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It appears that the feeding/removal of cartridges is slightly asymmetrical, leading to the need of distinct magazines:
The shopRuger site has the LH magazines for the same price (list and still $10 more for a 3-pack of RH than my LGS from the last time I looked at 10/22 mags). While it's frustrating to have different magazines, if they actually retail for the same price, I guess it's not not all that bad if seriously wanting one... But stocking up on a few extra magazines would add another good $100 to the buy-in compared to just buying the tube-fed Browning. Even with that, though, I'm not sure if K.F. has space in his yard for another boxcar.
From last time I looked up the SA-22. Reeds had them shipped to the FFL for $630 after discount code, so call it $650 total for a round figure. This is a good $200-250 more for the Ruger with a few extra magazines... so if not doing competitions and also not explicitly wanting magazine-fed, why bother? For my purposes, the $200 is a hard sell for the couple of added features combined with that stock being ugly as sin to me. N.B. Your cost-benefit analysis may be different.
Left-Handed Ruger 10/22 Rifle: One of the Best-Selling .22 Semiauto Goes Southpaw! - Guns and Ammo
Ruger has announced the Model 31110 Left-Hand Competition Rifle. It's a mirror image of the iconic Ruger 10/22 that has only been offered in a right-hand configuration since it was introduced in 1964.
www.gunsandammo.com
The shopRuger site has the LH magazines for the same price (list and still $10 more for a 3-pack of RH than my LGS from the last time I looked at 10/22 mags). While it's frustrating to have different magazines, if they actually retail for the same price, I guess it's not not all that bad if seriously wanting one... But stocking up on a few extra magazines would add another good $100 to the buy-in compared to just buying the tube-fed Browning. Even with that, though, I'm not sure if K.F. has space in his yard for another boxcar.
From last time I looked up the SA-22. Reeds had them shipped to the FFL for $630 after discount code, so call it $650 total for a round figure. This is a good $200-250 more for the Ruger with a few extra magazines... so if not doing competitions and also not explicitly wanting magazine-fed, why bother? For my purposes, the $200 is a hard sell for the couple of added features combined with that stock being ugly as sin to me. N.B. Your cost-benefit analysis may be different.