Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Ruger 10/22 sporter barrel advice............

I am considering a new barrel for my deluxe sporter. I have 4 factory 18.5" barrels here. I plan on keeping one, selling 2, and giving the other to a bud.

The current barrel shoots well enough. Not spectacular, but good. I have only tried 3 ammo types in it.

Here is the kicker:
The current barrel likes the Remington Golden Bullet best. I have like 3000 rounds of the stuff. I am afraid that if I get a new barrel, I will have to possibly switch ammo and be stuck with 3000 rounds. My other 10/22 uses different ammo, and my other .22s do not get used nearly as much as the 10/22s.

Barrel I want to get is a Green Mountain 20" fluted sporter. Blued. Does anyone have experience with said barrel? Or know what ammo they like?

Thoughts?

no barrel is the same regardless of being the same brand you have a 50-50 chance of the same brand barrel shooting the ammo you have the best. It will be a hit and miss thing and you will just have to take your chances.

another option is to send the factory barrel off to Randy @ CPC and have it set back, re-chamberd and re-crown. that being said i have the Green Mountain SS 20" sporter on my 10/22 and i am very pleased with it.

GM barrels seem to shoot as well as the Shilen, Dlask, ER Shaw .


I had a 18" GM fluted stainless sporter barrel.

It liked CCI Blazers, Bulk Federal HP, and CCI Mini Mags.

Never shot any Remington ammo.

I currently have a 16" GM blued sporter that prefers CCI Blazers.

After owning many 1022 factory and match barrels the only thing consistent is they all had a decided preference in ammo, both accuracy and function wise.

Flyer

Yes, exactly. Every rimfire I own, or barrel I switch, likes something different.

The " new and improved" Remington Golden Bullets do seem to be just that. I haven't had one fail to fire yet, they definitely burn cleaner (the old ones were very dirty), and accuracy has been better than the 2 Federal loads I have tried in 2 different rifles. I bought 2800 rounds for $180 a few months back before ammo became plentiful again.

Jim, what does your 20" GM like best?

Norma Tac-22 shoots really well in it. i have only shot the Tac-22, mini mags and some CCI standard velocity out of it up to this point.

Thanks.

I have too much 22LR ammo. Gonna get this thing nailed down, then sell or trade the stuff I don't use. Put that into what I do.....

Even though most of our gun laws make no sense, we can easily own short barreled rifles such as this. You can not shorten an existing factory barrel to less then 18", however you may purchase barrels as short as 8" , as long as the overall firearm length exceeds 26.5"

This a 12.5" Dlask Barrel in a modified carbine stock. Bentz chamber it shot really really well with CCI Blazers





Flyer

i thought all rifles had to have a barrel of 16" or greater. i have also always thought that you can modify any barrel as long as you do not shorten it less than 16". guess i'm going to have to go re-read on the rules and regs to see if anything changed or i'm not remembering correctly. if we're lucky, maybe we could get Bricktop to chime in. this is the kind of stuff he knows and is free with sharing his view on.

Just to ensure everyone's clear. I'm talking about Canadian law. We can't carry handguns but we can own short barreled rifles

Here's a sample from a 16.5" fluted target Green Mountain barrel, Weaver K4 glass. Remington golden bullet, bulk pack. 60 yards. Top group, clean bore. Bottom group, fouled bore.

Dang that is short. Did you buy it 40% off?

I don't see a need to spend more money than the GM barrel costs for this little sporter. They have always shot very well IME.

My heavy barrel 10/22 has a Volquartsen snake barrel on it. But that is a whole different beast.....

I didn't catch your location when I responded. Thanks for clearing that up.

I have a Clark Midweight barrel on mine. They use Lothar Walthar blanks. It shoots most anything well but really likes Aguila Pistol Match.

Flip a coin.

You're not going to miss anything based on barrel brand for a 10/22.




Travis

I like the looks of that rifle. Looks like that barrel is about 22" long. I know some of the guys at my club use GM barrels and they don't seem to be very finicky. My Ruger factory hammer forged target barrel is the most finicky sob I've ever had. I'm glad I finally found some ammo it likes:

It was good enough, with 4x scope, to win the Tonto Arizona 'fire rendezvous thus year.

I have a Green Mountain Heavy Taper 19" on the way.

http://www.gmriflebarrel.com/19-blue-heavy-tapered-sporter-22lr/

Replaced recoil buffer with a homemade one. Turned the bolt telease into auto bolt release with a little file work. Now doing trigger job.......

As you can see, I have 4 18.5" barrels already. Plan on selling at least 2 if anyone needs one.......

Sorry for the derail but EdM, where did you get that stock? I really like the looks of that.

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