A .22 Walking-Stick

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I'd really like to do-up a .22 as an "outdoors beater", and this article caught my interest:

http://www.alpharubicon.com/leo/survival22spike.htm

Of course, I don't think I'd really want to drill into the buttstock of a rifle (esp. of a family heirloom, if it came to that) to increase the "on board" ammunition capacity. But I did buy a slim rifle "buttstock sleeve", filled it with nine empty .308 shells, and placed two .22's into each empty casing.

I can't decide to "do-up" my Henry AR-7 or my Savage 3B for this, and just what IS 550 cord - and where can I get some?
 
I don't know what 550 cord is but it seems to me it would trap moisture along the barrel and you would have to unwrap it every time to oil it.
 
cyclone said:
But I did buy a slim rifle "buttstock sleeve", filled it with nine empty .308 shells, and placed two .22's into each empty casing.
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Random update (I used the Savage 3B):

in 9 empty .308 casings, I eventually loaded....

(a) 4 CCI Minimag solids (2 per shell-casing)

(b) 4 CCI Stingers (2 per shell-casing)

(c) 4 Federal Birdshots (2 per shell-casing)

(d) 4 CCI CB Longs (2 per shell-casing)

(e) 3 CCI Shorts (3 per shell-casing)

It looks cool, anyhow...:);):)
 
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JohnC said:
I've been told car wax will protect the barrel form moisture. Anybody try this?
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My Maverick 88 fell victim to a flood last year while we were away, when I got back it was caked in rust. I sanded out the barrel right to 2200 grit with the intention of reblueing, but I kind of liked the shiny look. I polished it up with a couple coats of metal polish and then put on a couple coats of Nu Finish car wax to try it out. 1 year later and not a speck of rust, it's even been out in salt water seal/turr hunting. It worked a lot better than I was expecting.

I still use oil on all my other guns though.
 
cyclone said:
Random update (I used the Savage 3B):

in 9 empty .308 casings, I eventually loaded....

(a) 4 CCI Minimag solids (2 per shell-casing)
+1

(b) 4 CCI Stingers (2 per shell-casing)
WHY?

(c) 4 Federal Birdshots (2 per shell-casing)
WHY?

(d) 4 CCI CB Longs (2 per shell-casing)
+1 or some Sub-sonics

(e) 3 CCI Shorts (3 per shell-casing)
+1 or some Sub-sonics

It looks cool, anyhow...:);):)
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There's my comments
Also, how did you seal up the openings?
 
lone-wolf said:
There's my comments

Minimags: impressive high-vel 40-grain solids:). Stingers: impressive hyper-velocity hollowpoints;). Birdshot: impressive noise-makers :rolleyes:. Shorts: can carry more shorts than you can .22 LR - probably should have swapped 2 of the 4 birdshot for 3 more shorts. CB Longs - just because!:D

Also, how did you seal up the openings?

A horribly-bad scotch-tape job ;).
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Thanks for the follow-up!
 
I'll post a pic soon - I'm just in a funk over breaking the plastic buttcap of my Rem 512, my first .22 boltie. :( Crazy-glue is NO solution, either :(.

I'll dig-out the digital cam over the weekend.
 
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Try sealing the cartridges with DUCT tape, a small piece over the hole and a small piece wrapped around with a portion folded over to act as an opener. And CYCLONE please don't call your .22 bolt action a BOLTIE. Because you may buy a pistol next, and who knows what you will probably call it. PISSIE comes to mind. Cutesy names for shotguns and any guns, gives an impression (probably an incorrect impression but still an impression) of someone who knows absolutely nothing about guns.
 
BEARMAN said:
Try sealing the cartridges with DUCT tape, a small piece over the hole and a small piece wrapped around with a portion folded over to act as an opener.

Thanks for the advice.

And CYCLONE please don't call your .22 bolt action a BOLTIE. Because you may buy a pistol next, and who knows what you will probably call it. PISSIE comes to mind. Cutesy names for shotguns and any guns, gives an impression (probably an incorrect impression but still an impression) of someone who knows absolutely nothing about guns.

Term of endearment. ;) And perhaps it is he/she who is comfortable around firearms that tends to refer to them in such ways? :) After all, I doubt any Toronto Star reporter would ever, ever use the word "boltie" - though many of them are indeed "pissy"! ;)
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Yep. Good post, by the way!
 
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cyclone said:
I'll post a pic soon - I'm just in a funk over breaking the plastic buttcap of my Rem 512, my first .22 boltie. :( Crazy-glue is NO solution, either :(.

I'll dig-out the digital cam over the weekend.
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Just finally posting some pics before the E & E does its thing:

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ButtstockSleeve-Savage3B.jpg
 
Isn't using a gun as a cane breaking one of the rules of safety or something?
I mean we treat a gun as always loaded for a reason and using a rifle as a walking stick one would be bound to have it pointed at the person on occasion and with it around brush that might snag the trigger by a fluke and being hit against the ground just can't be good.

Maybe if the bolt was removed when using it as a stick would be different to me, but a closed bolt on a gun people think was unloaded when in the woods is how many a hunter has been shot by their own gun.
 
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