I wouldn’t worry about who made it….just take care of it. Nice shooting for a semi-auto 22
I totally agree. Having had a couple "hammer forged" Ruger 10-22 target barrels, I'd say exchipy's rifle shoots better than either of those I've had. They were extremely finicky as to what ammo they liked too. Not like a good GM or Kidd. Hang on to that one exchipy, it appears to be a very good one regardless. That is a "sleeper". You don't find them like that every day.
Been so long now, I can’t recall whether I got this 10/22 new, or used at a gun show. I free floated its carbine stock early on, seeing extraordinary accuracy. Same with a Choate folding stock. Later, it wore a Ruger sporter stock. It acquitted itself very well during the Modoc County Squirrel Wars of the late ‘90s. But, it really likes being in the Hogue stock, with the free floated forend. While not every group looks like the one shown, it can be counted on to produce a couple like it out of every box of CCI MiniMag HPs. Just started with the CCI SGBs.
I, too, had been disappointed with the performance of the two 10/22Ts I’d owned. They moved on, while this guy has stayed.