For sale on the popular auction site beinf sold by a pawn shop soujds like. Doesnt look like any S400 carbine I've seen. Weirdly short. Is this modified or what?
what the heck is this?
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For sale on the popular auction site beinf sold by a pawn shop soujds like. Doesnt look like any S400 carbine I've seen. Weirdly short. Is this modified or what?
The stock looks to be a BSA Ultra SE with a shortened S410 action. Shot count has to be low with the size of that tube.
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It looks like a TDR action to me, put into a poplar "superlite" stock with the forend removed. You can still see a bit of the "sweep" left in the forend. Almost certain that's how they did it.
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Those Stocks are from newer model AA guns that's all. Pretty much way overpriced that gun is only worth around $250- $300 MAX today it's pretty OLD.
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I think it's too short for that. Sure looks more like an older sub12 TDR to me. The front of the stock has been chopped off. The carbines used the same stocks as the rifles.
Here's a pic:
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A Superlite carbine AA S400 single shot.
I have one of those old Factory Shorties in a repeater S410 series and I can't even put a LDC on it since the barrel ends too close to the filler.
I have one of those old Factory Shorties in a repeater S410 series and I can't even put a LDC on it since the barrel ends too close to the filler.
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I have one of those old Factory Shorties in a repeater S410 series and I can't even put a LDC on it since the barrel ends too close to the filler shorter than this one on top.
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Because that FAC full sized long action stock they replaced it with was too long for the carbine.
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The Carbine and Rifle use the same stocks. Interchangeable. No need to hack the end off, because the carbine tube ends right at the end of the stock.
From Chambers Gunspares:
The TDR had a 200mm long airtube.
The Carbine had a 300mm long airtube.
The Classic "rifle" had a 400mm airtube.
These pics are straight from the Air Arms website from 2006!
Carbine:
Classic rifle:
TDR:
FAC Extra:
Notice how the airtube on the TDR is basically double the length of the breech to the back of the fill cap.
Now look at the Carbine, its clearly longer.
And take note that the Carbine, Classic, and Extra FAC rifles are in the same length stock (and neither has the ends chopped off)
Take a look and see for yourself, but I'm sticking with my original statement. It's an S400 action, on a TDR airtube, in a sawed off modern poplar Superlite stock.
From Chambers Gunspares:
The TDR had a 200mm long airtube.
The Carbine had a 300mm long airtube.
The Classic "rifle" had a 400mm airtube.
These pics are straight from the Air Arms website from 2006!
Carbine:
Classic rifle:
TDR:
FAC Extra:
Notice how the airtube on the TDR is basically double the length of the breech to the back of the fill cap.
Now look at the Carbine, its clearly longer.
And take note that the Carbine, Classic, and Extra FAC rifles are in the same length stock (and neither has the ends chopped off)
Take a look and see for yourself, but I'm sticking with my original statement. It's an S400 action, on a TDR airtube, in a sawed off modern poplar Superlite stock.
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I've seen several pistol kits for the AAS4xx series. One sold on another forum a year or so ago and I missed it.
Petr Plesinger used to make some of those as well as aluminum stocks for those guns. I always wanted one of the aluminum stocks and the pistol conversion, but I was too late.
Petr Plesinger used to make some of those as well as aluminum stocks for those guns. I always wanted one of the aluminum stocks and the pistol conversion, but I was too late.
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