1978 Ruger 10-22 Deluxe Sporter

[1srelluc]

I came by this older Ruger 10-22 Deluxe Sporter today.....I gave $200.00 for it.

I like the older 10-22 Deluxe Sporters due to their checkered walnut stocks, and metal trigger group. No billboard warning rollmark on the barrel either, just Ruger's address. I also prefer the plastic butt plate over the current rubber butt pad.

It was right dirty (looks like I still missed a spot of paint) and according to the woman that brought it in it sat in their mudroom for as long as she can remember to shoot crows and such with it in their garden.

Her husband recently passed and she just wanted to get rid of it as she was moving away to live with family.

It wears a Bushnell .22 Sharpshooter 4 X 25 scope and it's still clear. It was in low Weaver rings on a Weaver base. I suspect the set-up was installed soon after the orgional purchase in the late 70s.

I tore it completely down and cleaned it good and remounted the base/scope. GTG!

It has a really good trigger for a 10-22 (their biggest failing) but it did not look like anyone had been inside of it. Just shot enough over 47 years to break it in I guess.

I did replace the Ruger 1.25" fixed sling swivels with studs so I could use a 1" sling on it.

 

[ozro]

That looks like a great varmint rifle. I also bet that if you walk into any oak grove with that rifle, squirrels will tremble.

 

[Failzero]

I used a 1978 10/22 as the Action for this M1A1 paratrooper clone in 22LR

 

[1srelluc]

That looks like a great varmint rifle. I also bet that if you walk into any oak grove with that rifle, squirrels will tremble.

I suspect it will do the job.

These days I use a suppressed Ruger American .22 bolt action on squirrels. It's almost not fair.

 

[1srelluc]

I used a 1978 10/22 as the Action for this M1A1 paratrooper clone in 22LR View attachment 1113549View attachment 1113550View attachment 1113550

They are fun....Many years ago they made a walnut version of that stock set. I can't remember who. I remember that they were very pricey.

I always liked the old Federal Ordnance three-legged under-folder. They are very sturdy and stable but are getting stupid expensive now as they have been out of production for 30 years or better.

I found one at the flea market someone hogged out to accept a .920 bull-barrel so I used a 16.25" threaded carbon fiber wrapped .920 barrel on it.

 

[Woodznutz]

I came by this older Ruger 10-22 Deluxe Sporter today.....I gave $200.00 for it.

I like the older 10-22 Deluxe Sporters due to their checkered walnut stocks, and metal trigger group. No billboard warning rollmark on the barrel either, just Ruger's address. I also prefer the plastic butt plate over the current rubber butt pad.

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It was right dirty (looks like I still missed a spot of paint) and according to the woman that brought it in it sat in their mudroom for as long as she can remember to shoot crows and such with it in their garden.

Her husband recently passed and she just wanted to get rid of it as she was moving away to live with family.

It wears a Bushnell .22 Sharpshooter 4 X 25 scope and it's still clear. It was in low Weaver rings on a Weaver base. I suspect the set-up was installed soon after the orgional purchase in the late 70s.

I tore it completely down and cleaned it good and remounted the base/scope. GTG!

It has a really good trigger for a 10-22 (their biggest failing) but it did not look like anyone had been inside of it. Just shot enough over 47 years to break it in I guess.

I did replace the Ruger 1.25" fixed sling swivels with studs so I could use a 1" sling on it.

Hasn't changed much. I bought this new about 3 years ago. I topped it with a Leopold 2x7x32 rimfire scope. Tack driver at 75 yds.

 

[1srelluc]

Hasn't changed much. I bought this new about 3 years ago. I topped it with a 1x4 Leopold .22 scope. Tack driver at 75 yds. View attachment 1113734

I have a early ('67) 10-22 with a more vintage version of that .22 Leopold scope.

Back then the stocks were made by Overton and they sported all ionized metal hardware.

The older Leopold M8 scopes work well on them too as the parallax is not as great as with the newer centerfire scopes. They are just an 1.50" longer.

It's said the best Deluxe Sporters were made between '71 (first year of production) and '74.

That said it's mostly cosmetic as they started cutting costs by painting the metal trigger housing instead of ionizing.....The one I got yesterday has a painted trigger housing but the receiver is still ionized.

