Decided I want a 10/22

[coleman1495]

If you're just going to shoot (say) gophers offhand, a stock basic 10-22 with a cheap Bushnell scope served me very well for a number of years. The only modification I did was to put a Clark custom trigger kit into it - from Brownells, and ground off the notch in the bolt catch so it would release when I pulled the bolt handle back.

Make sure the block holding the barrel on is tight, and the action is screwed to the stock properly and work on your hold and trigger control. A bog-standard 10-22 with moderately good ammo will outshoot most people.

Respectively I would have to disagree. I have had 2 factory 10/22 and they both only could do baseball sized groups. Seen a few at the range. Their results were about what I was getting.

Sure that’s okay accuracy for shooting a drink can sized target offhand at 25yds. It really isn’t good enough for target practice or hunting chickens though. It is not hard to outshoot a factory 10/22. You could fire dead on a drink can at 50yds and still miss. Hitting a beer can at 50 yds offhand isn’t exceptional.

 

[RRH.01]

Respectively I would have to disagree. I have had 2 factory 10/22 and they both only could do baseball sized groups. Seen a few at the range. Their results were about what I was getting.

Sure that’s okay accuracy for shooting a drink can sized target offhand at 25yds. It really isn’t good enough for target practice or hunting chickens though. It is not hard to outshoot a factory 10/22. You could fire dead on a drink can at 50yds and still miss. Hitting a beer can at 50 yds offhand isn’t exceptional.

Thats too bad, did you do much ammo testing with it? Mine will easily hold less than an inch @50 with a few different brands of ammo. I do quite well with it at our local small bore silhouette matches. Not a precision rifle, but more than adequate for ditch chickens.

 

[coleman1495]

Thats too bad, did you do much ammo testing with it? Mine will easily hold less than an inch @50 with a few different brands of ammo. I do quite well with it at our local small bore silhouette matches. Not a precision rifle, but more than adequate for ditch chickens.

I did a bit of ammo testing.Ran some of whatever I could get my hands on.Some brands did better. I did manage to get maybe golfball groups with the much more expensive Federal Match stuff. That doesn’t help much because I would never use match grade ammunition.

I could do 1” at 25yds but 50yds not a chance. Sure some 10/22 are more accurate than others but I wouldn’t expect much.

 

[GD7]

In case anyone is interested, Wanstalls is getting in some TacSol takedown models soon!

3.7 pounds unloaded, with irons. Pretty impressive!

 

[AikiNut]

Respectively I would have to disagree. I have had 2 factory 10/22 and they both only could do baseball sized groups. Seen a few at the range. Their results were about what I was getting.

Sure that’s okay accuracy for shooting a drink can sized target offhand at 25yds. It really isn’t good enough for target practice or hunting chickens though. It is not hard to outshoot a factory 10/22. You could fire dead on a drink can at 50yds and still miss. Hitting a beer can at 50 yds offhand isn’t exceptional.

Ok. Perhaps my experience with 10-22s has been with older ones that (from what I've heard) were better built than some of the newer ones.

I had one that I took with me to New Zealand (purchased in 1992 in Saskatoon) that was used to lay waste to thousands of rabbits from the back of a pickup truck at night over a spotlight, suppressed. (all of which is illegal here in Canada)

Wish I hadn't sold that rifle, but the two other 10-22s I've had were (one still is) perfectly adequate to gophers at 50+ with CCI, Federal Bulk, and Winchester (I avoid remington .22 - too many experiences with unreliable ignition).

The current one's been "poor-man modified" - Clark custom trigger from Brownells, Butler Creek .92 inch fluted barrel, rear of the receiver drilled to permit cleaning from the breech end, nylon buffer, Devcon Steel bedding for first 3 inches of barrel, free floated the rest...("deluxe" stock carved out to accept the bigger barrel). Lately it's only been used on raccoons and pigeons on a friend's farm (no gophers here in southern Onterrible)

 

[Sakoman .308]

The current one's been "poor-man modified" - Clark custom trigger from Brownells, Butler Creek .92 inch fluted barrel, rear of the receiver drilled to permit cleaning from the breech end, nylon buffer, Devcon Steel bedding for first 3 inches of barrel, free floated the rest...("deluxe" stock carved out to accept the bigger barrel).

It sounds good to me.