Bedding a Ruger 10/22 Takedown stock

[GunsNotPuns]

I've long poked gentle fun at those who spend time and money trying to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse but it would appear that I have finally decided to go down the rabbit hole with a rifle that most certainly deserves neither time or money.

In question is a Ruger 10/22 Takedown that I bought a few months ago. I've put a Zeiss Conquest MC 3-9x40mm scope on it, because why not, and swapped out the horrendous factory trigger with a Ruger BX-1 trigger. So far I'm satisfied with the results but in the quest of squeezing everything out that I can I've mulled over bedding the 10/22's barrel with the stock.

Complicating (?) matters, of course, is that it is a Takedown model which adds its own variables potentially affecting accuracy. At any rate, before I go off on a tangent, has anyone here bedded or otherwise worked on a 10/22 Takedown's barrel/forend for accuracy's sake? Is this even worthwhile?

 

[Potashminer]

I have no experience regarding the take down components, but a couple suggestions about the rest. I was amazed how much "slop" was available for the receiver in the factory stock - the action is only held in place with the front action screw, so rear of action free to "slop" left and right. I built up multiple layers of aluminum duct sealing tape on each side of receiver - 13 layers, I think - so that it was a nearly "press fit" into the stock and it made a significant difference on targets. Second, check your scope at your preferred range - I think you will find that your scope is factory set about 150 yards parallax free and may cause you issues at 25 or 50 yards. Just anchor the rifle solidly on sandbags, aimed at a target, then gently move your head side to side or up and down (without moving the rifle) and watch if your crosshairs move on the target - if they do, that is a parrallax issue, and can most easily be dealt with by exact repeated head position / check weld. I don't think those scope have parrallax adjustment, but I do not have one on hand to confirm. On mine, I did clearance the underside of the barrel band and I laid up several layers of aluminum tape as a bedding tip for the barrel but I don't know how that works on a take-down.

 

[GunsNotPuns]

My thanks for the suggestions, much obliged!

 

[JasC]

I had a takedown in a laminate stock. The receiver moved around in it something awful. My first attempt at making it stop moving was to jam pieces of business card in the gap between the receiver and the stock, that worked and it shot really well. So then I went to the aluminum tape, and that did the job, with less worry of the paper breaking down. I then traded the gun off because I wanted to get away from the whole removable barrel/optics on receiver thing.
I bedded my normal 10/22 receiver, you could try that, it should firm things up. I used shoe polish as the release agent, and jb weld epoxy as the bedding compound.

 

[Forest1488]

I went down the same rabbit hole (am still working at it) with a 10/22 takedown with the bull barrel. First off, if you are not willing to place the optics on the barrel, bedding will only take you so far and I feel the project not worth the time.

Check out some of Tom E Gun's posts on what he was able to do with takedowns. Pretty neat stuff.

 

[GunsNotPuns]

I went down the same rabbit hole (am still working at it) with a 10/22 takedown with the bull barrel. First off, if you are not willing to place the optics on the barrel, bedding will only take you so far and I feel the project not worth the time.

Check out some of Tom E Gun's posts on what he was able to do with takedowns. Pretty neat stuff.

Cool, will do and thanks!

 

[hardsnow]

I replaced the stock on my 10/22 stainless takedown with a magpul X22 backpacker. The court of the magpul is very nice and the accuracy improved. Before changing stocks I observed that the torque of the stock screws impacts the accuracy. Do you can lay with that aswell. But I would certainly recommend the magpul take down stock

 

[LarryG]

I went down the same rabbit hole (am still working at it) with a 10/22 takedown with the bull barrel. First off, if you are not willing to place the optics on the barrel, bedding will only take you so far and I feel the project not worth the time.

Check out some of Tom E Gun's posts on what he was able to do with takedowns. Pretty neat stuff.

Hi. Do you have a link for those posts? Thanks

 

[45CAT]

I gave up on the factory front end and bought a VQ front end with the cantilever scope mount,sweet. Dumped the Ruger butt stock and went with Magpul. Rebuilt the trigger. A very expensive project