I had a spare Slickside upper, and old M16 barrel with some early A2 handguards with the CHEAPEST complete lower PSA has to offer with my vintage Ciener conversion.

It has absolutely no rattle in the fitment.

This will be a fun toy to teach someone how to use an AR on the cheap.

Vietnamese folks are fairly small sometimes. This will come in handy for someone .

I’m liking your vintage builds lately.

This will be my training rifle.

It just has to hit a 12" steel at 50 yards.

It's simple and super light.

I have one of those too, 16” PSA upper with a rifle length gas system. CMMG .22LR kit. Added a carry handle to the Pic rail.

Anderson stripped lower with a Timney trigger and Brownell’s retro furniture.

Fun plinker and as a bonus I can put my .22 can on it, the only .22 rifle 8 have with a threaded barrel.

An 22lr AR-15 is simply one of the funnest rifles ever built!

I have a couple S&W MP15/22's that I used to shoot at the plates at my local gun club. Multiple club members mentioned to me that they went and bought their own after trying mine.

It was easy to double tap 25 yd plates and/or keep the swinger targets spinning 360 degrees until you ran out of magazines. My best advice is to buy a LOT of magazines and fill them all before you start.

I put the same premium triggers in my M&P 15/22's that I used in my 5.56x45 AR's. Not sure if it was excellent training or just some of the most fun shooting ever. If you don't already have one you NEED one.........dj

I took my younger boys out today with my dedicated CMMG .22LR "M4 Clone" with the suppressor mounted. We shot the plate rack at about 20 yards on a pistol bay...definitely not something you could do with a rifle caliber...and the boys had a blast. They got familiarization on the platform without having to deal with all the challenges of a "big gun". I had a good time running through the plate rack at speed with it, too. It's a fun, reliable rifle, even with subsonic.

Question: What kind of accuracy do you guys get from those conversion kits? I keep hearing that they're not very good in that respect because the twist rate is too fast for a .22LR. Maybe a retro 1:12 or 1:13 barrel would work better in such a setup?

I bought a dedicated .22LR barrel with 1:16 twist for mine. It's pretty decent...not benchrest accurate but for a carbine it puts them where I want them and I've had zero issues with tumbling. Part of the reason I built it was to be a suppressor host and I really didn't want to risk baffle strikes pushing .22LR through a barrel designed for .223 with too fast a twist.

I have a couple three dedicated 22lr uppers. I use the boonie packer better mag adapter (not required but nice) to use 15-22 mags. They are the most fun you can have for 3 dollars of ammo.

have or had, depending on how you look at it, a similar set up years ago to practice offhand at an indoor range,

as in a A1 rifle, but had the M261 kit in it,

still have the rifle in some configuration, an A1 upper and a kit or 2,

it would hold 2 inches at 25 yrds easy, (distance of the indoor range)

This is a 1 in 12 M16 barrel. We'll see.

I only need it to ding the steel at 50 yards to teach how to use the rifle.

It’s pretty satisfying for me to hear the “ding”

The S&W .22LR AR has been tempting me.

A PSA AR is stupid cheap, then add a .22 kit and it's dual purpose. You can even put the S&W mag adapter in it.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
The S&W .22LR AR has been tempting me.

bought one when they first came out
nice firearms,
did not like the trigger, so replaced it, (any AR trigger fits)

I put a cheap dot on it and it is quite accurate

The vintage Vietnam era 1:12 barrel the op has is good for this. The modern 1/7 twist isn’t ideal for sure. I’ve wanted to build one. I just look in my safe though and I already have the Smith plastic version which works fine. A metal one would be nice though.

Are the parts there to make a .22 mag on the AR platform?

Love my CMMG kit