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echo: guns
to: MATT SMITH
from: JOHN SANDOW
date: 1996-05-23 20:23:00
subject: Re: 22 caps

MS>VH> Springs won't do it -- the key to reliable operation of a blow-back
MS>VH> semi-auto is the mass of the breech block or bolt.  You can actually
MS>VH> take the recoil spring OUT, reassemble the gun and fire it with a CB
MS>VH> cap
MS>VH> and see that it won't extract and eject.
MS>VH> What you have to do is reduce the mass of the bolt.  You can do that
MS>VH> by
MS>VH> skeletonizing -- but then you can't use the same bolt for regular .22
MS>VH> LR
MS>    Why doesn't someone sell such a kit, the way .22 LR conversion kits 
re
MS>widely-available for a variety of semiauto rifles and the M1911?
Send me a replacement (not the origional) regular bolt for your gun and
I'll skeletonize it, if you want.  It's a high specialty item, and not
many folks are that interested in shooting.  Their loss.  :-)
þ SLMR 2.0 þ Always make allowances for the "duh" factor.
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