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We spent the week up at the property hunting grouse and doing some plinking. Day one was rimfire (+1) day. We brought my wife’s Ruger American 22lr, my Ruger 10/22 Light Varmint, the Ruger Wrangler and the Ruger Mark IV 22/45. The +1 was the Ruger Single Seven. Wow, that’s a table full of Rugers.



My wife wanted to give shooting a handgun a try. She has done some handgun shooting in the past but it’s been a while. I tried her out on the Wrangler but she had trouble with the hammer. She has very small hands which are getting painful plus she has developed a shaking mostly in her left hand. Anyway she didn’t like the Wrangler so she tried the Mark IV which she like better. But it has a bull barrel and when she tried to shoot it off hand it was just too heavy for her.

So we then set up for shooting the rifles at the spinners. She shoots her Ruger very well and was consistently hitting all the spinners including the 1”. We were shooting at 25 yards from a bench. I notice she was struggling with manipulating the bolt, again those painful hands. I suggested she try my 10/22 even tho the LOP is too long for her. She really liked the semi-auto feature and I suggested she get a 10/22 in the compact version. I pulled up a picture of it on my phone and it only comes with the composite stock EXACTLY LIKE THE ONE ON HER BOLT GUN. She pointed the the very nice Birch stock on my 10/22 and said “I want a wood stock like yours” So far I have found no compact semi 22lr’s with a wood stock. I did find a beautiful Walnut replacement stock for the compact 10/22 for only $110. Spouses!!!!



The +1 was my Ruger Single Seven that I just replaced the rear sight blade, changing from a V notch to a square notch. It has the Big Dot front sight that I wasn’t sure would work with the square notch but it worked fine. Last time out I had a lot of trouble shooting the V notch accurately from a rested 25 yards. I had previously only shot this gun at 15 where it did okay while doing load development. But my 25 yard rested groups were down right awful. So here are my results with the new rear blade shooting from a rested 15 yards. Now that’s more like it!



Well that wraps up plinking day one. A good time was had by both of us.

Hatch
If she wants a pistol still try a 22/45 light. They are good shooters. I have one with 2 barrels. Great little plinker. They come in many colors. Nice shooting 10/22 is hard to beat

https://ruger.com/products/markIV2245Li ... 43934.html

BigAl52 wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 27, 2024 8:48 am

Hatch
If she wants a pistol still try a 22/45 light. They are good shooters. I have one with 2 barrels. Great little plinker. They come in many colors. Nice shooting 10/22 is hard to beat

https://ruger.com/products/markIV2245Li ... 43934.html

That’s a good thought Al. My neighbor has one of those with a red dot on it. I’ll suggest she gives it a try. Thanks

I have a green dot on the longer barrel and they make fiber optic sights for those models also. My standard barrel has the fiber optic sights on it. Tandemkross has tons of up grades for those guns which I have done to mine. It was fun doing and mine is the best 22 semi auto I have ever owned

Yep, a table full of Rugers, and nice looking I might add.
Sounds like a great day there Hatch.
And some good shooting with the new sight.

RP

Looks like a lot of 22 plinking FUN!

That's great, Hatch. Love that the wife got out with you.

Hey, go to e-bay and check for 10/22 stocks. Lots of take off wood stocks, even walnut, thanks to so many folks modding their 10/22s. Get a stock cheap and cut it for her if nothing else.

North Country Gal wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:09 pm

That's great, Hatch. Love that the wife got out with you.

Hey, go to e-bay and check for 10/22 stocks. Lots of take off wood stocks, even walnut, thanks to so many folks modding their 10/22s. Get a stock cheap and cut it for her if nothing else.

That’s a great idea in fact they come up for sale here locally from time to time. She also liked the rubber buttplate on my sporter and cutting down a standard stock would allow one to be installed on hers…