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I clean mine after every shooting session, including the bore. Usually ill dump about 300rds through it every time i shoot. The sig is so easy to clean, theres no reason not to.

Samsom also makes a quad-rail for the sig sauer 522 rifle. Might be something folks want..

I was at a range in Arizona one time....the guys got to talking about biggest boom from their guns. Some guy had a .4xx something or other that was a thundergun. Firing it would knock paint chips off the metal roof awning. A few minutes later we heard this voice yell out... NO, THIS IS THE BIGGEST BOOM... And then the earth shook and dust was kicking up from the berms 100yds out, the metal roof was dumping paint chips, and two florescent lights came crashing down, with this insanely loud deep BOOOOOOM. We all look around trying to figure out what the heck it was. The range owner had a cannon on the other side of the berm. 1lb of powder charge and he won.

Kinda hard to take them seriously when they dont even know that its called a "magazine" and not a clip. I notice the comments have been disabled.....they apparently dont want to hear the American population telling them to F off. I rate the Brady cockroaches right up there with the nuts from Westboro.

Ive had experience with them. For the price they are pretty good. Dont expect kimber quality, but they will hold their own against a GI grade springfield.

I think its 38 of 40 now, but i cant remember. I shot 40 of 40, and got expert when i was in back during desert storm/desert calm. Some of these new guys can flat shoot. Ive seen a couple of the recent shooters taking shots, and i have a feeling they are going to bump up the difficulty soon on both the m14 and the m16.

Ill tell you something that helps too...a laser sight with a touch pad. I used this process for learning quick aiming for competition events. Here is the process. Put EMPTY gun down someplace. Pick up gun and point towards target quickly, and tap the touch pad. Laser flash indicates the impact of the round. By using this method, I improved not only my reaction time, but accuracy, even from point shooting in some areas as much as 3 tenths of a second faster, and my accuracy shot through the roof. You can also improve accuracy, by turning the laser on, and then holding it on a small target, and squeezing through your dry fire (either single or double action) until you can do it without moving the laser dot. Just rememeber to use whatever gun you intend on using the most. If you are training for self-defense, you should be using your self-defense gun, and if you are training for competition, you should be using your competition gun. The reason why is because you start to develop muscle memory. If you train with one gun, and switch to another when actually shooting, it will mess you up.

Wilson Combat CQB Dan Wesson Pointman 9 Dan Wesson Valor Kimber Grand Talon II Sig Sauer 1911 Pardini Competition .22

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I dont see any sear disconnect in those pics, where is it? There should be a disconnect that moves the sear so that it is disengaged from the trigger if the bolt is not closed. Ill have to post pics of the one in the sig, so i can show you what it looks like and how it works.

If the come out with a garand version, it will definitely go to the top of my "get immediatly" list. Im not big on the carbine, but a full length garand or M14 would be awesome.

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I think your assessment is very good, and the solution presented is a viable option. In most larger caliber semi autos, there is a disconnect that wont let the hammer fall unless the chamber is fully closed. I dont know why many of the .22 tacticals dont also have this. This is why this problem doesnt occur with the sig522. It has a disconnect that will not allow the hammer to drop unless the bolt is fully closed. The bolt is notched at the rear. And the disconnect must be in the notch on the bolt in order for it to fire. Umarex and other manufacturers come from a airgun background where a disconnect isnt really necessary because they dont have to worry about case pressures during an out of battery discharge. Im seriously beginning to wonder if this oversight was just a lack of knowledge regarding proper firearm construction.

Again, I stick with my original statement. There are no .22 snapcaps. A snapcap contains a springloaded button, that the firing pin can strike, providing similar resistance as it would encounter when striking a primer. Due to the nature of the rimfire round, there is no way to construct a spring loaded version of the same. So as I stated, your firing pin is indeed striking something other than a crushable rimfire cartridge case. It is not a true snapcap, plastic, aluminum, lexan, whatever....its still not a snap cap. Its a dummy round. Also, if you want to test it to see if it will hit the chamber face, take it apart, remove the bolt, and manually push the firing pin all the way forward. If it extends beyond the bolt face....it will hit the chamber face.

The short answer is YES. Dry firing a rimfire rifle of any sort can and likely will damage the firing pin. The reason is because on a centerfire firearm, the firing pin just hits air, as it is centered in the bore of the barrel. A rimfire firearm has the firing pin aligned with the face of the chamber. When you dry fire it, it slams the firing pin into the steel face of the chamber. After repeated dry firing, it WILL flatten the end of the firing pin. What you normally get is failure to fire malfunctions at that point, as the firing pin can no longer put a good dent into the rim of the .22 round. Dont do it. Also, there are NO .22 snap caps. They are dummy rounds. If you read the package, it specifically states "not for dry fire". While they may certainly be better than slamming it into the steel of the chamber face, since they are aluminum. I still wouldnt recommend doing it a lot. None of my .22 has ever been dry fired, and they never will.

I think there are a couple of these in service in washington DC....on rooftops.

