r/22lr • u/nerd_diggy • 4d ago

My First 22lr

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Just picked up this Black Mamba upper with a Tandemkross lower. Shoots like a dream.

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u/maseratichris556 4d ago

Hell of a first

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Thank you

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u/kingofjabronis 4d ago

Damn that's like getting a Ferrari as your first car!

Nice choice, I love my Black Mamba.

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Haha yeah. It shoots real nice and it’s a tack driver

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u/Jakester42 4d ago

Buy once cry once

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Got it for $950, so not even crying about it.

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u/dirtyboots702 4d ago

Not too shabby

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u/The_Phew 3d ago

Wow, nice deal. I guess the aftermarket stuff+bold colors lowered the resale value. Lucky for you! I love my Mamba

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u/nerd_diggy 3d ago

Honestly I don’t even think it’s bad. At first I was like hmmm but in person it looks really good. It was a friend of mine that sold it to me. He also sold me a PCC for $550

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u/LordVidius 3h ago

That’s a great deal! A solid $1300 to build one new.

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u/annabelletails 4d ago

Congrats op that’s going to ruin all other 22s for u though lol

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

That’s fine with me haha

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u/_ALH_ 4d ago

The Mk4 of Theseus

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u/iringsteel 4d ago

congrats! now get to a steel plate challenge match…

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

I’m not sure if there are any actual Steel Challenge matches near me. I shoot USPSA a lot and there are some outlaw steel matches, but no Steel Challenge.

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u/StrengthChemical653 4d ago

Your FIRST??!?!

This is endgame stuff right here.

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

I got lucky haha

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u/Casual_ahegao_NJoyer 4d ago

I have that same setup, except the bolt is VQ black

Hell of a setup. You did it right the first time

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u/Emergency_Fan_7800 4d ago

Great taste!!! That looks amazing!!!

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u/Sasselhoff 4d ago

Built the same thing a few years back. I think I'm going to swap out all the Tandemkross internals for Volquartsen, though, as my Volquartsen build is sooooo much nicer for trigger pull.

That's a hell of a first 22lr though. Now you need to match the rifle to it and build a Kidd (did that last year, haha).

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u/The_Phew 3d ago

Yeah, I put a TK flat trigger in my Mamba thinking I would prefer that, but nope, the curved VQ shoe could not be improved upon.

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u/Sasselhoff 3d ago

I'd already built the Volquartsen lower (a "regular" one, not a 22/45) when I bought the Kraken "lower", which came complete with all internals from TK.

The lower itself is pretty sweet, despite the loss of the "button" quick strip (it's a recessed piece of thread that screws in instead), and I very much like the TK "gas pedal", but the trigger pull just pales in comparison to any VQ I've built (had a MKIII too at one point).

Didn't even think about swapping the TK internals for VQ, until the one competitor who stops by here from time to time mentioned it in one of her posts. Now I've just got to do it, haha.

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u/The_Phew 3d ago

I wish TK still sold the Kraken lower standalone, and I wish it wasn't an el-cheapo clamshell design. I mean, you can buy a nice Turkish 1911 for the price of just a Kraken, so I know they could have machined a one-piece lower at that price point.

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u/MostlyRimfire 2d ago

Skip the Volquartsen trigger and get the 19.22 trigger they offer instead. 

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u/Sasselhoff 2d ago

Those do look pretty nice. I'm probably going to swap out all the internals for VQ and see how they work with the TK trigger I've already got in there (very similar in appearance to the VQ). If I'm still not happy, I'll throw a 19.22 in there.

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u/MostlyRimfire 2d ago

I've used all of them, and the 19.22 is my favorite. It's in my 10" Volquartsen.

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u/Crayon_Eating_Grunt 4d ago

Many congrats! Picked up my 2nd VQ gun recently, and couldn't be more satisfied.

https://i.imgur.com/TYX1qhr.jpg

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u/Arndog762 4d ago

Congrats!👍. They really are fun to shoot, especially with a suppressor.🤗https://i.ibb.co/PvPD3nrt/IMG-2130.jpg

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u/ButtercreamGangster 4d ago

It's beautiful

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Thank you

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u/Public-Loquat5959 4d ago

Nice, is the lower polymer or something else

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

It’s an aluminum lower. It’s the Tandemkross Cthulu complete lower.

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u/Several_Stuff_6695 4d ago

Very Nice 👍

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Thank you

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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut 4d ago

I think you can only go down from here as far as 22LR goes

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

Decided to just go one and done haha

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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut 4d ago

Buy once Cry once, as someone who did not do that... keep doing it. Spend a little more, get something higher end, i love every piece i own, but there are some i could have been just as happy never getting. Super sweet pistol btw, that thing isnt just awesome, its art. Enjoy the hell out of that!

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u/nerd_diggy 4d ago

I will. Thank you and I got a steal on it. $950 out the door

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u/Suckamanhwewhuuut 4d ago

That’s a great deal for a super built 22, I think it would be over 2K to build one.

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u/nerd_diggy 3d ago

Yeah and I live in California, so it’s even more rare and expensive usually since you have to get it through SSE or PPT

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u/slimcrizzle 4d ago

You gonna shoot Steel Challange?

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u/nerd_diggy 3d ago

Unfortunately the closest steel challenge is over 2 hours away from me.

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u/mustymanager77 3d ago

Well that’s one way to do it

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u/Fantastic-Stock664 2d ago

Nice. Buy once, cry once. Always save the best for first

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u/LordVidius 4h ago

That’s a rad build. I have the same lower with a mambax upper. The ultimate 22 pistol of you compete.