Tried to order a CMMG

[Yogi GunKanobee]

Oh dear. Heart said “We want a Raven!”, Head said, “Are you mad?! Have a CMMG”. As heart had had its own way for much of the time, after several days agonizing over the cost, I decided to go with the head for once.

I got up in the middle of the night and spent an hour or two making a list of all the mods I wanted, and eventually emailed Paul at Lantac, before going back to bed.

In the morning I received a reply telling me that they no longer do CMMGs! :cool2:

It also said in the email that they were releasing a new gun “very soon”. Well, not to bad I thought. Perhaps I’ll wait a bit and get the new “LANTAC LA-R22”. But then I remember that one thing I’ve learned regarding the gun trade is that “very soon” could mean “hopefully before the end of the century”. I called Lantac again and sure enough “very soon” meant, “hopefully sometime in the future”.

Is it the God of Guns way of telling me I should bite the bullet and order a Raven?

[Marmite5]

Oh dear, was the Elcan you have got going on it?

[Christel]

Made me laugh... :lol:

Maybe because I have been there, done that, I think most of us have... :roll:

[Yogi GunKanobee]

Oh dear, was the Elcan you have got going on it?

Well, that's what I had in mind........................

[Yogi GunKanobee]

Made me laugh... :lol:

Maybe because I have been there, done that, I think most of us have... :roll:

I think it's going to be too hard to resist more than a few days...........

[John MH]

How about a S&W MP15-22 or try these guys: http://emrr.org.uk/brands/CMMG.html

[Yogi GunKanobee]

How about a S&W MP15-22 or try these guys: http://emrr.org.uk/brands/CMMG.html

Thanks for the link. It's very tempting to save myself £2000, buy a basic CMMG and mod it in my own time....... With the money saved, I could fill yet another slot on my ticket as well as get that new barrel for my .308.

[sysreq]

Yogi,
Sounds like you had the same conversation with Paul that I had this afternoon. I had also made a decision and had decided on going the CMMG route only to be shot down in flames by his decision. After a long discussion with Paul about the issues that Paul has had with CMMGs and the work that he was having to do to make sure that they worked reliably, I can see why he has gone the route he has.

John, I had found EMRR, but it sounds like Paul was doing quite a bit of fettling to get the CMMG to run close to his standards. So It is a case of waiting or looking elsewhere, possibly at a 15-22 as an interim option.

As for the new 22, Paul says that he has a bit of work to do on the design and prototyping and then wants to run 20,000 rounds through to ensure that it works right, and it will end up like a TCR in 22lr.

[Yogi GunKanobee]

Yogi,
Sounds like you had the same conversation with Paul that I had this afternoon. I had also made a decision and had decided on going the CMMG route only to be shot down in flames by his decision. After a long discussion with Paul about the issues that Paul has had with CMMGs and the work that he was having to do to make sure that they worked reliably, I can see why he has gone the route he has.

It would do all us lusters after black guns a kindness if he took the CMMG pages down!

I suppose, for me, the wisest, but perhaps most difficult solution, would be to stay with what I've got for now and wait till his new .22 TCR is ready.

[John MH]

Supply and demand could also be a reason, getting stuff out of the USA is still a struggle and CMMG may have been slow or unable to support the whole of the UK market as there were several vendors selling CMMGs.