Anybody ever played with a Chipmunk .22 from the Rogue Rifle Company

I've been wanting a very light and compact .22 rifle for backpack trips. And the stainless synthetic stocked one is 2.5 lbs.

Add a Leupold 4x compact and mounts for another 10 oz. or so.

What could be done to that little rifle to shave more weight off of it.

When the Chipmunk first came out, it was marketed towards "youth" age shooters...young shooters who needed a much shorter length of pull. I had one for awhile for my, then, 6 yr old and it fit her perfect. This was a very early one and they may have changed. Might check LOP when you look at one. As for weight savings, hollowing out as much of the stock as you can including cutting a large "traingular" shaped hole through the buttstock from side to side. Would kind of look like the Barracuda Thumbhole at the bottom of the RR Co. web page.
Don't really know how much weight this would save, but when you start with 2.5 lbs, you really don't have a lot to work with!

All I know that is they come in pink and in red, white and blue and have about an 8" LOP. My grandaughter wants one.

Those are very tiny rifles. When I sold guns, I always joked that I wasn't sure whether to recommend a sling or a holster with one...

Crickett is a similar rifle,

http://www.crickett.com/

and I believe Henry makes a youth model with options, also.

http://www.henryrepeating.com/h005_minibolt.cfm

I bought a Chipmunk for my sons years ago, I always thought that it would be neat if a stock maker made a very svelt stock in a grownup length of pull for use after all the kids had gotten big enough to take over your full sized guns.

It was a really accurate rifle, ours had some extraction problems that I worked out with a little filing on the extractor hook.

My granddaughter has the pink model. I did the extractor work, polished the trigger, and did a slight reshape of the sights. No scope yet. (You could use the Leupold 2.5x which is 6.5oz) She loves it and I think that, any lighter, it might be less useful. And accuracy with her rifle has been excellent.

We have one of them too. I think to save any measureable amount of weight you'd almost have to make a new stock. As mentioned, you could make a skeletonized version and save some weight possibly, though I can use the tiny LOP that comes with it for the occasional shot.

I do think the chipmunk has better wood, fit, and finish that the Henry or Rogue models but I may be biased a little too. Also, the one I got was an early production model and they were definately paying attention to QC at that time.

For what it is, a nice little gun.

I'm not concerned about the length of pull for a little single shot rifle who's use is to headshoot grouse, quail, bunnies, etc. for meat. A guy could probably make a lightweight slip on boot to increase that.

They need to make a titanium version of this with a slim barrel, maybe aluminum with a steel 22 barrel sleeve.

Or maybe a titanium version of a Browning .22 auto with a synthetic stock.

Probably a good market for it with us backpack types.

on the subject, CZ makes a neat little youth .22, but it's up a size in scale compared to these others mentioned.