Sorry, videos were deleted from YouTube. Can't really say I blame the dude for doing it.
mattv2099 has finally revealed how he makes those Bumpinator stocks, which are a sort of ghetto, redneck-engineering versions of the Slide-Fire and Bumpski stocks.
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Most of the work can be done with a Dremel tool. I'm not sure about the square tube, but the other hardware you can find at your local ACE or Home Depot. This one seems to be for the AK/Converted Saiga series of rifles and shotguns, but with a little ingenuity, could be applied to SKS and 10/22 rifles, as you can see in mattv2099's other Bumpinator videos. EDIT: Nevermind. I forgot that the pistol grip is attached to the butt, and not the part of the stock that the action drops into.
Here is Br0dBaNd's home-made AR-15 bump-fire stock. Because of the way the grip attaches to an AR, you have to do it differently.
(For educational purposes only, obviously, Suburban's Domain not responsible for any damages to persons, or property, bail, lawyer fees, or anything else, and I will not make one for you either)
EDIT, 2/27/2013: Matt added a new video on how he did the 10/22 Bumpinator.
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EDIT, 6/9/2013:He put this one back up. This is all for now
The ProMag/Archangel guys have another interesting Ruger 10/22 stock. Obviously, it converts a 10/22 action into an HK G36 look-alike.
I don't know a whole lot about this yet. The ad was in the new issues of Guns and American Handgunner magazine that I just got in the mail a few days ago. There's no links to the kit on the Archangel website, although it is listed at $200 on the ProMag website (no pictures or info). I haven't been able to find much information on the kit, and only one SHOT show picture.
A few handy enthusiasts have been cramming 10/22 actions into the plastic bodies of airsoft G36s for a few years. I remember a YouTube video showing how it's done. Someone's finally stepped up to produce a drop-in stock to do the same thing. I hope that the G36 pattern magazine is high-capacity, single-column magazine to feed the 10/22 action, and not just a huge prosthetic to cover a 10-round Ruger rotary mag. I also hope that the scope mount on the kit stock is somehow firmly attached to the 10/22 receiver inside, so these things have a chance at being resonably accurate.
I got some sights in from Richard Heinie on, er, Wednesday or Thursday, I think. I got a tall front sight for my Glock 21, which was shooting high. I also ordered a Ledge rear sight with tritium for the Glock 19, which I bought a couple years ago, but have mostly ignored, except for shooting 1200 odd rounds through it. The old front sight from the 21 went onto the 19. The 21 is now shooting to point of aim, and I'm ready to carry the 19. The 19 will also likely go along for a carbine training class at some point in the future.
I also ordered a tritium sight set for the Kahr PM9, hoping it would fix my problem of hitting high with that pistol. It didn't. The pistol still shot 9 inches high (!) at 50 feet. I can bring it down a bit by filing the rear sight, but probably not enough.
Heinie night sights for Kahr pistols
My Kahr With New Heinie Sights, and Custom Pocket Holster
UPDATE, 8/1/2010: Looks like I took second in unlimited class somehow, placing just behind the gentleman who set up the shoot. Don't quite know how that happened.
Oh, and my AA Glock conversion upper is now sporting LPA adjustable sights. The rear sight holds a zero pretty well. Although the front sight is much taller than the Glock front sight, and may cause holster clearance issues, I like these a lot better than the plastic Glock sights. I can now see light between the edges of the rear notch and the sides of the front sight now. Another issue may be the hinge pin of the rear sight, which is a cheap roll pin. I've heard several stories of broken hinge pins in Bomar-type sights, and I don't imagine that roll pin will hold up to very many major .40S&W loads. I'll post more on these sometime later.
LPA adjustable Glock sight set
AA Rimfire Slide with LPA Sights
LPA Adjustable Glock Sight
UPDATE, 11/20/11: The LPA sights are still doing well. I don't recall ever adjusting the sights, after the initial adjustment just after installing them. I'm quite impressed, and would buy another set in a heartbeat, if I needed them.
A quick shopping note: DSG Arms is selling 5 PMags with 150 rounds of Fiocchi 62gr ammo for $109. I've got lots of AR mags, and I'm reloading .223. If not for that, I'd probably jump on this deal. Scroll a bit down this page for a free shipping code I posted recently if you're buying.
Tactical Innovations has reduced the price of their adjustable polycarbonate 25-round magazines to $17.99. They might have been up as high as $40 soon after the elections. The one I've been testing has been flawless.
If you're interested in color-anodized 10/22 trigger housings, triggers, and mag releases, they've got those too.
They are also offering free shipping on orders over $150.
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A question just came up on forum, asking how to clean magazines that can't be disassembled. This would apply to many of the "high-capacity" Ruger 10/22 magazines, and some others.
What you can do is clean them in the sink with dishsoap. The dishsoap won't hurt the polymers, or any glue that might be holding the magazine together.
Swish the magazine around in the soapy water, and squirt the water into the magazine with a large syringe if you have one. Brush the follower and whatever you can get at to remove powder fouling. When you're finished, pour in some rubbing alcohol and shake it around to displace the water so that nothing rusts up on you.
It doesn't sound like much, but it actually helps quite a bit.
I only have a little bit of information on this one from Guns Magazine. I can't find any information on it elsewhere, and it's not available for sale yet. The butt is adjustable for length of pull in eight steps, and is made of polymer. It's cool looking, and I expect the price to be quite reasonable, which is typical of ProMag products.
For whatever reason, this is my most popular article. I'm resorting to desperate measures here, because it's really important. As an owner of a 10/22, this is going to impact YOU. Before you can read about 10/22 tuning and mods, you'll at least have to take a second to scroll down past this stuff. DON'T SKIP IT! I'm SERIOUS!!
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With the failure of the Toomey/Manchin background check bill in the U.S. Senate, it would seem that we are mostly out of the woods on the gun control front. Try telling that to the poor schmucks in New York and Colorado though. My point being that the gun-grabbers have taken a serious blow, but are not defeated.
Write to your state reps and make sure that they know that you oppose further restrictions on gun purchases that only affect lawful gun owners and really do nothing to stop crime, mass shootings, or murders
Probably one of the easiest and most common modifications to the 10/22 is what most call the “auto bolt release.”
The 10/22, as it comes from Ruger, has a unique bolt release. To lock the bolt open, you hold the bolt back, and push up on this lever-type thing in front of the trigger guard. To release the bolt, you pull back the bolt, and then push up on the bolt release again. Releasing the bolt this way is kind of clumsy, at least for those with only two hands. ;)
Auto Bolt Release Mod
The Ruger 10/22 bolt release can be modified so that the bolt releases with just a little tug on the bolt handle. All you need to do is to cut the canine-tooth-like spur from the big hole in the bolt release. This is not very hard to do with a carbide milling bit (Dremel bit #9901) in a Demel tool. I found that I needed to cut the hole almost to the top edge of the bolt release.
That’s really all there is to it. No need to buy an aftermarket part, unless you have to have an extended bolt catch lever.
The next thing to do is to reduce the trigger pull weight. With most 10/22 rifles, the trigger pull weight actually exceeds the weight of the rifle by a couple pounds. This also is a pretty easy fix. Buy a Volquartsen or Power Custom hammer, and replace the factory hammer. This will very likely reduce the trigger pull from something like eight pounds down to about three and half pounds.
The makes it a lot easier to break the shot while the sights are still on your target.
Glass Bedding the Stock
Makes a huge improvement in accuracy when the action is really secure in the stock and the barrel is floated properly.
Extractor TuningNeither of my 10/22s ran very well before tuning the extractors. They run much better now.
More Trigger Tips*
Mainspring strut comes rough, stone that sucker smooth.
Check to see if extractor is hitting the notch in the barrel.
Ruger Rotary Magazine Tuning Mag Tuning Magazine Sticking
I’ve found that they work better for me if I turn the nut 9 flats. That’s not counting the half a flat it takes to start feeling tension on the spring. Like he says, don’t crank down on the screw, or it will bind up the rotor, just turn it ‘til it’s snug. These suckers are finicky, you'll have to work at it a little.
EDIT, 6/9/2013: One mattv2099 home-made bump-fire stock video. Unfortunately not the one on how to make the stock.
My Tack-Driver 10/22. Okay, so this one's got a KID trigger (and barrel too), but the trigger group I tuned went into my plinker/beater 10/22. The scope mount is a Power Custom extended model. Stock is a Bell & Carlson, which I glass-bedded with a Volquartsen pillar, and DIY spacers cut from some old handlebars.
The Tack-Driver and the beater together. I need to take an updated pic of the beater, which now sports a standard Power Custom Weaver-style scope mount and one of my Tasco PDP2 Red Dot sights. It looks nicer with a clear anodized aluminum Tactical Innovations magazine, too.
People don't expect the nice target trigger on a plinker/beater gun. Mag dumps are fun and easy.
EDIT: Here's the new-and-improved beater.
* - Any and all trigger tuning, and any gunsmithing for that matter, is to be done at your own risk. Firearms with modified actions can be dangerous. In fact, while working on one of the 10/22s, I had a couple rounds go off with the bolt part-way open, which could very well have sent me to the emergency room, or worse.
I realized that I had a collection of reviews, and just maybe some wisdom to share. I hope to keep the information as unbiased as humanly possible.
Why do I bother writing all this stuff? When I buy something, I want it to work the way I want it to. I hope that what goes around, comes around, and that I'll find the reviews or advice that I need when I go looking for information.
The items reviewed on the blog are, almost without exception, purchased or rented by myself, with real money.
I am also kind of hoping that maybe someone in the right position may see some glimmer of genious in my ramblings, and help get me a paying gig at a gun magazine or website.
I hope that some of this nonsense in the blog is helpful to someone.
Don't be afraid to post comments!
About Me
Some of you may wonder what the deal with the nickname is.It’s short for Suburban Commando, a nick I picked up in high school.A few companions that were a little left of center though it was quite funny, I accepted it out of spite.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m a bit of a Glocker.I really can’t have nice things, so the basic black pistols work just fine for me.
I’ve also shot rimfire benchrest.I even managed to win a local match.My best score to date was shot with a completely rebuilt Ruger 10/22 with a KID trigger and barrel, although my Remington 40XRBR is more consistant.
I started shooting rimfire benchrest in 2004, I think.I got into action pistol competitions in 2006.
