My new favorite convenience store/gun shop, "Shirley's Market" in Sugar Grove Va., continues to please. They had this Ruger 10/22 "Mannlicher" style .22 in the shop for the last few weeks, used, priced at only $100 more than a standard birch/blued carbine at Rural King. Stainless steel, walnut stock, schnabel nose cap. I though about it for a while, thought for sure it would be gone by the time I got back by there. Went by yesterday, still there.

Walked in the store at 9:08 AM, 9:20 AM walked out with the 10/22, a sausage biscuit and a pint of Duchess chocolate milk (local dairy, fresh like you read about).

Ran a few rounds through it yesterday, more today. I am really digging this rifle! Sights were sighted in dead on, I was slaying .22 steel out to 50 yards in no time. I had a European style 1" leather sling in my junk box, so it is outfitted well for hiking.

Here's some pics:



A casual test of accuracy, ten shots fired from the sitting position at 35 yards. Ten out of ten in a 1 3/4" aiming black:





What do you think of the walnut in that stock? Is that pretty or what!

This makes three 10/22's now, a birch stock carbine, a Deluxe Sporter with a nice scope, and now this International......

canoeguy, That is a real beauty I have a number of 10/22's too! I have three I shoot Steel Challenge with RFRO and RFRI and one I shoot KYL with.

Yep very nice wood , whole gun looks great!

I think the Ruger International 10-22s were the most attractive of them all. Yours is very nice.

This one is mine; when I saw it at a gun show I had to have it. It was a Talo exclusive and I've never seen a prettier stock on a 10-22. It shoots as good as it looks; that's a 25-yard 10-shot group, fired rapid fire with Remington Golden hi-speed ammo from a rest. It mounts a Burris 4x scope, and it's become one of my favorite .22 rifles of many.

John


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Both are beautiful!

I saw a couple of these in a local shop a few years back and thought they were the best looking Rugers I’d ever seen. I still have my 10/22 I bought for $69 bucks on sale at KMart many years ago. But I’d still love one of those.

Several years ago, my son and I were visiting Palmetto State Armory in Columbia, his home city, and he bought this particular 1022 for his son, for when his now 7 year old is old enough to being shooting. As yet, the rifle remains unfired. I really like the Mannlicher stocks, have a CZ in 308 I enjoy shooting. Yours is really nice.

I bought my first 1022 back in '65, when they first came out, and still have it, an original low serial number rifle. Even the original magazine works just fine. I did have a gunsmith tune the trigger on mine some years ago.

SF VET

Absolutely beautiful, so much so I'm looking at getting one now...

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They're so beautiful...but buying a non-threaded .22 (besides revolvers of course) is a tough sell with me since the Spectre II came home. I've passed on a couple of Int'ls for sale locally, even an older aluminum trigger one, in the last couple of years.

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I have one I got at Walmart stainless with the green laminate stock. Pretty gun. I gave it to my son.

If you want to see pretty you ought to see the Ruger stainless Hawkeye international I have in .223. If I could ever figure out how to get pictures from my phone to my computer-I'd be dangerous!!

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Great looking rifle, love the walnut on it! I saw one at my LGS this past weekend, it really caught my eye. I really like the stainless with the walnut, that full stock has great lines...

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I have one just like it. I put an inexpensive 3-9x 32mm scope on it and it is a tack driver. Found mine on GB about 3 years ago. You will enjoy that one.

I like Mannlichers. Have a CZ-452 Mannlicher and had the stock refinished professionally, hand rubbed oil finish, to get rid of the polyurethane, but I gotta say it looks nowhere near as good as Paladin's 10/22...

That's just gorgeous wood.

I think I read somewhere that the original purpose of the Mannlicher stock was to protect the rifle from being banged up on the rocks when climbing mountains in the Alps.


Email the photos from your camera to yourself, and then download onto your computer.

I have two of the International model 10/22's, one stainless with black and gray laminate stock and one blue with a slight green tint to the laminate stock. They are as yet unfired by me and sleep in my safe. Both were used to me but that doesn't change the way I feel about them. If there is a prettier stock than any of the Mannlicher style, I've not seen it yet. They are just to gracefull for words.

Paladin that is perhaps the most beautifull stock I've seen on a .22 of any stripe. Well Done sir.

Nice find, OP. I have a soft spot for full stock rifles, and have owned several 10/22's so equipped, an older 60's (?) model, and one of the green laminated Walmart versions. Both sold now.

Maybe 5 or so years ago, found a new production one while at Laconia, NH bike week, and brought it home. Added a factory BX trigger. It's a keeper, and has helped keep the crock pot full.

Larry

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I'm a FSF also ... Full Stock Fool...
I never knew the 10/22 International even existed untill a few years ago .

Awesome ... Thanks all for posting photo's ... Made My Day !
Gary

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Using a USB cable, connect the phone to the computer, swipe down from the top of the phone, find something that says USB in it, tap on it and change it from Charging to File Transfer. Now you can see the contents of the phone from the computer. Find the Camera folder in the phone and drill down to find your photos. Drag & drop to the computer. Done.

My wife bought me one of the Walmart green laminated stock guns back in the 90s..... mine is outfitted with a small Weaver 1-3x20 scope.

I'm an easy mark for Mannlichers ... added 2 more 10-22s over the years one blue and one stainless..... got them both used but as new; until recently you couldn't hunt with a semi in Pa. so there was a lot of turnover on these guns here when Ruger made some runs 10-15 years ago.

Also have a Ruger 77/243 International and CZ FS/mannlichers in .22lr .22 mag and .223/5.56

I love the Mannlicher stock. Already had a 10-22 but always wanted a Mannlicher so I picked this up with scope and sling for $350 on Gunbroker.

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You guys are killing me with your Walnut stocks. I'm green with envy and that says a lot because I'm not usually envious of anything or any one.

Beautiful indeed. Recall having the 1972 Gun Digest. Ruger had a full page color section of their models including the International Series in .22 and also in 44 magnum back then. Sounds like a good investment.

Sugar Grove ain't that far from me. Guess I need to wander over thataway.

Duchess Dairy, located in Rural Retreat, Virginia, turns out some good moo juice. I love their chocolate milk too!

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I winder how many 10/22s are out there. Maybe the most enjoyable rimfire range rifle for quite a few folks.

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10/22 has replaced the Marlin Model 60 as the most popular rimfire rifle on the planet. and there were millions of Mod 60's

Shirleys sounds like my kind of place indeed. A sausage biscuit, choco milk AND a Ruger 10/22, dude, thats sounds like Heaven to me!

Beautiful rifle. Always admired those stocks. SS to boot? Come on! Great choice of guns and breakfast.

I bought a 10/22 as soon as they hit market. I bought each variation as they came out. The Mannlicher cost me $56 and change. I put a K3 on it and used it for squirrel a couple years. Then put it in rack, semi retired because it was discontinued. I don’t have it anymore. Had to give it to my SIL when after 3 nieces she finally hatched a nephew. Should have known law of averages was going to catch up.