![]() While daydreaming a bit with a glass of wine in the sun, I was thinking that, at least in theory, the. ![]() 223 and despite earlier expectations, I will reload from day one. With a need to control Muntjac and Fox I will shortly be getting a. I have many years experience of rimfire but nothing useful with centrefire and reloading. Oh I see hours (days.) of new challenges ahead of me. Taking a friend to carry the second rifle - yes, I like that, but normally find shooting with someone else is a hindrance at night, although of course Muntjac at night is illegal. 17hmr for more predictable work.Ī cast lead bullet sound interesting, one web site suggested putting the bullet in backwards to improve accuracy. 223 at 50 yards, is still edible.Ĭost is not too much of an issue, I still have the. Maybe when I get out there and shoot something I may find that a rabbit, head shot with a 55gr. 22lr or hmr I will see fox and Muntjac and if I take the. I do not have any useful first hand experience of either but look forward to a few fun hours experimenting. 223 for that, from time to time, while at the same time carrying the more normal 55gr 3100 ft load for fox and Muntjac in case I am lucky to see any. Most of the time I am shooting rabbits and often at. My slightly twisted logic was that I could go out with one rifle but two (or three) loads. Minimum bullet weight for Munties is 50gn! 224 bullet you could not achieve that sub-sonically The minimum muzzle energy is 1000ft/lb and with even the heaviest. To top it off, I had enough money left over to buy a Ruger Mk2 w/threaded barrel.It would be illegal to shoot Mutjac with a subsonic. I can throw either my Tac-16 or Tac-65 on the gun and it sounds like a pellet gun with either 22 CB long, Remington subsonics (quite a few duds), Aguila Colibri (won't cycle), Super Colibri (won't cycle) and Aguila SSS. I use Steel Lips mags and function is 100%. The Ruger was cheaper (I bought the entire 10/22 for just about the cost of the Ciener conversion), and my son can run mag after mag before it cakes up and won't function. I sold the conversion and the upper and purchased a Ruger 10/22. I even polished the rails with the hope of increasing reliability, but alas no dice. To top it off, the Ciener conversion got dirty very quickly and couldn't more than a couple of mags before it was caked in soot. Accuracy was pathetic with anything other than Aguila 60gr sniper subsonic (accuracy was mediocre). To say I was disappointed would be to put it lightly. I originally purchased the conversion for my son as he still finds the. I had a Ciener conversion that I installed in an old Colt M16 upper with a 20" 1/12 twist barrel. 223 rifle ammo, but then again that's shooting unmagnified at a 50 yard target, so my results are pretty inconsistent to begin with. ![]() 223, so I don't bother to re-sight in when swapping. 22lr conversion hits close to pointof impact with winchester white box 55gr FMJ. my two cents.Įdited to add: I do most of my AR plinking with an eotech or irons at 25-50 yards. that's way more then I could ever do offhand, so think the gun is more then accurate enough for plinking. 5" or so when I take my time from the bench at 50 yards (with a 10x scope for testing purposes). i've seen reports of so-so accuracy but I can get about. magazine's work the same, no adaptor reqd. installation is just opening up the rear pin, pulling out the bolt carrier, and swapping in the. conversion works just like a ciener, except that they're in stock and available through brownells so none of the customer service nightmares everyone else who's apparently done business with jonathan arthur ciener has posted about. 22 lr magazines made by black dog machine. brownells is stocking it along with very nice.
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