Mags seat just fine. Yeah, it’s probably the fatter cases and rims on the WMR that make it tight.

I’d prefer like a 12-inch barrel on mine haha. Seriously though, most 22 LR hits full speed by like 9-ish inches of barrel length so may as well be as short and light as possible. Not sure about WMR but 18 inches is a lot of barrel for a tiny cartridge. …Okay, yeah, looks like a lot of 22 WMR loads are at full speed around like 13-14 inches of barrel length and some start to slow down past like 18 inches. Check these two things:

http://www.ballisticsbytheinch.com/22mag.html

https://rifleshooter.com/2018/03/22-magnum-barrel-length-and-velocity/

chipgophers, duh.

Got the .22WMR BMR carbon 2 years ago. Thing is a tack driver with the right ammo. Around 1 MOA at 100 yards. Can get smaller if I do my part and there’s no wind. Lightweight packing around when varmint blasting.

You’re correct in that you have to run the bolt hard all the way back to eject the casing.

Question Jeremy, if you read the comments. How easily can you seat a full magazine in the gun when the bolt is closed?

Maybe .22LR is easier but with the .22WMR, I have give the mag a good pop with the palm of my hand to seat a full mag with the bolt closed.

Only thing I’d change, though it would add more weight, would be to have a slightly longer barrel so as to wring a little more velocity out of the .22WMR ammo.