10/22 bad taste

I have had only poor experiences with 10/22's...I no longer tolerate them on the premises.

I will not deny they have achieved a huge market as a "platform". There are still some folks who love 'em as-is too. I'm not one of them. Marlin outsold Ruger for decades, yet comparatively very few used Marlins pop up for sale. That means something.
 
Guess it's a mixed bag with these rifles.

I have two: One has a lot of aftermarket parts and is well looked after while the other is bone stock and gets heavily abused. I had a few stovepipes with one rifle, but it turned out to be the BC mag I was using. Other than that, flawless. The stock one probably hasn't been cleaned in 2000+ rounds. I only use Federal 525 and CCI mini mags, but both rounds cycle perfectly.
 
I have had a number. Got my first one in 87 and it has shot 100k rounds an it has never missed a beat with a factory mag in it.
The other 10/22s I have had all had the same issues. They were modified with bolt on aftermarket parts, and the more add-ons they had the more finicky they became. I sold them all and only kept my high miler, in a wood stock, polished and radiused bolt, vq extractor, polished factory trigger, and a fresh stainless barrel. You cant find a more dependable 10/22 set up, and I enjoy a good day at the range when some guy shows up with his "$1000 tactical 10/22" only to get brutally out shot by a stock looking kids gun, that runs better, quieter, and faster.
 
I've had mine for 20+ years....I've got no idea on how many rounds I have shot through it... don't remember ever having any problems with it!!!!
Also, I don't remember ever cleaning it (except for hosing it down with WD40)...maybe the guys with problems are running them to clean. LOL
 
I bought a 10/22 because I wanted a semi-auto I could make modifications to which are well documented all over.
I've had an FTF in 400 rounds but I retried the same round twice and it now has 3 rim dimples on it so pretty sure it's not the guns fault but what do I know?
It doesn't shoot nearly as straight as the CZ BRNO I had briefly but I haven't got to accuracy yet.

I'm enjoying this new hobby.
To quote Ted Nugent, "Find fault with that".
 
Only complain I've had has been off-centered sights.
Otherwise they work quite well.

It's odd that you'd have failure problems as mentioned; I'm probably on my 7th 10/22 and never had ejection/feeding issues that weren't related to ammunition or non-factory magazines.
 
I bought one 8 months ago when my 14 year old wanted to try shooting. We both put a 1000 rounds of the cheapest bulk ammo I could get my hands on and never had a mis-feed or jam. Totally different story with a steel lips mag. It caused every other round to jam using the same ammo. Couldnt go back to the factory mag soon enough even though its a PIA to load.

Now using a 25 round tactical mag and same cheap ammo and not a single misfeed or stove pipe. Made it too easy to shoot 500 rounds in an hour with the butler speed loader. Santa brought a Tasco (Cantire $49) red dot and now the kid shoots the center out of the target at 50yards and consistent 2-3" groups at 100. Its one of the few $300 guns that I would spend more $ on accessories for it. It always goes to the range as we can use it indoors or out. The kid shot the staples holding the target today at 20yds as he was bored while I was playing with reloads. Even if someone doubled what I paid for it, this ones staying with me.
 
I always liked the 10/22s however two guys that I know who have bought since the fall of the lgr have had nothing but trouble. Maybe QC has fallen with the large up swing in demand/back orders. However right now I wouldn't buy another.
 
Ive had mixed results with all of my 10/22 rifles, from over the years. Some have shot flawless, some malfunction once per magazine. All of the ones that had feeding/extraction problems, were just tempermental with different ammo. Once I found the type of ammo it prefers, then no problems. One thing that keeps me buying them, is that if I want it to work perfect with any ammo, then its cheap to upgrade the extractor, and do some minor mods, then it works perfect, all the time, with any ammo.

You would think that by now, Ruger would just use a volquarsten extractor or similar copy made by Ruger, because it would basically solve most problems on the occasional tempermental 10/22.

Even though the 10/22 is a entry level .22lr, they all should feed/extract perfect, from the box, and if a simple extractor upgrade is all that needs to be changed, or improved, then Ruger should fix it at the factory, and not expect 1 out of 10 owners to replace a brand new extractor.....but its still not as bad as what remington 597 owners deal with.

My conclusion on 10/22 rifles is, if I end up with a finicky tempermental 10/22, then it can be easily made to operate perfect just by changing the extractor, and then I polish a few parts, and it feeds and extracts anything, all the time, including cheap junk ammo, or subsonics....If it cost me alot of money, then I wouldnt keep buying them, but I wont lose sleep over a $20 extractor, and minor work, to have the best semi auto .22lr rifle IMHO.
 
I've had 2 of them and a few other semi-autos and now getting rid of all of them. I had a 10/22 with everything..... Volquatzen handle, extractor, firing pin, and mag release..... sidefolding stock, Green Mountain Barrel.... all the toys and gizmos and soon as it was done the novelty was gone. I have way more fun now with my stevens fav single shot.
 
Clean it. Then shoot 300 rounds through it. Don't use winchester ammo use federal bulk pack or cci. The winchseter won't feed right even in a bolt gun really junky ammo that the brass is to thin and the lead bullets are to soft they fold in half.


I had a stock 10/22 changed the recoil buffer (it went clank clank) Made it allot less noisy and smoother. I also changed a bunch of trigger parts it worked really well.

I then made a 10/22 wih all after market parts and had a gunsmith do the trigger. It was way better the trigger was nicer then a drop in one. It shot way better groups (the barrel) and they both work just fine.



If they don't feed it tends to be the bullet bends or flexs a little 22 lr ammo can be finicky. If it doesn't eject its the round your useing doesn't have enough force to blow the slide back far enough before the spring closes it and catchs the brass. Some magazines are worse then others most need to be broken in (butller creek) It takes a while of problems before it becomes flawless and most problems I have with mine is simply because it doesn't like that ammo.
 
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