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Title: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: afret on October 20, 2018, 08:54:59 PM
Recently put together a 10/22 with no Ruger parts at all.  Darn thing is as accurate as my Annies and V-22 Vudoo.

(https://i.imgur.com/XJXJrVf.jpg)

10 shot groups at 50 yards.  Had a few fliers since I got in a rush but not too bad for a 10/22.

(https://i.imgur.com/vx5mDQD.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Joe-JDC on October 20, 2018, 09:50:29 PM
Yes, I have a 10-22LR, and 22Mag., .22 Hornet, among other calibers.  Started hunting at age of 10 for squirrels, rabbits, plinking varmints.  Joe-JDC.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: 427Fastback on October 20, 2018, 10:48:38 PM
I have a 100+ year old Cooey Canuck (made in Toronto) .22LR.I just target shoot with it but its a cool old pc..I have been known to chase squirrels around the yard with it tho..
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: plovett on October 21, 2018, 12:29:36 AM
I like shooting handguns.  You are WAY more accurate. 
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Heo on October 21, 2018, 03:37:57 AM
I have an Anschutz... 1416 i think it is, 22LR with a weaver scope, its real accurate
probably group like that. Haven't shot it in a long time, my youngest son shot it
last winter. I was going through some drawers and found a box of old winchester 22s .
So i said to him try this gun, He  grouped about 1 1/2-2 inch standing at approximately
25 meters
I have a 1890 Winchester pump in 22WRF that was shot five times when i bought it from
a Museum along with a box of blackpowder ammo i shot the 6th shot with it. It hit about
a feet to the right at 50 meters. Dont want to start shooting that gun for groups when its
in that mint condition,especialy not with blackpowder :D
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: rockhouse66 on October 21, 2018, 07:40:31 AM
I have a Winchester Model 52 w/bull barrel that I shot in the NRA 50 ft. target program as a kid.  Owned it 60 years now and it was used when I bought it!  Very accurate piece and good as any back in the day.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: cjshaker on October 21, 2018, 09:44:00 AM
Very nice shooting, Earl! What scope do you have on there?
I have a Ruger 10-22, a Marlin model 39A with an older Weaver scope, a 22 conversion for my AR with an EOTech holographic sight and a Ruger MK II Target with a cheap red dot, but the most accurate 22 I own is a Winchester model 69A made sometime in the '30s, can't remember offhand. That Winchester will shoot groups like you show. The Marlin is pretty darned accurate also.
Those are just the .22 calibers I have.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: turbohunter on October 21, 2018, 09:52:20 AM
Nice groups Earl.
I’m kinda partial to the older stuff like 1890 style pumps.
Don’t ask me why a big dude likes such small rifles but they’re pretty cool.
I love the accuracy.
Nothing like yours though.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: afret on October 21, 2018, 10:45:18 AM
Looks like you guys have some very cool and rare 22s.  I figured guys that like FEs would like guns too.  LOL

The scope on the 10/22 is a Vortex Golden Eagle which is a decent target scope.  I like 22s because you don't really need much hearing protection especially with subsonic match ammo and doesn't bother the next door neighbors.  If you use CCI Quiets, they make less noise than a pellet gun. They won't cycle in a 10/22 though.


(https://i.imgur.com/Vhj2Zbk.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: turbohunter on October 21, 2018, 11:11:02 AM
Love the barrel size on your rifle. Obviously makes a stable system.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: turbohunter on October 21, 2018, 11:16:59 AM
Envious of your range Earl.
Is that next to your house?
If so, great reason to live “out there”.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: FElony on October 21, 2018, 12:14:58 PM
The Ruger I received on my 16th birthday now has an Intrafuse stock and a couple other things installed (grenade launcher, flamethrower). Here in the desert, the primary yard pest is the gopher. One day I popped some Aguila subs into it, and sighted in on a particularly annoying, grinning varmint about 40 feet off the front porch. Every time I squeezed, he ducked by the time the round got to him. I swear he was zoned in on my finger. Not only that, he ascertained that I was using a short mag, and when the 10th round went for naught, he jumped out of the burrow, picked up two bullets out of the dirt, sighted on me, checked the air for cross currents, and flung them back.

You can imagine I was not prepared for a firefight with a damn prairie dog. I could not defend. I spent two weeks in the hospital with life-threatening injuries to my neck and chest. While I did pull through, I had to endure the embarrassment from the hospital staff snickering every time they came into my room.

True story, I swear. Lots safer shooting at paper targets. Lesson learned.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: afret on October 21, 2018, 12:30:27 PM
One thing most people don't notice is the whitetail near the target in the first photo.  This happened quite a few times where I have to stop shooting and chase the deer away.  Same thing with all the turkeys around here. 

