Magnum research 22?

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If I could please get your guys help. Im looking for a Magnum research 22 and or carbon barrel from them.
I know Wanstalls lists them but I've sent them 2 e-mails this week and also called yet haven't heard back from them.
North Sylva is the Canadian importer from the e-mail recieved by Mag res. So I messages North and haven't heard from them either.
So now I'm turning to you guys. Please can anyone tell be the Mag res dealers other than Wanstalls?
Thanks for your time!
Andrew
 
I played with one at Wanstalls when I picked up my TacSol x-ring a few weeks ago. Impressively light, machining looked good and the barrel was pretty wizzy. To my understanding they had a bunch in stock.
 
Cool, hoe do you like your x-ring. That barrel is my next option. However it's 9oz heavier than the Mag res barrel.
Did you ask the price? I've e-mail Wanstalls twice last week and today they didn't answer the phone and there message box was full.
To bad I've had better customer service from them in the past!
Again, thanks for the info!
 
It was 800 for the plastic thumbhole stock version with a stock Ruger trigger. First let me start by saying, 10-22s are complete crap and a waste of your time and money. The x ring, however, has been really impressive, I absolutely love it. I doubt it will prove to be as accurate as my 64 action Anschutz but it runs it closer than I would have believed. I am currently without the controlled environment to test the x ring properly. So far I have been shooting three quarter silhouette steel at 300-400 and golf balls at 100(too easy) with boring regularity, unless it gets gusty out here (the norm). My unsupported hit ratio is actually better with the x ring; likely due to better balance then the Annie. The bolt is buttery smooth. The trigger is great until I reach past 300 and then I wish it were both lighter and crisper. The stock is profiled perfectly. The barrel does have an odd quirk, the cold bore shot at 300 consistently lands half a meter high and slightly left and then the barrel likes a few rounds before it reaches optimum consistency. Oddly, running it to blazing hot does not seem to bother it with regard to group size(much) or poi. When I shoot between the gusts at 100 I can get three simultaneous rounds of cci standard to land inside of a one inch square of a sight in target, sometimes with two into one elongated hole, but the wind plays up before I can get a decent ten round group and three round groups are meaningless really. At 300 I have, on several occasions, had three simultaneous rounds land within two inches: wait for the wind to die, hammer three out and then watch the fourth drift 18 inches wide as the wind picks up, DOH!. To make a long story even longer, I have some very nice toys and this is as good as any of them.
 
Gotta ya. I know they have the whole gun, I'm looking for the barrel. Did you do the install of the x-ring. If so did you heat up the reciever or file to make it fit?
Thanks for your ttime.
 
It was 800 for the plastic thumbhole stock version with a stock Ruger trigger. First let me start by saying, 10-22s are complete crap and a waste of your time and money. The x ring, however, has been really impressive, I absolutely love it. I doubt it will prove to be as accurate as my 64 action Anschutz but it runs it closer than I would have believed. I am currently without the controlled environment to test the x ring properly. So far I have been shooting three quarter silhouette steel at 300-400 and golf balls at 100(too easy) with boring regularity, unless it gets gusty out here (the norm). My unsupported hit ratio is actually better with the x ring; likely due to better balance then the Annie. The bolt is buttery smooth. The trigger is great until I reach past 300 and then I wish it were both lighter and crisper. The stock is profiled perfectly. The barrel does have an odd quirk, the cold bore shot at 300 consistently lands half a meter high and slightly left and then the barrel likes a few rounds before it reaches optimum consistency. Oddly, running it to blazing hot does not seem to bother it with regard to group size(much) or poi. When I shoot between the gusts at 100 I can get three simultaneous rounds of cci standard to land inside of a one inch square of a sight in target, sometimes with two into one elongated hole, but the wind plays up before I can get a decent ten round group and three round groups are meaningless really. At 300 I have, on several occasions, had three simultaneous rounds land within two inches: wait for the wind to die, hammer three out and then watch the fourth drift 18 inches wide as the wind picks up, DOH!. To make a long story even longer, I have some very nice toys and this is as good as any of them.

