Younger shooters such as my daughter (turns 4 in feb) mind the lr crack as apposed to the mellowed short. Also yes she wears hearing protection.
22 Shorts form a LR bolt action...
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Younger shooters such as my daughter (turns 4 in feb) mind the lr crack as apposed to the mellowed short. Also yes she wears hearing protection.
I think the "personal choice" argument holds water, the others can be covered-off better by .22lr offerings. Being a .22 short does NOT make it inherently more quiet. Not trying to talk anyone out of using them, just suggesting that they're more of a curiosity than anything else. I have rifles that will shoot .22short, but I'd have to be in pretty desperate shape for ammo to ever buy it unless some other factor (like curiosity, or nostalgia) got the better of me.
Call_to_Arms
CGN Regular
- Location
- Oshawa, Ontario
My standard load is whatever bulk lr is on sale, but I picked up a box or long subsonics and shorts to test them out. My test rifle was a cooey 600, right off the bat both were dramatically quieter than a lr round, no "crack". I put the noise somewhere between a co2 pellet gun and a paintball marker. Now, the shorts would not feed in my 600, they didn't line up with the chamber and hit the back of the barrel, causing many of them to.have their bullets come loose. The longs fed just fine and sounded the same as the shorts. Both had around 1050fps printed on the box, the shorts were 32 grains and the longs were 40 grains, which I would consider comparable. So if I.need a more subdued round the choice for me is 22l subsonics, but to each his own.
antiqueguy
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- windsor ontario
really your 600 would not feed shorts its the same as the model 60 i used to shoot shorts,bb caps,cb shorts and longs,and .22lr rat shot(crimped stuff not cci) no problem
Yes it would. I've read that there are parts of the UK where they're MANDATORY. Sad state of affairs here in Canada...laws that treat those in the shooting sports like children...at best. I'd love to have a suppressor for my .22s.
Back in the 40's my father only used shorts in his Cooey. They were a bit cheaper than longs or LR and so that is what he used for sparrows around the barn and starlings in the trees around the house. Could take his bike down the road to the local general store in the small hamlet and buy them himself. The rifle came by mail from Eatons when he had saved enough money from cleaning the local school at the end of the day and making on a fire in the stove in the morning before school. He told me my grandfather gave his blessing when he was 12, but warned that if he caught him doing anything stupid the rifle would disappear. He had the rifle for years until the 60s when he traded it on a Marlin model 80 which I still have and it is in nice condition and shoots great with that micro groove rifling.
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