KelsonAK

How long do 10/22 magazines last? Well... I have a set of 20 of them that have lasted 5 years - possibly longer - with a fairly heavy practice and match load. I do clean them about every 3 months or so, and have replaced a spring or two. I use the black 10 round magazines, as I was not happy with the reliability of the clear ones at the time. I tried the TK double mags when they first came out and they broke. Aside from the Bx25 magazines, almost all of my 10/22 failures that were repeatable, etc - were bolt related. Some of the ruger factory bolts just seem to be lemons that wind up ejecting forward causing stove pipes regardless the magazine, though I'm sure some folks are actually wearing out magazines....

yea - #5 is totally bogus though :)

The equipment isn't an issue.... It just needs to work. Light, heavy, standard, minimags, whatever... I haven't seen a huge difference in times based on the actual gun I'm shooting, or the ammo as long as it goes bang. RFPO requires that you really be solid in the pistol fundamentals to the extreme. Grip, trigger control, etc - all need to be subconscious. And pretty much perfect. I suspect it is the hardest division to get a GM out of... but just barely. I will likely spend most of my winter just working on those fundamentals. Again. Still. Seems silly, but for a fast game I seem to spend a lot of time working on accuracy.... Second piece for me is vision. This is where repetition and visualization can really help. Because we are dealing with big transitions we have to work the limitations of human vision. The whole 'see what you need to see' is incomplete here - it's not just see what you need to see but see HOW you need to see. Sometimes rapid eye movement, sometimes pursuit eye movement, sometimes wide view, sometimes narrower. Also - the little tips 'n tricks add up. Foot placement, order of engagement, and even your height all start to whittle .05 off things and eventually that matters. Lastly - I just became a 'Sr' - and core strength and flexibility matter. Do some yoga!

Nope. It’s called open.

I've been shooting these for a few months now. I shoot 9mm major gun and these have been more reliable than stock 17s with extensions. I have not tried different guts yet - the follower in these is quite substantial, so a different follower may give a few more rounds of capacity. Kinda cool that these work for me as I haven't been able to make the MBX magazines work yet.

I went with a SFx and run a RTS2. The plates that came in the box did not work with the RTS2 exactly - the forward edge of the dot was forward of the plate and interfered with the slide so a no go until I milled a shallow relief into the slide. I have been told this is not an issue with the Rival and S. And... since I got the gun(s) used (and very inexpensive...) it may be that I didn't get all the plates or the instruction manual (that I wouldn't have read anyway...) so take my experience with 2 grains of salt and a healthy dose of reading the fine manual.

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For me - yea, it can get too light on a rifle. I have a pair of 10/22s set up with Todd's barrels. One has an Axiom stock, which makes the thing silly light. One has a Magpul stock - which brings the balance point back towards my body a bit and also makes the whole thing a bit heavier. I've done something similar with my PCC - opted for a light front end with some weight in the rear (I like big buttstocks and I can not lie...) to move the balance point towards my body a bit. The extra weight overall helps me with keeping things stable, which I find especially noticeable on Outer Limits, but it comes into play for others as well. For pistols... I don't really know. Maybe I'm not good enough to tell. I find I shoot a heavier centerfire gun 'more better' - but that may simply be a crutch for not having as good a grip as I should or other technique things and perhaps I'm weak in. It doesn't alter my draw speed. For rimfire, I seem to shoot a steel bull barrel ruger as well as a VQ as well as a ruger lite. So I shoot the one that I like the paint job on...

Yea - one foot in the air and one in the box is in. That would have been a bad call. I mean, i've watched folks lift a foot on the second shot from the first box - that's also good to go as they are not out of the shooting area, therefore 'in.' I've also seen folks swear up and down that their foot was in the air when they lit one off on entry to the shooting area but.... yea no. What they thought they did and what they actually did were two different things... That's part of the whole risk/reward part of the game As an RO - this is where having multiple ROs watching is a good thing. One can watch the gun/shooter upper body, one can watch the feet and if you are flush with staff, one to watch the targets. It's dang hard to watch a fast shooter's gun, feet, finger, and targets when it's just you chasing with the timer - and you have to get to the ejection port side of things to get the shot to register reliably.

I have seen both squad and staff painted matches, and frankly - I prefer squad painted, both as a match director and as a competitor. FOR STEEL CHALLENGE! USPSA, 3gun... yea, I like the assistance in the reset once folks are up to speed on how to do it, when to do it, etc. Usually there is about a squad a day where the staff (boy scouts, etc) are learning to not tape early, etc. Squad painted tends to be a little faster, a little more engaging as a competitor, and a little more consistent in making sure edges are painted. Sure, it can make for a long ass day if you shoot morning and afternoon flights - and there are times when a squad has an over abundance of old farts, but even old farts paint, and it's a part of the game and part of the 'fun'.

Ok, but what to do about 170mm magazines....

I'm a BOLO fan.

I've seen quite a few of the 10mm Witnesses. There are a few of them pulling bear gun duty here in Alaska... I have not seen any cracked slides in the past 7-8 years, even with the bear loads.

