After alot of AR thought...........10/22.

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Since the whole AR saga I've had a sit down with a few friends and talked about everything semi auto.
I just can't justify spending 1k on what essentially is a simple blowback semi auto bulked out to look like an AR, I'd like to but the best option for me would be something I can get spares for easily (unlike the Remy 597 fiasco), easy mag availability and simple to maintain.
So taking the easy, cheap and plentiful choice way out I went to look at what one of my local RFD'S had to offer in 10/22's,.
"I've got about 50 out the back" he said and came back with everything from boggo black/beech to gold plated tactical jobs that looked like a chavs wet dream.
Among the odd assortment was this, it obviously used to be a stainless deluxe model but someone has stuck a stainless fluted Volquartsen barrel on with built in brake and a trigger mech marked "VC" which I'm yet to discover the origins of.
So after knocking them down £40 which made it a nice round figure of a pony we decided to make it a deal.
So after next payday I think I'll treat it to a couple of BX-25 mags so I can start mini rifle in the new year, i originally thought a fat heavy barrel would be too slow and a skinny standard pipe would be far more manoeuvrable but they felt too light and twitchy, the fat tube on this feels more steady.
Anyway, here she is, plain but easily sorted if that's the way I want to go.
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tvrgreg said:
Good choice. the muzzle brake ain't built in, it should unscrew.
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tvrgreg said:
Trigger looks like a Volquartsen
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Must be one of those seamless ones then, the trigger could be a Volquartsen, it would coinside with the barrel I suppose!
The only thing not quite right is the stock, being the deluxe the original barrel would've been the standard skinny unit and thus its been relieved to fit the barrel, it does touch the barrel which I'm unsure is ok or not?
 
You should be able to run a £5 note in between barrel and stock almost to receiver.
My 10/22 i built on a budget a few years ago.
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tvrgreg said:
You should be able to run a £5 note in between barrel and stock almost to receiver.
My 10/22 i built on a budget a few years ago.View attachment 585594
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Very nice, I do like a thumbhole laminate, I probably won't keep the stock on mine as the LOP makes it feel like a kids rifle, maybe get something that's good for mini rifle so I can swap mags etc on the move.
 
The fact it has Volquartson on the rifle it should work 😎 my personal experience of the 10/22 wasn't a good one. Hope yours is miles better 👍
 
Nice gun and a fine choice for mini rifle given all the options avaialble.
Look forward to seeing this develop over the coming paydays to see how it ends up.
Have fun.
 
Don't relieve the stock until you have found out how it groups. Plenty info on rimfire central where a lot of 1022s shoot better with some of the barrel bedded, or at least with some kind of upwards pressure at some point. Not always the case but see how it shoots first just in case someone has already done the hard bits of getting it where it shoots best.
 
Great guns the 10/22 even out of the box if you ask me, and that should be a tack driver with the right ammo, only reason I use an AR is the reliability of the mags in comparison to the high cap mags for the Ruger… 10 rounders I have never had a problem with but the 25 rounders can be sketchy to say the least
 
zogg364 said:
Great guns the 10/22 even out of the box if you ask me, and that should be a tack driver with the right ammo, only reason I use an AR is the reliability of the mags in comparison to the high cap mags for the Ruger… 10 rounders I have never had a problem with but the 25 rounders can be sketchy to say the least
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Apparently most aren't any good and reliable ones are a minority, the ones that do get good reviews are the BX-25 ones!
 
billgatese30 said:
Don't relieve the stock until you have found out how it groups. Plenty info on rimfire central where a lot of 1022s shoot better with some of the barrel bedded, or at least with some kind of upwards pressure at some point. Not always the case but see how it shoots first just in case someone has already done the hard bits of getting it where it shoots best.
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Yeah I'm not touching that area until I've put Eley Contact, Minimags and some SK through it and it won't group.
I'm unsure if a big fat rigid 22lr barrel would be affected, maybe?
 
Rich79 said:
Apparently most aren't any good and reliable ones are a minority, the ones that do get good reviews are the BX-25 ones!
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Yep I bought five of the BX-25 rounders and none worked flawlessly unfortunately, I had to shim them all to get them to sit in the gun correctly… Could just have been my gun (Volquartsen Custom ) but I know a few other shooters having issues
 
zogg364 said:
Yep I bought five of the BX-25 rounders and none worked flawlessly unfortunately, I had to shim them all to get them to sit in the gun correctly… Could just have been my gun (Volquartsen Custom ) but I know a few other shooters having issues
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I suppose its just try it and see, our mini rifle event is 20 rounds but with a compulsory mag change, not sure if you're allowed to over fill mags to keep the spring tension right and have some spare for jam ups, it would mean firing 9 and changing mags with a round in battery which I'm sure is a no no.
 
I didn't want an AR15 lookalike as such but I did want some of the ergonomics for night shooting and ended up with a 10/22 in a Strikeforce stock. I couldn't justify a top of the range trigger but with so many parts available and a bit of polishing it wasn't too difficult to lighten and crispen it up. It beats my old Anschutz 525 semi hands down, no more stoppages, easy to clean and a lot better handling, no more accurate though.
My only gripe would be the BX25 magazine, mines been smoothed internally, an edge put on outside and well run in so I can almost guarantee getting through one, but not quite so I never use it in the field. There's a lot of modifications on YouTube but some relate to the older version because at some point Ruger updated it. Still if you can get one working reliably they are good fun.

Yours looks nice :)

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zogg364 said:
Yep I bought five of the BX-25 rounders and none worked flawlessly unfortunately, I had to shim them all to get them to sit in the gun correctly… Could just have been my gun (Volquartsen Custom ) but I know a few other shooters having issues
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10/22 can be a reliable and accurate gun but not as it comes from factory. The trigger is the biggest let down, needs fixing and after a lot of work I managed to make my BX unit good. Then reliability, stock magazines good but I never got those 25 shots magazines work well until I moved the rear of the barrel 2mm forwards when I shortened the chamber. After that the gun has fed over 500 shots from big mags without faults. Accuracy then, stock barrel around an inch at 50M. L&W match grade barrel was a bit better but still not holding MOA. I finally did all the tricks like cutting the chamber and setting head spacing + cutting off the stock barrel at tightest spot and managed this at 50M, not just a one off but the gun keeps shooting good as long as ammo is good:
IMG20240927174727 by abbababbaccc, on Flickr
Admitted I also did some other tricks like chassis and free floating the barrel etc. It turned out very good but it took a lot of work to get there.

IMG20240508114508 by abbababbaccc, on Flickr
 
rkr said:
10/22 can be a reliable and accurate gun but not as it comes from factory. The trigger is the biggest let down, needs fixing and after a lot of work I managed to make my BX unit good. Then reliability, stock magazines good but I never got those 25 shots magazines work well until I moved the rear of the barrel 2mm forwards when I shortened the chamber. After that the gun has fed over 500 shots from big mags without faults. Accuracy then, stock barrel around an inch at 50M. L&W match grade barrel was a bit better but still not holding MOA. I finally did all the tricks like cutting the chamber and setting head spacing + cutting off the stock barrel at tightest spot and managed this at 50M, not just a one off but the gun keeps shooting good as long as ammo is good:
IMG20240927174727 by abbababbaccc, on Flickr
Admitted I also did some other tricks like chassis and free floating the barrel etc. It turned out very good but it took a lot of work to get there.

IMG20240508114508 by abbababbaccc, on Flickr
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Holy shit!!!!!
That would be good even for a bolt gun.
 
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