Fightlite lever action carbine

Interesting!!

I kind of like it.

So if anyone is in the market for a tactical cowboy gun....?

Well...can't ever be an AW. So, there's that...

Pass

Drinkthekoolaid said:

So if anyone is in the market for a tactical cowboy gun....?

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I care not for the "tacticool" lever guns, however there is an appreciation for alternative designs to the quintessential Winchester '94 such as the Savage 99, Marlin "Palamino" Ruger 96/, etc.
One of the Turkish Shotgun manufacturers offers a Lever-Action Shotgun that's interesting, but not as much as the Herrings offering.

I like it just for the fact you can use any AR15 upper with it.

But I do agree with Dsdmmat that an SCR AR10 platform would have been better.

Does it come in 45-70?

SomeSoldier said:

Does it come in 45-70?

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They indicated an interchangeability to other MSR Calibers: the .458 SOCOM uses the same bullets and velocities, the .450 Bushmaster is close as well.

Any AR15 upper... so..

5.56/.223 Wylde
224 Valkyrie
300 AAC Blackout
350 Legend
338 Spectre
7.62x39
6.5 Grendel
6.8 SPC
450 Bushmaster
458 Socom
50 Beowulf

Did I miss anything?

Yuk

I just sent FightLite an email asking if they have given an thought to a dedicated 22 lr upper for the SCR, Hopefully I hear back from them.

Not in 5.56 I'm not. I had the Troy Pump Action Rifle a long time ago. It was very pointless, so I sold it. I didn't know about rechambering ARs at the time, unfortunately, but I also doubt it would have been easy.

This one accepting any AR15 upper makes it very interesting. One of these with the stock .223 Wylde upper for availability, 6.5 Grendel for long range, and .450 Bushmaster for a close range thumper. Very nice.

How about a 9mm lever action?

Nope..I just can't own a plastic "tactical" lever gun. Now Big Horn Armory sounds much better - Model 90A - 454 Casull - Big Horn Armory

I like the idea but damn it looks ungainly especially in the lever/stock wrist area. I’m strongly partial to straight wristed stocks especially on lever guns so apart from the caliber interchangeability coming with the AR upper, this doesn’t scratch an itch for me. I’d get a Henry side loader instead.

I’d appreciate if they’d get the SCR lowers back in stock places, so I could finally grab one and get on with a build, instead of expending resources on even smaller niche market trial balloons.

I used to be a critic of the tactical style lever actions until I saw them in use. If done right I think they are pretty cool. They almost have a "steam punk" look to them.

I hate that it needs to even exsist.

After mulling this over awhile I think this is a good NY legal option, especially with NY's odious new licensing requirements for semi auto rifles.
I see the lever action as being superior to a pump action for a manually operated AR as this allows for standard uppers and handguards to be used.
The advantages of this gun over other lever actions would be access to AR uppers, wide variety in calibers and the use of commonly available detachable box magazines.

I'm really thinking of getting one, simply to pair it up with my SCR. I'd do 350 Legend for it. If I lived in a free state i'd be tempted to make it an SBR suppressed 300 BO or 458 Socom just for kicks, say 7.5"

anyone have a unit cost/price on this gun? Im a lever gun type guy, I got a 30-30 and 45-70, I find this thing kinda interesting

So, maybe there is a semi-auto loophole in here somewhere.

Bear with me.

Not sure why this just occurred to me, but

Semi-automatic is usually defined (legally) as using a portion of the energy from a round to load and chamber the next one.

What if you use another power source to cycle the action ?

What if you have a battery or clockspring or something storing additional energy in a magazine that cycles the action. Then the gunpowder just fires the round, same as it does in a bolt, pump, or lever action.

Then you would have one round per trigger pull, without any intervention, just like a normal semiautomatic, but it would not legally be semiautomatic.

You could even add a secondary control you needed to manipulate to cycle it, but since the energy comes from somewhere else, it could be a small button you press or something that would allow you to have a semi-auto like rate of fire, and you wouldn't have to adjust your grip at all (something like flipping a safety).

I just can’t get past the ascetics of this thing.The look reminds me of the Henry AR7

spat said:

So, maybe there is a semi-auto loophole in here somewhere.

Bear with me.

Not sure why this just occurred to me, but

Semi-automatic is usually defined (legally) as using a portion of the energy from a round to load and chamber the next one.

What if you use another power source to cycle the action ?

What if you have a battery or clockspring or something storing additional energy in a magazine that cycles the action. Then the gunpowder just fires the round, same as it does in a bolt, pump, or lever action.

Then you would have one round per trigger pull, without any intervention, just like a normal semiautomatic, but it would not legally be semiautomatic.

You could even add a secondary control you needed to manipulate to cycle it, but since the energy comes from somewhere else, it could be a small button you press or something that would allow you to have a semi-auto like rate of fire, and you wouldn't have to adjust your grip at all (something like flipping a safety).

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Like a revolver, but different?

Pretty sure you're on to something.

Uninformed and Compliant said:

Like a revolver, but different?

Pretty sure you're on to something.

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Yea. Except with the separate power source you could have as light a trigger as you want, since you don't have to supply the energy to cycle the mechanism.

spat said:

Yea. Except with the separate power source you could have as light a trigger as you want, since you don't have to supply the energy to cycle the mechanism.

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Didn't someone already try this with the AR15?

Found a price on their website- $1299, it's not available yet though.
Honestly I figured it would be even more expensive.
I was thinking that this thing in 350 Legend would make a good woods gun for deer in states liie PA that don't allow semi autos for game.
Then I thought why wouldn't I just get a Winchester or Marlin in 30-30?