Alright I had a pretty good time at the gravel pit's yesterday with my girlfriend and this little sweetheart of a .22.

I probably put a few hundred rounds through it. Mostly Federal Bulk pack as it's the cheapest around here and pretty good ammo.
The sights were well oriented horizontally but took a little fiddling with the elevation slider to get it dead on at 25yds. This is my third group of the day with irons and Federal Bulk pack.

With Iron sights I was able to generally get 4 shots in an inch, but usually had a flier.
I attribute this to a field rest that was somewhat expedient (a big rock) and the sights being somewhat difficult, the front blade taking up too much of the tiny rear notch. Also it was a bit windy so I often got a bit of horizontal stringing. Partially from the sights, and partially from the target swaying a bit.

Heres a pic of the rest. Basically a big rock with a sand bag.

Anyway my girlfriend loved the gun, and was getting groups around 2" with the irons. Once we put on the scope however it was a different story.
This gun can shoot! And so can she.

Although I must say it transformed a tiny little handy sub-carbine into a compact little target rifle both in terms of accuracy and in terms of ungainliness. Mind you I did put on a big Bushnell 3-9x32 Adjustable objective. It took me literally 5 shots to mount the scope and zeroe it, by boresighting it visually, by looking through the barrel, and adjusting the scope to correspond to it. Who needs a boresighter!
Heres Annes first group with Winchester 333 Bulk pack HPs and the scope.

With the scope on this thing was really easy to shoot well. The combination of clear sight picture and light trigger led to us getting sub 1" groups more often then not. Even with bulk pack. Once again I was plagued by getting a flier most of the time which is probably due to sub-par shooting conditions and me just sucking and drinking coffee. But discounting that 5th shot, most groups were around 2/3-3/4 of an inch at 25yds. With some notable ammo exceptions.
Also I shot only one group with most ammo as It was getting late in the day and my girlfriend wanted to check out one of those picked clean smalltown secondhand stores with no good results.
Next time I shoot this it will be from a good rest in calm conditions, and I'll try a few groups with each ammo.

I didn't get a chance to shoot all this ammo maybe next time.

Heres a representitive Federal Bulk-pack group of about an 1-1/4" Once again with a bit of horizontal action. (windy target I think) the big hole is from a muzzleloader.

And another bulk pack

And this is what velocitors did.

And CCI subsonics

And Remington Cbees

And Yellowjackets

And the thing just hated Stingers, I had to laugh my *** off while shooting this group.

This gun sure doesn't like the Hyper-velocity shells.

By and large this thing can shoot with a scope. I think with the right target ammo in good conditions into 1/2" at 25yds.
Personally the first thing I did when I got home was take the scope off. I'm going to thin out the front blade and try to find that peep sight, I love this gun for how handy it is, no point in ruining that with a scope.

OK and Noise. It is louder than a regular .22. I'd say that regular shells sound like stingers, and stingers sound like .22magnums. Subsonics are not too bad too shoot without earbuds, and CBees while far from silent like they are in a 24" are quite pleasant to shoot.
I don't think I'd be poaching the rabbits out of my neighbours back yard, like I have with a long barreled 26" Savage with subsonics, but don't worry about wrecking your hearing popping a couple of grouse in the woods.

The action is tight but smooth, really well put together, I did find that it jammed a couple of times with the Winchester 333 and CCI subsonics. Their nose is just too big a flat HP and the hung up on the edge of the chamber and had to be babied in. Too bad because I think they're the best of the lot for potential accuracy.
I'm going to try some CCI standard velocity next time though. It's pretty good ammo, quiet and inexpensive.

P.S I'm still busy editing and adding to this post, my uploading pics is going slow

 

Hmm, don't take this the wrong way, but those groupings aren't exactly impressive for 25 yards with a scope.

Any bolt action 22 at that distance should really put those all into one ragged hole, in my opinion. But coffee can always affect things too

Too true, But the main thing was a crappy shooting position and the target, a cardboard fridge box was swaying in the wind, and we kept having to go over and prop it up with stuff. I think in an indoor range with a bench 1/2inch groups would be no problem.

 

Either in my 'Old/age', I missed it,.. or you didn't state how long that barrel is!??? Looks kinda short [legal?]! Does Canada have a 'different' minumun length limit on barrels??

 

Yep, 4.25". Anything less is prohibited.
Because this is a .22, the short barrel makes no difference to it's status being the same as any other Hunting rifle or .22.

As for the buttstock

Yes but I wouldn't want to keep taking it off, might strip the darned screwholes as it just screws into plastic

 

Nice write up. I have a wood stocked (U.S. length barrel) in my safe and another on the way. Both were under $125 delivered.

Can you take off the butt pad and store stuff in the stock? Would be a great place for a spare fire starter, 50rd box of ammo, small signal miror, fishing kit, snares, etc.

Throw a sling on there an call it done.

 

I wonder if a surplus M16 Trapdoor buttplate would mate to that stock?

 

I'd definitely try it if someone want's to send me one.

http://www.perfectunion.com/vb/showthread.php?t=44568

Looks like I might have to take it down a bit but this is a pretty good tutorial.

Also does anyone have any experience with the Williams 3/8" reciever sights?
I'm not sure if I should get the high or the low model.

Also I've been searching high and low for one and can't find any.