My 10/22 Plain Jane 26 year old carbine.

[Sly Old Fox]

Well, I have VQ hammer, bushings, extractor and mag release installed, all by myself with much consternation. And I still need to get my T! - 25 round mags properly adjusted, but not yet.

I never had the nerve to strip down to the trigger, sear area until yesterday when another local CGNer, nameless at this point who brought his own 10/22 carbine (lovely laminated stock) about 5 years old with probaly 10 times the round count than my old girl.

So we stripped down completely, leaving the barrels attached. We started with the plunger behind the trigger. We chucked the small diameter of the plunger in a cordless drill, used a Dremel with a very fine hard disc running againt the plunger large end, rounded them nicely. Afterwards, using AUTOSOL (thanks to another thread here on CGN) on a rag, smoothed out the plunger end and shaft, enough to remove the bluing. We used the Autosol on the sear, trigger and hammer, polishing them all. And I replaced the original plunger spring with the VQ.

Results? Well the friend's rifle with the heavy use, had a pretty good trigger to start with. Mine, even with the VQ parts had room for improvement. I know that my carbine will never be a 1"/100 yard rifle. If I can keep most shots in a playing card at 65-75 yards, I will be content. As for longer distance, if I get the practice, I should be able put them into say a 8" diameter target at 100 yards and further out, well we shall see.

 

[ton45-II]

My plain jane 30+ year old 10/22 recently got a make over too. It used to be a 18.5" and now it's a 12.5". Trigger was never the best but it served us well when we where kids. I recently just changed the bolt spring, installed a plastic buffer and a new mag release. Next is installing a UTG quad rail for iron sights and a scope and work on the wood furniture. I'm upgrading the rifle for a few more decades.

 

[Utah]

 

[Sly Old Fox]

Yes, it would have been great if I could have taken some images during the process. This was not possible however and my friend and I were working on the dining room table with a large north window on a rainy day. Furthermore, being cramped for space with the rifles stripped, and working under a time constraint, use of the camera was not possible.

Every thing that we did is well documented on the various DIY sites available and which I have printed out over the past year.

What I can do, ASAP, is to set up the cordless drill with a dummy plunger chucked and the Dremel tool at the showing the very fine disc that we used.

There would be nothing else to show. We both feel that the AUTOSOL was really helpful in smoothing out the vital areas of the hammer, sear, trigger and the plunger.

 

[Sly Old Fox]

The way the plunger was altered.

This is only to show how the plunger (part B-39)
on the site at - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
http://www.rimfirecentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=251027

but in the image below, it is a small nail chucked in the cordless drill, not the actual part. In the Dremel tool is a flat hard fine grit disc. With both power tools running at high spead, we very slowly and carefully round off the end of the plunger so that a dome of sorts resulted. NB. the Dremel tool must stay in the position shown, gradually closing the angle between the two tools and keeping the pjunger and abrasive disc running against each other. In the image, the shaft of the Dremel must be kept pointed as is shown and the Dremel disc only being used on the left surface of the tool. If not, both plunger and disc would be turning together.

There is a wealth of good DIY help out there. Just check the Sticky here on the Ruger 10/22.

And the Autosol tube of abrasive used later on a rag is shownis shown.