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Fell down that rabbit hole 30 years ago with NRA silhouettes and never recovered. To make matters even worse, I got into building precision M14 type rifles along the trail. Here are a few of my creations.
Whatta Hobby!
Accuracy potential of 10/22?
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Whatta Hobby!
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Years ago, I put a Green Mountain fluted barrel on my now 50 year old 10/22. My brother ran for a state office and lost. The 1" stars on his campaign signs make good targets. This is one that I shot at 100 yds with my 10/22. Not target shooting, just plinking.
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How many flavors of ammunition did you try? Rimfires can be fussy. With ammunition they liked, I've owned/shot four, stock 10/22s that would do under a half inch at 50 yards.
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Whiners never win 👍
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How much per acre?
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Accuracy is like Hot Rodding...it costs MONEY...how fast do you want to go/accurate do you want to be?
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Cz 512 in 22lr , discontinued 2019. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...tinued-2019/&usg=AOvVaw100xsZSZG97AjzANeZrUMc
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You don’t have to spend a lot to have fun. This is the rifle I spoke about in post #5.
$200 for rifle used, nearly new.
$200 for the scope. Leupold 4x.
$30 or $40 for the rings.
$100 for Kidd trigger kit.
Can’t remember what I paid for the Kidd bolt handle, but it wasn’t much.
Tape bedded receiver, tire tube under the barrel and torqued the takedown screw. Cost nothing.
Still working on the cheek rest. Don’t laugh😂
Shoots great. Likes RWS RM.
Yeah, I like quilts. So what? 🤣
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$200 for rifle used, nearly new.
$200 for the scope. Leupold 4x.
$30 or $40 for the rings.
$100 for Kidd trigger kit.
Can’t remember what I paid for the Kidd bolt handle, but it wasn’t much.
Tape bedded receiver, tire tube under the barrel and torqued the takedown screw. Cost nothing.
Still working on the cheek rest. Don’t laugh😂
Shoots great. Likes RWS RM.
Yeah, I like quilts. So what? 🤣
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My build is perhaps unusual for many but it does what I wanted. I bought a Green Mountain heavy barrel, placed in a Hogue Overmolded stock with a replacement trigger group. Using a Mueller AVP scope and shooting CCI Velocitors, from a bench, at 70 (Thats Right Seventy) yards: I have shot 10 rounds into a 1" rarget dot.
No, Velocitors are not target ammo, but, they carry a full 40 grain HP at increased velocity over standard .22's. They hit harder. Yes, it is a heavy rifle. Perhaps too heavy for a walkabout squirrel hunt.
Are factory 10/22's that accurate? I can't say. I like my build.
No, Velocitors are not target ammo, but, they carry a full 40 grain HP at increased velocity over standard .22's. They hit harder. Yes, it is a heavy rifle. Perhaps too heavy for a walkabout squirrel hunt.
Are factory 10/22's that accurate? I can't say. I like my build.
Why do we spend all this time and money on fancy 10/22s? Only two reasons.
A. It's a good, fairly reliable, simple design that does what users want it to do.
B. It's the most common, widely sold design for which everybody and his brother make high quality specialty parts, which are readily available to all of us.
Ruger and some competent management people just happened to be in the right place at the right time, their 10/22 took off, and they have sold zillions. Thoughtful people at Ruger had the common sense to stay with a good thing, and not constantly start over, unnecessarily, simply for the purpose of getting us to buy "new" designs we did not want and did not need.
The exact same thing could have been done with John Browning's original .22 semiauto rifle design. It almost happened, with some of the Remington variations, such as the Model 24 and 241. Several other manufacturers have done the same, with simple, reliable, inexpensive, low cost rifles with parts which are easily modified or interchanged and replaced. It's a great business model, and failure to follow it is why such a large portion of the U.S. manufacturing sector is in the toilet right now. Ruger just trucks on, and grows...with a fairly old design. Look how many of us here have multiple copies of almost the same thing, and keep buying or building more of them.
You would think that somebody in the U.S. auto industry would figure this out.
A. It's a good, fairly reliable, simple design that does what users want it to do.
B. It's the most common, widely sold design for which everybody and his brother make high quality specialty parts, which are readily available to all of us.
Ruger and some competent management people just happened to be in the right place at the right time, their 10/22 took off, and they have sold zillions. Thoughtful people at Ruger had the common sense to stay with a good thing, and not constantly start over, unnecessarily, simply for the purpose of getting us to buy "new" designs we did not want and did not need.
The exact same thing could have been done with John Browning's original .22 semiauto rifle design. It almost happened, with some of the Remington variations, such as the Model 24 and 241. Several other manufacturers have done the same, with simple, reliable, inexpensive, low cost rifles with parts which are easily modified or interchanged and replaced. It's a great business model, and failure to follow it is why such a large portion of the U.S. manufacturing sector is in the toilet right now. Ruger just trucks on, and grows...with a fairly old design. Look how many of us here have multiple copies of almost the same thing, and keep buying or building more of them.
You would think that somebody in the U.S. auto industry would figure this out.
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All the comments has been spot on concerning the 10-22 accuracy or lack of on a out of the box stock rifle as in my HO anyone expecting 50 yard benches accuracy out of one at any level of upgrade on a consistent basis has their expectations a bit to high as the 10-22 was never designed or meant to be used in that manner.
With that said getting ready for small game season shot a Anshutz sporter with the new Federal Match Hunting ammo and a Lipsey 10-22 laminated stock rifle that hasn't been fired in 35 + years with zero modifications only scoped and at a lasered 50 yards off the bench rest with that ammo the 10-22 absolutely turned in the best groups and went on the hunt which stunned me as that anshutz with cci mini mag or Winchester Dynapoint HP has always showed amazing accuracy, but wanted to give this new Federal hunting ammo a try on game.
So yes the 10-22 can yield a lot of surprises out of the box with certain ammo in factory trigger stock configuration as it was originally designed.
The 10-22 trigger could be a lot better than it is but never in hunting situations needed it upgraded to cause it to kill squirrels or rabbits better.
With that said getting ready for small game season shot a Anshutz sporter with the new Federal Match Hunting ammo and a Lipsey 10-22 laminated stock rifle that hasn't been fired in 35 + years with zero modifications only scoped and at a lasered 50 yards off the bench rest with that ammo the 10-22 absolutely turned in the best groups and went on the hunt which stunned me as that anshutz with cci mini mag or Winchester Dynapoint HP has always showed amazing accuracy, but wanted to give this new Federal hunting ammo a try on game.
So yes the 10-22 can yield a lot of surprises out of the box with certain ammo in factory trigger stock configuration as it was originally designed.
The 10-22 trigger could be a lot better than it is but never in hunting situations needed it upgraded to cause it to kill squirrels or rabbits better.
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Yet every once in awhile someone gets that one in a million rifle. Accuracy is in the barrel anything else can be fixed. Often without spending much money.
Repeatable, consistent accuracy is in everything from the ammo and the bolt lockup, position of the bullet in the chamber and on and on is exactly the same for every shot.
The barrel is a big part of it but not the entirety by a long shot.
I just got one of these. 3/4 MOA and that was with cci mini mags.
Ruger 10/22 Tactical Heavy Barrel Hogue TALO Exclusive 20"
Mfg Item #: 31173
I just got one of these. 3/4 MOA and that was with cci mini mags.
Ruger 10/22 Tactical Heavy Barrel Hogue TALO Exclusive 20"
Mfg Item #: 31173
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