Blew up the photo a bit so the deer can be seen easier:

(https://i.imgur.com/pLZrxIW.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: shady on October 21, 2018, 01:21:04 PM
The Ruger I received on my 16th birthday now has an Intrafuse stock and a couple other things installed (grenade launcher, flamethrower). Here in the desert, the primary yard pest is the gopher. One day I popped some Aguila subs into it, and sighted in on a particularly annoying, grinning varmint about 40 feet off the front porch. Every time I squeezed, he ducked by the time the round got to him. I swear he was zoned in on my finger. Not only that, he ascertained that I was using a short mag, and when the 10th round went for naught, he jumped out of the burrow, picked up two bullets out of the dirt, sighted on me, checked the air for cross currents, and flung them back.

You can imagine I was not prepared for a firefight with a damn prairie dog. I could not defend. I spent two weeks in the hospital with life-threatening injuries to my neck and chest. While I did pull through, I had to endure the embarrassment from the hospital staff snickering every time they came into my room.

Oh, they weren't snickering at your wounds.

True story, I swear. Lots safer shooting at paper targets. Lesson learned.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: turbohunter on October 21, 2018, 01:57:25 PM
One thing most people don't notice is the whitetail near the target in the first photo.
That’s funny.
Nope didn’t see it.
Looking at the rifle.
We have a range here in LA that is 600 yds. Quite often deer will wonder across. Range shuts down till they’re clear.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: FElony on October 21, 2018, 02:52:51 PM
The Ruger I received on my 16th birthday now has an Intrafuse stock and a couple other things installed (grenade launcher, flamethrower). Here in the desert, the primary yard pest is the gopher. One day I popped some Aguila subs into it, and sighted in on a particularly annoying, grinning varmint about 40 feet off the front porch. Every time I squeezed, he ducked by the time the round got to him. I swear he was zoned in on my finger. Not only that, he ascertained that I was using a short mag, and when the 10th round went for naught, he jumped out of the burrow, picked up two bullets out of the dirt, sighted on me, checked the air for cross currents, and flung them back.

You can imagine I was not prepared for a firefight with a damn prairie dog. I could not defend. I spent two weeks in the hospital with life-threatening injuries to my neck and chest. While I did pull through, I had to endure the embarrassment from the hospital staff snickering every time they came into my room.


True story, I swear. Lots safer shooting at paper targets. Lesson learned.

Oh, they weren't snickering at your wounds.


Come to think of it, the nurses were laughing outright during my sponge baths. Do you think they were telling me something?
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Heo on October 21, 2018, 03:55:37 PM
Here is my 1890
(https://i.postimg.cc/x8qdT3LW/thumbnail-IMG-1935.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4HkGWtL5)
And the ammo that was with the rifle.  according to what i was told this box was bought with the gun in 1907
i think it was, by a Swede that was moving home from USA . I think it is blackpowder, smokes like that at least
(https://i.postimg.cc/6QLqH391/thumbnail-IMG-1936.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Z9nJnJvr)
And the Anschutz
(https://i.postimg.cc/Yqh4pM3h/thumbnail-IMG-1937.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ppMVCN3H)
My father have a Mauser 22LR from 36 or 38 something that looks like a K98 just smaller.
They made them for Hitler jugend and such to train with. The one he have is the luxus sporter version with
a stock much like the Anschuts with a Ajax or Ajack something scope that too is a verry accurate rifle
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: afret on October 21, 2018, 06:29:11 PM
Here is my 1890
(https://i.postimg.cc/x8qdT3LW/thumbnail-IMG-1935.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/4HkGWtL5)
And the ammo that was with the rifle.  according to what i was told this box was bought with the gun in 1907
i think it was, by a Swede that was moving home from USA . I think it is blackpowder, smokes like that at least
(https://i.postimg.cc/6QLqH391/thumbnail-IMG-1936.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Z9nJnJvr)
And the Anschutz
(https://i.postimg.cc/Yqh4pM3h/thumbnail-IMG-1937.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/ppMVCN3H)
My father have a Mauser 22LR from 36 or 38 something that looks like a K98 just smaller.
They made them for Hitler jugend and such to train with. The one he have is the luxus sporter version with
a stock much like the Anschuts with a Ajax or Ajack something scope that too is a verry accurate rifle

