I’ve mentioned before that I’m a Sherlock Holmes fanatic.
Holmes, of course, had his famous Stradivarius violin.
Well, now I’ve got a Strad too.
I was wondering what to put in my childhood violin case, now that the child-size violin is doing decorative duty in the parlor.
Here’s what: .308 semi-auto goodness! The music is different, but sounds just as sweet.
That’s an old leather camera-tripod case in the foreground. It doesn’t hold a tripod anymore, though!
The collapsible stock at bottom includes the operating spring. The rifle will not work without it.
All assembled! Going from closed case to assembled rifle takes about ten seconds with my fumble-fingers. The Germans had modular rifle design down pat long before I was born.
Voila! (or maybe rather Erblicken!) my Springfield Armory SAR-8, a .308 Winchester semi-auto rifle of the HK 91 pattern, made in Greece (with steel receiver) on HK tooling
(with a ten-round fixed magazine and Raddlock installed, so it’s California-legal.)
Here’s a view of the Raddlock. You can’t detach the magazine without the use of a tool. An Allen wrench or bullet tip works.
Note to self: it’s not a good idea to coat a black rifle with Break-Free and then set it down on a dog bed covered with white dog hair.
Who’da thunk you could fit an HK-91 in a violin case…
Though that looks more like a viola case to me; but it may just be the perspective on the shots.
It’s not a viola case, it’s for a 3/4 (or maybe 4/4)-size violin that I used when in 5th-grade Orchestra. The interior is just a couple of inches too short to take the HK with collapsible stock attached. A viola case would probably handle the whole thing just fine. Overall length of the case is 32 inches. I had to do minor surgery on the case to make the HK fit — there was a little compartment at the muzzle for rosin and extra strings that I removed, and a support brace for the violin’s neck about a third of the way down that I had to cut out also.
Now that is just plain cool.
Pure win.
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Totally cool David!! Where do I go to get one of those SAR-8’s?