We’ve just completed an epic building project. Successfully. Without bleeding. Or parts left over. Over the past couple of months, we’ve been working with the great folks at Ruger and Brownells to customize a stock Ruger 10/22 Carbine. It’s now a fancy race rifle. A glamorous gun. A fantastic firearm. A phantasmagorical plinker. You get […]
Soup It Up For Soldiers Step 5: Optics – Add The Right Riflescope
After much crying, whining, gnashing of teeth, a few injuries, but no lost parts, we’ve reached the finish line with Step 5 of the Ruger 10/22 Soup it up for Soldiers Custom Ruger 10/22 build. Ruger Custom 10/22 Project Step 5: Add A Sweet Riflescope The generous folks at Brownells have donated a sweet optic […]
Soup It Up For Soldiers Step 4: Custom Ruger 10/22 Extended Bolt Handle Installation
We’ve completed 3 steps out of the 5 planned for this Ruger 10/22 customization project. As my teenage kids would say, we’ve got “one sick rifle” at this point. As you’ll see from the photos, we’ve put a temporary optic on it for testing as the bull barrel has no iron sights. What’s next? Custom […]
Soup It Up For Soldiers Step 3: Ruger 10/22 Competition Trigger and Magazine Release
Now that steps 1 and 2 of the Customer Ruger 10/22 project are complete, we’ve got one nasty accurate rifle with what is perhaps the world’s most comfortable (and sporty) stock. As you’ll recall, with the help of Brownells, we installed a Revolution Extreme custom stock on the now customized Ruger 10/22. What’s next? Step […]
Soup It Up For Soldiers – Step 1: Ruger 10/22 Stock Upgrade
The Mission: Customize a Ruger 10/22 Carbine We’re building a custom Ruger 10/22 rifle. For education and charity. And fun. We’ve always thought that the Ruger 10/22 rifle is one of the classic customizable platforms out there. It’s so popular, and so extensible, that an entire supporting industry has sprung out out of the (gun) […]
Soup It Up For Soldiers: You Can Get The Ultimate Custom Ruger 10/22 and Benefit Project Valour-IT
We’re going to have some fun, learn some things about home gunsmithing, melt the phone lines to the the Brownells GunTech Team, and hopefully not butcher a perfectly good Ruger 10/22 Carbine in the process. And all for a great cause. At SHOT Show 2012, we got to talking to GunTech Team Leader Dave Bennetts. […]