What's the deal here? There seem to be a lot of complaints about this all over the net. I was interested in getting one of these but this is a pretty big dealbreaker. I mean it looks like it was spray painted. I understand they are cheap guns made for mass consumption but still.
You cannot buy anything thats good quality anymore
Buy vintage firearms if you want quality.
10/22 trigger housings are plastic now though
>Buy vintage firearms if you want quality.
Lol that is so nit true. I just old enough to remember when buying or tuning a hunting rifle to 1MOA was a big deal, that was the hot mod cool guys did, and now basically every new rifle is subMOA straight out of the box, even the cheap ones. Manufacturing has gotten better, engineering has improved, and you if can't buy a gun today markedly better than an older version, you're not spending enough.
The truth is vintage guns stick around either because they were a great idea the first time, like the Savage 99, or all the crappy versions of a particular model are thrown away and only the best examples remain. Nobody's buying a new Tikka or a Weatherby and going 'wow, what a hunk o junk wish I got and old one'
New =/= Better
Old =/= Better
There are plenty examples of older models of firearms are better than current production. I.e. Marlins, Remingtons, Colts, S&W, Winchester, Ruger, etc. Today we have a cheap shit market, companies trying to make shit as cheap as possible to sell as most as possible. Some companies use to focus on quality and good customer service to sell their products but now they realized that shit sucks and most people will never shoot their gun enough to realize it sucks. So now they cut corners and pump out guns that barely work for the braindead market that keeps buying them.
>My cheap casted and spraypainted gun looks cheap, how could this happen to me?
why don't they raise the price 50$, I would be willing to pay more for actual bluing or at least some sort of nitride
Probably because bluing it costs more than $50 and even if you are willing to pay for it, most people probably aren't.
Nah. Unfortunately most people do not care about cosmetic quality anymore. They want high speed low drag. Just get an ar bro, just get a glock bro. These people want plastic and spraypaint. There is not much of a market for blued guns these days
Look at the Super Wrangler vs Single Six prices, you're looking at doubling the price.
>I would be willing to pay more for actual bluing
It's aluminum, anon. It's impossible to blue it.
Now if you do want a nice aftermarket 10/22 receiver there are several them on the market. A nice 10/22 is called a Volquartsen (or similar).
Sadly this is true. As is often true, fpbp.
It's not aluminum, it's zinc alloy. Anodizing aluminum is so cheap they would have done that if it was possible.
goddamn I hate zinc shit. die cast aluminum is also dirt cheap and so much better.
Thankfully the 10/22 aftermarket is fucking huge. You can buy 10/22 receivers made by someone other than Ruger, anodized aluminum (machined from billet) is very common, so is stainless steel like Volquartsen.
bluing is dead, anon. and we killed it
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Then spend $50 to go get it fucking cerakoted bro, price point matters more than niche improvements.
>I would be willing to pay more
Even if this is true, and I very much doubt it you would more than likely be on this site complaining about
>why is the 10/22 so damn expensive I have to buy a Salvage 22
So in the almost impossible event you actually would pay another $50 for something other than spray paint, you are the only person on the planet who would so they'd sell just the 1 of them. Everyone else is either an unbelievably poor cheapskate who for some reason just has to have a semi-auto 22 rifle, or a boomer who will buy only pre-64 Winchester single shots with well figured walnut and 90% grade original blued steel and an original buttplate who enjoy sitting on a stool by the counter and rambling on about how their grandpa had one of these left it on the back porch it rusted to hell sure was a great gun he could shoot the eye out of a gnat flying and they plant to fire 1 round through the thing them clean it and sit it in the back of their safe and never touch it again so it doesn't lose value.
NTA, but there are plenty of people who are willing to pay more for a 10/22. These companies all offer such a thing, ranging from cheap to $$$$.
AMT, Armscor (RIA), Bergara, Black Rain Ordnance, Clark Custom, Faxon, FJ Feddersen
Grey Birch Solutions, Jard, Kidd, Kingston Armory, Magnum Research, Radical Firearms
Tactical Solutions, Thompson Center R22
Volquartsen...
Anyone willing to pay more can achieve this by paying more aftermarket. It's a non-issue, the base rifles are for the base consumer and the average joe doesnt give a shit.
