New For 2025: Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber

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posted on January 15, 2025
Ruger 1022 CF 01
Images courtesy of Ruger.

The Ruger 10/22 has not only become one of the most widely produced .22 rimfires rifles ever made, its pattern has become the de-facto pattern for a box-magazine fed, semi-automatic rimfire rifle. Not one to be flattered by imitation, Ruger continues to expand and improve its 10/22 line-up with models like the new-for-2025 10/22 Carbon Fiber.

The 10/22 Carbon Fiber gets its name from its 16.1” barrel, which utilizes a cold hammer-forged stainless steel “core” around which is wrapped a tensioned carbon fiber sleeve. This combination gives a barrel with the rigidity, but not the weight, of a heavy bull barrel and its muzzle is threaded 1/2x28 TPI. The fire control unit is Ruger’s BX trigger, and the rifles are fed with the legendary 10/22 10-round rotary box-magazine. 

Left side of the Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber equipped with a Magpul stock.The Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber combines a carbon-fiber wrapped barrel and Magpul MOE X-22 stock with the legendary 10/22 action to make the lightest 10/22 to ever leave the factory.

The Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber will come in two configurations. The first comes in a Magpul MOE X-22 stock with a speckle finish, two M-Lok slots in the six o’clock position on the fore-end, and built-in quick-detachable sling swivel studs.

Right side of the Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber equipped with a Gray Birch modular chassis.Two additional 10/22 models come from Ruger’s custom shop. Their custom-machined action is place in a Grey Birch modular chassis.

The second is a match-grade version that comes from Ruger’s Custom Shop. It features a receiver that is CNC-machined from heat treated and stress relieved 6061-T6511 aluminum and given a hard-coat anodized finish, and a nitride-finished match bolt. The receiver has a rear cleaning port, which allows cleaning the barrel from the chamber end, and an integral, optics-ready 30-m.o.a. Picatinny rail. Its carbon fiber-wrapped barrel has a match-grade chamber, a muzzle brake and a top barrel locator, which allows it to free-float.

The barreled action is placed in a Grey Birch modular chassis. Its 10” fore-end has both M-Lok slots, QD swivel spigots and Swiss-Arca compatibly. At the rear, the chassis is compatible with AR-15-style grips and comes with MOE-K installed. The buttstock assembly has adjustable length-of-pull and cheekpiece height and folds for compact storage. This model will be available in both right and left-handed versions and comes in a hard case.

Left side of the all-black Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber inside a Grey Birch modular chassis.The Custom Shop 10/22 Carbon Fiber is available in both right and left-handed (pictured) versions.

Ruger touts its Carbon Fiber models as the lightest 10/22 the company has ever made, with the Magpul-stocked version weighing 3.5 lbs., or a full pound lighter than the standard synthetic-stocked 10/22. The Custom Shop rifle weighs in at 4.2 lbs. The Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber has an MSRP of $649, and both right and left-handed Custom Shop models have an MSRP of $1,129. For more information, see the company’s website.

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