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Article: The .22s of Rhineland Arms.(RIMFIRES)
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- Guns Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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It's amazing to see some of the creative products flowing from smaller gunmakers around the country. Rhineland Arms of Lewisville, Texas, is one of those hot beds of innovation. Rhineland has appeared between the covers of GUNS before. They're the outfit that supplies those neat, do-it-yourself kits for converting surplus Mausers and Enfields into handy .45 ACP-chambered carbines. Their latest venture into high-tech rimfires is just as interesting. Rhineland calls their new rimfire the R22.
The head honcho, gun designer and machinist at Rhineland Arms is Thomas Seidel. When I asked Seidel what he was trying to achieve in bringing to the marketplace another .22 ...