I'd like an FR8
Posted on 06/03/2012 8:09:02 AM PDT by marktwain
Very informative thread. I admit I am .22-Rifle stupid, but I have not read any references, yet, in this thread to Savage Arms .22 rifles. I always thought they looked pretty nice, but have never shot one. Any thoughts?
However, this isn't about cheap .22 LR semi-auto rifles. This is about the cool factor from having an MP-44 (StG-44) clone in a cheap caliber to shoot.
Is the rifle expensive compared to other .22 LR semi-autos? Yes.
Can you buy rifles that are cheaper and may be even better than this? Yes.
Then, why spend the money to buy one? Because it is cool and really different. This is about a nontraditional shooting piece and not some run of the mill Ruger or Marlin or whatever.
I like this cool looking .22 LR and I will probably buy one once they become available.
“Then, why spend the money to buy one? Because it is cool and really different.”
Yup, I like it too...and think what the intruder coming in your front door will think when he sees it (if you give him a peek first before the 2 pops to the chest and 1 pop to the head :)
While I don’t believe in paying $500+ for the look-alikes, they have absolutely zero commonality with the 10/22.
I agree with the folks that love the Marlin 60.
I have a marlin 600 (fancy 60) that I have shot for 30 years.
Very accurate and never jams.
A cheap Simmons scope makes it even more fun.
Here is a Israeli 98 Mauser in 7.62x51 made by FN in 1950s. It was a $90.00 buy when I got it in 1987. I decided to scout it and turned out for my purposes just fine.
Here is link as to how I did it. (scroll down) http://hstrial-rchambers.homestead.com/early.html#
Then — Bang! Bang! Bang! (Lights out time.)
Beautiful work! I’m contemplating doing something similar to my vinatge 1943 Mosina 91/30, but it is hard to start chopping on soemthing that is so accurate and classic in appearance. *sigh*
Excellent! I love Milsurplus.
You don’t have to chop a Mosin to mount a scout scope.
My planning includes chopping the barrel to 19 inches and recrowning (with shortening the forend stock portion and adding a picatinny for bi-pod mounting), removing the rear sight and using a dovetail conversion to Weaver rail, chopping the stock and hollowing it out then re-strengthening it with tubular storage glued in and adding a limbsaver butt pad, installing an adjustable cheek pad. Right now I’m still working on the loading data for a new shotgun round for 12 and twenty gauges, to allow for an extra round in the tube. The Mosina was my next planned project.
You just need a long eye relief scope
My planning includes chopping the barrel to 19 inches and recrowning (with shortening the forend stock portion and adding a picatinny for bi-pod mounting), removing the rear sight and using a dovetail conversion to Weaver rail, chopping the stock and hollowing it out then re-strengthening it with tubular storage glued in and adding a limbsaver butt pad, installing an adjustable cheek pad. Right now I’m still working on the loading data for a new shotgun round for 12 and twenty gauges, to allow for an extra round in the tube. The Mosina was my next planned project. ... I may shift the third project planned up to be the next: scouting up a Marlin 22 magnum bolt gun.
Ain’t they purdy old guns?
It's cool that you found one without too many drop marks.
Sounds good.
Why worry about historical integrity? There were millions made.
I have one from 1897 made in Setroyesk that was rearsenaled in finland after the winter war that is only valued at a few hundred bucks.
I payed $100
Everyone should own one!
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