{"id":20941,"date":"2022-09-15T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/ask-ian-good-bullpup-conversions\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T13:00:13","slug":"ask-ian-good-bullpup-conversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/ask-ian-good-bullpup-conversions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Ian: Good Bullpup Conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N0yVwUyLgeE?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From John on Patreon:<br \/>&#8220;You&#8217;ve covered your fair share of strange conversion of firearms. Have you ever come across a bullpup conversion that was actually useful, and not a kludge?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s basically the whole answer.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, to elaborate a bit, it&#8217;s because making a bullpup use blue from either shoulder requires specific accommodation of the empty case ejection, and converting a standard rifle to bullpup configuration basically guarantees it will only be usable right-handed. Also, designing a good bullpup trigger requires specific intent in the design stage, and conversion triggers are always kludges. And lastly, the sights often end up mounted to some wobbly plastic extension.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeaponshttp:\/\/www.floatplane.com\/channel\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com From John on Patreon:&#8220;You&#8217;ve covered your fair share of strange conversion of firearms. Have you ever come across a bullpup conversion that was actually useful, and not a kludge?&#8221; Nope. That&#8217;s basically the whole answer. Okay, to elaborate a bit, it&#8217;s because making a bullpup use blue from either&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/15\/ask-ian-good-bullpup-conversions\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ask Ian: Good Bullpup Conversions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}