jamesinalaska
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I came across a 1979 trade paperback with a series of articles focused on survival. They never mentioned zombie attacks or a government gone wild (I suppose there was more trust to go around in those days) but there was a lot of repeated talk of natural and nuclear disasters. (It is important to remember that the 3-Mile Island accident happened in 1979 also, so that would have been fresh on everyone's mind.)
Although the times were different and the national anxieties were different, the articles were screamingly similar to the survival articles we read today. There were a couple of long articles praising the utility and effectiveness of the 12 gauge shotgun, for example, and there was an entire chapter on canning vegetables, and another article about the usefulness of having a remote cabin in the woods. Also there was an interesting article describing how great the new military cartridge in .223 is. One article in the collection described something I had never heard of. They called it a cartridge adapter.
The article described the adapter as something to be used to shoot smaller cartridges in larger chambered rifles. They mentioned the 30 carbine cartridge quite a bit and said the 30 carbine with the right adapter could be used successfully in rifles chambered in 30-06 and 30-30 Winchester and the like. Unfortunately the article didn't show any pictures of the adapters they wrote about - they only showed a picture of the 30 carbine cartridge next to a 30-06 case. My question to THR readers is how did these adapters work? Are they some sort of machined spacer that the owner can push into the chamber of his rifle which will then hold a smaller cartridge (like 30 carbine) with a proper headspace?
The article also mentioned one other adaption, a .223 to 22lr. There was one photograph for this, it showed a primed .223 case, a small metal rod with an offset nipple on one end, and a 22lr cartridge.with a funky-looking gasket. The point from the article was to take a primed .223 case, insert the rod with the nipple pointing toward the case mouth and then seat a 22lr cartridge into the .223 case mouth. When fired the .223 primer would supposedly launch the rod against the 22lr and fire it, launching the 22lr BULLET down the barrel. But for the life of me I could not figure how this could actually work except maybe one try out of 20. Have any THR members seen this work?
I did search THR for past references of this, but did not find anything matching what the article desribed. I should have paid the 50 cents for the book.
Although the times were different and the national anxieties were different, the articles were screamingly similar to the survival articles we read today. There were a couple of long articles praising the utility and effectiveness of the 12 gauge shotgun, for example, and there was an entire chapter on canning vegetables, and another article about the usefulness of having a remote cabin in the woods. Also there was an interesting article describing how great the new military cartridge in .223 is. One article in the collection described something I had never heard of. They called it a cartridge adapter.
The article described the adapter as something to be used to shoot smaller cartridges in larger chambered rifles. They mentioned the 30 carbine cartridge quite a bit and said the 30 carbine with the right adapter could be used successfully in rifles chambered in 30-06 and 30-30 Winchester and the like. Unfortunately the article didn't show any pictures of the adapters they wrote about - they only showed a picture of the 30 carbine cartridge next to a 30-06 case. My question to THR readers is how did these adapters work? Are they some sort of machined spacer that the owner can push into the chamber of his rifle which will then hold a smaller cartridge (like 30 carbine) with a proper headspace?
The article also mentioned one other adaption, a .223 to 22lr. There was one photograph for this, it showed a primed .223 case, a small metal rod with an offset nipple on one end, and a 22lr cartridge.with a funky-looking gasket. The point from the article was to take a primed .223 case, insert the rod with the nipple pointing toward the case mouth and then seat a 22lr cartridge into the .223 case mouth. When fired the .223 primer would supposedly launch the rod against the 22lr and fire it, launching the 22lr BULLET down the barrel. But for the life of me I could not figure how this could actually work except maybe one try out of 20. Have any THR members seen this work?
I did search THR for past references of this, but did not find anything matching what the article desribed. I should have paid the 50 cents for the book.