That's a great find, now if your me you'll spend many $$$ (improving it) lol Enjoy

 

Im trying to fight the urge. I have an extra LVT barrel that is harassing me for installation

 

You’ll surrender to the rabbit hole sooner or later! 😂

 

Oh i have already with my other ones. Thic was my final attempt to stay stock

 

That is a great find. With the scope? Or you added that? I'd resist and spend any time/money on refinishing and restoring to 1992 as new condition. Congrats on your find.

 

I added the scope and rail

 

Lucky man. Heck of a deal👍🏻

 

Just my opinion, but would be nice to stay below that C-note. 👍

So the previous owner got $50 from the shop for it perhaps? :-/

 

Nice! The barrel was often the weak link back then. You'll have to shoot it to see if it's accuracy is acceptable.
If not, a barrel should tune it up.
Good Luck, and enjoy!

 

The trigger is HORRIBLE 7 LBS

 

I’m fairly new to the 10/22 scene. Sounds like their triggers have always been bad.

 

Great find!

 

.....back in the day when they were built good.

The stock is birch, not walnut. I find nothing about them superior to current production. 10/22 bolts have always been cast, never billet.

 

That scope and rings gotta go.
wow ! $99 ????? That’s what I paid new in 1988.

 

Almost free. Nice find for an unbelievably good price from a pawn shop.

 

Nice find at a great price

 

Congratulations, great find. A little TLC, clean and then go enjoy. You do realize at that price you could justify dropping a little bit or a lot money into it real easy.

 

Great price - congratulations!

 

That is an awesome find, congratulations! I love the Walnut stock!

Here are my two most recent 10/22s and I also got a killer deal.....FREE!🫣

 

That is an awesome find, congratulations! I love the Walnut stock!

Here are my two most recent 10/22s and I also got a killer deal.....FREE!🫣

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IT'S NOT WALNUT

 

It's your party so have fun. The BX trigger is a great improvement over those early ones. Then you've got the original one to work on or send out. I think Tru Oil matches the finish ( I know it does on Fajen stocks). Test it for touch up or refinish without total strip.

 

I purchased my 1995 Ruger 10/22 in 1995 brand new for (from memory that is fading fast) $135.00 at the local Walmart gun counter. It is now equipped with a 2x7 Leupold Rimfire scope (ideal for squirrels) and shoots as well today as it did back in the day. Concur with all trigger comments but I love stock old guns! I did purchase a 75th anniversary 10/22 this year, mounted a Leuopld 3x9 33mmAO scope and compete at the Talladega CMP Legend 100 yard bench rest monthly match. Just as back in 1995; The gun shoots way better than the shooter! HA! HA! There is no other thing I know of that one could buy for this amount of money and have this much fun.

 

Don if you are willing to spend the money on Leupold scopes you owe it to yourself to upgrade your triggers.

 

Nice price. I think i paid that about 15 years ago for an absolutely FILTHY one for my then 10year old son. Dropped it into a youth sized stock and he was in heaven. I need to dig that out and have a look at it. IIRC it had a 6 digit serial numbah. 🤔

 

Nice find for you, it gives you lots of leeway to do whatever you like with it. I have one from around that era that someone bought new and then carried around behind the seat of their pickup for about 10 years. Virtually never shot but beat up. I bought it for $75 as a donor for a build. Took the skinned up stock and barrel off, put a Hogue stock and Shaw barrel on it, a Volquartsen trigger kit in it, a BSA scope and a used Harris bipod and still was under $400 on the package. Still my favorite Pasture Poodle rig.

Here it is with its brethren, all bought cheap. The center one was brand new but ten years old that I bought last year for $175 and have added the scope, high comb on the factory stock, and a BX trigger. The plain Carbine on the bottom was a Cabelas Christmas Special a few years back that was an online only purchase but only $159. It now has a Bushnell Banner scope on it that was a flash sale deal from Natchez for $29.95 and a BX trigger! With diligence it is easy to keep the cost down and the fun factor up!!

 

Nice find looks really good. I own 3 of the newer ones and I have to say they are all built really well. The Cabonfiber, Competition and the left hand grey birch chassis with carbon fiber barrel. These all shoot very well .
I do understand your like for the more original models. I recently found a left hand Winchester M 70 so I understand the wood and steel attraction.
Enjoy your rifle!

 

Amazing Walnut

 

Looks a lot like mine from the mid- to late-'60s....

 

Looks a lot like mine from the mid- to late-'60s.... After purchase spent a lot of time rubbing boiled linseed oil to stock. Not shot all that much until recently and now not all together but I can return it to 100% factory when I want. The receiver is in a PMACA with Tac-Sol barrel, and BX trigger. Shooting SCSA with it. Have everything that came out box and stored so it can be returned to 100% factory. You made a great find.