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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: archy
You're correct. I must have seen something that wasn't marked correctly. So I need your help. Since I didn't see a Destroyer, did I see a jungle carbine reworked to .308?

It seems to me that about five years ago, the gunshows in Dallas were selling Enfields that looked like the Jungle Carbine in .308. I was interested at the time but the short barrel bothered me since it was a .308. I know about muzzle blasts from shorties.

299 posted on 08/08/2003 5:42:26 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat.)
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