Factory 10/22 reliability poll

[Dr.Lector]

My 10/22 is pre-plastic guard and has a VQ trigger and VQ extractor, and a Hogue rubber stock as the only mods. It still has the sporter barrel. I didn't vote in your poll so as to not taint the results, as my gun doesn't appear to fit into your criteria, except for the sporter barrel.

While it runs like a clock on anything I feed it, accuracy leaves much to be desired. My Savage MKII was cloverleafing the ammo at 50 yards while the 10/22 was spitting it all over the place, probably 1-2" "groups", possibly more. The Savage was doing this with Minimag ammo. I tried the Federal 525 pack, and both rifles despised it; the 10/22 didn't change much, but the Savage's groups deteriorated to an almost identical level. My range neighbor was using a 10/22T and he experienced the same phenomenon.

I have bought an assortment of 50 round boxes of .22 cartridges, and I will carefully test them next time I'm out. Up until now, I have almost always been at the range with friends, and there just isn't the time or patience to really work on the rifle (and shooter's) capabilities.

Well, maybe you want to reconsider that solution
where a sporter barrel (tappered) is un-supported by the stock,
which I can guess is the model for bull barrels.

If you want to free-float a 10/22, it is a lot more complicated than that.
First, you have to have a second hold-down of the receiver.
Second, that OEM solution of holding the barrel in the receiver is poor.
The best solution to overcome that
is a threaded barrel in the threaded receiver.

Or, buy a BULL barrel.
That will fit your stock and rest on the little pad in front of it.
Your Hogue was designed for that.

 

[lone-wolf]

Hogue does make a overmold stock for sporter barrels. Although, I've never actually seen one used.

 

[Antoine22]

Never had a FTF except with one particular brand of ammo.

 

[rembolt]

any ftf has been the ammo and I only get fte when the action gets dirty.

 

[308BAR]

I've got some stove piping even with aftermarket ejection claw. I've never had a FTF with the factory mag but had plenty with the butler creek SL mags. It takes a few hundred rounds to break in the mag until it started to feed decently. Also had problems with some fed525 not being swaged properly so it would jam.

 

[broncoo]

with factory mag it does not matter what my g/f puts in it it likes it all aftermarket mags are another story but once broken in they are great with all ammo

 

[mgman71]

I bought a stainless model and would barely feed a magazine without stove piping, so i cleaned the paint out of the inside of the receiver and its been good to go. I just bought another 10/22 in black and it has no paint inside the receiver and works great.

 

[spenom]

I bought a stainless model and would barely feed a magazine without stove piping, so i cleaned the paint out of the inside of the receiver and its been good to go. I just bought another 10/22 in black and it has no paint inside the receiver and works great.

I noticed the same thing with the paint

 

[Perple_Nerple]

What kind of groups are you guys getting with the factory sporter barrel at 50 and 100 yards with bulk, and match ammo?

I was getting 2-3" groups at 50-60 yards. I think i could do better, but im pretty new to shooting. No problems plinking off spent shotgun shells at 50 yards.


To update, i just put another 400 rounds through and had 1 FTF... Noticed that the stingers I was shooting have a bunch of wax on them. I think this was the issue.

Also noticed that Remington Cyclone was pretty crap ammo in regards to loading and feeding. no jams or anything, but it would jam up in my butler creek speed loader. Switch to mini mag, and it was like night and day. But the mini mag stingers had wax on em...