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Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 15, 2026

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I'm honestly a big fan of holosun for pistols. The reticle is nice if you have bad eyes.

For your 10/22, how's your accuracy? I did a half-assed home "bedding" job using metallic tape around the inside of the receiver inletting on mine, and it took me from two inch groups at 25 yards to quarter sized groups.

Actually surprisingly bad at 50 yards from what I can tell. You can get everything on the sheet of graph paper I was using, but the grouping is not at all what I was expecting. I can't say for sure because it's not sighted in all the way and I had nothing to aim at in the "center" of the graph paper. I was thinking of getting some circular red adhesive target paper or something to slap in the middle of the paper or something to really have something to center on so I can say for sure that my aim is off. That, or some red marker or something. The spread was mostly horizontal, all over the paper. The vertical was very little, but I think I still have the point of impact slightly too high.

With the rifle unloaded and safe, see if you can "wiggle" the receiver inside the stock. The design of the 10/22 puts a lot of faith in a single machine screw, and if the inletting isn't tight, you can get a lot of movement that hinders accuracy.

Alright. How would you fix it whole-assed? Another job for the gunsmith?

Fixing it whole assed would require a new stock, or bedding your existing stock with epoxy.

Theoretically you can do that job yourself, but it's messy and hard to recover if you do it wrong. I'd go to a gunsmith, personally. They can check the barrel for problems at the same time.

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