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An excellent training tool. I think we shot over 500 rounds in a few hours of mostly shoot-n-move practice. In my regular AR-15, that would have cost about $230 vs. under $30. At this rate, the .22 “trainer” rifle pays for itself in a half dozen or less practice sessions.
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I also took some time to practice a technique I learned from Larry Vickers
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I should have my 10/22 conversion from JP on the 4th. 
It’ll replicate my 3gun rifle pretty well.
Now if the 10/22 were just as reliable as my MSTN 3Gun rifle…!!!
I use a Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor in my 10/22 and only genuine Ruger 10/22 mags and haven’t had a jam in over 15K rounds that I’ve fire through my 10/22…
The subsonic rounds I was mostly using today I think contributed to the problem, as did the 25-round mags. I have less problems with the factory rotary mags.
Nice. Kids dig .22LR conversions too 
That Nordic setup uses proprietary mags?
With the Nordic conversion you use a Ruger 10/22 receiver & barrel and it still uses Ruger 10/22 mags.
The Nordic has a Picatinny rail on top (same height at a flat top upper receiver) and allows you to use any AR stock, pistol grip and any freefloating rail or tube. I’ll be using a commercial CTR stock, Tangodown grip and a Hogue rifle length FF tube, Armalite scope mount with a Weaver 1-3x scope with mine. It won’t be an exact match for my 3gun rifle but it’ll be close enough for good cheap practice. I’ll be using a Butler Creek fluted stainless barrel to keep it’s weight similar to my 3gun rifle.
Nice setup. Couple questions, though. Because you mentioned a commercial stock, I assume that’s what the Nordic kit is designed for? Also, are there any .22 mags out there that mimic the size/feel of normal AR mags or is that wishful thinking on my part? Man I wish someone could do a conversion kit for magazines, too (make what looks like a great training tool even better).
Thanks for the pictures. I think I see one of those in my future: this college kid might finally be able to afford shooting more often with that rig.
-B
Commercial/Mil-spec is based solely on what extension you pick up.
Mags- the BDM mags for the Ciener conversions come close.
But they aren’t going to fit a 10/22 receiver. They are designed for AR-15’s running a Ceiner 22 conversion.
-RD62
Eh, those BDMs are kinda what I was thinking. Thanks for the commercial/milspec clarification, too. I know I’ll be getting a .22 kit for my AR, I just need to find out which.
-B
Please explain the technique I gots to know.
I got mine today and installed the Weaver 1-3x on a ArmaLite mount with a rifle length Hogue FF tube and a (free 90 free) DPMS stock. I installed a TangoDown grip but will try some others for a better fit.
that thing looks big time fun…
neato…
Finished my build and shot it last week. Had to figure some things out with the front sight due to the height differences between the receiver rail (a direct analog height-wise to an M4/M16) and the front (it’s almost a half-inch lower to accommodate the Ruger 10-22 action).
I bought the receiver as a second-hand beater gun from a gun shop. The 2-stage trigger is a Kidd and is as close to perfect as I think they can make them. The barrel started out as a 20-inch Kidd match and was cut down to 16-inches and threaded for an old A1 flash suppressor by Chuck at AC Firearms in Rio Rancho, NM.
The barreled action drops right into the Nordic set. I won the LaRue 9.0 at the 2007 All-Army Championships (thanks, Mark!) and blue Lock-tited it to the frame threads. The stock is from Rock River Arms. To balance the weight of the barrel I put a heavy 9mm buffer and carbine spring into the stock reversed (the buffer is at the rear of the tube). When you dry-fire or shoot you get the standard annoying sproing in your ear.
The 16-inch barrel (to me anyway) makes the rifle feel like a heavy-barreled M4. With the stock extended it’s an inch shorter than my 16-inch 5.56 carbine.
The rear sight is a standard GG&G flip-up. To get the front sight to align properly you need one that fits an AR-10 railed gas block (otherwise it won’t be tall enough, and a Yankee Hill flip for rails on a 1/2-inch riser is TOO tall).
The Aimpoint in Knight mount was a spare.
I put a Midwest Industries rail sling block on the left side. The sling is a Kyle Lamb VTAC.
The rifle shoots well with irons only and I’ve been training with it for the 2009 All-Army. It is scary accurate, ignorant fun to shoot, and 500 rounds in a training session is a fraction of the cost of standard 5.56.
This is the GG&G for AR-10 gas blocks:
