.22 Short...
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Does Browning still offer the Semi Auto in .22 Short?
Wanted one for years, but pretty much convinced myself that it's a expensive way to do what can be done by buying quieter ammo, cheaper.
What's the intended purpose beside to spend more money on a less useful piece of kit?
In handguns, start looking at the Rapid Fire pistols that are used in Olympic shooting as well as some of the other target handgun events. Many dollars though!
Wanted one for years, but pretty much convinced myself that it's a expensive way to do what can be done by buying quieter ammo, cheaper.
What's the intended purpose beside to spend more money on a less useful piece of kit?
In handguns, start looking at the Rapid Fire pistols that are used in Olympic shooting as well as some of the other target handgun events. Many dollars though!
^yes...I honestly think exactly the same thing every time I read any 22 Short questions. I mostly assume it's guys feeding old guns, wanting to squeeze an extra couple of rounds into a tube mag, thinking shorter=quieter (wrongly) etc. I've never heard of anyone searching out new-production rifles that chamber 22 Short. I have nothing against the short stuff...but with the huge variety of 22LR now available, I see zero advantage either.
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Most revolvers and tube fed rifles should be good for shorts.
Just curious because CCI still makes it. My dad has a Belgium FN-Herstal single shot bolt action .22 short rifle that was made 100 years ago that he buys ammo for.....I can imagine that market is pretty small. I just wondered if there was anything new or popular in chambered in that caliber.
Types of pest control; a coyote at over 100 metres, I would use my .308. A racoon in the chicken coop at 30 metres I use my 12 gauge. A rabbit in the veggie patch, I use my .22. A squirrel trying to break into my vented soffits, I use .22 colibri's which are .22 shorts with just the primer and no powder. I use them quite often in my Henry, Marlin 39, my JGA, Cooey 39, etc. If I have to run after the tree rats, I use my Ciappa Delux Badger. Colibri's and a Badger is a fantastic combo for rats, chipmunks, Sparlings and squirrels because the ammo is inexpensive, available at CT, quiet and more powerful than most air rifles. The Badger is light, compact, collapsable and handles surprising well and is $200 brand new. It shoots .22lrs but that might be too powerful when shooting near the house.
If you work the bolt a bit on the slow side, they work in my Mark II as well.
Also, there are at least two types of 22 short. The standard ones that are great for plinking, and high velocity hollow points that are similar in trajectory to 22 LR hollow points. Great for small critter control. Both from CCI if I recall.
And both more expensive than Long Rifle ammo. But not quieter.
When I was a kid and collecting pop bottles to buy ammo, the Shorts were the 'poverty' route, if I came up without enough to buy LR ammo.
The tables turned when shorts cost more than LR ammo. Was different then. Makes me feel old! LOL!
If you have a gun chambered for them with the proper barrel twist, nothing else will do, but I would not cross the street in this day and age to buy a Short chambered .22 for the same money as a LR chambered one.
I used .22 shorts(CIL Canucks, low velocity) almost exclusively when hunting 'hogs at close range. Didn't want to disturb the farmers whose land I was hunting on.
