first 10/22 - what’s your go-to upgrade?

[Alan]

just got my first 10/22 and wow, it's awesome! love how it shoots straight outta the box, but i can see why everyone goes crazy customizing these. trying to pace myself, though. what upgrades or little mods made a big difference for you? anything worth doing first? looking to make it more fun to shoot!

 

[ATpro]

Just bought 2 10/22's for the grand kids, Stock had to long a pull for the youngest so I went ahead and got 2 Advanced Technology AR-22 Gen 2 stocks because I knew I should give the older one a choice for which one he liked the best. To my surprise he chose to keep the stock that came on the 10/22. I don't let them shoot my 10/22 because I did a trigger job on it and it has less than a 2 pound trigger with no travel. Ruger 10/22's have a rotary type hammer and doing a trigger job on the stock trigger is a pain. I replaced the trigger with a Volquartsen Target trigger and reworked the hammer myself, shimmed the trigger to take all the slop out and adjusted over travel .

If you are not well acquainted with these best to buy a kit with the hammer in it. There are a multitude of things you can do with the 10/22 but the first thing I would do is scope it, and then the trigger work.

I shot Competition Rem-Fire in High School and that was the first thing we would do to a new rifle is adjust the trigger down to 16 oz. If you want to have a general hunting trigger that is safe but would help improve accuracy a 3 pound trigger would be the way to shoot for.

 

[Bowanna]

I agree with the trigger jobs. In my case I installed Timney drop in triggers set between 2.5 and 3 lbs. In my .450 Bushmaster and .50 Beowulf. The lighter pull most definitely helps with trigger pull. I used to say the only round you'll fire without trigger pull is the first one, the anticipation of recoil will get you every time. With the lighter triggers they don't give you the opportunity to pull. My Avatar is a six round volley at 150 yds. with the Bushmaster last year after a trigger replacement.