Finally gave in and bought one of these from Wal-Mart--the only place that has them...
It's got a nice sporter style stock with NO barrel band (I hate barrel bands), pressed checkering, a rubber "recoil pad" and front & rear sling swivels.
Basically, it's a 10/22 Deluxe Sporter with a 22" stainless barrelled action. Not that big a difference from a standard 10/22, but it looks more like a tool and less like a toy than the 18.5" gun with the plastic buttplate
The trigger was ATROCIOUS! I worked on it for two to three hours (I'm very cautious about such things--never used anything coarser than 600grit) before I got the pull cleaned up and lightened to an acceptable level. I figure it's breaking around 4 lbs with no creep. Overtravel is there, but I didn't want to break out the power tools to fix it and it's not bad enough to be obnoxious anyway.
Other than the trigger, the only other problem was that the barreled action is anchored into the stock by a single screw. That allows the whole shebang to pivot (by a tiny amount) around the screw. I was going to fix it with bedding compound, but got a little creative and fixed the situation with some of the tiny self-adhesive, heavy duty felt pads you can buy for furniture. I put one under the barrel at the front of the stock, and then two small ones on either side of the barrel just in front of the action and two more small ones in the back corners of the stock where the corners of the receiver sit.
Put everything together and tightened down the screw. That sucker is as snug as if I had epoxied it in place. I had to push down on the muzzle with the butt on the floor to compress the pads in the back of the inlet to enough get the screw started.
Gotta get a receiver sight for it--I'm calling Williams tomorrow...
It's got a nice sporter style stock with NO barrel band (I hate barrel bands), pressed checkering, a rubber "recoil pad" and front & rear sling swivels.
Basically, it's a 10/22 Deluxe Sporter with a 22" stainless barrelled action. Not that big a difference from a standard 10/22, but it looks more like a tool and less like a toy than the 18.5" gun with the plastic buttplate
The trigger was ATROCIOUS! I worked on it for two to three hours (I'm very cautious about such things--never used anything coarser than 600grit) before I got the pull cleaned up and lightened to an acceptable level. I figure it's breaking around 4 lbs with no creep. Overtravel is there, but I didn't want to break out the power tools to fix it and it's not bad enough to be obnoxious anyway.
Other than the trigger, the only other problem was that the barreled action is anchored into the stock by a single screw. That allows the whole shebang to pivot (by a tiny amount) around the screw. I was going to fix it with bedding compound, but got a little creative and fixed the situation with some of the tiny self-adhesive, heavy duty felt pads you can buy for furniture. I put one under the barrel at the front of the stock, and then two small ones on either side of the barrel just in front of the action and two more small ones in the back corners of the stock where the corners of the receiver sit.
Put everything together and tightened down the screw. That sucker is as snug as if I had epoxied it in place. I had to push down on the muzzle with the butt on the floor to compress the pads in the back of the inlet to enough get the screw started.
Gotta get a receiver sight for it--I'm calling Williams tomorrow...
