Chiappa Little Badgers -- First Shipment Has Landed

Very well built and good shooter, a couple more, i am buying when they are back... JP.
 
aiming_badger_0652.jpg
I'm not sure what I what most... The rifle, or the girl... I guess both !
 
I've been shooting mine just about every day since ii got it. I'm on a farm and this little gun is amazing!!!

Accurate and easy to load........death to gophers
 
I got mine out to the range the other day.

It shoots well. I actually have a lot of nice things to say about this gun. It is very small, very light and more accurate thatn I thought it would be. The sights are identical to those on the Chiappa M1 Carbine. They are very low, but decent, and adjustable. Off a rest, I could break clays at 100m without too much trouble. The gun also folds up a lot smaller than you'd think it does. For example, the box the gun comes in, looks like about 2/3 of a medium pizza box. It fits in just about any backpack, even a normal day pack.

One little known feature of this gun is that it has a adjustable length of pull. Loosening a screw on either side of the receiver allows you to push the stock in or out. I was surprised to discover that when I read the owner's manual.

On the downside, the thread protector is plastic, and mine seemed to be glued on. I had to remove it with vise grips. But a nicer looking metal one lives there now. The cartridge holders on the stock don't hold the ammo securely. They just barely clip in for me. Even if they worked well, I wouldn't want to store the ammo with the rifle like that any way so no biggy for me.

In all, a great buy.

Side note...

CCI Blazer 40 Grain solids seem to match nicely with the graduations on the rear sight. Setting my rear sight to 2.5 gets me dead on at 100m. Setting it to 2 gives a 6 o'clock hold on target at 50 and 25m.

Subsonics don't work out as nicely with the rear sight graduations.
 
I'm going to have to grab one of these for my boy when more come in, very cool rifle and should be a great first rifle for him.
 
Totally. It stows so nicely you might forget it's there. You won't really understand fully until you hold one. I didn't at least.
 
Back
Top Bottom