A stunning recreation of a historic firearm
The VP-22 (Ветеринарний Пістолет-22) is a .22 caliber, bolt action, magazine fed, optionally suppressed pistol. It is influenced by the British Welrod Mk 1 pistol. While designed for point blank or very short range, it is reasonably accurate to 25 meters.
The design includes a grip safety, and a magazine that is integral to the grip. It can be fired without the grip/magazine making for a very compact package
While the pistol can be safely fired using High Velocity 22LR, optimal ammunition used would be 22LR Subsonic, or 22LR CCI Quiet. Even quieter are the 22 Colibri!
Aside from fasteners, only a few metal parts are required. Barrel liner, breech face, 2 bearings, springs, and pins.
It is easily printed using less than .5kg of filament with only one part needing support. Excellent, thorough documentation make this an achievable build, even if its not an easy one.
22 liner – .305, .315, .375
1/8″ steel shaped for breech face
2x m3x10 coutersunk for magazine base (heatset optional)
CMMG/Scarpion magazine spring/ 11/32″ OD 9/32″ ID
3x m3x8 for rear of upper (2 for bolt retettion, 1 for connection to the back of lower with heatset optional)
6x m3x12 (4 lower to upper, 2 barrel into upper with heatset optional)
1x m3x8 countersunk for trigger guard
1x m3x30 magazine button
1 small spring for mag button (I used a pen spring)
6mm with 1mm wire spring cut to length for trigger and .6mm wire for grip safety
1x m2.5×50 screw and about 10 nuts for striker (or other weight as long as it’s above 3g in the end)
1x 1x10x37 striker spring (Harlot spring is 1x10x50, I cut mine to 11 coils)
1x m3x4 and heatset for extractor retention
1x m3 heatset for threaded bolt cap (for bolt hadle screw
1x m3x45 screw for bolt handle
2x 688zz bearings for bolt handle
1.5mm music wire for all pins
4x m3x30 with cap cut off metal epoxied into rear of receiver
Jumbo bobby pin or spring steel like from a windshield wiper, shaped for etractor
Coming soon…
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