#Takedown

Hello and welcome back to another edition of The Rimfire Report! This ongoing series is all about the rimfire firearm world and its guns, ammunition, shooting sports, and history. Last week we dove into a relatively obscure semi-auto 22 Magnum rimfire rifle, the Excel Arms MR-22 Accelerator. This American-made rifle obviously wasn’t very successful, however, these rifles definitely still garner about $600 on auction sites meaning at least a few gun owners out there like to have them around. This week we’re getting into another obscure rimfire rifle, this time from Italy – the Sovereign SM64 Takedown chambered in 22LR. This is another early example of a 22LR takedown rifle that I’ve yet to run into and so once again we’ll be going off of people I’ve talked to about the gun, as well as what we’ve been able to glean from the online archives discussing it.

You guys will remember Grey Birch Solutions for their high-quality Canadian-made Foundation Chassis series. The Foundation was a modular chassis system that allowed you to completely customize your 10/22 rifle down to the type of stock, grip, and forend attachments that you wanted (if any). Now Grey Birch is proud to introduce their new LaChassis TKD 10/22 Takedown chassis. Also, for a limited time, Grey Birch is offering a 5% off code for the new chassis until their first run is sold out.

I recently came across an interesting product from USA Knife Maker Supply that I had never seen before – the PCC Takedown Protector. The goal of the product is to seal off the barrel lug and receiver socket where the two halves of the Ruger PC Takedown Carbine or Charger combine.

Ruger‘s magnificent rimfire rifle, the 10/22, has been a staple of gun safes for more than half a century. With all-time production numbers in the millions and a veritable host of various models available today, this handy little plinker ascends beyond its diminutive chambering and offers a great solution for a plethora of different shooters and purposes. Whether you want to use it as a teaching tool for younger or newer shooters, a fun range toy, a varmint hunter, a rimfire competition platform, and many other roles, the 10/22 can meet your need.

I’ll save you all my standard rant about how awesome rimfire cartridges are and jump right into Tactical Solutions’ latest release. The TacSol Owyhee is a bolt action .22LR rifle built on a takedown platform that utilizes a custom Magpul X-22 Backpacker furniture setup. The rifle looks nearly identical to the company’s X-Ring takedown rifles except for the obvious bolt versus semiautomatic action difference. The TacSol Owyhee utilizes standard rotary magazines, comes complete with a threaded barrel (a rimfire requirement if you ask me) and can accept a rail section for optics mounting. At $1065 the Owyhee will give some straight pull action rifles a run for their money.

Brownells has expanded their line of Ruger 10/22 receivers by introducing the takedown version. The BRN-22T receivers are compatible with all the other factory parts of Ruger 10/22 Takedown rifles allowing to build a new rifle using the wide variety of factory and aftermarket components.

As you may have already heard, firearms and parts retailer Brownells was removed from YouTube and later reinstated without a detailed explaination as to which community guidelines had been violated that landed them in social media jail. Although the channel’s return is a victory for both Brownells and consumers alike, the trend towards demonetizing videos and removing channels that feature firearm related content appears to be gaining steam.

The Ruger 10/22 Takedown is one of the best features Ruger has done to the Ruger 10/22. And after Magpul released their backpacker stock it added more features to the 10/22 Takedown and made it more of a backpack gun. Well wouldn’t it be nice if you could turn your regular 10/22 and turn it into a backpack gun?

Miles V. friend Corey V. posted a photo of how he packed his 1919A4 on a US ARMY Packboard.

Announced with little fanfare at the NRA Annual Exposition 2016, Magpul has announced that that Hunter X-22 stock is now shipping to dealers and available for direct retail order. The new stock adapts Magpul’s Hunter stock geometry for the Ruger 10/22 take-down to create an utterly fantastic system.

There is a lot going on with this Kel-Tec Sub2000 Gen 2. First it is a modified version that is now a takedown model. While not approved by Kel-Tec and would certainly void any warranty, it is an interesting design. While the concept of a takedown is intriguing on other guns and practical for some cases, it does not seem to be necessary for the Sub2000. The Sub2000 folds in half and is very compact. So having a removable barrel seems superfluous unless you are testing many different barrels on the same gun.

Adaptive Tactical had a number of interesting products available for SHOT 2016. The first one is a sort of replacement pump for the Mossberg and Remington pump action shotguns. It is a polymer wraparound pump that incorporates picatinny rails on the top and on the sides of the wraparound section, while including a rearward and a forward handstop while operating the pump action. It being a wraparound pump, it includes an empty space through which a shooter can still fully acquire the front bead, while having the ability to mount a light, or even an optic on top of it. It is called the Wraptor Forend, and retails for $49.99.

Tactical Solutions is a company that focuses on innovating in the field of rimfire firearms. Their booth at the show was filled with plinkers of every shape, size, and color, and it would take several posts to cover all their different offerings in depth. The company featured two .22 pistol conversion kits, one for a single-stack 1911, and the other for a Glock 19 or 23, which replace the slide assembly with a new assembly designed to fire .22 Long Rifle ammunition and feeding from new magazines that fit right into the gun’s existing magazine well. These new slides are offered in both threaded and plain barrel variants, with MSRPs between $345 and $575.

Sturm, Ruger & Co. announced a new version of the popular 10/22 Takedown rifle that has a target barrel. The new gun uses a .92″ diameter, cold hammer forged barrel. The barrel length is 16.1″, and it is threaded (½”-28) for a sound suppressor. It does ship with a thread protector cap. The barrel is fluted which helps with weight reduction and heat dissipation. The barrel and receiver are finished in matte black.

DRD Tactical has updated their branding. Their Generation 2 takedown 7.62mm rifle (pictured above)  will be called the Paratus P762 Gen-2. I am not sure what the changes are, but I can see that the handguard design has been changed and the receiver is slightly different. From the press release …