5000rd .22LR CMMG TORTURE TEST

SO EVERYONE KNOWS!!! THIS IS PART 1, I didn’t want this video to be 4 hours long. So the results will not be in this video, you are now along for the ride!

@3:10, dude, I can tell you right now what would fix that malfunction. Use the upgraded, filled in, charging handle from CMMG or simply fill a standard one in with epoxy. Works an effing charm. The little .22 cases get caught in the gas key slot on the standard handles and get hung up.

@1:58 🤣. God dang it bobby, effing classic bro

awesome content as always guys, keep up the great work.

They work flawless in mine

Aguila 22lr works the best it’s hotter than all other brands

Love what you guys do and just th attitude you always have and love for nature yer comment on the trees is what got me the most on this vid

Ran cmmg kit through buddies stock sig ar. ..flawless no jams. Made me notice the cmmg kit likes a stiffer buffer spring

What brand did you use for the brass ram rod kit to remove squib loads?

About a year and a half ago, I built my first AR (80% lower and PSA kit). I had never owned a rifle before and only shot one about 35 years earlier. I build in 5.56 so it can eat the most common rounds that will be available if….. needed. Got the CMMG .22 conversion for cheap training and to teach new shooters (I never had experience with rifles, but carried a handgun for work for about ten years)
Love this kind of video – will watch the second part too – wondering if you did any comparisons of accuracy in a 5.56, depending upon twist rates or bullet weights of the .22? That would interest me too. My 5.56s are in 7 and 8 twist rate and handle 55 grain .223 fine. (I am assuming any lack of perfect accuracy is my own fault, plus price point for parts)

What is this song? it's hella good

What is that mag loader you're using?

LETS GOOOO, might have to get myself one of these 👀👀

Just bought one myself.

I took it to the range and put it into my upper that has a 14.5(1:8) Faxon pencil barrel. That upper has a Primary Arms 3x prism.

The only malfunction I had in about 500 rounds was 1 failure to fire that was the cartridge, hit it 6 times in the rifle and a Glock 44.

It almost matched my zero. I was hitting steel regularly out to 100 yards. At the 135 I could tell the bullets were tumbling because I was hitting steel about 1/3 of the time and the holds were erratic and hard to predict.

I have never had a failure with auto match in my ar22 rifles I have 3 one bearcreek upper one cmmg conversion and an ATI .22. Now that I have opened my fat mouth let the SHTF!

also, they need to be DRIPPING with oil….. the rails the bolt slides on, and even a drop or 2 in the chamber

Yeah, the dirty thing is kinda bummer. I've been using the CHEAP .22, and have to clean, at least the chamber before using cheap steal 5.56/223. Brass always seems to work fine.

Missed seeing your content

Dude, I remember following you like 2 years and 20 ig accounts ago. Cool to see how far you've come. Quality content

Those things are notoriously unreliable. I'm surprised you were actually able to do this.

Ballin out there in the woods my fellow tree people!

That looks like an excellent way to kill small game while in the suck as well. Good work bros, ATS.

I have one works good with my binary trigger and it's a whole lot cheaper to shoot

Well you definitely won the award for longest intro ever 😂

wow you can really see that bolt bounce in the slomo footage ,,you probably never realise would ya !

I have one of those, I like the idea of two guns in one. If you wanna do a real torture test you should get a Franklin Armory binary. Mag dumps are WAAAAYYYYY fun!

Squibs are very rare… this guy has seen multiple? Must have been shooting for a really long time. lol

I'd love to come to a range day with ya

I'm pro abrupt cliffhanger ending

never seen that loader before. i love my conversion but it gets naaasty quick.

I’ve loved mine, highly recommend to anyone with the AR platform.

It’s kinda sad folk had to be reminded about range hot/cold but it’s very important. I’ve seen a man just start walking off onto the range with 15+ people shooting and luckily for him everyone else there was on their p’s and q’s. Never seen anything like it never want to again

Borebuddy has some excellent products to improve reliability… i swear by the buffer plug , charging handle insert and extra power ejector. You wornt regret it.

Finally got my first can and tested it out today. Fucking LOVE it.
Pro tip, double check your ear pro when you switch to a non suppressed fire arm. Was reminded when I let rip with a 12ga no ear pro

I've been running this kit for a couple years. The empty shells will catch inside that groove in the charging handle. To stop these stovepipes, I dedicated a charging handle to my conversion kit set-up and filled the first inch or so of the groove with Silicone RTV. Ejection is flawless with this fix.

Good video

I'd like to make a PSA to Sig MCX owners: Illumined Arms makes a kit that allows you to use one of these CMMG .22 kits in any 5.56 MCX. For anyone who bought an MCX and now cant afford ammo because you bought an MCX.

I love this kit. The unreliability of .22 LR is good for malfunction training. I have mine configured with the shortest native 22 LR barrel CMMG sells just for fun. The rig looks like a 5.56 rig so everyone thinks the muzzle blast will be aweful until the first shot.

Very cool, what is going on with the blurriness in the video?

Had a lot of malfunctions and even broke the charging handle at first. Reported it to cmmg and they gave me the kit specific handle ( 80 bucks )for free, good folks over there. Add some bore buddy reliability parts and you can go ham, dumped spamming hard af 12 or so mags in a row with no malfunctions last week. That reloader is a great idea too, makes it so much quicker. Anyway, love this thing and can't recommend it enough.

Ps. Federal sucks load for sure, i stick with cci through black dog mags

Worried about range safety and your buddy has no safety glasses on 👍

The only way to avoid the cmmg 22 jam of death is to get the bore buddy charging handle insert. It fills in the space where the spent case gets lodged in the charging handle groove when exposed as the .22 bolt cycles backwards. It’s called the jam of death because cycling the action won’t clear it. If it does happen tho, just pull the bolt back with your finger pressed into the dust cover groove on the bolt and you will release the jam of death. All in all, highly recommend the bore buddy upgrades available on their website.

Mine went over 8000 rounds before the firing pin broke after that another 6000 then the extractor broke replaced it currently at around 18,000 still running I clean it about every 500 rounds the spring seems to be just fine i have had to replace 2 mags due to the springs weaking