i was going to just let this slide past and mark it up as another benchrest shooter looking down his nose at the 10/22 again.
but its late at night and ive got nothing better to do.
so your going to argue the difference between a $200 semi auto and a $1600 bench gun and sum it up with a nice little bow on top and call it crap, eh?
might i suggest you maybe you compare apples to apples then maybe the info you pass on could be taken with some regard that you possible know what your talking about.
simply bashing 10/22's because they dont hold a candle to a gun that is a) 8 times the price and b) a totally different action and c) totally different usage makes me call into question anything that you may state after.
that said, id put my 10/22 up against your bolt action any day.
and mine WOULD be like comparing apples to apples, granted mine is still $700 less then yours not including glass but im willing to let that difference slide just to watch you eat crow.
cow town is where ya are, ill drop me a line when i come down next and maybe we can go out to the range and run our toys side by side to see if i can change your venomous opinion of my much loved brand.
 
Most people on this forum I've learned don't put their money where their mouth is. At 100 yds using bulk ammo, I'd bet a $20 that my BTVS which is stock will out shoot most 10/22 that have mild upgrades $100-$200 shooting the same ammo. The reason why I chose this price range is thats the BTVS is $450 tax in. Apples to apples, just the glass, action and shooters ability is different.
Moving on, the btvs is about 12-14lbs with glass. I'm not going to carry that much on half a section of land shooting gophers. Thus why I'm looking for a really light gun. I love my Su22 but anything over 50yds I'm wasting my time compared to the btvs.
 
To get back on topic, I've called shooter edge, wanstalls, proline and none will import them.
I've e-mailed irunguns, 10/22racerifle, Noth sylva and have not heard from them.
The only company I haven't tried yet is Atrs.
Does anyone else know who I could try?
Thanks for your time!
 
Actually, I have never shot benchrest. Service Rifle, F class, IPSC, 3 gun, clay sports; but never benchrest. Off of a bench when I can. Off of a pack or improvised rest most of the time. Bipod if I have too. Standing. Sitting. Crouched. Moving. Strong side and support side. Off of the roof of the farm house when I was a kid. Off of the trunk of my evo in a clear cut two weeks ago; that was a first.
But never benchrest, now I kind of want to though.
 
I was debating building a rifle from parts but it was actually cheaper to buy the complete rifle. When I was at Wanstalls they had x ring barrels in stock but I do not think they had the Magnum Research carbon barrels. Not to the best of my recollection anyway.
 
I'm guessing they want to make $800 on the gun and not $280 on a barrel. Guess the profits would be $200ish on the gun and only $30-$50 for the barrel. They do have the tactical solutions barrel, I talked with them today and in a month they will have Volquartsen barrels.
 
Most people on this forum I've learned don't put their money where their mouth is. At 100 yds using bulk ammo, I'd bet a $20 that my BTVS which is stock will out shoot most 10/22 that have mild upgrades $100-$200 shooting the same ammo. The reason why I chose this price range is thats the BTVS is $450 tax in. Apples to apples, just the glass, action and shooters ability is different.
Moving on, the btvs is about 12-14lbs with glass. I'm not going to carry that much on half a section of land shooting gophers. Thus why I'm looking for a really light gun. I love my Su22 but anything over 50yds I'm wasting my time compared to the btvs.

mmmm, ya know id probably take that challenge.
after i got my big 10/22 build done i decided i wanted to try some bolt action love.
so i ended up picking up a Savage Mark II 22 LR BTVLSS and while i enjoy shooting it it cant hold a candle to my big 10/22
now, a stock 10/22 with $200 in upgrades..... interesting premiss.
so which way to go.... barrel or inner guts......

anyways, sorry to sidetrack your thread.
 
haha i just realized both of you are in Calgary, my old stomping grounds.
next time i come down we should arrange a range day and have some fun, chucking lead down range.
could put some bet like lunch on it!
 
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