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The Ruger Rat Rod.
A 10/22 made from parts lying around from other builds. All Ruger except a couple 20 year old Butler Creek plastic lipped mags (not a single ftf), a bolt buffer and a $160 aftermarket barrel.
Like RawHP in his great post of Ruger mods, I redid a 1978 trigger. Filed, polished, changed and then progressively clipped reset spring. All Ruger parts. Bolt. Head spaced, polished, chamfered back and the handle slot, polished everything inside. No new parts. I used an old Sears belt/disk sander for some of it. Fixed the auto-release piece with the Dremmel.
The old Ruger Target rifle stock had barrel pressure. Used a broom handle and sandpaper to make it free floating. No bedding of the old stock (yet).
Polished insides of the 1970s receiver. Used the factory bolt handle and spring.
With a Harris bipod and a Caldwell rear bag shot at 25 yards. This is my front yard limit and being in a wheelchair, I don’t get to the range as often as I used to.
The two yellow targets are the first two (and only ones so far) shot with the rifle. The single 5 shot group was the first group shot with the rifle. I know one group means nothing but it just happened to be the best group I think I have shot with a 22. Measured .048 in TargetMaster. It is solely here as a bragging item not a reflection of the Rat Rod’s potential.
Anyway, the first two targets showed it can shoot 20 ten rings in a row with 7 or 8 Xs. All shots were with SK plus at $6 a box delivered. Pretty good for all Ruger parts.
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A 10/22 made from parts lying around from other builds. All Ruger except a couple 20 year old Butler Creek plastic lipped mags (not a single ftf), a bolt buffer and a $160 aftermarket barrel.
Like RawHP in his great post of Ruger mods, I redid a 1978 trigger. Filed, polished, changed and then progressively clipped reset spring. All Ruger parts. Bolt. Head spaced, polished, chamfered back and the handle slot, polished everything inside. No new parts. I used an old Sears belt/disk sander for some of it. Fixed the auto-release piece with the Dremmel.
The old Ruger Target rifle stock had barrel pressure. Used a broom handle and sandpaper to make it free floating. No bedding of the old stock (yet).
Polished insides of the 1970s receiver. Used the factory bolt handle and spring.
With a Harris bipod and a Caldwell rear bag shot at 25 yards. This is my front yard limit and being in a wheelchair, I don’t get to the range as often as I used to.
The two yellow targets are the first two (and only ones so far) shot with the rifle. The single 5 shot group was the first group shot with the rifle. I know one group means nothing but it just happened to be the best group I think I have shot with a 22. Measured .048 in TargetMaster. It is solely here as a bragging item not a reflection of the Rat Rod’s potential.
Anyway, the first two targets showed it can shoot 20 ten rings in a row with 7 or 8 Xs. All shots were with SK plus at $6 a box delivered. Pretty good for all Ruger parts.
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