What's Your Next Purchase? V5

[Gregolian]

I want to get the Spikes Punisher lower but other shit keeps making my bank account go anorexic.

 

[jlagman]

I think I'm addicted to spending money. Just paid off the balance on my visa for my Tavor and I'm already looking at what to buy next. I previously mentioned a hunting pack, but it doesn't really make sense to buy one now. I've also mulled over buying a new exhaust for my car, but dat exchange rate doe. I want to upgrade to a better G-Shock, but my current one is fine. I think the most useful thing I'm considering right now is a Berkey water filter; my dogs don't drink the tap water, which comes from a well and I'm sick of driving at least 50 kms into town to fill up 5 gallon water bottles.

 

[ironwolf]

That's pretty awesome you don't live in the city. I'm jelous and plan to do similar when I come back to the states.

 

[ironwolf]

I want a good bolt action 22lr. All I have right now is a 10/22 and while it's cool, I want a bolt gun.

Thinking about the ruger 77/22. Maybe the RAR but I do t want a detachable magazine which is my hang up on that.

Anybody have a cool 22lr?

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Anybody have a cool 22lr?

Get a CZ 455.

They're great little guns for the price.

Do a bolt handle on it:

RWS R100 ammo. The way to go.

 

[ironwolf]

Get a CZ 455.

They're great little guns for the price.

Do a bolt handle on it:

RWS R100 ammo. The way to go.

Yeah the CZ 455 are sweet. I show one years ago. CZ makes some cool guns. Again, I never handled the RAR but I handled the ruger American rifles and they seemed cheap. Too much plastic but plastic is t really a detractor on a 22 as they do t have enough recoil to matter.

I'll definetly at CZ to the list. I was just checking g out the 77/22 synthetic/stainless model. That with a good scope would end up running me about 1k but I'd never need another 22.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

I find almost every gun I acquire runs around 1K at least.

I got the CZ for $425 plus $90 for the stock, Plus another $150 for base, trigger kit, mags etc. Figured I try the stock barrel before replacing it with a Lilja. (its fine though, 20 shot 1 1/2 inch group at 100 yards) $750 for the scope.

Works and shoots better than the $1600 Anschutz I was looking at.

Clark does a ruger:
http://clarkcustomguns.com/gun/ruger-7717-7722/

Bit spendy.



For Rimfire I think Ammo is the big hold back, push the distance and the inconsistencies crop up.

 

[RerouteToRemain]

I want a good bolt action 22lr. All I have right now is a 10/22 and while it's cool, I want a bolt gun.

Thinking about the ruger 77/22. Maybe the RAR but I do t want a detachable magazine which is my hang up on that.

Anybody have a cool 22lr?

Well this definitely is for a detachable mag but anyway

I was thinking about doing a custom bolt .22 and starting with this.

http://primaryweapons.com/store/product/summit-barreled-action/

They sell a whole rifle as well.

Here is an example on a Magpul stock.

 

[jlagman]

I have the RAR in .22LR, I like it, but I also don't want to drop like $800+ on a bolt action .22LR and open sights are a must for me. I like the idea they had of stock where you can replace a piece for different comb and length of pull. In practice though, you won't be able to make adjustments in the field unless for whatever reason, you carry the other piece with you; the taller comb has made the rear iron sight unusable to me. That said, I like that I don't need to have separate, dedicated bolt guns with different sighting setups. The RAR is cheap, if you're used to really nice rifles, it may not be for you.

I liked my Savage Mark IIs, but I hated the mags. I liked that the RAR uses 10/22 mags, which I have a bunch of.

I hear really good things about the CZ 452/455, I just hate Czech safeties.

Edit: wait, you don't want a detachable magazine on a .22 bolt action?

 

[ironwolf]

I have the RAR in .22LR, I like it, but I also don't want to drop like $800+ on a bolt action .22LR and open sights are a must for me. I like the idea they had of stock where you can replace a piece for different comb and length of pull. In practice though, you won't be able to make adjustments in the field unless for whatever reason, you carry the other piece with you; the taller comb has made the rear iron sight unusable to me. That said, I like that I don't need to have separate, dedicated bolt guns with different sighting setups. The RAR is cheap, if you're used to really nice rifles, it may not be for you.

I liked my Savage Mark IIs, but I hated the mags. I liked that the RAR uses 10/22 mags, which I have a bunch of.

I hear really good things about the CZ 452/455, I just hate Czech safeties.

