Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber Rifle

Weighing just 3.5 pounds, Ruger’s new 10/22 Carbon Fiber rimfire rifle is the lightest-ever factory-produced 10/22. It’s equipped with a 16.1-inch stainless-steel barrel wrapped with a tensioned carbon fiber sleeve, giving it bull-barrel rigidity without the weight. The gun also has a lightweight Magpul MOE-22 synthetic stock with an attractive black-and-white speckle finish, semi-vertical pistol grip, molded-in sling loops and M-LOK slots under the forend. A folding-stock model is also available. The gun’s excellent BX-Trigger breaks cleanly at a pull weight of 2 pounds, 14 ounces, with minimal overtravel and a short, positive reset. The rifle comes with a Picatinny rail for mounting optics and Ruger’s reliable 10-round rotary magazine. In testing, the gun ran without a single failure to feed, fire, extract or eject. Accuracy at 50 yards was quite good for a semiauto rimfire. The gun produced one-inch average five-shot groups with a 22 Long Rifle match load before the wind kicked up to 12 mph, predictably opening up groups a bit with three other tested loads. MSRP is $649, but you can find the rifle at a real-world price of about $500.