Yes, I totally agree the aftermarket and 3rd party companies solve the problem, but let's not pretend that nobody wants nicer 10/22s. The aftermarket wouldn't exist if people were content with what Ruger made.
It isnt that "nobody" want's a nicer 10/22 it's that most people literally couldnt care less. There's already plenty of alternatives to a 10/22 that are popular enough to still be being made, the main competition is for "what's the cheapest good option?". There's also a lot more to it than just telling them to "make it nicer". I'm not saying that I wouldnt like the option of a nicer model but anything Ruger can do I can get done somewhere else if I really care. Then again I more like getting a base rifle and making it look how I want guy. Yes, I know my 10/22 isn't special just wanted to show I had one.
All of which are across the board upgrades to the rifle, not just better finishes, and none of which OP bought. I wonder why not?
You can't blue zinc idiot. If you want a nicer trigger guard go buy a Volquartsen. Or a Savage.
what's stopping you stripping it and bringing it somewhere for a cold/hot bluing?
It's some cheap alloy, probably can't be anodized properly either. OP is still a retard for expecting a fancy blued or anodized trigger guard on anything in the price range of a basic bitch 10/22. And if he's trying to start a Ruger hate thread or a "le modern guns" suck thread, I just replaced the cracked to shit plastic trigger guard on an old Marlin Model 60 with an aftermarket CNC'd aluminum one for someone. Manufacturers cheaping out on stuff like this for the cheapest gun they sell isn't anything new.
You get what you pay for.
It's a cheap plinker, you're supposed to plink with it, not wank over it.
>not wank over it.
But how else do you keep them lubed, anon?
there's a german guy around here somewhere who bottles his own and sells it, I just use that
Ah, finally a thread for me.
These guns exist and will continue to be manufactured if only to prop up the 22LR cartridge industry, which presently has no reason to exist yet does because people bought these cheap toys and now need ammo to feed them with, because it's not realistic to handload 22LR because of how outdated it is.
It's a vicious cycle of wastefulness, poverty, and unenlightened thinking which ultimately manifests in the inferior production quality of the 10/22.
Take a good look at that cheap finish, because that's the future that Americans chose.
You sound like an insufferable homosexual. I’m not handloading hundreds/thousands rounds of plinking ammo I’ll shoot in a weekend at the deer lease.
Modern 10/22s have plastic trigger guards, the old ones are aluminum
Oh great, its this guy again
See what youve done op?
>No! It should be BLVED STEEL and based and trad! What? No, I'm not willing to spend more than $2xx for it.
The "problem" people seem to have with le consooo(hehe epic r*ddit maymay)ooooomer capitalism is that they get what they deserve.
Ditch the stock trigger group and get a Volquartsen
Trigger is fine
recoil assembly's gotta go though
>gun gets too hot
>receiver starts to evaporate
>get zinc lung
>die
many such cases
You bought a gun so renowned for being shitty OOTB an entire aftermarket was created solely to make it less shitty.
I can't believe Ruger still has the balls to sell the 10/22 it should have been retired decades ago
Anyway, strip it, sand it, recoat it, I suggest 2part enamel, and congratulations you have now put more hours into the gun than it is worth
It's a cheap gun, you can expect cheap quality. The plastic sights on mine chipped off the second time I used it and I'm not even sure if I hit anything. It just broke off in the gun bag. Not sure what they're going for now but I wouldn't pay over $200 for one, it's a $100 gun if we still had white majority America prices.
>just checked and they're $300 (plus shipping/fees) to well over $700
HAHHAAHAHHAAHAHA. I feel so bad for you zoomers, didn't even get to experience the tail end of America before boomers fully destroyed it. Don't waste your little amount of money this cheap hunk of shit toy, you don't need it. Anything you can kill with a .22 you can catch with snares much more efficiently.
They were $180 last Black Friday. They are still cheap but it's fucking McDonalds and dumbasses will pay more so they charge more.
Big fucking deal
Jfc why is this thread so fucking gay and retarded? Usually 10/22 threads are comfy and polite.
Be fortunate that that part is the deluxe metal version standard is plastic
That's ruger finish for ya