As you may recall, I’ve been slowly putting together what can only be described as an experiment in how much unrecoverable value you can add to a .22 rifle. The base gun was the Savage MK I I FVR rifle. The next step was to throw away the horrible stock that came with the gun and replace it with a very nice and not cheap Boyds Tactical laminate stock. Next step? Optics. Wound up with the Nikon P-22 BDC 150 2-7x scope. A couple things about this scope that really appealed to me were the target turrets and the very nice ballistics calculator that nikon has on their website. It has all the ballistics data for the Remington subsonic ammo I’m shooting and it even offers the option of printing a little data card to tape on the stock.
The scope itself is okay. Made in the Philippines, so the quality is hopefully better than Made In China. The target knobs are resettable once you get dialed in. Took it to the range the other day and was quite pleased. Zeroed it for 50 yards since at longer distances that slow subsonic bullet is going to have the trajectory of a trench mortar.
All that’s really left to do is drop a small Harris bipod on the front of this thing and it’s going to be ready for whatever task calls for a small, quiet bit of ballistic mischief.
One fortunate difference between the Philippines and China is that the Philippines has a reasonably strong gun culture. They have gun stores in the mall and concealed carry is reasonably easy to get. Unfortunately it’s really all based around money but I don’t feel bad getting any firearm related product from Filipinos.
Sounds great. I wasvlooking at that same scope. Keep us up to date on scope durability . Great idea as usual
Man, that is nice! Laminated stocks (to me) look great, especially in green or desert striping.
Good looking plinker you have worked up there.
Nah, a trench mortar shoots like a laser compared to subsonics. 😀
Looks nice! But how do you get past the flinch that most everyone has these days when they touch off an irreplaceable .22LR cartridge?
It helps to have about 30,000 rounds stockpiled….kinda gives me a little margin.
Yet every shot is … one less. 😉