200Y with the 10/22 this morning

[Kiba]

Decided to take my converted from silhouette to long range 10/22 out this morning and shoot at 200 yards.

I was shooting prone off a Harris S-BRM bipod and using a Triad mini-wedge rear bag. Ammo was Wolf Match Target.

Winds were variable between 3-9mph or so coming from the left. I was doing great for 9 of 10 shots... unfortunately for one shot the wind decided to calm right as I squeezed the trigger and didn't hit where I planned to. Even with the one "bad" shot I felt this is still a pretty darn good group for a 10/22 at 200 yards. Including my error the group is about 2.35".

A year ago I would never have thought results like this were achievable with a .22 at this distance. Frequent shooting of both my air rifle and rimfires at longer distances has not only provided a lot of fun, practice, and experience but has proven my own expectations wrong!

Now I'm debating if I want to install a pillar and bed the receiver tang and first 2" of the barrel to try to squeeze a little more accuracy out of the rifle. As of now it's an out of the box unbedded Tacticool with a VQ hex head takedown screw torqued at 21 in/lb.

 

[Radar 1]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

With it shooting like that, I think I'd leave it alone-great job!

 

[Dylan in AZ]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

If it is consistently shooting like that then I would also leave it alone

JMHO

Good Shootin'

 

[JoeMartin]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Good shooting, and I agree - leave it alone.

 

[Situation Normal]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Great shooting Kiba.

Before tinkering with pillars and bedding, I'd do some more ammo testing. You never know, you just might find an ammo that likes it the way it is.

 

[Aquatic_Robotic]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Great job. That is a nice group at 200.

 

[longguntoter]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Thats impressive with a semi auto, even for the heavy barreled 10/22. Nice shooting. Nice looking rig too. Is the ammo standard or high velocity?

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Don't fix what ain't broke. If you bring that thing to Conover NC you would put fear in a couple Anschutz rifles and a CZ or two as well.

 

[Kiba]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MPB</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thats impressive with a semi auto, even for the heavy barreled 10/22. Nice shooting. Nice looking rig too. Is the ammo standard or high velocity? </div></div>

I'm using Wolf Match target, it's subsonic. I'd have to look at the saved spreadsheets from my CED2 but I think it chronographed right about 1060 fps.

The only two kinds of ammo I've ever tried in the rifle is older FGMM and when that case ran out I switched to Wolf MT. I haven't experimented with any other kinds of ammo. Since converting the rifle to the current configuration and shooting it at 100Y+ I've only shot Wolf MT through it-- I have 2 cases of it on hand. It shoots very well overall, my only gripe is maybe 2-3 of every 50 rounds will be a flier in the vertical direction (typically about 1.5" low at 200Y) but for $4.25/box I can live with an occasional flier.

There isn't much Ruger on the rifle... the receiver is a Force Productions (without the optional rear tang), the barrel is an an 18" Volquartsen that's now about 17" after being chopped, threaded to the receiver, and rechambered. The guide rod, spring, and charging handle are Kidd, extractor is a Volquartsen. The trigger (aluminum housing) and bolt are both Ruger that have been worked over by Randy at CPC.

The rifle shot great at 50-75-100Y with the V-block but I wasn't happy with the groups at 150Y and 200Y so I sent the receiver and barrel back to Randy for threading a few months ago. After the threading I didn't notice a difference in group sizes at 50-75Y, a slight reduction in groups at 100Y, and a noticeable reduction in group sizes at 150Y & 200Y. Threading the barrel/receiver shrunk the 200Y groups by about an inch on average.

For the amount of money I have in the rifle I could have purchased an Anschutz or similar but I kind of got carried away with it. I don't have a .22 bolt gun so that's next on my "to buy" list. I'm considering a CZ, Anschutz, Sako Quad, or Izhmash biathlon. That will be later this year or next year as I have a few SWFA 5-20HD scopes to pay off (I got carried away with the group buy and decided it was time for scope upgrades for several rifles plus 2 spares for use on future rifles...)

With the Boyd's stock being laminated wood I'm going to keep a close eye on the group sizes vs. changing weather & humidity. If the POI moves around or the groups grow when winter rolls around I'll probably pillar bed it.

 

[tacdrver]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

just wondering how well u can see the anti canting level with it mounted that way..

 

[Kiba]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: tac243</div><div class="ubbcode-body">just wondering how well u can see the anti canting level with it mounted that way.. </div></div>

I shoot both eyes open and the bubble level appears to "float" within my FOV as I'm looking through the scope. Sometimes I have to slightly shift my focus for a moment to see the level but it's very easy and quick to do.

 

[steve123]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Good shooting Kiba! Nothing wrong with that group at all even with the wind getting you on one.

 

[knockemdown]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

great shooting, dude!

 

[SmallBoreSnipers]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: armorpl8chikn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Don't fix what ain't broke. </div></div>

Took the words right out of my mouth. Nicely done.

 

[wdhigh]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Wish mine did that!

 

[Lafayette]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

Looks good, thanks for sharing.

 

[taseal]

Re: 200Y with the 10/22 this morning

lies! that's a .223