I have a couple of Clark 10-22s that I shot Sportsman Team Challenge with and they were plenty accurate for that offhand but I shot a BR-50 semi auto match and thought I was doing good till I saw the rest of the scores and realized they could use some improvement. How important is barrel fit into the action and is free floating the barrel helpful? The stocks they are in touch at the end. What about bedding the action.
10-22 Accuracy
- Thread starter Jonl
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Welcome to chasing a dragon.......The 10/22 can be made to shoot. The folks over at Rimfire Central have a great tutorial on bedding the 10/22 and all the stuff that goes along with it. It is a 10/22 and you will have to work hard to compete. I am thinking right off a Kidd trigger.
The second thing is to find the ammo which will perform best in your 10/22. There will be one or two brands or types and then buy it in bulk for competition. Good luck - when something shoot well, most B/R and competetive .22 shooters will buy a case of match. Lapua, Wolf, Eley - stuff like that and it does make a difference. You actually can measure the rim of the .22 rimfire and Sinclair has such a tool, to find what you 10/22 will do with rim thickness differences.
Lastly, technique and practice to remove your human input into the rifle. You will need a quality rear bag, a great trigger, not just good - something which break consistently under a pound, a good front rest, a good scope for B/R like a Weaver 36x - these are the things will will help you excel in benchrest .22. Arguably a very difficult discipline.
The second thing is to find the ammo which will perform best in your 10/22. There will be one or two brands or types and then buy it in bulk for competition. Good luck - when something shoot well, most B/R and competetive .22 shooters will buy a case of match. Lapua, Wolf, Eley - stuff like that and it does make a difference. You actually can measure the rim of the .22 rimfire and Sinclair has such a tool, to find what you 10/22 will do with rim thickness differences.
Lastly, technique and practice to remove your human input into the rifle. You will need a quality rear bag, a great trigger, not just good - something which break consistently under a pound, a good front rest, a good scope for B/R like a Weaver 36x - these are the things will will help you excel in benchrest .22. Arguably a very difficult discipline.
JonL, Go Back, Its A Trap. LOL. Start with hillbilly accurizing tip #1: stick half an earplug under the barrel at the far end pressure point; ziptie around the whole affair if too loose and sloppy. Call it 'ratrod'. They will give you great odds just on appearance. RTV black form-a-gasket is fun: think glue-in. Eventually glass-bedding, floating the bbl, and a tuner, and make that a custom bbl, custom chamber, kidd trigger, custom action, custom reamer, etc, is where some of us wind up. There are days when they will shoot almost as good as the best boltactions, have won the silhouette nationals, just that the ODDS are against it, and the cash outlay begins to chafe, and the finicky cleaning regimens involving taking the whole thing down to get at the breech can limit enthusiasm eventually. Remind me of my second wife, in a way. Seymour
As I have gotten older and have trouble standing on my hindlegs and hitting anything I thought benchrest, how hard can it be. Good golly you guys make anal a bad word. I shot my first match with some old Federal Gold Medal (with the dimples) that I have had forever which shot well enough to shoot squirrels in the head at 50 yards but those BR-50 targets are a lot harder than that. My 10-22 shoots better than my Anschutz 54-18 metallic silhouette rifle which shouldn't be so I have been thinking of a new barrel for it. I have started reading all the stuff on 22 accuracy and it is mindboggling but I think I have found a new expensive hobby. Love it and thanks for your comments.
Rim Fire Central http://www.rimfirecentral.com has thousands of pages on 10/22 accuracy including how-to on bedding, relieving the bolt and overhauling triggers. On a Clark 10/22 the trigger should be already taken care of, glass bedding is a good step and I always use the Power Custom scope mount so I can attach the receiver to the barrel making it much more solid.
For a couple of Ben's you can get them to shoot sub 1/2" at 50 yds. , with decent ammo. For much after that, it can take a lot more. They will NEVER compete with a good bolt gun, but are a ton of fun to shoot. For those who say they can, show me the match results, an a local match does not really mean much.
Real simple. I got a KIDD barreled action with his 2 stage trigger, and dropped it into a Bell & Carlson Stock, no bedding, just tightened the stock screw. After about 100 rounds i got this: 5 shots @ 50 yd with eley edge from bipod only, sitting at table.. Now if I can just do this all the time 
Thats an A51 target with a 1", 9 ring.
Might just have this photo Bronzed
Thats an A51 target with a 1", 9 ring.Might just have this photo Bronzed
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