New guy looking for G36
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If you get an SL8 conversion, you'd be wise to look for one with an actual G36 barrel, or at least with an SL8 barrel milled to copy the G36.
Most SL8 conversions have a much longer LOP than an authentic G36. Moreover, the SL8 barrel is much heavier. The G36 is a very light and manoeverable rifle; you should look for a conversion that gives you the same feeling.
If you are willing to spend the dough, you will be able to lure out a few G36s on the EE. Prices are high though.
Most SL8 conversions have a much longer LOP than an authentic G36. Moreover, the SL8 barrel is much heavier. The G36 is a very light and manoeverable rifle; you should look for a conversion that gives you the same feeling.
If you are willing to spend the dough, you will be able to lure out a few G36s on the EE. Prices are high though.
That's not as much a conversion, but simply a replaced top rail and added bipod. You can buy the parts from Wolverine if you have sufficient amounts of money. Basically, if you are willing to spend $3300 for your brand new SL8 instead of $2500, you can get it looking like that. The way I look at it, unscrewing two screws, replacing a rail and screwing two screws down is even less a "build" then installing an LPK into an AR lower.
Hard parts are receiver and barrel. Very hard part is the bayonet lug for G36E.
Curious how rough is rough. There are some breakages that are basically unrecoverable, but it's kind of hard to get a G36/SL8 to that state. Did someone run over the receiver with a car?
*shrug* Depends on the skill of the person doing the conversion.
Here is an example: At the top someone converted the stock. At the bottom someone converted the receiver.
If you buy a Hera stock adapter, for example, then your LOP will be even longer then on the hand made stock conversion above.
Rough.
Likely as in 'not spending $9000 for that kind of s**t condition'
The UMP I got for $7 k was pristine. Not one mark on it. I subsequently sold it to a friend of Pat911 for exactly what I paid for it after a full year of enjoying and shooting it. I have no question that he will also shoot and enjoy it. Should he pass it along to another owner, dollars to donuts it will still be in pristine condition, sans gouges that look like he stored it in the tool box in the back of his dad's old truck. Hell. Had I the chance I would buy it back from him today. Without hesitation.
I don't NEED one. I DESIRE one. For reasons simple enough as that they look fantastic next to an assortment of other jaw dropping collectibles. Of course, this is occasionally not a manly enough reason to own one. Some people will vigorously champion the notion that the .45 cal cambering is inferior to the 5.56mm offering of type x. Or pontificate how brand x is intrinsically inferior to brand y. Spending so much money on a firearm they personally deem impractical is, so we are told, the height of monetary waste.
Witless nonsense.
These are the Monets and Van Goughs of our artistic affection. Ten thousand dollars from now they will still posses the elusive quality which exists today: very few people can find one even if they could afford to own it. For most rare collections that is precisely the point; whether you are talking about guns, cars, jewelry or art. And I think it's quite fair to say that anyone paying a premium on a rare item wants to even see such an item in ANY stage of beat to s**t condition, let alone pay for it in that condition.
Nor would they be excited about shelling out any fraction of that price to have someone try a hack saw and bondo out on it for 'repairs'.
Uncle, selling that cherry G36k. Yeesh.
Then again, what else has anyone done for money?
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Thats sweet! Just like I remembered when I held that one at P&D in my arms...lol Where did u get the drum magazine?
Someone here on CGN, with incredible sourcing skills, hooked me up with the Beta-C mag. It is pinned to 5, which is lame, but you can't put a price on the stares and comments it draws from the fudds down at the range. Here's a few more pics that I posted a few months back.
It will have a G36C range-buddy in the very near future!
I have noticed the trigger improving as I get more rounds through the G36P (up to 300 or so now). The trigger on my SAN carbine FEELS a lot better. But, for some reason, I shoot better with the heavier-triggered G36. Not what I would have expected.
