On another thread about where you should zero a 22lr, there seems to be this mystical belief of what a 22lr is capable of or not capable of at distances much beyond 50 yards.
You should zero your gun for the uses or type(s) of shooting, hunting, competing, and plinking you want to do.
Honestly, I don't care where you zero your rimfire, but the idea that only a few or competitors can shoot accurately at 100 yards or further, is silly in my opinion.
I would like to see what some of you guys are doing at distance with a 22lr whether it is a rifle or a handgun?
Do the conditions need to be good? Yes
Does the 22 need to be accurate? Yes
Does the shooter need to have some fundamentals down? Yes
This was back in 2016 with one of my clone Charger's.
On a good day this is what one of my clone Charger's (I have two of them) can do at 500 yards.
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I took Neva (My daughter-in-law to be at that time 2016) out to do some shooting at Chuck McIntosh's/Mac's Gunworks place.
Neva had done a little bit of smallbore shooting when she was younger (4-H) but nothing anything at distance or with centerfire as far as I knew.
I started her out with my other custom clone Charger handgun in 22lr at 100 yards on 10" steel.
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She got bored with shooting the center of the target very quickly, and proceeded to start shooting at the bolt heads. Then she wanted to shoot further so she started shooting at the 5 inch piece of steel at 200 yards.
The scope I had on there wasn't really set up to go to 300 yards so we stopped there.
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Further back in time, some goofing around shooting pd's with that Clone Charger, just past 350 yards, after filing my buck antelope tag...Obviously not with the Charger!
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