New toys.
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Topic: New toys.
Posted By: Kayback
Subject: New toys.
Date Posted: 08 March 2013 at 1:34am
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So the local IDPA group, SADPA, has introduced a couple of .22 categories in the 3 gun matches, for a couple of reasons. A good one being cost. It is simply too expensive to run a 5.56mm rifle here. At R20 000+ a gun and R7 a shot, we're talking a rich man's game. And there are plenty of people who have .22's already. So I got myself one. A S&W 15-22.  It was a standard model threaded barrel one, it is currently wearing a Magpul MOE stock, Viking Tactics light mount with a Streamlight PT1-L, a cut off Magpul RVG grip that's used like a hand stop, some no name ladder rail covers and a AimpoinR (sic) knock off red dot. The front sight has to be run this way around because the light mount sits where the thumb screw for the sight mount does. I could move it back, but why? I have a whole bucket of parts that will be used over the next couple of months to see what I like most. This setup is almost identical to the Airsoft setup I used to use (Replace the "fixed" sights with MBUS) so it is comfortable for me. But I've got AFG1 and '2s, I've got Trot forward grips, I've got a couple of different sights, I also have a 416 style pistol grip I want to use when I get confident enough to replace grip. I also want to SBR it when I get the time/money. I am also busy building a suppressor for it. It can be used in SADPA 3 gun matches in the .22 rimfire class. And for general plinking. Yes the light is Tan, I was going that way originally, but then went FDE. The Magpul FDE matches each other and the light mount and the pistol grip I will be installing. The rail covers match to the eye but the camera tells a different story! Oh well. And then because I like thumbing my nose at you guys :  ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 09 March 2013 at 12:32pm
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Ah, so you're up to speed on 'support hand fully forward' tactical carbine shooting, excellent. Have you seen/tried the Magpul angled foregrip yet? I friggin' love mine. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 09 March 2013 at 4:50pm
Yeah I have, I have an AFG1 and an AFG2. I'm not totally sold on them yet. I have one on my GBB Airsoft gun. I use the shorty vertical grip more like a hand stop.  I may try the AFG's again. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 09 March 2013 at 5:32pm
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Very cool. I ALMOST "pulled the trigger" on a one of those around Thanksgiving, but I didn't... Now they cost almost DOUBLE what they were then. (I was looking at one for $269, now any of them are over $500...) ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 March 2013 at 6:23pm
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I ♥ the AFG. Had one on my M4 and would never go back to a vert again. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 09 March 2013 at 10:31pm
| Why not run a dedicated 22 upper? |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 10 March 2013 at 12:54am
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Local licensing issues. It is as much trouble to get an upper/conversion kit as it is to get a whole .22 rifle. The cheapest AR-15 pattern rifle you can get here is the Norinco at about $1400. The next is the NEA at $2500. Colt's are available for around $3750. Then you get the expensive ones :p Throw in a conversion kit...... Or you can get a 15-22 at $700. And this is a range toy. It isn't ever going to be used as a combat rifle so I don't need the cross compatibility. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 10 March 2013 at 1:19am
| Welp, that makes sense. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 10 March 2013 at 7:23am
My brother showing off his mad photography skills I have spent the morning putting on the AFG1, and replacing the "fixed" sights with MBUS. Lets see how she runs next weekend. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |