Quick ?, if im buying a ruger 10/22, is it a carbine. actually, while ima t it, what does carbine mean? that always confused me. do i have to look for a specifically carbine ruger 10/22, or should most of them be carbine.

geter

10/22 is the same across the board. pick one you loike, or a cheap on and mode it out as you like.

Actually...No. Thery were all marked "carbine" until Walmart had one of thier special runs made with a stainles model having a 22" bbl. The recievers were marked "rifle". I'm not 100% but believe some of the current cataloged models are so marked as well depending on the bbl length. Ruger makes the standard 18 1/2" carbine that most are well aware of, the RR model which has a 20" bbl and the Compact which has a 16 1/8" bbl. Which moel you choose depends on what you want. Leave it as is...get the model you want it as. Buying as a basis to build into something different, buy the least expensive one you find.

Carbine just means.... Light weight, short barrelled repeating rifle.

As far as the inner workings of a 10-22 are concerned all of them are exactly the same. The differances come when you start choosing the type of stock, barrel length, stainless or blued, etc.....

thanks for clearing that up. well, lol, either way i just went to dicks 2nite and bought myself one, a ruger 10/22 carbine rifle. I want tochange the stock, there is one on the cabelas website, under shooting acessories -grips...etc,will this one be sufficient?i think it is, but it only says "Advanced Technology (ATI) Ruger 10/22 Dragunov Fiberforce Stock
$54.99, is this good? i guess it is but since it doesnt say carbine i dont want to buy wrong item
geter

So, if I were to get a carbine, I can put a longer barrel on it, right?

If you get a ruger 10/22 you can put any barrel in the world made for the 10/22