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.

https://www.ntctrading.net/shop/p/black-oxide-steel-bottle-adapter-with-wrench-flats


https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-Ratcheting-Combination-Ratchet-Spanner/dp/B091KVBTRS/ref=sr_1_1_sspa

[Big Frank]

I finally put the TANDEMKROSS Barrel Retaining V-Block on a little while ago, and I used a new pair of V-Block Screws by Rim/Edge. The TANDEMKROSS Barrel Retaining V-Block replaces the stock part with a precision cut aircraft grade aluminum unit - 55% lighter than the stock stainless version. The screw holes are off center and it only has one correct way, to maximize barrel rigidity and reduce barrel droop by pulling the barrel up. My barrel/receiver fit was really sloppy once the spray paint wore off. The new screws were so tight I had to put the receiver in the vise instead of holding it in my hand and working in my lap. I'm glad I decided to replace the old screws with the V-block. I may be done working on my 10/22 now, but I had an idea. Maybe I could hide my old beat up 10/22 in the Trek-22 chassis and put the brand new Trek-22 rifle in my old walnut stock. I don't know if the Trek-22 even has a a way to mount any kind of optic on the receiver if I did that, but if it does, I have some oil to rub on the stock to make it look good again. Then I could have 2 rifles that look good, because most of the wear and tear on my 48 year old Ruger would be hidden in the bullpup stock.

https://tandemkross.com/v-block-1022.html

https://tandemkross.com/-v-block-screws-for-ruger-1022-by-rimedge-2-pack.html

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[Rastus]

<snip> and found this uxcell 1 Inch Ratcheting Combination Wrench SAE 72 Teeth 12 Point Ratchet imitation Gearwrench for half price.<snip>

It really was almost "half" price based on today's price.  Now you can buy it at $20.39 per copy.  That was a really good price you paid for that wrench. 

[Big Frank]

Yeah, I got lucky on that one. Everything else I was looking at was around $75 other places for double open end wrenches, or stamped out sheet metal slim wrenches on Amazon that were only 3mm thick. I made that one as slim as it needed to be, and stuck it in the box all my 10/22 mags are in, with the threaded bottle adaptors.

[Big Frank]

I just typed up a bunch of stuff and accidentally closed the wrong window. Long story short, I'm spiffing up my old walnut stock.

I have the Trek-22 taking the place of the 10/22 with its folding stock as a compact fun gun, and I'm putting the full-length stock with 1" extended buttpad back on the 10/22. Next I need to find a Picatinny rail to mount one of my scopes on. Leupold has a really nice looking one, but it has 20MOA of elevation built in, and I'm not likely to shoot much beyond 50 yards, and even more likely to shoot at 25 yards than 50. I thought I was finally done with it, other than a paint job. I still plan on hitting it with a rattle can but might wait a few months.

https://www.leupold.com/backcountry-cross-slot-ruger-10-22-1-pc-20moa-matte

[Big Frank]

Here's the 10/22 with the wooden stock back on it, and it's younger sibling. I was in such a hurry to take the picture, I forgot to take the rear QD swivel socket adaptor off the folding stock and put it on the wood stock. And I left the grip plug for the folding stock setting here on my desk with the 2 Allen wrenches I used on the stock screw and barrel band screw. I'll take that up to the bedroom where the guns are and pop it in tonight. Maybe tomorrow I'll take care of the QD sling socket, but I've had enough for tonight. The bolt handles are lined up even. I think the Trek-22 barrel is an even 18" like they say, instead of 18.5". The stock could have been shorter if it weren't for the pesky law, so they used the wasted space for onboard mag storage. Very smart. There are 20 CCI Stingers ready to go in BX-1-40 (40th Anniversary) mags the pic.