So, over the last month or so I have been pondering getting back into rimfire shoots again. I have done a bunch over the years, the last ones being CMP and NY State Sporter Rifle when I was stuck in NY (you have no idea how happy I was to escape back to NH).
I have had a 10/22 for ages - got it sometime in the late 80's and I wouldn't be surprised if it has had 100k rounds through it. I use to go out and put a brick through it (using Eagle 30 round mags mostly - pre-ban, which I still have a pair of) every weekend with my buddies at sand pits and backyards all over southern Maine, weather be damned. It has seen blizzards, car trunks and truck racks, rough handling, more shooters than I can remember doing training and introduction (including my 2 college age daughters, which it predates). Over the years as various guns have come and gone the only 2 I have never let go of was this, which was my first personally owned gun bought with my own money (well, traded for some motorcycle work, but still, he got it new, put 50 through it and didn't like it - wtf?) and my Single Six convertible, which was my first handgun I bought (and has seen a hell of a lot of ammo as well - mostly .22 WMR) and has served as a "trainer gun" for a lot of folks as well.
I have enough trigger group and bolt parts to put two more sets together with all the stuff I have bought and changes I have made to it over the years.
It is like an extension of me on the range.
Anyway, I was very seriously considering buying another 10/22 target rifle just for rimfire matches. For a lot of reasons my daughter, who never really got into shooting (and now goes to an all-girls lefty-liberal school in the heart of Boston on a full-ride scholarship) wants to get back into shooting as well. We have had several range trips and one car shoot, and when I asked her if she was interested in doing an Appleseed shoot with me she looked into it and really liked the idea.
So, now the dilemma: I need 2x .22s I have one for the Pelham Appleseed shoot if we do it (leaning towards "yes").
I really *REALLY* like this new rimfire from them. I have plenty of BX series mags as well as the Eagle mags, and if this came in a target barrel I would be first in line. I learned shooting on an old Win single-shot bolt (no idea the model, but you had to pull the firing pin back with a knurled knob on the back before you could fire) and a Remington DCM .22 bolt gun. Dad still has that one, I am going to be bringing it back with me next trip out, but it has issues. I love the idea of actually moving kinda backwards to an iron sighted bolt gun that I can make fit me "just right" as my main paper-puncher, but I also love my 10/22 and know it is po$$ible to make it a great target rifle with the right re$ource$.
So now, I put to the collective wisdom of NES (so, yea, prolly pretty much screwed...)
Target setup with a 10/22 or grab a new, first gen Ruger American Rimfire for my next step as a rifleman at rimfire/target shoots?
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