read somewhere that you can improve your accuracy with your bigger bores (like my .270) by shooting a .22 for target practice. given the cost of ammo being what it is, i decided to get one.

figured i would go out and get something cheap, i mean i was figuring spending something like $100-150, right?

well i could have bought a marlin or a remington for about $150, but they felt somewhat cheap and insubstantial. this ruger 10/22, however, felt much better in my hands, more substantial, and even though i thought i wanted a bolt action or lever, it was a semiauto. and then i saw one with a stainless barrel...$238 later it was in my grubby little paws.

course i had to buy a little 3-9x scope for it. about $60, nothing fancy since it's just a .22 for plinking. then a case, $19. then a bore snake to clean it. $15. 550 rounds of .22lr, $13. extra mags, another $45, speed loader, $25. after all the smoke cleared, i wound up dropping over $400 on everything, wtf?:cry

anyway, here are some pix. i know very little about 22's, or rugers for that matter, but i understand it is quite a popular gun. i'll try to sight it in tomorrow.

some pix
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/jackhart/Ruger/ruger6.jpg

those things are fantastic firearms, great to shoot

Nice choice, I love mine!

Alright i dont know that much about rugers, but what the hell is the red thing inside the clear box?

Alright i dont know that much about rugers, but what the hell is the red thing inside the clear box?

the 10/22 uses a rotary magazine, his happens to be clear with a red rotor/spider in it

that is a 40th anniv. magazine

the 10/22 uses a rotary magazine, his happens to be clear with a red rotor/spider in it

Ah, well thats prett nifty. All 10/22's use this type of magazine or just the ruger? Mine 22 is bolt action with the tube feed below the barrel, so not much up to date with the semi auto's except for the ones that have an actual magazine.

Ever notice how everything in the 10/22 is almost plastic now??


http://www.rugerforum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=23311

You can pretty crazy with aftermarket stocks, barrels,trigger assemblies etc....etc.

Heres a spiffy site to check out.
http://www.ruger1022.com/index.html

Very nice A rifle should be made of wood

I did this to a 10/22...kind of near. It is all plastic of course. Cheap.

"Turn your old Ruger® 10 / 22 into a fierce - looking MG - 42 replica!"



http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=180441&kwtid=243533

Good little plinker, you'll have lots of fun with it.

We need to have a NE chapter shoot and greet.

Awesome. I just picked one up myself too. I got the special at Cabelas. Cant wait to shoot it.

nice gun, I have a older one like that and love it.

thanks for the comments/suggestions. i guess i should have realized alot of fsb guys were into this gun. cool.

cracker, thanks for that link. cool site with some good suggestions on what to do/not do with a 10/22. alot of customization is available i see. great, more ways to spend $$$, :thumbup

jer, you got any pix of yours? what is the cabela's special? i am heading over to cabelas in a few weeks on my way to rausch creek.

Oh goody, another gun thread. :chili:

This 10/22 is equipped with a heavy barrel, a Hogue stock and a Bushnell 3x9 scope...it is accurate as all get out:

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o263/badge315/Ruger10-22.jpg


And here's my "survival plinker", with a Tasco Pro Point red dot sight, a Butler Creek folding stock and two 25-round magazines:

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o263/badge315/1022.jpg

i am heading over to cabelas in a few weeks on my way to rausch creek.

I was there two weeks ago and they still had 155 gr. Winchester Ranger JHP for $14.99/box of 50.

thanks steve. i discovered walmart has 165gr. winchester jhp's for $26.99 box of 100!

nice guns deadeye. what kind of extended mag is that and do you have any problems with it?

thanks steve. i discovered walmart has 165gr. winchester jhp's for $26.99 box of 100!

nice guns deadeye. what kind of extended mag is that and do you have any problems with it?

Those are Butler Creek magazines...they function perfectly with my older 10/22, but they do occasionally hiccup with the not-yet-fully-broken-in "survival plinker". :shrug

mine is just like yours but with a synthetic stock. I it and shoot the crap out of it. cheap and fun. I had a similar experience as you. one day I got a hair up my ass to go buy a gun and thats what followed me home. hey at least I kept it in my budget. cant beat a nice cheap gun relatively speaking.

