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Check out Experimental Australian F88/22 (click here) in military rifles and you'll see some truly unobtainium, an experimental steyr f88/.22 And all for only $16,500 of your best australian dollars:yikes:
Any takers?
Remember, they wont be making any more!.
.22 collectors start saving.
perhaps a tad overpriced? :D
it so unlike used guns to have wish list pricing ...........
Not experimental.
Actually produced in some numbers.
Uses the same magazine as the .22 auto "Squibman" / "Stirling" Model 20.
Unknown quantity were made a decade or so ago. Supposed to be for Cadet training.
Complete lack of "certified" ranges and major restrictions on the use by cadets on any civilian ranges (not to mention the politics), meant that they got very little use. The one in the auction must have an interesting history, as the design was not completed until after the sociopathic law changes made post Port Arthur in 1996..
Lithgow "engineered" the thing over a lot of years. If you get your paws on one, check out the extra metal weights added to the hammer. These are to slow down the blowback action: not enough mass in the breech block itself, apparently.
Another "local" mod was the "cadet" drill rifles, made from the early, Austrian-built trials rifles that used a STANAG rail rather than the M-1913 Picatinny type. These are basically empty shells glued up solid. even the scope tubes are filled.. They were supposed to used, as the name suggests, for drill training. However, because they required the same security standards as the real deal, Cadet units either could not meet the storage requirements, or of they could, quite rightly said, "if a solid toy has to be treated the same a s a real one, we'll have real ones".
No idea what happened to that lot: probably went through the shredder like so much of Australia's small arms history, good or bad..
Same subject....... was this rifle actually MADE as a .22 or was it fitted with a .22" sub calibre adaptor? We had a superb sub cal adaptor for our SA80's. I 'liberated' a 'few' by writing them off and gave them to my sons school Cadet Force which they used with great enthusiasm. Alas, they won't fit into the 'new' A2 rifles they've just got. I suppose I ought to see about converting them to fit. One day..........