What's wrong with my 10/22?

migrant hunter said:
Throat erosion from hot handloads!:nest:
Click to expand...

Throat erosion from too much sand in the pocket lint, if you habitually pack your ammo in a pocket. That's about all I can think of.

Most 22 barrels are 'loved to death' by guys getting too keen with a cleaning rod and munging up the bore scrubbing it.

Interesting results on the range trip with the two different batches of the same ammo. How annoying!

Cheers
Trev
 
I know lots of .22 target shooters that don't clean their barrels. If they clean them it may take up to a 1000 rounds to get it back to shooting accurate groups. Lead is probably one of the best preservatives for a barrel. You might have to clean out the chamber or run a patch down to clean some residue but don't scrub it clean like a 223 or 308.
I know a gentleman in the Moncton area that has a 10/22 with a heavy barrel and not much more work was performed on the gun except honing the trigger. He scares the guys who have big expensive Anschutz rifles in standing competitions, he has a harder time with bench but he holds his own. He doesn't clean his barrel except running a patch down to remove powder residue.
That's just my experience with target rifles and 10/22s.
 
I think with a trigger job and a better scope my rifle would shoot sub inch(at 50 yds) with ammo it likes. As long as it hits gophers at 50 yds, that's all I need.
I'm visiting in Sask right now and I just shot about 50 gophers with my 17 hmr. If the weather was better the gophers would be out in big numbers and I would use the .22.
 
As long as it hits gophers at 50 yds, that's all I need.
Click to expand...

And that sums up everything that is wrong with most people's attitude towards the .22 rimfire. With a good rifle and ammo the .22 rimfire is more than capable out to 200 yds. If you choose a ####ty rifle and crap ammo and a ####e scope then yes the .22 rimfire is probably limited to 50 yds but it can do so much more if you ask it to.
 
I used to have an Anshutz .22 single shot target rifle. I took off the diopter sight(I shot indoor smallbore comps) and put a Meopta 12x scope on it. It was capable of minute of rabbit to about 100yds, with match ammo.
The .22 is not a 200 yd varmint rifle, even by my imagination, nomatter what rifle, scope, or ammo you use. I can hit a 12" gong at 200 with my 10/22, but that does'nt make it a 200 yd rifle.
I never owned a 10/22 before last year, and I don't expect to win the olympics with it. If it kills gophers close, fast and cheap, then I'm happy.
After 50 yds, I want to see them blow up so I use something faster.
 
I've now got 1000 rds that my gun does'nt like, but my wife's 10/22 shoots it better than mine. She'll be happy with it, and I have 500 rds of T22.
I will look out for something else mine likes and buy 2k or so at a time.
 
The .22 is not a 200 yd varmint rifle, even by my imagination, nomatter what rifle, scope, or ammo you use.
Click to expand...

Beg to disagree, we routinely kill gophers at 200 yds with our .22's. But then we aren't using crap 10/22's.

My target rifle will consistently produce headshots on gophers to 80-90 yds and I have connected single round hits as far as 160 yds. I choose not to be limited by ####ty equipment and a can't do attitude and as a result we routinely operate with higher hit ratios at longer distances.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom