making a compact takedown .22lr - help?

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Take a look at the M4 survival rifle for inspiration. Its a pretty handy little gun.

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>>32524663

Chiappa Little Badger is good too.

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Thanks guys. Didn't know about the M4. Looking through the guy's 77 pages of blueprints on Flickr (linked in an old AR15.com thread) I find them pretty much impossible to read, but then I've never done anything from blueprints. What I'm wondering about is more procedural stuff, practical and conceptual at the same time I guess. Like is it practical/safe to have a single strong lug, and is something like 1/2" of mild steel with 1/8" wall thickness enough to support that lug? Or should I plan on an opposed pair of lugs and ways for them, which is somewhat harder to fabricate and align correctly?

This was the first one I built, using a 6061 block and a Winchester Cooey barrel. A stud mounted on the threaded-on stock tube is the locking lug preventing the bolt from flying back into my cheek. Works well, but I'm considering adding a secondary lock of some sort.

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>>32526402
Here it is taken down.

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And this was the second one, a folding 'rifle' with a 4" barrel. External bolts are engaged by flanges on the rear of the hollow bolt to lock it. Works, better trigger using a piston sear instead of levers, more compact and light broken down. But I'm after something elegant for the third go-round in this series.

>>32526451
On this one I didn't use an integral extractor like in the first, too fiddly I thought, so I opted for a dedicated extractor slide ahead of the port. Not happy with that, won't do that again. I've added a little kydex toggle along the bottom to lock the stock arm into position once opened, not shown in the pictures.

Or, you know, you can just get a 4lb Ruger 10/22 LITE takedown and have superior everything.

Jew Toob channel/UCrO8qCoLozuXPz_VMbBCogQ

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AR 7
https://www.henryrifles.com/rifles/u-s-survival-ar-7/

>>32528713
Yeah sure, but that's cheating. In the sense that all it takes is money. I'm interested in learning more skills with a project.

>>32528761
>channel/UCrO8qCoLozuXPz_VMbBCogQ
Yup, got a couple of his videos saved since a while back. I'm not interested in semi-auto for this, prefer a locked bolt for simplicity and quiet. EccoMachine is certainly providing inspiring work though, geez, I mean the guy's got some chops.

>>32528824
That's both cheating and fugly.

>>32528907
Have you seen his newest concept? It's a bolt action, and it's lighter by far than the semi-auto. He just put it out on New Years. The guy is legitimately the next Serbu.

>>32528907
Oooooh, wait, he's got a new one with a lightweight bolt .22lr! Cool, that's what I'll watch after getting some more work done on actual work stuff.

>>32528940
Sweet, you saw that. Heh, that's why I was pointing him out. Good stuff.