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10/22 ate a Pentax Gameseeker 6x42.

Broke the reticle, and the elevation adjustment kept crawling upward.

Scope was a known, as it had lived on a .223 for several years, and held true.

Them 10/22s is beyond wicked.

A Swift 4x has been darn good on my 10/22... few thousand rounds...

I've hear that 10/22's are hard on scopes, guess I've just been lucky. I've used some cheap glass on 10/22's without anything coming apart.

The Ruger 10-/22 can have some serious "snap" to the recoil due to the bolt smacking into the hardened steel action pin at the back.

I wonder if going with a urethane bolt buffer in place of that would help soften that recoil snap and save a few scopes??

I do not know if it lessens the "snap" you describe but a delrin buffer will lessen the noise substantially. The action of a suppressed 10/22 makes more noise than the report of the shot.

Don't know...

Do know that I'll need a new scope on that one, and a bunch more magazines...and the Marlin 60 will be getting some use soon.

Spent a few hours shooting ground squirrels (sage rats/grey diggers) with safariman and later a couple of his friends...never figured you could kill several hundred varmints in 1/4 to 1/2 acre of ground (longest shots were sub-175), and still be able to come back and do it again any time you wanted to.

Lost count of dead 'rats at well over 200, and there were a considerable sum smoked after that.

Having to re-adjust the elevation every so often was a clue that something was amiss. When the crosshair broke and angled down on the right-side toward the first stadia, it was pretty apparent that the scope was done.

Prior to, and when the elevation was holding, the glass was plenty good and the stadia lines made quick hits possible out to 150ish.

Yeah, they and most any recoil operated semi auto 22 to a degree, but 10'22's will REALLY tear 'em up.

We did tear up some ground squirrel today...

I must get all the good Tascos. My 10/22 has a 4-16X Tasco which has been on there many years. Like VA, I have killed hundreds in a day and gone back the next day and repeated.

maybe if I want to break a scope need to switch to a fixed power.

I never realized how "loud" a 10/22 was 'til I installed a delrin buffer in mine. 2500+ rounds on the B&L 4-16x50(AO) and still going strong.

I guess those 10/22's are tought on scopes. Never thought about that until one broke the reticle on my Leupold M8-3X. That scope had been on a variety of rifles including a .375 H&H and a 416 Rigby, but the 10/22 did it in. Of course Leupold fixed things for free.

Well at least you're in the killin fields

Dude, you wouldn't have believe it.

Heck, I didn't really believe it, and I was in it.

Wish I was there!

You dudes oughta try that stuff with a good 17 hummer or a centerfire....

Body count goes wayyyyyyyy up....

Flying rodents are Da Bomb

Didn't need a centerfire or a .17HMR. (Safariman had the centerfires covered, BTW).

Simple needed a scope that didn't go communist on me...

Oh, and belt feed would have been nice...

And, yeah, a 36 grain Varmint Grenade via a .223 can/will give impressive launch capabilities. Did a couple like that, safariman did quite a few (if you caught his chuckle fast enough, you could catch the aerials even if you didn't see the hit).

His friend/pastor's 15-year-old daughter managed a few aerials, and seemed to be getting the hang of "separation launches" (multiple pieces, different directions).

Said pastor was purely lethal with the .22LR, and I simple enjoyed the multiple target acquisition capability and the rapid target engagement possibilities of the semi-.22.

Need a scope that'll hold up, preferably with a ballistic reticle or dots, and SO gonna do that again...often.

Im sure the 416 worked things loose.

Hooked! addictive, ain't it?