[JTJ]

May be heresy but I sold my Ruger PCC. It was too heavy. My pack gun is a Keltec Sub2k which is 3 happy sticks lighter than the Ruger PCC and is faster to get into operation. The Henry looks interesting but weight is a major factor for me and it does not fold or take down. I also have a JRC PCC that weighs 6.5 lbs, has an adjustable stock and takes down. My wife needs the shorter LOP. The new TNW Aero looks very interesting. A takedown under 4 lbs. Not cheap.

Aero Survival Rifle - LTE - 9MM

 

[mrmike7189]

I was thinking the same thing. If you ever read "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", he promoted the idea for several rifles including the "Scout Rifle" concept that is widely used today.

Another idea was the "Thumper" rifle, being a short, light, semi-auto carbine in a relatively large round like 10mm. A google search will bring up lots of stuff from him about it.

I recall that he was still alive when the Beretta CX4 Storm came out, and he posted a "commentary" that he had asked Beretta to try and chamber it for a bigger bore and more powerful cartridge to meet his Thumper criteria. They said it couldn't be done with that platform. He said that it could be if they put their mind to it. Typical Cooper.

Whether or not his concept has merit or any practical application is another conversation -- but I always think of Cooper when people mention pistol caliber carbines chambered in 10mm or the like.

Beretta did build a CX4 storm carbine in 45acp for a year or two. Not sure why it failed?

 

[BRM]

A small, easy to handle 9mm carbine has its place. 20+ years or so ago I bought an ugly one - made in the US for cheap because funds were quite limited. I still have it and it is kept loaded in my bedroom. It’s made by Hi Point. Although I have other, much more expensive and prestigious options, I still like it a lot.

 

[ikar]

The Baretta carbine is a very good rifle and it holds up well. You're close though, it was used on the remake of the Battlestar Galactica series with a series of optics and they put a barrel shroud on it to make it look better. I found one of the barrel shrouds because I hate barrels that just end like a piece of pipe. My shroud has the Galactica emblem on it with the ship's number below it.
They are accurate just as they come and take the M-9 mags, (or whatever pistol the military had adopted for a while).

 

[Old School Wheelgunner]

The Baretta carbine is a very good rifle and it holds up well. You're close though, it was used on the remake of the Battlestar Galactica series with a series of optics and they put a barrel shroud on it to make it look better. I found one of the barrel shrouds because I hate barrels that just end like a piece of pipe. My shroud has the Galactica emblem on it with the ship's number below it.
They are accurate just as they come and take the M-9 mags, (or whatever pistol the military had adopted for a while).

Thanks! I'd wondered what the Colonial Marines used in the show.

I'm not into modern guns but that thing just looks cool. Might be a fun plinker though the Henry has those Crossman looks I just love too!

 

[ikar]

I had heard that at the end of the show new Enfields started to show up, but that was somewhere in the last season.

 

[Woodser]

I've owned a few PCC's, hunt with leverguns in .357 and .45 Colt. A Ruger .44 auto carbine is my mainstay meat-gun.
For some years I had an Olympic Arms AR in 9mm. It came with and used modified Sten-gun mags.
It was a fun range toy, but eventually tired of it - it was easily as heavy as any of my normal 5.56 AR's and the recoil, being blowback, was about the same also. It finally went away on a trade. Oly Arms has been history now for a bit, and mags were increasingly hard to get.

I got a too-good deal on a used MechTech .45 upper that was made to take a M1911 frame.
I had a spare Chas. Daly M1911 and it fit into the MechTech very snugly.
Put a mid-range red dot optic on it. Kept my expectations low.....

Found out it would literally stack almost any .45 ACP ammo I'd put through it at 50 yards and come close at 100. Yes, you can hear/detect the spring-sproing in your right ear when shooting it - but it runs 100%.
The old-style skeleton stock was uncomfortable and not compatible with the needed cheek weld to use the optic.
In true rural-tech fashion, I affixed a section of automotive heater hose to the upper portion of the stock member and then tightly wrapped it in paracord.
Ugly - check.
Works - check