HK G36k

Tommy Built is redesigning their T36 receiver to be more "safe" ( pun fully intended ), perhaps someone can eventually import those.
 
It is possible to make an aluminium G36 receiver - Steyr proposed such a beast to the Spanish military to upgrade their G36.

of course it went nowhere, that is essentially buying new rifles without opening a new trial.

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It is possible to make an aluminium G36 receiver - Steyr proposed such a beast to the Spanish military to upgrade their G36.

of course it went nowhere, that is essentially buying new rifles without opening a new trial.

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Seems like a cool idea, should be pretty easy to extrude the aluminum into the shape and throw a steel trunnion into it like the ACR. Keep all the existing accessories and parts.

Ohh well, Basically what the 433 is anyways. Too bad it didn't go anywhere.
 
Well it certainly has it's place. We have guys Stateside who hit the desert and burn several hundred or even in the excess of a 1000 rounds on continuous full-auto fire and then complain that their gun is having problems...

Rich
 
Well it certainly has it's place. We have guys Stateside who hit the desert and burn several hundred or even in the excess of a 1000 rounds on continuous full-auto fire and then complain that their gun is having problems...

Rich

Something the rifle was never designed to do. Replacing the receiver with an aluminum one will not change them having issues with that kind of abuse. What’s HKs recommendation of rounds per minute for rapid fire?

Just because something can shoot 700 rpm doesn’t mean that it should.
 
It's interesting how someone can make a stink online saying it had issues after a few hundred or a 1000rnds yet the military did a 24,000 round test years ago in the Arizona desert without a single stoppage or failure.
 
The whole problem is burning through the hundreds of rounds on full-auto like an idiot.....then complaining when the weapon has problems....any combat rifle will have problems at that rate, AR15 FOW usually melts the gas tube at a few hundred rendering the gun totally useless....

No Combat rifle in the world can match the performance of the G36, Brian is correct, 24000 rounds fired, not malfunctions no parts breakage and most importantly no lubing during the test. Often we hear of AR15 FOW's running thousands of rounds without problems....but that is with regular and heavy lubing!

Rich
 
Often we hear of AR15 FOW's running thousands of rounds without problems....but that is with regular and heavy lubing!

Rich
Pre ban I would rarely see people at the local range get through more than a couple mags before having a stoppage of some kind in their Lego AR with all the latest bits and pieces.
 
Pre ban I would rarely see people at the local range get through more than a couple mags before having a stoppage of some kind in their Lego AR with all the latest bits and pieces.

I think that would be attributed to either a bad bubba build, or a fudd that doesnt know how to properly lube an AR15. A quality AR will will run like a top when properly lubed and maintained.
 
My point is not so much about which one is better, it is more about which one can be made available for a reasonable retail price.

Personally I think making a receiver designed for polymer and molding out of aluminum is dumb. The geometry of the receiver is designed for molding everything into a single piece at once, and it was not designed with using an extrusion tube in mind. Making G36 receiver out of an aluminum plate is going to be costly. The way to make a G36 out of AL is called the FN SCAR and HK 433.

I will be happy to see Tommy T36 in Canada . G36 is designed almost 30 years ago, there is no secret sauce with fibre glass embedded polymer anymore.
 
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