Just 6.5mm Carcano. There seem to be at least two radically different versions of the rifle though, so that may be why the appearance is strange.
Martini henry in a caliber that's common and plentiful
7.62x54r perhaps? It's rimmed but more plentiful and cheaper than .303 and certainly the original cartridge.
Springfield 1903s. Too expenive, too unsafe, too many sporterized. Put all the 1903s in collectors hands and museums and make some new reproductions. I am shocked none of the m1 grand makers have tackled this. Shouldn’t a bolt action be simpler to produce?
>Springfield 1903s. Too expenive, too unsafe, too many sporterized.
None of these are even close to problems enough for reproductions to be profitable or desirable. We know exactly what serial numbers are safe and unsafe, millions were made and are still around, and sporterized rifles often actually give new shooters the opportunity to acquire cheap rifles that they can then fix with surplus or reproduction parts.
https://i.imgur.com/yxk0w23.jpg
The Colt 1911 or the Mauser 1898.
I'd take a Mosin Nagant or a Winchester 1897 too.
There's many companies including Colt that still make 1911A1s, so 1911s are definitely feasible
More pre-frenchlock flintlock designs, like the doglock or a miquelet lock, which would've seen use in the 30 years war or english civil war and such. More specifically, the Giradoni air rifle, which was practically wunderwaffe of the Napoleonic war.
>these things are fricking unicorns
it's not a rare gun when there are always 4-5 live auctions for them on gunbroker. Stop being a poorgay and go buy one
A rare gun is one that you don't even see for auction except once every 2-3 years
Springfield 1903s. Too expenive, too unsafe, too many sporterized. Put all the 1903s in collectors hands and museums and make some new reproductions. I am shocked none of the m1 grand makers have tackled this. Shouldn’t a bolt action be simpler to produce?
C96.
Boer Mauser.
Maybe some napoleonic flintlock rifle, I'd be glad to shoot one of those.
Actually what I'd like to see is a company that makes replicas of old rifle scopes and it makes them reliable, trusty built and slightly upgraded with nitrogen filling and better water sealing.
Depends on how common it's original still is. If it's not being produced at all aside from hand loading and the reproducers don't really want to bring that back into production alongside their gun, then of course modern cartridges preferred since the ammo would be unobtainium.
For example, if you're making a repro Arisaka, 6.5 Arisaka probably would be a bad chambering for it given it's scarcity. If it takes some kind of .32 cartridge then it may be fine to leave it in it's original chambering. If the repro takes something like .303 British, then I guess it might go either way, you can find .303 British around but you'll definitely be paying for it, so perhaps offering both an original chambering and an alternate one in a modern cartridge would be in order.
C96.
Boer Mauser.
Maybe some napoleonic flintlock rifle, I'd be glad to shoot one of those.
Actually what I'd like to see is a company that makes replicas of old rifle scopes and it makes them reliable, trusty built and slightly upgraded with nitrogen filling and better water sealing.
C96 and Luger are obvious go-tos. The originals have gotten expensive enough and there's enough demand that it's possible to make a repro of each at a fairly high price point and sell enough of them to turn a profit. It would also help substantially by providing more legacy support in the form of new replacement parts for old examples (like the C96 boomerang shaped sear spring and hammer cross pin). Yes they are complicated designs, but with modern machining tolerances it can be done. These things wouldn't be cheap, but paying $2500 for a repro that works is better than $2000 for an original that doesn't.
I think Webley top breaks would also be interesting but they'd have to be non+P 38 Special or 44 Special only or something like that. Or maybe even 22lr. It's hard to get around the liability issues if some idiot goes and runs the hottest handloads he can find out of one and blows it apart.
As far as rifles. Original K98k spec Mausers are an easy one. Zastava still makes Mauser actions. Just make some with all the WW2 spec fittings. Offer it in 8mm, 30-06 and 308. It wouldn't be hard to do and it would sell.
I know you're talking Pre-WW1 but the K98k is the version everyone would want.
M1903 would similarly have enough demand between WW1 and WW2 fans to have a market yet be fairly straightforward to make since it's also a modified Mauser action although I don't think Zastava would have the tooling on hand. Probably someone in the US does.
SMLE is doable as well, in fact AIA made modernized No4s up until fairly recently.
Mosin and Lebel I think are non starters. There's enough original Mosins around that repros wouldn't be viable yet. Lebel is very niche, the magazine tube is a liability and ammo is too obscure.
all of them
fpbp
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Just 6.5mm Carcano. There seem to be at least two radically different versions of the rifle though, so that may be why the appearance is strange.
7.62x54r perhaps? It's rimmed but more plentiful and cheaper than .303 and certainly the original cartridge.
>Springfield 1903s. Too expenive, too unsafe, too many sporterized.
None of these are even close to problems enough for reproductions to be profitable or desirable. We know exactly what serial numbers are safe and unsafe, millions were made and are still around, and sporterized rifles often actually give new shooters the opportunity to acquire cheap rifles that they can then fix with surplus or reproduction parts.
