okay, here's what I have been desiring for a while. A semi-auto rifle or carbine designed to handle .44mag and take a magazine with more than 10 rounds. Ideally, this would be a modification of a proven combat rifle. I am talking something like an AR-15 or an AK designed to take 44mag.
Now, a lot of specialty cartridges are coming out for the AR that are big and fat, 50 beowolf, 358 soocom, etc etc.
I think the good old .44 magnum would be supurb in this roll simply because it combines a lot of the same characteristics with nearly universal availability.
That's why designing an AR or AK to handle one would be sooo much better than these brand new superfancy rounds, or even the older and while not quite as rare, still fairly uncommmon 45automag and the like.
Now, I realize a rimmed cartridge isn't going to make it real easy to do, and a rimmed cartridge would require a pretty heavily curved mag, but that doesn't bug me none. Although, seems to be that a Desert Eagle has a pretty straight magazine and that holds what, 6-7 rounds, couldn't you do what ever that mag does, just extend it to twice that lenght to hold roughly 13 rounds, and stick it in an AR platform?
