atek3
Member
Last year I bought a pepper 10/22 and put a cheapo red dot on it to use when I teach newbies:
It's a ridiculously fun gun but I had three major criticisms of it:
1) The trigger was simply terrible, heavy and creepy
2) The bolt-hold open required a lot of manual dexterity and newbies just hated it.
3) The stock never fit me particularly well... too short.
So, finally I worked up the energy to fix it up.
To fix the first two problems I bought the hornet products trigger group. Now the trigger is really light and crisp. This also fixed the bolt hold open and inconvenient mag release problems.
To fix the remaining problem I bought the tapco fusion stock. I considered the cristie enterprises and Nordic AR22 but the tapco was cheap and light (two strong plusses in my book).
Installation of the Fusion stock was relatively simple with two small caveats. It comes with two reciever extensions, one straight and one angled. I mistakenly put in angled one and had a H*** of a time trying to remove it... friction is a pain. The final problem was installing the railed upper handguard. The torque from a hand screw driver was enough to crack it. I sent an email to Tapco customer service and I'll let y'all know how that goes.
I'm pretty pleased... but I think the newbies are going to love it.
atek3
*Edited to add* Those hotlips magazines only run well with one brand of ammo... federal automatch... but with that stuff they run and run and run.
It's a ridiculously fun gun but I had three major criticisms of it:
1) The trigger was simply terrible, heavy and creepy
2) The bolt-hold open required a lot of manual dexterity and newbies just hated it.
3) The stock never fit me particularly well... too short.
So, finally I worked up the energy to fix it up.
To fix the first two problems I bought the hornet products trigger group. Now the trigger is really light and crisp. This also fixed the bolt hold open and inconvenient mag release problems.
To fix the remaining problem I bought the tapco fusion stock. I considered the cristie enterprises and Nordic AR22 but the tapco was cheap and light (two strong plusses in my book).
Installation of the Fusion stock was relatively simple with two small caveats. It comes with two reciever extensions, one straight and one angled. I mistakenly put in angled one and had a H*** of a time trying to remove it... friction is a pain. The final problem was installing the railed upper handguard. The torque from a hand screw driver was enough to crack it. I sent an email to Tapco customer service and I'll let y'all know how that goes.
I'm pretty pleased... but I think the newbies are going to love it.
atek3
*Edited to add* Those hotlips magazines only run well with one brand of ammo... federal automatch... but with that stuff they run and run and run.
