Are you ok with upgrades that cost more than you rifle ?

[BugsBunny45]

I love doing upgrades and tweeking my firearms. But I just looked at the hypertech 24c and had no idea it cost so much. I just thought that and a good red dot and the acessories will cost more than my rifle.
Have any of you added more parts to your 15-22 than its cost?

 

[BAM-BAM]

Not me....... but remember ARs and 15/22s are "TinkerToys" for grown men!!!


Flip side..... are the guys who throw a $100 scope on a $800 rifle....... giving them a $200 hunting rig!

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

The scopes on my hunting rifles cost as much or more than the rifles they are mounted on..........Can't shoot what you can't see.........

 

[cjt50]

$140 for a CMC trigger, $45 for ambi safety, bout $80 for the stock, grip and rail covers, $285 for Vortex 3x prism scope......yup, im there.

When I add up how much money I have blown out the front of this thing. OUCH!!!

But I had a lot of fun doing it!!!

 

[TAC]

I love doing upgrades and tweeking my firearms. But I just looked at the hypertech 24c and had no idea it cost so much. I just thought that and a good red dot and the acessories will cost more than my rifle.
Have any of you added more parts to your 15-22 than its cost?

It's common for many people to spend much more than what the gun cost, on add-ons, screw-ons, clip-ons, and other stuff that they don't need, and probably will never use. Fight the temptation, buy more guns instead!

 

[Bish1309]

Yeah, I'm okay with it.

Gotta have some nice goodies to enhance the basic platform. Plus, most items can be transferred around. Buy a super nice scope for an inexpensive rifle and then when you replace the rifle with something different you can still use the nice scope on it, just as an example.

 

[686-380]

Although I have scopes for my rifles, I prefer iron sights. I don't hunt though...

 

[TAC]

Although I have scopes for my rifles, I prefer iron sights. I don't hunt though...

I also prefer iron sights. In fact, that's all I use. I'm beginning to think hardly anyone knows how to use iron sights anymore. All I see is red-dots anymore!

 

[686-380]

The only sight I actually need

I also prefer iron sights. In fact, that's all I use. I'm beginning to think hardly anyone knows how to use iron sights anymore. All I see is red-dots anymore!

My PS90 sights are so bad, the manual refers to them as "back up sights". I have a Trijicon MRO for it now.

 

[BugsBunny45]

My grand dad would shake his hear when he saw my hunting rifle. He would go boy do you need all that. he would kill a deer yearly with an old 00 buck shot. Shotgun with a glued up crack in the stock. The rest of the year he would shoot bird shot or use an old .22 to kill squirrels for sunday dinner. Lol his guns put food on the table

 

[TAC]

My PS90 sights are so bad, the manual refers to them as "back up sights". I have a Trijicon MRO for it now.

That's a common term these days: BUIS (Back Up Iron SIghts). Not meaning they are inferior in any way. In fact, because they always work, after your red-dot's battery dies, or your scope gets broken, etc.

The shortcoming on the PS90 sights, is due to the very short sight radius. Not because the sights are bad.

 

[Watchdog]

I have never owned a gun...long gun or handgun...with a scope or one of those red dot things on it. Never had one with a laser on it, either. Never saw the need for any of 'em. Plus I think scopes on handguns just look dumb.

 

[epj]

No. No way. Buy a better rifle to start with.

 

[harrye]

I think it depends on how you intend to use a specific firearm.

In the case of my 15-22 which is used just for steel challenge matches I have added the H 26C trigger and will be adding a higher quality red dot sight (probably a C-More 8 moa).

If I were just plinkin' then a budget TruGlo red dot would be all I would think about adding.

 

[Dennis]

Not on a .22 cal. On SHTF and LR, yes. Sometimes...

 

[patrickd]

I think it depends on the circumstances. I my case Y was all for it.
Back in the early 90's I bought a Savage 110FP in .308W. Paid right at $300. It would fire but that's about it. Because of it's mediocre accuracy it never really got shot much for almost 20 yrs . Then one day I dragged it out and ordered a Choate stock for it. Cost right at what I had paid for the whole rig years back. Now with that great Choate stock on it it will shoot 1/4" groups ALL DAY LONG with the right reloads. There was one mod that doubled the cost of the rifle that has paid off in spades. How many $600 rifles out there can shoot groups that small that started out as a cheap $300 plastic stocked rig?
Guns are like engines. some upgrades give you more horsepower, but not worth what you're spending to get it. Same with guns If you're not getting results from them then they're not really upgrades, just lost money.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

The criteria for equipment I use is based on it's own merit and how well it serves the purpose, not the base price of the rifle.
I didn't add much.

MBUS folding sights $100
PA red dot $100
YHM can +TS $600

I purchased this 15-22 in 2009. Money well spent.

 

[tomcatt51]

I guess I'm guilty of having two $1100 15-22s. BUT, aside from magazines almost none of the "additions" are 15-22 specific. I could sell my 15-22s and the "additions" I bought would be re-used. Trigger groups are AR-15 parts, C-mores go on anything etc.

 

[Spartan 2]

Since CT. decided in 2013 to ban sales of regular .556 AR 15s on the basis of evil looks we still can have M&P 15-22s but with 10 round mag limit, Fixed stock, & no flashider I decided to add a Magpul fixed stock, M4 carry handle, Magpul rail protectors ( Now replaced with LaRue rail covers), & a Tacticool22 barrel shroud in 4.5. Just to make it a little more evil looking.

 

[imashooter2]

C-more, MBUS, JP trigger... it doesn't take much to exceed the cost of a 15-22.