How far will a .22 LR kill?

A .22lr of any kind is absolutely incapable of traveling 1.5 miles... Deadly and often underestimated sure but science calls BS on that.
Agree with you. In any practical sense it’s not happening. But if you set up conditions to allow for the vertical drop, then it could come close. Let’s say you fired with no shooting angle off a high cliff overlooking a canyon, or 3500 ft up a mountain — so that the round could continue dropping until the horizontal vector lost all its momentum — then that distance would be over 2000 yards for a 40gr Mini-Mag leaving the muzzle at 1235 FPS.

A CCI Velocitor at 1435 FPS under the same conditions would likely still fall short of 1.5 miles (2640 yards) but maybe not by all that much.

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I can shoot farther than most any gun will travel under any reasonable circumstances off my back deck. I don't need charts or videos to tell me .22lr can't go that far. The farthest shooting .22 I have found is 40grn Mini-Mags, if I aim at a ridiculous angle they go about 1200m with wild variation in where they land.

Gotta do it after a week of dry weather to have any hope of figuring out where they end up. I haven't found any lot of Velocitors that are going any faster than the 40gr Mini-Mags, so they actually fall quite a bit shorter. I am guessing they have a lower BC due to the profile.
 
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I can shoot farther than most any gun will travel under any reasonable circumstances off my back deck. I don't need charts or videos to tell me .22lr can't go that far. The farthest shooting .22 I have found is 40grn Mini-Mags, if I aim at a ridiculous angle they go about 1200m with wild variation in where they land.

Gotta do it after a week of dry weather to have any hope of figuring out where they end up. I haven't found any lot of Velocitors that are going any faster than the 40gr Mini-Mags, so they actually fall quite a bit shorter. I am guessing they have a lower BC due to the profile.
Good for you.
 
Geez did I hurt your feelings? Jethunter had it right, people need to spend more time doing stuff rather than speculating or basing opinion off of videos. I doubt the lawyer had people in planes or on mountains in mind when they came up with that number.
 
Geez did I hurt your feelings? Jethunter had it right, people need to spend more time doing stuff than speculating or basing opinion off of videos.
Just tying to share information but it seems the delicate flower won’t have it, then hides behind jethunter. Like I said, good for you.
 
I worked in a small private slaughter house back in the 1980ties . they had ballpein hammers a sledgehammer and an old Cooey single shot 22 on the wall . they had to purchase ammo from the government to use in the 22 . I might have a round of it kicking around . it was just a lead round nosed bulled . kind of a weird configuration I had nor have ever seen again . I dropped a couple or steers with that 22 . not a nice place to work .

In 1964 I lived in northen Ont. with a slaughter house near by. In that house they had the same Cooey .22 rifle
as did Cement Head's. They used CIL .22 SHORTS . I watched them shoot the cattle with those shorts & they
just hit the ground dead everytime. I also watched them remove the magnets from the stomich . Do you know what
the magnets were for ?
 
I have a 22 Hakim rifle with a scope mount that I got in Israel
I don't know if the Egyptian 's or the Israelis did the conversion
It appears that it used a ComBloc scope
 
I doubt the lawyer had people in planes or on mountains in mind when they came up with that number.
No, you couldn’t be more wrong. I think the lawyer had exactly in mind the furthest distance the bullet could travel under any possible circumstance. That’s how lawyers think, and rightly so. The number they came up with matches almost exactly what the graph I posted says.
 
I can shoot farther than most any gun will travel under any reasonable circumstances off my back deck. I don't need charts or videos to tell me .22lr can't go that far. The farthest shooting .22 I have found is 40grn Mini-Mags, if I aim at a ridiculous angle they go about 1200m with wild variation in where they land.

Gotta do it after a week of dry weather to have any hope of figuring out where they end up. I haven't found any lot of Velocitors that are going any faster than the 40gr Mini-Mags, so they actually fall quite a bit shorter. I am guessing they have a lower BC due to the profile.

The problem is your “ridiculous angle” introduces a vertical vector against gravity that is sucking energy from the horizontal vector. Try shooting with zero angle where you can let the bullet drop so you can isolate the horizontal vector. You can’t do that unless you shoot off a cliff or big hill over a valley, like I’ve already said. Might be tough to set up safely but it’s the only way to measure the true maximum horizontal distance.

Maybe you missed the part where I said that you were right in any practical circumstance, but that conditions could be set up to reach out as far as possible.

Instead of dismissing the graph by claiming “I don’t need a graph or video to tell me” you should set your ego aside and consider the information being shared. But
that’s your choice. What bugs me are people like you who can’t handle their preconceptions being challenged so they shoot their mouths off even when they’re wrong — which discourages others from sharing good information.

 
Theres lots of youtube vids on that and with interesting results. From what I gathered is the .22lr is lethal just past 400yd !
Dangerous within 1 or 1.5 miles could also describe injuring livestock , damage to barn , windows...
 
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