Am I asking too much?

you may have a better shot at selling your parts separately. It will drive your cost to ship up but you'll have a better chance of selling them.
 
Its like a car, the second its off the lot resale value plummets. Not to criticize your work because what you did was interesting in my opinion but how many people want to spend extra money on a heavy barrel and be limited by iron sites (I know you have optics on it, but there are no need for both). Drop the price because it is a very niche market in my opinion, good luck selling it.
 
Any time you are selling a used, modded rifle you are selling to a niche market. If someone just wants a 22 to shoot, you can buy brand new basic 22 rifles for pretty cheap. Yours is something much more specific.
 
From my perspective, those sights are nasty. Not badass nasty, nasty like the fiberglass hood scoop that was pop rivetted onto the hood of my very first car, kinda nasty.

IMO, they really belong on a build that is trying to look like an M1 carbine, and shouldn't be anywhere else.

Like so many things, it's worth less than the sum of the parts prices, esp. at retail.

It'd look good with a decent scope on it. Seems a waste to put a long heavy barrel on it, and then put a red dot or irons on top. Machining the barrel for those particular sights does not seem a great idea to me, and pretty much makes the barrel a non-interest, even more-so if it had a choked bore. Will the machined portion accept a diopter/ target set type front sight?

Build it and shoot it if you like it. The money is spent. You won't see much of a return unless you find someone else that wants just this combo. The money spent on machining is never coming back, and may have lowered the value of the barrel, too.

That's my two bits worth.

Cheers
Trev
 
Hmm..some interesting observations.
Yes it is a niche rifle. The idea being a .22 trainer with an AR iron sight picture. I seem to be the minority these days not using optics at the 300yd line.
I'll leave it up a bit longer, if it doesn't go I'll build it and keep it to train new shooters.
 
How well do the sights co-witness with the optic?

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jt_trouble said:
How well do the sights co-witness with the optic?

I actually did not come up with the design, I bought the barrel from Brobee (that's his 10/22 in the pic). I'm sure it co-witnesses just fine with that aimpoint.

I also understand this setup would only appeal to an iron sight shooter.

Thanks for the input guys.
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Sorry bro but ironsight shooters nowadays are hard to come by. Also that gun doesn't fit the Ruger crowd too well; it needs more plastic and military optics, you know taticool crap.
 
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