Im looking to buy a 22 cal rimfire rifle. but i know little about them. what do you recommend I want to stay under $400.00. i just plan on using it for the range.

Ruger 1022, the all time best. Several different variations and some easily fit your price range.

Ruger 10/22 easily one of the toughest and best 22's on the market. They start out somewhere around $180 and can go up to about $240 for the SS Deluxe version with the normal sporter barrel some go higher. You can take the money you saved and get some accesories for it. There are more aftermaket products for the 10/22 then any other 22 out there. I love mine, it shoots great feels great and I haven't changed a thing about it.

Here are a few versions.


Or this


Or upgrade it and get one like this

Yeah, I vote 10/22 as well. I don't have much more than that in mine and it is all tricked out. With just a few mod's you can have a shooter for fairly inexpensive. I think the rifle runs just under 200 stock and if you have 400 you can get one that already had a barrell and stock.....Good Luck on your decision....

I'm a fan of the 10/22 for a plinker, but for pure range work you'd probably be better off with a good bolt rifle. For the same money you're more likely to get a more accurate rifle. In the $400.00 and under range you could get a new CZ 452 or maybe a used 64 actioned Anschutz.

+1 for the 10/22

I just HATE the way a 10/22 sits in your hand like a "beached whale"! (yes i have one) And, they don't always shoot great out of the box either...

I bought this Remington 582 the other day in near unfired condition, with a nice clear Bushnell scope for $175.00.



I'd much rather have it than any 10/22...

The 500 series Remingtons were some of the best rimfires ever made, and most shoot right with the best 22's ever made...

DM

I would go with a Savage myself. Maybe one of these.



Or something like this



Or a basic model for a couple hundred bucks and you could spend the other two hundred on good optics



I have owned a savage MKII and a 93 in 17HMR and both were pretty decent guns for the money, and mine didn't even have the accutrigger system.

Paul

Savage sure has it nailed down in the ugly department....

Lots of good .22's out there, likely too many to glean a consensus from a single website forum.

I can like the 10/22 as well as the 77/22 and have never been disapointed by either one. The Rem 541 is a wicked little rifle as well.

Marlin 39, or maybe a Henry.

My little .22 that I'm pretty partial to now is a Winchester 1885 highwall....

$400 will buy a pretty decent new rifle and two nice used ones.

And a 10/22 isn't? Must be in the eye of beholder because I think stock 10/22's are about the ugliest rifle I have ever seen.

And I honestly can't tell a marlin bolt action and a savage apart without picking them up and looking at them. They are pretty much the same guns to me.

Paul