I bought a new rifle, a Rimfire Magic .22LR here in the UK. It is essentially a Ruger 10/22 pattern, but very few Ruger parts on it. It has a 16" Volquartsen barrel threaded 1/2"x20 tpi, Rimfire Magic receiver (they mill it here in the UK), enhanced Ruger BX trigger unit, upgraded firing pin and charging handle and a Magpul X22 stock:
Its current configuration is different from what you see above, because I intend to use it mainly for off-hand shooting at 25 yards. So it now has a Yankee Hill Machine Riser and a Burris Fast Fire 3 red dot on it.
As an aside, this rifle is really sweet! Beautiful trigger, comfortable stock and the FF3 does what I want at this distance. Here is a target shot at 25 metres without a suppressor using RWS target Rifle ammo:
The suppressor in the photo is a Hogan Decimeater but I am not using that yet. To get everything sighted and for plinking, I have started with an ASE Utra Dual Rimfire suppressor (which I clean regularly) and which has different threads (1/2" x 28 tpi).
On to the interesting finding...
I bought a cheap thread adapter from Ebay, which converts 1/2" x 20 tpi to 1/2" x 28 tpi.
I will call this "adapter 1"
I posted in another thread previously that I had issues keeping a flash hider secure on a SIG522 and I found that a rubber o-ring sorted that problem out and still enabled me to take that flash hider off and attach a suppressor at will.
So, with this in mind, I got a flat rubber gasket and attached that to the adapter so that it would sit between the adapter and suppressor. The sequence of devices is therefore:
Barrel--> adapter-->gasket-->suppressor
Having already sighted the rifle in at 25 metres with no suppressor, I attached the adapter with gasket and ASE Utra suppressor and fired 5 rounds. Imagine my displeasure when this was the result:
I immediately thought the adapter was to blame (since I have used this suppressor on two R55 benchmark rifles with no issues at all).
So I got a second adapter which is better quality all round and tried the same thing, also with the gasket attached. Here is the result:
Don't pay too much attention to the group sizes, as these were shot under less than ideal conditions on an indoor range. The main point is that the rounds went where I thought they should go. I will call that adapter "adapter 2"
Continued....
Its current configuration is different from what you see above, because I intend to use it mainly for off-hand shooting at 25 yards. So it now has a Yankee Hill Machine Riser and a Burris Fast Fire 3 red dot on it.
As an aside, this rifle is really sweet! Beautiful trigger, comfortable stock and the FF3 does what I want at this distance. Here is a target shot at 25 metres without a suppressor using RWS target Rifle ammo:
The suppressor in the photo is a Hogan Decimeater but I am not using that yet. To get everything sighted and for plinking, I have started with an ASE Utra Dual Rimfire suppressor (which I clean regularly) and which has different threads (1/2" x 28 tpi).
On to the interesting finding...
I bought a cheap thread adapter from Ebay, which converts 1/2" x 20 tpi to 1/2" x 28 tpi.
I will call this "adapter 1"
I posted in another thread previously that I had issues keeping a flash hider secure on a SIG522 and I found that a rubber o-ring sorted that problem out and still enabled me to take that flash hider off and attach a suppressor at will.
So, with this in mind, I got a flat rubber gasket and attached that to the adapter so that it would sit between the adapter and suppressor. The sequence of devices is therefore:
Barrel--> adapter-->gasket-->suppressor
Having already sighted the rifle in at 25 metres with no suppressor, I attached the adapter with gasket and ASE Utra suppressor and fired 5 rounds. Imagine my displeasure when this was the result:
I immediately thought the adapter was to blame (since I have used this suppressor on two R55 benchmark rifles with no issues at all).
So I got a second adapter which is better quality all round and tried the same thing, also with the gasket attached. Here is the result:
Don't pay too much attention to the group sizes, as these were shot under less than ideal conditions on an indoor range. The main point is that the rounds went where I thought they should go. I will call that adapter "adapter 2"
Continued....