Butler Creek Barrel for a 10/22?

[bryank30]

So I picked up a brand new little 10/22 carbine at Dick's for 189.99 and already have a target hammer on the way. I was browsing Natchez and they have the Butler Creek .920 barrel and stock for 139.99.. Is that a good upgrade? I noticed most of the twists are 1-16 and this barrel is no exception, it is a 20'' barrel.


Any thoughts?

 

[Ditch-Tiger]

I have a Butler Creek bull bbl (SS/fluted) and am not impressed by its accuracy.
I should have saved up for the volquartsen.

 

[madcratebuilder]

You get what you pay for, most of the time. A 20" bull is very muzzle heavy, personally I prefer a 16" on the 10/22's. Check the Green Mountain barrels, they are affordable and shot very nicely.

 

[jmr40]

I built a 10-22 using one of the Shooters Choice barrels from Cabelas and it shoots amazingly tight groups. I found one of the Butler Creek barrels in a local gunstore that they had marked down cheap to move and bought it for a 2nd gun. Accuracy was much worse than with the factory barrel. Took that barrel off and sold it cheap at a gunshow.

 

[wnycollector]

+1 on green mountain barrels. Several of my friends have them on their rifles and they out shoot me with my stock 10/22 consistently I have been contemplating a barrel, hammer and stock upgrade to my 10/22...but thus far I have been dumping money into AR's!

 

[sansone]

sorry but the butlr creek brrl is not an upgrade

 

[CraigC]

I wouldn't take a Butler Creek barrel if it was free. There are better options at that price point, such as Green Mountain. Spend a little more and get a MUCH better barrel. Steel bull barrels are too heavy for anything but bench work. If you want to actually hunt with the thing when you're done, consider a Green Mountain sporter, varmint profile from Shilen, or Clark's mid-weight barrel. Clark has a dandy weight chart on their site.

http://www.clarkcustomguns.com

 

[bryank30]

Ok I am watching a couple of barrels on gunbroker, one is a ER Shaw 18'' Smooth Stainless and the other is a Green Mountain used 18'' both are around the same price, but the ER Shaw is new and the Green Mountain is slightly used. I realize that its next to impossible to shoot out the bore of a .22

So which one do you think? The ER Shaw or the Green Mountain?

 

[bryank30]

The Green Mountain is smooth stainless too.. I would like to find a factory Ruger Hammer Forged Target barrel but they are few and far between..

 

[hardluk1]

You can buy a 18" blue 920 barrel right from GM direct for 105 dollars. I have a 20"ss in a home built custom and it is a shooter. You do have to play around to find its choice of ammo for best results. Mine likes wolf M/T and shoots under 3/8" at 50 yards if i can settle down with it. Adams and Bennett 10/22 barrels are made by GM also. Hogues rubber stock works real well for a lite rifle for around 55 dollars in black and boyd typicaly has sales on the 10/22 stocks, Check. Mine was 65 dollars unfinished. Get your trigger group parts from Clark Custom for around 65 dollars Makes for a nice 2 1/2lb trigger OR see about sending your barrel to them for a recrown and match chambering for 85 dollars. That should cut group size by 50% + and see if they well do the trigger for you for the same 65 dollars. They will do it if you buy a new barrel. Never hurts to ask. Rugers target barrels are not always that great.

 

[madcratebuilder]

Rugers target barrels are not always that great.

Ruger makes very accurate barrels, both the target and standard. Problem is they have very sloppy chambers. If you set the barrel back .075 and cut a new chamber with a Bentz reamer you get a modified Bentz that well improve accuracy and still feed most ammo. Set the headspace to spec for even greater improvements. If you don't think Ruger OEM rifles shoot well take a look at rimfirecentral in the Super Stock section and see what they are getting from stock Rugers.

 

[hardluk1]

If i have to set the barrel back and rechamber to shoot well I will stand by what i said. The ruger target barrels are always that great

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

I went with a green mountain 16" .920 fluted threaded barrel and a houge overmold stock. For the price I think it's a good upgrade and the accuracy has been great (plus makes a nice suppressor host).
Good call on the hammer, that can make as much difference as a good barrel considering the horrible factory trigger pull.

 

[bryank30]

Yeah I am going to snatch up that used stainless GM barrel on Gunbroker I believe. Its a 18'' barrel. My receiver is black, I guess I will scuff it up with some steel wool and tape it off on the insides and shoot some good ole dupont imron silver on it ; )

 

[Skylerbone]

Tactical Solutions among others make light weight bull barrels for the 10/22 to give you match grade performance in a field weight rifle. Theirs uses a chrome moly liner in an aluminum shell, some of the more spendy barrels use carbon fiber.

$170ish to $350ish pricewise. That and a skeletonized thumbhole stock would keep it from being a bear to carry but offers no advantage at the bench where heavy tends to be best for accuracy.

 

[double bogey]

Your reciever is aluminum. You can use stripper on the paint, and polish it to your pleasure. Wax it after and your good to go. check out Rimfire Central and find a guy named Nemohunter. He works wondes with factory barrels.

 

[speedy396]

I have a 20" SS Butler Creek barrel and it shoots great. Maybe I got lucky based on other posts. I bought since the old GM was closing and the barrel was only $25. The Volquartsen barrels come tapped for a barrel mounted scope which is a nice setup. It was $50 to have my barrel tapped by a local smith. My next build will be a Volquartsen barrel and parts. Just trying to on a receiver and stock.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Yeah I am going to snatch up that used stainless GM barrel on Gunbroker I believe. Its a 18'' barrel. My receiver is black, I guess I will scuff it up with some steel wool and tape it off on the insides and shoot some good ole dupont imron silver on it ; )

If you want a new one Hi-desertdog has the blued ones in stock for $86.
https://www.hi-desertdog.com/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=207
He's the one I bought both mine from. Great service and pricing.