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Some sort of special edition Ruger 10/22 I bought years ago, shoots .22LR. I have been following this sub for a bit and I've been thinking about practicality a lot lately, for obvious reasons. It made me reconsider this rifle.
A 10/22 with one 10 round magazine and just iron sights isn't very practical. It's a fun range toy with cheap ammo. So I thought "What if I got two 25 round magazines and a red dot sight on it?" Now, I did just put this together (including swapping out the top of the stock for the "cheek riser" one that came with the rifle) so I may just be excited to share, but I think this addresses practicality from a well... more practical standpoint.
I don't have a lot of money buy I could break off the $75-80 that this cost and turn this kind of forgotten range toy into a viable weapon in the arsenal. Will it penetrate body armor or helmets, no of course not I have no delusions there. Is that the only measure by which we consider something practical? Could it save my life, I think so. It's also quieter when fired, it's lightweight, the ammunition is as cheap as $0.06 per shot, and it's known for its quality. I also still have the 10 round magazine the rifle came with so I could always pop that in if I needed to hunt with it to make it a little more mobile.
I can't afford almost any of the things I see in this sub, but I can improve on what I have.
This will definitely be an unpopular take but I have grown to genuinely dislike the 10/22.
I say this having owned four (two of which I built completely) and worked on a dozen of them. One of which was my father's from the 1960's.
Semi-auto .22lr is annoying but that aside, the 10/22's design hasn't really changed much from when it was first developed and it's incredibly fiddly to work on. What's worse is the aftermarket has a huge problem with tolerance shift. Everybody and their dog makes 10/22 parts and all of them are juuuust ever so slightly out of spec with each other so trying to replace parts can be a game of "guess and check."
I see a platform with a lot of potential but not a lot of impetus on the part of Ruger to actually act on that potential and streamline some of the older parts of the platform.
Reliability is so-so. I've had 10/22's that ran like a sewing machine and I've had ones that might as well have been single shot but they all generally need to be babied in some way to keep them going.
I respect the history there and I see why it has persisted as long as it has but I would prefer something like the Savage Mk II for a new shooter any day of the week.
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