How accurate is your 10/22

What if I have several and one is customized and tricked out enough to shoot pennies at 100 yards and the others are just stock plinkers?

Guess what my vote was......

All my "I hate this thing aside".....I have ran minimum 10 rounds of so many different flavors of ammo down the last one I have (bone stock) and have yet to see anything that would come close to 2".....Now I am not going to go into my grumpy old man memory and try to recall what the others shot....I think my son has them now, I know I kept one....because.....well it is like a belly button....everyone needs one....even if it is an ugly yucky looking outie.

I would like to move to it for some small bore games I want to try to play again this year....but the thing will just not shoot. I really don't want to hang glass on my nylon (In my head I just have the idea that it will not be rigid enough) and it is one of the lightest 22's I have.....my 452 is pretty heavy with the glass I have on it.....I don't have much strength in my left side due to some nerve damage.....anyhoo.

Putting in on a bench and taking the loose nut behind the trigger as out of it as possible At 100 mine was doing at best 3", clean, dirty, this ammo , that ammo...it did not matter....that was as good as it got.....the 452 shoots better then that with golden bullets. This will not shoot well with RWS, Eley...pick your favorite food...it will not group at best....run at worst. Every 60 I have shoots better, some so old there are no SN#'s....the wife has a neos carbine that shoots better.....crown is fine, nothing looks out of wack by looking at the rifle itself.

I was even thinking of buying one of those tools that measure 22 ammo....check rim size and do some sorting and see if I can find out just why this rifle just sucks so bad....those tools are only like $30...so why not....might be fun to a guy that weighs brass when reloading.

My 10/22 was made in the 1960’s...I bought it “like new in box” about 10yrs ago.
With a cheap 4X Barska rimfire scope, I was shooting dime sized 10 shot groups at 80yds, using Blazer bulk ammo.

MihiT said:

Personally I've never met one that shoots worth a damn (IMO - varmints past 30 yards would be optimistic for one)

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Pretty much my experience but I'd push that to 50-75. Even a 4 moa gun would be deadly on a groundhog sized animal like we have at 75 yards.

The last new one I bought is a stainless "target" model. Back around 2001. It shot so bad I put a choate stock and a red dot on it. I have a smooth bore winchester pump that can do almost as good. Older Guy said he had the worst shooting 22 ever. I accepted that challenge but sure enough his shot worse. Had SB on the barrel.

All that said, with the bulk ammo most people insist on shooting there aren't many 22 rifles that shoot anywhere near what people claim. My worst shooting 2 are a 10/22 target and a T bolt. No matter the ammo.

I don't see "MOPP" (Minute of Paper Plate) or "MOB" (Minute of Balloon) on the list, which is basically what mine shoots at 100yds.

It's dead nutz at 10yds or less though.

I have a 1022 "deluxe" model from 30+ years ago (back when Ruger only made 2 models). WIth bulk wally world ammo, I can keep all my shots on a 1" paster at 50 yards, which is as far as I would shoot any critter with a 22. Modifications include a 4x Simmons scope in a cheap base.

NapalmMan67 said:

I don't see "MOPP" (Minute of Paper Plate) or "MOB" (Minute of Balloon) on the list, which is basically what mine shoots at 100yds.

It's dead nutz at 10yds or less though.

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My first one from the seventies wouldn't do that good so it sat in a corner unused for year and years. Then I discovered the wonderful world of customizing 10/22's. Now it's a less than minute of angle with Wolf Match Target and nearly as good with CCI SV. My second, bought several years ago to build another custom with, proved to be a little better in the accuracy department, maybe paper plate on a good day out of the box. After finishing it's almost as good as it's older brother. Close but not quite. I didn't check a box as they aren't real 10/22's any longer.

Depends on what one. Back when I did a side by side with the Marlin model 60, Remington 597 and Ruger 10/22.

For the "test" I gave them a few foulers then walked down the 60 yards to swap the target and ran 3 consecutive 5 shot groups with 3 different types of ammunition, 40gn HP, 36gn HP and a 40gn solid.

The stock Ruger (except for scope) averaged 1.259” @ 60 yards (2.0038 MOA).

However, I took the ammunition it like the best and shot another 5 shot group with my Clark custom 10/22 and it grouped .275” at 60 yards (.4377 MOA).

Pretty big difference between the two, in terms of accuracy.

4 MOA would be just over 2.5” at 60 yards and all of them shot better than that.

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/side-by-side-597-10-22-model-60.811602/

The question I'd like to see (honestly) answered is, What is your average group? I've owned my 1966 model 10/22 for several decades and I'm certain that my best group is NOT representative of how the gun shoots in general. Fire enough groups out of any gun and you'll get at least one "best group" that's about 10x better than average.

