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I'm not quite sure what to say about this...

I think that rifle is better suited to sporter weight barrel and splinter forend rather than the beaver tail. Like my model 24 Remington…

My gut is a big no..

Take a tiny, handy, semi automatic 22, and make it into a tactical monster! I'm sure the millennials will love it. I don't.

Why not add an integral suppressor while you're at it?

May I suggest, “Blecchhh!!!”

Maybe it’s an optical illusion, but that looks like an awful lot of drop on the stock for a scope.

Thats unpleasant.

Abomination... It's like Browning naming their new inertia shotgun "A5". It is probably a great gun, but it isn't an A5 and there is no reason to tarnish the Auto Five's legacy by sticking it one a new gun of different design.

It wpuld fit right in beside one of the "Tacticool" lever actions.

We used to hear of gilding a turd, this is schidting on a nugget!

The word abomination comes to mind here.

The funky stock angle is probably due to the angle of the magazine tube. Wouldn’t be any ooglier if they’d made the comb more level, and would be more functional.

JMB just rolled over in his grave...

What a great idea... Take a trim, handy, graceful little rifle, and put a bull barrel and a monster stock on it.

The comp on the end of the barrel is what sold me, good thinking, it's going to need it when the 22 LR starts bucking that bull barrel around.

Here's a news flash for the corporate idiocracy and designers at Browning, the existing barrel has enough shoulder for a suppressor when threaded.


Look for them at CDNN for blowout prices in about 4 months.

Jerry

I have the SA22 in “short only”
Haven’t shot it in years.
Sure like it better than this ugly thing

OMG. What's been seen can't be undone..

Then you can rasp off the oogly stock comb and almost have a nice gun, without sights of course.

It’s a Tacticool Bubba Special. A vertical hand grip under the forearm would really add to it.

For those more recently born who may be wondering about our reactions, this is the original version to which the Challenge is being compared.






And this:

One of the greatest things about the original Belgian and Remington takes on JMB's little gem is that when taken down they neatly fit into a backpack and can be pulled out, assembled, and up an' shootin' in a jiffy. Anything that impedes that is not an improvement.

I never found my Belgian version especially accurate, probably because the original stock doesn't fit me well. But it certainly shoots well enough to fill a starving hiker's belly with hare, cottontail, squirrel, and fool hen! Full disclosure, I also took the largest brown trout I ever got with it. (How long is the Statute of Limitation on trouticide in Utah? Could I plead reduced mental capacity due to malnutrition?).