.22LR:The greatest thing since sliced bread?

Nightsleeper: Unfortunately the .17HMR might drive your .22 Magnum into extinction. I'd be surprised if it's around in 20 years.
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Never gonna happen! ;)

Seriously, the .22LR may be the most popular plinking round, but the .22 Magnum is more universal. It's great for plinking, accurate target shooting, game hunting and will work in a SD situation better than the .22LR. I know the extra cost of ammo means something to some people, but not me.

.22 Magnum forever! :cool:
 
Seriously, the .22LR may be the most popular plinking round, but the .22 Magnum is more universal. It's great for plinking, accurate target shooting, game hunting and will work in a SD situation better than the .22LR. I know the extra cost of ammo means something to some people, but not me.
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Too bad it costs more to shoot than some centerfire calibers..... you can reload .223 for less than you can buy .22 Mag ...... and .223 is better in every respect.

....and while you may have a lot of disposable income at the moment, that won't likely last, unless you never get married and have kids...... families have a way of finding ways to dispose of however much income you mange to come up with.......
 
22LR:The greatest thing since sliced bread?
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Good thread. While the .22lr isn't as fun to shoot as some of the others, it is hard to argue that perhaps it is the universal caliber that everyone needs to own and is certainly the most adaptable.
 
I too have a profound love for the .22lr. It was the first round I ever shot and I think I originally skipped it in my gun purchases in error. I am working to resolve that as a Savage Mk II and a Heritage Rough Rider were the last two purchases. I will likely get a Smith & Wesson 22A next.

Great overall round.
 
Oh yes, the lowly .22 is the Queen of Cartridges. You can shoot all day for ten bucks, which means you can afford more firearms. I have 22s coming out of every orifice, and still hanker after more.

The only handguns I've ever sold and wished I hadn't were 22s.
But I've kept most of them.

Sliced bread? We don' need no stinkin' sliced bread.
 
thank god we've got some affordable shooten

:D
.22lr all day compared to the 9mm, 40, and 357sigs etc. It's accurate, cheap, and just fun for all day plinken.

I develop a flinchen pattern after 3 "50 rd." boxes of 40 ammo. it's not from the recoil, but the price?!!*%$

Bought a few bricks of cci blazer .22lr ammo ( 18 bucks for 525 rds.). Brought a 525 round box the other day to the range and used the outdoor 50 yard range...., then moved to the indoor range, when the steel shooten competition started. spent about 3 hours that day. Counted 70 rounds left from the cci brick.

My ruger 22/45 could handle more, but I left content, probably having less the urge to go again next weekend.

cleanin wasn't fun......

1st pic is a 3.25 by 4 inch piece of flyer I shot at from 50 feet with iron sights free standing. yeah thats 10 shots. Thats what shooting many rounds does for the trigger work and feel for how your piece shoots.
 

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First off, I would glady take .22 LR over sliced bread. Mother makes wonderful bread herself, specifically Banana Nut Bread that is not sliced. So tasty.

On a more serious note, while I never disparaged the .22, in my younger and dumber days, it was not my favorite caliber to shoot. And I was rather miffed when Pop's bought me a Ruger 22/45 instead of bricks of .45 ACP to shoot.

That being said, my Mark Twain moment came not to long ago, when I took the Lady Friend shooting at the old home stead for the first time. I was simply amazed at her joy in shooting my 10/22 at both paper targets and empty Diet Coke and RC cans all afternoon. While she is no stanger to shooting, every time previously, the conclusion of the day's range session was either early due to lack of ammo, or I was left with a gaping hole in my wallet. Even cheap .38 Spl and .45 ACP ain't all that cheap.

I did not see a need to take .22 LR firearm off to college, so she had never shot one. Talk about kicking myself.

And further more, from now on, I shall always just assume that Pop's is right and I'm wrong on most matters.
 
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........ though I did actually kill a desert rat witha pettrified popcorn ball .......

Then why isn't your Username 'popcornkiller'?
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I don't kill very much popcorn- besides, the concept was already taken by "peetzakilla" .....I'm sure he is...... or does, I mean.....

