The RUGER 10/22 - Just Right.

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This is mine, which was a stock traget/varmint model from Ruger, UNTIL. A friend of mine in Maryland had to dispose of his thumbhold stock so I sent him my standard Ruger stock. Boy does it look good. BTB, I'm a free float advocate. No bedding, no barrel bands, no presure points. With CCI Standard ammo this will shoot easily under 1" @ 50yds. Trigger is Ruger as it came from the factory.

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This is mine, a 1967 model, given to me by a good friend. Since it was such an early one, I wanted to do something special for it, and so removed the beautiful stock and put it away, opting for this JBM aluminum bullpup stock. It has taken over the duties of "most fun" range weapon from my GSG-5. Have even shot a steel challenge with it.
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Best target shot with my modified 10-22 Deluxe, done in 2000? Only non-factory parts were the Shilen barrel, Clark Extractor, epoxy bedding/pressure point , and a travel-limiting screw. (Group 2 was scary-good.) Sighter groups weren't part of the average of 0.372".
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Will get another 10/22 when the go on sale for Black Friday. But I need some iron sights for Rimfire Challenge.

Thinking about the Tech sights but drilling out the aperture to make the "quicker". What else would some one recommend?

[Edit] Sorry let me more precise. (rule #10). What other iron sights would be recommended?
 
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alfsauve said:
Will get another 10/22 when the go on sale for Black Friday. But I need some iron sights for Rimfire Challenge.

Thinking about the Tech sights but drilling out the aperture to make the "quicker". What else would some one recommend?
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Tech-Sights (TSR100) aperture sights are already pretty big on the 10/22.

Cutting and squaring the stock LOP to 13" and the hard rubber recoil pad, to me, made the biggest difference.

Not only does the rifle handle and mount like a rifle, but it places the eye closer to the aperture, increasing the field of view even more, well outside the front sight dog ears.




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I drilled out the rear sight aperture on my TSR 200 sight (rail-mounted version of the TS 200). I found the drill bit that would just fit through the aperture and used the next size up bit in a standard set of SAE jobber bits. I find that the Ruger stock has insufficient length of pull for me so I use a recoil pad that extends the LOP just over an inch.

If you have the TS 200 style rear sight you can buy a replacement sight post that accepts different size apertures. I have not used this but have been tempted to try it:

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I am not a gunsmith, but I play one on TV....OK not really I just wanted to see how old some of you are.

While not a gunsmith I like to tinker (not like THRs ownTinker, more like a ten thumbed Orangatan) so for me trigger worked seemed interesting. I used to hang out on "RimFire Central" as much as here on THR and my 10/22 just got jealous of all those other guns. On the THR trade section I found a local guy with some excess parts and a stock so I figured "what the heck, if I mess up I can use his old parts first and just toss them"

I did the thing on RFC using my shop safe and a drill bit to position a hammer and recut my sear notch. Got a much nicer trigger out of the work. Pulled the trigger return spring and plunger and polished them up, polished up the hole as best I could, lube them and put them back and got a measurable difference in trigger pull. Did the "Auto Bolt Release" Mod with a chainsaw file with the guard removed. Installed an ancient Ram Line magazine release. Sent off for Tech Sights and put them on the day they arrived. Added sling swivels and a GI canvas sling. Took off the butt plate and slipped a two inch section of bicycle inner tube over it and reinstalled it (Viola' no slippy sliding on the shoulder with the original cresent slippery doodle!)

Anyhow it gave me some confidence once I did OK on the first one and you have all seen a Liberty Training Rifle from Appleseed shoots so here is my second go instead.

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My daughter expressed an interest but did not like the original stock. So I cleaned up her trigger and set the metal aside and went to work. She liked "musket style" stocks, so.... a bit of saw work and a huge amount of wood rasp and sand paper work got her rifle to what you see on top. After this picture she decided it was too long and that she did not like the cresent butt plate so a bit more miter saw work and a cut up old mouse pad (flip flop just did not do it for either of us so it was ripped off after our first go at it) and she has a shortened stock with a flat butt plate.

The rifle on the Bottom is a 10/22 "Rifle" rather than a carbine we got from an old guy getting rid of his guns. Not sure what he did to the finish on the stock but the stock is in storage and the metal now lives in an ATI folder plastic fantastic stock with a light on one of the rails and a low power scope.

I like other .22s but the 10/22 is sort of the late 60's Camero of the gun world and I seem to have lots of Bondo and weird stuff from Honest Charlie laying about. EE-HA!

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I have seven 10/22s. Shocking isn’t it ? But most of them have been sitting in the safe for a while. Two are older rifles with Overton stocks and the others have mods of one kind or another.
Right now only one has been seeing some use. It was an old beater that I had picked up a few years ago for $75. When the Magpul stock for the 10/22 came out, I decided to fix up the beater. The only parts that are original is the receiver and bolt. This pic was taken before I mounted a red dot on it.
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With the bull barrel and the X22 stock, have you left the barrel free-floated, or have you tried using the little adjustable barrel support gizmo near the front end of the stock?
 
The newer X22 stocks come with a little crescent-shaped barrel support that is reversible with a cut out on one side to fit a taper barrel and on the other side to fit a bull barrel. This little bracket slides down into a cut-out inside the barrel tray of the frame near the forward end and can be elevated up by a small set screw that can be accessed through the forward-most M-LOK slot on the bottom of the fore-end.

I just installed a taper-barrelled 10/22 in a X22 stock and tried shooting it with and without the support bracket touching the barrel. My rifle seemed to shoot more accurately with some front end barrel support. In order to prevent the receiver from rocking in the stock, I also had to install a few layers of aluminum foil tape to "bed" the small shelf at the back of the stock that supports the very rear end of the receiver. The side-to-side fit of the stock was pretty snug but without the front barrel support screwed up, the action did rock forward and back a bit even with the action screw torqued to 20 inch-pounds.
 
First rifle I bought when I turned 18 was a Ruger 10/22. Loved the size, weight, styling, and that ingenious 10 round magazine. The gun was so accurate I had to put a scope on it and went with a Weaver K2.5 scope. I have a Butler Creek folding stock for it when I want to make it more compact but for many years now it's been in the original wood stock. One fun to shoot .22 (especially if it's with CCI MiniMags or Wolf Match Target).

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How can you not love a 10/22? Its honestly the only 22 auto rifles I've ever used that actually worked. We shot the crap out of them when I was a kid.
 
I wanted something to help remove the magazines from my 10/22. Normally, nomal being the operative part, they just fall into my hand when I release them, but I wanted something to pull them out just in case. Tandem Koss has these "bumpers" but they're $10+ ea. They do add weight to the mag to help it drop.

How about a ring of some sort? Found some play plastic rings @ $0.25ea and thought, what the hey. Plus they're warrantied for 30 days! Glued them to the bottom. I'll try these for a while till everybody laughs and calls me princess. (btb, Disney owns ABC owns MASH, so Klinger is a princess.)


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alfsauve said:
I wanted something to help remove the magazines from my 10/22. Normally, nomal being the operative part, they just fall into my hand when I release them, but I wanted something to pull them out just in case. Tandem Koss has these "bumpers" but they're $10+ ea. They do add weight to the mag to help it drop.

How about a ring of some sort? Found some play plastic rings @ $0.25ea and thought, what the hey. Plus they're warrantied for 30 days! Glued them to the bottom. I'll try these for a while till everybody laughs and calls me princess. (btb, Disney owns ABC owns MASH, so Klinger is a princess.)
Cheaper than that would be some duct tape loops like troops did to M16 mags back in the day before Mag-Pul decided to start manufacturing them.

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