I bought Mark White’s book The Ultimate Ruger 10-22 years ago. That book took me down a avenue of benchwork ever since. During the pandemic l was seaching for a rifle, scored a new one out the door for $235…Sweet!
Out of the box l emidiately noticed a issue with the safety. I failed to see it before l left the FFL.
The safety detent was installed upside down!
No biggie for me because I’m taking it down to do a trigger job anyways but for a customer that wouldn’t have a clue…bummer, they would have to ship it to correct the mistake.
Radius turned and polished the bolt, hammer and hammer strut stoned/polished. Wolff spring kit will go with.
Furniture is a Talo race rifle thumb hole. Nice break just under 4#. 16" blued .920 bull barrel (ported). Nice little plinkster!
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That’s nice!
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Thank you!
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Thank you for posting the pics…I used to have one with a black synthetic stock and I loved it.
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Next was a Charger upgrade…
I follow the directions on the label, Brownell’s rattle can. Hang dry then it goes in a small convection oven @ 190 for 3-4 hours
I didn’t take a pic of the Charger items curing but found one of some AR furniture.
Built to run subsonic faithfully with Kidd charging handle and choice of springs
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hubba hubba! 
That’s a varmint eliminator!
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Very nice. Love the 10/22. That was the first gun I ever bought. Its currently sitting in a Houge overmolded rubber stock with a bull barrel and a 3-9x44 scope. Never touched the trigger but I want to do some sort of upgrade.
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The last build was a Binary.
It was not a drop in and run it for me, did not like the standard bolt and CH. Another Kidd CH and JWH bolt.
Running at least 1,400 fps ammo and no hiccups!
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Nice. I may or may not have a Binary. If I did its just sitting here doing nothing so far 
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I really liked the 2nd one that you did the grey charger style.
I’ve had a few 10/22’s in the past. i wish i had kept one that was just a standard wood stock but i sold that one, when i completed my bullpup 10/22 setup. now i only have it.
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I seen your bullpup on another post! I still have that standard 1979 wood stock 10-22. I love Bill Ruger’s history period. Mark l, Mark ll ,22/45 pistols, wheel guns, shot guns and my beloved 25.06 mdl 77 bolt action just to name a few. My first love has got to be the 10-22. Nothing but smiles to watch my children and their children shoot them! The memories will carry for a lifetime. Thank you!
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the 10/22 is just perhaps the best 22 rifle ever built. and the marlin model 60 is a close second. i own both, and the marlin was my first rifle i ever owned… that said, i’d of preferred it to have been the ruger honestly. that should tell you alot about them right there. 
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I can relate with you about that micro groove Marlin 60!!! A semi complex trigger/fire control group and buffer to tinker with but worthy of some of the most memorable rimfire hunts l have had in my life!
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yeah i noticed my biggest complaint of the model 60 was the amount of wet i had to keep running with it. My model 60 at least loves to be ran soaking wet or it is a jammomatic with FTE’s sadly, where as every single Ruger 10/22 i’ve ever shot… just works.
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Hehehe…well said! Runs great clean but dirty, well we know. I always made sure before a squirrel or frog hunt mine was fresh. Some of my friends would run them nasty before our trek, heck you could see it! Then the jams or stove pipes followed. One unique friend of mine his 60 had no rear sight but he could bag squirrels and bust frogs better than l could.
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oh yeah theres no doubt that the micro grooving in the barrel really made those guns hella accurate. i’ve never ran it without a sight though… lol.
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I have had the buffer on the 60 to fail in the past. Yet have to replace a buffer in the 10-22 because, well they are steel But yet have to replace any of my runners with the “soft” ones.
I did this build about 12 yrs ago. 1" Carbon-lite bull barrel w/Kidd goodies.
My dad loved the weight and looks so much l built him one too.
Last Summer broke down and cleaned my (or maybe not my) Model 60. 1st time in 40 years and yes, it was nasty. It was never a “Jam-o-matic”. Mine must be a fluke, I have always ran it wet though. I haven’t shot it since cleaning and I’m kinda worried I may (or may not) have made a mistake cleaning it. That thing has always been dead nuts accurate.
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