it and took it down to the range to zero it. The instructions said it wanted hot ammo, and I have some +P on order but it hasn't gotten here yet. So I ran about 75 rounds of Sellier & Bellot through it.
At 25 yards, shooting from bench rest, I managed 2 inch groups. Could prolly improve this with practice and a better setup. Only one malfunction - a stovepipe. So the S&B was hot enough. Recoil was very mild, as you'd expect in an 8-pound gun. However, the CCU did emit a loud twang after each shot to let you know you'd fired it.
Downsides: The CCU does not have a drop safety. So avoid dropping it.
The instructions are kind of cursory. Took me a couple of minutes of head-scratching to figure out how to lock back the bolt. (Future generations should be told to push the bolt knob into the circular cutout.) No easy way to take the CCU down for cleaning.Hope this has been helpful, or at least enjoyable.
- pdmoderator