Nice rifle..I have a similar looking Savage 10/22. Great little gun to plink with.

http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/467736/fullsize/my-mannabe-003.jpg
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/467735/fullsize/my-mannabe-002.jpg

This gun has been in production, unchanged since the fifties.

here is mine. I bought it like you see it in 88 or 89. You wont be sorry you bought it. Just don't leave the clips loaded. I did that when I first bought it for close to a year and to this day one clip doesn't work as good as it should. But then again, the clip has never been cleaned and may be a little full of powder residue.

You may not be into the overmolded stocks but, heres a pretty decent deal on one, just in case.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hogue-OverMolded-Ruger-10-22-Rifle-Stock-Std-NEW-22000_W0QQitemZ250228027090QQihZ015QQcategoryZ7394 9QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Jackhart,
Look at it this way, you could have gone to Sam's for toilet paper and came home with a $2000 wide screen TV.
The rifle will be a lot more fun.

That's the new 22" barrel in stainless. Nice.

I like the 77/22 Magnum, myself. I want to get one of those in stainless.

Once I get a handgun and an AK a little .22 is next. I like that one.

well i just got back from the range, i could only go to the indoor one today as the outdoor range was closed.

the ruger website was right, already the scope base is starting to loosen up after only about 100 rounds. is it ok to use loctite blue on the screw threads?

i still don't have it sighted in properly. it's close, but no cigar yet. it feels very nicely weighted, but i'm still used to the recoil of the .270, it is very odd shooting this with no kick whatsoever. pop pop pop. hahaha, it's fun.

I would say that I probablly wouldn't but that is just a knee jerk reaction without anything to back it up. Is it a ruger factory mounted scope?

the scope base is ruger factory, yes. weaver type base.

You're going to love that gun once you get used to it. I've got thousands and thousands of rounds through mine. Probably the only gun I enjoy shooting more than that one is my bull barrel Ruger Mark II, possibly the funnest plinker ever conceived.

Once I get a handgun and an AK a little .22 is next. I like that one.
this looks like a fun little plinker:toothless
http://www.lipseys.com/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=ATGERG2222MP5&mfg=American%20Tactical%20Imports&family=GSG-5&model=GSG-5&type=Rifle&caliber=22%20LR&action=Semi-Auto&finish=Blue&stock=Black%20Synthetic
the ruger website was right, already the scope base is starting to loosen up after only about 100 rounds. is it ok to use loctite blue on the screw threads?

i think most people reccomend thread locker of some sord

Looks like the CETME .308 that just came in the J&G brochure mailer. I like it, but for $500 I'm close enough to an AR to just save a little more.

this looks like a fun little plinker:toothless
http://www.lipseys.com/itemdetail.aspx?itemno=ATGERG2222MP5&mfg=American%20Tactical%20Imports&family=GSG-5&model=GSG-5&type=Rifle&caliber=22%20LR&action=Semi-Auto&finish=Blue&stock=Black%20Synthetic


i think most people reccomend thread locker of some sord
Like i said knee jerk reaction. I do almost all iron sights except for my savage m99 which had everything mounted before I bought it

.........bull barrel Ruger Mark II, possibly the funnest plinker ever conceived.

Here's my funnest plinker. Hearing that steel pig ring from 100 yds away gives me the grins.

i just bought a .22lr from savage. alreadyt have a .17hmr that is absolutely wonderful. so im looking forward to the 22 and hopefully having something just as good in accuracy but cheaper in ammo and capable of the subsonic. now for that silencer....

This gun has been in production, unchanged since the fifties.

here is mine. I bought it like you see it in 88 or 89. You wont be sorry you bought it. Just don't leave the clips loaded. I did that when I first bought it for close to a year and to this day one clip doesn't work as good as it should. But then again, the clip has never been cleaned and may be a little full of powder residue.

