“Ruger is looking to its fans and aficionados to help design a Ruger 10/22 rifle to commemorate the 50th anniversary of America’s favorite rimfire rifle,” the gunmaker’s presser reveals. Design a 10/22 that Ruger can sell to the masses and you will be rewarded. “The winning designer will receive a production version of their rifle, a trip to the Newport, NH plant to watch the production run, and $5,000 to be used toward the purchase of Ruger products.” Is there a catch? Sure! You have to own a Ruger 10/22; a basic Sporter will run ya three bills and a bit. And then you have to modify the gun, which may well cost you your marriage. JK. But it won’t be easy. And the result has to appeal to more than just you and your ballistic BFFs . . .
Ruger will review the submissions and narrow the entries to ten finalists. Ruger fans will then vote for their favorite design.
Do you surrender rights to the design. Yes. Yes you do. Do you get to name the new(ish) gun? No. No you don’t. Will you enter? Why are you asking me?
To enter the Contest, visit www.Ruger.com/1022Contest. Entrants must submit up to three photos of their customized 10/22, provide an itemized list of parts used, and give a brief description of their design. Submissions will be accepted beginning October 7 at 12:00 p.m. ET through October 18 at 11:59 a.m. ET. On October 21, Ruger will announce the ten finalists on the contest website and visitors can vote for their favorite design through November 1.
If you lack the requisite smithing skills or simply can’t be bothered, watch this space.
The face of evil comes in many forms.
I would like to show them my bullpup 10/22 in a Jim Bunting stock… but I think Ruger may be a bit too straightlaced for that.
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I like it!
My dad has a great 10/22. He ordered it before they were released, and hasn’t changed a thing on it. They should make those. Again.
Double Barrel Shotgun
AK
M16
Winchester Lever Rifle
Revolver
I’ve had the perfect 10/22 in my head for about the last 15 years. All I need is the 500 and change for the barrel (mag research or volquartsen carbon fiber), trigger (volquartsen) and a reamed out Butler Creek folding stock. Add a BX-25/50 mag and red dot of your choice and done! And I don’t even have a marriage to lose, what could possibly go wrong?
Tom
Blunderbuss — Is it a bugle? Is it a rifle? Some kind of prehistoric shotgun? Whatever it is, it’s a .69 caliber madman, CQB old-school style, and instantly recognizable as a Pilgrim’s go-to gat during the original East side/West side turf battles. Praise the Lord and pass the ammo.
Brown Bess — We’re STILL talking about this bad boy as setting the standard for the 2A framework *right now*. In it’s day, which easily spanned some 150+ years from the early 18th to mid-19th centuries, it was used by oppressors and liberators alike on every continent anyone thought to fight over. With its nasty .75 caliber, spotty accuracy, and ubiquity, it was tantamount to the AK-47 for its time. It took wholesale changes in firearm design and manufacturing capabilities to unseat this muzzle loader from its reign.
Thompson SMG — The Tommy Gun, a legitimate weapon of war, made infamous by a confluence of a few Prohibition and Depression era gangsters, a lot of Hollywood pictures, and an abundance of grandstanding politicians. That attractively crafted, warm wooden foregrip and that industrially fabricated, cold metal drum magazine combined in the mind of the public at large to define modern firearms for its era, and to suggest that perhaps technology was moving too quickly. Hit a large Halloween party, say, at a dance club THIS month, and I guarantee you’ll find at least one couple going as Bonnie and Clyde and sporting……….a Tommy Gun.
Glock — When a majority of non-gunnies born within the past 50 years routinely describes any and every all-black, non-revolver handgun as a “Glock”, it’s reached icon status. ‘Nuff said.
AK-47 — It’s in every movie, every war, every media account of weapons, and it’s on the lips of of everyone to the point that it’s become virtually synonymous with not only “assault rifle/assault weapons”, but almost with “machine gun”. Who can’t quote Samuel L. Jackson? “AK-47: when you absolutely, positively have to kill every last [unfortunate individual] in the room.” Even in silhouette, everyone knows this gun. There’s that peculiar pairing again of wood grip (well, hand guard) and odd metal magazine, which the public does so adore.
Sometimes a pit viper smiles at you.
I’m not sure what you have against gun buy backs. They’re wasteful (of grabber money), useless, and only collect guns from people who don’t want them to begin with. While altruistically I think that waste for it’s own sake and the willful destruction of items of intrinsic value is evil and perverted, I’m not sure where the down side is for our cause. It’s not as if there as so few guns that the handful they destroy alters either the market or the reality of gun ownership. Let them waste money on their theater, it gets them nowhere.
Second thought, it seems like Congress is an Animal Farm in more than one way.
I’m a liberal gun owner too, and as proud of the first part as the second. For me, it is quite simple: I am in favor of increasing human freedom, whether it be religious, marital, medical, pharmacological, etc. I think of myself as a member of the libertarian (small ‘l’) wing of the Democrat Party. I believe that government exists only to do the things we can’t do for ourselves. Where I disagree with many conservatives is the question of when is government action necessary.
While I disagree with many of my fellow people of the gun on the right on many issues (ObamaCare, abortion rights, gay marriage, and likely others), and this sometimes leads to ‘vociferous debate’, I actually feel a bit more welcomed in these circles of mutual interest than with my fellow liberals.
To put it another way, I find it unlikely that I will be banned for life for admitting supporting ObamaCare or saying that anti-choice is pro-slavery, whereas I’ve been banned from Daily Kos for life for admitting supporting the Colorado Recalls.
On another topic. So much for South Park being an equal opportunity offender.
Colt single action Army,Colt 1921 Thompson sub machine gun,Colt 1911, Colt Paterson,Texas model ,Colt 1847 Walker 44.
AK-47
Kentucky Rifle
Winchester Lever Action
Wells Fargo Stagecoach side by side/ Winchester pump action Shotguns (tie)
S&W double action revolver /Colt Single Action Army (tie)
On an expanded list (10):
Colt M1911
Armalite M16
Mauser / M1 Garand
British Army Musket
Flintlock Pistol
“California’s prohibition of these powerful weapons is not about hunting or target practice. It is about interrupting the long history of death, carnage and grief assault weapons have inflicted on California communities.” — CA District Attorney Jeff Rosen
What “long history of death, carnage, and grief” is Mr. Rosen talking about? Have criminals used firearms to harm citizens? Of course. And virtually all of the firearms that those criminals used were NOT what Mr. Rosen incorrectly calls “assault weapons”. They were run-of-the-mill handguns, and shotguns and a few rifles.
Apparently facts are not important to our criminal justice system.
There are a couple of good Pearl Jam songs and ‘Rise’ off the Into the Wild soundtrack got me to dust off my mandolin after years. I would have like to have seen them live when he was in that crazy climbing phase. Now he’s in the crazy preacher phase. No me gusta. But let us not forget that he was really big on getting the ‘West Memphis 3’ a …fairer… shake.