kBob
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That is a nice find. I do like the idea of shooting it with a later stock to prevent damage to the "wood grain-ish" original stock.
As a 'ute a buddy had one that as I understand it had laid around their hardware store until his Dad figured it wasn't going to sell and he may as well give t to his son. I liked it a lot and Charter had not started making them yet and ruined their reputation. His never seemed to hic-up and It was strange to me that when I finally saw the Charter's on the market it seemed that they had changed the name to "@&^$%# AR-7!" In keeping with the rifle's origins my Bud's AR-7 sometimes got stuffed into a Luscombe 85E high wing tail dragger in case he needed to survive a crash in rural North Florida. The closest thing to an issue I had with the gun was the non repeatability of the rear sight. Eventually we found we could get the sights right for him by only loosing the rear apperature screw enough to force the peep in the direction we wanted with a tooth pick through the aperature and then tightening up. Once it was gorilla torqued down (OK baby gorilla torqued because of fears of stripping the aluminum receiver) the sight stayed where it was put.
I toyed with getting one as a car-trunk gun for ages (back when most cars had real trunks) but what with car trunks being so spacious back then I just carried either a "standard" full stocked .22 rifle or my beater Mauser 7.92mm. These days with no trunk and all that open space in modern vans, that little stores in the stock gun is starting to look interesting again. BTW I understand the Henry version stock will take the action in storage with a magazine in it and two spare mags and that some spare ammo can be carried in the honey combed areas in the butt and the thing STILL float. Fair amount of bang for a grab and go.
There is an out fit out there that offers replacement barrels in steel (some threaded, Mr. Bond) and a number of accessories, including replacement stocks.
www.ar-7.com
They have things like barrel shrouds and AR15 gripped adjustable stocks as well.
-kBob
As a 'ute a buddy had one that as I understand it had laid around their hardware store until his Dad figured it wasn't going to sell and he may as well give t to his son. I liked it a lot and Charter had not started making them yet and ruined their reputation. His never seemed to hic-up and It was strange to me that when I finally saw the Charter's on the market it seemed that they had changed the name to "@&^$%# AR-7!" In keeping with the rifle's origins my Bud's AR-7 sometimes got stuffed into a Luscombe 85E high wing tail dragger in case he needed to survive a crash in rural North Florida. The closest thing to an issue I had with the gun was the non repeatability of the rear sight. Eventually we found we could get the sights right for him by only loosing the rear apperature screw enough to force the peep in the direction we wanted with a tooth pick through the aperature and then tightening up. Once it was gorilla torqued down (OK baby gorilla torqued because of fears of stripping the aluminum receiver) the sight stayed where it was put.
I toyed with getting one as a car-trunk gun for ages (back when most cars had real trunks) but what with car trunks being so spacious back then I just carried either a "standard" full stocked .22 rifle or my beater Mauser 7.92mm. These days with no trunk and all that open space in modern vans, that little stores in the stock gun is starting to look interesting again. BTW I understand the Henry version stock will take the action in storage with a magazine in it and two spare mags and that some spare ammo can be carried in the honey combed areas in the butt and the thing STILL float. Fair amount of bang for a grab and go.
There is an out fit out there that offers replacement barrels in steel (some threaded, Mr. Bond) and a number of accessories, including replacement stocks.
www.ar-7.com
They have things like barrel shrouds and AR15 gripped adjustable stocks as well.
-kBob
