So I just bought my first 10/22 yesterday and had some questions on upgrading it. I wanted to buy one of the AR style stocks from ATI and then I wanted to upgrade the barrel and trigger. I was looking at a green mountain stainless steel barrel but then someone mentioned “barrel droop” with this barrel and I didn’t know what that meant. What is this and how do I work around this to get this barrel and this stock?
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Personally I would check out rimfire central. Tons of info there on 10/22’s. Good luck with your build.
Doesn’t seem like Green mounted has threaded barrels either unless I missed something. Not that you asked for it but I am wanting to get a threaded barrel for a 10/22 and checked out their wares since you brought it up.
Kidd barrels. They also have excellent trigger and bolt upgrades. The receiver from 1992 is the only Ruger part on my 10-22. It’s easily the most accurate firearm that I own.
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yeah, I have a Kidd ultra lightweight fluted threaded barrel. It’s been great. Before long I’ll have every part replaced except the receiver at which point I’ll just replace it too and finally rebuild the 10/22 I was given as my first gun.
Kidd barrels are notoriously difficult to fit into the receiver. It required Neverseeze, heating the receiver and a big-ass rubber mallett. The upside of that is that barrel droop is rare with Kidd barrels. With other barrels, the droop can be bad enough that a MOA-correcting rail is necessary to get the scope to zero.
Ok now what is “barrel droop”? That was my original question. And how can I avoid it.
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Barrel points downard relative to the reciever. Potentially exacerbated by the 10-22 V-block design. There are a variety of devices that supposedly fix it. I have always avoided it (three 10-22 builds) by using a quality barrel with a known tight barrel-to-receiver fit. Google “barrel droop 10-22”, or search it over at rimfirecentral.com.
Huh. i didn’t have much trouble with mine. Little bit of anti sieze and some taps with a mallet, but I didn’t have to go whaling on it or heat it or anything.
I’ve had three that required whaling. No problem, just had to work at it. I acknowledge that others have had a different experience, but mine appear to be relatively common based on threads at RFC.
In that case I’m glad I got one of the easy ones then