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How many .22 clones can you shoot in one day? Keep guessing. In the meantime here’s video of me vainly plinking away with Beretta’s very newest rimfire offering: a .22 clone of their pricy ARX-160. What is there to say about a two-handed, five-pound pistol with precise aperture sights and a mediocre trigger? If we’re feeling charitable, it feeds and fires reliably using ‘standard’ .22 AR magazines. I’m usually a decent shot with a .22 rifle or pistol, but I listened in vain for the ‘ping’ of lead hitting steel as I fired this bit of firearms curiosa to little effect. The main reason why this is a FOAB (Fish on A Bicycle) firearm . . .
The supplied (pop-up) aperture sights are nearly impossible to use. This gun begs for a big red-dot sight. RF begged me to throw a towel over it; he thinks the ARX-160 is the ugliest gun he’s ever seen. I think it would look awesome in the hands of a sci-fi Space Marine.
The ARX-160’s so new that no price has been announced yet. The sample I fired may in fact be the world’s only working prototype. As with the .22 Mini-Uzi pistol I demoed just before this, I fail to see the point of turning rifles into pistols. But somebody must see a reason for doing so (money?) or else they’d stop making them.
Uhhh….. Yeah I fail to see the point, just like Rugers .22lr LCR. A .22 clone of something good for the caliber it’s made for, not .22.
Agreed. A 22lr pistol seems rather lame. That said when the ARX-160 chambered in 5.56 shows up I’ll be lining up to one of the second or third production runs. (you know; after all the bugs are worked out from the first run) if they offer a 22lr conversion kit for the standard models I’d probably take one.
Someone at Beretta has been playing too much Fallout 3, I think. 😛
At least they let us play New Vegas at the range.
It looks like a tacticool nerf gun
Horribly ugly.
The Snookie .22: Squat, bulky and useless
How about unfolding the stock and use it the way it was meant to. It’s the 22 version of an assault rifle, not a squirt gun.
How ’bout this? http://www.tactical-life.com/online/exclusives/beretta-arx-22/?hp=exclusives_title
I picked up a ARX-160 .22LR rifle and it shoots flawlessly. It will accept any .22LR round you give it with no failures. If the pistol is anything like the rifle I will get one, no matter how ugly it is.
“I fail to see the point of turning rifles into pistols”. How about concealed carry laws?
Grabbed one from Buds Guns on blow out price, it is back to full price now, shoots great, I like it, put a Crimson Trace on the rail and this thing attracts attention at the range. Comes in a nice suitcase type hardcase.
I received my ARX160 pistol today. I like the look and like it for an easy to use and a fun plinking tool. It seems to me that an elitist gunner looks down on and wrongly judges so many weapons. Especially (I hope) this new weapon for us.
My wife is nit a fan of recoil and it seems to be a near impozsible issue for her to overcome. Hence the reason for her SIG Mosquito. She runs it just fine and is learning the fine art of multiple hits on target. A friend has one of these arx160s with laser. He was able to sling it over my wife’s shoulder and had her ringing steel with it at 20 yards, no problem. She was able to manuever the weapon in conjunction with the zeroed laser extremely well. I know this gun is not for everyone but with laser in tow, she loved it and can hit with it. 20 rounds of .22 in the right place is just as lethal as any other caliber. The cool thing is she wants one of these ugly things. The looks grows on you when you consider what you get for your money. $300+ is cheap price if it can get my better half to the range.
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