10-22 Hogue stock

[WWDHD?]

I put a hogue stock on my Ruger 10-22 a while back. does it matter that theres no barrel suport band like there was on the original stock? The gun seems to shot fine but I've always wondered why its not there on the Hogue and if it makes any difference at all.

[CoyoteHunter555]

Free float!

[X-NewYawker]

That's the way it should be -- the barrel band on the 1022 was there to make the rifle LOOK like an M-1 carbine to attract vets returning from Korea. Really. That's why the Mini-14 looks like the M-14 and the Ruger 22 pistol looks like a Luger.

[CoyoteHunter555]

That's the way it should be -- the barrel band on the 1022 was there to make the rifle LOOK like an M-1 carbine to attract vets returning from Korea. Really. That's why the Mini-14 looks like the M-14 and the Ruger 22 pistol looks like a Luger.

Yep. Let it float!

[WWDHD?]

OK, cool. It just looks like the barrel would flex upward from the stock just held in by the screw under the receiver.
Like I said before, the gun shots good, just always wondered about that.

Thanks!

[Gem1950]

Luger Look-A-Like ?

That's the way it should be -- the barrel band on the 1022 was there to make the rifle LOOK like an M-1 carbine to attract vets returning from Korea. Really. That's why the Mini-14 looks like the M-14 and the Ruger 22 pistol looks like a Luger.

In his book, The Ruger .22 Automatic Pistol, Duncan Long does not support this theory. Many believe that it most resembles the Nambu in form and function. It does sort of look like a Luger though.

The 10/22 was first produced in 1964 but it is speculated that Ruger's .44 carbine design was influenced by the M1 carbine which preceded the 10/22.

The Mini-14 was, like the M-14, patterned after the Garand mechanism.