Trainer rifle

[Blkdog41]

I'm new to precision rifle shooting (at any caliber or distance) and am looking to build/buy a .22LR training rifle. I've already got a bone-stock 10/22 with a cheap Wal-mart scope on top, but haven't done much shooting with it. I've been reading and talking to some friends and have also been looking into buying a Savage Mark II F or FV. Which has led me to a couple of questions:

1. Is a semi-auto rifle still appropriate/useful as a training rifle for my .308?
2. Can you get decent accuracy out of a 10/22 without spending a million dollars on it?
3. And, would it be a better buy to just get decent glass for the stock 10/22 and shoot that? Or get the Savage, then have to get glass for that as well?

Thoughts?

 

[Scarface26]

Spend your money on ammo. Be a shooter of guns and not a buyer of guns. Unless it's the one I have for sale in the PX, that is.

God bless America

 

[SubOptimal]

I love 22s, I have a whole pile of the things in my gun room. You can certainly do better than that 10/22. You can also modify the little Ruger with enough stuff to make a shooter out of it. It'll cost ya plenty though.
Look through the classified sections here and pick the poison your wallet will survive.
I would go for a bolt action rifle over a semi if you are training for accuracy. That said, beware, some of those things can cost well in excess of the price of a decent used car and match ammo for them approaches the cost of center fire stuff.
I'm in lust with bi-athalon rifles, I will not reveal how much money I have spent on the damn things, lest I be thought a fool. I don't even ski.

 

[Blkdog41]

Thanks for the inputs. Rest assured, I spend plenty of time shooting and am not trying to "buy" any sort of skill level. I'd just rather pay once/cry once than pay money to chase a rabbit trail that doesn't take me where I want to go. I'll throw some more rounds through the Ruger and see how it really shoots and what it's capable of, then decide if I want to get a bolt gun, or buff up the Ruger.

 

[Kadams1563]

CZ tacticool

Best bang for the buck .22 trainer IMO.


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