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So just found out I got this 10/22 in the latest auction. I like the looks of them.

Sweet deluxe model. One of my favorite 10-22 styles as well.

Pretty darn nice! I just got a 10/22 mannlicher.

Would like to get one of those, I have Ruger centre fires with full wood stocks, they look good.

Deluxe! Feels better on the shoulder. Just feels like a bigger rifle overall

This was a 1996 deluxe model with a beech stock, not a Talo, with a walnut stock. It was unfired!

A very early one, 1968.

Cool!

Partsman: Good for you on winning that auction on that handsome (and older?) Deluxe Ruger 10/22.
I have 7 Ruger 10/22's and 6 of them are Deluxe Models the seventh is a heavy barrel version with laminated stock.
Quick "good deal" story on the 10/22 Deluxe models - if I may?
About 15 years ago I was out in the Puget Sound country of taxington visiting relatives. I stopped by a gunshop/indoor shooting range in the Factoria community of Bellevue.
I was looking at the used guns there and the two young countermen there at the facility were arguing over a Belgium Browning T-Bolt 22 that had just come in from an estate. They were on the phone with the owner of the shop and each wanted that T-Bolt badly.
Also in that batch of estate guns was a MINT condition Ruger 10/22 "Deluxe". During this ongoing argument over the T-Bolt I interjected I was interested in the Ruger 10/22 and wanted a cash price. One of the argue'ees replied $100.00! I immediately laid out a one hundred dollar bill (back then I was exempted from the 9.5% taxington sales tax!) and began the paperwork. The two countermen, who were miffed at the owners decision to wait til he came in the next day to settle the rift, got around to me. Neither was smart enough to have recognized they were buying/selling a Deluxe 10/22 and not just a standard model.
Oh well - he-he.
One of the counterman checked the paperwork gathered the hundred dollar bill and handed me the Rifle AND a small bag containing three more, as new, Ruger 10/22 magazines - and "away I went"!
By far the best deal I have ever gotten on a Deluxe Ruger 10/22.
Enjoy your Rifle.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Well it arrived today, looks like they said almost like new, would have thought unfired, but they made a video where they fired it to show it worked.

Serial number puts it around 1973, it must have been a collector as the top screw are still in top of receiver and no sign of being touched.

So now have five 10/22 I believe.

That looks nice, I really like the Sporters and have no desire to own the standard carbine.

If you run across one of these, snatch it up. They can be hard to find.

https://ruger.com/products/1022Sporter/specSheets/31166.html
https://ruger.com/products/1022Sporter/specSheets/31167.html

Ruger only makes them in limited quantities from time to time. I bought one several years ago in SS and have been looking for a 2nd one ever since. I finally found one in blue and bought it last month. My older rifle doesn't have a threaded barrel, but other than that they are the same.

The stock is not walnut but is the same shape as the one on the sporter. These come with a medium contour 20" target barrel and Ruger's BX trigger. My trigger measures 2 1/2 lbs compared to 7-8 lbs on the standard rifle.

Mine are about 7 1/2 lbs scoped. Not too heavy to hunt with, but heavy enough to shoot well and the 20" barrel balances well.

They aren't as accurate as my Tikka T1x, but are much more accurate than most 10/22's

Nice score, had a walnut sporter and let it go

I ran across this one at a local pawn shop for 225otd which included a weaver v7 on it

Birch stock, so it didn't bother me to paint it

That 225 wasnt 225 for long, I think the only thing original is the reciever and bolt. Put a proper rimfire scope on it also. Joker shoots though. My fav truck gun 22.

Very nice