Speaking of Rimfire

[Triggerpresser]

Anybody tried their hand at building a Ruger 10/22? I did a couple of years ago and had a blast! I wound up with a beautiful gun that will shoot .25" 10 shot groups at 50 yards with the right ammo and if me and the weather are cooperating.

[layusn1]

I was going to but I sold mine and the only other one in the house is my daughters. I know you can put some big bucks into building one though...easily 2-3 times the cost of the rifle. Especially if the word Volquartsen is involved...lol.

[copdills]

anyone have a link to a video of the trigger group break down for a 10/22 and Reassembly
Thanks

[ede]

i "sportized" one back in high school. 10 years ago i did a thumbhole stock and SS barrel on one. few years ago i was stocking up on parts to go the full tricked out route on one and got to thinking about where i'd ever shoot it and sold everything off before i finished the gun.

[BigSlick]

I kept mine somewhat basic.

Added a decent trigger kit and a Hogue over moulded stock an a decent but not great scope.

Great fun and more than accurate enough for my use.

Youngins love shootin it, plus, it cheaper than anything else to shoot where you're forced to go factory

I can do minute o beer can at 50 yds off hand if I do my part

Where it really gets fun is with a swinging target. Not da extra cheapo kind, but just one lil bit up from dat.

Been givin some thought to goin to a carbon fat barrel, but it shoots great like it is, I don't shoot it too much an it gets da job done when I hunt wit it

So, I been savin dat couple a hundred for other stuff.

Wouldn't trade it for anythang.

[CZ93X62]

Kinda what Slick said.

I've picked up and given away at least a half dozen 10/22s to kids and nephews for the past 10-12 years, so I figured I would get a "beater" and do the Ken and Barbie Dress-Up bit with the gun--truck axle barrel, VQ trigger group, Hogue stock--first cabin, all the way. And KEEP IT.

I got as far as Step 1--found a beater 10/22 at The Stockade in Westminster for cheap, and got it home. It had been stored someplace dusty, and after getting the dirt out of the internals and barrel it looked pretty darn good mechanically and bore-wise. Very little use, just shot some and set aside for quite a while, and probably estate-saled.

What the hey--I took it to the range for grins, with some cheep and some decent 22 LR ammo. IT SHOT RIGHT WELL. I attached a 4X scope for the next range day, and the little hammer stacked Rem bulk--WW bulk--and ESPECIALLY CCI Mini-Mags right on top one another.

Leave well enough alone, says I.

[killarbb]

i started one not quite 9 years ago. still need to do some work, but the damned thing just keeps shooting

[ISUSteve]

A guy at my range has a built non-Ruger 10/22. It shoots well from what I saw, even with the fed/rem value packs.

[Warhorse]

I bought a 10/22T many years ago when they first came out, and added a Nikon scope that cost a little more than the rifle. Shoots unbelievably good, with the scope up on 12X, you can watch each bullet hit into darn near the same hole, at 50 yrds. It is way heavy though, good for the range only.

[kidcop]

Before my ex son in law was my ex son in law, he brought a one of those souped up 10/22's out to my place. I took him up to an indoor 22 range for which I'm a member. I showed him what a stock Remy 552 can do. His groups were not all that smaller than mine.

[creophus]

I have a stock one that I got from wal-mart. Great gun for the money, but nothing like the tricked out guns I see some people have.

Thankfully I never really had an urge to customize one. I may have to leave this thread before that BUG bites me too.

[mitchshrader]

i dunno why ya'll don't shoot something popular.

i mean, not dissing no wannabes er nothin, heck, it's FLATTERING that bill ruger tried to compete..

and if he'd just lived he mighta fixed it.

but after the model 60 there really wasn't no point in trying to make a reliable popular .22 semi auto.

it'd been done.

can't BE but one gun in first place, and if you wonder which one, count em. :)

[Steve Koski]

I hunt brown bear with mine.

[MONTEGOD7SS]

i dunno why ya'll don't shoot something popular.

i mean, not dissing no wannabes er nothin, heck, it's FLATTERING that bill ruger tried to compete..

and if he'd just lived he mighta fixed it.

but after the model 60 there really wasn't no point in trying to make a reliable popular .22 semi auto.

it'd been done.

can't BE but one gun in first place, and if you wonder which one, count em. :)

If my Model 60 wasn't bought for me by my stepdad that has passed away I would wrap that piece of **** around a tree and burn the remains. It jams like nothing I have ever seen before with any ammo, any cleaness or lack of, nothing can get that f-ing thing to shoot good. It almost pisses me off enough to buy another one just so I can chop that sumbitch in half as some sort of revenge against mine.

If you wanna see the pinnacle of .22 semi autos I will take a picture of my J.C. Higgins Model 31 with the built-in retractable sling. It shoots great, will feed any round nose made and with such a long barrel really sends regular bulk pack stuff downrange in a hurry. I know the Model 60 is the most sold firearm in history (over 11 million) but the 10/22 is just better and so are others.