This Is My 10/22 Rifle. What Does Yours Look Like?

[Big Frank]

Here's a close-up of the trigger group, so you can see the new trigger and bolt catch, and the TK mag release. I put the receiver KROSSPINS in the holes and it helped it lay flat for the pics. Previously I had to stake every pin on the gun because they started falling out as soon as I took the stock off. Now I have 4 KROSSPINS that stay put on their own. Everything else looks like it did in previous pics, except I took all the camo bandage off, with the exception of the padding on the stock.

[Rastus]

I have 10/22 with a integral suppressor from AAC which is a drilled out Butler Creek barrel.  The dadgum thing will not catch the empty 22LR hulls and throw them out.  I have replaced the extractor and spring...Any ideas?

[Big Frank]

Does it extract live rounds and eject them okay? Will live rounds fall out of the chamber when you point the muzzle up? If it's a Ruger extractor I would swap it out for a TANDEMKROSS or other brand that's supposed to work better, if you haven't already. If the extractor, spring, and plunger are all good, I'm wondering if the extractor notch in the barrel is cut right. And of course it has to be clean. I've taken my barrel out to make sure I got everything out of the groove. Some other people have had extraction problems with Butler Creek barrels but I don't know what the fix was. The answer should be on a rimfire forum somewhere out there. It could also be a problem with the bolt face.

As strange as it may sound, my 10/22 still worked most of the time when some old ammo blew the extractor, spring, and plunger right out of the gun. The cases blew straight back into the ejector and out of the gun about 9/10 times. The cases with rims tearing apart didn't do so well, but the ones that stayed intact mostly worked.

[Big Frank]

The Black Oxide Steel Bottle Adapter with Wrench Flats from NTC Trading Co takes a 1" wrench and I didn't have a 1" wrench. My large adjustable wrench was way too wide for the 1/4" wide flats, so I did some shopping in the Amazon and found this uxcell 1 Inch Ratcheting Combination Wrench SAE 72 Teeth 12 Point Ratchet imitation Gearwrench for half price. I ordered it Friday and it was delivered early, a quarter to six on SUNDAY evening. I hadn't gotten around to turning on the porch light yet, and some brave soul navigated the frozen driveway to deliver my package to the back door, as I always request. The jaws of the 13" heavy duty wrench were too wide, so I ground them way down with my angle grinder, to about 3/16" and sanded it down. I took a little too much off the top jaw which was a bit too wide until I over-corrected. Now it's tapered and the sides of the bottom jaw are approximately parallel. It could have been a lot worse, considering this is now Monday morning and I've been up since Saturday. I was actually thinking about going to bed until my package got here, then I didn't have time to sleep. It was time for work.

I don't plan on keeping this wrench in my tool box full of wrenches and pliers, since I'll only use it to screw the adaptor and a pop bottle on the muzzle to clean my .22 rifles. I have a lightweight carabiner that used to be part of an XM Radio key chain that fits through the box end so I can hang it from my gear or whatever. It's upstairs with my extra gun cleaning stuff, gun cases, targets, etc. The carabiner wasn't made to hold anything heavier than a ring of keys, but it will hold the wrench. Next I need to buy some .22 cleaning jags that push through and fall off, instead of dragging all the dirt back through the barrel like the loops I have for my rods. Instead of getting a 10 cent pop bottle dirty, I'll probably buy a bottle of limeade or iced tea, since non-carbonated drink containers don't have a deposit. Yeah, I'm cheap like that. I won't throw away a 10 cent pop bottle, but I'll spend a buck fifty on an iced tea and throw away the empty. My hands were solid black by the time I was done with the wrench. When I rinsed them off before I grabbed the bar of soap, the smell of iron wafted up from the sink, which now looks worse than the sink in a gas station bathroom. I honestly can't remember the last time I saw so much soap scum anywhere, and it didn't all go down the drain. I'll spray some Scrubbing Bubbles on it and let it work for awhile before I scrub it... whenever. Maybe before I finally go to bed, so I don't have to wake up to that mess.

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