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<blockquote data-quote="henschman" data-source="post: 1145256" data-attributes="member: 4235"><p>Not only CAN you do a lot of after market mods to a Ruger; you HAVE TO in order to make it as good of a rifle as a Marlin or a Remington, trigger-wise and accuracy-wise. </p><p></p><p>If all you want is a fun plinker, I'd say look elsewhere. I might have different advice if you said you were looking to build a custom tack-driving target rifle, but you're not.</p><p></p><p>I wish it weren't true... I like the feel of the Ruger the best out of all of the rimfires. It feels the most like my M1 and my M1A -- on the 10/22 I have equipped with tech sights, the sight picture is virtually identical.</p><p></p><p>My deal is that I bought two 10/22s when I first became involved with the Appleseed Project as an instructor, so I could use them as "Liberty Training Rifles," as we call them. 10/22s were really popular with Appleseed instructors because at first, it was the only kind of rifle you could find military-style adjustable aperture sights for (from Tech Sights)... the whole idea was that they would be a low-cost way for people to learn how to shoot, and would simulate a battle rifle. Lots of the other instructors had them, so I jumped on the bandwagon. I discovered they had horrible triggers and that their bolt hold-open feature was hard to figure out and frustrating for the students... but it was cheaper for me to just keep the rifles and buy new target sears and auto bolt releases for them rather than to sell them and buy different rifles, with mags and everything. </p><p></p><p>But if I had it all to do over again, I would have definitely started out with Marlins or Remingtons for my LTRs, especially now that Tech Sights makes sights for the Marlin that will also work on a Remington. </p><p></p><p>When you get yourself a .22, whatever it is, you should bring it to one of our Appleseed marksmanship clinics some weekend. $70 for two days of solid instruction and drilling in the fundamentals of marksmanship, plus some great Revolutionary War history. Its quite the bargain! <a href="http://www.appleseedinfo.org" target="_blank">www.appleseedinfo.org</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="henschman, post: 1145256, member: 4235"] Not only CAN you do a lot of after market mods to a Ruger; you HAVE TO in order to make it as good of a rifle as a Marlin or a Remington, trigger-wise and accuracy-wise. If all you want is a fun plinker, I'd say look elsewhere. I might have different advice if you said you were looking to build a custom tack-driving target rifle, but you're not. I wish it weren't true... I like the feel of the Ruger the best out of all of the rimfires. It feels the most like my M1 and my M1A -- on the 10/22 I have equipped with tech sights, the sight picture is virtually identical. My deal is that I bought two 10/22s when I first became involved with the Appleseed Project as an instructor, so I could use them as "Liberty Training Rifles," as we call them. 10/22s were really popular with Appleseed instructors because at first, it was the only kind of rifle you could find military-style adjustable aperture sights for (from Tech Sights)... the whole idea was that they would be a low-cost way for people to learn how to shoot, and would simulate a battle rifle. Lots of the other instructors had them, so I jumped on the bandwagon. I discovered they had horrible triggers and that their bolt hold-open feature was hard to figure out and frustrating for the students... but it was cheaper for me to just keep the rifles and buy new target sears and auto bolt releases for them rather than to sell them and buy different rifles, with mags and everything. But if I had it all to do over again, I would have definitely started out with Marlins or Remingtons for my LTRs, especially now that Tech Sights makes sights for the Marlin that will also work on a Remington. When you get yourself a .22, whatever it is, you should bring it to one of our Appleseed marksmanship clinics some weekend. $70 for two days of solid instruction and drilling in the fundamentals of marksmanship, plus some great Revolutionary War history. Its quite the bargain! [url]www.appleseedinfo.org[/url] [/QUOTE]
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