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So true! Not had any stoppages with the junkiest club 10/22 with awful dirty mags. Shoot a comp with a straight, looked after 10/22 and countless jams!

I wanted something other than a 10/22 anyway...everyone has 'em!

saddler wrote:
My V-22 gets to about 350-400 depending on the ammo then needs 5 minutes with a toothbrush and a can of squirty stuff to make it all happy again.
Not a big issue/problem

...oh, and my V-22 is still up for sale

I'll bite. What do you want for your V-22? Feel free to PM...

techguy wrote:I'm going for the 15-22 when my FAC eventually turns up. I've seen them perform well in multi gun comps which does it for me. I had issues with a ruger 10/22 in the same event (down to magazines)

I've seen a spikes st-22 have cycling/FTF on CCI mini mags in poor weather conditions so that put me off that one.

15-22 is a good price point, would rather polymer over monkey metal.

If money isn't a factor, go for a lantac, or a Bradley arms if you can get one!

Good choice not that I'm biased or anything the polymer they use is supposedly stronger and lighter than aluminium and steel is used in the important bits, there's loads of them at our club. The beauty of the 15-22 is its made specifically for .22lr and not a .223 with adapters like many of the other AR clones which is good for reliability but not so good if you wanted to change the upper to centrefire at a later date.

Depends what you want to use it for and how much you want to spend.

I used a Bradley on my birthday and ended up swapping it for the 15-22 for the rest of my range time as I had so many feed problems with it, it was nice though, felt as expensive as it was pity it had its feed problems and that was using cci mini mags . I looked at the Lantecs but couldn't justify spending that much on a first gun.

See if you can shoot as many different types as possible before you make your mind up as what can be one man's champagne can be another's poison.

why do people keep going on about hang ups with CCI Mini Mags? Spikes are ment to be tuned to AE, but I put lapua club, Aquia Stand Velocity through it without any FTF, FTE etc.

My Spikes seems to like almost anything ................................... now I have cursed it.

My 10/22 likes Lapua Club, Aquia & AE they really aren't that fussy.

Sim G wrote:
I have a 1200 quid Volquartsen 10/22 with a dozen and a half genuine Ruger mags. All through training, thousands of rounds of ammo, not one glitch. Not a single stoppage......

Three in my first Bianchi...... on the same stage, with different mags!!

Same with my 9mm! As soon as anyone mentions the word "competition" it jams more than Bob Marley and a 'golly' put together! :roll: :cool2:

Blackstuff wrote:

Same with my 9mm! As soon as anyone mentions the word "competition" it jams more than Bob Marley and a 'golly' put together! :roll: :cool2:

In the smallbore world it's called "stickeritus" i.e you can shoot excellent scores in practice but as soon as you put a comp sticker on a card it went Pete Tong!!

Alan

Hey guys thanks for the replies, I'm lucky as I've just only filled the paper work out for the nra at bisley so I've plenty of time to choose, my question is are there places that I can test them out?

Like the look of the 15 22 I'm used to m4 style rifles from my army days, I was lucky enough to use quite a few different types but when you go into the clone world it's a different game where you guys have the experience, wish I could have a section 5 but I've no reason or need to have a full/semi auto rifle but a semi .22 plinker and a nice bolt action is where I'm hoping to start bolt action at a later stage.

jcdj wrote:Hey guys thanks for the replies, I'm lucky as I've just only filled the paper work out for the nra at bisley so I've plenty of time to choose, my question is are there places that I can test them out?

Like the look of the 15 22 I'm used to m4 style rifles from my army days, I was lucky enough to use quite a few different types but when you go into the clone world it's a different game where you guys have the experience, wish I could have a section 5 but I've no reason or need to have a full/semi auto rifle but a semi .22 plinker and a nice bolt action is where I'm hoping to start bolt action at a later stage.

Where are you based? As our club has pretty much one of each of all the popular black/tactical rifles, HK, Sig, CMMG, AK47 looky likeys, Rugers, loads of S & W 15-22's and a raft of expensive AR style that I can't remember the names of, so depends if you have a club near you and what they have and are prepared to let you try.

20series wrote:Hi mate and welcome

I had one of the Colt M4's and it was fine until it needed cleaning which was a PITA!! I started getting lots of feed jams.

Most Semi's have quirks regarding preferred ammo however CCI now have a dedicated .22 AR ammo which a guy had at my club last weekend and fed 350 through his Southern Gun V22 without a single jam!!

I tried a box of the new CCI AR ammo today, bit cheaper than the mini mags but should be as its just 375 rounds in a cardboard box rather than the 100 plastic trays, according to the packaging its slightly less powerfull than the mini mags, had 1 ftf, apparently 1st one they had at the club in 2 weeks, when we took the bullet head off we found no primer in the rim, fired and cycled fine.

I'm literally on top of bisley 10 mins drive away