toysoldier
Hunter
I have accumulated several 10/22 barrels from yard sales and auctions. All of them have front and rear sights. Does anyone make an inexpensive single-shot receiver to which one of these barrels could be attached?
recycling 10/22 barrels
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There is a reason they earned the nick-name "tent stake" about a decade ago. 
There are any number of them laying around after being replaced, and yet nobody has ever really found a good use for them... Randy at CPC will set them back and re-chamber with a tigher chamber, and that can do wonders for their accuracy potential, but most folks seem to prefer replacing them with a fatter profile.
I suspect producing a single shot receiver would cost as much or more as a 10/22 receiver, so that might be a factor
There are any number of them laying around after being replaced, and yet nobody has ever really found a good use for them... Randy at CPC will set them back and re-chamber with a tigher chamber, and that can do wonders for their accuracy potential, but most folks seem to prefer replacing them with a fatter profile.
I suspect producing a single shot receiver would cost as much or more as a 10/22 receiver, so that might be a factor
contender
Ruger Guru
I read an article a while back where a gun writer had one custom cut to make a LONG barrel Single-Six!
I think it was John Taffin.
I think it was John Taffin.
I'd say it would be difficult to get the barrel forged w/o having inclusions unless one used the "canister" method which adds several levels of difficulty in itself.
I sold 4 or 5 to a local (Portland area) guy that was turning them down and pressing them into aluminum sleeves to make "custom Lite-weight" barrels out of them. If I remember right he gave me 20 or 25 bucks each for them.
Busterswoodshop
Buckeye
Clamp them to a 2x4 for the next gun buy back..
Enigma
Hunter
A gunsmith that I know of used/uses them to make bedding pillars for bolt guns. That or a tomato stake is about the best use for them, IMHO.
contender said:
I saw that somewhere, too.
Just ridiculous enough, that I really liked it! :mrgreen:
Someone over on RFC made a wind chime out of a bunch of old 10/22 barrels, maybe 10-15 years ago.
IIRC, they trimmed them to different lengths, to get different tones.
I don't care for wind chimes, but if I were FORCED to have one... :mrgreen:
IIRC, they trimmed them to different lengths, to get different tones.
I don't care for wind chimes, but if I were FORCED to have one... :mrgreen:
It is too bad because those barrels will shoot as good or better than 90% of the users.
JStacy
Blackhawk
for several years I worked with a FFL doing gun shows in San Antonio and he bought up some standard 10/22's and we added a GM 18" fluted barrel, Boyd's Barracuda stock , Power custom trigger parts and a Weaver rail with multiple cross cuts. The guns shot well , I glass bedded the 1 1/2" or so inches where the barrel rested in the channel around the take down screw, and the people who bought them were happy with their guns. I was left with six factory barrels and decided to do a little test, turned out to be an all afternoon job, where I installed each barrel on my sporter stocked gun . Of the six barrels , I cleaned them thoroughly before I shot groups with them, a couple of the barrels shot groups at 50 yards , 1/2", that rivaled the GM barrels. At least two of the barrels shot pretty lousy 3-4" groups at 50 yards, all barrel were shot with CCI SV. Two of the barrels shot 1" or so groups . I guess they shot the perfect bell shaped curve distribution. I was surprised by the 1/2" barrels and the 3-4" barrels the 1" barrels were what I expected . I sold them at the gun show for 25.00 for the good shooters , 20.00 for the average and 10.00 for the poor shooters with full disclosure that barrels , 10.00 one, had not shot well for me. When you are retired you have time for stuff like that !!
contender said:
That's funny. I am contemplating a very similar project with a MK-II. (where's that crazy emoticon when you need it?)
SGW Gunsmith
Blackhawk
I've used quite a few 10/22 "take-off" barrels for customers who have Ruger Chargers. Cut those suckers off to various lengths for these guys and gals, even threaded a couple, and made one with "barrel fins" that looked like the Thompson machine gun barrel:
Had one customer where I got involved with his project of blowing the 11° crown myth to smithereens, as I cut the muzzle crown from 8° to 15° on a 12-inch long 10/22 take-off barrel for his Charger, and accuracy didn't change one iota through the whole range of 8 different angles. Go figure.
Had one customer where I got involved with his project of blowing the 11° crown myth to smithereens, as I cut the muzzle crown from 8° to 15° on a 12-inch long 10/22 take-off barrel for his Charger, and accuracy didn't change one iota through the whole range of 8 different angles. Go figure.
VERY interesting post, thanks for sharing it!JStacy said:
In my experience, both personal and reading the adventures of dozens of others a while back on Rimfire Central, a straight OOB 10/22 can be expected to group somewhere between 1 1/4" and 1 3/4" at 50 yards. A bit of tuning and some good ammo can get most of them under 1". If you're lucky, you can get to 3/4". If you're really lucky, you can get down to 1/2" or thereabouts, but you can't count on it and if that's what you're looking for, you're better off taking a different path of some sort.
JStacy
Blackhawk
a simple fix , if you want better accuracy IMHO, is to get a GM factory contour barrel. I have two and they shoot great and mounted on a sporter stock or finger groove make an excellent field gun.
Or you could do like General U. S. Grant and make a fence out of them.
I used to buy take off 10/22 bbls off of ebay cheap back in the day. I probably have at least half a dozen. I've since cut several of them down to use on charger type pistols or compact/youth rifles. Brownell's makes a BRN22 receiver for under $100.
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