Would you be interested in a 22 Tavor?

[Sol]

Nah, I would rather purchase a 10/22. Just for it's awesone price point, huge aftermarket mods and seemingly limitless customability.

You should write them a letter to try to get them to manufacture .22 ammo instead of a .22 gun lol.

 

[MIL-DOT]

Would you be interested in a 22 Tavor?

You buyin' ?
But seriously, at the cost of these things, I've never been interested in one even in the standard chambering, much less as a .22 plinker (what is it going to do that my tack-driving stainless Marlin 60 won't?).
There are too many high quality military-type semi-auto rifles at much lower price points, and I don't have the bucks to blow on the coolest,niftiest thing going, for no other reason that it's the coolest,niftiest thing de jour.

 

[Crowcifier666]

But seriously, at the cost of these things, I've never been interested in one even in the standard chambering, much less as a .22 plinker (what is it going to do that my tack-driving stainless Marlin 60 won't?)

+1, though I'd give the Tavor a shot, if priced at today's AR prices (half the price they are now).

 

[silicosys4]

I'd be interested in a 22lr bullpup, but the tavor specifically does nothing for me, and I'm not willing to pay for and carry the extra plastic that would make a .22 version look like a tavor.

Those .22lr battle rifle lookalikes just never appealed to me though.

 

[Welding Rod]

Not a bit.

I have a Tavor, but it is WAY too heavy for a 22.

 

[basicblur]

Yeah, yeah....too heavy, too expensive, yadda yadda yadda.

Folks, a 22 version of the Tavor should be both much, much, much cheaper, and who knows how much lighter (no heavy piston system in a 22).

 

[justice06rr]

OP, its pretty obvious from the responses of this thread that most are not interested in the 22lr Tavor.

I know quite a few guys who own AR's (fellow shooters, military friends etc) and none have even expressed an interest in the original Tavor. Half of them probably wont know what a Tavor is.

Not that the Tavor isn't a cool rifle (because its pretty cool), just not enough demand from what I'm seeing.

 

[basicblur]

OP, its pretty obvious from the responses of this thread that most are not interested in the 22lr Tavor.

Well, most in here don't seem to be, but it appears the thread has attracted the wrong crowd. I'm seeing a number of folks on YouTube that are making their own, apparently by combining various 22's with a Tavor paintball shell.
I also see the Tavor won NRA's 2014 Rifle Of The Year, so somebody outside this little group seems to be impressed with it!

As fer myself, I've been eyeballing bullpups probably for 20 years or so, but none ever quite did it for me until the Tavor. I had to wait for the price silliness to subside before finally purchasing one.

I know quite a few guys who own AR's (fellow shooters, military friends etc) and none have even expressed an interest in the original Tavor. Half of them probably wont know what a Tavor is.

We'll just have to wait for them to catch up!

I've seen it all before...I remember all the haters / naysayers when the Glock was introduced, and again when Springfield introduced the XD line.
We know how Glock turned out, and now XD's well outsell Glocks at our local shop.

I also remember how a lot of folks liked to rag on the S&W 22 AR because (insert your favorite rant here), but they also sold well. A lot of folks complained about it's lack of metal, but often the lighter weight afforded by it's construction is just what a lot of folks like (woman, kids, older folks, etc.).

I can tell by some of the knocks on the Tavor that a number of folks have never handled one, or are emotionally invested in another choice.
You know...the complaint about the weight (scales don't tell the whole story), the lousy trigger (it's a combat rifle, and I grew up on DA revolvers, so the trigger doesn't bother me).

Hopefully IWI will either produce one, or (my wish) is to have Walther produce it so it will use the same magazines as their Colt / ARX100.

I also hope IWI follows Beretta's apparent lead and requires certain things from a Walther produced 22 Tavor.

If Walther produces it, there's no reason MSRP shouldn't be around $500 (as with their Colt / ARX100), street prices will be less (after it's been out a while) and it should be substantially lighter than the .223 Tavor since it won't have the piston system.
Heck...they may have to add a little weight to the rear of a 22 in order to maintain the balance of the original.

 

[Ed Ames]

Well, most in here don't seem to be, but it appears the thread has attracted the wrong crowd.

Those more concerned with function than form?

I'm seeing a number of folks on YouTube that are making their own, apparently by combining various 22's with a Tavor paintball shell.

Which is exactly what I don't want. Form over function. Spend the same effort they spent on the tavor building the best bullpup .22 and it will look nothing like a tavor.

As fer myself, I've been eyeballing bullpups probably for 20 years or so, but none ever quite did it for me until the Tavor. I had to wait for the price silliness to subside before finally purchasing one.

I have a couple of bullpups and I'm still kicking myself for missing my chance on #3 (a used Desert Tactical bolt gun I figured nobody would recognize before I came back with cash...wrong).

I don't own a Tavor, but I will when the price hits about $700 in 2015 dollars.

We'll just have to wait for them to catch up!

I've seen it all before...I remember all the haters / naysayers when the Glock was introduced, and again when Springfield introduced the XD line.
We know how Glock turned out, and now XD's well outsell Glocks at our local shop.

I honestly don't understand why anyone would be passionate about Glocks, in either direction, but that seems a non sequitur.

I also remember how a lot of folks liked to rag on the S&W 22 AR because (insert your favorite rant here), but they also sold well. A lot of folks complained about it's lack of metal, but often the lighter weight afforded by it's construction is just what a lot of folks like (woman, kids, older folks, etc.).

Hansen posters sold well. That doesn't mean they are something everyone should want.

As far as I know there is only one problem with the S&W 15-22. It costs $360. For $139 I can buy a standard AR lower. For $190 I can buy a cheap AR .22 upper W/ 2 mags. So for $330 - $30 less - I can have the same thing as the Smith...but doing it my way I can send another $300 to PSA and turn my .22 into a .223.

I have a far bigger problem with guns like the Mossberg I mentioned earlier in the thread.

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Heck...they may have to add a little weight to the rear of a 22 in order to maintain the balance of the original.

And that sort of thing is why I don't want a replica tavor.

Build a rimfire bullpup that is its own bird, and price it right, and I'll buy it. Make it a clone of something else and I won't.

 

[ifit]

I'd say build it n see what happens, or at least a prototype for testing etc... just to throw out there on the net and other forums to get more feed backs other than just the High Road. Hell even if they don't make them...probably just make my own....just because.

Not mine but Looks like fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FUdIzLBSlU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIZqlInd5I

 

[csa77]

at this point im not interested in anything chambered in 22lr

it costs as much as 9mm now and its hard to get