M2 Carbine Look Alike 10/22 Fun!

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Nice!! You're going to turn some heads at the range with that beauty, for sure. Be prepared to accomodate their questions!! :)
 
Slightly misread the title so much better than the one I thought it was gonna be. One of my early guns was a Marlin 989M2. Not bad for the look and feel (not as good a replica as yours but not bad) so good to sit with while watching WW2 or Korea movies, perfectly accurate, and often would fire TWO ROUNDS IN A ROW! Semi auto-splendor! Okay, sometimes it did 4 or 5. But so rarely it was a surprise.

Yeah, tried a lot of ammo, a lot of mags. It was one of the good old days gun show uses: get rid of the awful and gamble on something else.

I am /pretty sure/ I got another .22 with it, so that's how I came to acquire my Fieldmaster (Remington 572), which is a tedious tube loader but scrupulously reliable, and the most accurate .22 I've ever seen much less fired. Back in college there was an indoor range used by a tiny club of mostly old men with custom Martini-action .22s and bags galore. Once I was shooting the Fieldmaster and doing well, so one of these target guys had me set the gun in his bags, with my $29.99 scope and all, and I got ragged holes, visibly better than theirs, at any range.
 
JeeperCreeper said:
How's that binary trigger running in your 10/22?

Looks like an awesome setup with the stock!
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Thank you! It runs great with powerful .22 LR such as Stingers, MiniMags and Velocitors. Once you learn the cadence, jams are rare. For me, the trick is to not manipulate the trigger too quickly.
It ran poorly on some 20 year old Federal American Eagle 40 gr HV. It seemed barely able to cycle. That ammunition has been improperly stored. I use it for close in revolver drills.
 
The sling and ammo pouch would look great! I’ll probably add them down the road.
I wish someone made a faux bayonet mount to add to the look. I don’t think a real one would be a good idea on a 10/22 as the rifle probably won’t hold up to the stress of someone actually using the bayonet.
 
OP:
How do you like the M1 carbine sights? How close is the elevation at lowest setting?
 
shoobe01 said:
Back in college there was an indoor range used by a tiny club of mostly old men........

I got ragged holes, visibly better than theirs, at any range.
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20 years old or so vs. old men's eyes, hardly a fair comparison. lol

Back to original post, very nice homage to a Carbine, have fun with it!
 
steven58 said:
Yes, there's a small bolt on the left rear corner that mates to a captured nut in the stock.
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I went the the mfgs website and saw the bolt for the hand guard. Nice gun mod.for the price of a stock.
I always thought the original 10-22 looked like the M1 Carbine anyway, except for the sights until the Sporter came out.

Then I had to have that:
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I have to confess, I have my Dad's 1962 NRA program Winchester Carbine to compare them to though...
 
I have been thinking of using some epoxy on the bottom of the 10 round Ruger mag to add a real carbine mag body. Non functional of course. Have to get it right around the mag catch.
 
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I have been thinking of using some epoxy on the bottom of the 10 round Ruger mag to add a real carbine mag body. Non functional of course. Have to get it right around the mag catch.
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A gun mag had a story years ago about a .30 Carbine 10/22 conversion and the author did just that with the magazines.
If I recall correctly it worked well and looked cool :).

Stay safe.
 
I have thought about it since I purchased it. The OP’s mags look nice but a real looking mag would be the ticket. I will work it this week.
 
Those look nice. Made my own this morning. Flattened the bottom of a 10/22 mag. Then flattened the top of a carbine mag. Then sized a small piece of wood for a tight fit inside the top of the mag. A little epoxy and all done.

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About a Decade back Rim Fire Central went crazy nuts on modifying M1 carbine stocks to fit 10/22 then a member started making the stocks from scratch and selling them. You could get an M1A1 folder as well.

Tech Sights got used by most folks as sights for conversions. Some went so far as to have the barrels turned down to eliminate the taper.

I did wonder if one of the old 1970s single stack hi cap mags might fit inside an after market 30 round M1 Carbine mag....most of such at the time being worthless.

-kBob
 
I never saw the upside for trying to make one firearm look like another firearm---its like when some hipster tries to make their new Harley look like an old Harley---it
just never looks right.
 
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