Then they did the same with the receiver, then moved to a plastic trigger housing and to hardwood stocks instead of walnut. Of course all that happened over a period of around 20 years.

 

[Woodznutz]

I have a early ('67) 10-22 with a more vintage version of that .22 Leopold scope.

Back then the stocks were made by Overton and they sported all ionized metal hardware.

The older Leopold M8 scopes work well on them too as the parallax is not as great as with the newer centerfire scopes. They are just an 1.50" longer.

It's said the best Deluxe Sporters were made between '71 (first year of production) and '74.

That said it's mostly cosmetic as they started cutting costs by painting the metal trigger housing instead of ionizing.....The one I got yesterday has a painted trigger housing but the receiver is still ionized.

Then they did the same with the receiver, then moved to a plastic trigger housing and to hardwood stocks instead of walnut. Of course all that happened over a period of around 20 years.

My scope is actually a 2x7x32 Leopold rimfire, not a 1x4.

 

[1srelluc]

My scope is actually a 2x7x32 Leopold rimfire, not a 1x4.

I thought it looked like a variable....My older Leopold is a fixed 4X.

 

[Woodznutz]

I thought it looked like a variable....My older Leopold is a fixed 4X.

A friend gave me my first .22, a single shot bolt action. I put a 3x scope on it and killed a lot of squirrels with it. Only needed one head shot. I credit it with getting my first good job.

I usually gave my squirrels away. I was working as a grocery clerk right after high school (I had worked part time and went full time until I figured out what I wanted to do). I was giving my squirrels to a guy in the meat department who was from Tennessee and loved squirrels. We became friends and he told me that I should get into the meat department if I was going to stay in the grocery business as meat cutting paid the best. I applied and within months an opening for an apprenticeship became available for me. Best job I ever had, thanks to that .22 rifle.

 

[1srelluc]

A friend gave me my first .22, a single shot bolt action. I put a 3x scope on it and killed a lot of squirrels with it. Only needed one head shot. I credit it with getting my first good job.

I usually gave my squirrels away. I was working as a grocery clerk right after high school (I had worked part time and went full time until I figured out what I wanted to do). I was giving my squirrels to a guy in the meat department who was from Tennessee and loved squirrels. We became friends and he told me that I should get into the meat department if I was going to stay in the grocery business as meat cutting paid the best. I applied and within months an opening for an apprenticeship became available for me. Best job I ever had, thanks to that .22 rifle.

My former BiL could barely read or write but he worked as a kid for a butcher shop just down the road from his house.

He did OK working there but I knew how much the union meat cutters were making at the Safeway and said he should apply.....He did and make a great living for himself after he got shed of my spendthrift SIL who was fucking around on him.

He had to move around quite a bit as Safeway shuttered many of their stores but he landed at one that lasted and retired from there.

 

[Woodznutz]

My former BiL could barely read or write but he worked as a kid for a butcher shop just down the road from his house.

He did OK working there but I knew how much the union meat cutters were making at the Safeway and said he should apply.....He did and make a great living for himself after he got shed of my spendthrift SIL who was fucking around on him.

He had to move around quite a bit as Safeway shuttered many of their stores but he landed at one that lasted and retired from there.

Those great in-store meat cutting jobs are largely gone thanks to cheap immigrant labor and large packing houses that precut and package many meat products. Meat cutters pay hasn't kept up either because of this. Average pay is $18/hr. although some make much more.

 

[1srelluc]

Those great in-store meat cutting jobs are largely gone thanks to cheap immigrant labor and large packing houses that precut and package many meat products. Meat cutters pay hasn't kept up either because of this. Average pay is $18/hr. although some make much more.

That's what he said.....He got in and out at the right time.

 

[Woodznutz]

That's what he said.....He got in and out at the right time.

Me too. It was nice while it lasted.

 

[ozro]

So....a few minutes ago two of my dogs started barking, I looked out the window and decided that the tool for the job was my old 20guage.
Here is the results.

First one of the season.......

 

[1srelluc]

So....a few minutes ago two of my dogs started barking, I looked out the window and decided that the tool for the job was my old 20guage.
Here is the results.

First one of the season.......

Looks like lunch and a hat band to me.