ITS A MAGAZINE not a CLIP

Looks like the CETME .308 that just came in the J&G brochure mailer. I like it, but for $500 I'm close enough to an AR to just save a little more.
true but then you have to shoot gold through the barrel. trust me I have one and shoot my 22 more. why? because ammo is next to nothing for it

I have the same with the synthetic stock as well. Got it from dicks, but they matched the $190ish Wal-mart price. Had plans for a thumbhole stock, and bull barrel, but then job got in the way of the time to shoot, then the BKO got in the way of money to upgrade the rig. It is still alot of fun to go shooting the cheap ammo all day for under $20. Just make sure you clean the it really well after shooting the cheap stuff.

you need to get another one and than spend 400 bucks to make this
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Item/22/77/57/i227757sq01c.jpg

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0034775227757a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&QueryText=gatling&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=gatling&noImage=0

you need to get another one and than spend 400 bucks to make this
http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/content/Item/22/77/57/i227757sq01c.jpg

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0034775227757a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&QueryText=gatling&N=4887&Ntk=Products&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nty=1&Ntt=gatling&noImage=0

That would be cool for shooting down radio-controlled model airplanes. :thumbup

That would be cool for shooting down radio-controlled model airplanes. :thumbup

:lolup


I agree, they are annoying...

Nice gun. I know wood is a natural thing, but all the speckles on the stock would kinda bug me.
About the scope mount, I had a scope on mine and it came loose after firing a few boxes through it. Then I put in on with an impact and its never given me problems for years.

mike, with loctite, or no? and now i'm going to have to take the scope and the rings off in order to get to the set screws for the weaver base, which means i'll have to remount and try to sight in from scratch. oh well.

the speckles don't bother me at all. in fact, i hate wood stocks where you can't see any grain at all.

most sporting goods store will bore sight it for ya for around 5 bucks. You could also pick up a boresight laser for around 40 or 50 bucks. Just a thought. Bore sighting isn't perfect but it is going to get you close.

if i bought a gun and they charged me to boresight the scope i also bought for them i'd go somewhere else. thats crazy. i know of one store that is built on top of some inactive storm sewers, and they got permission from the county to use it as an indoor, underground rifle range. you buy a gun and a scope, theyll boresite it and then put a couple shells through it for you and get it dialed in at 50 yards. no charge.

some scope rings just can't hang on, but i've never heard of a problem with them on a .22. what kind were they?

i usually use leupold bases and rings as i generally only use vx3 glass. tried that on my .460 and ripped the son of a bitch in half. didn't scratch the finish on my rifle though, thank god. fawkers.

If I remember right my 10/22 had an adjustable rear sight.

Getting it sighted for 5 bucks is pretty good but you can do it yourself. I learned how in the USMC.

I miss mine but it is gone to me. All I have to plink with is a .69 caliber 1763 Charleville.

bass pro shop always bore sighted for me for free. ofcourse i bought both scopes and rifles from theyre. but it only costs them time to do it and they get paed anyway, if they charge you to do it then pooo with them.... i think im gonna go ahead and put some nail polish (most likely) or loctite(less likely) on my mounts now.....

both my .17 and .22 are weaver style.... dont care for them much. reaaaalllly like the dual dovetail mounts though solid like rock.

I love my Ruger 10/22. Mine's a few years old with a 25 round mag and a Tasco 3-9x illuminated scope.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w47/a1fiddler/ruger22.jpg

the bottom one is the 10/22
http://www.supermotors.net/getfile/617860/fullsize/dscn0448.jpg
too much fun

mike, with loctite, or no?

I didn't use any loctite, just tightend them down real good.

i bought the gun at walmart. they make a special version with the stainless 22" barrel that is supposedly only sold at walmart. who knew? anyway, walmart does not boresight.

i forgot i actually had a laser boresighter from when i got my .270. i'll take it to the range tomorrow and see how it goes. i did loctite the threads on the weaver base. hopefully that solves the problem.

anyone of you guys replace the stock trigger assembly?

Mines factory but I have a friend with two hot rodded 10-22, both with custom triggers, and they are sweet. I think they were $200 each or something like that. Well worth it if a nice trigger is important to you. For me, on a cheap gun that I don't do any competition shooting or hunting with I could care less.

For me, on a cheap gun that I don't do any competition shooting or hunting with I could care less.

ding ding, winner, thats the reason for my 22 cheap, bottomline.