{"id":1100,"date":"2014-07-26T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T19:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:53:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:53:26","slug":"1022-precision-rifles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2014\/07\/1022-precision-rifles\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/22 Precision Rifles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KIDD<\/a><\/p>\n

These are both Ruger 10\/22 style rifles built for shooting .22LR with maximum accuracy. On top is an $860 rifle built entirely by KIDD Innovative Design<\/a>. The receiver and trigger are milled from aluminum, and the bolt from hardened steel. The single-stage trigger is also a crisply machined assembly that adjusts down to a pull of just 1.5 pounds. The lightweight barrel is guaranteed to group inside of half an inch at 50 yards. The gun here is screwed into a comfortable $100 ProMag Archangel Target stock<\/p>\n

Do you have to spend $1000 to get an accurate .22 rifle? Expert barrel maker Fred Feddersen<\/a> says one of his $170 barrels will turn an off-the-rack Ruger into a gun that can compete with any custom autoloader. So the second gun shown is a standard Ruger 10\/22 receiver and bolt onto which I swapped Feddersen’s barrel. Of course I don’t think I can really shoot that well with a standard trigger, so to be fair I bought another $200 KIDD trigger assembly for it. The gun is shown here screwed into a beautiful $175 Tactical Solutions Vantage laminated stock.<\/p>\n

Testing<\/h2>\n

The ammo shortage continues to plague the market for .22LR, so I consider myself lucky to still have four different types of ammo on hand. I screwed an AAC Element suppressor to each barrel, put each rifle in the Archangel stock, mounted the same high-power scope, and shot ten-round groups at 50 yards with the following subsonic 40gr loads:<\/p>\n