How can you only have one rimfire rifle!?

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How can you guys only have one rimfire rifle?! I'm banging my head trying to find the "perfect" rifle and it's causing me major headaches.

I'd need to have a .22LR for grouse hunting. Need accuracy to be MOGH (Minute Of Grouse's Head hehe) at 15 - 20 yards max. Since I carry it around on foot, I was thinking of something light and small.

I have my eye on a Rossi Youth Matched Set (20ga/.22LR) since I love the fact you have to #### the hammer, plus since it's single-shot, it'd make a great rifle for my son when he learns how to shoot. It takes any kind of .22 (short, long, long rifle) too, being a single shot. Finally, you basically get 2 guns for the price of one!

I'm also leaning towards the Henry Carbine. Very light, it's a lever (+1 to coolness factor), likes any kind of ammo and you have a tube mag (+1 to reliability). Kinda expensive, but it's seems worth it! Load the mag at the beginning of the day and shoot grouse all day long. Plus, it just makes me want to scream Yeeeeeehah! :D

Would be cool to do a survival-type rifle as well, by either taking a 10/22 (would be nice to have a semi for plinking) or an old cooey. Would allow me to spend a bit of time in the basement tinkering away. That's always fun.

I hate choosing!

Fish
 
How can you only have one rimfire rifle!?
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This idea is unthinkable! Too many different uses for, and too many types, actions and makes of rifles. This is a rhetorical question, right?

Shooters are hardly ever satisfied with one rifle and always find an excuse to buy another and another....
 
cyclone said:
And so it begins....;)

Mind you, I do have undue fondness for the Nylon 66...:cool:
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what sold me was the "torture test " videos when they came out- days and days of shooting balsa blocks with only 2 nylons- something like 50k- all hand thrown- then the other one where the bullet is fired at a knife blade and it splits the bullet in two- and it wasn't trick photography-
 
t-star said:
what sold me was the "torture test " videos when they came out- days and days of shooting balsa blocks with only 2 nylons- something like 50k- all hand thrown...
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The ROF is also pretty decent....:cool:

Winnipeg Toymaker said:
5 - Cooey 64s, 2 - Marlin 81s, 3..151 Mossys, 1 - Mossy 152, Lakefield Mark I, Mark II and Mark III, Stevens 300, Mossy 42C and still not enough.
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Y'know, I was kinda hoping you'd weigh-in here! :D
 
10/22 for chucking lots of lead downrange quick.
Mossy 817, haven't shot it yet, but it's my 17HMR bolt, that I expect to be putting very small holes, exactly where I want them, fairly far away (~200y)
 
TangoSixNiner said:
You CAN'T only have one rimfire:D
I'm not going to stop until i have one for everything and each type. Still need a lever action and a .22lr pistol
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i can tell you what NOT to get = the ithica m49r- it's a lever, and a real pos-all aluminum receiver,and developed a burr after about 3 bricks-you had to pry the case from the chamber with a screwdriver cause the extractor didn't work,, and the bottom blew out of the cases when fired - i GAVE mine away
 
One 22 rimfire?? What a quaint concept!! If you have less than 10, you are obviously out of the "loop" when it comes to rimfires. LOL. You need a couple of real target versions, at least 3 or 4 accurate sporters, a couple of lightweight plinkers, etc, etc. Best practice you will ever get, shooting those rimfires. Regards, Eagleye.
 
ruger 96, winchester 9422, tc benchmark, cooey 75, BSA supersport, lakefield mark III? (I'm not going to check and I can't really remember). I'm thinking about about a cz 452 and maybe even a new 17.
ONE rimfire.....blasphemy.
 
Gots:
9422m for plinking goodness
10/22 for plinking goodness & in case a skunk or something shows up in the day time.
Cooey 64b for plinking goodness, and a loaner.

Wants:
.22mag bolt action for dispatching small game
.22lr cooey bolt action. I just want one to mess with.

One rimfire is never enough. I wish we could use .22 for grouse on PEI. Stupid ditch chickens.
 
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