r/canadaguns • u/NoGrapefruit1213 • May 22 '26

Gun and gear reviews Ruger 10/22 archangel nomad

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I had one of these years ago and like a fool sold it. I stumbled upon one a few weeks ago and jumped on picking it up. They are neat I’ll give them that. Bit heavy a lot of work for assembly but overall pretty cool. Fit and finish I’d give 8/10 there’s good sized gaps where the case halves fit together and the iron sights are awful. I decided to through a red dot on but the sights obstruct the view so they had to go. I modeled some filler parts and here we are. Next up I might toss my 10” barrel back on pin the folding stock and find a 36c forend the mag sleeves are printed aswell as the barrel shroud as the one it came with was almost impossible to get on/off

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u/Whispersfine May 22 '26

Thought about it, pain in the ass to clean, passed.

Nice looking tho.

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u/NoGrapefruit1213 May 22 '26

Thanks! Yeah my experience with any 10/22 is it requires minimal cleaning and most of it can be done assembled any 10/22 I have will run dirty and any ammo you put through it.

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u/Status_Ticket5044 May 23 '26

My 10/22 is in an ATI AR22 plasti-chassis that's a pain to disassemble but 1) I figured out how much NOT to disassemble and still clean thoroughly, and 2) usually just swab everything out after use and it'll go 1500 rounds until the ejectors start to clog up.

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u/ParanoiaDreamland May 25 '26

What are your tips for what NOT to disassemble and still clean thoroughly?

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u/Status_Ticket5044 May 25 '26

Well it's not by the book thorough but I lock the bolt open and spray a bunch of G96 Gun Treatment up and down the bore and draw a snake through it chamber to muzzle a couple of times. Then a few passes with clean, G96 soaked patches til they are grey, not black. A pass with a G96 soaked bore mop. Then swab out everything you can reach with big and small Qtip type swabs and blue shop towels. Bolt face, extractors, chamber face, inside the mag well. Whatever you can get black off of. Finally wipe off the tops and followers of your mags with a G96 soaked shop cloth. Rewipe everything with dry shop towels to get any excess ooze. Save solvents til you go complete tear down.

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u/Status_Ticket5044 May 25 '26

https://youtu.be/Ihtdhj3gC6s?si=2vXkXmmASnrvRNXG Get past this guy's moaning and complaining and he has helpful advice for partial disassembly to do a full clean.

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u/ParanoiaDreamland May 27 '26

thank you! Also, did you also have an issue with the buffer tube tabs not aligning properly with the chasis?

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u/zaphodbssecondhead May 22 '26

Looks poorly made tbh 

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u/NoGrapefruit1213 May 23 '26

It’s a 10-15 year old design from promag. there’s much better ways to make these forsure. It’s too bad they didn’t redesign it

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u/chillyrabbit May 23 '26

The "real" G36 22lr is amazing and blows the 10/22 chassis out of the water.

If it ever gets unbanned look into the Walther HK G36

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u/NoGrapefruit1213 May 23 '26

Oh I can imagine it would lol

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u/NoGrapefruit1213 May 23 '26

The rail is already high enough as is adding a riser not only looks goofy it ensures you would have chin weld lol

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u/Chroniverous May 24 '26

You don't need Carmel! We have Carmel at home!

The Carmel at home.

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u/NoGrapefruit1213 May 24 '26

We don’t need g36. We have g36 at home. The g36 at home… lol that Carmel is interesting but not 2500$ interesting