Owen Gun (Mk 1, 1943 type, Camouflaged)

mikoyan99 · 2009-12-31T16:37:36Z

Now i've nearly finished my type-100 (the last bit is in the post), I want to have a go at another pacific theatre weapon, the Owen gun. Known for its reliability, if not its accuracy, the owen was a very popular weapon with troops and served with the Australian army up until the Vietnam war, when it was eventually replaced with the F1, based on the british sterling. I'll be scratch building the owen, to keep cost down. I will be using a modified AK hop up and barrel, aluminium tubing, steel plate, an AEP gearbox, and Mp40 or Uzi magazines. It will be held together using high strength glues, and bolts where required or possible. As I lack a decent workshop, the emphasis will be on producing a working gun rather than a 100% accurate replica, so concessions will have to be made on various things to make them either possible or strong enough; sometimes cost will be a deciding factor as well. This is the basic plan: As you can see, the forward pistol grip is from an ak and the rear the lower receiver from an M93R; using the receiver is a necessity, to save production time and to help mount the gearbox in the correct place. I will be disguising it as much as possible throughout the build. So far, i've built the hop up and started chopping the tubing i'm using for the reciver. The AEP parts are on their way, kindly donated by a member or arnie's airsoft. The hop up was a simple job - I inverted the barrel in the hop unit so the hole in the barrel was at the top. I then drilled a small hole just forwards of the feed nozzel asnd insterted a rubber tipped screw; carefully adjusting this screw allows for a hop-up similair to the original. regards, -Matt

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Good to hear that it's working, after all the effort :good:

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