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Cleaning and disassembly of Ruger 10/22 Magazine
Albert at The Rash Outdoor Chronicles has written a detailed tutorial, with lots of photos, explaining how to disassemble, clean and reassemble the Ruger 10/22 rotary magazine. Read it here.
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TALO Ruger French Walnut 10/22
TALO are producing a limited edition Ruger 10/22 featuring a absolutely beautiful french walnut stock. I have emailed my contact at TALO asking what the MSRP. I will update the page when he replies. UPDATE: The MSRP is $419
Springfield M6 Scout takedown rifle
James @ The Next Chapter bought himself a .22 / .410 M6 Scout take down rifle. Taken down and packed for transport. More photos and information at The Next Chapter.
Mossberg big muzzle brake coming to .17 and .22 rifles!
Mossberg’s big muzzle brake, which I call the BFMB (Big “Fraking” Muzzle Brake), first seen on the Mossberg 500 Roadblocker shotgun is coming to the Plinkster line of semi-automatic and bolt action .22 and .17 HRM rifles. Four models will be available [Read More…]
GSG-5 SD: The story behind the gun
American Tactical Imports will be selling the GSG-5 rifle in an SD configuration. The SD is patterned after the MP5-SD, a suppressed variant of the MP5. The main difference between the SD and the standard GSG-5 lies in the bigger stouter fore grip which is patterned [Read More…]
Italian police capture a pen gun
The Carabinieri (Italian gendarmerie) have seized a pen gun from a mobster in Naples. .22 Short rounds and one standard (subsonic) .22 Long Rifle My memory is pretty bad but I think it was 6 months ago when the Italian police captured one of those cell phone guns from [Read More…]
S&W M&P15-22: A .22 LR Tactical Rifle
The latest addition to the M&P15 family of AR-15 rifles is the M&P15-22. S&W have designed what they call “the ultimate .22LR platform”. From the press release: “In designing the new M&P15-22, our engineers pulled out all of the stops [Read More…]
Sig 522 LR: A .22 LR Sig 550 clone
Sig have launched the Sig 552. It is a .22 Long Rifle version of the 5.56mm Sig 556, which in turn is a civilian clone of the Sig 550. Externally it looks identical to the Sig 556 Classic with the swiss-style folding stock and handguard. From Sig: The Look and Feel of [Read More…]
Taurus have updated the PT22 PT25
Taurus have updated the PT-22 (chambered in .22 LR) and the PT-25 (chambered in .25 ACP). They are now lightweight polymer and are much sleeker that the old steel version. The new PT-22 (Photo from G&A). The old model PT-22 The old line has a wide range of models [Read More…]
M22 Pistol
Austrian gun designer Wolfram Kriegleder ,who designed the Walther P22, has designed a new pistol in response to what American shooters said they wanted in a target and shooting pistol. The M-22 features: * 3.5″ or 5″ match barrels. * adjustable rear sight. [Read More…]
Colt / Umarex M4 Carbine .22 Tactical Rimfire AR-15
Colt and Umarex have teamed up to produce the Colt M4 .22 Tactical Rimfire. The is probably the only real “Colt M4” you will ever be allowed to own! I am not 100% sure they are in fact AR-15s. UMAREX USA uses well known brand-names such as Beretta, Ruger and [Read More…]
Volquartsen’s Forward Blow Stabilization Module
Volquartsen Custom is selling an interesting muzzle break. It is called the Forward Blow Stabilization Module and is designed for Ruger 10/22 rifles and Charger pistols, but will fit any rifle with .905 – .925″ diameter rimfire bull barrel. Instead of porting [Read More…]
Building a .22LR P90 replica cheaply
taofledermaus has published a video tutorial on how to fit a Ruger 10/22 receiver, trigger and barrel into a $30 airsoft P90 stock and how to hook up the airsoft trigger to the 10/22 trigger at the rear of the stock. A very clever idea.
New Winchester Xpediter .22 LR Hyper Velocity
Winchester announced their second .22 LR “Hyper Velocity” round. The Xpediter round has similar performance to the new non-toxic Winchester SUPER-X .22 Long Rifle. It pushes a 32 grain lead hollow point bullet at 1,640 fps. The original Xpediter I am not [Read More…]
Winchester announces lead free .22LR and .22 Magnum and .223
It is lead free day here at The Firearm Blog*, this being the second lead-free ammo post! Winchester has announced a new line of lead-free ammunition. CCI currently manufactures lead free .22 Magnum called TNT GREEN but as far as I know Winchester are the first US [Read More…]
Ruger Charger now available in stainless.
