Which do you find more all around useful, a 22 pistol or a 22 rifle?

What a question....well what is handier, your left shoe lace or your right shoelace. I've killed squirrel, rabbit and pigeons by the thousands with both and dead is dead. If you are not a pistol shooter you need a rifle. If you are a pistol shooter both will do you just fine and the pistol has the advantage of being easier to carry around even if you do give up some range advantage.
 
For me it would have to be my S&W Model 317 Airlite. I use and carry it much more than my 10/22 or my 39A Golden Mountie combined. Whenever I am out and about in the woods or fields for whatever reason, it is on my hip. It is so small and light, I don't even feel it being there. It never interferes with anything I am doing. Even during gun deer season when I have my .45 Blackhawk on my hip, the 317 is in my pocket.

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I'd have to say my Ruger 10/22T rifle is what I reach for the most,although the Ruger MkII side slab gets a lot of use target practice as well as hunting squirrels and rabbits.
 
For me its been a 22 rifle. My Marlin 60 has done more than almost all my other firearms combined. Its with me when running trap lines, pre season scouting for deer, or out for a day of fishing. It was the best $150 I think I have ever spent.
 
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