Several years ago I was eyeballing a Ruger 96-22 in a local establishment. It was priced somewhere near or at $300. The rifle was on teh rack for months and I wanted it BAD but wasn't gonna pay the asking price and they wouldn't budge. One Saturday I walked in and the rifle was gone. Tim asked if I was still interested in the 96-22 and I acknowledged. He said "Well here it is and a guy is gone to get money to buy it because he dropped it. It dinged the stock and broke the front sight off. I'll take $175 out the door for it". I paid the man. My intent all along was to hog the barrel channel out and replace the factory pencil barrel with a TacSol fluted/threaded 10-22 barrel. And that's how she is now. I had to cut an additional slot in the breech to accommodate the cartridge support in the 96 bolt but the Dremel took care of that. She's a quiet, squirrel killing machine now.

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Get the F out of the BATFE. The F is guaranteed by the US Constitution. Those other letters are not.

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