{"id":2964,"date":"2024-03-12T21:36:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2024-03-12T21:36:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T21:36:45","slug":"gun-review-rugers-new-lefty-10-22-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=2964","title":{"rendered":"Gun Review: Ruger\u2019s New Lefty 10\/22, Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy.jpg\" data-caption=\"Ruger 10\/22 Competition Left-Hand. Andrew McKean Photo\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-696x522.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Ruger-1022-LH-copy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ruger 10\/22 Competition Left-Hand\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruger 10\/22 Competition Left-Hand. Andrew McKean Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3\/>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Finally, southpaw rimfire shooters don\u2019t have to endure hot brass in their faces as Ruger presents a competition-level 10\/22.<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve wanted to love Ruger\u2019s 10\/22 as much as anybody. It shoots fast and accurate, despite its heavy trigger. It\u2019s endlessly modular. And it is reliable as a roofing nail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But I\u2019m an unrepentant left-handed shooter, and the right-hand port of the 10\/22 often puts ejection gases and shells in my face. Like most southpaws, I\u2019m used to the indignities of the right-handed world of guns and shooting, but the fact that America\u2019s best-selling rimfire rifle hasn\u2019t been available in a left-hand action has meant I exhibit a nervous tic every time I shoulder one. And I\u2019ve tended to stay away from 30-round banana clips altogether because with one in my 10\/22, I\u2019m incapable of not dumping it in short order, regrettably subjecting my cheek to copious amounts of brass and gas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happily, Ruger\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ruger.com\/micros\/customShop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Custom Shop<\/a> has fixed this oversight and last year introduced a dedicated left-hand 10\/22 chambered in .22 Long Rifle. It\u2019s not in the entry-level wood-stocked model; rather it\u2019s in a fairly high-end competition version, with a threaded and ported barrel, an adjustable laminate stock, and an excellent trigger. The <a href=\"https:\/\/ruger.com\/micros\/customShop\/31110.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10\/22 Competition Rifle Left-Hand Model<\/a> retails for about $1,000.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s spooky-accurate, handles like a champion, and has an optics-ready 30 MOA Picatinny rail for increased long-range capability. It would make an excellent precision rimfire competition gun in games like the <a href=\"https:\/\/nrl22.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRL22<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rimfirechallenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Precision Rimfire Challenge<\/a>, but it\u2019s also a capable plinker and rabbit rifle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Features of this 6-pound rifle include the gray-speckled textured stock and wide, grippy, semi-beavertail forend that help the Ruger handle like a full-size center-fire, thanks in part to its 13-1\/2-inch length of pull and hand-filling heft. The adjustable cheek rest is a nice touch not only for customizing the fit of the stock, but also for raising the cheek and eye to as much as two inches above bore, an important consideration for those of us who mount scopes with 50mm and 56mm objective lenses on rimfires. The steel barrel has a 1-in-16 right-hand twist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The BX-Trigger has a little take-up, but at 2-1\/2 pounds is light and crisp, certainly compared with the stock trigger of the basic 10\/22, and has a positive reset. The Pic rail accommodates a wide variety of sights, from precision scopes to red-dot and reflex sights. The 30 MOA elevation in the rail can be a bit much, and may frustrate some shooters who run out of internal elevation adjustment when zeroing their scope, but it\u2019s another nod to competition shooters and will allow league shooters to engage close-in targets, and then dial or hold for targets at the very end of the range for .22 bullets.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anatomy of a Southpaw Rimfire<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heart of the original 10\/22 is the innovative rotary magazine that has been copied by decades of competitors. The left-handed 10\/22 requires a left-feeding and left-ejecting magazine, which means this new model won\u2019t accept your old righty mags. Happily, Ruger and after-market suppliers sell <a href=\"https:\/\/shopruger.com\/LX-1-Left-Hand-22-LR-10-Round-Rotary-Magazine-Value-3-Pack\/productinfo\/90979\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replacement (or extra) magazines<\/a> for about $60. Ruger notes that its 10-round left-hand .22 LR magazine is \u201ceasily identified by its green follower and the embossed \u201810SHOTLH\u2019 marking on the end cap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The magazine detaches with an oversized release lever, which makes magazine swaps easy, but the positivity of the magazine catch means you don\u2019t have to worry about inadvertently dropping one in a course of fire. The magazine well is another point of differentiation from the standard 10\/22. In the competition model, Ruger uses a heat-stabilized, glass-filled polymer housing to house the trigger mechanism. This millable material improves manufacturing tolerances and its impact resistance can withstand all the indignities rimfire shooters can dish out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cross-bolt safety is also left-handed enabled. As many southpaw shooters know, the safety in the original 10\/22 could be converted for lefties (it requires filing the angled notches on the safety to match the detent when the safety is reversed), though most shooters simply got used to pushing the safety from the off-side. Still, it\u2019s nice that this one is a push-through design that won\u2019t tempt shooters to tamper with this important component.