What Type of metal is a ruger 10/22 made from?

[Krazy]

What is the base metal of a ruger 10 22 rifle? is it Aluminum, Iron, Brass, Lead, Stainless Steel..ect...? please help me out on this... im about to buy a gold plating kit so i can start customizing rifles and gold/hard chrome plating them...hopefully make some extra change by doing so.. so any help will be much appreciated..

P.S I know most people dont like gold plated guns but its just something i always been interested in doing

 

[41magsnub]

AFAIK.. the receiver is painted aluminum. The barrel is blued steel.

 

[Z-Michigan]

Receiver is aluminum on standard models. I expect it's anodized, and don't know if there's paint on top of the anodizing.

The discontinued 22 WMR and 17 HMR models had a steel receiver.

The barrel and bolt are steel.

 

[Krazy]

Thanks for the help 41mag & Michigan.. the thread can be closed now.

 

[CraigC]

Receiver is aluminum on standard models. I expect it's anodized, and don't know if there's paint on top of the anodizing.

The discontinued 22 WMR and 17 HMR models had a steel receiver.

The barrel and bolt are steel.

Don't close it yet!

The 10/22 (.22LR) has always had an aluminum receiver. The blued models were only anodized for the first four years of production when they changed to a teflon coating. The later stainless models were clear anodized. In the last couple years they've changed again to a wrinkle coating in black for blued models, gray for stainless models.

There never was a .17HMR 10/22M. They were produced in .22Mag and the receivers were constructed of blued steel.