Hallo Lebben!
Ja, Sie haben recht: gibt's eine Langgewährfabrik in Montana, sie heißen "Only Long Range" und sie machen eine ungewähre "AR 10" aber sie ist 25% noch großer als eine normale AR 10.
Hier gibt's die url:
bit.ly/kLVHHI
For those that don't speak/read/write German, there's a father-son team up in Belgrade, MT, Peter Noreen and his son Phil Noreen, who make a 'sort of' AR 10, currently in .338 Lapua with what we've been talking about here coming soon>>>>>>>>.300 Win Mag!!!
The 'sort of' in the sentence above relates to the fact that the Noreen Rifles are appx. 25% larger than a stock AR 10.....what most of you have been considering MUST be true: that the pressures and sizes of large magnums require greater strength and capacitance than stock AR 10's will handle.
The URL above will take you to the page for Only Long Range rifles and the .338 Lapua they offer-and at what I would say is a bargain basement price....$5k.
There is a completely NON-AR rifle maker of semi-autos, RND Rifles down in Colorado, who also make large magnum semis in .300 RUM (sweet caliber for elk), the ubiquitous .338 Lapua, the awesome .408 Cheytac, and of course, the Browning .50.............prices there run a heft $6800-$11k........but if you don't have to have something that looks like an AR 10 and will get the job done.......look them up at:
bit.ly/mHW2QA
Because I'm NOT an engineer, I just figured a Master CNC Machinist (and Armorer of course) could take a standard AR 10 Receiver and Lower, take the existing math for all the pressures, tolerance requirements, etc., plug that data into a computer, let the puter do its thing, and viola, out come the strength specs needed for an Receiver and Lower to handle all the extra stresses.....and then plug that data into the already diagrammed AR 10 parts into a high end CNC machine and let the hummer mill out the new parts....larger parts I was sure....but how much larger I had nary a clue.......
I would now argue, having seen the Only Long Range rifle and having emailed Peter Noreen about his offerings and gotten his reply of his rifle being 25% larger (and hence, NOT interchangeable with stock AR 10's), that the question of "How much bigger?", has been answered!
I have a SASS LR 308 waiting for me, but now I'm wondering if I want to wait on that and keep saving up my pennies and nickels and buy one of the Noreen rifles next year some time!
By then perhaps, the .300 Win Mag model would be out and available!!!!!
Had I the $7k and didn't mind not having that AR 10 look (which I must admit I find rather appealing), I'd just plunk down the dough and buy one of RND rifles in .300 RUM.......but then again, that kind of thinking might lead be back to the Noreen's and the .338 Lapua in the AR 10 configuration........ah, choices, choices, choices.......and FAR too little green to accompany them all!
Cheers!
