AgentPickle
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What is your preferred rimfire rifle and why is it the Ruger 10/22? What is your 10/22 setup? Traditional? Take down? Other?
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How many Ruger 10/22s is too many? Also what is your favorite setup?
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Old Dog
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I don't shoot .22 LR rifles for accuracy, just for plinking and fun. I've had only two 10/22s, one traditional wood stock and the TD but I really, really like my take-down model. It's just so portable, love the bag. I use it for teaching young people rifle shooting (it has the screw-on rail for easy mounting of a 4x scope or red dot) and it's just plain fun for everyone to shoot. My kids probably enjoyed this rifle more than any other gun they've tried out.
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You can never have too many. I have stopped at three to focus on other projects but I believe if everyone has just one it should be the take down model.
2 1/2
My original I got when I was ~12 that's been thru a few changes and now wears an EABCO barrel and Boyd stock with a lot of Power Custom internals. Scope is a Bushnell Engage 6-24X.
Newest is a stainless International full stock.
And the 1/2 is a Charger with a binary trigger that's sure to put a grin on.
My original I got when I was ~12 that's been thru a few changes and now wears an EABCO barrel and Boyd stock with a lot of Power Custom internals. Scope is a Bushnell Engage 6-24X.
Newest is a stainless International full stock.
And the 1/2 is a Charger with a binary trigger that's sure to put a grin on.
Lefty38-55
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0 is still too many, LOL ... semi-auto 22 rifles just ain't ma' thing ...
I've never cared for the basic carbine with the barrel band. The stock doesn't fit adults and the barrel band hurts accuracy. But over the years Ruger has offered the 10/22 in well over 100 different configurations. I count 70 different variants currently on their website. There is something for everybody.
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IMO the sporter should be the most commonly sold rifle. They aren't much more expensive, have a real walnut stock, no barrel band and actually fit most people
These are my favorites. They come with a 20" mid-weight target barrel. Just enough weight to shoot well, but not too heavy to hunt with. Unless you go crazy heavy on a scope weight is around 7 lbs ready to hunt.
Almost identical to the one above, but this version comes with the BX target trigger. This is a limited run and may not be easy to find.
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IMO the sporter should be the most commonly sold rifle. They aren't much more expensive, have a real walnut stock, no barrel band and actually fit most people
These are my favorites. They come with a 20" mid-weight target barrel. Just enough weight to shoot well, but not too heavy to hunt with. Unless you go crazy heavy on a scope weight is around 7 lbs ready to hunt.
Almost identical to the one above, but this version comes with the BX target trigger. This is a limited run and may not be easy to find.
CraigC
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I have a dozen of them and that might not be enough. I like and own them in just about any guise. There's several I know I don't have pics of. I built one in a Hightower P90 stock last year. There's a green anodized Tactical Inc side charging receiver and triggerguard that have never settled into a configuration.
This is my original, what used to be a stainless/laminate carbine. Then I decided to optimize it for clearing the chicken house of midnight marauders. It's steadily evolved over the last 15yrs or so. The centerpiece is the Volquartsen extended pic rail that I flipped around backwards and milled it out to cantilever over the Tech Sights rear sight. I used a milling fixture in a lathe to do the work, including drilling & tapping several new scews.
I originally built this one as an LTR with a Nodak receiver, Clark mid-weight barrel and KIDD trigger, laminated stock and iron sights. Now it's a walnut sporter and the scope has been changed to a Leupold.
French walnut sporter. I have a Shilen sporter barrel to put on it but haven't yet.
Here's a precision build in a Nordic chassis with a KIDD barrel and Vortex Razor 5-25x. I may reconfigure it over the winter.
Basic lightweight carbine with Nodak rear sight/rail and TS front, along with a SIG red dot.
Another Nordic chassis. Think I have three of them with one still in the box.
Another Tapco, this one now has the TacSol SBX barrel.
Pretty basic takedown.
I have several Chargers. This is a relatively rare model with the gray polymer triggerguard and wrinkle finish receiver.
Put together this one with a Volquartsen carbon fiber barrel, SB chassis/brace and Burris 3x prism.
This is my original, what used to be a stainless/laminate carbine. Then I decided to optimize it for clearing the chicken house of midnight marauders. It's steadily evolved over the last 15yrs or so. The centerpiece is the Volquartsen extended pic rail that I flipped around backwards and milled it out to cantilever over the Tech Sights rear sight. I used a milling fixture in a lathe to do the work, including drilling & tapping several new scews.
I originally built this one as an LTR with a Nodak receiver, Clark mid-weight barrel and KIDD trigger, laminated stock and iron sights. Now it's a walnut sporter and the scope has been changed to a Leupold.
French walnut sporter. I have a Shilen sporter barrel to put on it but haven't yet.
Here's a precision build in a Nordic chassis with a KIDD barrel and Vortex Razor 5-25x. I may reconfigure it over the winter.
Basic lightweight carbine with Nodak rear sight/rail and TS front, along with a SIG red dot.
Another Nordic chassis. Think I have three of them with one still in the box.
Another Tapco, this one now has the TacSol SBX barrel.
Pretty basic takedown.
I have several Chargers. This is a relatively rare model with the gray polymer triggerguard and wrinkle finish receiver.
Put together this one with a Volquartsen carbon fiber barrel, SB chassis/brace and Burris 3x prism.
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Those setups with the Nordic chassis are sweeeeeeeet.
gotboostvr
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I need to find a charger to use as a suppressor host.
