Thread: Totally Sick of Semi-Auto .22s

Originally Posted by holdover

Stovepipe is a common thing on the ruger. It’s not right to buy a new gun to upgrade the bits in order to fire smoothly.

I've heard that argument too, however, friends and I all own them, all unmodified with no issues when using good ammo. Most semis will stove pipe at some stage with crap "bulk buy" ammo. I would also hazard a guess a lot of peoples cleaning regimes are poor and a leading contributor. I'm not a staunch defender of the 10/22 as the marlins are bloody good value, just think they get a lot of ill informed bad press.

Originally Posted by mawzer308

I would also hazard a guess a lot of peoples cleaning regimes are poor and a leading contributor.

I would have gone probably 20,000 rounds between cleans on my 10/22 before the issues built up enough to motivate me to give it a clean (yeah I'm a bloody farmer).

Originally Posted by Ben Waimata

I would have gone probably 20,000 rounds between cleans on my 10/22 before the issues built up enough to motivate me to give it a clean (yeah I'm a bloody farmer).

I've had my 10/22 since about 1985; never cleaned it! It still shoots about 5 shots into an inch-ish at 50m. That's accurate enough for me for rabbits etc. I never feel it's ethically right to shoot to further than 75m with a .22 on rabbits etc. That old Ruger shot my first deer, pigs, goats, rabbits, hares, wallabies, possums, turkeys, peacocks etc etc. Never let me down

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

I've had my 10/22 since about 1985; never cleaned it! It still shoots about 5 shots into an inch-ish at 50m. That's accurate enough for me for rabbits etc. I never feel it's ethically right to shoot to further than 75m with a .22 on rabbits etc. That old Ruger shot my first deer, pigs, goats, rabbits, hares, wallabies, possums, turkeys, peacocks etc etc. Never let me down

You don't think it's ethically right to shoot a rabbit at more than 75m with a .22....yet you shot a deer with it

Did you walk up to the deer and stick the barrel into it's ear hole?

Originally Posted by zarathustra

You don't think it's ethically right to shoot a rabbit at more than 75m with a .22....yet you shot a deer with it Did you walk up to the deer and stick the barrel into it's ear hole?

No WTF needed.... Let me clarify..... I shot a deer with it when I was about 18; young, dumb and thought I knew it all, as teenagers do. It was only about 15m away (a fallow doe). But it's not something I'd do now as a 57-year old.... You learn as you grow older

And 75m at a rabbit is ethically far enough for "me" to shoot a rabbit with a .22 (head shot as I don't want to waste meat or risk gut shooting it). I don't think I'm a crack shot; just average. Like I said; you learn as you grow older