I wish someone would make . . .

[mastiffhound]

Already mostly done as far as a scout"ish" Mosin with magazines in 5 and 10 rounds just ad a scout mount, here:http://www.archangelmanufacturing.com/2014/05/14/archangel-opfor-precision-rifle-stock-for-mosin-nagant-m1891-and-variants/
I've been thinking about doing this for awhile.

Since this is a wish kind of thing, I'd like a semi-auto rifle with a 20 round mag or drum in .44 Magnum. Now that would be fun.

 

[Gtscotty]

Make me a semiauto carbine in .22tcm and make it share mags with the pistol
- - M1carbine ergonomics and styling ideal, but I'd suck it up and use AR ergos if I had to

Now that would be pretty sweet, maybe even an upsized .22 tcm chambered 10/22 type rifle. To me a PCC would be much more interesting if it were as light as possible and chambered in a hot stepper like .22 tcm.

I would like to see more .44 mag carbine options on the market. I think a more ergonomic version of the 96/44 would make an excellent suppressed brush gun.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

How in the world did that duck decoy get there?

 

[Jason_W]

7.62x54R is the cheapest centerfire ammo in its power class, even for new production, JSP stuff.

Yes, there are still $150 Mosins available, but as I pointed out earlier, they have all the ergonomics of a rough cut beam, an inconvenient safety, and no good option for mounting an optic.

Instead of stripper clips, a detachable magazine could be used. I just kind of like the idea of a quick reloading option without having to buy a bunch of magazines.

Correction:turns out cheap .308 can be bought for less than 7.62x54R when comparing new production options.

 

[mac66]

Hate to be a buzz kill but stripper clips on a semi auto that uses detachable mags doesn't make any sense.

Nor do stripper clips on bolt actions that use detachable mags. Change mags to reload.

Nor do I see the point of extended mags on a bolt action (Ruger American), particularly one with detachable mags. Carry an extra mag if you want more capacity. Extended mags screw up holding the rifle properly in standing and sitting positions when using a sling.

Mini 30 hi-cap mags are readily available now, not as cheap as AK mags though. My Mini 30 is more accurate than any of my AKs or SKSs. I like it the way it is.

Sorry for the debbie downer comments, carry on.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Hate to be a buzz kill but stripper clips on a semi auto that uses detachable mags doesn't make any sense.

Nor do stripper clips on bolt actions that use detachable mags. Change mags to reload.

Nor do I see the point of extended mags on a bolt action (Ruger American), particularly one with detachable mags. Carry an extra mag if you want more capacity. Extended mags screw up holding the rifle properly in standing and sitting positions when using a sling.

Mini 30 hi-cap mags are readily available now, not as cheap as AK mags though. My Mini 30 is more accurate than any of my AKs or SKSs. I like it the way it is.

Sorry for the debbie downer comments, carry on.

I understand the point of view of someone saying it doesn't make sense - don't agree, but understand.

In the case of my SKSs - never have and never will entertain the use of detachable mags for already stated reasons.

On two of my M-14s, as most of the .308 in strippers is in 5 round clips, I enjoy having a flush mount five round mag in the rifles and recharging with clips.

Of course - I'm not one of those "range work" guys nor do I engage in sustained fire drills or fire fights with cartel operatives... anymore.

I would welcome the hell out a Mini-14 taking clips over changing mags. Sure, for convenience sake it should take 10 rounds clips but I'll work with that.

Almost every shooting iteration with me even with ARs is with 20 round mags and seldom fully loaded at that.

So, my point is - a stripper clip guide is exceptionally utilitarian for a great many of US and the popularity of "scout" dimension optics makes it even more so.

 

[mac66]

Well, you can always use a clip to charge a mag outside the rifle but 34 years in the mix and I never* used clip to reload a detachable mag rifle.

I agree that SKSs are fine just the way they are, i.e using strippers to charge the fixed mag.

*never as in carrying a gun in real life. I've reloaded SMLEs with strippers playing around with them at the range because they were intended to be used/reloaded that way. Most other detachable mag rifles are intended to be reloaded by changing mags.

But hey, if you want to use strippers go for it.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program

 

[DT Guy]

A 1911 in 9x23, which would be 'easy', but remains highly unlikely.


Larry

 

[MifflinKid]

I know this is crazy but I would like a Winchester 1892 in .45 ACP.

I understand the safety problem with a round nose bullet in a tubular magazine. But I would just load it with flat nose bullets.

 

[Legionnaire]

I still want Ruger to offer a 3-inch GP100 with a 5-shot cylinder in .44 special.

 

[Impureclient]

Any CZ75 variant or clone in a compact version made out of stainless steel.

 

[JohnhenrySTL]

I like the idea of a carbine bolt action, fast handling, .357 or .44 magnum rifle. It's not at all what anybody else I have talked to would want, no doubt. But for 300 bucks, I would buck up.

Always liking the feel and the natural rime of follow up shots for fast running, unexpected critters, popping in and out of no where from everywhere with a bolt gun, I feel this weapon would serve me perfectly. For all those times I wasn't even hunting and I cursed myself for only having a hand gun for the micro second when I might have popped him if we wasn't sprinting in between briar patches 90 yards away, this would fill my nitch.

Like next weekend, I'll be out scouting the deer and planning my duck hunts. I'll be off and on my atv. A shotgun or handgun won't have the range with me pulling the trigger, and a full on high powered rifle would make me feel silly shooting a ground hog at 17 yards, not to mention, I doubt I could find him in the scope.

