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I am looking for recommendations in the US, for companies who can reproduce the flat firing pin and extractor for a T/C Benchmark rifle. I've tried locally here in the UK without success so far. I expect I'll have to provide my samples and the company will then laser scan them and produce...

Today at the range I tried something new: Norma USA Subsonic-22. I didn't examine the rounds at the range, just loaded and fired them in a semi-auto .22 (a Ruger 10/22 clone known as a Rimfire Magic). The rounds were quite "smoky" and accuracy was mediocre. Afterwards I photographed the...

I belong to a rifle club in London and today I was down there shooting one of my .22 rifles. Suppressed, of course, as I often do. One of my range buddies said I need to see a .22 rimfire rifle he acquired at an auction. He had it with him on the 50 yard range. I asked him what was so special...

Here's a fun target I made from images I bought on Shutterstock. I use it like this: -Scoped .22 rifle at 25 yards -The rifle can have a bipod up front and a bag at the rear -You get 20 rounds only -You get points for defusing the bombs (the score is written on the target) -If you so much as...

I have a Rimfire Magic .22LR in the 10-22 family, with a receiver machined here in the UK. It is a nice rifle with a Volquartsen barrel, Yankee Hill Machine riser and a Burris Fast Fire III reflex dot. The trigger unit is an enhanced Ruger BX and the bolt is made by Ruger also. Some other pieces...

Those of you who don't have suppressors may not realise it, but there are point of impact changes which can be experienced when: 1) Shooting suppressed vs unsuppressed 2) Shooting with one suppressor vs another 3) Shooting with a thread adapter vs no adapter I recently conducted a very...

I suspect handloaders will be able to answer this best. There are well-established descriptions for the nose of a bullet, including shape and the type of jacketing. I want to know if there is an established way of describing the base of the bullet, with respect to the style of jacketing as it...

I have a rimfire suppressor that I am testing for lead residue build up over time. I fire 500 rounds per session and then I X-ray it and weigh it. So far it has reached 33k rounds without being cleaned and it is going strong. Last night I did some basic timings to find out what my overall rate...

I have been Googling around to find software to analyse groups/point of impact. I want to test 10 suppressors and get some group point of impact data as a comparison among the 10 suppressors. I found Ontarget TDS. It seems like it will do the job because it allows you to shoot multiple groups...

I recently got a customised 10/22 and 10 BX-25 mags. I found out they take up quite a lot of space in the safe, so I thought it would be good to store them on the inside of the door, as others have done. I got some fabric online and made a strip to hold 10 pouches. The fabric is soft but will...

The thing about having 10 magazines (25 rounders) for my Rimfire Magic rifle (a 10/22 variant) is that I can get through 250 rounds very quickly. The last two range sessions I have been doing that, during the ongoing testing of my A-TEC CMM4(6) suppressor. You can check the link in my signature...

I recently purchased a Predator 12, mainly because my other suppressors are all muzzle-forward designs and I wanted a reflex suppressor. The Wildcat Predator 12 is made here in the UK by a company called UK Custom Shop Limited. It is a huge suppressor best suited for a bench gun. It is long...

I recently acquired a rifle to replace my SIG522. My requirements were as follows: 1) Must be reliable: needs to fire 500 rounds of RWS Target Rifle ammo with a suppressor without failing due to dirt build up. This is because this gun will be used for a bunch of suppressor tests along with my...

I bought a new rifle, a Rimfire Magic .22LR here in the UK. It is essentially a Ruger 10/22 pattern, but very few Ruger parts on it. It has a 16" Volquartsen barrel threaded 1/2"x20 tpi, Rimfire Magic receiver (they mill it here in the UK), enhanced Ruger BX trigger unit, upgraded firing pin and...

I've been abusing a .22LR can for the last 18 months by firing a lot of rounds through it without cleaning it or even spraying anything into it. The round count has now reached 23000! I just put the 3rd update online (links to part 1 and 2 in the article also). Enjoy...

Saw this one recently, thought it was clever:

I had an interesting ricochet today. I was firing my R55 at 25 yards from the bench, at a target pegged to a frame at 25 yards. Ammunition was RWS Target Rifle, target was just a paper card pegged with wood pegs to a corrugated plastic backing. Here's the range with the frame removed, and the...

Fired this one yesterday: Very accurate, nice finish and generally has a feel of quality about it. A friend of mine bought it second hand here in the UK. It just needs a better scope, which the owner and I both agree on. Can you guess what rifle it is? I'll give you a clue: it was made in...

I have two Thompson/Center R55 Benchmark rifles. They both have the same rubber buffer, which is removable and sits at the rear of the receiver. Here is the receiver with the rubber buffer inserted: And here is the receiver without the buffer: On both rifles I have had problems with the...

I just downloaded a random sample of 100 images that THR members have posted, and found 7 of those had been geotagged. This means there is latitude and longitude info in the metadata of the image. I used that data to find the locations where those pictures were taken. I have sent those 7 members...