Just Bought Ruger 10/22

[DeadWhiteGoose]

I love going to the range but even .38's are pretty expensive these days. So I bought a brand new Ruger 10/22 just to get a little more out of those range days. I feel I made a good decision on which .22lr to buy especially for $200 in CA. Thought I'd share, see if any of you guys have them and if you like them. Thanks

 

[CajunBass]

I had a half dozen of them at one time. I'm down to just one now, a "Wally-World Special" as they call them over on the RimfireCentral.com board. With a longer 22" SS barrel, and a checkered hardwood stock, they're fine looking rifles. The trigger has been worked over, and it's a good shooter too. Between it and a Ruger 77/22, they'll do anything I want a 22 to do.

You can of course spend as much money as you want modifying them. You can replace everything but the serial number if you want. I never did. I wouldn't have even had the trigger worked on this one, but the fellow who did it offered to do it for free. I will admit he did a GOOD job.

 

[canoeguy]

I never thought highly of Ruger 10/22's until our gun club bought some for youth rifle training. We had six Marlin 925 bolt action rifles that were accurate and sturdy, but some youth weren't doing well with them. So we bought two Ruger 10/22's for the smaller youth and left handers, the youth who weren't doing well with the Marlin bolt actions dramatically improved with the Ruger 10/22's.

I think the sights are more intuitive for new shooters, and the smaller size and weight makes them easier to handle.

I was so impressed with the club rifles that I went out and bought one of my own, $229 brand new. This rifle has become my "Go To" rifle for canoeing, field use and general knocking around .22 rifle. Bought two spare Ruger 10 round mags and carry them in a Moisin Nagant ammo pouch, along with two .38 speedloaders for my S&W Model 64. With this rifle and revolver combination, I feel I'm ready to face any problem one might encounter in the wilds of Virginia....

The stock trigger is pretty rough, but I don't want to spend the $100 required to upgrade my rifle. I get good enough results with the stock trigger and open sights, groups shot from the prone position at 50 yards about 1.5"....

An upgrade I do intend to install is the upgraded bolt release, with it when the bolt is locked back, you can just pull back on the bolt and chamber a fresh round, no fumbling with the bolt release. The part is $8.00 from Midway, and a friend of mine will install it.

My rifle likes Federal bulk 550, about the cheapest stuff available.

Have fun, the Ruger 10/22 is a great rifle and a great value.

 

[HardShell]

I have several 10/22s in a variety of configurations and really love them, even have two currently pending SBR status (should have the forms back in another month or so). They are the AR-15 of the rimfire world, aftermarket support and options are seemingly endless. You can have plenty of cheap fun bone stock out of the box or spend the cost of a decent used car making it "just so." Add a rimfire suppressor or two into the mix and you have a whole 'nother dimension.

I am posting from my phone now but I'll try to remember to come back and post some pics later...

 

[tork'd]

it was a dead heat between 10/22 and a Henry Golden Boy..
the Henry won that round, but the 10/22 is next.. i think...

CajunBass..
i like the look..
tell me you have targets somewhere in the background of that picture...

 

[HardShell]

... I am posting from my phone now but I'll try to remember to come back and post some pics later...

Old classic Deluxe bone stock...

Bull bbl synth...

Factory digicam...

Kriker Plinker kit...

Archangel Marauder kit...

Threaded/suppressed build in the old BC Packer quick take-down stock...

My pending SBR receivers, which I had Cerakoted after the engraving...

One of my Charger pistols, prior to scoping...

Variety is the spice of life...

 

[sigp220.45]

A 10/22 was my very first gun, purchased with paper route money 41 years ago. I still have it, and shoot it more than any of my other guns. I have probably put 100,000 rounds through it, maybe twice that. It still shoots great.

 

[CajunBass]

CajunBass..
i like the look..
tell me you have targets somewhere in the background of that picture...

Yea, there's more than a few bushytailed targets running around out there.

 

[DeadAye]

Mine's a Plain Jane model that's over 30 years old and no way to tell how many bricks have been through it.
Still working GREAT - A bit beat up and doesn't care a bit....

 

[Brian41]

I have an International model (full stock) and Target model. Both have upgraded triggers and extended bolt releases. Great fun and use the International on varmits too.
I foolishly sold an old carbine model some years ago, what was I thinking?

 

[H Richard]

Add a .920" bull barrel from Midway and do a trigger job, l(ots of video instruction on you-tube), and you have a "match" rifle. Mine is also restocked in a thumb-hole stock, and glass bedded and it will shoot under a 1/2" at 50 yards all day.

 

[deanodog]

Here is mine with folding stock pictured with my mini 14. I put a peep sight on it to help with OLD eyes.

 

[Erno86]

I just traded one of my guns for a Ruger Archangel SR-22 rifle. I like the steel lips and hard plastic followers on the Ruger Magazines, but not the followers on the Pro-Mag drum magazine; which I feel are a bit soft. I think the Ruger repair department should be rated an A+.
I just received my Ruger Single Action 22lr/22 mag Hunter pistol back from Ruger Repair. They literally completely rebuilt my pistol from top to bottom: fixed broken anti-reverse paw, new hammer and springs along with two new 22lr/22 mag cylinders to boot. I did not have to pay a single cent, when I went to pick-up the pistol at my FFL dealer.

My Ruger 10/22 is a pleasure to shoot, while I'm training myself to shoot offhand.

 

[McBear]

I have three, one nearly 40 years old, one from the 80s and a 2010 100th Anniversary Boy Scout model. All fine shooters. A few changes over the course of 40 years but they can still be tack drivers.

I went with the changed up stocks to the Gen1 tacticool look on the 80s model for a while but that got old...back to its original look and feel.

 

[HardShell]

... and a 2010 100th Anniversary Boy Scout model...

I picked up one of those to put back for my son, to give him when he transitions from Cub to Boy Scout in a couple of years, at the same time I picked up one of the new take-down models.

I don't think I have a pic of the rifles, just the boxes in my trunk...

 

[max]

I recommend them to my non-gun friends who want to start with something inexpensive and easy to shoot. I just bought one of the Ruger 25 round magazines, but have not tried it out yet. I have several aftermarket and they all seem to work fine.

 

[dant]

you done good, a great basic and simple, easy rifle, ...the bread & butter of the Ruger line,take a licking and keep on ticking, and as you can "see" above, the options, and extras are endless............still have a couple around here, and off and on since they came out in the 60's.........

 

[Fishslayer]

Stuck a cheapo 2X Red Dot on mine. The old eyes ain't what they used to be.

I found that mine shot way better with the barrel band removed. Some Dremel work would fix it but I'm lazy.

 

[Dominus_Lex]

We have a 30yr old 10/22 my sons use for plinking, but the Charger is known as "the bunny buster". We put a reasonably priced 3x9 scope on it at the guys love to put rabbit on the table at "long range" (for kids and a pistol that is). A whole lot of fun for not too many dollars.

 

[canoeguy]

OK, these Ruger 10/22's multiply like rabbits...

Took the wife to the Doctors today in a town about two hours away, Gloucester, Va. Seeing an opportunity to take in some gun shops I don't have a chance to visit often, I left her at the Doctors and visited a few gun shops, picked up some reloading equipment at "Hunters Heaven", stopped in a pawn shop, then saw a bait shop that had a sign that advertised "Guns"...

On the rack was a Bicentennial "Made in the 200th year of American liberty" Ruger 10/22 with a fixed 4X scope, excellent condtion, steel buttplate and trigger gaurd, steel barrel band, etc., price $150. Paid for it quickly, the went back to wife and fessed up...

To the range tomorrow!