Sounds like bashing to me, but then, I own Kel Tec, Taurus, Ruger (7 of 'em), all of which get bashed a lot. In all the 10/22s I've ever fired, though, I've never found one that jammed. Like I say, a sample size of one is not statistically significant and variance can't even be measured. The typical basher buys a lemon and then ALL such guns are junk and they don't mind tellin' ya. If you can calculate the mean without having to add two numbers, it's not a statistically significant sample size.
I got my Remington 512X for my ninth birthday in 1961. That's the most accurate .22LR I've yet to fire that wasn't an Anschutz. The 10/22 ain't the worst, though it ain't the best in accuracy, I know this. But, it's a good little plinker. Mine's a stainless with a Hogue overmolded stock I picked up for 150 bucks at a gun show about 10 years back. Never given me a problem.
I'll tell ya another thing, I've not played with ammo much on the 10/22, either. I gave my old Mossberg 152 (another one I got in the sixties) to my daughter to shoot when she and her husband go to the range. It shot 2" at 50 yards with most everything until one day I was at the range and had some Eley to try in it. Turned that into a one hold group at 25 yards under an inch at 50. I was amazed at that old gun. Ammo made that much difference, go figure. But, the gun just liked the stuff. I need to fart around with the 10/22 and some quality ammo. Best I've ever shot in it was CCI.
If I find something that will improve it like Eley improved that old Mossberg, I'll make some Marlin shooters cry at the next club rimfire match, just like they cried when that 50 year old Mossberg kicked their butts.
