RE: CAN ANYONE HELP ME
My thoughts on this: Either contact local gunsmiths and find out if you can order through them (unlikely), or buy a used gun. You could also buy a new gun, strip off all of the parts you don't want, keep what you think you might be able to use should something break, and sell the rest to a gunsmith.
Walmart has new whole stainless rifles for under $200, I can't honestly phathom that you can buy a bare action for less than that ANYWHERE.
Another thing I'll comment on: If you're wanting to build a "custom rifle" worthy of that title, you've got to redefine your budget...as in "unlimited" budget that is. Putting an aftermarket stock and bbl combo on a 10/22 doesn't make your rifle a custom, it makes you just like 20,000 other guys who went the cheap and easy route to get a rifle that they think no one else has in which case they're wrong still.
Here's my advice. Go to walmart, buy their stainless all weather model, and buy an aftermarket synthetic stock or a laminate wood stock (thumbhole preferred) that you can honestly customize and composite "heavy bbl" and have it professionally free floated and glass bedded, have a Volquarsten trigger installed, buy several "hot lips" 30rnd magazines from cabelas and a few extra 10rnd rotary mags from ruger. Buy Ruger's target blocks for the 10/22, and get a set of Ruger rings to go with them. Buy a Leupold rifle scope with 4-16x or 3-9x magnification. You'll have a HOT rifle, and be able to do anything in the world that a .22 is capable of. Before the scope you'd have about $600 in the rifle depending on how many mags you buy, but you could sell the bbl and stock to a gunsmith if you don't want to keep it, probably the trigger group as well, which would get you a few bucks back.
I'm not honestly sold on converting the 10/22 mag into a 10/17 mag, but whatever.
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