Interesting: .22 lr barrel used in custom airgun.

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I_HATE_PAL · #1 Post by **I_HATE_PAL** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:12 am

Wow, I just read on another forum about a guy who made a custom airgun, and used a .22 lr barrel.
He claimed that with german pellets (usually fit tighter), he was able to get 3/8" consistant groups at 15 meters.
That's pretty interesting, I never would've thought of it.

randyhub · #2 Post by **randyhub** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:28 am

I did some checking into that and was told that diameter and rifling was different to that of a rimfire, was my research incorrect??

jezX · #3 Post by **jezX** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 9:37 am

i have made many guns using actual rifle barrels mostly mossberg ,and with a good scope i can get 1 hole at 15 meter every time .(not standing) i mostly use crosman wod's and they work great . there are many good barrels ,i was suprised to see how well they worked with only 4 land rifling ,most i have are 8 land but the 4 work just as well ,i have one barrel that is a bit to big ,this one needs bigger pellets but will shoot ok with most.

TCooper · #4 Post by **TCooper** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:59 pm

About 4 years ago I had a Crosman Mark1 with a custom 12" barrel made from a rimfire rifle. Accuracy was good with 5.6mm Eley Wasps and also with the H&N FT.

Many of the older Cooeye rimfires were known to have tight bores. They can often be found for cheap with beat up stocks or missing bolts. A good find for a barrel hack.

Todd

#5 Post by **sniper** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:44 pm

TCooper wrote:Many of the older Cooeye rimfires were known to have tight bores. They can often be found for cheap with beat up stocks or missing bolts. A good find for a barrel hack.

Todd

yup, brings back good ol' memory I had one it was from back in the early sixty, used to take apart so many times and I could assemble all the parts together in 1 minute and 30 seconds top. You can still get parts for it today. Now they called it Savage 64 from what I heard still made in coburg,ont.

Armadillo · #6 Post by **Armadillo** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:08 am

sniper wrote: yup, brings back good ol' memory I had one it was from back in the early sixty, used to take apart so many times and I could assemble all the parts together in 1 minute and 30 seconds top. You can still get parts for it today. Now they called it Savage 64 from what I heard still made in coburg,ont.

Ahhhh. The old cooey 64

I've got one now

Very very simple guns to use except I'm still peeved they didn't put an ejecter in the design but instead relied solely on an extractor

One would think the chamber of the .22lr would be too long. Perhaps he cut down the barrel a bit to fit the pellet

hotsky · #7 Post by **hotsky** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:04 pm

I did some checking into that and was told that diameter and rifling was different to that of a rimfire, was my research incorrect??

yes the diameter is different...

killercrow · #8 Post by **killercrow** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:24 pm

you guys aint talkin bout me are ya???

the one made from a paintball gun?

id post pics but apparently i can...

airgunfun · #9 Post by **airgunfun** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:44 pm

of course...you're welcome to post pics....just host them over at photobucket.com....very simple, very easy.

C'mon...let us see what you got!

killercrow · #10 Post by **killercrow** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:56 pm

ok... here goes! but im warning you, this thing is fugly

hotsky · #11 Post by **hotsky** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:17 pm

What fps are you getting from it?

killercrow · #12 Post by **killercrow** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:26 pm

im not sure right now... cant seem to get my chrony to work for me... my guess would be around 500fps... thats just a guess... it sure hits dem squirrels hard though

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Interesting: .22 lr barrel used in custom airgun.

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