1minute- along the same lines I would recommend a recoil buffer. Takes out some of that shock. installs in a minute and costs a few bucks. I put one on same time I mounted the scope.

As for scopes I wanted a smaller objective and went 32mm but it still seems kind of large on the 10/22


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