Ruger 10-22 Review

Overall Rating

It is very accurate, consistant and is good for whatever you use it for. Mine has a synthetic stock and is very light and compact but not too small for larger shooters.

I love the Ruger 10-22 gun. I can shoot very tight groups with it at any range just about. i have it sighted in for anywhere from 50 feet to 110 yards.

Members' Comments onhunter9's Review

• Bertie on 8th Oct 2003

  hunter9...I am very intrigued with that you have sighted your gun up to 110 yards and you can shoot tight groups. Are you saying that you can get a tight group at say... 50 yards?
  As a handgun enthusist (CO2 variety Smith&Wesson) I 'd really like you to return with a few details, as the name Ruger 10-22 is just that - a name. You will note that I'm a Brit and such guns as you own are but a dream.
  
  If you could indulge an old Brit........

• thumper on 9th Nov 2003

  Hello Bertie, I lamp for a friend here in N.I and we go out with his 10-22.
  This is a .22 calibre 10 shot semi automatic rimfire rifle, and a very popular one at that, they come in all sorts of formats from synthetic stocked to walnut to stainless steel/nickle plated, they even do a target version.
  It is the best selling rimfire rifle of all time, somewhere in the region of 6,000,000 have been made, so you will understand that their are a lot of gunsmiths who base their living on customising them, reasonably accurate out of the box, but you can turn them into one holers with a few quid and a bit of imagination.
  They have also been called the surrogate pistol after the 1997 handgun ban, and .22 is the only calibre allowed by the government to be semi auto since the SLR ban in 1988.

• thumper on 9th Nov 2003

  PS Im also surprised to hear that you havent heard about this rifle Bertie as they are very popular on the mainland, if you have the right land to use it on you local firearms officer should let you have one, they are pretty easy to obtain, and there are plenty of them on the second hand market, last week I was looking at a bog standard second hander priced at £150, you can get them cheaper with nothing wrong with them.
  They are mainly used for long range rabbits, and sometimes people use them for foxes, although this is not at any more than 100 yards with a head shot, centrefires are used for foxes mainly.
  hope this is of use to you mate as it is all I know, but I can find out more if you want.
  Regards, Thumper.

• elton on 8th Dec 2003

  yo,
  
  I'm interrested in the scope... It looks like a wwII scope from the M1903A1 sniperrifle :-S ???
  
  what kind of scope is it ?
  
  regards,

• Bertie on 26th Dec 2003

  thumper....how I've come to miss your two postings I can't imagine and I really must apologise for this belated acknowledgement. The only excuse I can offer is that I have many correspondents who seem to regard me as a kind of Agony Aunt.
  
  No way could I get a FAC for such weapons. I've really tried and I have permission to shoot over over tracts of Welsh countryside totalling thousands of acres and I've been refused a FAC for an air rifle. Mention your gun/s and you'll receive a look as though you'd said something obscene. They're very tight here now on these things. I do manage though with the legal limit of 12 ft.lbs. and I must be grateful for that as so many other countries have even lower limits. It's just that a higher power gun would make life a little easier. I am 70.
  
  I hope you had a nice Christmas and trust your New Year will be a happy one.
  Bertie.

• thumper on 31st Dec 2003

  I had a great Christmas, and I hope you and yours did also, if you are having problems with getting a ticket take it to the BASC they are really helpful in these matters, failing that get a gun in either .177 or .20, these are the best calibres for legal limit guns, Ive heard the .20 is outstanding at 12ftlbs. My .22 gun runs between 17-18ftlbs so it gives me around 850fps the same as a legal limit gun in .177, as you say it is very handy.
  I hope this finds you as it leaves me, in good health, have a prosperous new year my friend.

• harry9999 on 1st Jul 2004

  Berite, I'd agree with speaking to BASC and getting some help. Just remember the basic keys to getting the fac-stronger gun cabinet than you need, show you've taken into consideration the direction you're shooting on your land as a 22rf round will travel up to a mile if shot at an angle and they do ricochet unlike air rifle pellets; and if you haven;t had any experience with live firearms, go down to a club regularly where you can hire them out. I don't know if this helps or not, but I live in the centre of Milton Keynes, so I have to travel a fair way to shoot, but I have just been awarded a .22wm rifle and I'm 17! This mainly due to help from BASC and information I learnt off of www.airgunbbs.com in the rimfire section and it's all useful. I too used to shoot with an air rifle before rimfire and at first it can be frustrating the amount of shots you have to ignore, i.e., no shooting upward into trees for squirells or birds due to the rifle's extra power, but there's nothing like the feeling of taking a headshot at 100yds. 1 thing the police did do for me was to give me the certificate, but I could only shoot with an experienced firearms shooter whom they had to know and he wrote reports on my progress towards saftey etc., very patronising, I know, but it's worth it.

• peem on 29th Sep 2008

  I have had my 10-22 for two years now but i was wondering if anyone could tell me what is the maximum distance that the 10-22 would be accurate using a 40grain subsonic winchester hollowpoint, ihave used many kinds of ammo and the gun does not seem to work well with remington subsonic hollowpoints because the bullet seems to prefire and this causes a loud crack at the breach block when rifle is fitted with my suppressor but the gun works perfect with most other ammo including high velocity rounds,obviousily my gun jams now and again like any other gun but is very easy to maintane even with regular use just clean the residue from the mag and the breach and the gun is ready to use again .