Thread: .22lR Norinco JW15

Funny thing is I've done 8-10 of these little modded sharpshooters for myself over the years - and the whole lot have disappeared!! My ones!! Not really done for other people, but they'll just ask or I'll hear of someone setting up new and.... oh oh .. another one gone!!

There is no functional reason to have a 22LR barrel beyond 16". Powder has well burned in 22s by 12-14" depending on loads - someone might have data on this.

I keep some longer barrels - for aesthetic reasons with some models, to retain classic models intact, or maintain unmodified $$ value of a more expensive make. But for hunters/workers - they will all be trimmed to 16". The chop and recrown seems overall to improve accuracy a fraction - likely due to better crowning. Advantage with 16" hunters is lightness and manoevrability - just so easy to handle in and out of truck/quad etc when short carbine length.

JW15 is modelled on the Brno model 1. It benefits from polishing work etc - QC work that should have been done in the factory. Seems to bring out that Brno DNA. Cheap wee rifles but often with surprisingly good barrels. Of 15 or so bench tested only one could not shoot sub 1" groups at 50m - a crappy Polytech version. Of the modded ones almost all under 0.7", and most sub 0.5" at best. That's good. Gadgetman's little JW shoots 0.3" groups at 50m