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Keltec p32, thin and 6.7oz empty. Anything bigger just doesn't work for me in pants pocket. If you are a really big guy and wear overalls then that is a different story.

Will Carry is correct, the LCI and Mag Disconnect will not hamper the action.  However, just removing the mag disconnect will lighten the trigger considerably, I seem to remember about one pound, maybe a bit more.  Of course you have to replace the mag disconnect with either a MKII or one of the specialty bushings made specifically to replace the mag disconnect.  I think the MK II bushing works just fine for this.  Not only does the mag disconnect raise the trigger pull but it is sort of PITA when you are disassembling/reassembling the gun. 

If you live in Clarksville or nearby and want me to do do the MKIII to MKII conversion with VQ parts and others, including dumping the mag disconnect and the LCI.  Set up a time and bring the gun and parts over.  I'll do it for you for free.  If I have been drinking a lot of coffee and am jittery it may take 30 minutes.  However, I think you should do it yourself.  This is an armorer's task, not a gunsmiths. So you can do it with simple tools on the kitchen table, cause that is where I would do it - better light and no "60's era green shag carpet" to lose parts in.  If you don't like dogs, cats, and a cranky old Glock guy don't come.

Lets say you had a raccoon, dog, deer, etc bothering your place but you didn't want to kill it for whatever reason.  I wonder if blasting it with a full auto paintball gun would leave a lasting impression to stay away from the place.   

MKIII steel grips vs the new 2245 is all about weight, balance, how Ruger configures various models and availability.  I have lost count how many I have had or have worked on for friends. I've had pre-MKIs, MKIIs, MKIIIs and 2245s and a Lite. Although the heft of the MKIIIs is comforting I prefer the grip angle, weight and balance of the 2245 in 5.5".  The steel frame of the MKIII/II/I is a clamshell deisgn that is welded along a seam and finished very well.  I have found that the polymer frames hold up to tremendous abuse.  If you get a poly frame 2245 that has removable grip slabs there is a variety of slabs you can install including modding 1911 slabs.  My 2245 does not have removable grips so I cut the back off a Hogue finger groove grip and cemented it on the 2245 frame.  Works like a charm, but doesn't look that great.  I did some dremel carving on my grip to shape some areas where my fingers touch the gun.   I haven't been in a gunshop for 8 or 9 months but the last time I looked the plain jane econo 2245 with 5.5 blue barrel and non removable grips was tagged at about $280-290.  With about 75.00 worth of Volquartsen parts you can really make that thing "sing."     Lots of folks find dis and re-assembly of these guns daunting.  There are good videos and still shot-by-shot tutorials on the internet.    I've ripped the mag disconnects out of a dozens of MKIIIs and replaced them with standard MKII bushings or specialty bushings.  I took the LCI out of several also.  I used an aftermarket LCI filler to fill the gap where the LCI went in mine.  I just don't like all the gunk that accumulates around the LCI.  If you replace the sear and trigger with VQ parts you will drop your trigger pull to a clean 2.75lbs.   This part more accurately replaces the space of the mag disconnect in MKIIIs  http://www.tandemkro...ushing_p_9.html   LCI replacement http://www.tandemkro...nsert_p_16.html   http://www.tandemkro...Combo_p_34.html   These are nice replacement parts also:   Volquartsen triggers (adjusts for over and pretravel) http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2   http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2   MKII bushing to be used in place of the MKIII mag disconnect apparatus:  http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2     Volquartsen sear will do amazing things for your trigger pull http://www.rimfiresp...tegory_Code=VC2

if you are talking 1022 I have two heavy tapered 17" barrels (.920-.750) by GM that will shoot pretty darn good at 100 and 200 meters. The problem with the .920 barrels is off hand shooting balance.  I have had a few .920 from 20" to 16" and they feel like crap except on a bag, rest or bipod.

what caliber and what rifle?

Lots of good plinking discussions in this thread.  Read this one to figure out where you want to be in terms of accuracy, budget and type of competition:   http://forum.accurateshooter.com/index.php?topic=3784230.0

good point on how much can or do you want to spend, not including gouged prices of what was once cheap bulk ammo, the better match grade .22LR ammo can run up to or better than 35 cents a round.   In good ammo times I have had pretty good luck with CCI SV and am using some SK bulk pack I traded for that seems pretty good.  The other day I was having good luck at 200 yards using some leftover Winchester Super X lead bullets.   It is nearly a crying shame that you can't go into a store any longer and buy a 8 or 10 boxes of various stuff at different price points to try out. 

http://www.whittakerguns.com/   Check that rifle out, probably the smartest money spent for a suppressed .22.

for marlin owners, I read a lot of good stuff about the KAT triggers made by "arrowdodger" :   http://www.marlinowners.com/forum/rimfires/90503-kat-trigger-marlin-semi-autos.html   http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=419321&highlight=kat+trigger&page=5   This outfit makes some nice marlin stuff I have used.   http://www.diproductsinc.com/Products.aspx?CAT=3603

Whittakers usually has a few NIB CZ rifles for sale.  If you ever get a chance to shoot a CZ 453 take it.  It has a single set trigger like their 527 centerfire rifles.  

when you are looking at accuracy you need to look at size and weight also.  The best place to look at what it takes in terms of equipment is benchrest.com .  Here is a thread on some of Bill Calfee's converted XP100s that win a lot:  http://benchrest.com/showthread.php?67074-xp-100-pistol or accurateshooter.com.  Take a look at this rifle:  http://www.accurateshooter.com/guns-of-week/gunweek080/     There is accuracy and then there is plinking accuracy.  Most of us are plinkers.  When I have talked to some really good rimfire shooters who have the equipment, experience, time and money to do this I found I don't have the resources or desire to make the commitment.  Ammo costs are sky high too.  Equipment is only half the equation.  

