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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Calibre change kits?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.202122.3960@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:52:39 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Circle 'C' Shellfish Ranch, Shores of the Pacific, California
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Now that I have a 1911A1 .45 ACP, I'm wondering what it would take to
- shoot a different calibre in it. Say, for example, .40 S&W?
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- I figure a new barrel and magazine, and maybe a new recoil spring?
- Or is the .40 S&W so long that you can't adapt a .45 ACP frame?
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- How about .41 AE or 9mm ?
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- Does anyone make such kits? And do they cost more than a new gun ;-)
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- On a more general note: I've often thought it would be nice to have
- a target gun with a bit less bark than 9mm, but don't like the
- short bbls and blowback design of most .380 (9mm Kurtz) guns. So...
- What would it take to convert a 9mm Parabellum to .380? New bbl
- (probably custom) and different springs... but could you use the
- same magazine? And what gun would work best for that? The Beretta?
- A Glock?
-
- Yeah, I like to tinker ... how could you tell :-)
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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- 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
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