Hope you noticed, saved, and reinstalled the
B-12 equivalent
(Firing Pin) Rebound Spring
that holds the firing pin back until/unless struck by the hammer.
The rebound spring isn't preloaded under tremendous pressure,
but it's easy to lose if you don't notice it and it falls out of the bolt assembly
after you've removed the firing pin.
I don't think its absence would result in
either light strikes
or chamber breech damage from dry firing, but...
...you should be sure it's still installed.
As a matter of fact so far our Ruger Mark pistol's rebound spring
is the only thing that's ever broken on any gun of ours.
I only discovered that during cleaning - the pistol ran fine
with a break of the last few coils. I think the nature of the break
meant that the firing pin was still retracting.
Can't swear a
missing spring wouldn't affect a 10/22 harder,
but you might not notice it at first.
I found a claim that
the rebound spring helps make the gun drop-safe.
I also suspect that
the rebound spring keeps the firing pin retracted
so that as the back of the case slides up the bolt face
during feeding, there is no chance that the side of the
cartridge rim hits a protruding firing pin.
Which could cause the gun to fire out of battery.
Which would be a bad thing.
You'd
notice that.
Don't lose a handful of
other parts on my account by re-stripping the gun
if you don't have positive memory of positioning the spring during reassembly.
But if your reaction to being reminded of that spring in the exploded parts diagram
is "the what what what-
what?"...
(Or if your reaction is, "oh
that's where that leftover spring goes..."
) .