Sacrificing My 10/22 for the Wife

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So my wife would like to get into shooting some, and I've decided to sacrifice my nice handy 10/22 to build her a fun, accurate rifle, it is currently sporting a butler creek folding stock with tech sights. Which is a wonderful set up for quick close range shots, but she likes to go long.

I'm going to need to squeeze as much accuracy and performance out of the .22lr as I can to have it come anywhere close to my .17, so I'm thinking a 16" bull barrel of some kind is in order, for a stock I'll want something with lines similar to a clean bolt action, while keeping the weight manageable for her. Plus its going to have to be uniquely hers, a girls gun, but not gaudy. And all this on a budget.

Ideas from you guys is what I'm looking for here. Barrels, scopes, stocks, internal workings, the whole bit. What do you guys think?
 
Dlask reciever and barrel, good out to 200m. You can get the hogue overmolded stock in pink as well if you want.

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I'm big on the Hogue as well, especially if you want a lite, clean gun. Not sure I'm sold on pink though, even if it was for my wife. :D
 
Dlask reciever and barrel
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I'm sorry but how can you legally replace the reciever? Is the serial number not printed on it? Is that not reciever not the registered firearm in the eyes of the law?

Wouldn't the new reciever need to be registered as s new firearm in the eyes of the law?
 
Idcurrie said:
I'm sorry but how can you legally replace the reciever? Is the serial number not printed on it? Is that not reciever not the registered firearm in the eyes of the law?

Wouldn't the new reciever need to be registered as s new firearm in the eyes of the law?
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I'm pretty sure you just phone the cfo and let them know what you did and what the new serial number is.
 
Idcurrie said:
I'm sorry but how can you legally replace the reciever? Is the serial number not printed on it? Is that not reciever not the registered firearm in the eyes of the law?

Wouldn't the new reciever need to be registered as s new firearm in the eyes of the law?
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veritas said:
I'm pretty sure you just phone the cfo and let them know what you did and what the new serial number is.
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Buying a reciever is the same as buying a new gun. Your old reciever is still a firearm in the eyes of the law.
 
BCboy said:
honestly how much weight will you lose from a non fluted to fluted barrel ?
But you are right Dlask is the way to go
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Not sure, I'll email Russ at DAC and ask him to weigh them for shyts and giggles :D. I imagine it's not much.

But seeing this is probably going to be a custom build, I too would choose a Dlask receiver as well.
 
Idcurrie said:
I'm sorry but how can you legally replace the reciever? Is the serial number not printed on it? Is that not reciever not the registered firearm in the eyes of the law?

Wouldn't the new reciever need to be registered as s new firearm in the eyes of the law?
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Yup Dlask makes there own receivers and they are registered as firearms , they are a custom 10/22 type action with serial numbers included .
 
Dlask will register the receiver for you, in effect you will have 2 guns instead of one. I used my regular 10/22 as a donor gun and finally rebuilt it last night, so I have 2 now and will get a junior stock for it.
 
Jahred.F said:
What does your wife want? Perhaps let her look at pictures and see what she has a taste for.
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She likes the looks of the hogue stocks, everything else she just wants accurate and light enough for her to carry.

With those dlask receivers, how much do they improve accuracy over the normal ruger receiver?
 
J_MIL_20 said:
She likes the looks of the hogue stocks, everything else she just wants accurate and light enough for her to carry.

With those dlask receivers, how much do they improve accuracy over the normal ruger receiver?
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I don't own a Hogue stock, but I've heard they're too flimsy in the forend, especially when using a bi-pod or sling. It might be acceptable for the intended purpose. Perhaps someone who owns one will comment.

Also, I don't own a Dlask reciever, but I can't figure out how it would improve accuracy over a Ruger. It is made of better material and they have nice features like integral rail, but that doesn't help accuracy. Someone who owns one, give your opinion.

For what it's worth, I would buy a good barrel, bed the barreled action in a sturdy stock, get a trigger job done, and get decent optics. From there, test it, and see what it likes for ammo.

There will be some tuning from here, but you can really start to piss money away if you just buy stuff because you can.
 
You might like the Revolution Trailblazer stock. I also wanted something classic looking. The barrel is a Green Mountain. Ignore the scope...I replaced it with a 3-9 scope but haven't taken a new pic.

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Jahred.F said:
I don't own a Hogue stock, but I've heard they're too flimsy in the forend, especially when using a bi-pod or sling. It might be acceptable for the intended purpose. Perhaps someone who owns one will comment.

Also, I don't own a Dlask reciever, but I can't figure out how it would improve accuracy over a Ruger. It is made of better material and they have nice features like integral rail, but that doesn't help accuracy. Someone who owns one, give your opinion.

For what it's worth, I would buy a good barrel, bed the barreled action in a sturdy stock, get a trigger job done, and get decent optics. From there, test it, and see what it likes for ammo.

There will be some tuning from here, but you can really start to piss money away if you just buy stuff because you can.
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I own both the Hogue and a Dlask receiver. I'm really happy with both. The hogue is a bit flimsy, but in all fairness, that is the sacrifice that you have to make to get a "light weight" stock. Laminate stocks are twice as heavy, and the Hogue can be stiffend up fairly easily. As for the Dlask receiver, there is a huge thread on this receiver and the benefits. IMHO it will marginally improve accuracy, mostly because the tolerances are so much tighter than the ruger receiver. The bolt has no side to side movement. The one thing that the ruger receiver has over the Dlask is weight though. If I was building a light weight gun, I'd use the ruger receiver, a hogue stock, and a 16" tac-sol aluminum barrel. If I wanted a tack driver I use the Dlask/Boyds/18" Green Mountain (I know, we all have are favorite barrels. :stirthepot2:) combo.
 
So this is the plan, I am going to get a hogue stock, dlask 16.5" bull barrel, and i'll do the trigger work myself. You guys know any good place to get the stock?
Also tomorrow I'll take the 10/22 in its current configuration, and do some accuracy testing, so I can see how much of a difference is made by the modifications. Will put up some pics of what i get.
 
J_MIL_20 said:
So this is the plan, I am going to get a hogue stock, dlask 16.5" bull barrel, and i'll do the trigger work myself. You guys know any good place to get the stock?
Also tomorrow I'll take the 10/22 in its current configuration, and do some accuracy testing, so I can see how much of a difference is made by the modifications. Will put up some pics of what i get.
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I have a very light trigger on mine - maybe 2 lbs. All I did was replace the sear and hammer with a cabelas special kit - that was years ago though so I don't know if they still have them. Not sure what you have in mind but my advice is don't spend huge dollars on trigger parts - IMO it's not necessary.
 
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