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Long Range 22LR

Teri Anne said:
The Ruger 10/22 is an accurate little rifle. It surprised me when a friend got tired of watching me plunking .45 moa groups at 100 with my Tikka T1x and decided to try his luck at it. He was a pistol instructor and not much of a rifle person to start out. He is also a bit frugal. He bought a bottom of the line Ruger 10/22 and mounted a cheap 3/9 on it and tried to match my groups at 100. I was surprised at how accurate the rifle was out of the box and with a, very cheap 1 inch tube on it and $3 a box ammo. We started playing with ammo to see what the rifle liked. In the end, SK Long Range Match was the winner with SK Auto Match coming in close behind. While he whined about the $5 per box price (at the time) the cheap setup was able to shoot 1 moa. He has since invested in a good 4 - 12 x 44 scope and his groups have shrunk to 0.9 moa. Don't sell the 10/22 or for that matter other inexpensive 22 rifles short. I would like to see what the target version is capable of doing.
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Stop over. I have the target version and another that has a green river barrel, BX trigger and Boyd's stock. Be glad to let you burn some ammo in them. You won't wear them out.
 
Critter Picker said:
Stop over. I have the target version and another that has a green river barrel, BX trigger and Boyd's stock. Be glad to let you burn some ammo in them. You won't wear them out.
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It's great he has a rile that shoots that well because it can be hit and miss. A close friend recently purchased a Ruger Precision rifle to use in local .22 PRS matches. He was having a tough time getting it to shoot under 2 inches at 50 yards so he brought it over to the shop. Must have been a Monday/Friday rifle. I put the bore scope down the barrel and it looked like they chambered it with a pocket knife. Crown wasn't any better. Rifling in front of the lead was "smeared" like it was cut with a dull tool/reamer. He recently sent it back to the factory to see if they will make it right. I have seen plenty of 10/22s that won't shoot and it's usually either due to a bad chamber or excessive headspace caused by an over cut bolt face.
 
I've got a Savage FVSR in a Boyd's AT1 stock that shoots circles around every RPR .22 I've ever seen.

I used JB Putty to add about 70 MOA to the factory pic-rail so we can get out to 300+ on the turret with SV ammunition. I use(d) it primarily for teaching the kids long range shooting techniques and terminology, on a 150 yard range. It's worn a lot of different scopes, but currently I've got an Arken 4-16 on it. That $189 rifle will wear out a 4" steel plate at 150-200 yards.
 
R. Cram said:
.22's are great when you get a hold of accurate ones, I used to shoot smallbore in the evenings and it was great fun and very challenging plus we used to have a lot of juniors shoot with us and it was fun to watch them progress and probably beat you if they practiced. One time I went for a practice before the league started and my buddy Dick wasn't there so I called him after the practice to see why he wasn't there and he told me he was tired of getting beat by little girls which was a good chance, lots of little girls were very good shots and the best shooters there were 2 ladies, also with a .22 no constant barrel cleaning, no reloading, barrels don't wear out very challenging, the 10 ring at the 50 ft target was the same
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🤣 I have been an instructor for most of my life, pistol, rifle and muzzle loader mostly. There was a time when I was also a shotgun instructor but gave it up because the difference between pressing a trigger and slapping a trigger played havoc with my pistol and rifle shooting. I teach anyone interested, but I have found that girls and women are much easier to teach. For the most part no bad habits to break and they listed to what you are telling them and apply it. Net result is that they shoot better than the boys. During my military days organized and taught several junior rifle clubs, both boys and girls. During local competitions the girls, using the exact same equipment and ammunition won more often than they boys. It's the same today, women usually are able to out shoot the men, again simply because they listed to what they are being told, have no bad habits to break and are more patient then men.
 
Teri Anne said:
🤣 I have been an instructor for most of my life, pistol, rifle and muzzle loader mostly. There was a time when I was also a shotgun instructor but gave it up because the difference between pressing a trigger and slapping a trigger played havoc with my pistol and rifle shooting. I teach anyone interested, but I have found that girls and women are much easier to teach. For the most part no bad habits to break and they listed to what you are telling them and apply it. Net result is that they shoot better than the boys. During my military days organized and taught several junior rifle clubs, both boys and girls. During local competitions the girls, using the exact same equipment and ammunition won more often than they boys. It's the same today, women usually are able to out shoot the men, again simply because they listed to what they are being told, have no bad habits to break and are more patient then men.
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Women also have a lower center of gravity. Best shooter I ever taught was a female. I was shooting over 100 rounds per day because I thought that I should be a better shot than her.
 
The juniors shot alongside us in the smallbore league and if I remember fight there were 2 girls and two young men who after about a year could easily outshoot me and they went to camp perry as a junior highpower team and did exceptionally well there including beating the marine corp team in the rattle battle or infantry trophy match, so talk about remorse getting beat by a little girl. I always took great delight in watching these young ladies shoot well. nothing about being female is a negative to good marksmanship, they absolutely can and do shoot just as well or better than young men. At a prone match which spanned over 3 days years ago in Wa. a young lady shot a perfect score, did not drop a single point over all 3 days. She probably did not weigh more than 115 lbs and shot a 308 palma rifle, iron sights and sling
 

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