Posted on 01/27/2015 9:05:28 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
The rifle is built to replicate the original in look, feel, and heft. The heart of the design is a .22 caliber receiver based on the design of the Ruger 10/22, but made of steel, not aluminum. The receiver is housed in a stock and hand guards made from real American Walnut.
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I'm saving my pennies for the .22 MG 42 or the GAU 8 - I'm torn between the two...
Cute, but I’d rather have one in .308, that maybe takes AR-10 magazines.
That would be cool.
I got what I consider the perfect compromise, a couple of Mini-14’s. One set up as tactical and the other(a S.S. Ranch) is accurized and retro’d to look like I washed and dried an M-14 it in hot water and shrunk it.
Same as those that wanted a .22 in the 1911 platform, I guess.
I never understood that.
I've had persons that argued that it provided a cheap training platform for the use of a full-size 1911, but in my opinion it simply trains one to "limp-wrist" a full size.
Fun, though.
But for what they want for that thing, I'll stay with my 10-22 for plinking, plus, I see no advantage in training in the use of an obsolete rifle for which one can hardly find ammo.
I am very interested in the Browning version of the .380 on the 1911 platform.
Cooper described the .380 in all versions as a "mouse gun", but then, he was an elitist that couldn't see the viability of anything in less than a caliber that started with a "4".
But I digress.
That’s why you carry the empty clip with you to ‘ping’ on the ground, and when they go to fire at you, thinking you’re out; you take the kill shot.
I wonder how many Germans and Japs died that way.
If this thing weighs 9 1/2 pounds, and shoots .22 LR, I would rather just carry the real thing and shoot a 10/22 instead. ,
This is available in the original M-14 configuration also.
Why would I want to lug around a 12 pound .22 rifle?
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I do because it prints sub inch at 100 yards and it is discrete........
I can do that with a 10/22 at a third of the weight.
I have the same thing along with an M1 Carbine. Love that rolling block action. Fired my first M1 in 1954.
I use a GSG AK22 every day for training reasons, but as much as I love Garands I can’t imagine I would bother with this.
Check out CDNN. Lots of cheap .22’s, the StG-44 included.
How about an M1A?
10mm starts with a 1. Just kidding, I know what you mean.
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