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

[Big Frank]

The Ram-Line loader is good, when it's good, if you know what I mean. And when it's not good, it's not good! You open the door and dump a box of ammo in, jiggle it a little and all the shells drop nose first into the slots. You close the door and stick the 2 parts of the contraption together with a mag clipped in and push the lever in with your thumb. One round loaded for each press. It doesn't work with rotary mags like the BX-1. Some of the aftermarket mags feed from the center, and some feed off to the left like the BX-1 mags do. Loaders made for one type won't work with the others.

McFadden Machine makes a Lightnin' Grip Loader for $27.50 and you can buy adaptors for several different .22s for $9.00 or $12.00. There's an Aftermarket 10/22 Rifle Adapter Only (NOT FOR RUGER BRAND MAGAZINES) and You receive both Center and Off Center Adapters for $12.00. It probably works well, but I bought one of their Ultimate ClipLoaders for Ruger Mark series pistols and didn't like it. You have to spray the ammo with RemOil to make it work, and if you don't use all the ammo you get duds. So I tried to modify it to make it work without lubing the ammo, and destroyed it. That was $27.50 in the trash.

https://www.mcfaden.com/McFadden-Machine-Lightnin-Grip-Loader-s/1828.htm

https://www.mcfaden.com/McFadden-Machine-Ultimate-cliploader-s/1827.htm



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkIbAVoF7eE

[Big Frank]

I got the additional pair of cheek risers from Victor Company USA today. I squirted a little E6000 adhesive between them all and screwed them down tight. Tomorrow I want to trim a little more off the corners of the bottom one. I'll take pics afterward. I also moved the scope rings back one slot, so the rear ring is all the way back on the rail, and there's an empty slot at the front.

The post office said they would deliver my package last week, but you know how that is. It left Salt Lake City last Wednesday and didn't land anywhere until Monday when it showed up in Native Americanapolis, Native Americana. I got another package yesterday that came from Arkansas, by way of Oklahoma. I don't know why it went WSW ~220 miles before it went ENE, but it was an extra 390+ miles. I'm still waiting on another package that went from Wisconsin to Minnesota, before it arrived at Cincinnati 4 times and left Cincinnati 4 times. It's finally in Michigan but they said it was coming today when it was still in Cincinnati. Another package from Minnesota arrived at Cincinnati 3 times and left Cincinnati 3 times. I never used to have any packages go through there, but they must be getting diverted because of winter weather.

[Big Frank]

I got the cheekrest remounted this morning, after I sanded the bottom corners, and put some more E6000 on the spacers. The spacers were stuck together in pairs but not all 4 together, and they weren't stuck to the cheekrest. If I got enough adhesive on both places this time, it will be like one big solid piece. The bottom spacer was sticking out past the cheekrest 1/8" or less on all 4 corners, so I took care of it. Since I had 2 new flat surfaces, I stuck 2 stickers on it.

I have a black extended bolt handle on order from Volquartsen. The standard bolt handle is so short I hit the front scope ring with my hand every time I grab it. I'm also getting a new firing pin and extractor for the 10/22 and for my 22/45, and a Mainspring Latch Removal Tool for MKII, MKIII and 22/45 pistols.

I'll be done with this one soon.

https://volquartsen.com/departments/internal-parts-for-1022-and-magnum/products/1433-extended-bolt-handle-and-recoil-rod-assembly-for-10-22

https://volquartsen.com/departments/internal-parts-for-1022-and-magnum/inventory_configurations/737

https://volquartsen.com/inventory_configurations/744

[Big Frank]

I really didn't like the way a couple pics I posted looked, so I edited one, and re-took another. The FDE parts of the cheek riser look green in the 2nd pic. I lit it up with a cheap flashlight on the dimmest of its 2 settings. Neither picture looks good to me, the dark one or the green one. I give up. At least you can see how well the spacers fit the cheek rest. Some people in the wild west decorated their rifle stocks with brass tacks, but I used .44 brass.

[Big Frank]

I saw a video on the new Ruger 10/22.

https://ruger.com/products/1022Standard/models.html

It has a cleaning hole in the rear of the receiver and it's covered with a plastic plug. I thought, hey, I have some of those plugs in my basement. But all of them I found were too big. I was trying to make something else to plug the hole when I knocked a couple of tools off the back of my workbench. When I bent over to pick them up, there was a nozzle from a can of spray paint lying there too. I thought that looked like the same size as the cleaning hole I drilled. So I stuck it in the hole and it fit. I cut it off with a hacksaw at the bottom of the circle where the spray hole is, and ground it down slightly to the right length. It was a flared nozzle with a little rim sticking out at the bottom. I ground more than half of the rim off and filed it until it was really thin. I tried inserting it into the hole from the inside but couldn't quite get the recoil buffer in. So, I stuck it in the back of the receiver, the same way the plug goes on the new rifles. It sticks out such a small amount that the receiver easily fit into the stock.

This is about what the nozzle looked like before I cut it down, and what it's like now that I'm using it as a plug in my 10/22. I'll eventually go to Home Depot and see if I can find the right size plastic plug, but this fits perfectly. It's kind of tight and I had to force it in the last little bit, but it won't fall out by accident when I take the gun apart. I have free gun parts lying on the basement floor.

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[Big Frank]

I put the new Volquartsen Extended Bolt Handle and Recoil Rod Assembly in my 10/22 today. It's only 1/4" longer, but that makes all the difference in the world when there's a scope ring right above it. It has 3 recoil springs included: reduced (bright), standard (dark-installed), and heavy (gold). I left the standard spring on and made sure it was tight before installing it. And I put the Volquartsen Bolt Tune-Up Kit in. It's their precision EDM machined A2 tool steel SureStrike Firing Pin, and Exact Edge Extractor, which also fits the MKII, MKIII, and MK IV pistols. The extractor is manufactured through an EDM process to produce tolerances of +/-.0001", and hardened to a Rc 58-60. My TANDEMKROSS Extractor Service Tool made replacing the extractor a breeze. I wish it was that easy to change them on my .22 pistols. My firing pin spring was a little bent up from a different time I was working on my gun. I tried to straighten it out with the pliers on a multi-tool and only screwed it up worse. So I'm going to get a new spring from Ruger. The roll pin that holds the firing pin in has lost most of it's tension since 1978, so I'll order a new one of those too. And probably a new extractor spring. Maybe new firing pin and extractor springs for the 22/45 while I'm at it, then all 3 of my Ruger .22s will have their bolts rebuilt.

https://tandemkross.com/extractor_service_tool_ruger_1022



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXD_t10xvEs

[Big Frank]

Victor Company posted pics of my 10/22 on Instagram and whatever other social media sites they're on. And they sent me a bunch of stickers, so I took the other ones off and put a couple new ones on my cheekrest. The flash kept the left side pic from turning out, but it's one shot one KYL. KYL is short for Know Your Limits. Rimfire KYL target racks typically have targets ranging from 2" or 1.5" all the way down to 1/4" which is like shooting at a pencil. I guess you get more points for the smaller targets, but if you miss a target you lose all of your points.