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
mike