Possblie to build G36 clone?

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https://www.tommybuilttactical.com/t36-receiver
https://hkparts.net/product/gsg9-hk-g36k-rifle-kit-p18650.htm

Can chance this can be done in Canada?
I cant find the FRT report for the T36, but I think it will be same as the original HK G36 with non restricted status?
 
If those websites listed are in the US, it will be near impossible to get the parts sent here.

Garand Thumb on YouTube has a review of what I believe you are interested in, but sourcing the parts up here is likely difficult.

They are a neat gun none the less. Our department looked at buying legit G36’s from another muni department that had switched to C8’s, at about $6500 piece for the G36’s.

Maybe another CGN member will chime in who has built one, I’ve seen someone up here who did. Try the search function as well.
 
Yup, spend a couple of thousand on an SL-8 then a few thousand more on parts, cut the SL-8, plastic weld the stock parts to the SL-8, press in a new barrel, dye the whole shebang to match. The rifle is still an SL-8, so the FRT does not change. All it takes is lots of cash, skill, the right tools, some knowledge and motivation.

Oh yeah, and you'll need a qualified exporter/importer, and may need an End User Certificate to export the parts from the US
 
njohnson said:
If those websites listed are in the US, it will be near impossible to get the parts sent here.

Garand Thumb on YouTube has a review of what I believe you are interested in, but sourcing the parts up here is likely difficult.

They are a neat gun none the less. Our department looked at buying legit G36’s from another muni department that had switched to C8’s, at about $6500 piece for the G36’s.

Maybe another CGN member will chime in who has built one, I’ve seen someone up here who did. Try the search function as well.
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Early 2000's the list price for LE was around $1850. That's from a invoice I saw.
 
The G36 Barrel is secured by a Barrel Nut similar to that of the AR15. You will require an HK G36 Barrel Mandrel and the correct Barrel Nut Wrench to remove and/or install a Barrel. Pretty much everything else described by Enefgee is correct for a full-blown Tom "Tommybuilt" Bostick conversion. I'm not saying that it cannot be done, as I happen to own a UMP-45 Bostic conversion. So clearly many things are possible, if not necessarily easy. However from a financial perspective a Bostic Conversion would probably not make much sense these days.

Even Tom Bostic has pretty much stopped turning HK SL8 target rifles into G36 clones now that he has his far more cost-effective semi-auto "T36" Receiver to build onto with US-made parts. My question is why you would even want a conversion when you can have a complete Receiver, and why you would want the difficult to acquire "Tommybuilt" clone when you can just buy a genuine, NR, new-condition HK G36E with the latest Rail right here in Canada for likely less money? Tactical Imports sells small batches of G36s from tine to time starting at $6K for the basic rifle with an aftermarket Walther-Lothar Barrel and GSG9 (Hkparts) Bolt. For more $$ you can get all genuine HK parts.

That is what I'd do if I were in your shoes. It might cost you a little less to bring across a complete Tommybuilt T36 Rifle, but then you would lose that first sample to the RCMP lab for examination and classificarion as a new import. If you don't mind waiting a few years that route mught be less expensive than Tactical Imports, but probably not by much.
 
I don't think there's anybody that can actually fuse the receiver stub of a G36 to the SL8 receiver up here in Canada. Tom Bostic was pretty much the only guy in the USA to be doing that conversion.

AS stated, i think it would be MORE cost effective to get a Tactical Imports "G36" with the aftermarket barrel and bolt, than to go the conversion route;

I've spend like 5 grand on my USC45 conversion :p
 
My understanding is that its an authentic hk semi auto trigger housing with folding stock, it came off a working g36 converted sl8-4.

The folding butt stock/trigger housing assembly has the same type of markings in the polymer that my SL8 has on it.
 
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MajorCow said:
Can chance this can be done in Canada?
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Bostic would've done this for you if you filled out the 6 NIA and brought the SL8 down stateside. He generally prioritises him to do this type of work for special clients before the entire escapade with HK243 / T36s from this year (ATF accused his T36s of being machine guns)
I had a quote of around 2 days with the SL8 at his place (technically just around 30 hours if I dropped it off at noon of one day and came back the next day at 5 pm) for the full conversion. I just wanted it as the option and also wanted to convert my HK G36 to take the SL8 thumb hole stock (long story why).

However, the whole worldwide- 2-week-lockdown-for-1-year thing kinda interfered with that and he moved down into Florida instead of Maryland where he was before and got swamped (literally) with work. I'm pretty sure he would do it for you if you asked again but am unsure how his or the US's timelines are changing now.

MajorCow said:
I cant find the FRT report for the T36, but I think it will be same as the original HK G36 with non restricted status?
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Unsubmitted. Or what I hear is that it never got into the RCMP firearms lab queue as of late last year. Besides T36s are flying off shelves in the US and have been for years. Mix that in with his recent financial hit with the ATF knocking on his door + his move, and these probably won't be submitted for review for another year or so.
You probably won't see this pop up unless someone takes the $3000 financial burden to send one to the RCMP lab on their dime. Hard to risk it with the current state of Canadian firearm politics as well.
 
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