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Yeah, another one of THOSE threads.
Buddy of mine loaned me two of his .22s for cleaning and tweaking, and seeing as one of them was a 10/22, I opted to take both it and my own Marlin 60 out to the range to prove a point.
The majority of these two rifles are stock; no trigger jobs, no fancy barrels, no spring changes. The Marlin has a Boyd's custom RVT thumbhole stock, but I have not yet bedded it so it provides little in the way of benefit other than being ridiculously comfortable to shoulder. The Ruger is a standard-model, roughly 3 years old.
As a handicap, I left the Ruger its 4x40 Bushnell scope, while my Marlin only has its Tech-Sights peeps.
Weather conditions today were damn awful though; winds gusting up to and beyond 50kph, and the new berms here at the Medicine Hat range didn't little as a buffer. I wanted to do some shooting out to 50 yards, but that wind just made it hell; the target stands kept wobbling out there, so I stuck to the sturdier and nearer 25 yard board.
Firing 5-round groups of CCI Minimags, Winchester 333s, Federal 525s and Federal American Eagles.
Even with the benefit of a 4x scope, the Ruger was beaten by the Peep-sight Marlin.
I will say that I did enjoy firing the Ruger; the action on them is indeed superb and I consider it slightly superior to my Marlin's action, but this comparison has only reinforced that tube mags are the only way to go for .22s, in my eyes; holds more rounds, easier to reload.
Buddy of mine loaned me two of his .22s for cleaning and tweaking, and seeing as one of them was a 10/22, I opted to take both it and my own Marlin 60 out to the range to prove a point.
The majority of these two rifles are stock; no trigger jobs, no fancy barrels, no spring changes. The Marlin has a Boyd's custom RVT thumbhole stock, but I have not yet bedded it so it provides little in the way of benefit other than being ridiculously comfortable to shoulder. The Ruger is a standard-model, roughly 3 years old.
As a handicap, I left the Ruger its 4x40 Bushnell scope, while my Marlin only has its Tech-Sights peeps.
Weather conditions today were damn awful though; winds gusting up to and beyond 50kph, and the new berms here at the Medicine Hat range didn't little as a buffer. I wanted to do some shooting out to 50 yards, but that wind just made it hell; the target stands kept wobbling out there, so I stuck to the sturdier and nearer 25 yard board.
Firing 5-round groups of CCI Minimags, Winchester 333s, Federal 525s and Federal American Eagles.
Even with the benefit of a 4x scope, the Ruger was beaten by the Peep-sight Marlin.
I will say that I did enjoy firing the Ruger; the action on them is indeed superb and I consider it slightly superior to my Marlin's action, but this comparison has only reinforced that tube mags are the only way to go for .22s, in my eyes; holds more rounds, easier to reload.
