Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Got my Ruger Predators yesterday

Eh, I won't lie to you.. I was really tempted to add a 22mag onto the order myself. I've never owned that caliber and I'm still not sure I made the right choice by passing on it.

Passports seems to shoot excellent, would like to hear how yours does as well when it's up and running..

I backed my adjustment screw out a bit and it feels fine to me anyway. The blade doesn't bother me.

I got an email last night where they got more WMRs in, just in case you feel the need to add one!

I have a bunch of Magnums, but this one really caught my eye. I have high hopes for both of them. I've had several 77/22s in both LR and WMR in various configurations and a 77/17 HMR Varmint and none of them impressed me in the accuracy department. All were either traded off or sold because I never could get them to shoot as well as my CZs, Remington's, Marlins or even a couple of 10/22s.

Ruger 77/22 Mag was $689 at the place I got the American for $269. I wanted the 18" threaded barrel but not available and I have a gun building friend that can fix this one

22 WMR is legal for turkeys...22 LR isn't

I backed mine out 1.5 turns and it could use a bit more. I think Virgil said he took two turns.

No turkeys on the menu for this rifle, tho They're thick in these parts

So what's the price on the predator rimfire and where do you get them at?

PM shortactionsmoker. My 22lr Predator is shooting about like the others, 4 feet of snow in the last couple weeks so I've only shot it a few times. Standard velocity CCI best so far.

As Kend mentioned;

I backed the trigger adjusting screw out two full turns on my Predator.
It came out at 2.5 lbs. with No creep.

Feels/shoots great!

Virgil B.

SportsSouth is the distributor.
Ruger #8334

Here is an example: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=466580797

I just got back from the range with mine in .22 and I don't have any groups to brag on. First group at 50yds looked promising at about .75 and it went to hell from there. Exactly the same problem with that Weatherby so hopefully I'm just having a bad day. The wind was blowing and I was trying to shoot between gusts. A fine crosshair would sure help.

shortactionsmoker and his Whittaker Guns, a banner advertiser here when I have adblock turned off, are great to deal with.

These Predators suck, here is a 100 yard group from my 22 Mag..... Thing is all over, I cant control it. Horizontal string, Im SURE it not me...

nice--what ammo?

30 grn Hornadys

I shot the .22 mag yesterday and it is extremely accurate. Ragged hole at 50yds.

Took out my .22LR/SWFA for a 2nd test run yesterday. Just about 50 yards (46 steps) Shot 9 groups with 3 different ammo's, CCI mini mag, M22 and Bulk Blazer. Found out that moving my front bag as far back as possible (almost covering the whole mag) helped my groups immensely.* The Mini Mags led me to believe that they would rather not be sent through the air via my particular predator. The M22 had better result's with the average group size being around 1.5" with the best group being 3/4". Blazer Bulk was the premier ammo of the day, ave groups were about an inch the best group being a ragged hole about 1/2". I had a light breeze coming from behind me, left to right which could have effected some of my groups.

*I'm a pretty new shooter and sure that some user error came into play. Nonetheless Im happy with the purchase.

SAS and Whittaker Guns is better then great to deal with. I have made them my go to for gun shopping.

Same here