I set up this CZ Ultra Lux and then traded it to a friend who used one ranging shot and then killed a prairie dog in western Nebraska at 210 yards. That CZ had a Yo Dave trigger and Tech Sights.

I don't know how much accuracy you want. Both of the pictured guns are sub 1/4" at 25 and near that at 50. These are not BR guns that cost 5-10K. I gave away an unfired Kimber 82C Stainless Classic Oregon made and that one might have been my most accurate rifle. But I thought a budding young gunsmith could make something of it. I have shot Anschutz 54 actioned rifles and Win 52s, but they are not "fun" for me. Anyway if you want a fun gun I suggest the combination of stock and barrels pictured are pretty "fun." My new "thing" is shooting saltine crackers at 200 yards and both these rifles can do that easily over and over. Shooting at 25 or 50 yards is just not that much fun with these. The real issue is availability of decent ammo for these. I actually traded a .22 rifle for CCI SV ammo a couple of months ago. One of my shooting and 1022 buddies suggested I make my own pair of 1022 Green Mountain Heavy Taper "Twins." Top one was put together by another shooting buddy and the bottom one by me. I traded for the top one and traded into the barrel, stock, trigger for the bottom one. Top: Scope is Mueller APT 4.5-14x40; barrel GM HT SS, OEM receiver, custom trigger 1.75lbs, Ruger DSP stock. Bottom: Scope is Simmons Whitetail 6.5-20x50; barrel GM HT Blue; OEM receiver, custom trigger 2.25lbs, Ruger DSP stock. Top one will be my 100 yard gun; bottom one will be set up for 200 yards. I know the barrelled action of this one is an easy 2" at 200. The top one is about a .6-.7" gun at 100 yards. [url=http://s1346.photobucket.com/user/ch8156/media/HarringtonTwins_zps090321da.jpg.html][/URL]

Ridiculous!  I resemble that characterization!  sigmtman, thanks for the backup, but I think dangerdanjd got my comment.   A few years ago I would have laughed at anyone telling me I bought too many .22s and Glocks.

Quit buying so many guns. That should lessen the aggravation.

What kind of ammo was it?

Now D, don't be nasty:) I swear resellers must be getting every round from the big box stores in TN.  I have still not seen a bulk box for sale in Clarksville.

As of day before yesterday Whittakers had 10 of the .22LR versions, but don't know about .22WMR, or whether they were compacts or standards.  I suspect I will get my hands on one sometime down the line just to see what the action is like.  

Baggies of .22 ammo?  Is that legal?  I get a baggie of reloaded centerfire (which I won't buy), but baggies of .22LR for sale.  Even if legit some brands of ammo don't differentiate easily from one type to another, so a round of CCI Quiet looks exactly like a round of CCI SV to me.  In fact I have a jar of ammo that is only good for blasting cans being as it is filled with ammo I have no clue as to what it is.   Sounds like what one poster has said, must get their ammo from WalMart or other big box store which already had the TN tax stamp on that bulk box.  Do these baggies of ammo have the TN Tax stamp on them?  I suppose so.  Are the baggies labeled with brand, type, bullet weight and velocity? Is it within ATF rules to open a bulk box of ammo packaged for retail sale and resell it in baggies?   At the prices I am hearing for bulk the best thing to do is get on lists for match grade bricks of SK or Wolf through legitimate retailers and skip all local gun shops that engage in gouging.  I suspect that won't work as the casual shooter will likely buy at the current "Market" price.  I wonder if the LGS reselling ammo at 200% mark up over "standard" retail price actually gets enough profit to make the practice worthwhile over both short and long term? 

http://www.rockethub.com/25415

I traded into this yesterday, made betwen '54-'58, so maybe it is my birthday gun, as I was hatched in that window too. Tried to hit some groups at just 25 yards with the peeps, got disgusted and slapped that old 3/4" B4 Weaver on it. Hit my first group after zero at .158" center to center of that precarious bag combo pictured using CCI SV. Then put up the Mossberg to shoot saltine crackers at 200 yards with one of my 1022s. Incidentally, generic saltines are very cheap, biodegradeble and easy to spot on an earthen berm.

what are you trying to build?  Just 10/22 curiosity.  There are several of us on TGO who haunt the halls of RFC and 1022 land quite a bit.   

is this what you are looking for?  http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Stevens-Replacement-Trigger-Guard/dp/B004UB79XQ