kBob
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OK I'll Play and suggest an impossirifle or three as well that I would like.
I would like to see a small scale M98 Action that is scaled down to .223/5.56mm turned into a near copy of the M1903A3 (thus illiminating the magazine cut off and two piece firing pin) (Hmm did I just describe a shrunken Mexican M1954?) . Give it a C type stock scaled down for use by 6 to 11 year olds and a sporting stye composite stock that can have spacers added to lengthen pull as the kid grows.
Alternatively just copy that Mauser type little rifle the Chinese breifly imported in 7.62x39. Same-same on stocks.
I would also like to see someone rebarrel a plain old SKS or AK type rifle with a stiffer barrel in that old Bench rest caliber 6mm PPC just to see what it does. Might have to stay with the lighter bullets to make OAL but who would not like to freak people out with a sub minute of angel (reliably) capable Volksgewar? Tried to get someone to do this back around 1995 that was playing with improving SKS accuracy (reported that a tension type barrel stiffiner even from gas block to front sight seemed to improve accuracy BTW) ALso suggested that that or a 6.5 or 7mm version might prove a very usefull "new' Round for an assault rifle. It did occur to me that a 7mm model would be basically the same as the original cartridge for the EM2 in Britians early test before the swich to the American .30-06 base cartridge.
Say, there's another if I had all the money and time in the world project, scale down an FNFAL to the second of the series in 7mm (very first FAL prototypes were 7.92 Kurz), but use our easily available M43 cases to make an M43 based 7mm round. Then anyone wanting to have the "if only we had listened to the Brits on 7mm and adopted the FNFAL" wail, then they could just buy one and prove to all their M-1A and AR buddies how stupid the US was. Shoot we could maybe get a law through congress to the effect that two cases of doing such on a public internet forum would require them under threat of sever penalties to purchase one or prove they already have! Think of the sales!!!!
-Bob Hollingsworth
I would like to see a small scale M98 Action that is scaled down to .223/5.56mm turned into a near copy of the M1903A3 (thus illiminating the magazine cut off and two piece firing pin) (Hmm did I just describe a shrunken Mexican M1954?) . Give it a C type stock scaled down for use by 6 to 11 year olds and a sporting stye composite stock that can have spacers added to lengthen pull as the kid grows.
Alternatively just copy that Mauser type little rifle the Chinese breifly imported in 7.62x39. Same-same on stocks.
I would also like to see someone rebarrel a plain old SKS or AK type rifle with a stiffer barrel in that old Bench rest caliber 6mm PPC just to see what it does. Might have to stay with the lighter bullets to make OAL but who would not like to freak people out with a sub minute of angel (reliably) capable Volksgewar? Tried to get someone to do this back around 1995 that was playing with improving SKS accuracy (reported that a tension type barrel stiffiner even from gas block to front sight seemed to improve accuracy BTW) ALso suggested that that or a 6.5 or 7mm version might prove a very usefull "new' Round for an assault rifle. It did occur to me that a 7mm model would be basically the same as the original cartridge for the EM2 in Britians early test before the swich to the American .30-06 base cartridge.
Say, there's another if I had all the money and time in the world project, scale down an FNFAL to the second of the series in 7mm (very first FAL prototypes were 7.92 Kurz), but use our easily available M43 cases to make an M43 based 7mm round. Then anyone wanting to have the "if only we had listened to the Brits on 7mm and adopted the FNFAL" wail, then they could just buy one and prove to all their M-1A and AR buddies how stupid the US was. Shoot we could maybe get a law through congress to the effect that two cases of doing such on a public internet forum would require them under threat of sever penalties to purchase one or prove they already have! Think of the sales!!!!
-Bob Hollingsworth