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The barrel and receiver also get a much different treatment from the run-of-the-mill 10\/22. The receiver is machined from a block of stress-relieved 6061-T6511 aluminum and mates nicely to a heat-treated and \u201cnitrided\u201d machined match bolt. Of special appeal is the oversized charging handle that\u2019s easy to find with gloves and which loads the rifle with authority. The Competition 10\/22 incorporates a second bedding lug to boost accuracy, and the cold hammer-forged bull barrel is fluted to reduce weight. The muzzle is threaded in a \u00bd-28 pitch to accommodate silencers or accept the included muzzle brake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I didn\u2019t shoot the Ruger for record, but I put a wide variety of brands and bullet weights through its 16.12-inch barrel. The best-shooting of the lot was CCI\u2019s 40-grain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cci-ammunition.com\/rimfire\/cci\/green_tag\/6-33.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green Tag<\/a>, followed by the 25-grain Federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalpremium.com\/rimfire\/federal-small-game-and-target\/game-shok\/11-716.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Small Game<\/a> load. I shot some zippy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cci-ammunition.com\/rimfire\/cci\/stinger\/6-50.html\">CCI Stingers<\/a>, and a boat-load of Winchester\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winchester.com\/Products\/Ammunition\/Rimfire\/Super-X\/X22LRH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37-grain Super-<\/a>X hollow points. All printed groups that were within about a half-inch of one another at 50 yards. I\u2019ll put more match loads down the pipe, and expect they will tighten the gun\u2019s precision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I shot the Ruger both with a suppressor and with the included brake, and both performed well. For hunting and other field shooting, I\u2019d probably go with the brake, as a longer suppressor can throw off the weight and balance of the short-barreled 10\/22.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is It Worth a Grand?<\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new 10\/22 is a helluva rifle, but any good .22 Long Rifle shooter is a miser, either a penny-pinching kid or a more mature shooter with good sense to demand value for the $959 retail price that Ruger charges for the Competition Shop 10\/22. These shooters deserve to know: is the 10\/22 worth the money?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d say yes, for a couple reasons. First, it\u2019s the only \u2013 or nearly the only \u2013 dedicated left-handed semi-automatic .22 LR on the market. Second, it\u2019s built to last, and will win competitions. Its components are designed to stay in the game for years and even after thousands \u2014 or even tens of thousands \u2014 of rounds are sent through it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don\u2019t want to spend the sort of dough the Ruger costs, you have other options. Savage has left-handed versions of two of its excellent rimfires: the <a href=\"https:\/\/savagearms.com\/content?a=product_summary&amp;p=firearms&amp;s=70240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B22<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/savagearms.com\/content?p=firearms&amp;a=product_summary&amp;s=50701\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark II<\/a>. Or you can go with one of my favorites, CZ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cz-usa.com\/product\/cz-457-varmint-left-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">457 Varmint<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But for a trued left-hand semi-auto, this is a great option, and should stay in Ruger\u2019s catalog for many long years to come. I ended up buying my test model, largely because I need another tack-driving rimfire for my annual optics testing. That Picatinny rail is perfect for quickly swapping in and out a wide variety of scopes. And in the off-season, I expect the 10\/22 to get plenty of work in the rabbit fields and squirrel woods of America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/gun-review-rugers-new-lefty-10-22-tested\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruger 10\/22 Competition Left-Hand. Andrew McKean Photo Next Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6 Finally, southpaw rimfire shooters don\u2019t have to endure hot brass in their faces as Ruger presents a competition-level 10\/22. \u00a0 I\u2019ve wanted to love Ruger\u2019s 10\/22 as much as anybody. It shoots fast and accurate, despite its heavy trigger. It\u2019s endlessly modular. 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