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- From: dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Space Guns: more mindless prattle.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.030519.29282@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:09:54 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Looking once again into the subject of building a NRA Highpower match
- rifle based on the AR-15, I'm thinking about cartridges and some
- technicalities of the NRA rules. Now some people have been able to
- chamber the AR-15 to fire the 7.62X39 Russian and the 6 mm PPC. These
- cartridges are, however, far from the maximum length that action will
- handle. I've been thinking about a 6 mm cartridge based on a shortened
- 6.5 mm Carcano which would be about the largest cartridge that could
- feed through the AR's action. Has anyone done any work on this line.
-
- Rule 9.6 requires, with exceptions, that a competitor use the same
- rifle through a match. However, some competitors have changed
- barrels and calibers between 300 and 600 without running afoul of
- this rule as long as the gun has the same serial number. Now, if
- we take this one step farther, what would keep someone from shooting
- a "Space Gun" in .223 or 6 mm PPC out to 300 yards and then punching
- out the push-pins and dropping on an upper in some wildcat caliber
- that would not feed through the magazine to shoot 600 yards? The
- gun still has the same serial number. If Mid Tompkins can swap
- barrels, what's wrong with Don Newcomb swapping upper receivers?
- --
- Donald R. Newcomb * Oh please, Mr. Clinton, won't
- dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu * you please just tax that other
- newcomb@usmcp6.bitnet * guy and send his money to me?
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