Thursday, March 14, 2013

Ruger Model 10 .22 Cal Rifle

After shooting skeet for the first time and having quite a good time of it, the fun was not yet over. We proceeded to the indoor range and checked in to test fire some of my friend's armament, since I had arrived by airplane and didn't have any of my own.  We shot a beautifully kept, like-new Ruger auto-loader which he had felt was shooting a bit left.  After a couple of groups each, he took a punch and ball peen hammer and tapped the sight over a bit.  We saw some improvement, shot a couple more groups and tapped it over some more.  We were using a rest, but not a sandbag and we either had a padded barstool or a folding chair to sit on. The chair was a bit too low and the barstool a bit high, so when we got to the point of it shooting a group at the midline of the target, we felt the job was done for the day.  He has a nice new sight put on which is really quite more useful in daylight.  There are three dots to line up, two on the rear sight on either side of the notch, and one on the tip of the barrel.  I would love to spend a session with this gun outdoors with a sandbag and see just how accurate we could make it shoot.  Maybe in the summer.

1 comment:

  1. Footnote H provides a nice technical description and general article about the Ruger Model 10 rifle.

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