R22 Range Report...

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Well my order from Marstar arrived last night so I bolted on the holosight and went out back this morning... They didn't ship the rings for the scope they were supposed to. I've sent them an email hopefully they respond fairly quickly...

:confused: Did you know the butt plate comes off if you push it down!! I thought I'd broken it when there was this black piece of plastic sitting on the ground.. Somebody has got to come up with a better stock for this thing...

We took 50 Rounds each of
  • Federal Champions (510)(That explains something, shelf said Game shock!)
  • Remmington Hyper Velocity (1522)
  • Remington Yellow Jackets (1722)

All mags were loaded Wednesday and unloaded Thursday and reloaded yesterday to exercise the springs...

The Older magazines had The Federals...

The Holosight worked in the house but outside I couldn't see it... It's cold out there and sorta bright.. Works in here now so it could just be the light or the cold...So no accuracy testing was done.. I'd love to get some iron sights on this thing too.... Will have to wait until the rings come in...

The Yellow Jackets cycled brilliantly only one jam and that could be the new mags as it was the first round over the 2nd 25 rounder..
The Hi-velocity remmingtons worked every other round.. I will discontinue there use in my tests....
The Federals worked off and on.. But mostly off these are off my list as well..I will need to get some gameshocks.

Who else has ammo that works... and although most folks don't like to post serial numbers there is talk that the last batch of guns had bad bolts mine seems to be fine and my serial is 100C.....
 
Mine is 115C and no bolt problems. Federal 745C and 710 work fine. The 712 did not in my gun. Winchester Wildcat sucked ass, as did their Expert, but I was expecting those results.

Yes, the stock is the right shape, but the wrong material. Rhineland may be coming out with a replacement on Dec 5th.
 
cpt. canuck said:
WOW I don't think I have read anywhere of someone getting a full mag out of one of these things with out a FTF/FTE yet.
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Well I've got the yellow jackets going full tilt... If the neighbors can hear they must think I was testing a full auto when I ran the Yellow Jackets thru... So far I've fired about 200 of them thru with only 2 issues both were FTF's and on the 2nd round in the mag...

PS I love that Mag loader took 8 minutes to load 6 mags and my thumbs aren't even leaded up!...
 
cpt. canuck said:
WOW I don't think I have read anywhere of someone getting a full mag out of one of these things with out a FTF/FTE yet.
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With the right ammo, mine runs like a scalded cat. No feeding or extracting issues.
 
Do you guys have a letter before the number as well since you quoted : 100C and 115C? Mine starts with B than 3 digits and then C and it has a BAD bolt !!!
 
Kasat said:
Do you guys have a letter before the number as well since you quoted : 100C and 115C? Mine starts with B than 3 digits and then C and it has a BAD bolt !!!
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yes I have a letter in front of mine but the idea was to try and eliminate giving out the entire serial number...
 
bear.23 said:
The Holosight worked in the house but outside I couldn't see it
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Not sure if you've got a Bushnell Holosight or not but when I first got my Holosight I found the same thing and couldn't use it outside--I didn't know that when you first turned it on it defaulted to the mid-range of the brightness. After I figured that out (which took longer than I care to admit! :rolleyes: )I had no problem cranking up the brightness to use even on bright sunny days.
 
Well I have an update... One of the steel lips mags in now refusing to come up high enough to load rounds.... That may have been some of the issues with the federals....
 
I believe the bolt position in the receiver is too high. This causes rounds failing to be stripped out of the mag , light strikes (too close to the edge of the rim) , failures to extract ( extractor engages the rim at the wrong spot).
Correct me if my reasoning is wrong , please.
 
Kasat said:
I believe the bolt position in the receiver is too high. This causes rounds failing to be stripped out of the mag , light strikes (too close to the edge of the rim) , failures to extract ( extractor engages the rim at the wrong spot).
Correct me if my reasoning is wrong , please.
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In this case the rounds don't come to the top of the magazine so the rounds cannot even be stripped by hand...

This is a steel lips..
 
Ive seen that happen in the plastic lipped mags, to make them work required a little modification - filling the lip to allow them to come up without getting stuck

Matt
 
I got round to have a go with the Rhineland Arms R22 today. Although I no reviewer and most the time I was just having fun with it, I will post up what I found.

The rifle I had a go with was the standard barrel version which weighs 6.5lbs. The rifle did not feel front end heavy to me, even with the hollow stock. The rifle stock seemed solid enough but it is hollow and some have commented that this is a weakness, and plan to fill it with foam, I am not sure I would bother. Overall the rifle seemed well balanced and solidly built.

I had 3 different types of ammo on me 100 CCI mini-mags (hollow points), 100Winchester T22s and 50 Winchester Super X subsonics (hollow points). The CCI mini-mags functioned without fail. The Winchester T22 functioned nearly perfectly well, the problems I had were that the bolt came back too quick and caught the shell before it had fully extracted and one round that had to be fired twice (bad primer as the strike was good). The Winchester Super X subsonics again were almost perfect through the rifle, the problems were two stove pipes of unknown origin (most likely I hadn’t inserted the magazine well enough though).

The magazine I used was a well worn in plastic lipped 25 round butler creek. This worked perfectly in the rifle filled with all 25 rounds (some owners have commented they work better only filled with 15- 20 rounds).

The downsides on the rifle was that the safety can only be engaged when the rifle is cocked and that the bolt has no hold open facility.

The rifle could be screw cut and a moderator placed on the end, this would be my first job, I would probably go for an over barrel type than just adding one as this could add some length. Although I guess the barrel could be shortened first.

I did not test the accuracy very well, "must fire off magazine as quick as possible" syndrome unfortunately set in. My groupings when I did fire semi purposely to see how well it could do where about ½ inch groups.

After having a go, both my friend and myself have put our names down for one - my Walther G22 is now for sale.

For those who want to read a proper review theres one in Jan 06 Shooting sports and there should be one coming up in gun mart at some point.

The rifle I had a go with belongs to Matthew Greenall (the importer). I dont remember what the scope was, Matthew Greenall said it was a ruberised one for going on the handrails of an AR15 IIRC. The grip is not the standard one.

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