My 25 year old Ruger 10/22 carbine - my Vol. Upgrades

Sly Old Fox

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Well the SOF is patting himself on the back!

2 Months ago I ordered some Volquartsen upgrades for my plain jane carbine, new hammer etc., extractor, mag release. As for the part that I could fix with my Dremel, I did it first but could not see my way ahead for the next steps. So, I downlaod and printed as much information as possible.

Yesterday, I got at it, made many mistakes, started over but finally got it done. :eek:

:dancingbanana::cheers:w:h:

Whether the trigger will improve, a trip to a range will tell. If I can achieve minute of playing card at 60 yards, I will consider myself successful.

Then I will look for some better quality ammo than what I currently have.

I could have never done it without printing out the plethora of great DIT posts on various web sites.

A minute of angle at 100 yards it will never be, for that I will work on my 1951 Tula SKS-45 with the Tech sights and the smoothed up trigger. :onCrack:

At my age hope springs eternal.
 
Sly Old Fox said:
Well the SOF is patting himself on the back!

2 Months ago I ordered some Volquartsen upgrades for my plain jane carbine, new hammer etc., extractor, mag release. As for the part that I could fix with my Dremel, I did it first but could not see my way ahead for the next steps. So, I downlaod and printed as much information as possible.

Yesterday, I got at it, made many mistakes, started over but finally got it done. :eek:

:dancingbanana::cheers:w:h:
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Good stuff SOF!!
If you ever need help or run into problems, just post it here.
There are lots of us that can help you out! :cheers:
 
Wham-O said:
Good stuff SOF!!
If you ever need help or run into problems, just post it here.
There are lots of us that can help you out! :cheers:
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Yes, the response to my dilemma in finishing babbaing the multi-bubbaed BSA 1913 LE proved that, find my thread of the summer in the milsurp forum.:eek:

Here is a question though.

With the Volwartsen Hammer stuff was a small coil spring whish the small pamphet in the envelope said was for the plunger pushing on the rear of the trigger. Qhestion: In taking out the trigger etc. out to install this spring and polish the plunger, will I have problems getting the stuff back into the action???

I learned a long time go, don't fix it if it ain't broke:redface:
 
SOF...that's your trigger plunger spring.
The trigger internals are not hard to work on. The hard part is knowing the in's and out's of putting it back together.
After a couple times you'll be a pro. :D
Take it apart and learn something....;)
If you run into trouble, post here and we'll help you out.
 
Last time I had mine apart, the trigger group kinda blew up in my hands and shot the trigger plunger across the room...I must have touched something I wasn't supposed to :rolleyes:

Anyway, while I've never had it apart entirely, that ony took me a couple minutes to figure out how to put it all back together, once I found the third part I'd lost. It's less complicated than it looks.
 
cyclone said:
I've no doubt you'll have tuned it to "minute-of-playing-card" @ 60 yards.....:cheers:

Awaiting a report of that trip to the range! :cool:
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Well, "Physk" I think that with open the sights it is close to minute of card at 50 yds. already. And as a friend who has a high end 10/22, not a carbine, with a replacement barrel, good scope told me, to start with a good hammer (I used Volquartsen) and only added the extractor to the bolt, not replacing the firing pin. IMHO, modifying that ****** plate with the Dremel was necessary and easy. I added a Tuffer Buffer and the VOl'sen mag release is great. I stopped short of the trigger and sear as this is NOT going to be a minute of angle rifle! But I do want a reliable 10/22 carbine that is easy to reload etc.

From what wham-O and the other have said above, when time permits, I will attack the trigger to replace the plunger spring and round off stone/hone/buff/polish the end of the plunger pushing against the rear of the trigger. Any impediment to the trigger being "tickled" from this plunger is not good.

While you experienced people know, a clean work area is a prerequisite, I used a big clean terry cloth towel on the picnic table in the basement at the cottage, with a small good overhead light and a small high intensity desk lamp to aid in seeing clearly. I had the small tools all laid out, including computer tweazers, an assortment of flat screw drivers, allen keys and a pair of discarded dental picks, black plastic electrical tape, knives and scissors to cut tape and my printed stull all close at hand, Alone!

As I think I said at the beginning of this thread, of course in jest,
I will go for minute of angle with my SKS-45 :eek: as the Ruger 10/22 and SKS are the only owned rifles with which I am actively involving myself.

My range time is very limited now for a number of factors, not the least of which is my age. So, I want to say that I very much appreciate the CGNers here who post to my threads, especially the constructive ones like in this thread but even those that have less than a positive tone are read and make me think. And my loss of the ability to spell evokes rarely a comment.

Thanks all, y'all!
 
Hi Sly Old Fox. One website I found useful when I was working on my 10/22s is this one:

http ://ruger22.com/

Also, I thought I'd mention something about springs. In general, my experience and the experience of others on this forum is that the stock springs used with the VQ parts is the best setup. Some of the VQ springs are too light and can cause reliability problems, for instance light primer strikes.
 
agent_mango said:
Hi Sly Old Fox. One website I found useful when I was working on my 10/22s is this one:

http ://ruger22.com/

Also, I thought I'd mention something about springs. In general, my experience and the experience of others on this forum is that the stock springs used with the VQ parts is the best setup. Some of the VQ springs are too light and can cause reliability problems, for instance light primer strikes.
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Mango, I must have printed 50-60 pages from these sites, also the .22LR group, all Ruger 10/22 sites, anything that I could find. I did my research before tackling the job. Some I found were vary instructive in how to take a high end Ruger 10/22 and end up with a tack driver, but too much for me.

If anything, my thread demonstrated that even a clutz like myself can do this stuff. However, I would not tackle the trigger group in a SKS as my hands are not strong enough to handle the springs and stuff inside the group. As well, the stoning and honing etc. are beyond my capability and lastly, I wanted to get the job done ASAP, which my friend did for me. I did not want to wait the two months that I did for this Ruger as I was hoping to compete in a milsurp shoot competition with the SKS.

Did i Mention that no one has accused me, yet, of brevity? ;)
 
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