I've had a pseudo-project stainless 10/22 takedown going for a while now. I just can't find a niche for it that my CZ452's don't fill, but I just don't have the heart to get rid of it because it's just so neat and packable. The other day I decided that I was going to put some work into making it reliably cycle the CCI quiet subsonic rounds and use it for a handy little rabbit gun once grouse season is done. I've tried a number of inexpensive red dot options using the Magpul forward mount, but I always find myself wanting magnification for hunting so I can make more precise/reliable headshots. I took a rabbit earlier this week with a shot to the vitals instead of the head, and the little bugger was a tough one who decided to scream for a few seconds before he died. Luckily my wife wasn't with me at the time, or she'd still be crying about it. So with incidents like that in mind, magnification is the way to go, and I got thinking and remembered that I had a spare vortex 2-7 scout left over from my Ruger GSR. A little bit of imagination and some swapping of some parts later, I made it work, and here's what I ended up with.
As you can see, it's still just as long once it has been folded up, so it maintains its status as "handy" as far as I'm concerned. The mounting "solution" is a little rudimentary at best, but given that this gun will be intended for the recoil of subsonic .22LR, I think it will hold up just fine. IMO, the only way I can make this handier is to throw it on a set of QD rings so I can swap back to my irons in a pinch if need be, but at 2-7 magnification and no batteries to die or wash out in sunlight, I can't see that being an issue.
As you can see, it's still just as long once it has been folded up, so it maintains its status as "handy" as far as I'm concerned. The mounting "solution" is a little rudimentary at best, but given that this gun will be intended for the recoil of subsonic .22LR, I think it will hold up just fine. IMO, the only way I can make this handier is to throw it on a set of QD rings so I can swap back to my irons in a pinch if need be, but at 2-7 magnification and no batteries to die or wash out in sunlight, I can't see that being an issue.
