I bought a new Ruger 10/22 Collector's Series 2nd Edition from Bruce at Hunter's Essentials. It was the first time dealing with Bruce and I have to say he was great to deal with.
The rifle I bought is this one http://www.ruger.com/products/1022Ca...ets/21125.html
It comes with Mini 14 style peep sights with a nice rail, sling studs preinstalled and a Ruger modular stock which uses the same pieces to adjust length of pull and cheek height as the Ruger American series. In the box there is also a nice steel Ruger sign for the wall, a $25 gift certificate for shopruger.com, a 20% off coupon for shopruger.com and a reprint of an old Ruger 10/22 ad.
I bought this rifle for my nephew to use for Appleseed in September. It is his 12th birthday in July and he has been dying to go shooting with me and he loves history. Since he lives in CT and their laws are worse than NY's with buying a rifle, I figured I would give him everything he needs for Appleseed and shooting for his birthday and take him to Appleseed. A thread about the gift is here https://www.longislandgunclub.com/fo...ew-s-12th-bday. I will hold on to the rifle and he can use it when he comes here.
I wanted to do some mods to the rifle that I like doing to all the 10/22s I have had. I will start with 2 of the most basic and add to this thread/post with new info as I make the mods before the shoot in September.
But first here are some photos of the rifle and nice Ruger 10/22 case which I also got from Bruce.
The bolt has Collectors Series engraved on the side
The first two mods are to modify the bolt release to make it an automatic bolt release and to swap out the stock extractor with a Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor.
Bolt Release Mod
The bolt release mod is an easy mod that anyone can do at home with just a simple small file or a Dremel.
Take out the bolt release from the trigger group. See youtube for videos.
It will look like this
What you need to do is file the point off the middle of the heart shape until it looks like this
Notice that it is not filed into a straight line, it is slightly bowed out. It can then be put back in the trigger group and the rifle reassembled and tested. Rather than having to mess with the bolt release to get it to release, just pull the bolt back and let it go and the bolt should release now.
I did this at my desk using these two cheap needle files from Harbor Freight (This is the set they are from http://www.harborfreight.com/12-piec...-set-4614.html)
Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor
Take the bolt out of the gun, there are plenty of vids on Youtube.
Pull back on the extractor plunger with a small hook or screwdriver. The extractor should fall out when there is no spring pressure on it. You can then remove the spring and plunger from the bolt. Swap the stock spring with the VQ one onto the plunger and place them back in the bolt. Then using the new VQ extractor push the plunger in and push the extractor against the bolt. It should snap into place.
This is a picture comparing the original spring and extractor on the left to the VQ on the right with the plunger in the middle.
These are the tools I used for all of this besides the files in the Bolt Release details.
The rifle I bought is this one http://www.ruger.com/products/1022Ca...ets/21125.html
It comes with Mini 14 style peep sights with a nice rail, sling studs preinstalled and a Ruger modular stock which uses the same pieces to adjust length of pull and cheek height as the Ruger American series. In the box there is also a nice steel Ruger sign for the wall, a $25 gift certificate for shopruger.com, a 20% off coupon for shopruger.com and a reprint of an old Ruger 10/22 ad.
I bought this rifle for my nephew to use for Appleseed in September. It is his 12th birthday in July and he has been dying to go shooting with me and he loves history. Since he lives in CT and their laws are worse than NY's with buying a rifle, I figured I would give him everything he needs for Appleseed and shooting for his birthday and take him to Appleseed. A thread about the gift is here https://www.longislandgunclub.com/fo...ew-s-12th-bday. I will hold on to the rifle and he can use it when he comes here.
I wanted to do some mods to the rifle that I like doing to all the 10/22s I have had. I will start with 2 of the most basic and add to this thread/post with new info as I make the mods before the shoot in September.
But first here are some photos of the rifle and nice Ruger 10/22 case which I also got from Bruce.
The bolt has Collectors Series engraved on the side
The first two mods are to modify the bolt release to make it an automatic bolt release and to swap out the stock extractor with a Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor.
Bolt Release Mod
The bolt release mod is an easy mod that anyone can do at home with just a simple small file or a Dremel.
Take out the bolt release from the trigger group. See youtube for videos.
It will look like this
What you need to do is file the point off the middle of the heart shape until it looks like this
Notice that it is not filed into a straight line, it is slightly bowed out. It can then be put back in the trigger group and the rifle reassembled and tested. Rather than having to mess with the bolt release to get it to release, just pull the bolt back and let it go and the bolt should release now.
I did this at my desk using these two cheap needle files from Harbor Freight (This is the set they are from http://www.harborfreight.com/12-piec...-set-4614.html)
Volquartsen Exact Edge extractor
Take the bolt out of the gun, there are plenty of vids on Youtube.
Pull back on the extractor plunger with a small hook or screwdriver. The extractor should fall out when there is no spring pressure on it. You can then remove the spring and plunger from the bolt. Swap the stock spring with the VQ one onto the plunger and place them back in the bolt. Then using the new VQ extractor push the plunger in and push the extractor against the bolt. It should snap into place.
This is a picture comparing the original spring and extractor on the left to the VQ on the right with the plunger in the middle.
These are the tools I used for all of this besides the files in the Bolt Release details.
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