Ruger Charger Stainless with Black Laminate Stock AcuSport is the distributor for the new Ruger Charger in stainless steel. The Ruger Charger is a pistol build on the Ruger 10/22 .22LR rifle action. UPDATE: Brian at AcuSport old me the MSRP is $387.25. More on the Ruger [Read More…]
New NAA “The Earl” .22 Magnum revolver
Early next year North American Arms will be selling “The Earl”, a “five shot single action 1860’s-styled mini-revolver chambered in .22 Magnum”. The revolver is named after the gunsmith who developed it. Click to expand. To complete the [Read More…]
New Super Match grade .22 LR from Fiocchi
Fiocchi have announced new Super Match ammunition called Exacta Biathlon Match. What makes it interesting is that it is Standard Velocity (1,120 fps) which is unlike most match grade target .22LR ammunition which are usually Subsonic. No surprises … looks like a [Read More…]
GSG-5PK: .22 MP5K patterened pistol (and photos)
ATI have announced the GSG5-PK pistol. The new GSG-5PK pistol is a .22 Long Rifle HV Caliber with a barrel length of 4.52″, total length of 15.275″ and a total height of 10″. It weighs in at a dainty 5.2 lbs. It has an alloy frame construction and [Read More…]
Another Massive 2 bore rifle
Bill emailed me a photo of a friend’s 2-bore rifle and another of the 2-bore balls. The first photo really gives a sense of scale. Click to expand the image I assume the bigger balls are for the 2-bore and the smaller for another gun The guy in the photo is [Read More…]
The ACU’RZR: .22LR bullet reshaping tool
The ACU’RZR is an interesting tool. You put a .22 Long Rifle cartridge into the ACU’RZR and give the “forming rod” a whack with a hammer and then take out your .22 cartridge with a newly shaped bullet. The idea behind the tool is threefold. It ensures [Read More…]
Mounting raised peep sights without any mods
This is a very clever idea. The rifle is a Mossberg 144LSB Target rifle that is currently listed on gunbroker. The advantage of having the sight raised is that when shooting from a offhand/verticle position you can keep you head as close to upright as possible to [Read More…]
Ruger 77/22 rifle review
Shooting Times (UK) has reviewed the .22 Ruger 77/22 rifle Priced towards the upper end of the rimfire scale, the M77/22 still gives excellent value for money. Build quality is good, as is the accuracy and reliability in the test. With the options of stainless and [Read More…]
Akins Accelerator Inventor Sues United States
From GeorgiaPacking.org The inventor of the Akins Accelerator, the replacement stock for a Ruger 10/22 that allows controlled bump firing, is suing the United States over the BATFE’s ruling that the Accelerator wasn’t a machine gun, but now is. Here’s [Read More…]
Sig Sauer .22LR Rimfire Conversion Kit
According to gunsholstersandgear.com: The .22LR Rimfire Conversion Kit is available for the SIG SAUER P220, P226, and P229 models and feature a black hard coat anodized slide, machined from solid aluminum billet. Offered as a complete replacement assembly, the Rimfire [Read More…]
Muzzle break suppresor adapter
Wodger Wabit over at RFC machined a suppressor adapter for a Volquartsen carbon-fibre wrapped barrel threaded for a .22 muzzle break so that both can be used. Neither the suppressor nor the muzzle break need to be modified. Very cool. The muzzle break and the threaded [Read More…]
Eley Ammo Rebranded
Eley have rebranded most of their .22 ammo and introduced a new produce called Team, an improved version of Club. (Click to here to expand) I think the branding was a good idea. The boxes look like and the names are better. For example “Tenex” is better than [Read More…]
Lapua X-ACT: New Accurate .22 Ammo
This new ammo from Lapua is going to be the most expensive .22 LR ammo when it is released, and apparently the most accurate. Lapua rolled out a whole new line-up of rimfire competition ammo in three grades, X-ACT, Midus Plus, and Center-X. The ultra-premium X-ACT [Read More…]
Zimmerstutzen rifles
B.B. has written an interesting article on early target shooting with the Zimmerstutzen rifles. The Zimmerstutzen was the ancestor of the 10-meter target [air] rifle and extends back to at least 1840. Zimmerstutzen is the rough translation of “parlor rifle” [Read More…]
Solving the squirrel on the roof problem
There is an interesting discussion over at rec.guns about the best way to deal with a squirrel chewing on the roof. It is worth a read. “Pumper Hinkle” sums up the options: Hmmm. I understand your problem better now. For the squirrel to be chewing on your [Read More…]