Very nice!  The Annies shoot well but the stocks tend to be so pretty that I get worried about scratching them up.  I was able to find an aluminum stock for one but no one makes an aluminum or composite stock for the other Annie.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Heo on October 21, 2018, 07:28:36 PM
Yes my have very nice straight grained wood. With just a few
small scratches from handling. Probably i can polish them out.
Blued Steel and valnut trigger my buttons ;D bad lightning on
the pic so the bluing looks almost as parkerized but in daylight
it is a really deep blue tone and the wood more reddish

The ammo is hard to get in Sweden not that i will take it out
hunting In the snow, or start shooting it like crazy but a couple of boxes
so i could sight it in would be nice
I understand it is a common gun in USA but most of them is
Rode hard and put away wet as you say, so they are rare in
nice condition
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Tommy-T on October 21, 2018, 09:39:15 PM
Wow Earl,
That rifle of yours doesn't look anything like my 10/22.

I've got a Model 94 Winchester lever action in 22LR...but my tack-driver of the bunch is an old Ithaca single shot my dad bought for me when I was 14...out of the Sears mail order catalog.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: cjshaker on October 21, 2018, 10:20:43 PM
One thing most people don't notice is the whitetail near the target in the first photo.  This happened quite a few times where I have to stop shooting and chase the deer away.  Same thing with all the turkeys around here. 


I thought that was another target for bow and arrow. There's still a few guys around here that like to hunt that way.

Heo, 22 ammo is the most common and cheapest in the U.S., so that's a big reason why they're so popular. But about 2-3 years ago, you couldn't find a box if your life depended on it. Several reasons why that happened, but they were non-existent for about a year. I didn't have that issue because I make sure that I'll never run out of ammo, even if the zombie apocalypse hits ;D
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: afret on October 21, 2018, 11:06:12 PM
Wow Earl,
That rifle of yours doesn't look anything like my 10/22.

I've got a Model 94 Winchester lever action in 22LR...but my tack-driver of the bunch is an old Ithaca single shot my dad bought for me when I was 14...out of the Sears mail order catalog.

Yeah, this 10/22 doesn't have one original Ruger part.  Not even one screw.

I think my most accurate .22 is my 1727 Annie from the Anschutz Custom Shop.  But it's difficult to shoot consistent groups because of the rounded and skinny forend of the German stock.  I wish someone made a good aluminum or composite stock for it.  One company makes a laminate wood stock for it but I don't like the looks of it.

(https://i.imgur.com/VD7WMm7.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: Heo on October 22, 2018, 05:01:23 AM
One thing most people don't notice is the whitetail near the target in the first photo.  This happened quite a few times where I have to stop shooting and chase the deer away.  Same thing with all the turkeys around here. 


I thought that was another target for bow and arrow. There's still a few guys around here that like to hunt that way.

Heo, 22 ammo is the most common and cheapest in the U.S., so that's a big reason why they're so popular. But about 2-3 years ago, you couldn't find a box if your life depended on it. Several reasons why that happened, but they were non-existent for about a year. I didn't have that issue because I make sure that I'll never run out of ammo, even if the zombie apocalypse hits ;D

Doug 22LR is no problem here, i can buy a truckload if i want to.  Its the 22WRF thats hard to get to the 1890
I thought about buying a couple of boxes when i was over there but 150$ for carrying it in a special compartment
on the plane back. And all the sweet talking i had to do to get the strokerkit in the suitcases with me and through
the Customs, nahhh.... ;D ;D

About that single shot Ithaca, Here we had Husqvarna cheap single shots with outstanding accurancy.
Everyone of my grandfathers generation had one, they used them with 22 short during the depression when it was
hard to get a job, to hunt squirrels for the skin. They shot them in the eye to not put a hole in the skinn.
A good hunter could earn a weeks salary in a day hunting squirrels

Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: cjshaker on October 22, 2018, 07:50:47 AM
Earl, that's a nice scope. And that bull/varmint/target barrel looks pretty darned stout! I'm a big fan of the Butler Creek flip up caps also. I have them on 2 scopes. Older Ruger 10/22's are pretty nice guns and can be made to be pretty accurate. New ones are pretty much junk though. I'm a big Ruger fan, but mostly of just their handguns.
Title: Re: Anyone else like shooting .22LR?
Post by: BattlestarGalactic on October 22, 2018, 10:36:42 AM
I have a couple .22 rifles.  Been so long, can't recall what they are??  That's bad.  One is single shot, Ranger maybe?  Uncle gave it to me when I was like 10 yrs old.

I'm more into pistols.  I did just purchase a Ruger Stainless single 10 .22 revolver.  Saw them back when they were only single 6.  They increased the capacity.  Really nice, old school looking revolver.  Pretty accurate too.

Can't plink at home and don't make enough time to go to ranges around the area.