Dissapointed In My New Stainless Ruger 10/22

[bigmike45]

Went to Sportsmans Warehouse, in San Antonio yesterday with my oldest son. He was looking at a great buy on a new compound bow. I wandered over to the gun area and spotted a 10/22 I was interested in and bought it for $210.00. It is the model with the synthetic stock and I figured stainless gun and synthetic stock will make a good woods gun, truck gun and an all around fun gun. I have never owned a 10/22, but I do like Rugers. I have 6 stainless Ruger revolvers and 2 bolt action stainless rifles. I finally decided to get the gun out of the box and mount my scope on it. I started really looking at the reciever and tigger guard and realized that they are NOT stainless. Obviously I never noticed at the store. They are both carbon steel with some sort of silvery colored coating. The coating is something like what I have seen on different handguns. It looks like some kind of polymer. When did Ruger start this??? I now understand why I only paid $210.00 for the rifle. Man what a disappointment. Anyone else have this on their "stainless" 10/22???

mike

 

[Telperion]

The receiver and trigger housing are aluminum and not steel of any kind, and this is the case for all 10/22 models. The only thing that is stainless is the barrel.

If you want a steel receiver you will have to buy from Volquartsen.

 

[Ifishsum]

Not to disappoint further, but I believe the receiver and trigger guard are aluminum.

edit: Telperion beat me to it

I haven't seen a Volquartsen in person, but pretty much all .22s I've seen have an aluminum receiver.

 

[Fburgtx]

The receiver and trigger guard are both ALUMINUM. They are aluminum on the "blued" models too. These parts have never been made of steel on the 22lr 10/22. Hey, at least you didn't pay $800+ for a shotgun with an aluminum receiver (see Beretta, Browning, others) that for some strange reason are still no lighter than a Remington 1100 with a STEEL receiver!!

 

[Plink]

Mike, don't let the alloy receiver get you down. They shoot great and last forever. Ruger is known for making a reliable, durable gun and the 10/22 is no exception. That's part of the reason they're one of the most, if not THE most popular .22 out there.

 

[Fburgtx]

Yeah, its direct competitor, the Marlin 60, has an aluminum receiver, too.

 

[hoghunting]

If you mount a scope, just be careful to not overtighten the base screws as it will strip out the holes. Other than that, there's no problems with the aluminum receiver.

 

[rangerruck]

if your dissapointed now, wait 'til you start shooting for groups, and reliable fireing, and ejecting!!!!

 

[bigmike45]

Thanks to everyone,

I appreciate all the information and encouragement. I guess, since I have so manu other Ruger firearms, that are so well made, this kind of blindsided me. I have already mounted a scope with the supplied Weaver bracket. I had a spare 3X9, mid range quality that was just laying around, and it should work fine for what I want to do with the gun.

Mike

 

[Husker1911]

if your dissapointed now, wait 'til you start shooting for groups, and reliable fireing, and ejecting!!!!

Humbly disagree entirely.

 

[bakert]

I disagree too. Only real complaint I have is the trigger pull is a bit too heavy as it comes from the factory.

 

[atblis]

Such Ignorance

Beretta makes a better shotgun than Remington (and I am a Remington shooter).

The receiver is not the problem on the Rugers. New Green Mountain Barrel, and some trigger parts, good to go.

 

[WeedWhacker]

One change you may want to consider if you encounter any problems with ejection or stovepipes, is an aftermarket Volquartsen extractor. My stainless 10/22 would stovepipe left and right - extremely annoying. With the extractor, which is rather easy to install, the ejection problems disappear with all but some lower velocity ammo. Cheap-o Remington Golden Bullets work great now, etc.

 

[squackdaddy]

hey all you 10/22 owners.....get yourselves over to RimfireCentral.com and learn how to "fix" your 10/22. I have 7 or 8 of them and have plans to buy more. Rimfires can be lots of fun and cheap to shoot. Lots of great people with more information than you can digest in a month of sundays.

 

[MassMark]

Wow - when I spotted this thread, I prepared to come in to find someone having problems with their 10/22. Turns out it was a receiver materials issue. As stated above, they've always been that way. I think of all the rifles I own, (and have owned), my Ruger 10/22 has been the absolute winner in reliability. I have never, ever had a problem with it.

 

[hksw]

The receiver and trigger housing are aluminum and not steel of any kind, and this is the case for all 10/22 models.

Well, except for the 10/22M which did have a steel receiver until its discontinuation.

 

[outerlimit]

if your dissapointed now, wait 'til you start shooting for groups, and reliable fireing, and ejecting!!!!

Humbly disagree entirely.

The groups and trigger pull will definately suck, in comparision to a model 60 Marlin. But there should be no reliability problems with the 10/22 unless you get a real lemon.

 

[Oohrah]

Own three of them with outstanding functioning and accuracy problems
with one, the target version. The problem child might be scope or ammo.
only used it twice to zero the scope. It gives one holer three or four
rounds and wanders. Will narrow it down now that summer is
on the way