Visited my parents today and brought this home with me, the 10/22 Dad got for me some time in the mid to late 70's. Like the Model 63 and Ruger Mark 1 that he gave me last Christmas, another perfectly preserved firearm, I didn't remember that the original sticker on the stock was never taken off. Other thing I noticed, the eye box on the old scope is so small I guess parallax is not going to be an issue, you have to be in exactly the same spot to see through the thing. The 10/22 collection is growing

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Can’t put a price on that!

Gorgeous wood!

I am thinking you might want to shove that scope forward about 4 inches and give it another try.

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have a similar year...maybe the most iconic civilian rifle ever made.

The scope is actually where it needs to be. It's an old made in Japan Bushnell 4x Custom 22, which has what feels like an inch and a half of eye relief. Guess you have to have it that close to your eye since it's only 18mm.

Thank God that’s not a 458 win mag.

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Very nice. I have a similar 10/22 with the highly figured birch stock ( ) and another older .22 rifle with the same scope. Eye relief is indeed limited. Enjoy!

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SWCA LM 2023, SWHF 220

Awesome about your 10-22. I still have my Remington 552BDL from my childhood. I am very careful about taking care of things, so it looks like brand new. No scratches, etc. The wood is beautiful on it too. I don't know about you, but these things mean so much to me.

Nice Ruger!

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Glad you got it! Bought my first one used in 1968. Cost me $47. Early one made in 66 I found out. Walnut was the common back then. Ate any ammo I fed it.

in the fall of '65, bought my 1022, which at the time was just a single version, the other stocks and such came later. 17xxx serial number. Long years ago, had a gunsmith "tune" the trigger.

Shot it a lot, and when I graduated from college, ROTC 2nd LT, and went off to begin my career, put in on a gun rack in my bedroom at my folks house. I returned from Vietnam nearly 4 years later, and came back to my folks house, and took that Ruger down, and per my military training, cleared the chamber, and was stunned to have a live round eject! All those years, my 1022 had rested on that wooden rack with a round in the chamber, just waiting for someone to take it down and pull the trigger.

I don't know how that happened, but it did. A tragedy luckily averted. I still shoot it a lot, even a week ago in Steel Challenge. Even the original mag works fine. And not long ago, got its big brother, a perfect 44 mag carbine.

My son a year ago bought a new stainless one with a Mannlicher stock for his 7 year old son, and it won't be shot until he decides it is the right time for his oldest son to shoot it first.

By the way, learned long ago, in the military to always, always, always, first clear the action of any firearm I handle. If I take a firearm out of my safe, or pick one up off my reloading bench, no matter how sure I am that it is unloaded, I first "clear the action" before I do anything with the firearm.

If I put a firearm on my bench, and then step away for lunch, when I return to my bench, I will clear it before I handle it again. I suspect most ND's are because someone removes the magazine, and fails to check the chamber. I must have done so years before when I last handled my little 1022. Or perhaps it was my first wife, when we came back from shooting it. The wife who ran off with a lawyer when I was in Vietnam.

There are memories attached to my 1022. All the best... SF VET

Excellent! Hard to beat a firearm associated with those type memories. You cannot put a price on them. The wife and I each have a 10-22. Our go to squirrel rifles.

Regards, Rick Gibbs

I bought a 10/22 in 2001. Added a few Volquartsen parts but it’s mostly stock. My son got old enough to teach shooting and I bought a Ruger American Rimfire. He liked it okay but prefers the semi auto. So I start buying Kidd and Volquartsen parts and eventually built an entire rifle. It shoots so nice! Trigger is a work of art.

My original 10/22 is now my son’s. I’m thinking about replacing the tactical plastic stock with a regular wood one. Everybody needs a classic 10/22. I like the idea of my son one day passing it down to his children, and then their children, too.