My Almost Finnished 10/22
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Hmmm... Really?
Sooo... Let's get this straight:
You've effectively performed a trigger job to rectify that horribly heavy and creepy Ruger factory trigger pull
You've defaced the classic Ruger carbine profile by replacing that pesky magazine release button (the one that pinches your finger when you push it in...) with a convenient extended release lever and added a buttstock extension to increase that short Ruger LOP...
Got a scope on it?!?! How many rings?!?!
Mr. Ruger would be rolling over in his grave right now...
Welcome to the wonderful world of Ruger customization, a mental illness I fondly call: Ruger-Mania!
It's OK. You're not alone, or a (much of a) freak. There are many others just like you: you don't have to live in denial anymore! Embrace the sickness and accept the way you are! There are many, many self-help forums out there, just like this one...
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maple_leaf_eh
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Gee! Someone discovered the smilies library.
OK, yes I did change it slightly. But I certainly don't have four mortgage payments and a month of emotions invested in my little 10/22. It is a simple semi-auto that is pretty close to box standard. The scope is a Bushnell BDC. A very ordinary scope in its day. Mounted with two very normal rings.
Back in the old days, that was considered perfectly acceptible before all this high recoil .22LR ammo hit the market. This new stuff is so strong it will flip the scope clear off a normal rifle. Belt and suspenders solution to a self-inflicted problem.
And the only sickness I embrace is my sniffling wife when she has a cold.
OK, yes I did change it slightly. But I certainly don't have four mortgage payments and a month of emotions invested in my little 10/22. It is a simple semi-auto that is pretty close to box standard. The scope is a Bushnell BDC. A very ordinary scope in its day. Mounted with two very normal rings.
Back in the old days, that was considered perfectly acceptible before all this high recoil .22LR ammo hit the market. This new stuff is so strong it will flip the scope clear off a normal rifle. Belt and suspenders solution to a self-inflicted problem.
And the only sickness I embrace is my sniffling wife when she has a cold.
Hmmm... Really?
Sooo... Let's get this straight:
You've effectively performed a trigger job to rectify that horribly heavy and creepy Ruger factory trigger pull
You've defaced the classic Ruger carbine profile by replacing that pesky magazine release button (the one that pinches your finger when you push it in...) with a convenient extended release lever and added a buttstock extension to increase that short Ruger LOP...
Got a scope on it?!?! How many rings?!?!
Mr. Ruger would be rolling over in his grave right now...
Welcome to the wonderful world of Ruger customization, a mental illness I fondly call: Ruger-Mania!
Looks good to me... Well other than the aforementioned scope rings that is.
I've got a couple built up 10/22's myself.
The first one is the first gun I bought myself. I shot it stock for a long time and slowly built it up as I could afford it.
It shot like a hot damn and was all the custom I wanted but I hated the thought of beating it up so I bought another one with the reasoning that my wife needed a .22.
Well she mentioned she would like a bipod for her birthday and I didn't like the way bipods look on the carbine version so a new stock was ordered.
You can't put a nice stock like that with a carbine barrel so I ordered a new barrel too.
The barrel is pointless accuracy wise when you have a 9lb stock trigger so the trigger is upgraded too.
And since I was already in it that far I put the little tweaks like headspacing, pinning the firing pin and such too.
By the time I was done I had another custom that was too nice to take out and beat up.
So it's the wifes range queen.
I ended up buying a marlin 925M for truck duty since I can't really mess with it too much.
I've got a couple built up 10/22's myself.
The first one is the first gun I bought myself. I shot it stock for a long time and slowly built it up as I could afford it.
It shot like a hot damn and was all the custom I wanted but I hated the thought of beating it up so I bought another one with the reasoning that my wife needed a .22.
Well she mentioned she would like a bipod for her birthday and I didn't like the way bipods look on the carbine version so a new stock was ordered.
You can't put a nice stock like that with a carbine barrel so I ordered a new barrel too.
The barrel is pointless accuracy wise when you have a 9lb stock trigger so the trigger is upgraded too.
And since I was already in it that far I put the little tweaks like headspacing, pinning the firing pin and such too.
By the time I was done I had another custom that was too nice to take out and beat up.
So it's the wifes range queen.
I ended up buying a marlin 925M for truck duty since I can't really mess with it too much.
LOL. The issue isn't how much money you spent on modding, but that you did it...
Why did you do it? Because you could; because it needed it; and because there are inexpensive, readily available parts that bolt right on without the need for a gunsmith
As for the smilies: I didn't put them in the post! I started typing, and suddenly one appeared out of nowhere. And then another one appeared, and soon after, another one! So I freaked out and started typing faster, and the faster I typed, the faster the emoticons started appearing, so I panicked and submitted my post to make the sketchy little things go away and stop bugging me and telling me to do things, bad things...