....When I first got onto the Interwebz, the dear old lady who sent the afforementioned popcorn ball was still living..... I know she meant well, and I was glad to have the care package (mail is gold to deployed soldiers, so write one today!), even if it sat in in the desert heat for a good month before I got it ....... and I refrained from telling the story, fearing it would get back to her (big, talkative family)..... the popcorn ball was seriously petrified -who knew that a 30 day daily baking at 140+ degrees would turn saran wrapped sugar, carmel, and popcorn into something with the consistency of depleted uranium? Certainly not my my dear Aunt Eunice ....... a nice old lady who meant well.

Back on topic: I'm pretty sure that thing would have stopped a .22lr!
 
And further more, from now on, I shall always just assume that Pop's is right and I'm wrong on most matters.
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'Tis amazing how much smarter your parents were with each passing year, no?

Wait until you have kids of your own! Then G'pa will be a Genius!
 
Exactly, JimBob, exactly.

To quote Twain, "When I came home from college, I was amazed at how much smarter my father had become..."

Pop's, for as long as I could remember, harked the advantages of the lowly .22 LR as the perfect recreational shooting caliber.
 
I guess that the only downside of .22lr is shooting it at the range

When you get a guy with a .45 acp on your left and another with a 9mm on your right, you sometimes hear snickers.

The upside is that the guys with the .45 and the 9mm usually get to leave first, unless they've decided to cart in half a ton of their reloads. Two hours later, you're still shooting, while a procession of big-bore enthusiasts have come and gone.

If the snickering on either side bothers you when you're shooting your .22lr (yeah, it gets to me, sometimes) just whip out the biggest magnum revolver in your collection (minimum of .357 magnum) and let off a couple of full-house cylinders.

Then do a little snickering yourself...
 
Start the range session with the .22 ...... and work up.

You'll have all the rust worked out with the .22 ..... cheaply.

You'll outshoot the caliber snobs, in any caliber, 9 times in 10.
 
When the guy on my left is firing 44 magnum I don't hear any snickering, I can't hear anything except BOOOOM BOOOOM BOOOM (usually six times).
 
I can afford .22 LR ammunition.

Who can not like the .22LR ?
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There are a lot of folk who don't like shooting a .22,,,
They cite lack of recoil and no big BOOM as their reasons.

I go to the range about twice most weeks,,,
I can only afford that because of the low cost of the .22 cartridge.

I collect rimfire/centerfire pairs of pistols,,,
Such as a Model 36/Model 34, Bersa Thunder 22/380,,,
Or my personal favorite the CZ-75B Kadet in .22/CZ-75B in 9mm.

I warm up with a lot of .22 LR,,,
Then very deliberately practice with some centerfire,,,
My normal routine is a box of .22 then a cylinder/mag of centerfire.

lather, Rinse, & Repeat as much as I care to.

It works for me,,,
Your mileage may vary.

Aarond
 
I was always a fan of the 22 rimfires. When I was a kid, it was the one rifle the grown-ups let me shoot. As I grew, I could shoot it by myself (with minimal supervision). As I got a little older, it was the easiest rifle to buy ammo for (at 25 cents a box). As I got even older, it was the easiest rifle and ammo to carry around with me on my hikes through the high desert country of NV, ID, and OR. As I aged gracefully :) it became a reason to go shooting all in itself. Now I own multiple rifles and handguns chambered for this one cartridge. My favorite!
 
Yer all preaching to the choir.

By far my favorite cartrdige is the lil' double duece

For all the reasons already mentioned, and more:cool:

I got to shoot a P90 last summer and found myself wishing they made a .22 version
 
.22's Got me into the hobby

I'm a relative newcomer to handguns. My son-in-law introduced me to the sport, but always trying to get me to shoot his 9mm and .45.
I tried his S&W 22 and from then on I was hooked. Went onto buy, another S&W - 617 wheel gun, Then a Neos, Browning, Sig 226 with 22 conversion, which is just great gun. Even the good ammo is cheap comparted to the higher calibers and hitting the target remains the challenge. I suppose they are low on the scale for self defense, but mine are for range only.
 
Day in the desert today and tomorrow, .22 being shot all day long! Actually made some nice 40-50 yard shots on clays people had left behind where I was shooting, my little sig is plenty accurate but imagining where the little orange disc was behind my sight picture was tough, lol.
 
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