yayarx7
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Oh yeah, and I want one.
No, no, no, Rabbit;
The Cooper Thumper is NOT to be selective fire. It is to be a semiauto submachine gun replacement with good enough sights and trigger for you to put one big bullet on an enemy at reasonable range and move along.
444
I had thought of the Socom (and Beowulf) but decided not to stir the pot. They are rifle rounds not Thumper cartridges.
Night,
Ammo availability is your problem. High capacity magazines for rimmed revolver ammo would be a considerable challenge. There aren't many rimless ones except the .50 AE, .45 Win Mag, and a chance of resurecting the .44 Automag. It is unrealistic to expect a new cartridge devised for the project to be immediately available in plinking quantitiy and price.
A friend that I shoot with is the consumate tinkerer. We were both shooting Win. 94s and we came to the conclusion that a little carbine like my Trapper in .357 or .44 but with a semi-auto action would be a neat little beast. My friend has now purchased a few older 94s to see if it can be done. The idea of a small tube fed semi-auto bullet launcher is interesting, but doesn't look doable.
I do not know much about the platform but if it is as easy to manipulate as the 10/22 you might have a good starting point for a .44mag thumper.
I happen to have one in .44 Auto Mag. I found this thread trying to find some info about it.
It's a Plainfield M1 carbine with a conversion to .44 Auto Mag From what i was told, The serial number dates the action to 1965 and the lowest known non lettered serial number for Plainfield is 109, this one trumps that at 72. So i was just trying to do some more research and found this thread... Nice shooting gun
-Semiautomatic Carbine
-All Steel Folding Stock with rubber recoil pad (assuming AWB sunset)
-16.1" Barrel, with threaded, removable flashhider (assuming AWB sunset)
-Ghost Ring Sights
-20 round detachable box magazines, all steel (assuming AWB sunset)