waco
Springfield, Oregon
Not sure what you guys think but I kinda like the idea….10mm in the near future?….
New Ruger LC Carbine in .45 ACP
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Missionary
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Having a carbine in the same caliber as your sidearm is always a win / win.
When the feeding frenzy ends I will be looking more closely.
I agree with the hope for a 10mm.
When the feeding frenzy ends I will be looking more closely.
I agree with the hope for a 10mm.
Cadillac Jeff
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I like it, kinda big bucks tho..
Well admittedly I did just last summer get my first 1911,so yeah I been looking at carbines...
Well admittedly I did just last summer get my first 1911,so yeah I been looking at carbines...
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Liked the old Marlin better.
Petrol & Powder
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I'll pass.
That looks like it's aimed at the tacti-cool crowd more than the pistol caliber carbine crowd.
Lots of rails, folding stock, takes Glock mags.......
I'm sure it will sell but I don't see one in my future.
It reminds me of the semi-auto, long barreled Uzi - sure you can own it without a tax stamp, but why?
That looks like it's aimed at the tacti-cool crowd more than the pistol caliber carbine crowd.
Lots of rails, folding stock, takes Glock mags.......
I'm sure it will sell but I don't see one in my future.
It reminds me of the semi-auto, long barreled Uzi - sure you can own it without a tax stamp, but why?
Elpatoloco
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After the dust clears, I will pick one up. I'm a die hard 45 man.
Petrol & Powder
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When you say, "after the dust clears", do you mean when they are no longer cool? Or when they are out of production due to poor sales?
Elpatoloco
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Im sure retailers will price them to the moon at first. When that subsides and they settle, I'll be in for one.
Outpost75
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I went with having John Taylor make a .45 ACP barrel to fit my pre-WW1 H&R .44 Garden Gun. Green Mountain 16-inch twist barrel is 20 inches, 0.90" diameter straight cylinder. Gun weighs exactly 5 pounds. Sights are XS ghost ring peep and Marbles bead front.
Chamber was cut to the same specs as the 1967 National Match M1911 pistol. Ejector/extractor hook drops to clear the diameter of the .45 ACP case to drop in to headspace on stop surface when action is open. As action is closed extractor hook is cammed upward to positively engage extractor groove. Rim seat and cast bullet throat were cut in barrel using .38-40 reamer so that I can use shot loads assembled in 5 in 1 blank cases. The .38-40 shoulder is .454 diameter with the shoulder angle forming ball seat 0.10 long with forcing cone for heavy cast bullets seated out.
The gun also chambers, accurately fires and positively ejects .455 Webley MkII or .455 Colt rounds also. The .455 Fiocchi and Hornady rounds are nearly silent at 720 fps from the 20-inch barrel. Ordinary .45 ACP military ball ammo shoots inch 5-shot groups at 25 yards and in proportion out to 100 yards. Mild report is like firing a .22 LR.
Chamber was cut to the same specs as the 1967 National Match M1911 pistol. Ejector/extractor hook drops to clear the diameter of the .45 ACP case to drop in to headspace on stop surface when action is open. As action is closed extractor hook is cammed upward to positively engage extractor groove. Rim seat and cast bullet throat were cut in barrel using .38-40 reamer so that I can use shot loads assembled in 5 in 1 blank cases. The .38-40 shoulder is .454 diameter with the shoulder angle forming ball seat 0.10 long with forcing cone for heavy cast bullets seated out.
The gun also chambers, accurately fires and positively ejects .455 Webley MkII or .455 Colt rounds also. The .455 Fiocchi and Hornady rounds are nearly silent at 720 fps from the 20-inch barrel. Ordinary .45 ACP military ball ammo shoots inch 5-shot groups at 25 yards and in proportion out to 100 yards. Mild report is like firing a .22 LR.
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RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Attached is a picture of my Remington 582 22 LR converted to 45 ACP/AR. It has a straight tube Green Mountain barrel at 18 inches and weights about 6 pounds. Heavy but good for offhand shooting for an old man.
Cadillac Jeff
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OK
That's a Lot better!!
That's a Lot better!!
Petrol & Powder
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That thing looks like a 7+ pound, $1009 collection of rails, M-loc sockets, folding stock tactic-cool stuff wrapped around a simple blow back action fed by a Glock Magazine.
That 16 ¼” barrel may allow you to squeeze a little more velocity out of a 45 ACP cartridge but it’s still a pistol cartridge launched from something that’s nearly the size of a rifle. Maybe I’m being a little harsh, but it looks like something Sigourney Weaver would be wielding in the movie Aliens.
Other than looking like cool Mall Ninja gear (and I’m being kind there),… I’m not sure what’s that’s good for.
I’ll pass.
That 16 ¼” barrel may allow you to squeeze a little more velocity out of a 45 ACP cartridge but it’s still a pistol cartridge launched from something that’s nearly the size of a rifle. Maybe I’m being a little harsh, but it looks like something Sigourney Weaver would be wielding in the movie Aliens.
Other than looking like cool Mall Ninja gear (and I’m being kind there),… I’m not sure what’s that’s good for.
I’ll pass.
And not for any functional reason, but because it looks "cool."
If it were amazingly accurate, unbreakable and $200 I'd fall in love with its hideousness. I know many more people than we few fudds (who seem to value our dollars more than others value theirs) love this stuff - it's what sells, but I just cannot wrap my head around WHY. Weird, ugly guns have always been weird and ugly because it's cheap to make, so when I see such price tags on weird and ugly stuff which was made weird and ugly based solely on aesthetics, I shake my head. I simply do NOT get why this appeals so much to so many people.
If I had to cuddle with something in a trench, fox-hole or behind a dumpster in a ravaged, far-off city, I'd prefer it were less lumpy, bumpy and more devoid of hard, sharp protrusions, especially if it were being paid for as opposed to super-cheap, hurriedly stamped, mass-produced, rudimentary killing-tools being air-dropped en-masse to underprivileged partizans.
But, that's not what I'm doing, nor are any others looking to drop $1k on it, so I really don't get the mad appeal.
Not so much expressing criticism as cunfusion.
StrawHat
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CWLONGSHOT
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Makes me appreciate my 1999 Purchase of a Marlin 45Camp Carbine. 
I have modified it a little to better suite me. First was removal of 1/3 of the magazine "cover" allowing 4/5 round magazines and reducing foot print in cases. (Totally un necessary too) Second was the mag disconnect. This is not a defensive firearm so when this failed me and cost me a critter hunting... I removed it that day!
Lastly I cut the barrel back, threaded and installed a KAW Valley linear comp, permanently, bringing the bbl length, back past legal 16".
I also added a Choate stock. But CT changed laws making its use illegal. So, I have factory stock mounted. (Choate had collapsable butt and pistol grip. Its also black in color. Two of the three are NO-NO's for libs.)
I have modified it a little to better suite me. First was removal of 1/3 of the magazine "cover" allowing 4/5 round magazines and reducing foot print in cases. (Totally un necessary too) Second was the mag disconnect. This is not a defensive firearm so when this failed me and cost me a critter hunting... I removed it that day!
Lastly I cut the barrel back, threaded and installed a KAW Valley linear comp, permanently, bringing the bbl length, back past legal 16".
I also added a Choate stock. But CT changed laws making its use illegal. So, I have factory stock mounted. (Choate had collapsable butt and pistol grip. Its also black in color. Two of the three are NO-NO's for libs.)