Want to build a 10/22 for a small kid
- Thread starter chiken-wing
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Ruger has the 10/22 Compact model, it's basically a standard 10/22 with a 16" standard-profile barrel and a slimmed down and shorter stock (also no barrel band). The newer models come with hi-visibility fibre-optic sights. Really nice little package and perfect for a small shooter, plus much cheaper than putting on an after-market barrel and stock.
I bought a standard 10/22 with wood stock. $300 including taxes/shipping from BC.
I bought an axiom stock from Amazon.ca $82 including shipping/taxes.
Dropped the weight by more than 1/2 a pound. The Axiom stock is collapsible. I'm just under 5' and it's perfect! I then added a tactical solutions barrel to lighten the gun and improve the accuracy ($220)
The gun now loaded with RDS weights 3.75lbs!!!!!!!! And fits right!
Please message me if you have questions.
I bought an axiom stock from Amazon.ca $82 including shipping/taxes.
Dropped the weight by more than 1/2 a pound. The Axiom stock is collapsible. I'm just under 5' and it's perfect! I then added a tactical solutions barrel to lighten the gun and improve the accuracy ($220)
The gun now loaded with RDS weights 3.75lbs!!!!!!!! And fits right!
Please message me if you have questions.
bearkilr
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Has she shot a 22 before or is this a starter gun? I'd strongly suggest to buy a single shot, something like a Savage Rascal or Henry Mini Bolt as their first gun. A semi-auto isn't the best to learn firearms basics with.
carpetmonkey
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Ellwood Epps has the single-shot H&R Sportster (youth model) which has an ejector; watching the casings fly makes for hours of fun by itself. May suck at some indoor ranges, tho, because of this.
Prophet River has the Crickett single shot bolt action youth models in a variety of colours (also sell the matching soft cases).
I'll wager most of the dealer network vendors will carry the Savage Rascal single shot bolt action, also in a variety of colours.
If semi is the way you want to go, then +1 for the 10/22CRR model (@ P&D, Prophet or Wolverine). They mostly come 'hardwood' stocked, but there are also grey, blue and pink laminates I have seen. Maybe swap in a larger charging handle and a small red dot optic, and you have a winner. I have one of these wood stocks for a backpacker, and it shoulders well enough for most adults, unlike some other reduced-LOP youth models.
Something to be said for NRA Santa starting her off with a $200-range single shot, and if she likes the sport, moving up to the $350-ish Ruger the following year. My range is always open to donations of single-shots for the Junior .22 club
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This. I found a semi for my kids caused them to loose focus on aiming and the round count went up substantially. I am a fan of the hot shot as its ambidextrous. If you want a repeater I have had the best luck with the browning BL22 micro. Both are well made.
With kids it always seems to be a bit of a balancing act between building the fundamentals and keeping it exciting for them, and so much of that depends on the personality of the child. One compromise might be to use a pin to block the mag of a repeater to turn it into a single shot, which can then be swapped out with an unmodified mag as appropriate.
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- Lloydminster, Alberta
or the short stocked, short barrelled pink compact:
http://store.prophetriver.com/ruger-10-22-22-lr-pink-lam-blued-16/
http://store.prophetriver.com/ruger-10-22-22-lr-pink-lam-blued-16/
This right here ^
carpetmonkey
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If memory serves, Ruger offers single and 5-shot rotary magazines as 'trainers' to compliment the stock 10-rounders. Methinks loading a single round in a magazine would become mighty tedious, and might frustrate a younger shooter more than a bolt action; that is when the 10 round comes out of the range bag, followed by graduation to the larger linear magazines.
+1 on that! Single shot mag, the ten round mag, the 25+
Keeping the same gun cuts cost/time sawpping guns. I think the 10/22 done right is the ticket but I'm bias and know it.
Keeping the same gun cuts cost/time sawpping guns. I think the 10/22 done right is the ticket but I'm bias and know it.
wayupnorth
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- Northern Alberta
My 10 year old daughter loves how light this is but this is outside your price range,
That's all custom work, nothing stock, very short.
I picked up a new 10/22 a put it on a hogue over molded stock and put on some fiber optics and it's also small and light and cheap.
250 for gun, 90 for stock, 30 for fiber optics.
But I stared all my kids on a old cooey single shot till they where safe and proficient.
Oh, my kids fell in love with my single shot chiappa little badger, cheap too for under 200
That's all custom work, nothing stock, very short.
I picked up a new 10/22 a put it on a hogue over molded stock and put on some fiber optics and it's also small and light and cheap.
250 for gun, 90 for stock, 30 for fiber optics.
But I stared all my kids on a old cooey single shot till they where safe and proficient.
Oh, my kids fell in love with my single shot chiappa little badger, cheap too for under 200