There's many companies including Colt that still make 1911A1s, so 1911s are definitely feasible
More pre-frenchlock flintlock designs, like the doglock or a miquelet lock, which would've seen use in the 30 years war or english civil war and such. More specifically, the Giradoni air rifle, which was practically wunderwaffe of the Napoleonic war.
I just want a snaphaunce
16th -17th century muskets and arquebuses
CEI-Rigotti
What's that chambered in?
That's a BIG mag.
Broomhandle Mauser.
All of them. Joe Biden told me the 2nd amendment was for the revolutionary war guns only so we might as well get all those for when they ban the rest.
Krag, I guess?
maxims but more movable
I want cheap gattling guns, at this point repros are almost the same price as antique ones
Pattern 1913 rifle
Hngggg
nice
need full stock model 8
I really wish there were more 1887 Mare's leg in the market.
>inb4 Chiappa
helmet cannon
More breachloading musket-rifles would be cool, Allan and Thurber double action pepper boxes would be neat too.
Winchester 1907 in .350 legend.
Colt 1878 "Frontier" Double Action Army
these things are fricking unicorns
>these things are fricking unicorns
it's not a rare gun when there are always 4-5 live auctions for them on gunbroker. Stop being a poorgay and go buy one
A rare gun is one that you don't even see for auction except once every 2-3 years
Springfield 1903s. Too expenive, too unsafe, too many sporterized. Put all the 1903s in collectors hands and museums and make some new reproductions. I am shocked none of the m1 grand makers have tackled this. Shouldn’t a bolt action be simpler to produce?
1898 Krag-Jorgansen rifles.
Mauser C96.
C96.
Boer Mauser.
Maybe some napoleonic flintlock rifle, I'd be glad to shoot one of those.
Actually what I'd like to see is a company that makes replicas of old rifle scopes and it makes them reliable, trusty built and slightly upgraded with nitrogen filling and better water sealing.
Blunderbuss
A turret gun would be cool
The Krag Jorgensen, any cal will do but I have a soft spot for the american usage of 30-40 krag
Would you prefer a reproduction to be made in it's original caliber or a more common modern cartridge?
Depends on how common it's original still is. If it's not being produced at all aside from hand loading and the reproducers don't really want to bring that back into production alongside their gun, then of course modern cartridges preferred since the ammo would be unobtainium.
For example, if you're making a repro Arisaka, 6.5 Arisaka probably would be a bad chambering for it given it's scarcity. If it takes some kind of .32 cartridge then it may be fine to leave it in it's original chambering. If the repro takes something like .303 British, then I guess it might go either way, you can find .303 British around but you'll definitely be paying for it, so perhaps offering both an original chambering and an alternate one in a modern cartridge would be in order.
Specifically in 7.62x54r
Pucklegun, maybe miniaturized to 44 cal or 36 cal
Mauser C96 or a luger P08
is this the poorgay cope thread?
Are you a massive homosexual?
The original 1887 Mondragon
>Suck mi pinche pito Juan Garand the Mexica grande cabrons beat you by 50 years
1908 yo estoy moronic
Super underrated. I would like chauchat in 7.62x51 and 8.6 Lapua
C96 and Luger are obvious go-tos. The originals have gotten expensive enough and there's enough demand that it's possible to make a repro of each at a fairly high price point and sell enough of them to turn a profit. It would also help substantially by providing more legacy support in the form of new replacement parts for old examples (like the C96 boomerang shaped sear spring and hammer cross pin). Yes they are complicated designs, but with modern machining tolerances it can be done. These things wouldn't be cheap, but paying $2500 for a repro that works is better than $2000 for an original that doesn't.
I think Webley top breaks would also be interesting but they'd have to be non+P 38 Special or 44 Special only or something like that. Or maybe even 22lr. It's hard to get around the liability issues if some idiot goes and runs the hottest handloads he can find out of one and blows it apart.
As far as rifles. Original K98k spec Mausers are an easy one. Zastava still makes Mauser actions. Just make some with all the WW2 spec fittings. Offer it in 8mm, 30-06 and 308. It wouldn't be hard to do and it would sell.
I know you're talking Pre-WW1 but the K98k is the version everyone would want.
M1903 would similarly have enough demand between WW1 and WW2 fans to have a market yet be fairly straightforward to make since it's also a modified Mauser action although I don't think Zastava would have the tooling on hand. Probably someone in the US does.
SMLE is doable as well, in fact AIA made modernized No4s up until fairly recently.
Mosin and Lebel I think are non starters. There's enough original Mosins around that repros wouldn't be viable yet. Lebel is very niche, the magazine tube is a liability and ammo is too obscure.
>ammo is too obscure.
Ppu makes Lebel ammo
The Colt 1911 or the Mauser 1898.
I'd take a Mosin Nagant or a Winchester 1897 too.
Martini henry in a caliber that's common and plentiful
Dreyse and Werndl in common modern cartridges
C96 9mm
Also avtomat federov in 6.5 grendel