Ruger 10/22 Design Challenge

[FiremanBob]

You may have heard of the upcoming 50th anniversary of the 10/22, and Ruger's plan to produce a special edition to celebrate. Ruger is holding a contest to design the special edition 10/22, and the voting is on.

One contestant, Gary from Michigan, is an Appleseed instructor who has submitted the design that should win. It uses Ruger standard parts, and is highly practical and versatile. In particular, it uses a version of the new American Rimfire stock that has interchangeable buttstock inserts to change length of pull and comb height. It also has a flash hider that protects the muzzle crown, a rail on the receiver, sling swivels, and aperture sights. These are all huge improvements over the standard design.

I would appreciate it if you would vote for Gary's design. You can vote once per day on each computer device you have (site uses cookies to track your vote record). This is a rifle that needs to be made, and I am sure it will be popular among shooters.

Thanks.

[dorminWS]

got a url?

[FiremanBob]

Whoops.

Here is the url:

http://www.ruger.com/micros/1022_50/index.html

[dorminWS]

OK, voted for Gary from Michigan just because you asked. To be honest, I personally liked two of the other ones better.

[Remek]

done.

[FiremanBob]

Here is my logic for Gary's being the best of the lot:

1. The custom stocks, bull barrels, VQ and Kidd parts, etc. are all easily available aftermarket parts but are not Ruger products. Ruger wants this to be a Ruger product that will sell many thousands. Some of those customs are at a price point that most 10/22 customers would not consider paying. The dedicated benchrest and bipod rifles are too single-purpose for most people. While I agree that the trigger and bolt release need improvement (and change them on all my 10/22s), Ruger has those features for legal reasons and they are not going to change them in a production rifle.

2. As an Appleseed instructor I see dozens of shooters every month of all ages and sizes struggle with their ill-fitting 10/22s. The buttstock, being designed for using the Ruger OEM blade sight, is too low for peep sights and scopes. and we have to improvise cheek risers. The LOP is short for adults and long for children. When laying the rifle down, many beginners allow the muzzle to drop, causing scratches or worse to the crown and even possibly bore obstructions on a snowy or muddy day. This rifle solves all those problems.

3. The take-down sets with standard and bull barrels do not solve any of the above problems.

[dmharvey]

Voted for Gary but the 'Tyler from Washington' design is pretty nice IMO.

[Chasbo00]

Voted for Gary's design because I think the Appleseed program is great and his design supports that as well as a general use rifle. Too bad the reason for the flash suppressor is not present on Ruger's voting page in the description. I suspect some voters will think the flash suppressor is just an attempt to make the rifle look tactical..

[FiremanBob]

Thank you all for your help. Gary is up to 14%, but is still in third place.

If it isn't inconvenient, please keep voting for him until the contest ends. Chris and Tyler seem to have a lot of friends, too.

http://www.ruger.com/micros/1022_50/index.html

[Remek]

Keep remiinding me, and I will vote every day.

[FiremanBob]

Thank you. Gary is now in a close second at 17% vs. 18% for the leader. Voting continues until November 1.

I can almost feel the improved cheek weld already.