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I find the old fingergroove 10/22's to be quite classy.
Put a Volq hammer and Kidd buffer in my '67.
All else original. 50 yards and in, don't need anything else.

My uncle had a Win M63. Had not seen it in many years so called him but the old 22 got sold.

Winchester Model 63……followed by the classy Weatherby semi auto, which has excellent irons…..graduated for50-75& 100 yds , I believe.

Everyone has a classless 10-22. They degrade a fine collection.
Maybe, a tolerable boat gun.

This!

You're not livin' till ya shoot a gill gun.

I haven't seen one 10-22 used by the gator hunters on the "Swamp People" TV show.

neither have i seen one on that show either, and they do have a diverse amount of firepower or so it seems.

i have three 10-22's in various condition and configuration.

for a change, i often carry a mdl 597 rem. w/sporter barrel into the woods with a 6x burrus huntsman scope. works really well, but not as many accessories as available for the 10-22.

If one of those gator hunters is running a factory checkered 10/22 sporter.........he should be cut up and used as bait.

1966-71 the sporters........factory checkered they made around 535 or so.

Prices up on them recently.

Of the off the shelf cheap plinkers, I prefer the Marlin model 60 with the tube fed magazine.
Nothing wrong with a 10-22, I just hate the magazines on the 10-22 Ruger.

For out of production .22 lr semi rifles, my old Nylon 66 is still my favorite! And by far the most reliable semi auto .22 rifle that I own.

Marlin 60, hands down. Not only will it go BANG without jamming, but it will shoot way more accurately than it should for its low price.
10/22 is for kids who don't know better.

For "something that goes bang when I pull the trigger" it's hard to argue against the Ruger 10-22 or the Marlin 60. They've been around over 50 years and are still going strong.

There are plenty of old school classic, semiauto 22s out there but most of them are probably going to cost a lot more and might not be as reliable as a new 60 or 10-22. I've owned both and mine worked like they're supposed to. I've still got the 10-22 and it was made in the seventies.

I have seen quite a few Model 60's go down for a cracked/disintegrated buffer.

Never owned one, shot a few.

10/22 whips its arse, easily. Only issue with 10/22 is width of stock for mag, and maybe other stock ergonomic issues.

The standard stock feels OK at best. Put that up against a sporter stock...........and it feels like total crap.

The fingergroove sporter is THE 10/22.

Don't care for the Internationals.

Pair a an old sporter 10/22 with a .44 sporter and you can be in the cool kids club.

You know, the honor students

I am no fan of tube mags, or detachables that stick out from the stock. They just irk the sheite out of me, as that's where I carry em.

Have had 3 or 4 standard 10/22s and 2 sporters, plus a deluxe sporter. The FG is the only one to have IMHO.

Ruger should have done a stainless version, w blakc synth stock for the 50 yr anniv. That said, the older standards and sporters shot better than the mid 80's and 90's other models I had. Never did experiment with bbl swaps to see why.

Only .22 rifle I regret selling is my Anschtuz 141. Thought about a H&K 270. But rather get a 300.

It's blasphemy, but the Norinco clone of the Browning is a damned good one.

Yes, it does look cooler sitting there. But that's it. The Marlin 60 is:

• Twice as accurate - maybe even 3x more accurate. Nobody who's ever shot the two would think a stock 10/22 comes close to a Marlin 60.
• Much more reliable - 10/22's suffer mostly from poor quality after market magazines. And 10/22's become jammatics with low-power ammo.
• The Marlin comes with usable stock sights.
• The Marlin 60 is cheaper. You can use the $75 difference to buy your first brick of 22lr ammo

Really, there are two things where the 10/22 shines: a slightly better trigger and after-market support.

By the way, after 100 bricks of ammo and a couple decades, the recoil buffer might crumble in a Marlin 60. $5 part, a few minutes of work, and its good for another 30 years. Not even sure you can buy enough 22lr ammo to wear one out anymore.

How does the Marlin 795 compare to the Model 60? Same action except mag fed? As accurate? I like the shorter OAL on the 795 but not a fan of the plastic stock. Never been a big fan of the 10/22 looks or function and it seems like a waste to throw most of it away to improve it. Like buying a base model car and spending 3x as much to "improve" it.

The mag fed version isn't as reliable IME.

60's are good, but 10/22's are better.





Dave

Im a big fan of my rem. Nylon 66 iv had since 1972, still going strong! but picked up a Colt/walter m4 22, just shot it the other day , put a Mini Burris 4x scope on it , sucker is a tack driver. was very suprized with it! bought it when they were talking about the ban! got it for $369.00 gun broker bid at a shop near me, didnt think Id get it, for that low bid, came new in the box!

I once had a T/C Classic, which was a nice .22 autoloader.

The way it was designed, the action accumulated too much powder residue to suit me. It went down the road.

The 10-22 is tops for a number of reasons. The fire control mechanism is isolated from the mag well and powder residue doesn't accumulate. There a number of ways the trigger can be perfected.

There are so many aftermarket options, one can create about any imaginable configuration.

The action is just about bullet proof and with a good barrel, they can be tack drivers.

The rotary mag is a Bill Ruger masterpiece as is the whole gun.

What's not to like.

Whatever .22 is second is a distant second, IMO.

DF

Might just need to go buy the abused Nylon 66 out of the local pawn....