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So, we've been experimenting with various very diminutive automatic carbines for my better half. She is only 5'1" tall and has hands like a child. She can run a 10/22 like no nobody's business, but it is a .22, and many other carbines are too large, produce too much recoil, or both, for effective use. My SBRed AR-15 was darn close, but the recoil, and the muzzle-blast (sans silenced) was a tad much. The SBRed vz61 worked good, but it is a .32 ACP, so barely more downrange thump than a 10/22.
What we've tried in recent memory:
What we've tried in recent memory:
- Auto-Ordnance M1 Carbine. Looked good. Fit her well. Just right weight wise. But a complete and utter dumpster fire when it came to reliability. Even after two trips back to the factory, many different magazines, spring and parts changes, and using every factory loaded ammo currently on the market, it still wouldn't cycle. To get through a single magazine was a miracle.
- Marlin Camp-45. Just came in. This thread lines it out. Perhaps still viable, but looking for alternatives.
- Not much bigger of a package than a 10/22 or M1 Carbine.
- Same weight class as the aforementioned.
- In a pistol-caliber. Thinking 9㎜ Parabellum.
- Readily available magazines.
- Threaded, preferably ½ x 28, for use with a silencer.
- Title I would be easier, but we can roll with a NFA-registered SBR.
