Is a .22LR powerful enough?

I use a custom, lightweight slide made out of titanium. The outside profile is the same, but it is hogged out internally to reduce weight. Steel inserts are brazed into the critical wear surfaces. It is of course a straight-blowback conversion.

I am working on an injection molded plastic slide for .22 CBs.

Your perception about the "magical shop with a legendary gunsmith" doing these conversions is wrong. Getting a Desert Eagle to cycle using 22lr is a simple conversion. Basically, the best system I've seen for converting the DE to .22lr eliminates the gas system and converts it into a blowback action pistol. It's physics, not magic. As a gas operated pistol, it would be difficult to get it to feed reliably, but it can and has been done. Again, it's physics, all it takes is a GREATLY reduced power rebound spring.

Frankly, it's a waste of money. If someone owns a Desert Eagle, they're not in it for economical plinking, they're in it to show off their big bad pistol. I personally wouldn't care to own a 4lb .22lr pistol (unless it was a bullseye or silhouette unlimited pistol, which the DE is NOT).

It is funny to think about someone shooting 22's out of a DE. It would be an oxymoron in action.

But for all the grief people give the DE, I do think that it has potential in carbine form. If it could get around the short barrel rifle restriction with a shoulder stock, it would be a very handy brush gun. A 16" barrel (or whatever the legal minimum is) might also make a good addition with a shoulder stock. The gun is accurate and the gas system does work so long as one uses full power loads.

A .22lr would have problems if DE were to attempt with a steel slide of the typical DE size,but for a.22lr the slide can be cut-away like the Beretta 92fs or simply made of an aluminum alloy. The return spring weight could be adjusted.The Engineering is not that far out.

An avid machinist could make one perhaps?

Inertia.....it`s all about inertia.I used to date her.

The higher end CCI ammo (Stingers and Velocitors) could probably do it. I have a .22 conversion kit for my 1911 and it never jams with these 2 brands. With cheap .22 bulk pack ammo, it jams almost 10% of the time. The only downside is that Stingers and Velocitors are more expensive, which is the whole point of shooting .22s in the first place. Well it's not that bad but still pricey for .22 ($6 or $7 for a box of 50).

Any high-velocity .22LR ammo should do both of those things, but I would strongly advise a more powerful rifle for hog hunting. Unless you're an incredible shot, capable of hitting the braincase every time, you won't get a guaranteed kill with a .22LR on hogs. What you need to do is purchase several different brands of ammo and test them each out for groupings. Take notes as to which gives the best groups from your gun, and select the ones that work best.

I want to say yes. Look at 1911 conversions and SIG .22lr conversions. The slides are like aluminum and much lighter. My friend has a smith and wesson 422 and only the pack half of the slide moves back. The heaviest slide a .22lr can cycle is my bersa (walther pkk) steel slide that is really heavy. It's a compact gun so there isn't a lot of steel but it's still really hard to lock back. I can only use remington thunderbolts and CCI minimags to cycle. I use velocitiors as a defensive round but honestly even they had issues awhile ago. Honestly most .22lr have a pot metal slide or very little slide to cycle at all.

Most folks don't know this, but in the off season, I put my elves to work in Santa's Workshop up here at the North Pole doing custom pistol-smithing. If you want a Desert Beagle that fires 22 CB rounds, my staff with their trusty dremel tools could accomplish that for you.

We also specialize in attaching picatiny rails and vertical foregrips to AR platform rifles. So then you'll have a place to mount your lasers, flashlights, red dot sights and trophy bull moose antlers.

well if the gun smith thinned out the slide a Little bit then yes but if not then it would probably not pull the slide back far enough to chamber another round causing a gam after every shot

I really have seen everything. Reduced recoil spring and perhaps an aluminum slide? I don't know, sounds interesting nonetheless.