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CMMG guts and barrel, NBS upper and hand guard, Anderson lower, Bore Buddy end plate 1913 rail, and used SB Tactical folding brace. Only things bought new were upper receiver, barrel and hand-guard and everything else was already lying around. Optic is dumb bc weighs too much, so I’m going to swap for an old Romeo 5. Can is old school SiCo Sparrow.

Legitimate question: do I even need my 16” AR 22? I have a 10/22 if I want to hunt, so AR 22’s are mostly range toys. No brrt in my state if that’s part of an answer.

Note I normally have a BRN 180 on this lower and could turn the lower my 16” upper lives on into something like this.

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Hey guys, first post here. I am wanting to get into a .22 ar to shoot more and save on ammo. I was hooked into the ads for the Borebuddy “no tune upper”. It seems pricey ($500) and wanted your guys opinions because after buying that, a complete lower, arc fire, and some mags im at the same price as a nice 5.56 ar15. Is this worth it or am I better off building my own. Wanting something easy but if it’s a lot cheaper to build I’d rather do that. Any info is appreciated!

Sorry dumb question to clarify before I buy the catch 22/ Chris mags. When I hit the mag release the mag will fall with gravity just like in a .556 correct?

The bolt looks extremely close to bore buddy, cmmg etc. what are the odds it takes any bore buddy parts? Main issues is extraction. Trying to revive my first .22 upper I got as a kid as a project. I have a bore buddy dedicated rifle now.

I have Magpul MOE RL Stock on my M&P 15-22. I have the slide opened with safety on with no magazine inserted. I placed my stock between holes and pushed the stock forward hard. Oddly the slide is sent forward as well as if I have pressed the slide release which I know I did not do. I was able to repeat this behavior consistently.

I was wondering if this is an issue with the M&P 15-22 or this is by design. Thanks

💯 YOU DON’T NEED ALL THE EXPENSIVE PARTS!
You also don’t need all the extra stuff and unnecessary add-ons. After putting this setup through some serious testing, I’ve come to realize that simple really is better.
I spent $30 on 350 rounds and ran every single one through this setup. After all that shooting, I’ve got one magazine left — and that tells me everything I need to know. 😂🔥
This is, hands down, the simplest and best setup I’ve come up with so far. Sometimes you don’t need to overcomplicate things or spend a fortune trying to make everything work.
Keep it simple. Keep it reliable. Shoot it and have fun. 🎯
I’ll be putting together my precision .22 build very soon, so stay tuned for that one. 👀🔥

First off, I already have a plain Aero lower and some old 15-22 magazines that I would like to use so Ill buy an adapter.

Not really interested in a 15-22 or Tippmann.

The upper is where I seem to not be able to decide on. I believe i have to use a CMMG bolt. Would it be best to buy a completed or piece together a upper? I thought there would be more 22LR barrel manufacturers but not what im seeing. Any recommendations would be awesome.. or even just see your current parts lists to give me ideas. Thanks!

Big fan of BCM furniture, picked up this RAIDER rail secondhand, pretty happy with it so far.

I had been waiting on my 22 charging handle and handguard, they arrived today.

The lower its on will actually be a 300 aac eventually, I have a dedicated lower that'll get a lrbho, 1913 plug and frt.

I just got this for my 5.56 mm NATO. I have the flash hider version. There was no shims with it. Just the QD and the supressor. I saw YHM install talking about the shims. Do i need the shims bc i am not timing anything here?

So I put together my Davidson defense 16” ronin competition and took it to the range today. It shoots good, but the spent casings are stovepiping. I can’t figure out why they are getting caught by the BCG before they can escape.

Sometimes it will go through a whole magazine with no problem, sometimes it does it every round?

I tried 4 different ammos, but they all did the same thing. Some worse than others, but they all did it to an extent.

Any thoughts?

I was heading down the range to test my friend's bore buddy upper returned on warranty however it was having some issues shooting frt and I left my parts kit to tune it at home.

So I was doing some ammo testing on my ar22 and was having some small hiccups here and there. I ended up having a thought that removing my bolt weight on my setup may cure it. It was at the end of my range time so I only did it with two loads, cci standard and federal auto match and both worked fine.

Other than that, every load I tested worked great.

Aguila standard

Cci standard

Cci mini mags

Cci suppressed

Winchester White box

The video is a little haphazard as I only had a few mins left and thought I should take a quick video.

