Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New Stock

I bought the 10/22 for a possible Appleseed shoot months ago.  Why not?  It's dirt cheap.  Three bills for the gun, a Tech-Sight peep sight, and a coupla 25 round Ruger factory mags.  Ooo, and some sling swivels.  I never intended to tart it up beyond that, desiring to keep the expenditure low.

But MBtGE prefers the M4gery style adjustable butt stocks on his numerous 10/22s and just gave me a folding Choate stock, so what the heck.  Now my 10/22 is backpack size.

Here is one issue:  The swivels I mounted on the original wooden stock, and the Choate's are narrower than full size .mil swivels.  The only sling that fits it is a knock off .mil-standard leather job I have that is pretty tired, and even that is still pretty wide.  I want to be able to sling up properly.  What are my options for old school slings in a new school narrow offerings?  Maybe an M1 Carbine style is narrower, but not having one in my hands to compare to...  Plus I don't know if you can sling up with those.  The ones you can sling up look either too slick or too wide.  Anyone out there solve this problem?

If I give up on slinging up then the sling is pretty much just a way to tote the rifle and there are plenty of options out there for that.


The only disadvantage is a pretty tight fit in the mag well.  It makes removing the empty, flush-mounted 10 round mags problematic.  Not an issue with larger mags. 

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd get a basic, easy to adjust, modern, nylon sling. They are only $5 to $15 on Cheaperthandirt.com.

Bubblehead Les. said...

Bring it to WV, I'll bring a spare M1 Carbine sling for you to test fit.

Marty said...

We can try some of my spares too.

Old NFO said...

I think I've got a spare or two also...

Velcro8ball said...

I just replaced thesmall swivels with the mil standard and an M1 sling. Bit of a bother, but worth it.