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Posted: 6/28/2006 12:05:51 PM EDT
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To all V22 end-users: How accurate is your upper? I'm from the school of "only acurate rifles are interesting." To me, "accurate" for a 22LR at 50 yds is bullet holes touching or almost touching eachother in one cluster after 10-20 rnds. I'm not looking for one-hole groups, just consistency with the right ammo & scope. So the better questions might be: How consistent is the V22 with the right ammo? Thanks all. |
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Wow, you must have got a real Friday afternoon gun. I have never known them be anything but reliable. Apart from the lousy Ciener mags, but that is now solved.hock.gif |
No problem. My V22 will meet your requirements with Winchester T22 or better Eley ammunition. The only thing is it took a couple of thousand rounds of high velocity ammunition (CCI mini-mag) before it would function reliably on sub-sonics. |
Yeah, I got a doozy. I hate it too, because I love the upper when it runs....but it's a scary POS. I detonated 2 OOB rounds, killing the magazines both times. Can't trust it after that. |
Wouldn't the supplier have taken it back? I would have thought that especially with your liability laws over there they would be glad to exchange it for a good one? |
Sounds like you got one with a short chamber. We had this problem with CZ holding dimensions on the chambers to those specified and would occasionally get a short chambered barrel. The damn things would blow the back off rounds left and right. Find some one with a 22LR chamber reamer and have them recut it and it might work. I spec'd the chamber dimension on the small side of the SAAMI tolerance since we wanted a more accurate upper (at the time I designed only the Ceiner kit was available and it sucked in accuracy). When I set out and designed the V22 I wanted it to compete with the Ruger 10/22 guns in 3 gun comps and piss off the Elmer Fudds that an evil black rifle was actually being used in competition. (this was during the assualt weapons ban also). I also figured it was another way around some of the AR-15 bans if complete guns were sold to occupied territories as 22LRs and not 5.56. Too bad CZ screwed me on it and much of this came to nothing. |
| Well don't feel too bad Mongo. If it's any consolation your V22's are still very popular as can be seen on this board. Also, they are coming good in competitions. Two years ago a friend and I took 1st and 11th(ahem) in a steel plate comp. Last year we took 1st and 3rd. This year I have taken, at Bisley the Mecca of UK shooting, a third in advancing target, well placed in two steel plate events and a first in Phoenix A (adapted from police pistol type comps.), on our first attempts! Not too shabby and mostly against those Ruger thingys (not that I think they are bad little guns mind you!). Failure to achieve firsts were down to me, not the gun. |
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