10/22 Rapid fire accuracy question...

[Vitamin G]

Okay, my dilemma is as follows...

I LOVE blasting away at crap. Nothing cheers me up like my SAR-1 and a magazine to bump fire.

I also LOVE precision target shooting. It seems to be my new joy.


I would like to buy a 10\22 and replace the barrel for a green mountain or something similar. My long term goal is to build it up to get about 1\2inch groups at 50 yards, with a scope.

If the urge to blast away with a 30rd magazine returns, will i harm the accuracy of a green mountain (or any other) match barrel?
I know eventually i'm going to want to.

 

[Domino]

I don't think your going to damage a 10/22 barrel by shooting a 30 round magazine in rapid fire. The pressures are low enough to where I think would be near impossible to cause enough friction to damage a barrel, but I have no experience with match barrels. From a bench I can shoot rapid fire and still get 2" groups at 80 yards. This is from a completely stock 10/22, so I wouldn't modify it untill you see what it does first. A common mistake is to spend money "accurizing" a 10/22 when many of them shoot great if you find the right ammo. Don't be one of those suckers

 

[patent]

I Think Domino is pretty accurate with his post. I've shot my .22 pretty rapidly, but never really heated the barrell up. I have the 10/22T with the target barrell. I've never actually measured the groups at 50 yards, but I'd bet they are pretty close to .5

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[pete f]

Iknow someone with one of those 22 cal hand crank machine guns that shoots off a hopper, it uses 10/22 barrels and we have shot that thing till it just cooks the grease. and it still works fine. and it still seems to shoot about the same, I have heard that it is impossible to damage a 22 barrel by fireing it that the powder charge just done not get hot enough to erode or scorch the tube. I may be wrong but i have never seen an eroded 22 barrel.

 

[Domino]

Iknow someone with one of those 22 cal hand crank machine guns that shoots off a hopper

I don't mean to be picky but if its hand cranked then its NOT a "machine gun" according to the BATF. It sounds like your refering to some type of Gatling Gun since you seem to have reffered to it using multiple barrels.

I'd be very interested in seeing a picture of this gun and the hopper it uses.

 

[PO2Hammer]

I recently bought a 10/22, never thaught I would own one. I put a Leupold 4X rimfire special scope on it. I'm getting groups right around 1/2" at 50 yards with a wide variety ammo. Federal Gold medal is the exeption, it groups about 2"!
I'm going to put a green mountain muzzle weight barrel on it just to get some weight out front. These fit the standard stock.
You could go with a Volquatsen THM (tensioned honed match) barrel with compensator or full bull barrel with comp. for faster recovery. These would require a new stock of course.
The trigger is the main issue. I'm buying a complete trigger group from Volquartsen to minimize pre and post break travel as well as get a crispy light pull.
You can get just a match hammer for about $40.
I don't think you'll burn out a .22lr barrel in your lifetime.
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/
http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/catalog.aspx?catid=RugerTargetBarrels
http://www.volquartsen.com/