Everyone should own a .22?

The correct answer is "NO"!
Not "A" twenty two.
Some 22's..........pluuuurawl.

Fruck', weeeze bin overrun by whipper-snappers........................:runaway:
 
grelmar said:
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).
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+1 It just makes sense to keep it around if it's a plain Jane unit.
 
In my opinion... you'll regret selling the .22

I've got a Rem 597 and she comes out to the farm with me every time. Even if I'm doing some long distance practice with other guns, shooting clays or walking the fence line I bring her out. Despite the fact that .22 rounds have gone up, the .22 is still a relatively cheap way to blow a load.

And one last thing... if you've got kids, it's a great starter gun and cool inheritance. My FOL has his Grandpa's old .22 short and it's pretty cool to shoot a gun that's pushing 100 years old. And let me tell you, it has THE most crisp 1 lbs trigger that I've pulled.
 
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I fully agree with Mr. Slaw, I have a 597 that gets more use than any other rifle I own. Use it to hunt birds, shoot tennis balls at the range, squirrels that won't stay away from the garage... I recently bought a cheap AR, and while it's lots of fun, I keep wincing a little whenever I stock up on ammo for it. Much more relaxing when I shoot all day at the range for the price of a tank of gas for in my truck, then 5 fill ups with the AR. Any semi seems hungry after awhile. If your iffy about the 10/22 try another .22, I'm not a fan of the 10/22, and there are tons of options out there. I've got 9 .22's in the gun room, and they all see more action than the center fire options. Maybe I'm just cheap... By the way, a 12 gauge scratches the recoil itch very nicely for those of us that are tight in the wallet area, lol!
 
I feel for you - not. I probably have 30 .22's, maybe more, and I am not above buying another few, if they strike my fancy. I can't imagine being without a .22 rifle. My humble opinion is to keep the .22. If you are having trouble with money, I could see more of the same after buying an AR. Ammo alone will be way more.
 
My friends sons can make bricks of .22s disappear with my 10/22.

But when I get them hitting 12 gauge hulls at 100 yards with my CZ455 they seem to really get into it and they don't burn through my ammo so quickly.
 
My oldest 22 is a husqvarna rolling block chambered in 22 short.....cute little rifle ,not exactly sure how old but well over 100 years,maybe even in the late 1800's before my grandfather was born .Every time I hold it in my hands or shoot it I think about the craftsman that made it and the care that was put into it and how many people,all long gone have held it,who they were and what they shot with it...it's not just 'another gun' ,but almost a kind of reverence thing...and one day in the not too distant future I shall pass it on to MY grandchildren with the admonition to treat it with respect,use it wisely and think about who owned it before them.....a modern factory made 22 with a synthetic stock that was never touched with human hands will ever compare with it
 
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Clearly 1/3 of the guns I own are 22 Rimfires, one of them is a 22Mag mini-revolver and I'm not including the 17HMR. So out of 40+ guns 15 or so are chambered in 22LR. Keep the Ruger 10/22, it's cheaper to keep her than to replace her later on.
 
How can anyone POSSABLY get by with just 'two' 22's?...I like old stuff,not collectors but shooters,old mossbergs , single shots,rolling blocks, falling blocks , a couple of pumps, bolt actions, a single shot cooey ( for pure nostagia's sake,-shooting gophers up on the 'Bench' in Maple Creek in the early 60's -so much fun I didn't notice the farmers daughter ) no levers (yet) and a couple of semi's .I'm trying ( not very successfully) to only buy stuff older than I am(68).got several Norinco's (NS 522, JW20 ,and a couple of JW15's,one shorty and the other regular length) a very accurate BRNO and a martini cadet .....deciding what 22 to buy is like being a mosquito in a nudist colony-where do you start?

ps -all for sale at my funeral....I just hope she doesn't sell them for what I told her I paid for them..
 
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a little storey about gopher hunting recently. took a 10/22 and a brno bolt action. 22 along. there were 3 of us. my friend took his acr along then sighted it in as myself and the other person went hunting. but when we went shooting gophers together later on, the acr (an amazing gun in its own right) never took a single gopher. it was left in its case. this wasn't my call, i think he stuck to sharing a. 22 because the. 223 had too much muzzle blast to shoot with others around. the 10/22 took the most gophers because of the 4 butler creek steel lips mags and butler creek loader.

so hang into that 10/22 if you like shooting it. there a ton of improvements you can make to make it a better gun. and if you get a chance to go on a gopher hunt, it is one of the best platform for that task. sorry this cell phone has punctuation issues.
 
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LarryG said:
a little storey about gopher hunting recently. took a 10/22 and a brno bolt action. 22 along. there were 3 of us. my friend took his acr along then sighted it in as myself and the other person went hunting. but when we went shooting gophers together later on, the acr (an amazing gun in its own right) never took a single gopher. it was left in its case. this wasn't my call, i think he stuck to sharing a. 22 because the. 223 had too much muzzle blast to shoot with others around. the 10/22 took the most gophers because of the 4 butler creek steel lips mags and butler creek loader.

so hang into that 10/22 if you like shooting it. there a ton of improvements you can make to make it a better gun. and if you get a chance to go on a gopher hunt, it is one of the best platform for that task. sorry this cell phone has punctuation issues.
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We put the 77/22, 10/22 and 39A through their paces at the range when deciding which one to keep.
The Rugers were noticeably less accurate than the old "real JM Marlin" 39A.
It was literally a "do or die" trial by fire (gun fire) and the 39A stayed and the Rugers left our fine establishment.
 
torontogungal said:
We put the 77/22, 10/22 and 39A through their paces at the range when deciding which one to keep.
The Rugers were noticeably less accurate than the old "real JM Marlin" 39A.
It was literally a "do or die" trial by fire (gun fire) and the 39A stayed and the Rugers left our fine establishment.
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I'm running a 795 as my primary semi-auto gopher gun, and a CZ 452 Lux for my bolt .22

My 795 runs circles around my 10/22 for accuracy, and the Pro-Mag 25 rounders have been flawless. A DipTrigger and Boyds stock solved my two issues with the 795 - the creepy trigger and the hollow feel and mediocre ergonomics of the factory stock.

My 452, with CCI Segmented Hollow Points running at 1640 FPS lets me reach out another 25 yards for those smart gophers that think they know the "safe distance" from the quad and disappear when you start to get too close.

795 in current config. Plan on upgrading the scope and rings (need slightly lower rings to bring the scope closer to the bore axis. The Bushnell 3-9x is Ok, but I'm going to swap it for a Leupold for that added clarity in varying light).

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CZ 452 Lux. Not going to change a thing from this config. Absolutely lethal in the constant war against the Gopher Jihad. Its running a Leupold 2-7x, which thanks to the stellar clarity, is easier to make shots further out than the Bushnell at 9x.

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