CraigC
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Thanks! It's a really cool concept, compatible with any AR buttstock and free float tube. Adaptable to any application, high precision or low drag.
I freely admit that I am fond of 10/22s. I sure have other guns that I like, but none that I have consistently enjoyed as much as my 10/22.
If I had found that bottom one at anywhere close to the same price I bought my Sporter, I'd have been all over it! I dig that one!
I agree that the 10/22 carbine always felt just a smidge too short, but I can't really feel any difference in the sporter stock. As far as I can tell, the difference in length is all in the barrel. (If anyone knows I'm wrong, as always, please correct me.)
Anyway, this is my most recent 10/22 and latest project. I'm tentatively planning to make it a target shooter, but we'll see what happens. I had never really planned to make any changes to my standard issue carbine, either, and we see how that went.
Like @Old Dog, I use my 10/22 to teach new shooters (as well as for my own plinking enjoyment). Mine's not the takedown model, though. It started life as your basic carbine, and stayed that way for 3 decades+, but I've made a few changes since then. It's a Super-Plinker now!
[^^^ Edited: I took a couple of pictures out for brevity.]
If I had found that bottom one at anywhere close to the same price I bought my Sporter, I'd have been all over it! I dig that one!
I agree that the 10/22 carbine always felt just a smidge too short, but I can't really feel any difference in the sporter stock. As far as I can tell, the difference in length is all in the barrel. (If anyone knows I'm wrong, as always, please correct me.)
Anyway, this is my most recent 10/22 and latest project. I'm tentatively planning to make it a target shooter, but we'll see what happens. I had never really planned to make any changes to my standard issue carbine, either, and we see how that went.
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Nice rifles gents.
I used to have a stainless 10/22 takedown. But I found I never took it apart to store it, so I sold it to fund the purchase of my Thompson Center TCR22. It's been a great rifle, and has all the upgrades that I wanted to do for my other 10/22.
It's got a threaded barrel that can serve as a suppressor host, it's got Magpul furniture, integrated pic rail, fiber optic peep sights, it takes 10/22 parts/mags, etc.
I don't think I'll ever sell it. It's as close to perfect as I think you can get right out of the box.
I used to have a stainless 10/22 takedown. But I found I never took it apart to store it, so I sold it to fund the purchase of my Thompson Center TCR22. It's been a great rifle, and has all the upgrades that I wanted to do for my other 10/22.
It's got a threaded barrel that can serve as a suppressor host, it's got Magpul furniture, integrated pic rail, fiber optic peep sights, it takes 10/22 parts/mags, etc.
I don't think I'll ever sell it. It's as close to perfect as I think you can get right out of the box.
rperyam
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I have my original Sporter model I bought in 1967, my Sporter model from 1976, an original NIB standard model from 1976, and my standard model I bought in 2015 that I customized. Problem is I have five grandkids so I need one more. They all shoot them and want one.
My one and only 10-22 is a stainless international like Mavracers. I fell in love with it when I saw it on the rack behind the counter and had to have it. I topped it with a 2-7 burris scope and went shooting. It probably has 500 rounds through it now and has never bobbled a round of the bulk junk i have fed it. Accuracy is adequate, but could be better. A decent trigger may be all it needs. If I need an accurate 22 I pull out my CZ452. I don't regret buying the international one bit. It is a conversation starter at the range, for sure.
Capybara
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I only own one. Regular old Walnut stocked. I did dress it up a bit for Appleseed with the sling and sights but other than that, bone stock. Great little rifle, fun as heck to shoot. I split time between it and my 1952 BRNO ZKM-468 single shot bolt action I bought basically brand new from Wideners with my FFL03 in 2015. For some reason, that little bolt action single shot is just as fun. The 10/22 is great but I sure burn up a lot more ammo with it than with the BRNO!
Oldschool shooter
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I have a plain Jane 1022 carbine and it is an ok rifle. The only other 9ne I would buy if I came across one is the International model with the full Mannlicher stock.
CoalCrackerAl
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Mine is a traditional stock one. I did put a BX trigger in it. I can't believe what 10/22's are going for these days.
CraigC
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I once tracked 10/22 pricing over a period of 20yrs and found they did not even keep up with inflation.
AzShooter1
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I just finished building this one from an older modified 10-22. This creation is for Steel Challenge matches, this everything is light and it's built for speed.
Now that it's complete I realized I had everything I needed to make a second gun except the receiver. I'm not looking to make a $1000 gun, just something I can shoot targets will and have fun so I ordered a blemished receiver for SAP and will make a heavy barreled scoped sighted target rifle next that will look like this:
Where I live, most of those pictured above would be "assault" rifles according to our bloated bully billionaire governor.
I have had, since their inception, A dozen or more. I'm down to two, both built up. One was a closeout $125 gun that I used for many years, tweaking a little here and there. Now, it is a full on target gun with a Jard trigger, Shaw barrel, modified and bedded Ruger target laminated stock. 6X24 scooe. Other I bought used where I worked and added an original walnut stock, a sporter weight stainless barrel and Volquartzen hammer, etc.
I have had, since their inception, A dozen or more. I'm down to two, both built up. One was a closeout $125 gun that I used for many years, tweaking a little here and there. Now, it is a full on target gun with a Jard trigger, Shaw barrel, modified and bedded Ruger target laminated stock. 6X24 scooe. Other I bought used where I worked and added an original walnut stock, a sporter weight stainless barrel and Volquartzen hammer, etc.
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