Magnumite
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I have been shooting this factory wood stocked Ruger Takedown rifle. I like the wood and blue steel, watched this at Dick's until the sale proce was just right.
It showed promise as being acceptably accurate with a couple standing hand held one groups around an inch at 25 yards using the iron sights on an indoor range. Most groups were around 1.5 to 2.0 inches with a flier in each group. All shot with CCI MiniMags. It shoots other brands reliably and with okay accuracy.
Pics, without toes, of the rifle topped with a Bushnell Mini Red Dot. The sight is small to keep the 10/22 light and lively. Not the best precision shooting dot having a characteristic flare and 3 moa dot size. It still works well especially for fast practical work.
Inside the receiver is a Ruger BX-Trigger unit. Much lighter pull than stock, some lightly gritty creep and a crisp break...almost two stage-ish. Definitely lends well to shootability over the stock trigger. There was considerable looseness in the stock/receiver inletting. Torqing the stock screw only resulted in looseness after one or two mags throught the rifle.
The targets pictured were shot at 55 yards, off the bench without bags using CCI Mini Mags. This was with the BX trigger installed and using the dot sight. The stock had loosen up by the time I shot these groups. The group sizes were around 1.4 to 2.5" or slightly greater. The one target shows a low left flyer and around just peeking from the orange bull. The last pic of the conglomerate target shows a group of 5 for 5 shots about 4:30 out of the black reactive target. I didn't have my cell on me when I pasted the reactive centers so I set that center off the good group. The far right shot is from anothrr group not in the pic.
Since I shot these groups I did bed the receiver, remove the forend and knock off the production splintered, varnished debris. Retesting today. Overall I do like this rifle. It is not as accurate as my 795 Marlin, decently accurate, handy to pack up, and just may be a keeper.
It showed promise as being acceptably accurate with a couple standing hand held one groups around an inch at 25 yards using the iron sights on an indoor range. Most groups were around 1.5 to 2.0 inches with a flier in each group. All shot with CCI MiniMags. It shoots other brands reliably and with okay accuracy.
Pics, without toes, of the rifle topped with a Bushnell Mini Red Dot. The sight is small to keep the 10/22 light and lively. Not the best precision shooting dot having a characteristic flare and 3 moa dot size. It still works well especially for fast practical work.
Inside the receiver is a Ruger BX-Trigger unit. Much lighter pull than stock, some lightly gritty creep and a crisp break...almost two stage-ish. Definitely lends well to shootability over the stock trigger. There was considerable looseness in the stock/receiver inletting. Torqing the stock screw only resulted in looseness after one or two mags throught the rifle.
The targets pictured were shot at 55 yards, off the bench without bags using CCI Mini Mags. This was with the BX trigger installed and using the dot sight. The stock had loosen up by the time I shot these groups. The group sizes were around 1.4 to 2.5" or slightly greater. The one target shows a low left flyer and around just peeking from the orange bull. The last pic of the conglomerate target shows a group of 5 for 5 shots about 4:30 out of the black reactive target. I didn't have my cell on me when I pasted the reactive centers so I set that center off the good group. The far right shot is from anothrr group not in the pic.
Since I shot these groups I did bed the receiver, remove the forend and knock off the production splintered, varnished debris. Retesting today. Overall I do like this rifle. It is not as accurate as my 795 Marlin, decently accurate, handy to pack up, and just may be a keeper.
That was the case with the 10/22 takedown. I didn't buy the first one I saw, but that definitely got the wheels turning and me price shopping. I probably was the first kid on my block to have one. 
but I like blue and wood. I haven't gotten around to making the stainless not silver (yet), but a year or so ago I decided I could do something about the stock. With some very careful (eyeball, mostly
) measuring I cut a stock stock in half and used a forstner bit and the cross slide vice in my drill press to "machine" out room for the takedownie parts. For a while, I was definitely the only kid on my block with a wood stocked takedown.
