Pistol Carbine Conversion
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August 13th, 2012 at 8:53 am
Pistol caliber carbines are excellent house guns for people who don’t tolerate recoil very well. If you already have a suitable glock, you can just order it by mail with no FFLs involved.
Camp carbines and M1 carbines are great, but camp carbines are hard to find (and some of the used guns have cracks) and M1s are pricy, and loud, and the ammo costs a lot more than 9mm does.
August 13th, 2012 at 9:42 am
I have thought about making a pistol caliber carbine. But I would want it to have the mag commonality with my G-20 as well.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:38 am
Pistol caliber carbines are excellent house guns for people who don’t tolerate recoil very well.
I would want it to have the mag commonality with my G-20 as well.
Both of these are primary reasons why my household bought a Sub-2000 in 9mm Glock.
August 13th, 2012 at 11:55 am
They aren’t able to survive well in three-gun matches:
http://cowboyblob.blogspot.com/2005/07/mech-tech-carbines.html
A nice toy, and OK for self-defense, killin small game, and range practice.
Put them under serious stress, and they tend to fail.
August 13th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Because racecar.
Prefer a dedicated pistol caliber carbine, though.
August 14th, 2012 at 10:09 am
Why? Why not? After all, if people buy “Zombie Ammo”….
As for a Practical Reason, well, you got me there.
August 15th, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Pistol Caliber Carbines make a lot of sense, since pistol ammo is cheap, magazines tend to be common types, and you can shoot them at indoor ranges which do not allow rifles, or require very expensive frangible ammo (that you buy from them, of course). Pistol-Carbine conversions make less sense. The only reason I can think of that you would buy one is if you had an extra version of that same pistol that you didn’t use for some reason, and wanted a long barreled version of the same gun. I bought a used Chi-Com 1911 for $150 once that needed more work than it was worth to make it more than a pop-and-drop. Did a little work and sold it to a buddy for cost, but that would have been a good candidate for a Mec-Tec upper.