10-22 pros and cons

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Pros: Easy customization/strong aftermarket.

Cons: Nothing great in stock form, accuracy is below par by modern standards.

I personally prefer Marlin (auto) or Savage (bolt) rimfires, but I don't dress mine up much beyond scope/bi pod.
 
25 round mags

I got mine before the Ruger units were available, and the Butler Creek STEEL lips mags are excellent.

I stay away from the plastic-lipped ones.
 
Pros - They work well and their poor trigger is easy and inexpensive to fix. Factory 25 round mags that work great and that aren't too expensive.

Con - PITA to clean the bore or to swab the bore from the breech without disassembling the gun.
 
If you have small hands the factory stock will feel more like the wrong end of a Louisville slugger than a rifle. I also very much dislike the flip up rear sight. That said, I own one. Fun gun, I really prefer my Marlin 60's, but it fills a niche for me.
 
Consider a Marlin 795 also

and if you do not mind a tube mag than a Marlin 60 also. The Marlin 795 runs around $150 here in Iowa while the basic 10/22 is $220. With that $70 saved you can buy a good laminated wood stock from Numrich Gun Parts for around $50. If you are not a scope person than spring for around $80 and put aperture sights on the rifle from Tech-Sights. Or put a scope on it. The factory synthetic stock already has sling swivel studs if you care about that. I know that 10/22s out sell the Marlin 795 perhaps 10 to 1 but you are missing out on a very nice little rifle if you do not consider the 795. The 10 rd mag it comes with costs around $20 if you want more of them. There are also 7 rd mags for sale out there. There is a stainless model for about $60 more. Just my 2 cents but I have two of them.
 
Con - PITA to clean the bore or to swab the bore from the breech without disassembling the gun.
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My stainless 10/22 with Hogue stock shoots good enough for its intended purpose. I own more accurate rifles, but the little 10/22 is a handy field plinker. I like it a lot and shoot it more'n my other .22 rifles. My old Remington bolt gun will stomp on a Marlin M60 for group size. You could ask a couple of gun club friends of mine that are Marlin fan boys. :D I've taken more'n a few matches with it, much to their chagrin. All friendly competition, of course, set up to be cheap to shoot with no Anshutz or other target guns allowed. :D
 
It's a blast!

Kind of like a Harley-part of the fun is adding parts as you please and make it how YOU want it (not that it's not great in stock form, but it's really been fun customizing mine).
 
My first rifle was a 10/22 - the tactical target rifle with the Hogue stock and the 16" bull barrel. Had some work done on the trigger, installed an auto bolt release, and I just love it. Then I acquired a stock basic blued 10/22, and turned it into an Appleseed rifle (80% or better of the rifles used at an Appleseed shoot are 10/22s) with a thumbhold laminated stock, tech sites, auto bolt release, and a VQ hammer to make it a bit lighter. Then I got a 10/22 receiver, and built it into a Nordic Components stock, added a bull barrel and some other tweaks. Who knows what the next one will be? If you buy one, it won't be your last. They are really fun to shoot, easy to maintain, last forever, and great fun to improve / modify. I have only used Ruger OEM magazines, and have never had a problem with them, despite trying dozens of different kinds of ammo in the rifles.
 
I own a 10/22 carbine, and it's okay. It fails to feed about once every 50 rounds and can hit a baseball sized target about 30% of the time at 100 yards.

I'm thinking about getting a bolt action .22 LR. I'm not about fast follow up shots. I just want to hit what I'm aiming at within 100 yards when shooting 22.
 
Yankee I learned that today with brick packs of ammo at $20 a box gonna get pleanty of trigger time! Haha
 
the marlin 60 is more accurate and cheaper, but the ruger has more aftermarket following if you are the type that likes to make changes on guns
 
I put a Volquartsen light weight barrel on mine. A Kidd trigger and operating handle and extractor. It now shoots great and doesn't jam.
 
I really enjoy our 10/22's bought some extra stocks on Ebay and am practicing refinishing them, one mod I would suggest is the extended mag release, the bolt lock back is also handy as well.

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Main cons are that they seem to require tons of expensive after-market, non-Ruger parts to achieve their best performance, and require a lot of disassembly for proper cleaning from the breech. The new takedown model at least takes care of the second problem.
 
Cons:
no last shot hold open
bolt hold back feature is a brain teaser for some
mags can be a pain to seat
the stock it comes with isn't very comfortable
single guide rod on bolt
more expensive than comparable alternatives (Remington 597 is my favorite)

Hogue makes a very nice stock for the 10/22 though. I held one of these last weekend and it almost made me want to buy a 10/22...

Pro:
aftermarket parts selection and availability
 
Captains1911 said:
There is really no need to clean the trigger group
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If you say so...

But, I was instructing at an Appleseed shoot this past weekend and saw a 10/22 where the trigger wouldn't reset because it was dirty. This wasn't a beat up, bottom-of-the-closet rifle either, but the owner has been to a number of other Appleseed shoots. All the same black gunk that builds up in the action of a .22 gets in the trigger over time as well. A good spray with Rem-oil got things back in action and the owner will be cleaning the trigger group now.

I've not seen many designs of blowback .22LR actions which isolate the trigger group enough that it doesn't need cleaned.
 
major pain to clean trigger group.
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Funny, I thought just the opposite - of all my rifles the 10/22 seems to be easiest to completely disassemble. The trigger group IMO is both easy to get to and easy to disassemble and clean - it is all held together with just pins.

Maybe you are referring to cleaning the FCG without removing the action from the stock?
 
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