Bought an early early 10/22 sat.

[steif]

Hey, the pics will have to wait till i get it home..

Auction saturday, and they went to choice of shops for transfer, so i got to go get my purchases next day or two.
Buuuut, most interesting for me is a early 1964 production 10/22 I believe the number is 6100. no prefix, just a 4 digit number..lol
From what i read they made like 15000 in 64, first went to a museum, about 500 went to their club members, and the rest were stored till they had a decent supply to start shippping out, so this was shipped in 65 from what i understand.

I know... not really exciting, but have many people seen a early 4 or 5 digit 10/22 without prefix? they are dang hard to find. not in the best of shape, but i think i can clean it up fairly good.
pics to follow when i hold it in my grubby hands.

And how cool would their ruger club been? join the club and you could buy every ruger introduced with the same serial number as the first one you bought.. what a cool idea.

 

[Hookeye]

Nice score.
My oldest ones were '67 (one a factory checkered sporter).
Think the oldest I've seen in person was '65 (well, when I was old enough to pay attention LOL).
Pops had a 4 digit #1B in '06.........vertical split rings were cool.
Shot a deer w a '66 sporter .44 mag. Tried to find a sporter '66 10/22.
The .44 mag is not checkered.
But I came across a checkered '67.........not what I wanted, but knew what it was and got it right.
Too nice to risk dinging up more hunting, so after 2 yrs sold it.
I run a '95 action w GM bbl in Titan stock w a 4-12X AO Leupold now.

 

[Hookeye]

When I had my '67's

 

[Hookeye]

I ended up replacing the front sight on the sporter due to damage.
Later it was replaced with the front from the std (to be period correct).
The standard needed a bbl reblue.......plus had stud in stock.
Ended up being a builder.
I did keep the prewarning bbl though. It shoots decent.

 

[Simon6101]

If the serial number is 6100 then it is not a 1964 model. That number would make it a late 65 at the earliest. To be a 64 model the serial number would have to below 490

 

[Simon6101]

Still a very good score

 

[indiucky]

I've got a 1969 in the shop right now...I had a recent one as well...We loved comparing the two together to see how well made those early ones were..

Metal trigger group, metal butt plate, walnut stock, no warning on top of the barrel, and the receiver didn't look as if it had been painted....

Very nice firearms from that era...Congrats....

 

[pitbulld45]

Thats pretty cool, I like to get old guns like that, hold them and wonder what they have done and where they have been.

 

[luger fan]

I am at 2134X Don't know year but I bought it used in 1970's.

 

[Simon6101]

Lugerfan Your Serial number would be at the very end of 1965. 1966 model started with a little above 22000

 

[luger fan]

Lugerfan Your Serial number would be at the very end of 1965. 1966 model started with a little above 22000

Thanks so much. It has been as reliable you expect a machine to be.

 

[luger fan]

I've got a 1969 in the shop right now...I had a recent one as well...We loved comparing the two together to see how well made those early ones were..

Metal trigger group, metal butt plate, walnut stock, no warning on top of the barrel, and the receiver didn't look as if it had been painted....

Very nice firearms from that era...Congrats....

Ah yes. The days of REAL wood and REAL metal. I do miss then.

 

[Hookeye]

Real wood.........is that birch or walnut?

Real metal..........aluminum or something else?
(AMT had their 10/22 clones in stainless).

The aluminum Ruger uses for their 10/22 receivers is pretty soft.
That and folks cranking screws above recommended.........has scope base holes often stripped.
Brownells has the tap and screws to fix it, where your scope base need not be machined.

FWIW my '67 standard had an incorrectly inlet stock..........had been jacked since the start (I fixed it with some sanding at the front of bbl channel).
Damn thing was a shotgun, huge forend pressure. Sanded to proper it then shot OK.
Did not experiment with lesser pressure.

My '95 was alloy trigger group. Had POS birch mannlicher stock though.

Looked possibly tolerable until I laid it next to my #1 RSI..........which has the most bland walnut of any #1 I've ever seen.
Made the birch look like dog crap.

So the '95 action became my builder. It had the bbl going into the receiver straight.