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To: Long Cut
It looks like a chromed Destroyer.

The Destroyers were rechambered Enfields in .308 with the funnel flashhider.

As long as it doesn't cost too much. If it does, it might be necessary to put one together yourself.
274 posted on 08/08/2003 2:33:08 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat.)
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To: Shooter 2.5; Woahhs
It is indeed a reworked Enfield, according to the Gibbs Rifle Website.

Its price looks to be $299.95, which looks DAMN good.

278 posted on 08/08/2003 2:38:08 PM PDT by Long Cut
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To: Shooter 2.5
It looks like a chromed Destroyer.

The Destroyers were rechambered Enfields in .308 with the funnel flashhider.

Well, no. The Destroyer was a 9mm Largo bolt-action with 6-round magazine, used by the Spanish Civil Guard and police, for those individuals deemed not to be trusted with a 9mm Star submachinegun for reasons of either political consideration or training requirements. Similarly, they weren't given a bolt-action rifle equal in power and range to the Army and Spanish Foreign Legion's M93 and M95 Mauser carbines in the excellent 7x57mm Mauser cartridge.

The Destroyer, generally reworked to a 9mm parabellum, but sometimes in the .38 ACP or .38 Super chambering, has sometimes been found with a silencer or sound suppressor fitted as an addition. So equipped, the only sound heard is that of the striker snapping forward, and that is sometimes muffled with the addition of a nylon washer behind the striker's driving spring. Mitch Werbell of SIONICS suppressor/ Military Armament Company fame/infamy was particularly fond of the things, and put up with my mischief in exchange for the pretty fair supply of 9mm Largo ammunition and Destroyer magazines I kept him supplied with. Small Arms Review, which had a pretty good write-up on the Destroyer Carbine.

-archy-/-

285 posted on 08/08/2003 3:14:21 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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To: Shooter 2.5
Oops! Last paragraf should have read:

Additional info can be found in the April 2002 edition [Vol.5, Number 7] of the Small Arms Review, which had a pretty good write-up on the Destroyer Carbine.

286 posted on 08/08/2003 3:16:46 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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