I also like theorizing about hand gun ammo trajectories as I'm guessing distances. If the gun handled easily, was short and stubby, had good sights, I would buy one.

 

[vaupet]

about the m44:
there are great replacement stocks for it, plastic with some sort of limbsaver
don't have details, seen them in a german magazine ad

 

[steveracer]

3 inch five shot .45acp L-frame in BLUE. Sick to death of "matte" pistols and stainless. When did we stop putting proper finishes on guns?

 

[TRX]

Because proper bluing is more expensive than most customers are willing to pay for. Maybe someday someone will program a CNC polishing machine... until then, it's all hand work.

 

[bannockburn]

Semi-auto Lewis Gun.
Ruger Service/Speed/Security Six.
Colt New Frontier .22LR/.22 Magnum.

 

[HoosierQ]

I wish someone would make bolt action rifles with front sight and rear aperture in standard and short actions and also drilled and tapped for mounts.

I say THIS^^^^

 

[David4516]

I don't know why any mainstream American gun maker would make anything chambered in what is essentially a foreign mil-surp round like the 7.62x54 here in the US. Especially when current American "mil-surp" rounds are still in production.

This

I predict that in the next few years 7.62X54 (and all soviet rounds really) will become more expensive than their "western" counter parts. This is because we're not really importing the ammo anymore, and this won't change anytime soon with current relations between US and Russia.

Also if you reload the soviet rounds use weird bullet diameters (.312 instead of .308, and .364 instead of .355 for example). These are more difficult to find and more expensive than "standard" calibers.

For all these reasons and more I've decided to ditch my soviet calibers. I had 2 mosin's that I sold (for 4 times what I had paid for them about 10 years ago) and have converted one of my Makarovs from 9X18 to .380 ACP (have one more Mak awaiting conversion sometime soon)

As for what I'd like to see:

A cheaper new production M1 carbine. I think AO is the only company making one now and they're crazy-expensive. Why are M1 carbines several hundred dollars MORE than an AR-15?

New production rifles in .30-40 Krag, I just think it's an awesome cartridge and would be nice to have a rifle chambered in this cartridge that wasn't made sometime in the 1890s. I doubt this will ever happen as most people haven't even heard of .30-40

You'll laugh at this, but I'd like to see a rifle chambered in .25 ACP. With .22LR being nearly impossible to find, I can reload .25 ACP for my small caliber needs.

 

[CoalTrain49]

I see several 10 mm PCC fans here. I don't own a 10 mm, and it might be a good idea, but 10 mm isn't a main stream cartridge. I'm a huge fan of PCC's and there are very few available. I'm geared up to reload 45 acp and I know a lot of people can reload 9 mm. Brass and ammo are available and relatively cheap. I'm wondering why Ruger or some other company that can market an inexpensive PCC hasn't jumped all over this.

I like carbines so much that I gather hard to find brass and bullets to reload for several USGI carbines. 30 carbine isn't going to be a winner in anyone's camp but a true $500 PCC (that looks like a 10/22) and uses 1911 mags will sell like toilet paper.

 

[Jason_W]

I see several 10 mm PCC fans here. I don't own a 10 mm, and it might be a good idea, but 10 mm isn't a main stream cartridge. I'm a huge fan of PCC's and there are very few available. I'm geared up to reload 45 acp and I know a lot of people can reload 9 mm. Brass and ammo are available and relatively cheap. I'm wondering why Ruger or some other company that can market an inexpensive PCC hasn't jumped all over this.

I like carbines so much that I gather hard to find brass and bullets to reload for several USGI carbines. 30 carbine isn't going to be a winner in anyone's camp but a true $500 PCC (that looks like a 10/22) and uses 1911 mags will sell like toilet paper.

The 10mm is mainstream in that all major manufacturers produce it. It's not as popular as the 9mm, .40, or .45 ACP, but it is the only mainstream semi-auto pistol round that enters power realm of the magnum revolver rounds and can thus pull double duty as a self defense round and medium game hunting round.

 

[readyeddy]

The nice thing about a 10mm in a 16" carbine barrel is the big case full of slower burning powder. This should translate to a significant increase in velocity with the longer barrel. 9mm not so much.

 

[Jason_W]

The ballistics by the inch guys got a 180 grain buffalo bore load over 1500 f/s from a 16" bbl. It's not as speedy as a .44 mag from a carbine, but it's still not going to bounce off a deer at 50 yards or less.

 

[firedawg60]

FN/Browning (preferably) to make aluminum frame High Powers. It has been done before and can be done again.

 

[jeffmack]

Polymer framed, striker fired Tokarev with modern safety features.

Powerful, decent capacity, light weight, and thin for CCW.

 

[garyhan]

I'd like to see a traditionally styled lever gun in .327, and also a K frame S&W in this caliber.

Probably impossible at any reasonable cost, but I would love to see new production Krags in .30/40 and 6.5x55.

Newly made Martinis (large and small) would alson be nice

The .416 Ruger is a wonderful dangerous game round, and while my Hawkeye African satisfies my needs, I'd like to see it appear in other rifles (compare ammo cost to the Rigby or Remington).

One thing we do not need is any more manufacturers of AR's or 1911's, though new ideas are always welcome.

gary