Nightcrawler
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Someone told me not to get discouraged and to keep thinking stuff up, so here goes.
Lever rifles are popular. I for one like the tube magazine. Sure, you can't use pointed bullets, but for cartridges like .44 Magnum, .45-70, and .30-30 a tube magazine works great.
How about a semiauto rifle, tube fed, in .30-30? Sort of like a semiauto shotgun in design. You could even leave the hammer exposed if you wanted to, but it'd have a solid top and side ejection. There could be a 16" carbine in .45 Colt, .44-40, .41 Magnum, .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, what have you. It'd basically be like a typical lever rifle, but without the lever. I'd buy one. It make a nice companion to that semiauto 1100 or 11-87.
The SKS is a simple, rugged design. If I had a gun company, I'd that that design, beef it up a little, accurize it, and produce it in .308 and .30-06. The ten round fixed magazine would be retained, and each rifle would be sold with a package of ten stripper clips. When the bolt locked back, you simply use a stripper clip to charge in 10 fresh rounds, remove the stripper, press the bolt release, and you're all set. It'd have a forward set scope mount (scout-scope-esque) to you could use the stripper clips without the scope getting in the way.
A single shot take down rifle. Could be broken down and reassembled without tools. Accurized for MOA accuracy, scope mount, adjustable iron sights. Barrel lenghts of 16", 20", 24", 26", and even 30". Break action with automatic ejection. Good trigger (instead of the shotgun type trigger they say the NEF handi rifle has). It would come in a synthetic hard case that could be padlocked, and was good for compact storage of the rifle (when broken down) even if scoped.
Just some late night ideas.
Lever rifles are popular. I for one like the tube magazine. Sure, you can't use pointed bullets, but for cartridges like .44 Magnum, .45-70, and .30-30 a tube magazine works great.
How about a semiauto rifle, tube fed, in .30-30? Sort of like a semiauto shotgun in design. You could even leave the hammer exposed if you wanted to, but it'd have a solid top and side ejection. There could be a 16" carbine in .45 Colt, .44-40, .41 Magnum, .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, what have you. It'd basically be like a typical lever rifle, but without the lever. I'd buy one. It make a nice companion to that semiauto 1100 or 11-87.
The SKS is a simple, rugged design. If I had a gun company, I'd that that design, beef it up a little, accurize it, and produce it in .308 and .30-06. The ten round fixed magazine would be retained, and each rifle would be sold with a package of ten stripper clips. When the bolt locked back, you simply use a stripper clip to charge in 10 fresh rounds, remove the stripper, press the bolt release, and you're all set. It'd have a forward set scope mount (scout-scope-esque) to you could use the stripper clips without the scope getting in the way.
A single shot take down rifle. Could be broken down and reassembled without tools. Accurized for MOA accuracy, scope mount, adjustable iron sights. Barrel lenghts of 16", 20", 24", 26", and even 30". Break action with automatic ejection. Good trigger (instead of the shotgun type trigger they say the NEF handi rifle has). It would come in a synthetic hard case that could be padlocked, and was good for compact storage of the rifle (when broken down) even if scoped.
Just some late night ideas.