Minding my own business the other day and I stumbled into a Ruger 77/22 Hornet that had been rechambered to KHornet. Price….oh, you’re gonna hate me…..$250.
Im a Ruger guy, and I love me some Ruger 77, but the KHornet was useless to me…except for turning it into something slightly more useful. So…a little poking around, some creative pricing, and I flipped it for a lot more than I paid for it. Now, what to do with that money. Well, let’s go check ArmsList and see if anyone local is in the mood to take a beating. Sure enough….found one of these, a BX-25 mag, with a gun case and a Chineseium red dot scope for $150. And no paperwork. So I got back all my money that was outlaid for the KHornet, picked up another 10/22, and had a few bucks left over.
That’s how it’s done guys. Started the week with $250…ended the week with $250 and a 10/22 and some cash.
I’ll probably tear off all that furniture and put the barreled receiver into one of the several normal 10/22 stocks I have laying about. If I need a .22 AR simulator I’ll just drop my CMMG kit in one of my ARs.
This was 10/22 #8. Two more and I’m done on 10/22’s.
Man, you shop like a pro. Well done young man. I hope the person who ended up with the Hornet appreciates it. Nice woods roamer, gets a lot done without ‘waking up the neighborhood’.
Poachers Pet
You are a pro… Love me the CMMG 22 LR kit too….
Even better than the CMMG conversion bolt: pick up a CMMG barrel and collar set (Optics Planet often has them on sale: the 4.5″ barrel and collar is $150 currently but has been as low as $110 in the recent past) and drop the barrel into a cheap standard AR upper receiver. Remove the chamber portion of the CMMG conversion bolt and replace it with the collar. Spin on a standard barrel nut — it doesn’t need to be much more than hand-tight — and there’s no need to align the nut with a gas tube.
Add the usual small bits to your barreled upper — the only other non-standard parts are the half-length ejection port cover and its case deflector, which are about $12 — and you’ve got a dedicated upper with a proper .22LR barrel and no need to worry about crud accumulating in the gas tube. Accuracy is better due to the slower twist rate.