Colt Licensed, UmarexUSA Imported, Walther Made M4 .22LR Carbine

[Esquire]

I shot my Colt M4 for the first time this weekend. As others have mentioned, adjusting the bolt speed for HV rounds was essential. After the adjustment, far less failures. Go easy on the rapid fire, too. Too fast, it increases chance of jamming. Extremely accurate. Overall, I like the rifle.

[alfalfa]

Congrats on the new rifle! I bought a new Colt M4 Ops a couple weeks back, and am also pretty pleased with it. The gun is both fun and cheap to shoot, so it fills its intended role as a plinker.

My only complaint about the rifle is the frequent light case strikes it gets. I've put about 600 rounds through it so far, and haven't had a single failure to feed or failure to eject malfunction, but I probably get 5 light case strikes per 100 rounds. I'm not sure if it's the ammo or the gun, but I've found that if the gun won't fire a round the first time, it won't fire it on subsequent attempts either. Then again, I haven't cleaned the gun yet and took it straight from the gun shop to the range. Perhaps the light strikes will disappear once I clean the rifle.

Anyone else getting light case strikes/failure to fire with the their Colt 22lr?

alfalfa

[Ganner]

Congrats on the new rifle! I bought a new Colt M4 Ops a couple weeks back, and am also pretty pleased with it. The gun is both fun and cheap to shoot, so it fills its intended role as a plinker.

My only complaint about the rifle is the frequent light case strikes it gets. I've put about 600 rounds through it so far, and haven't had a single failure to feed or failure to eject malfunction, but I probably get 5 light case strikes per 100 rounds. I'm not sure if it's the ammo or the gun, but I've found that if the gun won't fire a round the first time, it won't fire it on subsequent attempts either. Then again, I haven't cleaned the gun yet and took it straight from the gun shop to the range. Perhaps the light strikes will disappear once I clean the rifle.

Anyone else getting light case strikes/failure to fire with the their Colt 22lr?

alfalfa

You should have lubricated it and did some light cleaning before going to the range specially the firing pin.

[chucksolo69]

I was getting light firing pin strikes too, so I squirted a small amount of Break Free in the firing pin slot and the issue went away. A rimfire gun should always be cleaned and lubed PRIOR to your first time at the range. A lot of the negative comments I read on the forums come from owners who take them out of the box straight to the range. Remember, shipping lube is a heck of a lot different than shooting lube. Same thing happens with the SIG Mosquito. Shooters need to clean and lube the gun first.

[alfalfa]

Thanks for the replies guys. I figured the light strikes could be attributed to my lack of cleaning the weapon...I just field stripped and cleaned the rifle, so hopefully it will run flawlessly next trip to the range.

This is my first rifle, and rimfire for that matter, so I wasn't sure if the light strike issue was just common to rimfires in general. I'm primarily a handgun shooter, and have always just taken my guns straight to the range to shoot. Lesson learned.

alfalfa

[speeedracerr]

Hi Guys,

Im interested in changing my stock to a "Magpul MOE or CTR" stock and wondered if anyone here knows if either the mil-spec or commercial stock will fit?

Im not sure if the stock is like the grip where its proprietary and nothing will fit, but I thought I'd try here and ask.

Thanks for the help fellow Colt M4 .22 gun owners

[AlbcAlbrr]

Hi Guys,

Im interested in changing my stock to a "Magpul MOE or CTR" stock and wondered if anyone here knows if either the mil-spec or commercial stock will fit?

Im not sure if the stock is like the grip where its proprietary and nothing will fit, but I thought I'd try here and ask.

Thanks for the help fellow Colt M4 .22 gun owners

I put a Magpul CTR mil-spec stock on mine. Although it does fit on the buffer tube there is still a little play.

It doesn't snug up as it does on a true mil-spec tube.

It does though fit better than the stock version from Colt.

[speeedracerr]

I put a Magpul CTR mil-spec stock on mine. Although it does fit on the buffer tube there is still a little play.

It doesn't snug up as it does on a true mil-spec tube.

It does though fit better than the stock version from Colt.

Cool... Thanks a bnch AlbcAlbrr! I'll probably order one online today or wait for the gun show in Ontario this weekend should they have them.

Gene