Purchased my first in 1980 after just exiting High School, stained pallet wood, plastic banded, alloy trigger housing with flat mag release. Shoots okay other than stock trigger was 6+, stoned and played after purchased and it is now just over three and is a solid little shooter. 2001 bought another, went to installing fat barrel/Bentz and Hogue and a 3x9 and it shoots a little tighter, trigger still almost 5. The whole SBR/Brace monkey shine going on now I thought I needed a Charger, a 10" fixed lives here now and aluminum brace adapter is inbound. Bloop tube to be made to get to 16.1" on a take off barrel, 12" so can will stick out an inch at 17", or 10"/can with brace, time will tell. Trigger was 2.8 out of the box, did I win something? Well. with the 10/22 mental melt going on I find BX Triggers for $60, ordered two. Not being or wanting to enter into the level of screw in barrel and four hundred dollar trigger housing 10/22 club I got off the gas. The 2.8 went to the early, two new ones (2.1 and 2.3) in fat barrel and Charger. Hopefully this weekend all will get a truck ride!
Magazines- Always played the ten rounders, no need for more on bench or tree rats, etc. with flush and tight. The Charger came with a BX-15 and this is where the mind wandered. 10 rounds in the little rotary, okay, fifteen rounds in a magazine I can lay two boxes equaling 100 rounds on top and still have room and the just arrived BX-25's you can lay three boxes on? You would think with all the powerhouse engineering capabilities someone in camp would have captured a thought to create more than 25 rounds in a seven inch by inch and a quarter 22 long rifle magazine, maybe smaller magazine? Maybe I am being to critical or missing the thought process in the design. I have screw in palm stands for my Schutzen poppers. maybe that's it, beats me. A lot of Bill's stuff lives here but at the end of the day, but being real quite I still would probably grab one of the old tuned Marlins heading out for some 22 fun, maybe that will change.