Post by BoW GaCAman on Sept 21, 2013 11:07:27 GMT -5
7.62×25mm Tokarev
This was one of the cartridges in the back of my mind when I placed my Dan Burns call. Since my timing was apparently good (he was on lunch break) I got to discuss much more than I'd intended, at first. He had the good grace to ask me if I 'had time' to go into a more detailed discussion, and boy was I surprised by that question. Kinda like asking a Batman fan if he'd 'like' to take a quick spin in the ole Batmobile!
After we'd chewed the fat on the 9x23mm, we got around to this one. I think it has tremendous (untapped) potential as an American firearm cartridge, and he agreed. Was pleasantly surprised to find out he thought it could be packaged as a double-column magazine handgun design, too. His basic concept is that to make a really innovative gun, you don't start with the gun, you start with a cartridge, then build the gun, around it. I'd heard that idea before, but not in a long while. He said he came to that conclusion after doing some intense studies of the work of none other than Mr. John Browning, himself.
Not only do I think you could build a truly great pistol out of this one, the other substantial bonus would be that ammo is about as plentiful and easy to make as anything in the world of firearms. The stocks of China and Russia alone are probably in the many millions of rounds, and it doesn't hurt from a freedom standpoint that it came not from there, (as in the original) but rather, Germany. As in 7.63×25mm Mauser.
A carbine/submachine gun companion to a handgun would be a fairly easy leap, as well. Just look to the PPSh-41 for some inspiration, but upgraded. I'd like to cross the top loading design of the P90 with some of the features of the PPSh, for example. The human mind's capacity for imagination is a terrible thing to waste, and our nation was built upon such things. God gave it to us, and all the luddites do is get in our way, constantly!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x25mm_Tokarev
A steel-cased FMJ 7.62mm Tokarev cartridge.
This was one of the cartridges in the back of my mind when I placed my Dan Burns call. Since my timing was apparently good (he was on lunch break) I got to discuss much more than I'd intended, at first. He had the good grace to ask me if I 'had time' to go into a more detailed discussion, and boy was I surprised by that question. Kinda like asking a Batman fan if he'd 'like' to take a quick spin in the ole Batmobile!
After we'd chewed the fat on the 9x23mm, we got around to this one. I think it has tremendous (untapped) potential as an American firearm cartridge, and he agreed. Was pleasantly surprised to find out he thought it could be packaged as a double-column magazine handgun design, too. His basic concept is that to make a really innovative gun, you don't start with the gun, you start with a cartridge, then build the gun, around it. I'd heard that idea before, but not in a long while. He said he came to that conclusion after doing some intense studies of the work of none other than Mr. John Browning, himself.
Not only do I think you could build a truly great pistol out of this one, the other substantial bonus would be that ammo is about as plentiful and easy to make as anything in the world of firearms. The stocks of China and Russia alone are probably in the many millions of rounds, and it doesn't hurt from a freedom standpoint that it came not from there, (as in the original) but rather, Germany. As in 7.63×25mm Mauser.
A carbine/submachine gun companion to a handgun would be a fairly easy leap, as well. Just look to the PPSh-41 for some inspiration, but upgraded. I'd like to cross the top loading design of the P90 with some of the features of the PPSh, for example. The human mind's capacity for imagination is a terrible thing to waste, and our nation was built upon such things. God gave it to us, and all the luddites do is get in our way, constantly!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x25mm_Tokarev
A steel-cased FMJ 7.62mm Tokarev cartridge.
