How many rounds through a 10/22

[bamajoey]

I bought one 5 years ago and shot maybe 300 rounds through it before I bought a CZ. I cleaned the 10/22 and put it in the safe and it's been there every since.

 

[RetiredUSNChief]

In 1987, at the age of 50, John "Chief AJ" Huffer shot 40,060 consecutive 2½ inch square pine blocks over a period of 8 days without a single miss, shooting blocks he himself tossed into the air, for 14 hours a day. Huffer accomplished this using 18 .22 Long Rifle Ruger 10/22 rifles, which he cycled through as assistants loaded them for him. Gun magazines use run ads for Ruger showing him standing in front of a mountain of wood blocks. Not sure anyone has ever broken his record.

I always find it interesting to see such claims of peformance and duration.

In this instance, Chief AJ had to maintain a pace of 1 block every 10.1 seconds on average for 14 straight hours, each and every day. I can envision how this might be possible by maintaining a higher rate of tossing, or tossing multiple blocks, I'd be very much interested in knowing exactly how many rounds Chief AJ went through during this. I very much suspect that if he was doing this with the reported 18 rifles constantly being loaded and readied for him that he went through quite a few more rounds than 40,060 in the process.

For those who might think this would be no remarkable feat, if true, then they might do well to consider what it means to repeatedly hoist and aim a 5 pound rifle for a solid hour of non-stop shooting, much less 14 hours a day for 8 days. AND to do this while being the only one to toss the blocks in the air between each shooting.

It says he didn't miss, but it doesn't say all his hits were "one shot, one hit". It was a 10/22...might be that so long as he hit each block before it hit the ground, it counted.

 

[SeanSw]

If any man had the strength to hoist a rifle that many times with unfailing accuracy it's Chief AJ. In my brief meeting (he was filming some promo material at the time) he nearly crushed my arm with a handshake and left me with a high regard for his skill.

 

[Messenger Guard]

My best friend in high school received one for a birthday present when he was 13. We both shot through bricks of .22s with the old Ramline "teardrop" drums and Butler Creek banana mags. We are both in our late 40's now. I cleaned the gun a few years back for him to show him my reverse/polarization cleaner. Roughly half the barrels rifling was gone. Rifling started about half way up to the crown and the gun was still accurate. I'm not sure if he has ever replaced anything on the gun but he has wore out a number of mags.

 

[Rusty Luck]

I have my dad's 10/22 that was given to me in '99 (after he'd had it for quite a number of years) and though I never kept a count we'd go hunting for rabbits and varmints 3-5 times a week (the rabbits eat a stupid large about of grass and crops while reproducing like, well, rabbits). I alone have shot upwards of 15K+ rounds not to mentions my friends, dad, or bother. Only problem I have had was the trigger not reseting properly a couple years back.

 

[ridgerunner1965]

i recently sold one i have had since i was a kid in the 80;s. it had been messed with ,in 2 or 3 diff stocks. was in a cheap plastic folding stock for years behind the seat of my truck.shot thousands of rounds thru it.made some of the best shots on game i ever made. put all the stock stuff back on it and sold it to a dealer at a gun show for more than twice what i gave for it new.it still ran like a champ, i cleaned it about every 10 yrs or so.i would not of sold it but i have 2 others that are nicer.

i dont know about the newer ones but if you actually cared well for a older 10-22 i honestly dont think it could be worn out. they are simple to clean and dissemble.

the marlin model 60 seems harder to me to dissemble and clean and gets dirtier easier.

 

[d2wing]

After 23 years I had to take it down and clean the bolt because it would only feed from factory mags. Now it works great again and has always been very accurate.

 

[rdhood]

In case anyone is counting:

8 days x 14 hours/day x 60 minutes/hour x60 seconds/min = 403200 seconds

403200 seconds / 40060 =

10.06 seconds/block... for 14 hours each for 8 days!

 

[jerkface11]

Mine would gunk up a mag to the point of not feeding after about one brick of ammo. Other than that no real maintenance was required.

 

[heycods]

Bought mine back in 74 or so, primary truck gun on the ranch. No telling how many rounds, guessing about 10 bricks a year. I clean it and shoot it. It has been neglected last couple of years because of ammo shortage.

 

[safebustr]

Had mine since 1969, many thousands of rounds thru her and only a very few malfunctions. I did replace the trigger and a few other internals due to the crappy feel not any mechanical failure. Still going strong.