What's the story with the smg 68 semiautomatic on ebay.

[I-tech]

Is a semi 68 smg a real thing. 🤔. Discuss....

[netsurferdude2]

Its an SMG68. Came out in 88/89. Depending on the sear in it could be semi or auto. For the auto sear you could put the trigger half way to make it semi and all the way for full.
Most were converted to 68 specials.

[Ecapnation]

They were sold as semis and two stage triggers

Mine has the two stage.....

They are fat ugly terrible unicorns that break themselves

[russc]

They're also the best

[Ecapnation]

Subjective......mine actually works but the mag is so smashed it won't feed

[I-tech]

I love it . It's up to 480.00 how much you guys think it will go.

[netsurferdude2]

Probably around 800 or so.

[Ecapnation]

I love it . It's up to 480.00 how much you guys think it will go.

In this market.... Likely double that.

Keep in mind the clips are 15-20 each

[I-tech]

Thank for the knowledge gents.

[Brokeass_baller]

In this market.... Likely double that.

Keep in mind the clips are 15-20 each

It comes with 30 clips though.

[RuleOfSines]

I'm gonna guess we break 1k

[Ecapnation]

Nah.... Had mine up for less than that with more clips and got nothing but crickets for a year

[Olsson]

Shouldn't clips be a non factor nowadays (other than for collector's value), since it should be perfectly possible to 3D-print clips as many as one could possibly ever need?

[netsurferdude2]

You'd think but 3D printing is slow and expensive. For our SMG60 games, we use some 3D printed clips but the old orange molded clips shoot better.

Also SMG68 are really not super shooter guns. Most people aren't going to go out and shoot one of these all day. After awhile they beat themselves to death. The SMG68 is the gun you buy because you think it is cool and it turns out being alright.

Now COB is gonna show up and buy this to prove me wrong. I think he has 3 or 4 already.

[Olsson]

Thank you for your insight. I have never seen an SMG68, not its stripper clips, so it was all guesswork from my side, considering that 3D-printing just about everything seems to be the rage these days.

[MrBarraclough]

I think you'd probably have to sand the hell out of a PLA 3D printed clip to get it to reliably and smoothly feed. The molded stripper clips were made out of a fairly smooth, almost glossy plastic. It might be easier to simply cast a new mold.

[russc]

Really all we need to make them into reliable shooters is a steel magazine or mag/chamber adapter.

[Hp_lovecraft]

Is a semi 68 smg a real thing. 🤔. Discuss....

I remember when they came out. For a while, SMG-60s were everywhere. There were teams in the late 80s that were 100% SMG60s, even though they were banned at many fields.
But SMG60s had a problem- Odd paint. Not every field carried it, and when they did, it was often junk. And it had shorter range. To make up for that, some fields allowed limits of 350fps, or even 400fps.
But ever been stitched up close by SMG 60 running close to 400? I have, and I had scars that last for years and years.

So the SMG-68 fixed those issues. semi-only, so most fields allowed. Used common paint caliber, and had the optional siphon tanks. Lots of people bought them, then a year later.... the 1st gen DF semis came out, instantaly making the SMG-68 obsolete. Like completely. Just about everyone I knew had there SMG60 and SMG68s converted. I forgot how much, but Tippmann charged very little. $50? $70?

So the ones you see today are often from people bought them but stopped playing around 1990. So while nobody wanted them in 1990, that makes them rare and cool today. Especially since the current mil-sim trend, and the fact they use a common caliber.

Shame doulbe-actions never became cool. THey were everywhere in 1989-90, and were also killed by true-semis....

[MrBarraclough]

The SMG-68 is super rare because after the 68 Special was released, Tippmann offered to convert your SMG-68 to a Special. So most SMG-68s got converted into 68 Specials. There are proably owners of 68 Specials out there who have converted guns they don't even realize are converted. I'm sure someone like Dan Bacci would spot whatever the subtle clues are immediately, but not everyone. Hell, for all I know my beat up Special that's missing its serial # plate and lacks the safety notch in the hammer tube may be a convert. I doubt it though since it has an internal gas line.

[DocsMachine]

I was given to understand one of the bigger draws of the SMG-68 these days, was that you could do full-auto First Strikes.

Doc.

[Brokeass_baller]

Pain. So much pain.