Why are there no centerfire tube-fed semi autos?

[tony270]

tony 270 joke. 30/30 is round nose or flat nose. Softnose useless comment. PSP can set of primer in cartridge in front inline.

I frecking know that, your the joker, I have a 30-30 with various types of ammo.

[Catch]

I've owned a tube fed ruger 44. It'd be nice if they brought it back with a full length tube.

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The Ruger Model 44 was a semi-automatic rifle chambered in .44 Remington Magnum.[1] It used a 4-round internal tubular magazine and produced from 1961 to 1985.[2]

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The Ruger Model 44 was replaced by the Ruger Deerfield Carbine introduced in 2000 and produced until 2006.[4] The Deerfield is a brand new design and has little in common with the Model 44. While the Model 44 featured a solid-topped receiver, the modern Deerfield Carbine has an open-top design more resembling the M1 Carbine,[5] which offered increased strength and lower production costs.[6] The Deerfield uses a rotary magazine similar to that used on Ruger's .22 LR 10/22 rifle.[5]

[T6pilot]

If one can find a Ruger model 44 buy it, they are great little carbines

Jim

[bigstick61]

in practice, i dunno if i'd want a tube fed rifle to be semi. seems like i'd spend a lot more time loading than shooting.

You'd have to use the load one, shoot one method, like what is practied with shotguns and used to be practied on early military repeating rifles. A magazine cutoff and a beveled extractor would be excellent features on any self-loader or repeater that had a slow-to-load magazine. Practice the above method until you need rapid fire, and then switch to feeding from the magazine. It's been done on tube mag-fed centrefire rifles like the Lebel.

[TKM]

Remington made model 14 and 141 pump rifles with a spiral fluted magazine tube to offset the bullet tips. Where there's some money to be made someone will be along. I guess there wasn't a realistic market.


Slightly OT, somebody once fitted DE mags to the Ruger 44 mag body for S&Gs.

[ZombieLivesMatter]

Being centerfire ,in California, IIRC the tubular mag would still need to hold a maximum of 10 cartridges.

This right here, basically ends any pros this thread was proposing.

[Spyder]

Ruger made one in 44 mag. There's one for sale in the marketplace.