New Stock

I bought the 10/22 for a possible Appleseed shoot months ago.  Why not?  It's dirt cheap.  Three bills for the gun, a Tech-Sight peep sight, and a coupla 25 round Ruger factory mags.  Ooo, and some sling swivels.  I never intended to tart it up beyond that, desiring to keep the expenditure low.

But MBtGE prefers the M4gery style adjustable butt stocks on his numerous 10/22s and just gave me a folding Choate stock, so what the heck.  Now my 10/22 is backpack size.

Here is one issue:  The swivels I mounted on the original wooden stock, and the Choate's are narrower than full size .mil swivels.  The only sling that fits it is a knock off .mil-standard leather job I have that is pretty tired, and even that is still pretty wide.  I want to be able to sling up properly.  What are my options for old school slings in a new school narrow offerings?  Maybe an M1 Carbine style is narrower, but not having one in my hands to compare to...  Plus I don't know if you can sling up with those.  The ones you can sling up look either too slick or too wide.  Anyone out there solve this problem?

If I give up on slinging up then the sling is pretty much just a way to tote the rifle and there are plenty of options out there for that.

The only disadvantage is a pretty tight fit in the mag well.  It makes removing the empty, flush-mounted 10 round mags problematic.  Not an issue with larger mags.