Well - in regards to question 1: There were more than 10 folks that shot RFRO faster than peak time at WSSC, and if I am counting correctly 10 that shot it faster than peak in RFPO. There were 146 shooters in RFRO - so MORE than 5% shot faster than peak time. In RFPO there were almost 10% of competitors that shot it at or faster than peak time. I didn't do a stage by stage analysis, but in some divisions, the top is getting faster. Much faster. That doesn't mean the new peak time is going to or should drop into the 50s... It (changing the peak times) doesn't make the game any harder or easier. All it does is raise the bar for getting a particular classification. Yes - one would have to shoot faster if they were to make a GM - but that doesn't change the nature of the game. That isn't the point of the game either - to 'get a GM.' Normal humans(TM) shooting at an A or B classification in steel challenge (and USPSA for that matter) are still really quite good shooters. We should recognize that! It's easy to forget that or to become so fixated on classification that anything that makes it harder to do so becomes a slight or an unfairness. I'm gonna go to the WSSC - I'm gonna get my ass handed to me by Grant and Lance and Neil and others. Quite a few others... Having GM on my dance card isn't going to change that.... shooting faster/accurate(r?) would. Ultimately - I'm doin this for fun anyway...

For irons on a 10/22 platform I'm a fan of Wiland barrel and sights combos. I use a notch, and I have it 'close' to my eye giving a longer radius. Why? dunno. Cuz that's where I put it? I've tried it forward on the receiver and for me it made no difference. My preference is for a notch style or half peep/ghost - I find that a full peep/ghost ring gives me the feeling that some of my vision is being cut off and it is VERY distracting to me. He makes a few different options for rear sight blade. I used 'green' loctite on the front sight once I had it to the height I wanted (retaining compound) so the blade doesn't move around. If you get an EGW extended rail you can mount the sight pretty much as far forward or reward as you like and experiment a bit until you get it the way you like it best.

Can confirm the Kidd, VQ and TK bolts are all compatible with the stock ruger receiver. Biggest advantages: Firing pin is generally fixed in place (up/down) for consistent strike location on the case rims. Extractor has already been replaced with a good one. Rear of bolt is generally profiled to smooth operations and allow for reliability with a wider range of ammo. Bolt face is cut to a tighter tolerance - this is the HUGE one. One issue you sometimes see with the stock bolt is that the bolt face is a bit wide - allowing the case to get slid to the side by the extractor as it is extracted from the chamber and changing the ejection pattern to more forward vs 3:00 - leading to.... stovepipes! Have swapped a ruger bolt for a VQ bolt and the change in ejection pattern was dramatic - 1:00 ejection with the stock bolt to 3:00 with the VQ bolt. similar with Kidd.

It's been hard over the past year and a half. Between lock down and ammo shortages - people have been very, very selective in how they spend their ammo. I'm considering starting up an IPSC style 'mini rifle' match for .22lr carbine stuff, however we'll see if there is even enough ammo floating around for that!

I would shoot it exactly 1 time to get classified and then never again. I don't 'care' if it's a division or not. I don't think I saw anyone shooting a rimfire revolver at the WSSC, and in the past 5 years I've seen 1 shooter show up at the local match with a 22 revolver - so I don't think anyone locally would care either.

IMO - it's not simply 'add more stages.' That will trickle into the entire classification piece - and world records. And World Speed Shoot. And... For level 1 matches you can ALWAYS zap in outlaw stages. My new shooters haven't been terribly interested in outlaw stages - some USPSA centric shooters have expressed an interest, as they tend to like the stimulation of 'new' a bit more than the average steel shooter. Is it a 'bad' thing? No. It's going to be a little more complicated than 'just add them' however. As such - I'm against it without a lot more planning for the impacts.

The MR is good. I've gotten to play around with it in the Axiom stock and in a tacsol stock. I've dressed it in the carbon fiber barrel and in a Wiland barrel. The only negatives for me: the rail seems to high for me, and the shape of the trigger guard precludes the use of many after market magazine releases. The trigger itself is fine, and the barrel with the carbon fiber is really excellent. All that said - if it fits you and it ejects and loads reliably then RUN it. It's a good gun, and will give you years of service.

Well... there are pretty much 3 options worth a dang it seems that can get you to the weight goal you have set. 10/22s of various ilk. For assortment ammo I have found that the TK chamber iron is a life saver, actually. This - even with occasional WTF moments of reliability - seems to be one of the best ways to go. Buckmark rifles - worked over by 'some dude' that is pretty much always backed up... Without his magic I wouldn't mess with them really - but I'm not a buckmark fan in general. S&W 15/22 - with all the Taccom 3G goodies you can get on there. Barrel - carbon fiber hand guard, etc. Tim Ubl knows how to make them go fast and the magazines are very reliable. They do have issues - like extractor issues mostly. But good guns as well as light.

Sometimes the shipping is.... erratic. I've gotten them the same week and i've waiting 3 or 4 for delivery. Good news is that the product is fantastic and worth the wait.

It doesn't matter, as long as it fits you. I've found the Magpul stock works well for me and is cheap. I set the LOP a bit on the short side vs. a hunting rifle and I got a riser kit so that my cheek weld and the Cmore dot line up right. I've shot the Tacsol thumbhole stock and I like it a lot. I've shot an Axiom stock and it was fine. The Hogue stock is really nice as well. The chassis systems are very cool. When I'm rich, when the rifle is holding me back from the next .1 second, or when I feel like upgrading beyond what I have now I'll probably get one of Todd's systems - again for the adjustability of it (Willand).