What Do You Do With Your Old Parts

[AzShooter1]

There are many upgrades you can make to a Ruger 10-22 whether it be for speed or accuracy. Over time I'll bet you all have a number of parts that you no longer need and are just laying around.

I found an old trigger group that's been lost in the garage for about 15 years the other day. My friend gave me a new 10-22 and it has a 6.5 pound trigger pull. My garage find had been tuned by me years ago before I put a 2 stage Kidd trigger in my build so I have the other kit.

Works out it's nice and has a 3 1/4 pound trigger. Not great but a big improvement.

I'm thinking I need a new barrel. The one on the rifle now is a Clark 16 inch .920 barrel and it's very heavy. Anyone have a light barrel that they'd like to donate to an old man with limited funds?

 

[contender]

When I tinker on my guns & swap out parts,, I mark the parts with a tag,, with the gun's info on it so if necessary,, they can be re-installed & put the gun back to "as shipped" condition.
Other parts that I buy are my only spares!

 

[KIR]

I give them to my sons to deal with. They are more mechanically inclined than I am.

 

[Randyzzz]

I have a couple factory original barrels. I believe one still has the factory sights installed. I also have the matching original stock and box.

Are you wanting to keep the heavy barrel?

Let me know if you're interested- I can get pics tomorrow.

 

[AzShooter1]

I want to keep the heavy barrel for when I'm ready to die. I want to give the gun back to my friend's daughter in the shape it was when he gave it to me.

Let me know about the barrels. Thanks.

 

[Randyzzz]

I want to keep the heavy barrel for when I'm ready to die. I want to give the gun back to my friend's daughter in the shape it was when he gave it to me.

Let me know about the barrels. Thanks.

Had family here all day. I'll dig them out today.

 

[Watertender]

I may have a factory original barrel with sights. Let me look in my stash and see. We are remodeling the house so things are moved all over. If I have one it's yours.

 

[arfmel]

What Do You Do With Your Old Parts

I wash them with soap when I shower every night, then dry them thoroughly with a towel…oh, you're talking about old firearm parts…never mind.

 

[Randyzzz]

I'm having a heck of a time finding the barrels. I thought they were in the boxes with the stocks- but I was wrong. I must have put them somewhere else. There's an off chance I sold them already too. I did a pretty big purge of stuff I haven't touched in years back a few. Sorry…

 

[AzShooter1]

Thanks for looking. Sometimes It's hard to keep up with all that stuff.

 

[bobski]

you better do something with them now...or youll end up like me and a thousand other gun nuts, with a basement full of stuff collecting dust. that nobody wants!

 

[Snake45]

I've been down this very path so many times with 1911s that I had a cigar box full of castoff "stock" and "inferior" parts that had been on five or six different guns that I'd built up and ended up replacing. I decided to build one more 1911 just to use all this "junk" up and then leave it alone. So I got one more aftermarket frame (a steel Essex) and built one up, and "finished" it with spray paint because the frame came through in purple and it clashed with the GI Parkerized slide.

And the punchline of the story is, that stupid, cigar-box 1911, made with castoff and reject parts that had cost me almost literally nothing, turned out to be THE most accurate 1911 I've ever shot.

 

[GasGuzzler]

Specifically on my 10/22: The parts are all in the original box. I can put it all back like factory (but there's no reason to).

All others in in Zip-Lok bags in a storage container.

 

[AzShooter1]

I got mine as a build from a friend without most of the OEM parts. Good thing it shoots great I hope it never has to go back to Ruger.
I do have enough parts to help a friend build up their 10 22 if asked.

 

[AzShooter1]

All but new barrel installed. TacSol lightweight. Will test shoot it Tuesday.

 

[AzShooter1]

Ended up having everything but a new receiver so I bought a blem from S&P for $ 69. It came in today and I can't for the life of me see anything wrong with it.
Had the trigger from an old build about 15 years ago and all the miscellaneous parts so I'm building a target setup now with the Clark barrel.
I'll be able to use all my old parts on this second build but I'm sure that won't stop me for a future one.

 

[Hvymax]

Random zip lock bags and boxes deposited in miscellaneous locations.

 

[NC FNS]

Small box, not too many in there so I probably remember what most of them go to.

 

[wproct]

I have some plastic bags of them in my workshop in the basement. I try to not ever look at them, just reminds me of the dollars that I have needlessly spent. Once you buy them, they are not worth pennies on the dollars spent.

 

[Hvymax]