Wk180 .22LR

Having just received my Wk-180 (beautifully made by the way!) I would also be in line if a .22LR conversion was offered. Super fun! Looking forward to it!
 
we were thinking about makeing a dedicated 22lr upper but the price is just too crazy
gotta start with something like the cmmg kit plus fit it into a custom upper (square vs round)
so you're aat 700-800 bucks minimum
i figured it's cheaper to buy a kriss in 22lr
 
It probably saves me some money. It seems silly to have an upper without a lower so I'd end up building a dedicated .22 rifle instead of just swapping uppers when I want to shoot a .22lr. It would be fun having something NR with a bit shorter barrel though...
 
True North Arms Corp said:
we were thinking about makeing a dedicated 22lr upper but the price is just too crazy
gotta start with something like the cmmg kit plus fit it into a custom upper (square vs round)
so you're aat 700-800 bucks minimum
i figured it's cheaper to buy a kriss in 22lr
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definitely not what i wanted to hear. but, i get it.. that's to bad.
 
True North Arms Corp said:
we were thinking about makeing a dedicated 22lr upper but the price is just too crazy
gotta start with something like the cmmg kit plus fit it into a custom upper (square vs round)
so you're aat 700-800 bucks minimum
i figured it's cheaper to buy a kriss in 22lr
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^is that predicated on the notion that a 22LR version would need to be 1:1, scale rifle and/or share all major components/processes? Strikes me as an opportunity to make a scaled-down, simpler blow-back version with some nods to the original aesthetic. (or the new one)
 
Why though? The WK is a terrible platform in its factory state, let alone trying to force it to feed a rim fire cartridge with a drop in kit. I’ve never held a WK that wasn’t a pile, mine was a pile, it just isn’t a well built unit.

Let alone the feeding/jamming issues.
 
chrisman said:
Fun project I suppose? But 1), would you have enough gas to cycle? Maybe with a new bolt carrier and light springs?
2) why would you want to bother when you could buy a perfectly good 10/22 for the same price? I've tried them all and it really doesn't get much better than that for semi auto plinking.
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Conversion kits don't operate on gas and are complete with their own bolt and springs.

I find it hard to swallow that you have tried every possible configuration of dedicated .22 semi's AND conversion kits and the results are...
1) you don't know how they work
2) you believe that semi-auto plinking guns 'don't get much better' past the 300$ mark

Consider a pre-OIC 4000$ AR race-gun made incredibly light, perfectly balanced, with custom furniture and a top-dollar trigger. For the price of a 300$ conversion a shooter can run that investment for rimfire prices, with the exact same belt or chest rig as competition, instead of an out of the box Canadian Tire Savage 64 or similar with a plastic trigger with a reset a half-mile long, clumsy mag release, etc.

I doubt you can put together a WK180 to match an AR platform gun but what you can do..is use your preferred gun that you have customized instead of leaving it in the safe due to high ammo prices. It's not entirely about the shot for shot savings, its about getting use and value out of the investment you made into your favorite 5.56 gun..
 
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