Ria 10/22 good?

I'm happy with mine aside from the fibre optic bit falling out of the front sight almost immediately. It's a beater though I didn't expect much out of it.
 
I picked up a couple when Wholesale sports had them for $140. Only opened one so far, the front sight was loose. Just got out to shoot it last night, POI was way off from POA, I guess I didn't tighten it quite straight. Also I was getting some pretty bad failures to feed with factory Ruger mags, to the point where cases were getting dented. I think this was in part due to the magazine release not holding the magazine in. I'd seat the mag, make sure it was in there nice and tight and flush, and then a couple rounds later it would start to come loose under recoil.

I'll have to play around with it some more and see how it and the 2nd one I got do. If I had paid full price for them I'd be a bit disappointed but at $140 I can't really complain.

Also, because of the way the front sight is mounted, that limits your options in some respects. Anything that needs to mount to the dovetail for the front sight on a normal 10/22 won't work, such as Tech Sights or from what I understand the dummy suppressor on the Archangel Nomad kit.
 
if you can get them when someone is clearing them out and you know your way around a 10/22 and how to fix them they are fine.

if your paying full price then just go for a Ruger.

i had a couple ruger stocks laying around from builds ive done and i stumbled upon some RIA's that had no stocks for cheap cheap CHEAP.
so i snapped up 6 and put them on stocks i had laying around or purchased off of fellas who had upgraded or what ever.

they RIA's where good, solid guns but RUFF RUFF RUFF!
spent some time in the shop polishing up everything inside and such and they have run flawless for me so far.
i only kept 2, my dad took 1 and 3 co-workers took the others.
so far no one has any complaints, but we all just picked them up for beaters to lend out and such.

hope that helps.
 
I picked one up off the EE for a cottage/beater rifle. It's not pretty but seems solid. I put 100 rds of mixed ammo through it without a malfunction.
 
I've used one off and on for gopher shooting. I cleaned the WW2 Russian tank primer paint off and gave it a couple of coats of BLO, mounted a classic old Burson scope. Works like a charm and looks good. I am in the process of cleaning off another stock. I did one last winter and it had a gorgeous tiger stripe pattern, although it had a couple of body putty repairs!

I haven't cleaned the one I use, and don't plan to until it quits working. I use any kind of ammo that happens to be handy. It seem to work okay with my "assortment" of magazines, too!

I have a moderate collection of 10/22's, so I am aware of the difference.
 
I picked one up from Wholesale ,at $140 I'd rather get it knowing it probably needed some work(it did ,the magazine was too tight) than wish I had when they sold out their stock.
The thing is, you buy a rifle for what you want it for and as long as it does that job,so be it. I have a couple of BRNOs but I also have a couple of Norinco JW 15 knockoffs ,not as finely finished,but they shoot just fine and I'm treating the RIA 10/22 the same way...besides,I can mess around with a knockoff copy where I wouldn't do that with my good rifles
 
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