- Location
- Southern Vancouver Island
It was up there sure enough & me hit ratio averaged around 80% for 1st shots on gophers inside 100 yds. It was one of the best holidays in me life. Fookin' magical.
Most overrated rifle
- Thread starter Rob
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It was up there sure enough & me hit ratio averaged around 80% for 1st shots on gophers inside 100 yds. It was one of the best holidays in me life. Fookin' magical.
I don't remember what that cheap thing cost,but had one on the trapline in northern mb,sat outside in a canvassack for ever.all year round,and it never failed from fox to wolverines shot to the head
in minus 40. Hit the drink to many times to count and rarely got cleaned .finally snapped hitting something over the head.money well spent.
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
It was up there sure enough & me hit ratio averaged around 80% for 1st shots on gophers inside 100 yds. It was one of the best holidays in me life. Fookin' magical.
27,000!!
Sounds like you hit the 'motherlode' bud. I'd count myself lucky if I happened into a colony of 27. You'd have done well back in the days of the plains Buffalo hunts.What was the ammo cost back then?
Tomasaurus
CGN Regular
- Location
- SW Ontario
You say Marlin designs are better than John Brownings? I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that one.
Love me some Marlins but the 94 is the ultimate "grab and go" gun. Great to carry, light and lots of rounds in the tube.
Agreed on that fer sure.
Sure there were some misses on long shots out past 100 yds, but that just added to the learning scenario. A talley of rounds expended after shooting on three ranches in those 2 weeks exceeded 27,000 rounds between the two of us. There was a smattering of centerfire stuff ranging from .17 Rem to .45-70 added in for fun.
Das gopher plopper.
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I live, and have lived, my whole life in southern Alberta. As a practical gopher killer, the 10/22 is overrated.
Glad for you that they are good for you. Mine were trash.
prairie lover
CGN Regular
- Location
- southern MB
I have one with a 16.5 inch fluted gm barrel. Dead nuts reliable. Very accurate. A better high volume gopher 22 i have never seen. Not too heavy. But not so light that its jumpy. Trigger, buffer and extra power hammer spring. Cant turn other semis into exactly what I want.
ChromeArty
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Sunshine Coast (PR)
Anything Kel-Tec hahaha
Never had any issues with my 10-22 carbine. Most over rated gun I have ever shot was a tikka. They just don't fit me well, recoil is way higher than other rifles accuracy is only ho-hum.. I know lots of guys love them but try as I might I just cant feel the love.
^so there IS someone out there who doesn't like Tikkas. Wasn't sure there was even one. lol Love my Tikkas (how nicely they function/how accurate they are/how easy to work on the trigger) but with a few exceptions, never loved the look of them. A CTR might be the exception. As for the question;
10-22, and anything made by Cooey. Really "WANT" to love Cooeys, and I can certainly admire the simple/reliable designs..Canadian factor, etc. Just never loved owning/shooting them. Think I've had 2 x 84s, a 75, 60 and a 39.
10-22.. The one I bought new had the worst trigger of any gun I've ever owned, and I couldn't reliably hit a pop can @ 40 yards off a rest, 2 different scopes. Barrel was canted over 10 degrees clockwise (when sighting down the barrel) so the sights were awfully crooked if you wanted to use them.
Not back when we could run the BC mags. Load 10 mags with the speed loader, shoot gophers for 1/2 an hour, reload magazines and repeat.
If I was only shooting 500 or less gophers per day then any old 22 would’ve done the trick.
Out of the box my 10/22 wasn't capable of minute of gopher with anything less than Tenex and Center X (even then, 1.5" at 50m off a bench, with Tenex, is barely there). Minimags and SV wouldn't shoot under 3.5" at 50m no matter what I did (including swapping stocks, scopes and triggers). And Ruger wouldn't warranty the POS. But it ate everything it was fed, perfect reliability.
Now that it wears wears Kidd ULW barrel, the only excuse I have for missing is lack of skill. But the 10/22 isn't the most overrated rifle out there IMO.
That title goes to the 700 in my opinion. To get it to the point where a 700 is worth building, if you bought one made in the last 15 years, you need to first send it to a gunsmith and pay them a few hundred right off the hop to true the fkn thing. Maybe you win the lottery and it needs no work. Maybe it just needs a little work, or maybe its a total mess that needs to be redrilled/threaded.
Now that it wears wears Kidd ULW barrel, the only excuse I have for missing is lack of skill. But the 10/22 isn't the most overrated rifle out there IMO.
That title goes to the 700 in my opinion. To get it to the point where a 700 is worth building, if you bought one made in the last 15 years, you need to first send it to a gunsmith and pay them a few hundred right off the hop to true the fkn thing. Maybe you win the lottery and it needs no work. Maybe it just needs a little work, or maybe its a total mess that needs to be redrilled/threaded.
Take a Winchester 1894 raise it above your head and give it a shake... Rattle rattle. Now do the same with any of Marlin's Lever action offerings... Winter crickets... That says it all right there. And I've got a couple of Winchester's