Edit: wait, you don't want a detachable magazine on a .22 bolt action?

Yeah I don't want a detachable magazine if I can help it. I do t like detachable mags on hunting rifles I have a phobia of losing the mag or getting to a destination that has cost me thousands of dollars and opening my pelican case to see that I somehow left the mag at home. This is what turns me off of sako and tikka hunting rifles.

I'll be living in Alaska when I get back so this gun needs to be ready to do real duty for ptarmigan, getting carried all
Over, bumped around on my snowmobile etc, etc.

 

[ironwolf]

And I agree with every gun costing a thousand bucks or more. Even thre last glock I bought. A g17, but by the time I replaced the shitty factory sights, got 4-5 extra mags, a half decent holster and a case of ammo to break it in with I was easily in the thousand dollar range.

Those 22s being posted up look awesome but I need a field gun rather than a cool super accurate range gun.

It's I teresting because when people think of hunting in Alaska, people start thinking big bore safari rifles and wildcat cartridges but in the dozen hunting trips I went on there I saw more 22, 12g, 30-06 and 45lc than anything...by a loooong shot.

I have a good friend who is a year round homesteader so he's hunting and trapping most of the year. He told me that when he went there he had all sorts of nice guns but over the past 5 years he's gotten rid of nearly everything and now all he has is a 22, 12g, 45-70, 30-06 and a 44mag revolver. Everything else got sold off because it just wasn't getting used.

I have been talking to him a bit as my move is approaching and he told me that a nice 22 bolt action is where it's at up there.

All I have now is an old synthetic/stainless 10/22 carbine and it's ok but immready for something more similar to a full size rifle.

I see the 77/22 I like on gunbroker for about 700 bucks, throw a cheap sling on it and spend 250-300 dollars on some sort of a scope from vortex or Nikon and call it good.

 

[ironwolf]

I just saw the 77/22 has a detachable mag which is dissapointing but in pretty sure it's just a 10/22 mag (it would be really dumb for ruger to make a different mag for every 22 rifle). Anyways, dissapointing but I already have around 10'mags for a 10/22 and I guess they are easy enough to come by so I can live with that.

 

[jlagman]

Doesn't Marlin make a tube fed bolt action .22?

 

[DevilsLettuce]

My .22 is any of my ARs:

 

[RerouteToRemain]

Doesn't Marlin make a tube fed bolt action .22?

Yes. Remington and Mossberg does as well.

 

[ironwolf]

Doesn't Marlin make a tube fed bolt action .22?

I'm not really into Marlins outside of their guide guns, but yeah I think they have a tube fed one.

 

[ironwolf]

Yes. Remington and Mossberg does as well.

I had a Remington 597 and it was cool because it was a full size rifle but it had constant feeding problems and the finish left a lot to be desired. It was t tube fed though, it used a single stack magazine if I remember correctly...it was a piece of shit.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Seems most of the rimfire rifles out there, (the decent ones) are mag fed.

For the price the CZs are nice I think. I was a very late convert to them, until I saw too many fellow shooters buying them. A 22mag would be good for Alaska. You could potentially kill anything with that. for the money you'd have in it you wouldn't care about dinging it up as much.

http://cz-usa.com/product/cz-455-varmint-22-lr-5-rd-mag/

Only drawback to them I see is that most of the better scope bases available don't allow you to push the scope far enough forward to get a good sight picture in all shooting positions.

If your always shooting upright its ok, but prone is too short without lengthening the stock.

 

[ironwolf]

Seems most of the rimfire rifles out there, (the decent ones) are mag fed.

For the price the CZs are nice I think. I was a very late convert to them, until I saw too many fellow shooters buying them. A 22mag would be good for Alaska. You could potentially kill anything with that. for the money you'd have in it you wouldn't care about dinging it up as much.

http://cz-usa.com/product/cz-455-varmint-22-lr-5-rd-mag/

Only drawback to them I see is that most of the better scope bases available don't allow you to push the scope far enough forward to get a good sight picture in all shooting positions.

If your always shooting upright its ok, but prone is too short without lengthening the stock.

Have to see what 22mag availability is like there. But yeah, I like 22mag, I just wish it wasn't tapered so you could fire 22lr out of 22mag revolvers.

 

[Gregolian]

Spikes is now making a AR-10 upper and lower receiver set. ~$500 to get both in a combo package with no ambi features.