Canadian Manufactured 7.62 x 51 Semi Auto

Status
Not open for further replies.
Stevo -- unfortunately rail guns and plasma rifles are already covered.
sad but true...

Believe me, I tried to set up deals with a few US firearms companies to beat the system.


Europe manufacturers would be better ones to deal with.
 
It is funny that nobody has brought up one well known Canadian who is actually very experienced at making a go of building? / manufacturing? / assembling? Canadian Firearms ...
and also with weaving his way through the minefield of Canadian fireams regulations.

Unfortunately, I suspect Joe D is too busy building boring old AR 15 rifles and Colt style pistols, and accessories, and making and selling products that have proven market potential. If you talk to him, Joe will tell you most of his market is in the US and Europe. I suspect the Canadian domestic market for firearms is just not big enough to count on as your primary income source, no matter how good your product.

I say this as an ex-Gunsmith/Firearms dealer, who got out in '92, and went back to school to become a computer geek. I've made wayyyy more $$$ working on computer that I ever did working on guns. The hourly rate is about the samne, but ther computer work is way more regular ... and the Govt isn't trying as hard to screw you over.

On another thought, maybe what we need is someone with NO experience in firearms to design us our new "supergun". Maybe we need someone who starts with a clean sheet of paper, no preconceptions, and thinks "outside the box".

After all, look what Gaston Glock did to the pistol world, with no previous firearms experience or credentials?

I realise a rifle is a more complicated and technically challenging project than a pistol, but we have precedent with the glock.

Now if only someone can invent a BIGGER / LONGER / MORE POWERFUL GLOCK ... in 7.62 NATO/.308!!!

PS: I personally have the HOTS for the bullpup types ... EG: Tavor and 97. But I wonder, in the world marketplace, how are the Bullpups doing for military contracts VS convential arms??

Interesting thread
LAZ 1
 
Dear severus

My first Semi Automatic rifle was a Norinco M14. It has proven itself to be reliable, accurate, and cheap. I payed $525 dollars for my rifle. I am very very happy with it.

If you can make a rifle that is under $1000 dollars and can outperform my m14, in accuracy, durability, service life, I will buy your rifle.

But please.... MAKE IT "KISS" (KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID)
 
Can Am said,
" Your best bet may be to make an original-style AR10 since it is not a variant of the AR15. "

Last I heard, the original AR 10s were all C/A, except MAYBE a couple of rare semi auto only shorty prototypes, that were built by AI as "pilot survival rifles" for a Dutch air line that had polar routes ... and was overly paranoid about polar bears.

If indeed a semi auto only AR 10 was NOT restricted, my vote would go for more of these.

I have been patiently waiting for about 30 years for someone to start manufacturing an ORIGINAL AR 10. I currently have a DPMS/R25, which is close, but still uses as many AR 15 parts as the engineers could stuff in there.

I do NOT like an AR 15 buffer tube, or the smaller AR 15 bolt parts, especially a bolt tail reduced in size to fit an AR 15 buffer tube.

If you made a NON restricted semi auto only AR 10, as per the original; specifications, I would sell off some of my AR 15s, and probably my R25, and buy at least TWO of these.

And if you offered it to canadians in .243 as well as .308, you would have what Remington has in the US with the R25. And apparently, the R25s are doing quite well down there marketed as HUNTING and Varmint rifles.

good luck with your project. It is nice to see more Canadians interested in making and marketing any gun related stuff. we are currewntly developing an alloy stock for the M14, which should basically turn a boring ol M14 intop a modern AR 10 lookalike.

But I still would like to see a Canadian street legal AR 10 ...
or any other reliable, accurate, ergonomicaly optimised .308 semi auto.
Best of all, if you could somehow sneak in a .308 BULLPUP ...
now that would be great
[;{)
LAZ 1
 
Update

Merllin said:
Holy necro thread... I wonder if anything actually ever came of this...
Click to expand...

Yes, something is coming out of this. It won't be in the stores tomorrow however.

Development takes time. We have been through the feature set. We looked at a LOT of designs and we have taken the good and left the bad so to speak. And we have added some innovations of our own.

Without giving away the design I will provide some hints. First, if you own a certain swiss rifle you will have a general idea of the gas piston return spring set up. If you know what the FAL gas regulator is like it will give you an idea of how we are approaching it.

Action is semi-auto only. Barrel is 18.6" cold hammer forged. Ambi safety, bolt release, and mag release. Have not decided on mags yet. Folding stock (does not look like a space boot) Monolithic free float RIS. Non-recip FAL style folding cocking mechanism. Possible quick lefty conversion if we can nail the bolt design down. Calibre 7.62 x 51mm.

As for profile it will be similar to FN-FAL but with a lot of changes and updates. Considering a wood furniture kit that would make a lot of Belgian supporters very happy.

First working prototype expected in about a year. At least 2-3 years until a dealer sees one. And yes, it will have a Maple Leaf prominently displayed on it.

Severus
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom