My takedown has to go back

[stephen99]

Just picked it up this morning from my local FFL guy. Didn't look real close at it until this afternoon. Noticed the rear sight is not square to the barrel. Looks like the slot was miscut. Bummed out. Called Ruger and they will email a UPS label for me to return it.

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[NixieTube]

You were going to post a picture, the [/img] tag is still there. Glad Ruger is sending you a label for it.

I wouldn't worry about it, overall Ruger CS is great and you'll love the gun when you get it back. Don't be too bummed. The 10/22 TD is a very good rifle in a great package and you'll be pleased with it. It's hard to get a new rifle and have to send it back for repairs but you won't be disappointed in the end. Have faith!

Take a before and after picture for us.

 

[stephen99]

Yep, started to post a photo but quickly realized I would first have to upload it to a website so it would have an address and said the heck with it.

The folks at Ruger were very helpful and easy to deal with. I will ship it off tomorrow and hope for the best.

 

[DWood]

Yep, started to post a photo but quickly realized I would first have to upload it to a website so it would have an address and said the heck with it.

The folks at Ruger were very helpful and easy to deal with. I will ship it off tomorrow and hope for the best.

If you e-mail it to me I will post it for you. This would be a good photo for all to see.

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[DWood]

Here is the photo of the sight:

 

[Danjet500]

Was just at my LGS. He has a takedown in the rifle rack and the sight is the same as the photo above. I pointed it out to the owner and he is going to return it to Ruger.

 

[djw54]

It appears that the sight is mounted perpendicular to one side of the tapered portion of the barrel, rather than the centerline. Whoops.

 

[stephen99]

It appears that the sight is mounted perpendicular to one side of the tapered portion of the barrel, rather than the centerline. Whoops.

I believe you are correct. I called Ruger Tuesday to find out the status and they said it was due to be looked at the same day so maybe I will have it back by next week. Sure hope so. Only had it in my hands for about 24 hours before sending it off to Ruger.

 

[JFB]

Just HOPE Ruger makes the same observation as djw54

 

[cccan]

mine is the same..not sure if I will bother sending it back ..I'll never shoot it without a scope.

 

[stephen99]

My takedown came back from Ruger today, two weeks to the day after I shipped it back. Looks like they gave me a new barrel with a properly cut rear sight groove. Happy again.

 

[wingman]

I just picked up my 10/22-TD from my FFL on Saturday and it has none of the problems talked about here. It looks perfect to me. I think these problems are few and far between. But of course if you have any of them thats little comfort.

 

[gawgt]

My new 10/22 TD (purchased on May 5th) had the exact same rear sight problem as noted in this thread. I too shipped the TD back to Ruger, and I'm waiting for its return. I'm happy that they fixed the issue properly for the original poster.

After I noticed this issue on my rifle, I went to a local shop which had six 10/22 TD's in stock, and each had the same rear sight alignment issue as mine. I looked at other new 10/22 models (not TD) on the store shelves, and all the rear sights looked properly aligned with the barrel.

I also went to a local Cabela's this past weekend, where the TD is currently on sale, and grabbed a TD off their shelf and looked at the rear sight. That rear sight is also aligned a bit off, though maybe not as bad as mine nor the other six that I previously looked at.

So my conclusion is that the issue has been prevalent on the initial batch of new TDs shipped, and if people are not as picky as I am with a 300 buck purchase or are planning to never use the iron sights in favor of mounting a scope, then we are not going to hear about the problem on this forum nor on other Ruger-related forums (which I've been monitoring for mention about this issue). Ruger has received at least 2 TDs returned for service for this rear sight issue so far.

 

[hutchman]

Welcome to the forum.......I hope you will report what a great little shooter these things are when it is returned from Ruger.

 

[gawgt]

I will report back when the TD returns from Ruger. I just noticed on a couple other forums some similar comments about this issue.

I had hoped to use the 10/22 TD with iron sights to familiarize my son, who is a boy scout, how to shoot a 22 rimfire rifle with iron sights. He's planning on completing the small bore merit badge at summer camp this year. He has gotten too lazy using my scoped Remington 581, and he does not like to use the iron sights on my rimfire pistols cause he prefers scopes. But camp probably won't have scoped bolt action rimfire rifles to use.

I'm also bummed because a new 22/45 Lite that I bought the same day as the 10/22 TD has sight issues as well. I will probably just live with that; if I twist my grip a bit on it, then both sights will be vertical. And I only send off one new Ruger firearm at a time to Ruger CS.

 

[DWood]

Let me say up front that I agree this is bad QC and Ruger should replace every barrel with the dovetail cut croked like the OP's.

The fact is that the sight dovetail not cut perpindicular to the bore will have no affect on the shootability of the rifle as long as the dovetail is right at the top of the barrel and not off to either side.

The net affect is the sight notch will appear slightly narrower (the human eye probably can't detect it) from the shooter's position, but if the sight is in the right plane between the front sight and the shooter's eye, the bullet will go where you aim it. It's not like the bullet follows a line perpindicular to the sight, it follows the line of the bore. Line the front sight up in the rear notch, and the bullet will hit point of aim.

That said, I would send mine back too. I have to go check mine. I never really looked at it since I don't plan on using the irons.

 

[what would you say]

The same thought went through my thick skull as what DWood addressed with the rear site. I agree that as long as the rear sight opening is down the center of the barrel as the front sight should be, then should be just as accurate.. just the rear sight is slightly twisted, making the aperature opening appear smaller if detected at all.
I would also send it back to get fixed though.. If nothing else, nobody wants to buy a gun with something wrong with it. However, Ruger always makes it right. They have manufactured hundreds and hundreds of these guns in quick fashion. Almost every gun store and online store has plenty of them. It would be interesting to find out how Ruger QC's the rear sight machining and mounting and final result, and what differed from the other 10/22's that allowed it to slip past QC enough that its being seen by quite a few. I'm thinking about getting one and I will certainly look at the rear sight before plopping down the cash.