By Tom McHale
USA –-(Ammoland.com)- We’ve just completed an epic building project. Successfully. Without bleeding. Or parts left over.
Over the past couple of months, we’ve been working with the great folks at Ruger and Brownells to customize a stock Ruger 10 22 Carbine. It’s now a fancy race rifle. A glamorous gun. A fantastic firearm. A phantasmagorical plinker. You get the idea.
Ruger graciously donated the rifle, and the always generous Brownells team donated the parts, and more importantly, the expertise for the project.
Our role was simply to be average and build this custom Ruger 10/22. Being average, mechanically inclined, and generally untalented was not at all hard for us, as most gunsmithing projects around here end badly – usually with a large Ziploc of parts being delivered to a genuine gunsmith. But one of the primary ideas behind the project was to see how much can be done to customize a Ruger 10/22 without special tools or knowledge. The other main objective was to document the process so our readers could see exactly how to customize their own Ruger 10/22’s.
Fortunately, we picked the right platform – the Ruger 10/22 – and the right partners – the Brownells Gun Tech Team. This combination of an easy-to-customize rifle platform, and always ready advice and expertise made a positive end result inevitable. Even for us.
You see, a quality outcome for the project was a critical objective because as much as we wanted to keep this rifle, it was destined for greater things. Last week, we sent it off to Ruger for final cleanup and photography. Now it’s listed for auction on Gunbroker.com.
The best part? 100% of the proceeds are being donated to Project Valour-IT. In case you’re not familiar, Project Valour-IT is a group within the fantastic Soldiers Angels organization that aims to provide voice-controlled/adaptive laptop computers and other technology to support Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines recovering from hand wounds and other severe injuries.
This is a great cause and we’re glad to help them out.
Now you too can help Project Valour-IT and obtain a fantastic rifle in the process. Ruger will ship the customized rifle to the winner’s FFL for the delivery along with all of the original parts and a signed letter of authenticity.
You can read all about the Ruger 10/22 customization process and the parts used.
More importantly, head on over to Gunbroker.com and place your bid!
About Tom McHale
Tom McHale describes himself as a conservative gun-totin’ bible-clingin’ literary assault dude who enjoys finding humor in just about anything. His web blog My Gun Culture is an irreverent, twisted look at gun news bordering on the ridiculous. It covers shootin’ stuff, loud noises, defending your own, the occasional mall ninja, and about 200 years of the American way. “These are the (partially) true stories of… My Gun Culture” says Tom. Visit: www.mygunculture.com
