Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Just Shot my 10/22 Takedown.......Wow

No problems with mine either.

It is fixed thanks to Deflave, and I have already appogized to the poor guy for calling it a POS.

He shouldn't feel bad. I've been called a POS a bunch of times.


Travis

I've heard some of the take off's need tweaking before they shoot well. Might be why they have special barrel blocks to help with problems like that -who makes those KIdd I think

It comes with the job.

You don't need to apologize for calling it a POS. I have several POS's that shoot very well. One is a Savage that shoots really well.

My nekked, oops I mean skeleton 10/22 shoots good!



Almost as good as my takedown:



Whatever Browning did to make their TDs shoot, they did it right! Bummer the OP's Ruger TD won't shoot!


DMc

Part of my POS Savage



POS Marlin near 100 years old



Shoots OK at 50, dunno about 60.

Dan, that looks like a savage 24. Have you done any trigger work on it?

My 10/22 Take Down was a true POS also. Discovered the barrel wiggled around like a kid in church, couldn't tighten it even following the instructions. Closer examination showed the barrel clamp was loose from the factory. Naturally I tightened the socket head screws attaching the barrel clamp to the receiver. Nice, now the barrel wouldn't fit into the receiver because the barrel clamp was too big, that's why the dingle-berry that assembled it at the factory left it loose. So I honed the clamp down until it could be tightened and allowed the barrel to slide in and twist into place.

Took it to the range. Should have stayed home. I had mounted a Leupold 2.5 -5x Vari-X III scope on the little carbine with high hopes. Thing shot like a wild burro, bucking, kicking and farting all the way. Jammed, failed to fire and showed that the firing pin was almost off the rim and very shallow. Hit the 50 yard target, but that was almost an accident. Frustrating as hell, didn't group too well. Tried CCI ammo instead of the Winchester, didn't help, as it still jammed and failed to fire on every other round. Trigger felt like squeezing an ice cream scoop, mushy and went on forever, releasing just before I checked to see if the safety was on.

Back at home I checked the firing pin, looked okay but I switched an aftermarket one in anyway. Changed out the plastic trigger module too. Back at the range it shot better, only failed to fire twice, and jammed less frequently. Accuracy improved, shot a nice four inch group. Took it home and someday soon I will reexamine it, or maybe just forget about it. I'd break down and send it to Ruger, but next to rolling up hoses and extension cords, sending things back is something I hate. I remember my first 10/22 back in the 1960's, what a cool little rifle that was. Even the semiauto .44 Magnum Deerstalker was a really nice little well machined rifle. Oh well another project.

WranglerJohn, very witty read. Thx for sharing.

DMc

my takedown is scary accurate with just about anything I put in it.