Some of you might remember me asking around for information on firearms design last summer.
As you all can guess, I'm interested in designing and building firearms.
I wanted to post a quick render of my new rifle design and ask for your opinions, suggestions and ideas.
I'd like to know if any of you know how I might go about having this rifle built, and/or selling/licensing the design to a manufacturing company.
Or if you have any suggestions related to that.
This isn't one of those "models" from them video games kids play these days.
This is a complete design, down to every pin and spring for the entire rifle.
This took me roughly a year, working on and off around school and whatnot.
I used Solidworks 2004 (.edu) for the design, and Maya for the render.
I also designed a bipod for it, and have a bunch of renders of the rifle sitting on said bipod, but right now I'm looking into building the bipod and maybe selling/licensing it separately.
As you might guess, the bipod's design could easily be "lifted" from a render like this.
The scope and scope mount are only here for the renders. I based the scope off of one of the Nightforce scopes, I couldn't actually measure a real one so I guesstimated it's dimensions using the photos and specs listed online.
That said, here's some quick specs on the rifle:
.408 Cheytac (or any cartridge of that class)
5 round detachable box magazine
Straight-pull bolt action
In the forward (closed) position, the bolt handle is ~2" behind trigger, so this isn't like the AMP DSR-1 rifle with the bolt really far back.
33" barrel (not including brake)
51" overall length (inlcuding brake)
15" length of pull (trigger to rear edge of stock)
14" of Picatinny rail (25MOA tilt in the renders shown)
the design's estimated weight is 30lbs. I know that's heavy, but the design is intentionally overbuilt at this point.
I think it can be cut down to ~25lbs fairly easily and I plan on doing that during the prototype stage.
center of gravity is 6" forward of the trigger, should move forward more with the ~5lb weight reduction.
(I figure having the center of gravity out on the barrel would improve stability for long range shooting)
As you might guess from looking at the render, I attempted to address the common problems bullpup rifles have, such as the poor trigger and excessive length of pull.
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Image upload seems to be working
ETA:
Forgot to mention, the thing is controlled feed and ejection too
As you all can guess, I'm interested in designing and building firearms.
I wanted to post a quick render of my new rifle design and ask for your opinions, suggestions and ideas.
I'd like to know if any of you know how I might go about having this rifle built, and/or selling/licensing the design to a manufacturing company.
Or if you have any suggestions related to that.
This isn't one of those "models" from them video games kids play these days.
This is a complete design, down to every pin and spring for the entire rifle.
This took me roughly a year, working on and off around school and whatnot.
I used Solidworks 2004 (.edu) for the design, and Maya for the render.
I also designed a bipod for it, and have a bunch of renders of the rifle sitting on said bipod, but right now I'm looking into building the bipod and maybe selling/licensing it separately.
As you might guess, the bipod's design could easily be "lifted" from a render like this.
The scope and scope mount are only here for the renders. I based the scope off of one of the Nightforce scopes, I couldn't actually measure a real one so I guesstimated it's dimensions using the photos and specs listed online.
That said, here's some quick specs on the rifle:
.408 Cheytac (or any cartridge of that class)
5 round detachable box magazine
Straight-pull bolt action
In the forward (closed) position, the bolt handle is ~2" behind trigger, so this isn't like the AMP DSR-1 rifle with the bolt really far back.
33" barrel (not including brake)
51" overall length (inlcuding brake)
15" length of pull (trigger to rear edge of stock)
14" of Picatinny rail (25MOA tilt in the renders shown)
the design's estimated weight is 30lbs. I know that's heavy, but the design is intentionally overbuilt at this point.
I think it can be cut down to ~25lbs fairly easily and I plan on doing that during the prototype stage.
center of gravity is 6" forward of the trigger, should move forward more with the ~5lb weight reduction.
(I figure having the center of gravity out on the barrel would improve stability for long range shooting)
As you might guess from looking at the render, I attempted to address the common problems bullpup rifles have, such as the poor trigger and excessive length of pull.
ETA:
Image upload seems to be working
ETA:
Forgot to mention, the thing is controlled feed and ejection too
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