Happy 10-22 DAY

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Yes, Today is October 22nd or 10-22

I know we have a thread covering suppressed 10-22s but I thought it would be appropriate for a thread celebrating the rifle to be created today

I have more than half a dozen 10-22s with each one being configured differently

My first 10-22 was purchased at Woolworth back in the early 1980s. Yes I said Woolworth. This is just a standard 10-22 from the day and I still own it

My next one was a 10-22T with the heavy hammer forged bull barrel. This one was acquired in the mid 1990s and set me back a Whopping $275. Lots of money for a 22 back then

In 2007 I bought another plain jane 10-22, they were still under $200 OTD back then. I bought it to dress up as a Tommy Gun

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Believe it or not, I have carried this one on Halloween while wearing a Pin Stripped Suit and Fedora :eek:

The following year I bought a stainless 10-22 Just to have one. I have only test fired it so far

In 2010 I picked up another one, still under $200 OTD. This one has received a bull barrel and a stock with a builtin fold down bipod

Around 2011 working from some modified CNC code I milled my own 10-22 style receiver from a block of aluminium. I turned a match grade barrel for it. I did not utilize the V-block mounting method for the frame. The barrel and receiver were threaded. The receiver has no sights, just a picitany rail milled into it. I went through all of this because I found a unique looking 10-22 stock at a guns show and wanted to put it to use. This was also the first and last time cerecoating was done in the shot. We send it out now, Here is the finished rifle

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My most recent purchase was a Charger that has been registered as an SBR and is now fitted with a collapsible butt stock. This take down rifle fits into a small back pack which also has a pocket for a suppressor

So lets all discuss and show off our 10-22s
 
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In the Spring of 1974, I traded in my single shot bolt action 22 of unknown manufacture. It was believed to be an Australian Winchester.

The tag on the 10-22 Deluxe was $69.00. I got the 10-22, a 500 round brick of Federal ammo(red box white letters) and 4 extra 10 round magazines for my rifle and $20. I was still in High School and 18 years and 3 months old, The first of many yellow forms to come.

I still have this gun, and it has a Tasco 4x32mm scope on it. I don't shoot it far enough to need a better scope. (I have very nice bolt action 22's for distance & scopes to match!) The rifle still shoot junk ammo to dime size groups at 50 yards.

My brother was so impressed he went to the same store and bought a used standard model for $25. In the mis 90's it started FTF & FTE ing, I cleaned it and still problems. I took it to a shop with a real gunsmith. A few days later they assk if that rifle meant anything to me? I said it was my brothers. They said it was a Pre Production model and were willing to trade/buy it. He accepted their first offer! $100 cash and a then just released stainless steel model (birch stock), That gun still shoot rat and other barn vermin on his farm.

Ivan
 
Back in 1968 we had a "catalog store" nearby. They only had a couple of firearms, and sold them at a discount. I bought a Marlin 989-M2, which was supposed to be a .22 "copy" of an M1 Carbine. It came with a factory mounted marlin 4x scope.

A little R&D and that rifle was introduced a year after the 10-22, and was probably developed to compete with it.

At that time in my life (freshman in college) I had not yet started collecting Rugers or Smiths.

Anywhoot, 54 years later, it has had many many rounds down the pipe and I cannot ever remember a malfunction. It's accuracy is excellent.

As I got older my tastes developed more into pre-model number Smiths. I guess I should buy a 10-22 one of these days.
 
The first 10-22 I bought was in 1976. The barrel was stamped with 'Made in the 200thg year of American liberty' (or something like that). Real nice walnut checkered stock. That eventually got sold or traded. I've had maybe 7 or 8 after that. Currently down to only one and the only thing 'Ruger' left on it is the upper. But it's a good shooter!

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I have two 10/22s. The first one is technically not mine, since I bought it for my bride as a wedding present in 1978. It has been updated with all the recommended Appleseed modifications, and has been used to shoot Appleseed a couple of times.

The 2nd is a TD, and it now resides in a Magpul Backpacker stock. A very handy little carbine.
 
I've bought three. Still looking at one at the local Cabela's with the Mannlicher stock. My first, a Take-Down with the plastic, was gifted to a friend fighting terminal cancer (six+ year survivor, so far) to keep the varmints out of his vegetable garden, and he reports he's collected a lot of rabbit pelts with it. The second was a standard, also plastic, and I finally found an original stock for it. The third is a Charger, and I recently bought a custom wood stock for it. All are equipped with Jard 2.5 pound triggers - no creep, no overtravel.
 

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I've owned a half dozen or so 10/22's over the years (plus a couple of 77/22's). These days I'd down to just one, and it "technically" is my wife's. I got it for her, back before she got sick, and I don't think she's fired it since. I've used it squirrel hunting a few times when we still lived out in the country, and I don't think I ever missed a squirrel with it. I don't guess we'll ever get rid of it.

It's a simple "Wally World Special" with a 22" SS barrel, hardwood "DSP style" stock. I added a cheap blister pack 4X scope, and a $5.00 nylon sling, both from Wally-World.

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When word got out about her aneurysm, a fellow on Rimfire Central dot com, "Swamp Fox" offered to do a trigger job for her, so I sent the trigger assembly off to him. It came back in a few weeks a MUCH better trigger. He installed an extended magazine release at the same time. That meant a lot to her that he'd do that.

I get it out once in a while just to check it and make sure everything is copacetic with it. Fine little gun.

Edited to add: Just got it out of the safe. Trigger breaks a 3.0 pounds, consistently. Clean and crisp.
 
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