justin22885
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hey everyone, i am working on designing a rifle right now and i was looking to get some community input on it.. when i have finished designing it i will give the blueprints/plans to everyone here.. but the main purpose of it is this.. whether you love AR-15s, AKs, FALs, HK-91s or whatever it is you like, all of these rifles are designed for military, with the manufacturing support of entire countries.. im designing something that has more of the consumer in mind.. something for the people
so, with the people in mind im looking to design something that isnt going to have to rely on major factory equipment like huges presses and large injection moulding or anything like that..
the trigger housing will be folded and welded sheet metal not too dissimilar from the FAL lower.. but this trigger housing will contain an AR-15 trigger group and a trunnion designed to attach an AR-15 buffer tube and any AR style stock
the upper will hopefully be a square or rectangular piece of tube steel, but if for some reason this isnt going to work out then will shoot for a very simple folded shape.. either way itll have rails spot or plug welded inside and a front trunnion that will be TIG welded or riveted in
i will probably drill and tap a couple spots on the under-side of the front trunnion, and add a threaded screw-plate behind the magwell to allow different magwells to be used, they would screw in under torque in four locations and can be removed and replaced or changed.. first i will be working on FAL and AR-15 magwells for this
for the barrel i havent decided for 100% what i will do.. i thought about using a barrel extension that contains the locking lugs and using a SCAR kind of system for attaching the barrel which uses screws through the sides of the receiver, and ive also thought about just using savage 10 series barrels which thread into the trunnion by hand over top of a headspacing gauge and is then fixed to the receiver via a barrel nut
i was also thinking about extending the top half of the receiver out to the gas block for a single top rail that stretched from the gas block to the rear of the upper receiver.. and have a handguard attach to this
also, im trying to determine what i will do for the bolt.. just messing around ive designed a 5-lug bolt, a 3-lugged triangular bolt, and one that utilizes two locking lugs similar to a mauser bolt.. but then later changed this idea to using the interchangeable bolt heads available for savage 10 bolts.. but i wanted to go with a simpler, possibly SCAR kind of carrier but this isnt possible with a 2 lug bolt as it requires roughly 80 degrees of rotation which cannot be machined into the carrier without removing a large portion of the carrier.. like the AK bolt
so right now im trying to decide if i should go with a 5 or 6 lug design, or still use the savage two-lug bolt and instead of machining the cam groove into the bolt carrier, instead i machine it into the bolt body.. place the cam bolt in the bolt carrier instead
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so, id like to get some opinions on some of these ideas. get some feedback, hear some new ideas.. bottom line is that this isnt just going to be my rifle, but anyone who wants it since im focusing on simple to make parts, off-the-shelf parts (such as the AR trigger group and possibly savage barrels), and im going to give out the plans/blueprints freely so if anyone wants to make their own they will be free to do so...
so.. what do you think?
so, with the people in mind im looking to design something that isnt going to have to rely on major factory equipment like huges presses and large injection moulding or anything like that..
the trigger housing will be folded and welded sheet metal not too dissimilar from the FAL lower.. but this trigger housing will contain an AR-15 trigger group and a trunnion designed to attach an AR-15 buffer tube and any AR style stock
the upper will hopefully be a square or rectangular piece of tube steel, but if for some reason this isnt going to work out then will shoot for a very simple folded shape.. either way itll have rails spot or plug welded inside and a front trunnion that will be TIG welded or riveted in
i will probably drill and tap a couple spots on the under-side of the front trunnion, and add a threaded screw-plate behind the magwell to allow different magwells to be used, they would screw in under torque in four locations and can be removed and replaced or changed.. first i will be working on FAL and AR-15 magwells for this
for the barrel i havent decided for 100% what i will do.. i thought about using a barrel extension that contains the locking lugs and using a SCAR kind of system for attaching the barrel which uses screws through the sides of the receiver, and ive also thought about just using savage 10 series barrels which thread into the trunnion by hand over top of a headspacing gauge and is then fixed to the receiver via a barrel nut
i was also thinking about extending the top half of the receiver out to the gas block for a single top rail that stretched from the gas block to the rear of the upper receiver.. and have a handguard attach to this
also, im trying to determine what i will do for the bolt.. just messing around ive designed a 5-lug bolt, a 3-lugged triangular bolt, and one that utilizes two locking lugs similar to a mauser bolt.. but then later changed this idea to using the interchangeable bolt heads available for savage 10 bolts.. but i wanted to go with a simpler, possibly SCAR kind of carrier but this isnt possible with a 2 lug bolt as it requires roughly 80 degrees of rotation which cannot be machined into the carrier without removing a large portion of the carrier.. like the AK bolt
so right now im trying to decide if i should go with a 5 or 6 lug design, or still use the savage two-lug bolt and instead of machining the cam groove into the bolt carrier, instead i machine it into the bolt body.. place the cam bolt in the bolt carrier instead
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so, id like to get some opinions on some of these ideas. get some feedback, hear some new ideas.. bottom line is that this isnt just going to be my rifle, but anyone who wants it since im focusing on simple to make parts, off-the-shelf parts (such as the AR trigger group and possibly savage barrels), and im going to give out the plans/blueprints freely so if anyone wants to make their own they will be free to do so...
so.. what do you think?