"Upgrading" a gun

[absolute0]

**PREFACE** I've never sold a gun before.

I happened upon a pristine example of an early Ruger 10/22 yesterday. It's a low 6 digit seral number made in 1968 with hardly a mark on it, nice walnut stock, steel butt plate, etc.

The price was too good to pass on ($150) so of course I brought it home, along with a neat old all matching 1927 Sistema Colt - to say it was a good day would be an understatement!

What to do with my current 10/22? I've had it a few years and there's not a thing wrong with it, I just don't see the point in having 2. I've rationalized several of these type purchases over the past few years by telling myself "I'll give it to Zach (my nephew who's 7) when he's old enough". I've also managed to double up on a couple other guns (pre safety Marlin 1894 44 Mag & S&W Model 17) where I've hung on to the first gun, but this is starting to get rediculous!

The kid's already got quite a gun collection and he doesn't even know it yet

 

[GLOCK19XDSC]

Keep one for use and one for...decoration!

 

[OldSchooler]

What to do with my current 10/22? I've had it a few years and there's not a thing wrong with it, I just don't see the point in having 2.
Tacticool! Get all the gadgets you can for it and keep the 1968 in reserve. Zytel stock, bull barrel, hi-cap mags - turn that sucker into "The Black Death" of plinking guns.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

You could convert the newer one to .17, or modify it as you feel fit.

I don't think it's a bad idea to have one scoped and one with iron sites myself.

 

[absolute0]

Blinging out the old one is an interesting idea. I know theres a whole sub culture devoted to the excessive tricking out & customization of the 10/22 that I haven't explored too much. The only mods I've made to my current rifle were adding a williams peep sight and a "flash hider"

I'm starting to accumulate .22's at a frightening clip - not that I'm complaining mind you. I just picked up an old model 60 two weeks back and planned to put a little Weaver K4 so I'd have a scoped .22 auto plinker to go along with all the others that are breeding in my gun safe.

 

[OldSchooler]

excessive tricking out & customization of the 10/22

Is that possible?
And as for .22's breeding in your closet, well, you I like. You can never have too many .22's

 

[C96]

Blinging out your 10/22 is real easy. You can put a $k in with just a little trying.

You might mosey over to Rimfirecentral.com and look around. Be careful, it can be very addictive.

allan

 

[jfh]

about ten years ago I spent three summers as the 'Director of Marksmanship' at an upper-end boys' camp in NW WI. The owners were typically enthusiastic about their program, and on the .22 range we shot about 35K rounds in eight weeks every summer, using a more-than-reasonable collection of target rifles.

Although they were VERY politically liberal--Chicago gun-control advocates--they allowed me to do 'firearms familiarization' with other types of .22s. So I built up a collection of 10/22s--
1.) The factory basic plastic / short stock.
2.) The (then-) new Target model
3.) two tricked-out 'action rifle' types I can built up with Volquartson parts, etc., etc.

I still get the Brownell's catalog, and remain amazed at the parts available for the 10/22.

Jim H.

 

[Furncliff]

rimfirecentral.com has 10/22 section.
You could do this

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?s=&postid=13871

 

[Chipperman]

At what point do you no longer call it a 10/22?
When the only original piece of the gun is the receiver?

 

[VARifleman]

Some people change the reciever out too...most build from there, but sometimes it's a here and there addition, and then once they get everything but the receiver changed, they go with an STI or such receiver.

 

[absolute0]

I could do that!

Those laminated thumbhole stocks are pretty cool. One o' them bull barrels too, and the Volquartsen (sp?) hammer kits everyone raves about.

I reckon if I do it, it'll be in stages to keep from strangling my cashflow. I can't be gobbling up my gun budget on just one gun!