Everyone should own a .22?
- Thread starter grimreefer
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You have your location listed as "Victoria" - once you get outside city limits anywhere on the Island, you can hardly throw a stick without hitting a spot where you can do a bit of plinking off an old logging road or lease.
And if you have a hankering to shoot gophers, just take a drive up the Fraser Valley on the old Canada #1, and once you start heading east of Cache Creek, there's plenty of arid open range with plenty of gophers.
Is either one something you can do on any given Sunday? Probably not. But even if you only get out once or twice a year, there's something deeply refreshing about plinking and target practice outside the confines of a range. You can be a lot more imaginative about the types of shooting you do.
Also, its a sneaky way of getting the wife involved. Take her for a picnic out in the bush, and kill some time in the afternoon popping pine-cones of the top of tree stumps.
Wise choice. Mumble under your breath about it when she's not paying attention, and when she answers with a distracted "mmm-hmmm..." take that as your excuse so you can legitimately say "But we discussed this, you must have forgotten." After the first few dozen times I did this, my wife doesn't even bother asking about guns coming into the house anymore. She just accepts that they're part of the landscape of our relationship now.
Wise choice. Mumble under your breath about it when she's not paying attention, and when she answers with a distracted "mmm-hmmm..." take that as your excuse so you can legitimately say "But we discussed this, you must have forgotten." After the first few dozen times I did this, my wife doesn't even bother asking about guns coming into the house anymore. She just accepts that they're part of the landscape of our relationship now.
LOL this kind of works for me too. Only problem is I bought a Glock for her because she likes Glocks, I got her a Glock 22 so we would have another caliber in the house (see how these ulterior motives can help) but when she called the CFO to confirm the transfer, they asked her what caliber it was ans she didn't know because she tunes me out when I talk guns. Needless to say the transfer took a bit longer lol. These tactics do work with wives, but can have a way of backfiring sometimes. Try to convince her to get an RPAL, helped alot in my situation (mostly.)
LOL this kind of works for me too. Only problem is I bought a Glock for her because she likes Glocks, I got her a Glock 22 so we would have another caliber in the house (see how these ulterior motives can help) but when she called the CFO to confirm the transfer, they asked her what caliber it was ans she didn't know because she tunes me out when I talk guns. Needless to say the transfer took a bit longer lol. These tactics do work with wives, but can have a way of backfiring sometimes. Try to convince her to get an RPAL, helped alot in my situation (mostly.)
thepolinator
CGN frequent flyer
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- Sudbury, ON
I was pretty sure they found an sks and it still worked after 2000 years
grimreefer
Regular
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- Vancouver Island
Definitely open to that. Thanks for the heads up on the lower deal...I see it now.
Would definitely like to spend some time out in the bush. Right now with my schedule and two toddlers the range is the far easier option as it's only 15 minutes away. They don't allow blowing up fruit with a 12 gauge however, so yeah...
At first the wife questioned "needing" a rifle in the first place. Then she shot it a few times, and to her surprise she liked it a lot more than the pistol. She actually suggested upgrading to another rifle for reliability after we had some extractor issues. Notice I said "upgrade"...so one step at a time.
Everyone should have several 22 s just for cheap range time alone
i have 3 marlin xt bolt . marlin 795 ss semi and a mossberg 715t tacticool for kicks
always good fun when your done throwin 50 cent to 1.00 rounds down range
i have 3 marlin xt bolt . marlin 795 ss semi and a mossberg 715t tacticool for kicks
always good fun when your done throwin 50 cent to 1.00 rounds down range
Maybe you don't have the RIGHT .22? Have you ever gotten to try anyone's lever action .22 or a pump action .22?
For fun shooting a .22 also needs to be mated to the right sort of target. Not all of us find it's enough to just perforate paper. But put a Birchwood Casey flip and and reset 5 paddle steel target out at 25 yards and start plinking it with iron sights from a standing position and there's a whole new challenge and fun to be had when we see those paddles flip and and go away.
In the end though it's up to you. Your tastes are changing and that's fine. Just keep an open mind and you might find that there's fun to be found in some other .22 when the time is right.
For fun shooting a .22 also needs to be mated to the right sort of target. Not all of us find it's enough to just perforate paper. But put a Birchwood Casey flip and and reset 5 paddle steel target out at 25 yards and start plinking it with iron sights from a standing position and there's a whole new challenge and fun to be had when we see those paddles flip and and go away.
In the end though it's up to you. Your tastes are changing and that's fine. Just keep an open mind and you might find that there's fun to be found in some other .22 when the time is right.
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- West Quebec
This it's always handy to have a 10/22 around
Oddly agree with you there, even though I'm not a fan of the 10/22. Haven't even pulled mine out of the cabinet in a couple years - I have better, more accurate, .22's, so it just keeps falling off the rotation.
But sell it? For what I'd get for it, it really wouldn't make a dent in my budget. And you never know, I keep thinking I'm going to "do something" with it (ie: retarded mods just because I can kind of thing).
grimreefer
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- Vancouver Island
I showed my wife this thread and laid out the options and approx costs for new/used/build AR. I got to the build option and she said "Oh that's perfect for you...then you won't get bored so quickly."
