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Kudos Win-Mag: first on your block, I reckon. Glad you got yours, we know you’ll give it a thorough going over and testing regimine.

Yep, I did give it a good going over, wavered, sighed and put it back. Doubtless their one remaining one was gone by Payday Friday.

According to the scribes the big pouch is to hold the Ruger .22 BX (I think it’s BX) 25 shot magazines. The smaller pouch, the SR-22 Pistol.

Some of the posters on the various hook and bullet forums are already noting the limited scope space (apparently the smaller scopes say 1-4.5V types can work) the lack of a removable buttplate is causing some wailing and weeping as it is a primo space for storage. Won’t be long before those mods hit the intern-net.

There isn’t a nub for a sling swivel and no apparent provision for attachment. That’s an oversight that will hopefully be corrected in phase II production. Since the SR-22 pistol is being tweaked already, (again, according to those who claim to know), perhaps the removable buttplate and swivel nub will follow.

I’ll be looking forward to your future posts on testing the Ruger take-down; I’m not expecting MOA accuracy given it’s takedown features but minute-of-squirrels head should be achievable.

One poster on a H&B forum put three .22 bannana magazines in the big pouch, his SR-22 pistol in the small one, and tubes of loose .22 rounds in the barrel sleeves. Nice grab and go package.

As usual Ruger did a lot of things right and doubtless one will find its way home with me eventually. Of course, one has to ask, why the heck did it take so long for them to do it?.

There isn’t a nub for a sling swivel and no apparent provision for attachment. That’s an oversight that will hopefully be corrected in phase II production.

The aftermarket barrel band, with three pieces of rail, should handle any foreseeable needs for sling, bipod, or light mounts. I'm leaning towards a swivel stub on a wood screw base either through the eagle on the grip cap, or toe of the stock. I suspect there's enough material in either location for it to work.

There's a vast difference between the laid-up Kevlar on the B&C target stock, and the injection molded polystyrene on the takedown. I don't know if aftermarket stock makers can bring in a product that isn't too expensive for the specialized needs of this rifle.

I also wonder how long it will take for it to appear all pimped-out as some sort of super weapon in a movie or TV show. Sean Connery gave the AR-7 takedown .22 a big role in "From Russia with Love". I don't know if wounding the guy who drops the live grenade would classify as an "aircraft kill" as far as downing the helicopter goes.

There isn’t a nub for a sling swivel and no apparent provision for attachment. That’s an oversight that will hopefully be corrected in phase II production.

My rapid prototyping has already taken care of a rear sling swivel stub. It was fairly simple to remove the grip cap medallion from the stock. I carefully ran a scalpel around the edge, and noted that the blade went in deeper, and hit something solid, part of the way, and went in less, and hit something mushy, in other areas.

Bless their cheap little hearts, but the Ruger beancounters decreed only a bit of glue be used. I cut through the mushy areas as best as I could with the scalpel. The a quick pry with a thin-blade screwdriver, and it popped off without fuss. Ten minutes to study the problem, ten minutes to find the tools, and two minutes of work.

I found a QD swivel stud with a 10-24 thread, and determined that the top of the "R" was as close to absolute center as I was going to get. A #10 drill, washer and lock washer, and nut, and everything was snugged up to the grip cap.

With a more generous application of glue this time, here's the final results. A flat plastic plate inside the pistol grip opening wouldn't stick out as much, but this gets the job done. I didn't want to tackle the toe of the stock, even though it appears to be solid plastic for the last half-inch of the stock. I wood screw stud might work, but the grip cap medallion was quicker and slicker.

And, I decided to give Little Bro a sporting chance, and temporarily installed the Trijicon ACOG for accuracy testing, even though the scope probably is worth at least three times more than the entire rifle.

So now I can test with my "calibrated" ammo to see what, if anything, Little Bro likes best, before I switch back to iron sights.