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Jeff in TX
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What's your favorite .22
Jeff in TX
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It's a lazy rainy Sunday morning out at the ranch. Was sitting on the front porch enjoying the light rain and cool temps. Decided to do some plinking before the Cowboys come on. It's always a no brainer or me as to which .22 I'm going to grab. I have a 10/22 with a fixed 6X on it and I bet I've shot 5 rounds through it in the last 15 years. Then there's my Savage Model 23 .22 Hornet which is my second all time favorite .22. This was my buddies dad's rifle and every time we'd go shooting I'd always manage to snag and just so happened to have a new box of ammo for it. It's just great fun to shoot. It has a fixed 1960's something Weaver 4X and incredibility holds its zero each time I shoot it. His dad left it to me when he passed. But number one by a land slide is the "Queen B" as I call her. My 1960 Belgium made Browning SA .22. My pops got it for me to celebrate my birth that year. It was a few years before I big enough to shoot it, but it love at first sight!
Folks IMHO this is the sexiest .22 ever made! It's just a dream to shoot. She still shoots and feeds as well today as she did when I was a kid! This was a great light weight rifle to carry in the field squirrel and rabbit hunting and did I mention it's just fun to shoot!
So when it's time to go into your gun safe and pick one, which one is your favorite .22 for plinking and hunting.
Folks IMHO this is the sexiest .22 ever made! It's just a dream to shoot. She still shoots and feeds as well today as she did when I was a kid! This was a great light weight rifle to carry in the field squirrel and rabbit hunting and did I mention it's just fun to shoot!
So when it's time to go into your gun safe and pick one, which one is your favorite .22 for plinking and hunting.
Distance is not an issue, but the wind can make it interesting!
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JAY
- George Orwell
I get this totally. I've got a modified 10-22 and it's nice. Got a Cheapo Simmons 3-9x40 on it, but it shoots good enough for me. But for shear comfort and simplicity plus being pretty accurate and a damn good trigger for a store bought right out of the box conditioned 80+ year old rifle, is my Westernfield bolt action 22 that was my maternal grand fathers. It's an old Tubular Magazine bolt gun and it's sweet as sugar. So when I take to the field it's my choice even without a scope.
When I was a kid on my first time ever on a deer hunt, my grand father told me to take his .22 with me. The first morning out my dad knocked down a little 5 point buck and it was still kicking. He told me to finish it off. So I shot it in the ear. Killed it grave yard dead on the spot. That made this gun special for me. And it still is about 58 years later.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
A gift from a friend. It was unfired when I acquired it. It didn't remain so. That is 6 rounds at 10 yards off hand.
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I totally get this :applause: :applause: My pop and grand pap used to tell me to get my .22 when we'd go deer hunting. I was probably 5 or 6. I was always so excited and thought each time out would be the first deer I'd get. Looking back I stood no chance but the feeling I had carrying my own rifle was euphoric! Every now and then they'd let me shoot at a squirrel or rabbit. As i got bigger I got better at hitting them.
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I have used it for the last 30-40 yrs for pest destruction and have put tens of thousands of rounds through it. It will shoot better than any .22 that has been put up against it. It even outshoots Bloodhounds BRNO ( The Norinco is a Chinese made copy of the BRNO)
It looks like crap, has a cheap scope on it, has been attached to the quad when I rolled it, has fallen off the bike on numerous occasions. have even caught the barrel on gate posts as I rode the quad into another paddock.
Its ugly, looks cheap, but will shoots the lights out of every other rimfire I have owned.........I have another 8+ .22's in the safe, but when its time to go dancing, she gets the nod........Always!!
Clean, before she was Clean, dropped it 6 inches on the butt stock
it broke; temp was below zero some where----
anyway it was cold.
Rem put a brown stock on it.
a single six convertible.
Dang, both of you is hard on guns :yikes: :jester:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
As to favorite, depends on what I'm doing. Plinking, 10/22, target, Mossberg or the Higgins. Marlin is the wife's...doesn't see much action.
Pistol...like them all; DAO SAO and semi...always a good day when popping off some 22s.
― Douglas Adams
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Woodsman Match Target Second Model
Shooting sub MOA @ 100 with it is so common, it is boring
First time I tried it @ 100, right after I got it. Shooting Aguila SE Standard velocity The black dot is 1"
10 CCI Velocitors, missed a slight puff of wind on two of them
Some folks watched me shoot a sub 1" @ 130 yards at the SE shoot a few years ago
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Middle is my oldest .22 a Colt Official Police 3 digit XXX sn# made about 1929 and bottom is 22/32 Kit gun model 63 both good shooters.
Top was a Comanche PO crap the frame cracked on at Jerry's.....
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Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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