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Originally Posted by Soukus
I've got a .22LR kit for the ARs but I think a dedicated .22 rifle in the loaded barn in the barn might be more convenient and accurate (?). Be nice to grab it when I'm working in there early in the morning or at twilight when I see the little fuchers.
"Red" besides the magazine, why else do you prefer the 10/22?
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I had one as a kid and I bought my daughters mod 60's when they were little. One daughter is still at home and one lives in an apt, so I still have both theirs. One is out in my shop and one is in the house. During daylight hours both are our go-to guns for dispatching varmints (I use a lighted 12 ga pump shotgun at night). I recently checked the "iron" sights on both and put a cheap scope on one just for kicks. When fired from a rested bipod shooting cheap Walmart Federal bulk pack ammo, they both will shoot 1" or less groups at 50 yards and they both were hitting a four inch square steel plate every shot at 100 yards (holding just a few inches high). I have not cleaned them in years and they always eat cheap bulk pack ammo (each have probably had a couple thousand rounds shot through them over the last ten years). When new and tight, they both required a hose down with cleaner or penetrating oil on occasion as the dirty .22lr ammo would cause the action to grit up and fail to function 100% until they wear theirselves in a bit.
Everything I have read says that they are typically a bit more accurate than the baseline 10/22's new out of the box, but either gun will be up to the task of killing varmints.