Another cool but impractical gun
Les Jones looks at the AR-7.
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May 20th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I have one, and it makes a perfect gun to leave on a boat, as I do with mine.
couple notes: those aftermarket 15-round mags are fragile, and don’t fit into the buttstock. They also don’t fit pockets very well. Forget them. The action is a cram-fit into it’s cavity in the stock, and doesn’t like to come out, so I fitted it with a loop of 25# monofilament fish line to pull it out. Almost all the failures with the blowback-operated rifle are due to dry-slide problems from the long storage these guns get. Use a decent grade of synthetic gun oil and it will be reliable. The gun is no more inaccurate than any other minimum-barrel 22. It has very short length of pull and you have to change your rifle stance to shoot it properly. Any woodsman worth his salt can plait latigo leather to make a light-duty improv sling for the gun, or even use boot laces.
It’s a very useful gun. Buy one if you get a chance.
May 20th, 2009 at 10:37 am
It made it into a James Bond movie as a sniper rifle. That’s nothing to sneeze at. (The book had a crossbow, which is only slightly sillier.)
May 20th, 2009 at 10:42 am
And the AR-7’s shortcomings are nothing compared to the custom-made knives NASA was issuing to astronauts at the same time.
May 20th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I used to have a Charter Arms AR-7 but it had issues. The magazine wouldn’t feed unless it was held up into the receiver, the barrel nut would come loose and accuracy was poor. The after market magazine I got fed well, but wouldn’t fit inside the stock.
I’d like to see a well made one in .22 Magnum. Of course, it should come with a pistol grip and short barrel, but our oppressive gun laws would have to change for that to happen. It’s a good, modular rifle design whose potential has never been realized.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Owned one … same damned issues. Factory magazine was crap.
Worked better with a ramline.