Trade the 10/22?

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I got my first gun, a 10/22, for Christmas when I was twelve (I'm now eighteen). It's one of the older models with the all-metal trigger guard, and it's blued with a factory Mossy Oak Break-Up treatment on the entire gun. I've sadly only put a few hundred rounds through it, and it seems a little ammo-picky. Despite the fact that it's my first gun, I don't feel any real attachment to it.

Sports Authority now has the Marlin 795 on sale for $95 after a rebate, and I've heard that those will eat just about anything. Since my niche for a semiauto .22 is as a cheap plinker, do you guys think it would be worth it to sell the 10/22 and use the profits to buy a 795, get some Tech Sights for it, and set aside the rest for a Saiga?
 
Any autoloading .22lr firearm will be ammo-picky. I suggest trying a few different brands of magazines for your 10/22, as proper magazine fit and angle seem to be the key to optimum reliability with them.
 
Break it in!

Don't sell the 10/22 -- break it in first! And you're not going to get what its worth or enough to make a difference. You don't want to be here 25 years from now saying "I had one of those 10/22's, my first gun and a X-Mas present -- I never should have sold it"!
Al
 
I suggest trying a few different brands of magazines for your 10/22, as proper magazine fit and angle seem to be the key to optimum reliability with them.


I suggest staying with Ruger factory mags. I find my 10/22 eats any quality 22 ammo and most of the cheap stuff. I also have a Marlin 795 which I can say the same for.

I'd keep the Ruger and get the Marlin. Scope one leave the other with iron sights (my 10/22 is scoped, like the sights on the 795 a little better).
 
A little advise.
My Dad bought me my first gun of my very own when I was about 14 years old. I traded it off for something else when I was about 20. Never thought twice about it. Now that Im older. I would pay just about any price to get that gun back. Keep it even if you never shoot it. As you get older and more sentimental you will be glad you did.
 
Ford said:
A little advise.
My Dad bought me my first gun of my very own when I was about 14 years old. I traded it off for something else when I was about 20. Never thought twice about it. Now that Im older. I would pay just about any price to get that gun back. Keep it even if you never shoot it. As you get older and more sentimental you will be glad you did.
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++1 on that Ford. The OP needs to go ahead and buy the 795, and put away the 10-22 to address at a later date. My first rifle-Marlin 39A-was bought in '68', and has spent more time in my safe than my 10-22's, but it is there for when it's time to pass down to my first Son. Also-I sure as He!! can't replace it for what I paid for it new ($89.95).
 
My Dad bought me my first gun of my very own when I was about 14 years old. I traded it off for something else when I was about 20. Never thought twice about it. Now that Im older. I would pay just about any price to get that gun back. Keep it even if you never shoot it. As you get older and more sentimental you will be glad you did.
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+1.

My dad bought me my first rifle, a Remington 600 Mohawk in .222 when I was 14. I always liked it, but never felt any particular sentiment towards it until I was 30. My dad died 8 years ago. Luckily, I held on to the it, even when money was tight and I was offered a lot for it. I can't tell you how much that rifle means to me now.

KR
 
My first rifle was a savage 22lr. It has a sloppy trigger, ugly wood, sloppy action and a goofy looking 10rd mag thats curved and looks like a wanna be AK mag. But it is one thing, accurate I mean it's a laser I have shot so many black birds and crows with it it's not even funny. I got it when I was 17 and I'm 21 now so it's not even that old but It's never going to get sold (not worth any money anyways) and I plan on passing it on to a son of my own some day. Plus how much do you thing a used 10/22 is worth? $200-250? not worth getting rid of if you ask me.
 
Yes; everything you just said is better; you can get 250 or more for that... umm... 22 rifle, and get a 795, with a 20 dollar internet rebate, and get it for under 100 bucks, that's with tax. then with 150 left over, you are halfway to a Saiga... plus a 795 will outshoot any 10.22 all day long.
 
Your early 10/22 is a better action than the Marlin; although the Marlin arguably has a more accurate barrel. I would split the difference & invest in a stock/barrel combo from butler creek or Fajen; either can be had for $250ish, and you will have a deadnutz accurate rimfire that will be far better than either the current 10/22 or the Marlin you are considering.
 
If you sell it you will regret it in years to come. It's more important than you realize now to keep the rifle you had when you were young. There are hundreds of guys on this forum that would pay a thousand dollars to have their first gun back.

Save up for your next gun purchase and enjoy the one you have.
 
I am not sentimental by any means, but there is no way I would ever get rid of the rifle my father gave me, that his father gave him that he bought new. I don't shoot it but I plan on passing it down myself.
 
Shoot it! It's not broke in till you shoot it 2-3000 rounds. Buy several diffrernt types of ammo and find one it likes and stick with it, I traded a 10/22 off not long ago and wish I'd kept it.

J.B.
 
don't sell it, because you'll get more out of it by trying to make the most of what you were given to work with.

The only thing I can add as to hands-on experience is that my 10/22 was frustratingly innacurate, and I gave it many, many rounds and good cleanings. I may have had a lemon, but it certainly had its chances with a dutiful owner. It was the first .22 rifle I ever bought myself. I saved $100 selling it and buying the 20-yr old Marlin 60 I have that now tears up everything in front of it.

You may have the luxury of the best reason to work with a very customizable .22
I say keep it and get a bolt-action .22 for real marksmanship practice in that caliber.
 
DONT DO IT!!!

I sold off my first centerfire rifle and shotgun my dad gave me when I was 19 or 20. By the time I was 23 or 24 I deeply regretted selling those guns. Now a few years later, I would happily spend double the value to get those two guns back.

I still do have my first .22 though. Had at least some sense about me.
 
to clarify, I would also give just about anything to have my first .22 back (but it was hocked by a 'friend' in whose care it had been left). To this day I don't think I've seen another Remington nylon 77...
 
Theres no way I'd trade off my first gun (marlin 881) for anything. If it EVER leaves my possession while I'm alive, its going to my nephews. It was an Xmas present at age 12 as well. However, as opposed to the OP, mine has had thousands upon thousands of rounds through it. Plinking cans off our deck, hunting rabbits in the backyard, and shooting prairie dogs in the numerous towns within a few minutes of my hopuse ensured the rifle got put through the paces. It still shoots as good today as it did 20 years ago when it became "mine" Christmas morning~~
 
I sold my 10/22 and bought a Marlin 60, and I'm much happier with the (cheaper) Marlin. It's more accurate across the board, and it will eat just about anything. It's got a 4X Nikon on it now, some swivel studs, and it's a great ground squirrel gun!

But my "go-to" .22 rifles are Marlin 39 lever guns... Accurate like a bolt gun, and even more fun than a semiauto.
 
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