Meet Strad
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.
