This can be a very expensive road to walk down. A few years back I ordered a magnum research "magnum-light", a 10/22 copy with a machined-in rail, milled receiver. It came with a wispy graphite barrel, and axiom stock. The trigger was stock Ruger, and it was awful.
I started with the volquartsen, and love it. Still, the barrel was too light for precision shooting, so I called Tony Kidd and had one of his heavy target tubes shipped. Now, it is too front heavy in the light plastic stock, so I jumped on eBay and found a flawless OEM 10/22 target laminate stock.
Now we are getting somewhere, but it needed good glass, so I moved some scopes around on my hunting rifles in order to free-up a rarely used leupold 4x14x40 AO. since it had a heavy duplex reticle, that was not going to work, so I sent it off to Leupold to have a varmint reticle installed for a few hundred bucks.
With numerous other goodies including the pricy Burris extreme tactical mounts, I now have the king of hunting 10/22's. The best part is, it finally shoots just as good as my $120 Marlin 7000 with its cheap Bushnell scope.
Not bad for the most expensive money pit in my safe.
