I had an old Remington 22lr rifle with a composite stock when I was 11 years old, 1967. We usually shot small game & turtle head in the tank. It stayed home when I joined the Navy in 1974. My younger cousin ended up with it & I didn’t have the heart to take it away
Last year I bought a Rossi RS22. It’s an inexpensive simple semiautomatic with 10 round mags. It has very nise fiber sights. I bought a 3x9x40 scope & used high rings do I could use the open sights. I also bought two 25 round mags which feed very well. Its a cheap rifle that works very well!!! I love it. I paid $139.00 for it & it’s just fun to shoot. I bought it for no other reason than I missed having a 22 rifle. I also have two 22lr pistols
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Thanks everyone for your input! I ended up getting this 10/22 takedown with stainless steel barrel, and four 25 round mags.
Check out the top of the hill beginning around 12:35 in the video. 
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My brother and I were kicking around the idea of a 10/22 when we stumbled onto this😎
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Ended up skipping the 5.7x28.
Got a Henry lever in 22lr, a ruger charger, and a Mark 4 22/45 lite in purple which is now a Christmas gift for my wife…
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Get some 40 grain round nose. Most everything else has a tendency to jam in the only one I had experience with.
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Pretty good price for CCI mini mags at $0.08/rnd at Targetsportsusa.com
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I have a Mark 4 Tactial, has shot everything ive put through it…
My primary target ammo is federal auto-match though…
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I was lucky in that one was handed down to me as an heirloom. Might have never joined our ranks had I not.
So I’m not qualified to answer. But from what I know today, if I didn’t have one, I’d buy one.
Lots of great reasons here on our boards.
For me, and in my region:
Availability
Lower costs
Different models
Light weight
Hunting small game
Not as loud (not a big fan of loudness)
Can accompany a handgun in same caliber/companion piece (no pun intended)
I read up on some gun laws and found there are less restrictions on .22 than other higher calibers.
Good for self training, teaching others.
On the down side is the less reliability of the ammo, it being rim-fire. But if one can safely work around that, in a rifle, it can be a useful option I think.
For .22 rifle, I prefer bolt, or lever, than semi-auto, again due to the occasional dud. Remember friends, keep that rifle pointed in a safe target direction, for that minute, in case it goes boom a minute later.
Different grip angle? I just remember her 22/45 being picky on ammo.
The mark 4 tactical is the traditional grip angle, all metal, and about 10oz heavier than their mark4 22/45 lites which have a poly 45 grip, and ported shroud for the barrel vs the bull barrel…
A fun .22 i was able to pick up is a Sears and Roebuck JC Higgins 101.16 .22lr/l/s which is tube fed, and can be used in semi-auto or bolt action, a Gill Gun. One of my favorite 22 rifles…
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For the price of approx. 6 boxes of 5.7x28 you can buy a new 10/22!
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For $240 in 5.7 you can get a new 10/22?
I know for the FFL I go too, a basic 10/22 is about 282 dealer cost.
A 50 round box of 5.7 will set you back $70 with sales tax.
About $40 a box for me.
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Shipping?
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I put ten boxes in my cart along with five items already in there and the shipping cost is $16.30
Midway does free shipping deals pretty frequently as well.
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Mine I would be buying locally, ammo and all, but then I get a little bit better deal.
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I have been around firearms for 30+ years, but am a fairly new gun owner ( past few years). I originally bought a Ruger 10/22 because I felt that I needed to have a .22 rifle in my collection, and later added a Ruger Wrangler (cause I got a really good deal), as well as a Taurus TX-22. To this day, the 10/22 and the TX-22 are two of my most frequently used firearms, because they are so fun to shoot, ammo is cheap, and they are great guns to train new shooters.
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