today's project is this is my wife's standard off-the-rack Ruger 10/22 I've
had I've done absolutely nothing to it and she shot it the other day and zero
the scope and really liked its accuracy but uh what I'm doing today is taking
this tapered barrel Clarke barrel and I'm going to put it on my wife's gun
then I'm going to remove the trigger group and I'm going to do a really nice
trigger job on it for and I'm not going to tell her and I guarantee she won't
even notice he's got a high-dollar Barrel on there and a trigger job but
she will notice that it went from 1-inch groups down to half-inch groups and yeah
I'm gonna have to endure a whole bunch of bragging about what a good shot she
is but it'll be funny to see her not even notice that she's got a aftermarket
barrel and a trigger job and I'm going to disassemble the gun and swap the
things out and then as I do the trigger job I'll show you how it's done
to remove a 1022 barrel you remove the entire thing from the stock there's just
one screw that holds it in and this V block here is the only thing that holds
the Barrel in so you undo them hex head bolts right there to them
you pull the V block off and then you grab a hole then you twist and pull this
barrel out
okay there's the barrel removed there's the Vblock that holds it in that away
there's the two screws now I'm going to remove the trigger group assembly from
the receiver and the way you do that is there's two pins that have to be punched
out right there right there it doesn't require much effort they're just going
to be knocked out this will pop right out
and then this bigger pin you had to remove to take the bolt out which I'm
going to do on my wife's gun but not this gun I'll get to that okay here's
how you remove the trigger assembly from the receiver press off this pin this pin
and this pin is so you can remove the bolt
did it hard to do looking through the viewfinder
alright I'll get that later there's the trigger assembly
now I've got to disassemble all those little Springs and washers and
everything inside that trigger housing and then I'm going to put a over travel
adjustment screw coming in from the back of this trigger guard and it will touch
this trigger so you can adjust the over travel that's just something that makes
it a little more accurate and disturbs their rifle less when you're making a
shot and how to turn the camera off to get this out in these two hands I'll
show you how to take the bolt out and set okay that that last pin had to come
out so this bolt could be moved all the way back and you raise raise it up pull
it out that's inside of it it fits in that little space right there when I put
this back together I'll have my wife come out and hold the camera so I can
show you how it goes back together those are the parts you are completely
disassembled and then what I do a little modification I make the only way you can
clean this thing without going through the muzzle end and you don't want to do
that and the reason is it messes up the crown by cleaning through the muzzle so
there's two ways to clean this burrow without risking any damage to the crown
on the muzzle and that's to remove the barrel or what I do is I drill a hole
back here where I can put the cleaning role rod through the back end of this
receiver without having to remove the barrel because once you get this thing
all sited in if you remove the barrel when you put it back together it will be
slightly off and don't have to some minor modifications and I'll show
you that when I get to a two here's another observation inside this receiver
it's got overspray all on the bottom of this receiver and the bolt rides back
and forth on that overspray eventually the movement to this bolt will wear
through that overspray but I'm going to take steel wool buff that up real good
on the bottom of that receiver where the bolt travels and it'll make the bolt
travel smoother and a little faster and I don't know if you can see the shiny
areas on this I'll point to them where the bolt actually rubs against the top
of the receiver that's this area this area this and this then the bolt handle
fits in there and you can see where it rubs here also so what I'm going to do
is polish these areas these two in the back of that so the bolt will move
faster and smoother and then the last little modification that I make there's
a little lesson on how these things work you probably know if you've gotten this
far then you know how these things work the back end of this bolt is somewhat
squared it's nowhere near rounded enough when this gun fires a bolt travels
backwards hits that locks it
back in its firing position like that and you can see in the back end of the
book where it's shiny that's where it hits the hammer and what I do is
decrease or increase the radius on this I put a nice rounded edge back here
where the inertia of the bolt coming backwards isn't lost just knocking this
hammer down and more of the spring can be used to throw the bolt back forward
to pick up a bolt and slam it into the chamber having a bolt properly seated in
the chamber as goes a long way towards accuracy and these little modifications
every little thing you do to these Ruger 10/22 s increase the accuracy just a
little bit at a time and next thing you know you've got a stock rifle with a
little bit of your time and effort you've taken an inch and a half inch and
a quarter group down to 3/4 to possibly half an inch with the right ammunition
plus it's fun to do I like tinkering with the 10 22s I just love these guns
so until I get my wife out here there's not much more I can show you I'm going
to disassemble this and get to polishing I suppose I could show you that but I
won't be able to show you how to disassemble this that's something you'll
have to get a schematic and take it apart and put it together it's not
complicated just a lot of little Springs and washers and I'll need two hands to
do that so I can video can't record it so that's it until I get my wife out
here to show you some other things to hold the camera while I'm doing it and
that's pretty much it okay I got the back of the bolt all polished up
I've got the paint taken out of the receiver
wherever the bolt rides the I've removed the paint and polished it with my dremel
some jewelers Rouge a very very fine grit sandpaper let's see that's 400 I
knocked it down with a 400 grit and then I polished it with my Dremel tool same
thing with the back of the bolt here so that's going to go a long way in making
this thing at the very least it decreases with a lock time and the
inertia more of the inertia of the bolt is used to pick up a bullet and push it
into the chamber a couple more things to do
drill the hole in the back of that polish up my trigger group putting it
back together okay I've radiused the back end of that
bolt where it hits the hammer now I'm going to polish the front edge of this
hammer where it rides against the bottom of the bolt okay there's the empty
trigger housing on these are the parts you need to have access to please let me
remember how this goes back together okay here we go these two areas here
that edge and this edge I have removed metal
before but I'm not going to do that this time all I'm going to do is polish the
heck out of these and it may not bring the actual weight trigger pull weight
down but it will make it a much much smoother trigger and between that and
then putting an over travel adjustment screw on the back end of the trigger
right here it'll make a big difference and then I'm also going to polish the
face of this bolt here the hammer rather so when the bolt goes over it the two
smooth surfaces will really work well all right I'm going to get to polishing
okay I've drilled it tapped it there's Mattacks there's my over-travel
screws and there it is and I'll show you how it works when I get the trigger in
well it took me a while I got it all back together and I realized they had a
part left a little spring-loaded plunger behind the trigger there anyway it's
together and there is my over-travel adjustment and I'll put this in the gun
set that over travel adjustment put a little lock tight on it put my Barrel on
it and my wife is going to have completely customized gun and she's not
even going to know it okay there we are $200 Clark barrel the hole I drilled on
the back of the receiver to clean clean it with that you can't see it once it's
in the stock I got my over-travel screw adjusted now let's go out in the back
and throw five rounds to it just to make sure the trigger is going to lock up and
not become automatic real quick oh yeah well that was a fun little project and
now I can't wait to go shooting with my wife and she's going to sit down at the
bench and her groups are going to be about half the size they were and the
gun is just going to be jam free and flawless and the trigger pull is going
to be nice and smooth and she's uh she's just going to say oh man I'm really
shooting good today but she won't know a thing unless somebody tells her because
she doesn't watch my videos