I love my varmint AR... 18.5" heavy stainless spiral fluted. I can put 10shots in a dime sized group from the bench at 100yds. But I just haven't shot it enough for it to be that comfortable old friend.
My first .22 was a tube fed Marlin with the curved grip. Really a fabulous shooter. Sold it for the divorce. I miss it a lot.
The absolute best friend is an old beater 10/22 that I bought at a yard sale many years ago... at the beginning of my second lifetime. It had a rusted out barrel, and a rusted rcvr. I took the barrel off, polished up the rcvr, put a trigger group in it and a nylon bolt stop. Installed a heavy barrel and a kevlar stock. I've put many thousands of rounds thru it, plinking, shooting squeaks, and shooting .22cal steel silhouette offhand. I added a pad to the stock so that the length is just right for my long arms and neck, and with the barrel weight it lays perfectly in my palm with my elbow braced against my side. Looks like this one except a longer barrel and w/o the bipod.
My second was a Ruger #1V heavy barrel internal hammer falling block single shot .22-250... Shot many magpies and crows, coyote, and cleaned out an entire county worth of yellow bellied marmots (rockchucks for those in Yorba Linda). Also gone in the divorce.
Third fav was my Remington 700BDL in 6mm Remington. The Monte Carlo stock fit just right and the trigger was fab for a production trigger. Shot paper, many a varmint, and a few deer. Also gone in the divorce.
Fourth fav was my wife's sporterized M1 carbine with tiger eye maple Monte Carlo stock and a Weaver 4x scope. With a stock pad it fit well and was a great shooter with the 5rd mag, but the 20rd mags had some problems.
My first .22 was a tube fed Marlin with the curved grip. Really a fabulous shooter. Sold it for the divorce. I miss it a lot.
The absolute best friend is an old beater 10/22 that I bought at a yard sale many years ago... at the beginning of my second lifetime. It had a rusted out barrel, and a rusted rcvr. I took the barrel off, polished up the rcvr, put a trigger group in it and a nylon bolt stop. Installed a heavy barrel and a kevlar stock. I've put many thousands of rounds thru it, plinking, shooting squeaks, and shooting .22cal steel silhouette offhand. I added a pad to the stock so that the length is just right for my long arms and neck, and with the barrel weight it lays perfectly in my palm with my elbow braced against my side. Looks like this one except a longer barrel and w/o the bipod.
My second was a Ruger #1V heavy barrel internal hammer falling block single shot .22-250... Shot many magpies and crows, coyote, and cleaned out an entire county worth of yellow bellied marmots (rockchucks for those in Yorba Linda). Also gone in the divorce.
Third fav was my Remington 700BDL in 6mm Remington. The Monte Carlo stock fit just right and the trigger was fab for a production trigger. Shot paper, many a varmint, and a few deer. Also gone in the divorce.
Fourth fav was my wife's sporterized M1 carbine with tiger eye maple Monte Carlo stock and a Weaver 4x scope. With a stock pad it fit well and was a great shooter with the 5rd mag, but the 20rd mags had some problems.
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