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STILL haven't taken the SU-22 shooting yet, but I did finally spend some quality time with her today, disassembling, cleaning, and learning the differences between the SU-22 and the SU-16. There are some significant differences, but I'm even more impressed with the high quality of the parts and the design. The SU platform is excellent, and lends itself very well to a neat folding .22. How could anyone not like that?
I'm desperately wanting to take this fun little gun out shooting.
Some of the parts seemed a bit tight when I started disassembling, and while that made the initial disassembly a bit fiddly, I don't want a gun with a bunch of parts that are undersized to make sure they all fit regardless of sloppy tolerances. The SU-22 has a precision feel to it, like a modern firearm should.
I really want to take the SU-22 to the range and put some rounds downrange.
The first trip, I'm going to run a bunch of Federal bulk ammo through there and then try some of the Remington Golden Bullets to see that they really do jam as reported.
The next trip I hope to start my .22 tests, where I evaluate about 60 different types of .22 ammo, measuring muzzle velocity and standard deviation and extreme spread, and accuracy, and reliability to a very abbreviated extent. I'll do this for several different .22 firearms. The goal is a big chart that's sorted by cost, by accuracy, and by kinetic energy, so people can determine at a glance which ammo is likely to work in their similar gun.
Then, I'd like to pick a consistent ammo or two and test the SU-22 to see if it's more accurate stock, off a sandbag, with as much of the barrel unsupported as possible (I like to grip it on the receiver just in front of the mag well), or if it's more accurate with the compact forend removed and a custom bi-pod attached to the Compact Forend Barrel Nut.
I think I'm going to like the reduced heating when shooting .22LR instead of .223.
Did I mention that I
REALLY want to take this neat little .22 to the range and put 1000 rounds through it?
All the moving parts seem to cycle a lot more smoothly after cleaning and lubricating, and probably the parts polished themselves a bit with my manually cycling them, even though from the cleaning it appears that my rifle may have been tested thoroughly at the factory. The bore was mostly clean and looks gorgeous after simply wiping it out with a little RemOil, but the parts in the Recoil Spring Tube seemed to have a fair amount of gunk on them. It looked like some lubricant, but also a fair amount of crud? Cleaned up easily, though. Maintenance is obviously a lot easier on the .22 version because it's simply a recoil spring and there isn't any hot combustion gas in this area unless maybe it sneaks in from the blowback operation on the chamber end. Overall, the maintenance on the SU-22 seems easy and there isn't much required. It's simple and quick, as a .22 should be. I think I may enjoy the heck out of the SU-22. It may have been the .22 rifle I had been wanting. Aesthetically, it's about as close to an evil black gun as a little .22 can be.
The more I play with it, the more I want a PLR-22 as well! I bet that only gets worse after I shoot the SU-22... soon!
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