Go ahead, spend $$$$$$ moddin' your 10/22

[rm1911]

Here's a 25 yd target with a plain 10/22. Only "mods" are a hogue overmolded stock and tech sights. Tech sights I might add are the best thing in the world.

It's a 25 year old 10/22. Everything is orig. barrel, trigger, bolt, etc.

Shot with Remington yellow jackets at 25 yds off a bench using only a soft front rest. The Caldwell dead shot nylon bag.



Here's a close up. End to end .542". All shots touching.



After, I kept the 25yd sight aperture and went to steel up to 75. Even the small ones. Dead locked on. Flipped up the 100yd aperture and it was dead on at 100yd plates.

Got kinda boring almost

[orangeusa]

A Glenfield/Marlin can do that at 50 yards.

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[orangeusa]

I shouldn't troll. That's a real nice grouping, but I've had great luck with the Glenfield/Marlin (esp with scope - given my bad eyes... )

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[sholling]

That's pretty darn good shooting.

[pluke the 2]

try 100 iron sites

[chad allred]

Nice shooting!

[Canucky]

Where you using swc 22? Nice clean holes?

[Paperchasin]

Excellent shooting!

[Bobby Ricigliano]

My 10/22 rifles have always been bone stock, never saw the need to fiddle with them with solutions to problems that don't exist.

[rm1911]

Originally Posted by orangeusa

I shouldn't troll. That's a real nice grouping, but I've had great luck with the Glenfield/Marlin (esp with scope - given my bad eyes... )

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No problem there are lots of very accurate 22's out of the box. I think a lot of people underestimate the 10/22 out of the box. It's capable of very good accuracy. I get an kick out of people that spend $200 for a rifle them spend $500 on it!!

Next month I know what ammo I'll be using. Also need more time to get out to 50 and 100. I thought the federal bulk might be better. It wasn't. Ammo was Remington yellow jacket. Strange because its high velocity ammo and bulk type. It's a truncated cone but has kind of a swc profile.

Pluke, when you shoot iron use a bullseye type target. Need to line up the post. Without one you have no frame of reference.

[orangeusa]

I totally agree with not needing to mod any of the 22LR rifles tp get decent accuracy. Keep em clean, get a sling and a scope and you're GTG.

They may be inexpensive, but man, they shoot better than most folks can shoot. 10/22, Marlin 60, Winchester (my friend has one that looks almost identical to a Marlin - fancier wood of course).

Just don't say that on RimFireCentral.. They get pretty wound up about trigger mods, and SCOPES - OMG, don't even post about scopes there.

Nice thread.
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[JMP]

Originally Posted by orangeusa

I totally agree with not needing to mod any of the 22LR rifles tp get decent accuracy. Keep em clean, get a sling and a scope and you're GTG.

+1--however, I think people tend to get even more overzealous with their .22 centerfire rifles (typically, the AR-15) as I have been seeing some pretty crazy mall-ninja setups. I understand the need to "over-mod" a .22lr rifle for fun much more so than an AR-15. Just saying.

[chickenfried]

The first time I tried the trigger on a bone stock 10/22 thought the safety went on automatically somehow when I cocked the gun.

[CptDan]

Here's 2 targets from a "modded" 10/22 Greem Mountain .920 bull, Power Custom trigger and sear, Boyd tacticool Stock. At 25 yards

[A-J]

Think of it like a motorcycle - some are great right out of the box, and some are not. And ther are always, with everything, going to be people who mod the hell out of something they own, even if it's not "necessary" in the literal sense. In the bike world, we call it "making it your own". Personally, my buddy listed all the mods I should do to my 10/22 when I got it, and so far, all I've bought is a small reflex red dot sight and some spare mags. Once I got it zeroed, I can punch the center of a target all day, no problem. Other people might want to spend several hundred $$ doing all the other mods, and that's fine - their gun, their money. Doesn't hurt me one bit, and leaves ME more money for ammo.

[Lead Waster]

I went mod crazy with my Marlin 795.

DIP aluminum trigger guard and Boyd's wooden stock. I topped it with a cheap 3-9x32 "Barska Plinker 22". The guard and stock are totally unecessary, just sort of a "want". The scope was a "must have" because I couldn't see the darn target.

With tech-sights on, I got really good groups, but the groups were not where I wanted them due to my inability to actually see the target (old eyes).

With just the trigger guard and scope, it shoots really well. The stock needs some sanding to fit.

I took it to an Appleseed and got my Rifleman score. Unfortunately, it also jammed on me quite a bit.

I have a 10/22 TD in jail, as of this afternoon! I think a normal 10/22 would be fine too, but I figured that for accuracy/range, the 795 is great (as long as I have time to clear/diagnose the jamming!)

The 10/22 TD will stay stock. MAYBE techsights. Maybe.