to kymasabe: as you can see that, marlin there is stock, i like it that way. no i will not shoot you for it, I love that rifle! i will shoot you bragging rights, though, and not just one favorite round, lets go top twenty! yes all the parts are factory, I bought it as a pawner for 70 bucks, somebody tried to jam in a 22 mag round, problbly someone bought it for a kid as a present, and didn't have any idea as to what ammo to buy. I have several other pics of good shots with different ammo that it shoots with, i just happened to pick those. Also remember this is at 100 yds, not fifty, I had a 10 mph left to right cross wind, and shot about 50 different brands of ammo on this particular Saturday at American shooting centers, here in houston. With Range officer's Nestor and Ray as a witness. So I'm saying I was firing pretty fast. I'm not bragging on me here, it really was the rifle. I imagine, with some really settling down, picking out some choice ammo, and taking my time, i could really lay em down. But i don't care, really. I just love this rifle, it shoots so darn good, with about 20 different brands of ammo, all under 1 inch at 100 yds, and it never jams.
Molyfusion i use on any of my rifles that i see can shoot pretty good, you should get some, too. I am not a Ruger hater, as a matter of fact , i'm getting one next weekend at the Pasadena gun show , near houston, from a guy who has been doing custom Ruger trigger jobs for 40 years, and he says it shoots great.
If you go over to rimfirecentral, you will see , that on average, statistically speaking, most , if not all out of the box marlins will outshoot out of the box Rugers any day of the week, this is not just from marlin /Cz fans, but admitted by ruger owners themselves. A lot of them also say they spent 100's of dollars to get their rugers to shoot good.
Usually you don't have to spend anything to get a marlin to shoot good, and their stock 17's use Green Mountain bbl blanks. wow!
so please , don't take it that I was knocking ruger, like i said, im getting one. but im getting one from a guy who personally owned this for a long time, and did his own great trigger job on it.
But that doesn't change the fact , that everything I said, about all the goodies you could get with a Marlin, as opposed to spending extra money to make a Ruger shoot good, is true. It is what it is.
It also doesn't mean you can't get lucky and get a good shooting Ruger out of the box. It's just more likely to happen with a marlin, I think everybody here knows that.
to flyboy, the ruger is a darn fine looking rifle no doubt, and yes those mags are cool and quite reliable, andy easier to have a couple of spares in you pocket, allready loaded if you are in the field, than to stop and reload a tube. Also they are flush fit, which is a plus. i agree with the other dude here, who said go pick em both up, check them side by side, see how they feel to you. Sage advice. Right now i like my beloved Marlin, after next week , and i spend some quality range time with the ruger , who knows? No matter what happens, i will not spend any money to upgrade it.
I also pulled off a major coup and am also buying from the same guy , a Marlin levermatic 56 made in '55. Speed cams in the lever , you only need to move your bottom two fingers in the lever about 2 inches , up and down, and it is reloaded, you never have to move your cheekweld. Plus it is the only model marlin ever made, in the new era, that is 100 percent steel. no plastic or aluminum parts anywhere. It also shoots short ,long ,long rifle, so im pretty geeked up about that! who knows; this may turn out to be my favorite!
Kymasabe, if your stock ruger shoots that good or better, then you got a keeper!
if you go over to rimfirecentral right now, go to the factory /stock 10/22 section, and you will see lots of threads about how to improve their accuracy. There is actually a thread over there right now called, "was there ever a time when stock 10/22 bbls were accurate?" I'm not making that up.
