Today, he talks about a Ruger rifle in 7.62X39. American shooters haven't learned to love this round yet because it is the primary caliber of our historical adversaries, but it's a wonderful little round. Those folks I know personally that use it in the deer woods tell me that it's a devastating little cartridge that whacks deer as well as the old standby .30-30.
If you scroll down a little bit, you'll learn about a new edition of the Ruger 10/22, the Boy Scout edition.
It's basically your standard Ruger with a special stock. I bet they sell a bunch of them as presentation firearms to the Boy Scouts.
It looks like a fun little rifle.
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10/22s are wonderful rifles; I've had one for 25 years now, the first firearm I bought for myself. From early blasting fun in the desert with 50 round Ramline magazines (that worked very well, surprisingly) to popping marshmallows floating in a pond at ~50 yards... just a wonderful little rifle.
I have been pining for a custom jobs I've seen that emulates an M1 Garand, stock, etc for cheaper practice to help with shooting my favorite big rifle
Nice, and I know just the boy that needs one :-) thanks!
I fell in love with the Mini-30 before I bought one. I paid $500 for a blued one in decent shape, with the upgrade laminated wood stock ("tactical grey wood-grain"), and I equipped it with a variable gas block so as to be able to recover my brass (the rifle chucks brass about 30 yards unless you dial down the gas operation).
Then, I found out a few things. It's real easy to "limp shoulder" this rifle, and it will misfire every time you do, and sometimes double (happens when using a bench, only). Several aftermarket magazines are made, but only the Ruger mags work well, and they are spendy.
Being a junior version of an M1A action (yep, it's a Garand design), with much smaller bolt and other action parts, it's VERY fiddly to field-strip and clean. The action requires an absolutely perfect fit of the stock, or the rifle will move in the action and disengage the trigger group lock, causing it to fall out in your hand! My aftermarket stock doesn't fit that well, so I have this issue every time I fire the rifle.
The hammer spring is not strong enough to reliably detonate CommBloc primers, so there are a few duds with those.
Accuracy suffers with .311 CommBloc ammo, and the .308 barrel MUCH prefers US hunting ammo. This takes the cost of plinking with the rifle out of the equation unless I find and reload the hulls, see above.
Yep, I have a Mini-30, which I thought would be the ideal urban defense rifle, but it's just a "safe queen" now. If I had more chops as a smith, or wanted to dump another 2-300 bucks into the rifle, I could get it spiffed up to reliable, but then I'd have over a grand in the weapon, and that's not right.
The Ruger Deerfield though, is one HELL of a fine carbine, and I drool over those like I used to drool over the Mini.
A few years back I had some "extra" money so I looked at a mini 30. At the time I also had an 03 FFL so instead of paying nearly a grand for a Ruger I paid $49.95 for a "shooter grade" Yugo SKS. After removing the silly grenade launcher, reconfiguring the front sight and shortening the barrel to get rid of the threads, I now have, in effect, a semi auto ten shot .30-30 which reliably fires ANY 7.62x39 ammo I've ever tried in it. It's also instantly switchable from semi auto to a straight pull bolt action. All at a saving of over $850.
Cheap Ol'
Gerry N.
Gerry, I followed your advice about a year ago, and now have a couple of them. I am putting a rear peep sight on one and a scope set-up on the other.
So far, I'm keeping the attached bayonets, but I may demount one of those, probably on the peep-sighted one (destined to be a truck gun), and maybe eventually on both, if I like my "bubba" work.
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