Howdy

I bought mine sometime in the early 1990s. It has an inexpensive Simmons 3X X 9X scope on it. It is good for Minute of Soup Can at 100 yards. That's all I ask of it.

With very little work mine (standard carbine, 201X production) does 3/4” at 50. Two others (200X and 201X carbine and TD) are closer to 1.3” and a 4th (2018 Deluxe) is still unfired.

I don’t love them like all get out, they’re just easy to deal with by modifying stock (OEM) parts. I’ve been shooting 10/22s since high school and never had a problem hitting soda cans at 100 yards even with open sights.

I don't know about others, but for me it is on a good stable rest, usually a lead sled and I try to have as little input as possible....it is the gun and ammo i am testing not myself.

I sold mine but it was really accurate 75 yards with free float barrel Mapul stock. It hit all over with factory wood stock with barrel band but alot was me

When the thing wasn't exploding, the mach2 I built would put it's rounds into less than an inch. Again, untill it blew up or the barrel fouled, which took about 100rnds or so.

I6turbo said:

The question I'd like to see (honestly) answered is, What is your average group? I've owned my 1966 model 10/22 for several decades and I'm certain that my best group is NOT representative of how the gun shoots in general. Fire enough groups out of any gun and you'll get at least one "best group" that's about 10x better than average.

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Exactly! A rifle that has shot 1000 groups over the years with an average group size of 4" will have shot numerous 1/2" or better groups due to luck alone. If you're a hostage and an FBI sniper is three football fields away hoping to drop a bad guy with a gun at your head, do you want to know his/her best group or their worst group?

I voted "<1/2 moa". I don't really know how well my 10-22 shot from the factory. I'm pretty sure though, with the right ammo my Kimber bolt would have outshot it. It won't now.

MihiT said:

New barrel, trigger group and bolt?

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Yep, plus a new stock, 6X scope, barrel vibration dampener, and one of those fancy magazine release levers.

MihiT said:

How much did you spend to get there?

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I don't remember, but it was probably better than $500, not counting what I paid for the 10-22 in the first place.
It's fun, and my grandkids love it.

[Added] This was factory, NIB model. $399 I think in 2010.

I felt that 10/22 were just blasters until I saw one with a heavy, free floating barrel. It's the "varmint" or "target" version I think. Out of the box here's what it did with various ammo. Those are 3/4" black centers. I think that qualifies for <1MOA.



Oh yes I did shoot it at 100yds.

MihiT said:

Perhaps I should have limited it to factory 10/22

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Heavily dependent on ammo.

Factory stock 10/22 Take Down groups from "Bulk 22LR Sorting by Weight and Rim Thickness" thread - https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...weight-and-rim-thickness-for-accuracy.850634/


25 yards 10 shot groups with Bushnell Trophy 3-9x40mm on Caldwell Steady Rest (Front rest flipped around to not touch the forearm as any touch and holes moved up on target). 10/22 barrel shot "dirty" after 1000+ rounds without cleaning (Just wad of paper towel pushed through bore):

CCI Blazer 40 gr Lead RN




Aguila 40 gr Lead RN




Aguila 40 gr CP RN (Eley Prime)




Aguila 40 gr CP RN (Aguila Prime)




Federal 36 gr CP HP (Walmart 550 round red box)




Another group shot with Federal 36 gr CP HP (Same Walmart 550 round box)




Federal 36 gr CP HP (Walmart 550 round red box) sorted by weight (49.4 gr)




Federal 36 gr CP HP sorted by weight (49.5 gr) and rim thickness

Factory 10/22 Take Down Bushnell Trophy 3-9x40mm and Caldwell Steady Rest (Front rest flipped so no part of forearm touches rest)

50 yard 10 shot group with Aguila 40 gr CP RN (Aguila Prime)

My first 10/22 was a plain jane birch stock carbine from about 1990 or thereabouts.

Was pretty disappointed with it at first compared to the bolt actions I was accustomed to shooting. Not target rifles, just ordinary shooters.

Finally put a Williams aperture sight on it and my group sizes were cut in half.

After a few thousand rounds (used to shoot quite a lot before I married) the trigger slowly got better. Not great, but better.

Decided to shoot an Appleseed so had a buddy of mine do some trigger work for me. Now it began to shoot better than I could after having been away from the sport for so long. Changed the Williams sights out for Tech Sights. Not that they're better, just because they're harder to break and a bit easier to adjust.

Using CCI Standard Velocity - which has become my go-to ammo now - it's shooting better than my eyes can see.

The 10/22 is a good rifle once you improve the sights and the trigger.