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The Ultimate Ruger 10/22 Manual And User's Guide

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This is the most complete treatise covering the 10/22 that I have been able to find. While the 10/22 is a fairly simple rifle, there are a great many modifications that may be made. This book covers most of the modifications in a general sense and a few in detail. Those looking for an 'advanced' users manual will be elated. Those looking for something akin to Jerry Kunhausen's gunsmithing series will be disappointed. Excellent: The notes on maintenance and general 'sprucing up' of the action, as well as disassembly work. Disappointing: The trigger job information will improve the trigger in terms of creep, but not really reduce its' incredibly heavy pull. (The author simply states that new (pre-jobbed) hammers may be had at great expense. Overall, worth having if you're a 10/22 buff, but ripe to be replaced if someone wants to try.

Mark White can clearly upgrade the 10/22 into an interesting firearm, but not likely applicable to most 10/22 owners. Some of this book might be useful, and most might be interesting, but it lacks basics and dwells on the esoteric.

White spends considerable space with barrel machining, which most of us cannot do, and suppressors, which, though interesting, are marginally legal, require federal registration, illegal in many states, and beyond the machining capabilities of most 10/22 owners.

Things we CAN do are generally ignored, especially installing new barrels and stocks, which are easily within the capabilities of most 10/22 owners and given only passing mention in this "Ultimate" guide book. There is NO mention of procedures for checking inletting on stocks, barrel floating, or determining allowable contact points between the receiver and barrel and stock, all critical to the 10/22 owner who might purchase a "100% drop-in" barrel and stock combination.

Actually, more than a bit. I was looking for an authoritative reference manual, but I got a summary of tweaks and idealogy about silencers as a great idea for pest control.

Reading this book was clearly influenced by my having read "The Gun Digest Book of .22 Rimfire" by James E. House. There is simply no comparison between the two books. Admittedly, the House book is more general in that it covers a wide range of rimfire firearms and does not go into great "tweak" detail. That focus was left to House's new book "Customized the Ruger 10/22" which I should be receiving from Amazon on August 25, 2006.

If House's book on customizing the 10/22 is anywhere near as complete and smartly written as his ".22 Rimfire" book turned out to be, then buying the "Ultimate Ruger 10/22 Manual and User's Guide" will be less valuable than it turned out to be.

This book is incredible. I have gone through a gunsmithing program and can assure this book contains well written information. It even contains tips on how to make a good Class III Ruger 10/22

Although there was quite a bit of technical detail in the book, only about 10% of it would ever apply to a normal, everyday 10/22 shooter. This is not a book for a person who just bought a 10/22 and wants to get the most out of it right out of the box; it's more geared towards an advanced user that might have several and a lot of gunsmithing equipment and know-how. The author spends inordinate amounts of time discussing the various barrel metals, drilling cleaning holes in receivers, firelapping, and on silencers, which most of us could never afford the fee for anyway. The book's tone is also slightly condescending, I thought, towards anyone who doesn't think exactly as he does. I'm not trying to say this was a bad book, just that it's not worth $10.00 for a new owner or everyday shooter.

This manual and users guide was useful.Some of the mods will be beyond the kitchen table gunsmiths relm,such as threading the receiver for a threaded barrel.But most of the information is within the weekend gunsmiths ability.Most of the mods make using the Ruger 10/22 easier to use.I think this book is more for the person that is looking for a more compact and quiet varmit control firearm.

totally not the information I was seeking. I wanted an easy reference for building a target weapon. this is more into heavy gunsmithing and silencers?

I am so sorry there must be a redeeming value to this Magazine size booklet. There are no pictures worth seeing PERIOD! The Manual from Ruger in PDF online for free is much Much Better. You would think that for someone who is supposed to be building silencers for the Ruger 10/22 he might show a photo of the parts of a can. Nope not one. So I called BATF No License to do this type of work is listed. hmmmmmm For a society that lives on the piece if paper such as a license is that you could find out info on said practice for the repair of firearms or the construction of silencers. NADA nope not even. Makes ya think the story is not of the whole cloth. dray

Just began modifying the Ruger 10/22. I found this book extremely helpful. I was able to successfully improve my 10/22 by simply following the suggestions in this book. It is now a permanent part of my Ruger 10/22 library.

lots of info and mods for the 10/22. Great manual if you are mechcanically inclined hands on type of shooter.