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April 11, 2009, 03:28 PM | #1 |
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A Work of Beauty, or an Abomination?
CHINESE Model 56 Siminov SKS black-powder muzzleloading rifle # 97 00002 (.50 caliber) mfg. by Norinco in 1997, literally the SECOND of only TEN ever manufactured. UNISSUED and literally unfired, with a wood and brass "ramrod" below barrel. Wood has a few nicks in the finish, but is otherwise as new, metal has 100% bluing. This is one of the rifles brought to the 1998 S.H.O.T. show in Las Vegas for display by Interstate Arms Corp, but further manufacture and marketing was abandoned after Chinese imports were banned. Nipple for primer-caps can be accessed by pulling back the bolt, hammer sets off the primer after bolt is closed, SKS safety also works as intended. |
April 11, 2009, 04:19 PM | #2 |
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To me it's an abomination.:barf:
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April 11, 2009, 05:14 PM | #4 |
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It is the Frankenstein monster of muzzleloaders.
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April 11, 2009, 06:00 PM | #5 |
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+1! Total abomination right there. Could someone have actually designed this, or do you suppose they just reworked some available stock? Is it because China can't send semi-autos to the US?
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An abomination in this Obamanation.
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Somebody had to be having very, very bad nightmares to dream up something like that.
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Not something I have a burning desire to own, but an interesting adaptation nonetheless.
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April 11, 2009, 07:57 PM | #9 |
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Yep its ugly, but I would like to be checked by the game warden carrying that in muzzleloader season.
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April 11, 2009, 08:13 PM | #10 |
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that is being done just to sneak those guns past strict Aussie, Canada, UK, etc. gun laws.
what's next, a blackpowder M-1 Garand ? in reality, you can load any cartridge with BP, it will just have way less velocity and pressure- I've already loaded 303 British with full cases of BP and pyrodex, if memory serves the original was loaded with 70 grains of black back in the 1800's the 32 Winchester Special rifle round, was originally a BP and smokeless round more marketing hype- like the "nickel frame Colts" for $250-$300 from Pietta, sold by Traditions and Cabela's, that are actually cheap $100 brass frame guns, plated with nickel lots of scamming going on, beware |
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There's a gunsmith in CA who makes AR-15 M/L's ain't that something. not as ugly as this Chinese abomination just as useless though.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
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if its from China i would not give it away.
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is the savage muzzleloader ugly too? After all its just one of their off the shelf rifles converted over to a 209 breech plug and a larger caliber.
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It will be a collector's item. How many were made? Only 10 you say? In the whole world? HUUUUMMM
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Neither, it's barfolicious!
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>>>in reality, you can load any cartridge with BP, it will just have way less velocity and pressure- I've already loaded 303 British with full cases of BP and pyrodex, if memory serves the original was loaded with 70 grains of black back in the 1800's
the 32 Winchester Special rifle round, was originally a BP and smokeless round<<< I doubt that many on this forum are unaware of that fact but what's at issue here is that this is a MUZZLE LOADING rifle fired by a percussion cap that just happens to look like an SKS - there is no cartridge involved. If these were available and inexpensive I'd have one if for no other reason than to give the gun control idiots fits. Oly |
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Doesn't look any worse that a lot of the inline muzzleloaders out there, it's kind of interesting, though I don't have a burning desire to own one.
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I'd buy one.....
If you could buy a "kit" to make it back into what it looks like it is
Imagine if you could buy it as a muzzle loader, then pay say, $50 or something, to make it into a cartrige rifle again I wonder if the chineese make a Glock muzzle loading pistol? Now that, I would like to see
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Abomination is too kind a word!
Hard to imagine a sane person thinking of this, let alone manufacturing it. |
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It is a hideousity-combination of hideous and atrocity.
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I see only one use for that thing & others similar to it.
Cut the metal up into easy to manage pieces for forging into something more useful & appealing. Bust the wood up to feed the forg's furnace. |
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To me it's an abomination...and so is the M16 version and all variants...
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