I practice both right and left handed shooting...its a tactical thing. If i get injured in the right arm/hand i want to know i can still perform if needed. The problem isnt actually holding or firing the gun, the issues arise with "eye dominance". In nearly everyone, the brain favors one eye, just like we favor one hand. Take a pistol, open both eyes, and aim with the sights. Now close one eye and see which one actually has the correct sight picture. Which ever one does, is your dominant eye. What you have to do is retrain your brain to favor neither eye. There are a few training methods you can use. 1. Practice pistol shooting by flipping between your dominant eye and your non-dominant eye on sight picture, until you can do either without actually thinking about it. 2. Use your non-dominant eye by closing the dominant one, and then once sight picture is attained, open the other eye, fire a round and repeat. With pistols, you can shoot left handed and use a right dominant eye for correct sight picture, but unfortunatly you cant really do this with a rifle. Id really recommend training with a pistol, until you become comfortable with it, and then transitioning to a rifle.

Oh, and as for accuracy...its no bolt action, but you can expect to see 1" groups at 50 yards on a good day in the right hands.

I really prefer the sig over any of the other .22 tactical rifles out there. The takedown is just similar to an AR. No tools needed. You pop the pin on the lower reciever, the top reciever opens up, you pull the bolt back, slide the charging handle out, and the whole bolt assembly slides out of the upper. Its by far the easiest of all of them. The bolt is a solid one piece design similar to the 10/22 rifle. Here are somethings i really like about the sig rifle. 1. Three position stock, and it comes with different buttplates that you can use to adjust the pull to fit you. It also comes with different stock guides that allow you to change it to a single position stock, or lock it all together. 2. Folding stock, that you can shoot from the folded position. 3. Super easy takedown. 4. Metal upper and rail. 5. Will accept aftermarket black dog magazines. 6. Concentric firing pin. No stamped firing pins here, it has a real firing pin. 7. Reliability, it will eat pretty much any ammo you feed it. With good extraction. 8. Storage in the grip, and in the forearm. 9. Threaded barrel with removable flash hider, so you can attach suppressors without any machining. 10. Solid one piece steel barrel. Here are my only complaints. 1. Wish it came with iron sights. 2. The trigger is a long pull trigger similar to what you would find when firing double action on a pistol. I would have preferred something more like a single action trigger. All in all, you cant go wrong with the sig 522. Its a superb rifle, and probably the best option right now in my opinion. I dont know who makes it, but I suspect that it really is made by sig. All the other manufacturers like gsg, and umarex have tale-tale signs that they were made by them. The sig doesnt exhibit any of those indications.

Omg...abilene? Oh how I miss Mama Rosa's Brisket...i think thats the name. Its on that road that goes out to Buffalo Gap.

I think we will probably see less and less of wood stocks. The problem right now is getting fine grades of stock blanks without paying a fortune for them. Whereas a manufacturer in the past could offer a rifle with a fine black burled walnut stock..they just cant do it and keep the cost down. Also the generation with the skills to properly fit, and hand checker a wood stock is dwindling quickly, and unfortunatly the skills havent been passed down. I think the days of the $1000 1911's is rapidly coming to a close too. I predict that manufacturers are going to start looking for cost-cutting to stay viable and make a profit. I think a majority of what we are going to see is steel changing to a higher carbon content to make it cheaper to manufacture...hang on the the gun oil...you're gonna need it. Over the next year or so, expect to see a plethora of sub $600 pistols flood the market. Unfortunatly the polymer is here to stay, because its cheap. As for the future...in ten years expect to see ductile ceramics start to appear as coatings on slides and external parts.

By far the sig 522 is the stand out in the tactical.22 genre right now. It was just built right from the start. Concentric firing pin, real upper/lower/bolt setup, and best reliabilty of the class. Ive shot most of the .22 tacticals out there, and without a doubt...the sig smokes em all. Sounds like you are enjoying yours...keep on shooting! Ive got to get the samson rail for mine..

Raises an interesting question... Do they consider an AR with multiple uppers in different calibers ONE gun or do they consider each upper a seperate firearm?

Its fairly common at long ranges. Back when i was shooting a lot of long range stuff at targets 600+ yards, mostly what i would see is the round cutting through the mirage. Id see this swirl as the round passed through, looking something like those bullet trails from the movie "matrix". It usually only happened on really hot days, or when there was a lot of moisture in the air. You usually dont see the round itself unless you are shooting something big like .338 at over 800 yds.

Id pick one of each class. Revolver, Semi auto pistol, Bolt action rifle, Shotgun, and Semi auto rifle. choose calibers that are compatible with accessories or other calibers. For example: .357 for the revolver, so you could also use .38 .223 for the rifles so you could use the same suppressor on the bolt action as the semi auto rifle, and if the semi auto pistol is a .22, then the suppressor would work on it too....and you will have something that shoots cheap ammo. And 12 guage for the shotgun so you can fire birdshot, buckshot, slugs, etc. You could also swage the .22 copper into .223 copper jackets for making your own ammo for the rifles. Just think it through and you will come up with the best options.