For GTBJ and a couple other diehards…
I wanted to let you know that the .22 project is not dead or a pie in the sky. I chatted with Gary this evening and he is willing to work the project. We discussed a couple options and technical factors related to the market and what guns could do what…
I believe we are headed to 2 slugs that should fill most of the demand. The first slug will be one that fits (barely) into most magazine fed guns. I specified a .380 length for that one (sound familiar to anyone here?). The other slug will be close to a scale version of the 9 ring (just under scale). This will be the .22 heavyweight. We figured that you guys have plenty of other options so there is no sense in making a slug half a grain heavier than a slug you can get for half the price (or less).
I can’t give you a timeline yet as the materials have not even been delivered for machining but I can confirm that the project is alive. (That’s more than I could say last week!)
I need to add that we’re kind of taking a hit or miss appraoch here. We think that a scale version of thew .25 slug will work but we can’t be positive untill testing is done. I expect to ask GTBJ and a couple others here on this forum (and only those here on this forum) to test the slugs. If they work, great. If not, we’ll trash the mold and re-try in the future.
I certainly hope it works on the first try as I’m paying for the mold but one never knows. I do know that I’ll get a no shit appraisal here!
Success or failure, it will be a TAG only introduction. The group here has bought oh I don’t know, maybe 99.9% of the .25 production? This is where the .22 lives or dies and if it dies…well, we’ll try again down the road…
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Jerry,
ME 2, I would like a couple tins or boxes of each of the .22 caliber pellets.
I just have the one 24″ Condor in .22 caliber but I have a couple extra Valve Pin/Top Hat combination’s that I can quick change in my tank. Also, I have the Chrony to get the results.
Say, are they going to have a special name?
For an early submission how about “JJs” for “Jerry’s Juggernauts”
juggernaut is described as an force that is unstoppable.
PS I do PayPal or check. Please PM with cost if you need another paying tester.
Hey Jerry, I’m in too!!
Glad to hear you’re finally trying this 😀 😀 😀 😀
Jerry, Jerry,
That does sound awesome… I to want a box of each size. Hell, I will pay for two boxes of each if it helps the production and that should give me enough for a good inspection and trial period with the two different sizes, on two rifles.
Just because the longer heavies don’t, fit the magazine of my Rapid, I darn sure want to see how they shoot from the MKII… Now that I got one of Swifts full power kits in my MKII, its a beast for sure now…
So I want plenty to shoot from both rifles to see how they do…
Jerry, you PM me with how much you need for two boxes of each size dude and where and how you want payed, and its a done deal dude…
Looking quite forward to trying these slugs out…
Awesome Jerry! I would love to test a few out for you..I will have a 18″ barrel condor to offer for testing the biggens, and a 24″ BSA scorpion for the multi shots…Thanks. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yay!!
Any idea on weights yet?
What did you do to Gary to make him go with it!!?
We wait in eager anticipation…. 😎
Woo!
Don’t have a .22, and haven’t tried the .25’s (yet)…
But wooo anyways. 🙂
thats awsome my man
i need to get my trigger fixed
the bits should be here thursday now
ill be orderin some of them from ya when ya get em up n runnin
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I am liking all this response to the .22 projectiles… We get enough guys into these suckers, it might even be worth while to Jerry… That is if the first batch of these cooked up shoot well and Jerry don’t throw us to the side for lack of enough interest… Heck one or the other and/or both shoot well, might just have to have a pallet of these projectiles…
I like the idea of these being named also… Devastator 3-ring and 6-ring, or whatever the ring amount is for each pellet… That has a thump to it !!!
Heck do they make a pellet with that name already??? It sounds fearful to me LOL… May already be one that name, not sure???