10/22 bad taste

Hydroformed said:
I have owned two 10/22s and thought the first one was made "on friday" and sold it and bought a new one. The second one was just as bad as the first, FTE and FTF one out of 10 rounds, at least! tried all types and makes of ammo and still no go. Took it to a gunsmith twice for adjustments and new parts! Nothing helped, even loaned it out and still problems. Sold all my Rugers and I will never look back. I have to be the exception from all the GOOD I hear and read about Rugers but I will never take another chance on them. Am I the only one who has bought the rejects and all the rest are fine?
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I kept them clean, used factory and aftermarket mags.I have had no problems at all with my entry level nylon 66. I wanted to enjoy 10/22s as much as every one else seems to. I like the looks and versatility, but I really believe a semi auto should function flawlessly considering ammo and clean firearm.
 
I have owned 4 10/22's in the past, one of them WOULD NOT cycle worth a sh!t. No matter what I did
Swapped out every part besides bolt itself and the receiver. Just a pile of of cr@p that one was! But the other 3, well lets say two, that I left pretty much stock, they ate every type of ammo without a hiccup!

But ill tell you now they are over priced for what they are, I've sold all mine because I believe they are over rated and I rather play with something a little more accurate with out putting over $1000 into it as I did with one of mine. They're over rated and if they were half the price (as someone else mentioned) maybe then I would reconsider owning another!
 
I've had a couple of 10/22's that needed the VQ extractor upgrade right out of the box to be reliable. After that, they ate anything that I fed them. My current one is an older 10/22 that still has the factory extractor, and I've never really had any issues with its reliability. They don't have tight tolerances for sure, and can vary greatly from rifle to rifle. Still a lot of fun.
 
I had a 10/22 that was a piece of garbage. Nothing I could do to make it work.

I have purchased 2 other ones since and they are flawless. I couldn't make them fail if I tried.

It seems there are lemons. You got very unlucky with 2.
 
A popular gun made on an assembly line may have quality control issues?!? Color me shocked...

I have a 10/22 and an SR-22, have yet to have any issue with the OEM rifle or OEM mag's just a luck of the draw.
 
I have had mine for about 2 years and I have shot thousands of rounds through it. I swapped the bolt hold open for a volquartsen auto-release and put it in a tapco t6 stock. Butler creek 25 rounders and a BC mag loader. Cheap Tuff Force scope on a 1" riser. I guess I have been lucky cuz I shoot it alot and it never fails. It was like that right out of the box. Only the ammo has ever really been an issue, now I only use round nose copper washed, they feed better and don't get hung up. (winchester m-22's) Also I hardly ever clean it. It takes a beating and just keeps going.
 
I had grief with mine too. It was a major disappointment after all the praise I had heard about them. One of the factors for the poor performance was that I failed to give it a THOROUGH cleaning out of the box. There were some real rough spots on the action/chamber as well. I fixed those with the help of a dremel tool and some buffing wheels. It works well now but I sure wasn't impressed at the time.
 
It's very unfortunate that a rim-fire rifle that was the envy of every other semi-auto on the market for reliability has fallen to the level of hit or miss when buying a new one. I have a 233-###XX model I bought new in 1991 and it will cycle anything. The original mag finally started to give me an occasional feed problem last winter, so I took it apart for the first time in 20 years with umpteen rounds through it. Cleaned it thoroughly, rewound the spring and presto back in action. I bought a new Ruger 10 rounder to go with it but haven't had to use it yet.

I guess alot of the US manufacturers have dropped the ball so to speak for reliability to compete in today's price- point world. I had thought of trading it a few times for something that I would currently be obsessed with, but reality would always set back in and the fear of never getting a repeat in reliability in a new 10/22.
 
Hydroformed said:
I have owned two 10/22s and thought the first one was made "on friday" and sold it and bought a new one. The second one was just as bad as the first, FTE and FTF one out of 10 rounds, at least! tried all types and makes of ammo and still no go. Took it to a gunsmith twice for adjustments and new parts! Nothing helped, even loaned it out and still problems. Sold all my Rugers and I will never look back. I have to be the exception from all the GOOD I hear and read about Rugers but I will never take another chance on them. Am I the only one who has bought the rejects and all the rest are fine?
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To each their own.
 
