My 30-YO 10/22 is about to get a new scope and it would benefit from a better trigger. My idea is to start using it for fast target acquisition and engagement practice, and I’d like the pull weight to be in the 3-4 pound range with crisper letoff and reset.

What are your suggestions?

Ruger makes an upgraded trigger called a BX trigger. It is a complete drop in replacement with about a 3# pull, can be found for about $75. I bought one from Midway but you can find them all over the net. It has a plastic housing and trigger shoe, some people don't like that.

Volquartsen makes a replacement hammer pack for about $45, or a complete trigger rebuild kit for about $150.

I have the BX trigger in one rifle and the Volquartsen hammer pack in another. They are both nice triggers at about the 3# range. If my rifle had a metal trigger group that I wanted to keep I would get the Volquartsen hammer. I would also get Volquartsen's replacement bolt release as well, lets you slingshot the bolt forward instead of having to go thru the contortions the standard release requires.

There are other, more expensive triggers that are probably better but I don't have any experience with them.

Edit to add: I bought my first 10-22 last spring so I don't have a long history with them. They are addictive, my first one is stock except for the BX trigger. My second one I put together from parts, it has a carbon fiber barrel and Volquartsen parts in the trigger. I am already thinking about a third with a fluted barrel and maybe a Barracuda style stock?

I would buy the Kidd trigger parts kit and install in your original trigger housing. Very easy to do and you will have a much nicer trigger than anything Ruger has.

Here is a good discussion on rimfire central regarding replacement triggers. Link

I've had my trigger assembly apart and really don't think it is worth the trouble over the drop in Factory BX trigger.

I installed it in a Bicentennial model and figured I'd keep the original intact in case a future buy wanted it that way

I polished up the original trigger in one of my 10/22

I have a BX that is really nice!
I was impressed with a Volquarsen.

For $75~80, toss in the BX.

Volquartsen for target.

Franklin Binary for fun.

I really like the Power Custom set I’ve had for many years.

Probably 2 lbs or so. No issues in many thousands of rounds.

https://powercustom.com/gun-pa...standard_hammer_sear

I went with the full kit with firing pin, bolt handle etc.

KIDD. I have a Kidd Supergrade complete rifle and a Kidd trigger in my 10/22 TD.

Thanks for the replies thus far.

Despite its price, I am attracted by the Kidd offering. Do I understand correctly that although it can be ordered with a preset pull weight, that that can be changed by the user?

Of the other recommendations, which ones allow the pull weight to be user adjusted?

Another vote for volquartsen.

Neither Ruger's BX trigger nor Volquartsen's upgrade parts are user adjustable.

According to Kidd's website, their triggers only work in the polymer trigger housings. Both my 10/22's have metal trigger housings so a Kidd was out of the question.

One has tens of thousands of rounds through it and the factory trigger is quite tolerable. The other has a Volquartsen kit in it. Both my Ruger Mark 4 pistols have Volquartsen triggers also and they are very good.

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Originally posted by xl_target:
According to Kidd's website, their triggers only work in the polymer trigger housings.

Thanks!
Something to check.

And thanks for the other replies. I have long said that the shooter should often adapt to the gun.
Perhaps that would be best for me this time.

Hard to say favorite as I have mine set up for different purposes.

Most recent one has a Summit Precision barrel and VQ Firefly bolt for subsonic use, The BX trigger works fine for it.

Another has a Franklin Binary Trigger and is my fun gun.

Two others have Kidd single stage Trigger groups in them and another two have Kidd two stage TGs in them.

Different uses for different guns but no complaints with any of them.

I built one up about 15 years ago with a Volquartsen trigger and it's very, very nice. I recently tried the factory Ruger BX trigger and it's every bit as nice. Of the two, the simplicity of the BX being a factory Ruger drop in product would likely be the way I'd go. It's a Ruger 10/22, not a Winchester Model 52.

I've a plethora of triggers, but the overall winner in the price/performance range for the kind of use you describe is the BX.

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Volquartsen's

I got a killer deal on a Volquartsen it off eBay IIRC.
Night and day difference. It’s not adjustable but for a 10/22 that’s rocking the stock barrel, a magpul stock and bipod, it’ll be just fine.

The BX-25 seems highly regarded. I would pick one up at today’s prices.
Ruger is coming out with a new 10/22 model that comes with the basic upgrades too FYI.

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Originally posted by xl_target:
According to Kidd's website, their triggers only work in the polymer trigger housings.

Kidd sells the 2 stage and single stage drop-in trigger assemblies, which includes the aluminum housing, extended mag release, auto bolt release, etc. Both have adjustable pull weights, but when ordering you can specify the pull weight when shipped.

**edit* I neglected to mention that the above trigger assemblies will drop into any Ruger (or Kidd) receiver.

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I found a Volquartsen TG2000 on a good sale price a while ago and it seems very nice. Normally I would not buy that but it was something like $175.

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