Rundover
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How about mass producing my 15-22 Bullpup lower. I have had no time at all for quite a while now so help would be much appreciated.
What parts do you want made for the 15-22?
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digitaleagle12
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+1 for extractor spring - you can't find them anywhere
GhostMutt
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If you want to guarantee a sale to pretty much every 15-22 owner then a firing pin, the extractor plunger and spring and a bolt return spring are sure fire sellers.
These are the bits that are most likely to wear out (or blow out for the plunger) they are 'available' to the lucky few without having to send your gun back (which in the UK is unfeasible) to S&W but not to most mortals.
Personally i would like to see some aftermarket mags that work reliably and resemble Pmags or hex mags for aesthetics.
Not sure on the copyright/S&W patent issues you would run into producing any of these things. I wish you all the best in your endeavours though.
These are the bits that are most likely to wear out (or blow out for the plunger) they are 'available' to the lucky few without having to send your gun back (which in the UK is unfeasible) to S&W but not to most mortals.
Personally i would like to see some aftermarket mags that work reliably and resemble Pmags or hex mags for aesthetics.
Not sure on the copyright/S&W patent issues you would run into producing any of these things. I wish you all the best in your endeavours though.
tacticool22
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What do you mean by "Stock Adapter"?
Smokey74
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A working dust cover for the 15-22!
I already have doubled the cost of the rifle in the trigger and red dot. It's as reliable as anything out there, especially with the VQ extractor so I'm pretty much content with it. It's a 2 moa gun no matter what you do unless you go all 10/22 on it and spend money on a new barrel and an aluminum receiver. I suppose it could be made lighter with a carbon fiber forend but i doubt I'll ever be good enough to notice the difference. Same with a titanium firing pin. I can't outshoot the stock firing pin with a hiperfire trigger, doubt a lighter one will make me faster. Even guys from TK admit 99.9% of shooters won't notice the difference. I would be nice to have a spare as well as a spare set of springs but I got to many other guns I want to mod.
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A Ti firing pin for sure but it must be the same configuration as the old original Ti pins.
I took my wife out to shoot her new 15-22 that I got her because she liked mine so well. The new gun was suffering from lite strikes about 1/3 of the time. I put my bolt in her gun and it ran great. I stripped both bolts to do a comparison and the old gun that has always ran anything I put in it and did so with a lite weight hammer spring has a Ti firing pin. The new gun has a steel firing pin that is .060" shorter than the old Ti pin.
Make a Ti pin to the same specifications as the original Ti pins and you won't be able to make enough of them.
S&W played this stupid game on the frame mounted firing pins in revolves, making them shorter and shorter until they were unreliable. Now the revolvers are back to longer pins again. They need to go back to the old design in the 15-22.
I took my wife out to shoot her new 15-22 that I got her because she liked mine so well. The new gun was suffering from lite strikes about 1/3 of the time. I put my bolt in her gun and it ran great. I stripped both bolts to do a comparison and the old gun that has always ran anything I put in it and did so with a lite weight hammer spring has a Ti firing pin. The new gun has a steel firing pin that is .060" shorter than the old Ti pin.
Make a Ti pin to the same specifications as the original Ti pins and you won't be able to make enough of them.
S&W played this stupid game on the frame mounted firing pins in revolves, making them shorter and shorter until they were unreliable. Now the revolvers are back to longer pins again. They need to go back to the old design in the 15-22.
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I would be cautious about investing much in aluminum uppers and lowers. If folks wanted that they'd have bought a CMMG complete upper and standard AR lower to begin with.
I'll be curious to see how things go. Best of luck and please keep us updated.
I'll be curious to see how things go. Best of luck and please keep us updated.
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The 15-22 has a hollow receiver extension that can be used for storage. However, it's rather awkward getting small items in and out of the extension tube itself. A very thin-walled storage tube that could be inserted and removed from the receiver extension might be useful.
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tomcatt51
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I bought 15-22s because from what I was seeing (and am still seeing) they run more reliably than the CMMG (and other conversions) and the 10-22s.
I don't feel like I NEED an aluminum upper BUT an aluminum upper (probably would have to re-use the 15-22 ejector) that would accept something common like threaded 10-22 barrels (so I can run a trick light tensioned carbon fiber barrel) that came threaded for std AR-15 forends I'd sure go for.
tomcatt51
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KevGuillots' last activity here was April 4. I don't think I'll be holding my breath waiting for any of this to happen.
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