Making a 10/22 a straight pull bolt gun?

[WardenWolf]

I wouldn't go the heavy recoil spring route. One, the 10/22 uses a captured recoil spring assembly. The spring alone is not replaceable. It takes a gunsmith to install a new spring on the rod, and it's easier and cheaper to just replace the whole assembly. Two, a game warden could bust you and say that it's still a semi, it's just not cycling with that particular ammunition. You'd need something that actually locks the bolt when fired.

Not being able to shoot on Sunday is one of those old blue laws, the same kind barring liquor sales on Sunday and such. While I honestly can see the value in allowing the game one day to become less spooked, it would make more sense to do this on a Monday.

 

[hardluk1]

For the guy that wants a straight pull rifle . Buy a browning t-bolt and know it will still be the odd ball at the range or in the woods and look great doing it. Price is 75 bucks more but atleast one 10/22 will not be screwed up.
http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/imagepreview.asp?mid=025180

 

[MCgunner]

OH, THERE ya go, shoot CB longs in it!!!! I've killed a lot of squirrel with CBs. They do limit your range, though, 25 or 30 yards.

As to the 10/22 being accurate enough for squirrel, I've killed a LOT of squirrel with a less accurate rifle, an old Mossberg M152. I gave that rifle to my daughter a while back. It shot 2" at 50 yards, my 10/22 shoots 1.5" at 50 yards. Of course, my Mk2 PISTOL shoots 1" at 50 yards, rofl, but 1.5" at 50 yards is minute of squirrel. My old Remmy will shot that at 100 yards as will my .22 magnum M597, but that don't mean I wouldn't use the 10/22 for squirrel. It's a neat gun, tough, fun to shoot, and a squirrel's nightmare.

There is nothing wrong with the no semiauto rule in PA. It's always people from out of state that complain. It's supposed to be one shot one kill anyway. The woods in South East PA are packed with morons that only go out for the first week of deer. I feel safer with the manually operated rule. Until you live here you won't understand.

I've been shooting squirrel since the age of about 14 with a semi auto. Oh, my preferred gun to the previously mentioned Mossberg auto is my old Remington bolt gun just due to accuracy, but hey, I've killed a lot of squirrel and amazed my friends with that old Mossberg.

We can legally hunt ANYTHING in Texas with a semi auto, but it's only been in the last 20 years that the tacticool crowd has taken up their AR15s for EVERYthing. Used to be, in Texas, you could only use 25 caliber or larger for deer. Then, the .243 came along and they changed the law to "no rimfire" for deer. .22-250 got popular as a deer rifle. Now, people are carrying 30 round mags in ARs to go deer hunting. But, to each his own. I do NOT favor a law banning ARs from the field any quicker than I endorse motorcycle helmet laws. The less the law nannies me, the better. And, hey, if you need a 30 round magazine to defend yourself against an enraged buck, go for it. ROFLMAO!