10/22 Bolt Buffers
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I have a bolt buffer in my 10/22, as the others say, it quiets the gun.
Now, DON'T go putting buffers in all your other guns, the M14 for example, it's NOT needed & the only time I ever had problems with my M14!!!
Cheers
Jay
Now, DON'T go putting buffers in all your other guns, the M14 for example, it's NOT needed & the only time I ever had problems with my M14!!!
Cheers
Jay
Brewster20;
Good morning to you sir, hopefully this finds you well.
I'd not heard of buffers until we'd been running the first 10/22 at our house for two decades - during which time only the Good Lord knows how many bricks of Blasers went through it. We're within spitting distance of Washington and they used to come on sale for $9.99 a brick every other week or so..... ah those were indeed the days.
Before going further I should note that the stock pins still needed to be pushed out and carefully fitted back into place after all those rounds, suggesting strongly to me that there had been no measurable wear on the receiver. As well there was no visible wear on the stock steel pin and you couldn't "feel" any necking or wear on it either.
Anyway in the fullness of time I ended up making a perfectly good, inexpensive 10/22 into a bit of a money pit project - lets say the receiver is still original and so is the bolt handle - anyway the first buffer I installed was a "Yellow Jacket" brand which has worked flawlessly.
As an experiment I turned a Delrin rod down and tried it, but found that it wasn't as soft as the Yellow Jacket one and produced more vibration and bolt clatter, though certainly less than the stock steel pin.
We've subsequently used a "Tuffer Buffer" in a build on a 10/22 our eldest daughter did and found it to be excellent as well.
A quick check on the 'Net showed no results on Yellow Jacket anymore so perhaps they're not around - I'm not sure.
The buffers are, as noted by another poster, a polymer resin and not much more - though as I found out something as hard as Nylon or Delrin isn't as functional as a softer polymer.
Hopefully that was useful information for you or someone out there this morning. Good luck with your 10/22 whichever way you decide to go and all the best to you this spring.
Dwayne
Good morning to you sir, hopefully this finds you well.
I'd not heard of buffers until we'd been running the first 10/22 at our house for two decades - during which time only the Good Lord knows how many bricks of Blasers went through it. We're within spitting distance of Washington and they used to come on sale for $9.99 a brick every other week or so..... ah those were indeed the days.
Before going further I should note that the stock pins still needed to be pushed out and carefully fitted back into place after all those rounds, suggesting strongly to me that there had been no measurable wear on the receiver. As well there was no visible wear on the stock steel pin and you couldn't "feel" any necking or wear on it either.
Anyway in the fullness of time I ended up making a perfectly good, inexpensive 10/22 into a bit of a money pit project - lets say the receiver is still original and so is the bolt handle - anyway the first buffer I installed was a "Yellow Jacket" brand which has worked flawlessly.
As an experiment I turned a Delrin rod down and tried it, but found that it wasn't as soft as the Yellow Jacket one and produced more vibration and bolt clatter, though certainly less than the stock steel pin.
We've subsequently used a "Tuffer Buffer" in a build on a 10/22 our eldest daughter did and found it to be excellent as well.
A quick check on the 'Net showed no results on Yellow Jacket anymore so perhaps they're not around - I'm not sure.
The buffers are, as noted by another poster, a polymer resin and not much more - though as I found out something as hard as Nylon or Delrin isn't as functional as a softer polymer.
Hopefully that was useful information for you or someone out there this morning. Good luck with your 10/22 whichever way you decide to go and all the best to you this spring.
Dwayne
Its true in my case, and in a lot of other fellas guns as well. On myne you could see by eye where the hole was slightly elongated, and the old buffer literally fell out on its own and the new buffer dropped in quite easily.
On my other gun the buffer was still snug, and needed to be pushed out and the new had to be worked with for a couple minutes to fit in to the hole that was still round. Check a few youtube videos and you will see for yourself that the hole can become elongated with the steel buffer after a while.
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- West Quebec
Thank you sir. ciao
i wouldnt worry too much about wearing the hole. if you are using the standard recoil spring with standard ammo that spring absorbs the vast majority of the energy. if you are shooting thousands of rounds of stinger ammo with a normal spring that is when you might have issues after a really long time. honestly though even without any objective reasons for replacing the buffer its so cheap and makes shooting so much nicer. that clang is just terrible.
Don't forget the original Tuffer Buffer that started the bolt buffet trend! Made in Canada too. Tufferbuffer.com.
I made the Tufferbuffer upgrade as well.
Made a huge difference to the pleasure of shooting the gun. I always wear earplugs even with a .22LR but if you have a good cheekweld the vibrations travel up into your skull. The composite or plastic buffer makes it much less noticable as compared to the steel pin.
My 10/22 receiver is an old one with thousands of rounds through it. All the trigger group pins fall out on their own but I had a devil of a time getting the Tufferbuffer into the hole. Ended up putting it in the freezer and using some white grease in the receiver hole. Its in now but not something I remove when cleaning.
Made a huge difference to the pleasure of shooting the gun. I always wear earplugs even with a .22LR but if you have a good cheekweld the vibrations travel up into your skull. The composite or plastic buffer makes it much less noticable as compared to the steel pin.
My 10/22 receiver is an old one with thousands of rounds through it. All the trigger group pins fall out on their own but I had a devil of a time getting the Tufferbuffer into the hole. Ended up putting it in the freezer and using some white grease in the receiver hole. Its in now but not something I remove when cleaning.
Fair enough. Tufferbuffer was just the first that I ever came across, I guess. But then again I was on my third or south 10/22 before I ever really got into upgrading them.
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- West Quebec
There should be plenty at the next gun show.. will keep an eye
