Wednesday, August 31, 2011

This Ain't Your Grandpas Ole .22

My .22 of choice is the Ruger 10/22.  I first bought one for my hubby because it was getting expensive shooting our AR-15s at the range. So we wanted to get something that was reliable and accurate, that we could still practice with but not spend all our .223 ammo. I remember buying his, and the gun salesman telling me about all the “add-ons” you can accessorize with. My eyes then lit up- I felt like Paris Hilton shopping in Tiffany’s.
A couple of months later I was back to buy mine. I had the wooden stock, and nice scope. But it was missing something. One day while flipping through hubby’s “Shotgun News” it lept off the page at me, in black and red-it was the Archangel Conversion kit. I showed it to hubby, batted my eyes and smiled a lot. He caved in and I got it.  The Archangel has a free floating hand guard and a picatinny rail on top and bottom. It even came with a bayonet, but it was really cheesy so we didn’t put it on. There are three styles of this conversion on the market, Mine is the Ruger 10/22 ARS standard conversion kit. For Ruger pistols they have the "Promag AA56P" ,and  more recently the "Ruger 10/22 Archangle Maurader Conversion stock black polymer AAM1022"  All three are awesome in their own right and I reccommend this conversion to any with a Ruger firearm.

And here he is the before and after pictures, and all decked out with his archangel kit. I think I like it so much because it looks so "pumped up" and exudes confidence in the shooter. When I shoot it, I feel like "Trinity" from the "Matrix". It's just plain fun.  

Before
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7 comments:

  1. Nice entry...now spread the word about .22 week, pretty lady. Thanks, and if Senior isn't looking - kiss.

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  2. The Ruger 10-22 is one of my favorite. The action is smooth and I love the carbine length.
    Duke.

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  3. Thanks Stephen!

    Duke- Its one of my favorites too. But of course my AR is my top choice.

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  4. I thought this was a Stephen inspired topic! Now what shall I do. Tricked Out Glock Mom, you got the gun I was going to write on. Now all I have is some kid sized training rifles like the cricket. Well, that'll teach me to delay a project. Good posting.

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  5. Well I have my tricked out ruger 10/22 on a Tapco stock, it is fun, very practical as a low cost training tool for those evil black rifles, but however a 22 rifle that is close to my heart is the one my father bought me when I was 8 years old and that is the classic glennfield/ marlin model 60. I have had it now for 32 years and it still fires like the day I received it. In that time, I have only torn it completely apart once to clean it. It will be passed down to one of my boys. By the way, I enjoyed building the Arc Angel, it was a fun project.

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  6. Oh Arsenius-- Thank you! and if you want I can also give you some pointers on the crickett, our oldest got one for his birthday.. : )
    "Tricked out glock mom"? I like that..

    Joe-Thank you for building it for me..Now you need to let me have the "Hell Kitten AR-15" : )

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  7. Not to change the subject, but when you let me get a Barrett 50 caliber, you can get that.

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