Why rimfire?

arty-bum said:
It is cheap and fun, teh new .17HMR makes it shoot more like a centerfire and takes it a step further. The other big thing is it is safer to shoot, relatively speaking compared to larger centerfires. You dont need near the backdrop or safe distance when shooting, your rounds arent going to travel for miles and miles.
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With the price of HMR ammo, you can reload .223 CF for about the same...

.22 rimfire will always be my favorite...
 
Daroccot: Your right with the cost of .223. They are dirt cheap to shoot and reload, but the one issue I find is that they are a bit much for gophers and other real small varmint, the bullet keeps going well past or can ricochet in an unsafe direction. I like the .17 because once it hits a soft target like a gopher most of the energy is gone and I am not worried that the bullet will go for another mile into the neighbors farm yard. But for anything coyote size or larger the .223 is the cats ass.
 
Cant imagine not having a 22lr around. Regardless of whatever my current rage is a 22 is always there. Great way to get someone new into shooting. Just plain cheap fun. Still love my cf 223 but I shoot a lot more22lr cuz its cheap. Cost me $25 to buy all of the different types of 22 ammo in one or two stores to try out in my 1022. CF ammo would be a much different story. I was told when I bought the 223 though that ricochet is not likely cuz they are going so fast the blow up if they hit pretty much anything. I know 22lr will ricochet but they are mostly 1000plus fps. Big difference in speed here.
 
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arty-bum said:
Daroccot: Your right with the cost of .223. They are dirt cheap to shoot and reload, but the one issue I find is that they are a bit much for gophers and other real small varmint, the bullet keeps going well past or can ricochet in an unsafe direction. I like the .17 because once it hits a soft target like a gopher most of the energy is gone and I am not worried that the bullet will go for another mile into the neighbors farm yard. But for anything coyote size or larger the .223 is the cats ass.
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What bullets do you use?
 
arty-bum said:
Daroccot: Your right with the cost of .223. They are dirt cheap to shoot and reload, but the one issue I find is that they are a bit much for gophers and other real small varmint, the bullet keeps going well past or can ricochet in an unsafe direction. I like the .17 because once it hits a soft target like a gopher most of the energy is gone and I am not worried that the bullet will go for another mile into the neighbors farm yard. But for anything coyote size or larger the .223 is the cats ass.
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I wasn't really making a comment about varmint shooting with the .223, personally I'd go .204 ruger for that, just saying the HMR is just as expensive to shoot as some CF.
 
For the longest time, I used to make fun of rimfires since most of my firearms were .30's (M1 Garand, SKS, SMLE No.4 Mk1*, Mosin 1891/30, e.t.c.)

After aquiring a Squires Bingham M16R and buying an SB M16 with scope(thanks to Skirsons ;) ), I have since found joy in shooting .22lr. It's cheap and plentiful, highly available, and increases your ammo alottment for practicing while reducing cost (especially compared to .30-06, holy crap.)
 
Yes the 22 rimfire, the darling of the shooting crowd. Inexpensive, reasonably quiet, accurate and just a lot of fun. While I own many centerfires, rimfire remains my first choice for enjoying an afternoon of plinking and perhaps some serious paper punching out to 100 yards or so. Regards, Eagleye
 
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