Appleseed 10/22

[Toyman321]

I've got a 10/22 with a heavy barrel, the barrel is rather long and makes the rifle front heavy, which isn't a problem bipod shooting, but would the front heaviness (is that a word??) this be a problem for Appleseed? I've been thinking about picking up a 2nd 10/22 for an LTR build, but if I could just use the adapter and swap out sites that would be great.

[Eljay]

Barrel band: Depends on the rifle. Barrel harmonics are kind of strange and having an artificial point like that sort of pinching things doesn't help any. Judging from testing on some of the rimfire groups a majority of the people see an improvement without it, and only a few people see it get worse. I'd do a test before blindly removing it, but yeah, it's probably a cheap way to pick up some slight improvement.

heavy barrel: I'd just as soon not have the extra weight but other than wearing you out a little faster it's no problem. Pick it up, go into a standing position, and ask yourself how do you feel about doing 10 shots, one per breath, 2 minute time limit (which is enough time to lower and come back up every couple of shots just so your muscles don't get shaky.) Lighter's nicer but you won't get any sympathy from the guy shooting a Garand if you know what I mean.

[gratefuldog]

(putting on my flame suit...)
The best 10/22 you can buy is a Marlin 795! (@ 1/2 the price)

[Flyingpootang]

(putting on my flame suit...)
The best 10/22 you can buy is a Marlin 795! (@ 1/2 the price)

My 10/22 is an excellent shooter, yeah I put a lot of work into mine, but to get a stock one to shoot just as well can be done for under 50.00. I don't own a Marlin, but from all that I read about them I would definitely look into it.

[Josh Smith]

Hello,

The one I used was set up like this:

1. Tech-Sights.

2. Smoothed barrel bed, band in place, thin piece of cork gasket material under barrel at the point where the barrel band sat. This established one known pressure point, which I believe to be best for sporter barrels, as opposed to heavy barrels.

3. M1 Carbine sling.

Expect to hit the bolt with CLP after every 100 rounds or so. You won't get to do any more cleaning that that.

Ran through it with that setup real quick to make rifleman, then switched to the SKS (which promptly broke its hammer spring -- figures) and then my bolt action Savage.

Most times it's a "shoot what ya' brung" thing. On my 'scoped bolt action Savage .22, they would not let me use the bipod (I'm glad I have a sling on it), and they would not let me try scoring rifleman with my 1911, though there was some small debate about it among the range officers.

Oh -- on the Tech-Sight rear, I did drill out the 0-2 peep to a ghost ring. Faster target acquisition that way, and practical accuracy is not really affected at 25 yards.

Josh