Who did the re-work on the old Destroyer? Clearly a new stock, refinish, Remington F&R sights (front looks to be off a 788 or Nylon 66), and assuming the originals weren’t threaded someone did that, too.
Looks really nice, a beautiful modern rendering of an old classic. Did it get re-chambered as well or is it in the original Largo?
A company in FL called RASE used to do a integrally suppressed Destroyer in 45 ACP in the 90’s. That would have been the ticket…not that the one above sucks at all!
Hey guys – that’s me shooting. Work was done by Mike Klos of American Manufacturing. Stock is original, refinished. We talked about shortening the breech end of the barrel to re-chamber in 9×19 and re-setting the sights. In the end we decided it would be cleaner and easier to just buy a new barrel blank and chamber it in 9×19.
The original mags don’t like to feed the shorter ammo unless I download to 3 or so. I’ve got some 1911 9mm mags on order. I plan to cut a notch for the mag catch and use these. They should work better, as they were designed for the shorter round. I could always load some extra long ammo, but the whole point of rechambering it to a more common round was to not have to use special ammo.
The fatboy is me…the gun is a British Enfield rifle fitted with a Thompson submachine gun barrel fed by 1911 magazines…with a Sionics Mac-10 submachine gun suppressor attached. Crazy weird but REALLY quiet!
March 7th, 2012 at 10:55 am
Discharge no louder than cycling the action.
Cool.
March 7th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Who did the re-work on the old Destroyer? Clearly a new stock, refinish, Remington F&R sights (front looks to be off a 788 or Nylon 66), and assuming the originals weren’t threaded someone did that, too.
Looks really nice, a beautiful modern rendering of an old classic. Did it get re-chambered as well or is it in the original Largo?
Thanks for sharing.
March 7th, 2012 at 11:14 am
I more than kind of want.
March 7th, 2012 at 11:17 am
I’d like a Delisle Carbine. Loaded with heavy subsonic .45 projectiles, I think it would be a better performer than a 9mm in this particular instance.
March 7th, 2012 at 11:24 am
Sounds like a stapler.
March 7th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Man, I have been looking for a Destroyer for YEARS.
March 7th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Wow…except for the gentle recoil nudge, you would never know he was really shooting. Yeah, I want one.
March 7th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
That’s cool that Matt Damon has one and was willing to shoot it for the video.
March 7th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
A company in FL called RASE used to do a integrally suppressed Destroyer in 45 ACP in the 90’s. That would have been the ticket…not that the one above sucks at all!
March 7th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
My old Crosman 10-pump was louder than that.
March 11th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Hey guys – that’s me shooting. Work was done by Mike Klos of American Manufacturing. Stock is original, refinished. We talked about shortening the breech end of the barrel to re-chamber in 9×19 and re-setting the sights. In the end we decided it would be cleaner and easier to just buy a new barrel blank and chamber it in 9×19.
The original mags don’t like to feed the shorter ammo unless I download to 3 or so. I’ve got some 1911 9mm mags on order. I plan to cut a notch for the mag catch and use these. They should work better, as they were designed for the shorter round. I could always load some extra long ammo, but the whole point of rechambering it to a more common round was to not have to use special ammo.
Thanks for the comments.
March 12th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
The fatboy is me…the gun is a British Enfield rifle fitted with a Thompson submachine gun barrel fed by 1911 magazines…with a Sionics Mac-10 submachine gun suppressor attached. Crazy weird but REALLY quiet!
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