RememberTheSomme said:
It's very unfortunate that a rim-fire rifle that was the envy of every other semi-auto on the market for reliability has fallen to the level of hit or miss when buying a new one. I have a 233-###XX model I bought new in 1991 and it will cycle anything. The original mag finally started to give me an occasional feed problem last winter, so I took it apart for the first time in 20 years with umpteen rounds through it. Cleaned it thoroughly, rewound the spring and presto back in action. I bought a new Ruger 10 rounder to go with it but haven't had to use it yet.
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Same year I bought mine. I swapped out the barrel and stock to a cheap butler creek setup right on the store counter the day I bought it. The only non-cosmetic upgrade I've done is a VQ hammer and spring kit to lighten up the trigger. Other than that, after what must surely be 50,000+rounds, I've only taken it apart to clean it when it gets so dirty it stops functioning properly. I estimate maybe 5 times. Maybe they were better back then.
 
Applefarmer said:
Other than hating the trigger which can be replaced I think it's a great rifle. Prefer the Deluxe with Walnut stock and if you can order it up get the Cattle Drive version. Well worth the extra for the wood carvings.
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Sorry to hi-jack but if anyone knows where I could buy a "CATTLE DRIVE" version please advise. Thanks,
 
I won a SS 10-22 from the Provost Fish and Wildlife Club and when I first shot it was really worried when it jammed and stove piped right out of the box. Finally got it to work right and it never did it again. Glad I belonged to another gun chat room at the time and had help from a freind on there to get it to run right. He also sent me a plastic or nylon pin for the back of the action that took a lot of the slam out of the action on the backward thrust.
 
I bought a used 10/22 around 17 years ago. It cycled and functioned very well.
However accuracy was poor. 4" groups at 50 yards.
I tried every make of ammo that was available with the same results.
A couple years ago I rediscovered it in the gun cabinet and decided to do something with it.
I ordered a Green Mountain barrel from Bits Of Pieces in Delta also a wolf spring kit.

After I installed the new parts I was very impressed after the first trip to the range.
5/8" groups at 50 yards with the odd flyer missing by 3" to 4".
I lapped about .010" off the face of the bolt to reduce the head-space to .0425" if I remember correctly.
This stopped the fliers.

I took the trigger group apart and lapped the trigger and sear where they engage.
I was able after a few tries to get the trigger down from about 7 pound pull to about 2.5 with the original parts.

I also bedded the barrel and front of the receiver with J+B Weld using plastic cling wrap as a release agent.
It now wears a Weaver 3 x 10 40/44 scope and is a very accurate .22. I would never part with it.
I pick up fired 12 gauge shells at the range an set them on top of the 100 yard target and can hit 9 with 10 rounds.
It shoots everything I have tried in it without a problem.

One thing I did discover with this rifle project is that the 1000 or so rounds of .22 ammo that i still had from the
mid 1990s was more accurate than the same brands that I buy today. I get the occasional FTF with all my .22s .
Never had a single FTF with the old ammo.


Terry
 
I must have a Wednesday model. It even eats and cycles .22 long & short (I had some lying around & just had to try them).
 
I've had several over the last 30 years or so. I called them all by the name of Jamzilla. They are fussy for the type/brand of ammunition used. I keep going back to my old browning lever 22 that I bought when I was a teenager over 35 years ago. I can shoot just as fast and more accurate than any 10/22, and in 35 years I have have yet to have a FTF or jam, regardless of brand, make, age, size, or combination of.

Of course there is always some puppy half my age, who's owned one percent of the firearms, who's been shooting a quarter of the years: Who says I need to learn how to clean it properly. But I'm sure he works in a gun store and knows everything. Its not that I claim to know everything about every firearm not have hatred for the 10/22, but they are not a reliable gas operated action. For over 35 years of shooting in the gopher fields, the 10/22 is at the top of the list for jams and FTF. I have a hundred dollar Mossburg bolt action that has never had a feed, fire, or ejection problem, why waste good cash on a 10/22?
 
Maybe they just don't like certain people. My dad and I trading off with my 10/22 using BC Steel Lips were like night and day. I'd shoot a full mag, no issues. He'd shoot a full one, 3 or 4 failures (FTF, stovepipe, FTE) out of 25. I couldn't figure it out. I've never had any trouble with my Ruger, factory mags or aftermarket.
 
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