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Recently picked up a beat up old 10/22 made in 1973. As far as I could tell, it was all stock, with dings in the stock, nicks in the receiver and triggerguard, and patina all over the pre-warning barrel.
However, the bore looked good and it shot to point of aim with the factory iron sights and was 100% reliable thru a 325 brick of Federal Auto Match. But I already have a couple of old 10/22's that do that so I put a set of Tech Sights on the 1973 model. I already have a set of Tech Sights on a Marlin 795 and it works great. For the 10/22, I got the TSR100, which a "L" shaped flip sight like an M16A1. According to the instructions, if I zero the short range aperture at 50 yards and flip the sight to the long range aperture, it will be dead on at 100 yards.
So I mounted the sights and headed to the range to zero. While waiting for a line break to set up my paper, I shot my steel rimfire target, which was set at 50 yards as well. Got consistent hits immediately, which was promising. Set the paper up at the next line break and fired 10 rounds at 50 yards using the short range aperture. As luck would have it, the sights were dead on! The last 3-4 shots strung high and left because by then, I could no longer see the orange dot. All I saw thru the aperture was a black circle with a greenish-yellow blur in the middle! But the first six shoots look good to me and it was nice not having to make any sight adjustments.
Note: I did flip the sight to the 100 yard aperture but the only thing I had set up at 100 yards was a 66% IPSC steel, which was easy to hit and doesn't really confirm that the flip sight works as advertised but I don't really doubt it. I'm a big fan of Tech Sights on both the Marlin 795 and Ruger 10/22!
Note: The image got rotated and I cannot figure out how to fix it. From what you see, it should be turned 90 degrees clockwise. Sorry.
However, the bore looked good and it shot to point of aim with the factory iron sights and was 100% reliable thru a 325 brick of Federal Auto Match. But I already have a couple of old 10/22's that do that so I put a set of Tech Sights on the 1973 model. I already have a set of Tech Sights on a Marlin 795 and it works great. For the 10/22, I got the TSR100, which a "L" shaped flip sight like an M16A1. According to the instructions, if I zero the short range aperture at 50 yards and flip the sight to the long range aperture, it will be dead on at 100 yards.
So I mounted the sights and headed to the range to zero. While waiting for a line break to set up my paper, I shot my steel rimfire target, which was set at 50 yards as well. Got consistent hits immediately, which was promising. Set the paper up at the next line break and fired 10 rounds at 50 yards using the short range aperture. As luck would have it, the sights were dead on! The last 3-4 shots strung high and left because by then, I could no longer see the orange dot. All I saw thru the aperture was a black circle with a greenish-yellow blur in the middle! But the first six shoots look good to me and it was nice not having to make any sight adjustments.
Note: I did flip the sight to the 100 yard aperture but the only thing I had set up at 100 yards was a 66% IPSC steel, which was easy to hit and doesn't really confirm that the flip sight works as advertised but I don't really doubt it. I'm a big fan of Tech Sights on both the Marlin 795 and Ruger 10/22!
Note: The image got rotated and I cannot figure out how to fix it. From what you see, it should be turned 90 degrees clockwise. Sorry.
Bob B. 
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