You Know What I Get a Kick Out of?

[grg3d]

Hi I have had several 10-22 and decked them all out to be a 50 yard tack driving bench rest monster, when I used to bring them to the range and shoot them I too had people come over and check them out as they didn't look like a 10-22 anymore.

Well after 6 years of bench rest fun I was looking for something new and along came the wave of tactical 22 looking rifles….looked at them all and went for the M&P as it was the one which was the closest to an AR 15 with the breakdown & cleaning, parts, accessories that would fit both my 15-22 and the AR-15

Runs great shoots cheap ammo compared to the 5.56 round and I really didn't have to swap out any major parts to get the look I wanted!!

True it cost more than a "basic" 10-22 but once you start to add parts it can go over the cost of an M&P 15-22

The bottom line is get what makes you happy!!

Oh and I still get people coming over and checking it out

 

[Majorlk]

Everybody responds to the lure of a 15-22 for different reasons. I wanted an AR-type rifle but couldn't justify the expense of buying and feeding a 5.56 or .223 gun just to recall the feel of my Vietnam-issue M16A1. The Ruger is a nice gun, available dressed in wood, polymer or carbon fiber but still without any operational similarity to an AR except (A.) it's semi-automatic, and (B.) it shoots bullets. Equip a 10-22 with all the Archangel furniture and a banana-mag and a $3000 night-vision sight and it's still just a 10-22 playing dress-up. The S&W is born in it's soldier outfit! As for tradition being served by the Ruger; I traded off a Winchester 61 for most of the price of my 15-22, then later fed my inner-traditionalist with a Henry Golden Boy. I still shoot my 15-22 more than I did either of those wood-and-steel-wonders. Tradition is great but nothing beats burning through 25-round mags with a 15-22!

If that's what turns you on ...

 

[Majorlk]

Hi I have had several 10-22 and decked them all out to be a 50 yard tack driving bench rest monster, when I used to bring them to the range and shoot them I too had people come over and check them out as they didn't look like a 10-22 anymore.

Well after 6 years of bench rest fun I was looking for something new and along came the wave of tactical 22 looking rifles….looked at them all and went for the M&P as it was the one which was the closest to an AR 15 with the breakdown & cleaning, parts, accessories that would fit both my 15-22 and the AR-15

Runs great shoots cheap ammo compared to the 5.56 round and I really didn't have to swap out any major parts to get the look I wanted!!

True it cost more than a "basic" 10-22 but once you start to add parts it can go over the cost of an M&P 15-22

The bottom line is get what makes you happy!!

Oh and I still get people coming over and checking it out

Absolutely right!

 

[Ghost_Soldier]

late 80s Remington 700 in .280

I was starting to think I was the only one with a rifle chambered in .280 rem. Most people look confused when I tell them I use a Browning A-bolt .280 rem for deer hunting.

 

[Majorlk]

I was starting to think I was the only one with a rifle chambered in .280 rem. Most people look confused when I tell them I use a Browning A-bolt .280 rem for deer hunting.

Mine is the 700 Mountain Rifle. I bought it back in the mid-80s but have never taken it into the field. I picked .280 because I was tired of hearing everyone say the .270 was the best.