Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22 LR
Model: 1103
Ruger 10/22 Carbine .22 LR
Model: 1103
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About This Firearm
The Ruger 10/22 Carbine is a hardwood-stocked semi-automatic .22 LR built for plinking and small game. Ruger no longer makes it, so it's a used buy. Its 10-round rotary magazine sits flush with the stock and uses a rotor to keep the cartridges separated.
Iron sights are fitted from the factory, a gold bead front and an adjustable rear, and the box held one rotary magazine and a combination scope base adapter for Weaver-style rings and rimfire tip-off mounts. There is no rail on the receiver. The safety is a push-button cross-bolt, nothing on the rifle adjusts, and the muzzle is not threaded. At 5.00 lbs over 37 inches it is a rifle a child can hold up.
If you're cross-shopping, the Ruger 10/22 Takedown splits into two pieces and came with a carry case, 0.40 lbs lighter in stainless and synthetic, and it is out of production as well. A new Savage 64 has an MSRP of $179 and feeds from a detachable box magazine instead of a rotary one.
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Strengths & Limitations
- The barrel clamps in on a two-screw V-block instead of threading into the receiver, so a replacement barrel is an owner-level swap.
- The trigger housing is glass-filled polymer and the group drops out as a unit, so a replacement trigger is a parts swap.
- The barrel is cold hammer forged, which Ruger lists as standard across the line and not as a premium extra.
- A used rifle without its base adapter cannot take an optic until a base is bought.
- The unthreaded muzzle rules out a rimfire can without having the barrel cut.
- Ruger still catalogs other 10/22 configurations but not this one, so parts and warranty questions go to the line and not to the model.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What magazines fit it?
The 10-round rotary magazine it came with, plus Ruger's larger rimfire magazines for the same action.
What twist rate is the barrel?
1-in-16 right hand, the usual rate for .22 Long Rifle.
How is it different from a Ruger 10/22 Takedown?
Materials and the barrel joint. The Takedown is stainless and synthetic and comes apart without tools, where this rifle is alloy steel and hardwood in one piece, on the same 18.5-inch barrel.
