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I am between the m&p 15-22 or converting my ruger 10/22 with the archangel stock. Any opinions?
I currently own 2 ruger 10/22. My wife hasn't used hers in 6 years. My current thinking is for my daughter. She is 8 and im looking for a plinker we can both use. She is 100% attentive to the safety aspect but gets very frustrated truing to use iron sights or a scope. My thoughts is a plinker that i can collapse the stock to fit her better and put a red dot on it so she can gain some confidence using it. Of course i will be using it as well but i am less pickyWhat is the use case?
I have 8 ak's but 10 sounds like a nicer number.I'd buy an AK
If one of the options is you get to buy a new gun, that would be my choice
Or you could go for the GSG 22, this gun is so much fun to shoot View attachment 410477
depending on the age and size of your daughterI currently own 2 ruger 10/22. My wife hasn't used hers in 6 years. My current thinking is for my daughter. She is 8 and im looking for a plinker we can both use. She is 100% attentive to the safety aspect but gets very frustrated truing to use iron sights or a scope. My thoughts is a plinker that i can collapse the stock to fit her better and put a red dot on it so she can gain some confidence using it. Of course i will be using it as well but i am less picky
Ruger 10/22 is excellent. Last May, I gave one to my daughter for her 8th birthday. Bought it in Alabama while visiting family. The Alabama gunsmith fitted it with a stainless fluted heavy barrel and a fixed 4X Leupold scope. Tack driving accuracy. She is very happy with it.I am between the m&p 15-22 or converting my ruger 10/22 with the archangel stock. Any opinions?
I know I'm against the grain, but I prefer a good bolt action 22 over the 10/22.
Said no one... ever. Just kidding, I mean not really, but whatever floats your boat. I bet you prefer a manual tranny to an automatic too.
that is how i`ve learned to shoot, with my granddad teaching me at 7 yr old age - that really is a best approach, one shot at a time.I know I'm against the grain, but I prefer a good bolt action 22
Well, in our home, it was a compromise. Little Jill wanted a 10/22 for her first rifle, but I did not want to hand a bullet hose to a 6 year old. We got her a Savage heavy-barreled bolt action instead. She honed her marksmanship skills over the course of two years, with the promise of a 10/22 as a reward for her hard work on the range and in school. She got the 10/22, custom fitted with a heavy stainless barrel, for her 8th birthday. She passed down the Savage bolt action rifle to her younger sister, 6 year old Lexi.I know I'm against the grain, but I prefer a good bolt action 22 over the 10/22. I got my son a CZ 455 Scout when he was about that age. He still shoots it, even though it's too small for him.
And then I switched him to a dedicated 22 SBR.
This Christmas he's getting a CZ 457 Varmint in an XLR chassis.
If I had it all to do over, I would have gone with a full length barreled CZ/Tikka and put it in a chassis to adjust the LOP. That way he could have just kept the same rifle from youth to precision rimfire
(I think you've illuminated a blind spot of mine.10/22 because they accept larger magazines than the M&P, and while pricey, there are pre-bans if you look...
For Day One of a yout's intro to gunz, that's reputed to be the way to go.I know I'm against the grain, but I prefer a good bolt action 22 over the 10/22.