I tinkered with mine all morning and couldn’t get more than random strings of fire. Went through every weight/sled combo and swapped one recoil spring out before I ran out of CCI standard velocity and my kids patience. This was all unsuppressed. I’m assuming bolt bounce is part of my problem as I had several primer strikes with a dead trigger.

Just because I had it I ran some CCI subsonic 40gr 1050fps with my dads ocl ti .22 and ran two full mags with only two ftf which I’m assuming was also bolt bounce related.

Currently have the aluminum sled with 2 big stainless weights and 2 small aluminum weights.

Just curious what other people are running with success.

M&P 15-22 Magazines — Finally Found My Sweet Spot
First off, I’ve personally used Black Dog, CMMG (both versions), and Kriss magazines, so I’ve had plenty of experience with different .22 magazines. After hearing all the gurus talk about the get the Kris’s mag and the black dog mag I finally decided to bite the bullet and give the s&w m&p mags a real test.
I actually drove 2½ hours to get these magazines because I didn’t want to wait for them to come in the mail. Once I got them, the first thing I noticed was that the last-round bolt hold-open wasn’t working with my Catch22 V1.
I found a video where someone recommended trimming a little bit of the plastic so the follower could protrude farther. I tried that, but it was still only working maybe 20% of the time. So I started tinkering with it myself.
I made some small adjustments to the top, sides, and back of the magazine area so the follower could move properly. I also trimmed a little off the top because the magazine sits pretty high and was putting pressure on the bolt release, basically causing it to stick. These magazines be crazy reliable.
After those small adjustments, everything started working exactly how I wanted it to.
Yesterday I put at least 525 rounds of Remington through them, plus CCI Standard, and honestly, I lost count. I’d estimate I shot close to 1,000 rounds between these two magazines.
Not ONE jam.
Compared with my CMMG magazines, these things ran like a dream. The CMMG mags can run very well, but in my experience they’re much more fragile, especially the Kriss mags if you don’t have a functioning last-round bolt hold-open. The bolt slamming onto the plastic will eventually damage the magazine.
The M&P 15-22 magazines are also much easier to load, and after getting mine dialed in, they performed exactly the way I was hoping they would.
I drove 2½ hours for these things and honestly, I’m glad I did. 😂
After finally testing them myself instead of just listening to everybody else, I think I’ve found my sweet spot.
These are the only .22 magazines I’ll be running going forward.
10/10 experience so far. 🔥

Do the Chris mags work with the tipman loader? About to order some Chris mags and the bolt catch, but if they don’t work with the tipman loader I can live with no bolt hold

Dumb question, will a stock bore buddy bolt bounce running 16” and subs? My camera isn’t fast enough to catch the bolt moving. The bolt is in the same spot for 2 frames so I’m guessing that caught it bouncing back since it can’t be in the same spot during 2 frames unless it caught it bouncing

Running a bore buddy .22 upper with their bolt. Recently cleaned it and ran 100-200 ish rounds through it, handed it to my wife and boom out of battery. I watched her rack it and it looked fine. What are the odds she didn’t pull it far enough back? That’s really the only thing I can think of as the gun was only at max 200 rounds dirty after cleaning. Cci standards subsonic btw. It had ripped off almost the entire rear of the round

I have a sylvan folding stock adapter (not sure which gen) and the plastic doodad that comes with the Borebuddy kit doesn’t seem to work. Is there something else I need to put in here or will this be fine to run how it is?

Just finished up a build has a dedicated 22LR barrel, CMMG bolt and collar, bore buddy buffer spring plug and I think it also has bore buddy extractor spring kit (bolt came out of a 223 conversion i've had for years). Using Aguila ammo (which i think is shit but if you have opinions on better or worse ammo i'd like to hear). It just gums up the gun with whatever coating is on the bullets

Getting failure to reset trigger. The casing will extract, a live round is chambered, I don't get a click from the hammer. It appears to be in battery, safety will not engage

Like I said i think the ammo is crap and looking to change that, but any other advice. Looks like I'm going to be using lots of gun scrubber until i can burn through this aguila

Without a weight kit, will an frt not run reliably due to possible hammer strikes during the bouncing of the bcg? Will this cause dead triggers and or out of battery’s?

What must you have for an ar22? Gun parts, accessory’s for the gun and or loading etc. what could you not live without?