If they made an M1 Carbine style stock for the .22 Mossberg 702 would you buy it?

[Carl N. Brown]

Thrown out as a thought.

The Mossberg 702 (and near twins made by CBC, Rossi) are widely advertised and affordable and show up on the used market at reasonable prices.

M1 Carbines are wildly popular and prices are going wild.

Would you buy an M1 replica stock for a Mossberg 702 or Rossi RS22 if some manufacturer marketed one?

My grandson commented to me that my CBC 7022 looked sorta like my M1 Carbine. I got to thinking how the 7022 would look with the Williams peepsight for .22 grooved receiver rifles like the Savage 54. Then I started thinking about the old Marlin 99M1 and 99M2 carbine lookalikes I remembered from the late 1960s.

Top going down:
_ Stock and barreled action of CBC 7022 (precursor of the 702 and RS22).
_ M1 Carbine barreled action.
_ M2 Carbine stock
_ M1A1 Carbine stock

 

[Mars5l]

Ruger makes the 10/22 in an M1 Carbine style

 

[4v50 Gary]

No.

 

[BCR#1]

Choate makes sort of a carbine stock. Added an NDS carbine kit and now I have a pseudo 10/22 carbine, sort of. The TRS 25 will co-witness with the sights.

Bill

 

[Archie]

No. Not interested in another .22 rifle. Not interested in Mossberg rifle as a using rifle. Not interested in another M1 Carbine type long gun.

I have no animus toward .22 caliber anything, Mossberg rifles in general or M1 Carbines. I just have no use or reason for an implement of this type.

 

[P5 Guy]

Nope, not interested.

 

[maxxhavoc]

That is interesting....I might need to play with that idea.

I have a"firewood grade" M2 stock around here somewhere...

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Maybe I should have limited my question to owners of Mossberg 702, Rossi RS22, CBC 7022 rifles.

A few 702 owners have posted about fitting their 702s to:
_ Marlin 60 and 70 (795) after-market stocks adapted.
_ AirSoft rifles gutted and used as stocks
_ M1 Carbine stocks (wood only) inletted for 702.

There is also the Mossberg 715, the 702 in an AR15 look-alike housing. The action and barrel seem a natural for an M1 Carbine look-alike stock.

About the only after market stock widely advertised for the 702 is a "tactical" folding stock version.

 

[Tirod]

I made my 10/22 stock a "carbine" stock decades ago. Trimmed down the comb and installed a M1 buttplate. The Ruger stock at the time had plenty of material. Went from hooked plastic to all metal on that end. The perforated metal handguard that was on the market at the time went up front. Added sling swivels and carbine sling, done. Added a tip off rail mount using red loctite and now regret that, needs to be boiled off and replaced with a pic rail. That project's been sitting for over 15 years.

Sorry, no pic.

In the day ran it with the Ramline 50's, sold them. I understand the Ruger hi caps are a better design with clockwork springs. All that was done back in the 1990's, converting a .22 is actually old school. The result was "workmanlike" in craftsmanship, considering the end result I liked it. Matching the contour of the metal buttplate isn't hard when you are dealing with a cheap poplar stock.

 

[4v50 Gary]

BTW, I can make it myself if I wanted.

 

[LoonWulf]

While I do think it's a neat idea, It's not something I would buy.

 

[MedWheeler]

I'm very impressed with the 702 I got from Wal-Mart a few years back for a $99 "rollback" price. It's a neat and quick-handling little rifle. The only think I don't care for is how nose-heavy the hollow buttstock makes it. I rolled up some ammo in a sock and put it in there to offset that.

It would not occur to me to make it look like an M1 Carbine, though, since I have a hard time putting money into guns that cost me so little to begin with. Besides, I already have two of the old Marlin 99M1 carbines here.

To set out to "make" a M1 Carbine lookalike .22, I think I would start with a 10/22.

 

[mgmorden]

Nah. I don't like guns that try to look like something they're not. I'd rather have a 702 that is the bestest 702 it can be than look like a knockoff of another rifle.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

The Williams WGRS-54 peep receiver sight slips onto the 3/8" groove of the receiver then ties down with a set screw.
Unfortunately, the nominally 3/8" receiver grooves for the Weaver TipOff mounts vary a lot among rifle manufacturers.
TipOff scope mounts normally clamp into the grooves, so variations in size are usually not noticed.*
The WGRS-54 is a loose fit on the CBC 7022. The set screw snugs it down or rather up. The front sight of the rifle needs to be taller.
The Marlin Model 60 grooves are too wide. The dovetail in the aluminum base of the WGRS-54 have been filed by users to fit a lot of .22s with grooves wider than the sight's dovetail.

I have an idea for a project if I get snowed in this winter. I own a Clinton AWB era Ramline M1 Carbine plastic sporter stock with handguard that I don't intend to ever put back on my M1. I believe it can be inletted to fit the 7022 action and if I squinted hard enough it would look kinda like a .22 Carbine replica.


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*The grooves in the receivers of many other rifles (e.g, Nylon 66 and Springfield 120) are cut for clamp-on mounts only and there is no way to slide the WGRS-54 onto the grooves. The WGRS-54 is a perfect fit for the Savage 54 rifle, believe it or else, and can be adapted to a lot of rifles with 3/8" groove receivers. It is not a universal mount.

 

[Varminterror]

M1 Carbines are wildly popular [...]

I can’t help but keep coming back to this...

Marlin made their 99 M1 and M2 Carbines, they never were wildly popular. Fun little rifles. But you’re at least a generation, I’d not two, too late to find a healthy market of M1 Carbine fanboys which would restock such a specific and relatively obscure Mossberg 22LR to be a Carbine clone.