"Liberty Training Rifle" surges into the lead at the Ruger 10/22 Design Contest

By Bob Owens | 11:08 AM | October 28, 2013

I mentioned the Ruger 10/22 design contest last week, and made the case for the rifle designed by Gary from Michigan.

As an Appleseed instructor who sees a lot of 10/22 usage, I view the design choices made here as those that address the most common shortfalls of the platform encountered in our course of fire, which are a substandard mag release, lack of adjustable stock comb height when using scopes, lack of factory sling swivel studs, and archaic factory iron sights. This rifle addresses all of those shortcomings, and throws in an integral picatinny rail mount for optics users.

Apparently enough people (particularly Appleseeders) agreed to have boosted the design into first place… for now.

A lot of folks want a wood-stocked 10/22 takedown, and variants of that basic concept now occupy second and third place.

Still want your voice to be heard?

Head over there and vote now.

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.