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Wife had been shopping these for months. Must be 20 variations. I kept telling her it was her gun, get what you want. Only thing I suggested was get a threaded barrel now for a can later. Cheaper than threading later. She finally picked the "Tactical" stainless 16" tube one. Comes with 2 different stock inserts that are held on with a screw on the under side. They give different profiles for the cheek weld which is nice. Comes drilled and tapped with a 1913 rail included. She said she wanted the rail on. Since she was busy I got to try it first. Found right away that the rail is in the way of the sights. I could use them but for the sights and rail to be used together we will really have to put higher sights on it. Will let her decide on that. Slapped a cheapo red dot on it and of course at indoor range it was almost too easy. I was using some Butler Creek Steel lip 25 round mags. Rifle seemed to not care what ammo I used in it. Brought along 6 kinds and it liked them all as far as feeding. Barrel is threaded and they put a (to me) over the top looking flash hider on them. I told Wife I have a few 1/2 x 28 thread protectors she could pick from to use. She said she wanted the flash hider on there. So on it stayed. Had to put some blue Loctite on since it got lose shooting. Comes with an extended mag release already installed, nice. At indoor range .22 rifles are not really my thing but it was fun. Main thing is she likes it and will take it shooting. She has another 10/22 that was a special run for Wally many years ago with a 22 inch tube. This one came with the little back pack thing that holds the rifle taken apart and both stock pieces. Pretty neat little plinker. I will look forward to taking it out to where I can shoot it at some more distance. Main thing is Wife likes it and it will get her to the range for cheap fun.