Cheapest and/or safest way to plug AR22 buffer?

[sd408]

Tried sourcing taccom pressure plugs but figure that'll be impossible to find at this point. Is there a cheap part or a safe way to DIY a plug on a budget?

[G-forceJunkie]

If your running a carbine length buffer tube, put a rifle buffer in it.

[champu]

Tried sourcing taccom pressure plugs but figure that'll be impossible to find at this point. Is there a cheap part or a safe way to DIY a plug on a budget?

Are you trying to do what the taccom plug was trying to do (i.e. use the buffer spring to put forward pressure on a .22 bolt carrier assembly)? Or are you just trying to put something in the buffer tube to say (to a hypothetical jury?) "see, this clearly isn't a centerfire lower."

[sd408]

Are you trying to do what the taccom plug was trying to do (i.e. use the buffer spring to put forward pressure on a .22 bolt carrier assembly)? Or are you just trying to put something in the buffer tube to say (to a hypothetical jury?) "see, this clearly isn't a centerfire lower."

[champu]

I have a dedicated .22 AR based on a tacsol barrel/bolt carrier group and I haven't felt the need to do anything with the vestigial buffer, but you could probably make something out of a piece of plastic pipe.

It wouldn't move, cycle, or see high pressures when firing, so there's not much to worry about safety-wise. I don't know if it's easy to source 7/8" O.D. plastic pipe, but maybe a short piece cut something like this...

[SkyHawk]

What happened to Taccom? Is my pressure plug worth bank now??

[Dvrjon]

Little bit of both.

Ive read that pressure on the .22lr BCG helps reliability since there wont be as much wiggle room.