Umarex hk416 22lr thoughts

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
bbortko

bbortko

Polypterus
MFK Member
Mar 3, 2010
3,166
222
96
Northwest, Indiana
Ive been waiting for a browning buckmark to go on sale but have recently become interest ed in tge Umarex HK416 22lr, but cant seem to find any reviews online. Does anyone here have one or experience with one? The Browning is a great gun but pricey, for a little bit more I can get this hk. The main purpose of this gun is to have a 22 so that I don't have the cost of shooting my fnx-40 the entire time I'm at the range. I'd like to run about 100 rounds per visit through the 40 and then use the 22 for the next several hundred.
 
bbortko said:
Ive been waiting for a browning buckmark to go on sale but have recently become interest ed in tge Umarex HK416 22lr, but cant seem to find any reviews online. Does anyone here have one or experience with one? The Browning is a great gun but pricey, for a little bit more I can get this hk. The main purpose of this gun is to have a 22 so that I don't have the cost of shooting my fnx-40 the entire time I'm at the range. I'd like to run about 100 rounds per visit through the 40 and then use the 22 for the next several hundred.
Click to expand...

Have not seen that one.... Still in the Interzone there..
 
I never saw it until you posted it. I'm gonna do some more reading on it, but I think I'd like to buy one in october(or maybe sooner). I've been looking for something to replace the 10-22 I had, and it looks like this will be it. I'd have to hear something really bad about it to change my mind, so unless one jams, explodes, and blows off some guys hands, eyes, and balls, I'll probably buy it.
 
went and ordered the browning buckmark practical urx last night since it will be better for honing my pistol skills. Maybe more info will become available over time and I'll get the HK later.
 
they are airsoft guns with cast aluminum internals and buttons for show. you have no options for internal upgrades or standard AR parts. If you really want something tactical and 22, go with the Smith & Wesson MP15-22. It actually functions EXACTLY like an AR, has a REAL trigger group that will take drop in trigger assemblies and most other mil-spec AR parts and furniture. I'll see if i can find it, but there was some scans of the exploded view of the HK416 and its not pretty. Most of the "rivets" and "ditents" on the outside are just cast marks in the reciver to make it look like it has them. The bolt release is also just a button, its connected to nothing, so you dont get a last shot hold open.

BTW - I love my MP15-22....its all kinds of tacti-cooled out haha
 
HK has the airsoft and 22lr versions of the 416 but your selling me on the Smith and Wesson. Since I already have the browning in 22 maybe I'll start saving my pennies and get the Smith in
223/5.56 next spring. I'm picking up a Remington 870 in a could weeks so that will keep content through the fall and since I'm not a fan of shooting outside in a Chicago winter I might as well wait til spring.
 
i dont blame you.

Here is some info on the 416, last thing in the article pretty much sums it up

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2009/12/05/hk-umarex-hk416-d-22-tactical-rimfire/

"its NOT a real 416 in 22LR or is it an AR-15"

Mine runs when rained on, its had the mags dripping wet, water all over and in it and still went bang everytime. i thought it was going to help me not want a 5.56 version, but yeah, didnt really help out any haha
 
Mr.Geoff, I just did some quick reading on the S&W, and some of your observations are correct, some-not so much. Neither rifle is a "real AR", the S&W is a dedicated .22lr platform, and the number of interchangeable parts is less than you make it sound like. I would still rather have the aluminum receivers of the 416, and I personally like the look of it over the S&W. If I really cared about having the exact features of the bigger rifles, I'd buy one, But I'm just looking for something to take out to the quarry, and run some cheap ammo through for fun. I had a fully custom ruger 10-22 for that, but my brother borrowed it, and likes it, so I told him to keep it.
 
The 15-22 is more real to an AR then both the guns that Umarex is importing to the US right now. I feel that if the rifle is going to have buttons/levers/rivets/pins on them, they should actually do something, instead of just be cast into the mold to make them look like their big brother. That being said, the M&P dissassembles like an AR, has a REAL trigger group, the bolt is a AR styled carrier, etc etc. Plus I have been hearing lots of reliability issues with the Umarex products, as they are literially re-tooled airsoft products. Hopefully it works better then the Colt M4 products they have out, i will give it that it is cool looking, but the dissassembly of them in a mess. it bothers me that you cant take the bolt and what not out of them. Just my opinion though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom