I was swapping stocks on a pair of Ruger 10\/22 rifles today. I replaced both stocks and was doing a function test.I tried the safety….and rather than the usual ‘click’, the safety just kinda slid over to the side…almost out of the receiver. Hmm. Okay, let me move it to the off position and see if it works…nope. So the safety was moving weirdly and the hammer wouldn’t drop. Hmmm.<\/p>\n
Alright, curiosity gets the better of me. I pop the pins and look in the receiver. Here’s where problem one comes in – to see down to where the safety button is you pretty much have to remove everything in between. Which, as you can imagine, is a tremendous pain in the ass.<\/p>\n
Turns out, this is not a unique problem<\/a>. It seems that if you put the push-button safety in a halfway position, in order to facilitate a stock change, you may rotate the safety to the point where the notches for the detents and notch for the sear become swapped around. I had no idea.<\/p>\n On the bright side, I learned how to strip a 10\/22 receiver down to the very last part.<\/p>\n As an aside, Sportsmans Warehouse has Ruger 10\/22 rifles on sale for $180<\/a>. And Cabelas will price match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was swapping stocks on a pair of Ruger 10\/22 rifles today. I replaced both stocks and was doing a function test.I tried the safety….and rather than the usual ‘click’, the safety just kinda slid over to the side…almost out … Continue reading