Do you find yourself buying shorter and shorter barrels for .22LR? What's your favourite barrel length?

I cant say i have a favourite length.. i just judge them by accuracy. I have some short barrels that shoot soso and one ruger thats right on ! My longer barrels tend to shoot better around the 20 inch and up. Esp in 22mag my cz american has a 24 in pipe.. all my cz shoot well for that matter. Shooting with iron sights, ill take the longer barrels forsure.

Arent we so lucky that we can choose what we want to hunt with…. I remember waaay back when my first 22 was a hand me down and life was so simple. Lol
 
My grouse getter is a 16" barrel. The Annie is I think a 20" and only because that was the only thing available with a threaded end. I would love to rebarell that Annie one day with a heavy contour barrel in 20", but I don't see it in the near future.

Had the 16" out the other day to test some ammo I have left over from the Annie testing I did, and was pleasantly surprised to print a 10 shot 1/2" ish group out of the 10/22 take down at 50M.

Want to get a shorter barrel for that rifle, but I think I'm limited to 12" if I want to hunt with it in BC. There are a few 10" around that I would consider, but at $600 for it, I'll just stick with what I have for now. Just too many other rifle projects on the go right now to worry about a short 10/22. That 16" is just nice and handy, and balanced, and I feel the 10" would just make it that much better to lay the birds down. Err 10" with a screwed on muzzle device to actually make it 12" to hunt with.
 
On my 455 bench rifle, I have a 20.4 varmint barrel with CZ's compensator, which brings OAL to about 22.5; long enough to give me a bunch of 5 shot groups under 1" at 100 yards. On a lighter hunting rig, 16-20 would be fine. Iron sights? 24-26 would be better, but maybe 16-20 is good enough for your intended purpose.
 
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