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.
 
10/22s in both 16.5 and 18.5 made little difference in anything.
CZ 457s I have experience with 16”, 20”, & 24” OEM barrels and a 22” 1/12T IBI.
I did not see any gain/loss in barrel length that mattered. Possibly 5-10 more fps at most with the 16” compared to the 20” OEM barrels, as for the 24” we will report back once I’ve sent 1k rounds down the barrel.
Vudoo Gunworks laid out a process a couple years back of how all barrels their team shooter has used required
That many rounds for the barrel to settle.
From new to 500 rounds the barrel has gained 8fps with the same lot of ammo. SD’s have dropped from 13.2 to 11.8. (Over 50 rounds per string).
25fps Gain with the 22” IBI was what led me to believe this process but my 20” Bergara argues otherwise. From my dataset it did not gain any FPS after 1k. Any twist faster than 16 will lose FPS. Think of a screw with less/more threads in the same length, just requires more twisting to get it out. Therefore more energy required/spent.

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