Rimfire Radio

With Gatlab ditching the show yet again—presumably to fight his high blood pressure, bees, or the surveillance state—the resident degenerates are joined by Whiskey Trail, a self-proclaimed centerfire slave who hasn't shot a .22 since the Eisenhower administration.

The gang dives headfirst into the Rimfire Rundown, drooling over over-priced 10/22 builds, custom Taiwanese bullpups, and Dan’s newest prized possession: a Henry survival rifle that looks like a plastic shotgun stock and functions like a glorified Skittles holder. AR Drew brags about his factory Tippmann FRT setup with an integrally suppressed upper, while Dusky recaps his mediocre steel match performance and details his borderline obsessive 17-round .22 LR chrono tests for "science."

Over on the Centerfire Detour, Dan manages to turn his Beretta 92X into a single-shot paperweight thanks to a suppressor setup that refuses to cycle, Dusky somehow hits a steel target at 100 yards with a subcompact .380 before completely failing on camera, and Whiskey Trail prepares his body for a Texas hog hunt while defending appendix-carrying a full-sized 1911.

In a massive two-hour display of pure firearm autism, the Rimfire Radio crew attempts a live PowerPoint presentation on Rumble that predictably goes completely off the rails. The hosts kick things off by introducing Gatlab as "senile but butt-loaded" before transitioning into a deeply serious discussion about the tactical viability of fanny packs. The gear highlight of the night features a 130-year-old youth rifle saved from a literal garbage dump, which triggers a live "desk pop" video demonstration and pairs beautifully with Gatlab's tragic realization that he ruined his vintage tube-fed rifle by threading it for a suppressor. The show then derails into a chaotic centerfire detour where the guys aggressively debate whether ultra-short AR barrels under 10.5 inches are a viable home defense option or just loud toys designed for range retards. To wrap up the chaos, Dan brags about losing weight just to fit into his appendix holsters, while Dusky proudly flashes his nipples to the audience to celebrate his new tiger-stripe Beretta holster from Klecker Tactical. Finally, Dan cracks a joke about running up to police officers to scream about your gun collection, before the crew invites their remaining twenty viewers to come buy them drinks at the upcoming GOALS conference.

Episode 21, “Baffles, Booze & Bad Choices,” asks the hard questions: why rimfire mostly stops at .22, why we keep doing this show, and how much drinking is too much drinking before the wheels fully come off. Gat-Lab gets sucked into benchrest rimfire, learns some scope lessons, and blows out a ShiftZero PLA baffle, while ARDREW sights in the Ruger American Rimfire and Franklin Armory F17 before getting personally disrespected by the Bergara BMR. Dusky goes full holster goblin with Quiet Frog work, Beretta .380 testing, Hornofdaddy “science,” and bad testing done with great enthusiasm, while Dan contributes the powerful energy of having absolutely nothing. By the end, the captain, lawyer, doctor, and Not Sure have produced rimfire theory, centerfire detours, baffle carnage, questionable sobriety, and enough bad choices to make Episode 21 feel exactly as sharp as it deserves to be.

Episode 20, “Cuck Chair Tactical,” proves that twenty episodes in, we still have no idea what we are doing — but at least ARDREW is herding cats from the nicest cuck chair you’ve ever seen. We dig into DutchWalker’s Bergara B14R and Grey Birch 10/22 clone range results, Chad from Gun & Gear Review winning a Ruger Wrangler, Dewayne showing up with rimfires and actual artistic talent, and Okist immediately doing the Lord’s work by putting a Sparrow on his new Beretta 20X. Dusky gives range reports on the Quiet Frog, Mec-Gar mag hope, Beretta 80X practice, and surviving a USCCL match, while ARDREW swaps parts on the Tippmann, debates glass for the Bergara BMR, ships his GP100 off to Ruger, and prepares to sight in the world’s most cursed Hi-Point URGI. Dan adds night vision to the Hammerli, makes more questionable SBR decisions, and somehow the whole thing remains loud, moist, tactical, and mostly rimfire-adjacent.

Episode 19, “21 Shart,” is another classy descent into rimfire chaos, bad financial decisions, and public embarrassment thinly disguised as content. We hit listener and Discord topics including 10/22 advice, .22 single actions, pistol-mounted thermal optics, Steel Challenge scores, the 2AD Plinky suppressor, and the Beretta 20X Bobcat, because apparently everyone has a problem and none of us are qualified to help. Dusky survives another rimfire steel match and asks the eternal question — who loaded this mag? — while Dan wrestles with Gemtech mistakes, .22 mag derringers, fresh suppressor mounts, and an R50 SBR decision he may or may not deserve. Gat-Lab brings the main event with a thorough 21 Sharp autopsy featuring ruptured cases, out-of-battery firing, and enough disappointment to justify the title, while ARDREW talks Staccato Ranch, his wife shooting her first gun, and sending a Galil off for work because this show is basically a support group with poorer impulse control.

Episode 18, “Okist,” drags listener and unofficial Rimfire Radio father figure Okist into the circus, mainly because he is old as shit and Gat-Lab apparently got lost on the way to the internet. We hit Rimfire Challenge Nationals, the FarrowTech FT-M Kit for the KelTec P17, scope recommendations for a Ruger 77/17 in .17 HMR, and enough half-baked rimfire projects to make a financial advisor start drinking. Dusky beats on his Charger and starts lusting after precision bolt guns, Dan fondles an Ithaca M49 and other .22 oddities, and ARDREW rambles about Ruger Mk3s, VSS-22s, Vortex glass, Outlier cans, and polymer ARs. It is rimfire talk, centerfire detours, absentee co-host slander, and the kind of deeply unserious behavior that keeps our mothers disappointed.

Episode 17, “Knob Job,” is packed with the usual rimfire nonsense, questionable maturity, and enough gear talk to make your wallet nervous. We dig into listener topics like the S&W 422/622, weird and wonderful Discord finds, suppressor hosts, 3D-printed TX22 chassis, the Woox Elegante, and whatever Dayle keeps sending us to make us feel poor. Dan gets his Hammerli back from Walther, ARDREW shows off a very green Franklin Armory F-17X, Dusky brings competition stories and Beretta energy, and Gat-Lab prepares to run questionable guns in questionable ways. We also take the mandatory centerfire detour with tiny pistols, AR FRT laughs, gun-store mistakes, Mock 18 problems, and ARDREW’s new IWI Jericho.

Episode 16 marks the triumphant-ish return of The Gat Lab after a few weeks of mysterious absence, so naturally we spend some quality time dragging him for it. Dusky does what Dusky does best and talks competitive shooting, Dan gets shockingly fast customer service from Walther on his Hammerli repair, and ARDREW continues his spiritual journey of waiting for Ruger to send a shipping label for his brand-new GP100 warranty claim. Somehow, through all of that, we remain dangerously entertaining.

In this episode of Rimfire Radio, the crew rips through wild Discord discussions on spray painting guns, bargain .22 uppers, Rougarou pull gauges, and hunting for solid .22 WMR and bolt action options. We sink deep into the tinkering trenches covering MK3-QF2 Charger builds, 10/22 recoil spring tests, trigger upgrades, rotary safety swaps, and ARDREW's fresh GP100 .22LR order — including the critical Hogue wood grip debate to make Okist proud. Dan deals with his Force B1 barrel RMA headache and suppressor purchase failures while we detour into some centerfire talk.

Our longest episode so far with an almost famous guest, Country Boy Guns. When he isn't co-hosting the AK47 Radio podcast, he is neglecting his YouTube channel which has some great content. Lots of low brow humor in this one folks and I can't promise it will be worth what you pay for it.