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Efw: For the last 59 years or so I have been shooting Squirrels (mostly Ground Squirrels but some Tree Squirrels as well) and I recommend you reconsider your aversion to "bull barrels and laminated stocks"!
Both of those type accessories to your Rifle will enhance and improve your Squirreling.
Most all factory 10/22's do indeed need trigger improvements and I heartily recommend that.
Best of luck in your build.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
P.S.: If you do reconsider the "bull barrel" I highly recommend the Dan Lilja custom heavy stainless in 20" or 21" configuration.
Mine, on my Deluxe 10/22, has served me EXTREMELY well for more than 25 years now and far in excess of 100,000 rounds down the bore.

Thanks. Its the factory Ruger Sporter walnut stock.

Some nice rifles posted but they lack aesthetics.

If somebody told me carbon fiber and the Barracuda were where it's at, I'd have told them to get fugked.

But after owning this MR, I can definitively say that carbon fiber and the Barracuda, is where it's at.

Everybody disagrees. Until they shoot it.

nice

My best friend helped me one weekend with a major home upgrade so to thank him I modified his pristine 10/22 deluxe.

I used a Green Mountain tapered barrel in his original walnut stock. No barrel band to contend with. I glass bedded the rifle and replaced the hammer and sear in the trigger to lighten it. When I sighted it in I got 10 shot group of Wolf Match ammo roughly the size of a nickel at 50 yds.

The tapered barrels are a nice compromise between a bull and a standard. They don't feel heavy but are plenty stiff.

Dan

Of all the 10/22'S I've built by far my favorite combination is a factory Deluxe sorter walnut stock with Green Mountain 16.5" fluted sporter barrel. Replace factory trigger internals with kidd and your all set.

https://www.1022rifle.com/buy/barrel

Get the tapered one and go to work on the bushy tails. I had a threaded bull barrel from them and it was scary accurate after a brimstone trigger job.

Sounds like those Green Mountain and carbon fiber barrels are pretty nice and for a decent price.

I have not been disappointed with my Kidd build, although I would not recommend this for a "budget" build. Hogue stock, Kidd .920" floated barrel, bedded action, Kidd 2-stage trigger. It will drive spikes at 50 yds, with or without a can.

I have near the same set up except mine is the 20" sporter barrel. today when i get home i should have a Sightron Big Sky waiting for me that i picked up in the classifieds last week. it will either go on the 10/22 or possibly one of the M77/22's but i'm leaning towards the 10/22 because it shoots so well.

boy do i have egg on my face today. got home last night and opened up the package that was there waiting for me and i find myself going DUH! the scope i bought is a Sightron 4.5x14 big sky, but it is not an AO model. it clearly shows in the pictures that there was no AO but i just assumed at that power range it had one. so now i have a decent centerfire scope for which i have no use for. BTW the seller offer to refund me for my screw up but i couldn't do it. guy was very stand up about my screw up. anyway now i'll need to try to trade or sell this one off or buy some sort of 22-250 or .223 yote gun to throw underneath.

EFW I sent you a PM. As an added fact kipp did a trigger job on the rifle mentioned.