A .22 Kinda Day

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Appointment this afternoon to get some sorta injection in my neck. Not sure how I'll feel in the next couple days, and since I just picked up a new-to-me rifle yesterday, figured taking the whole day off and hitting the range was the sensible thing to do.

20220325_110255.jpg L to R- TC 22 Classic, Rem 513T, TC Benchmark (yesterday's pickup), Win 52B
Was fairly windy, so it wasn't my best day shooting but a couple hundred rounds of stress relief was appreciated.

52B at 25 yards since I can't see the target at 50 through peeps 20220325_142543.jpg
TC Benchmark at 50 after getting on paper 20220325_112904.jpg
513T at 50 20220325_112900.jpg
Apparently no pics of the 22 Classic target.
 
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Thanks. I know the Remington will do better than that and I hope the Benchmark will too. I've had the TC 22 Classic right at 20 years, so it doesn't need to prove anything to me. I doubt I'll ever shoot the Winchester any better than I did today unless I scope it, which I currently have no desire to do.

Probably a good thing I went today. Weather looks miserable for the weekend and my neck feels like someone hit me with a 2lb hammer.
 
Nice shooting! I get nerve blocks done in my neck. They are a sanity keeper for me. I get them monthly. The doc finds my trigger points. And treats them. I been doing these for years now. Last thing i want is surgery. Hope your appt is suscessful.
 
CoalCrackerAl said:
Nice shooting! I get nerve blocks done in my neck. They are a sanity keeper for me. I get them monthly. The doc finds my trigger points. And treats them. I been doing these for years now. Last thing i want is surgery. Hope your appt is suscessful.
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Thanks. They successfully stuck about a 6" needle into my spine. We'll see how the rest of it goes, but so far just feels like a deep bruise. 200-ish rounds off the bench today really made the shot seem like a good idea.
 
I get the neck shots also. First couple worked well. Last one helped a little in the neck, none of the extremities.
Good shooting though.
 
I may be joining you all with those spinal shots. I got a call from my Orthopedic surgeon on Tuesday he saw some sort of mass on my spinal cord on a neck region MRI I just had. Now I have to go in for a high contrast MRI covering my entire spine on the 12th.

I hope this isn't going to put a crimp in my future shooting :(.

Stay safe.
 
I like your selection of weapons. I'd love to see how you do with the 52. I've always wanted one.

I had surgery on my neck last Spring and it did a lot to help get rid of most of my pain. Shots sound like a better way to go.

Good luck and good shooting.
 
Riomouse911 said:
I hope this isn't going to put a crimp in my future shooting
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Mine was originally sharp pain in my left shoulder, followed by my whole arm going to sleep. Diagnosed as torn rotator/arthritis/carpal tunnel syndrome. On the visit to schedule shoulder surgery, the surgeon (a different orthopedic doctor) said he didn't think that was it. So I have a ruptured disc and a bulged disc right above it.

When still I thought it was my shoulder, shooting didn't make it any worse. My neck hadn't given me pain until the last month though, and yesterday I really felt it. I'm likely going to invest in another Lead Sled or similar that sits up higher and see if it's less strain.

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I like your selection of weapons. I'd love to see how you do with the 52. I've always wanted one.

I had surgery on my neck last Spring and it did a lot to help get rid of most of my pain. Shots sound like a better way to go.

Good luck and good shooting.
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Thanks. If you're ever in my little piece of Ohio, you're welcome to shoot my 52 as much as you like. I've only had it a month or so and still getting (trying to anyway) accustomed to peep sights. I either need lots more practice or better glasses.
 
Howland937 said:
Mine was originally sharp pain in my left shoulder, followed by my whole arm going to sleep. Diagnosed as torn rotator/arthritis/carpal tunnel syndrome. On the visit to schedule shoulder surgery, the surgeon (a different orthopedic doctor) said he didn't think that was it. So I have a ruptured disc and a bulged disc right above it.

When still I thought it was my shoulder, shooting didn't make it any worse. My neck hadn't given me pain until the last month though, and yesterday I really felt it. I'm likely going to invest in another Lead Sled or similar that sits up higher and see if it's less strain.


Thanks. If you're ever in my little piece of Ohio, you're welcome to shoot my 52 as much as you like. I've only had it a month or so and still getting (trying to anyway) accustomed to peep sights. I either need lots more practice or better glasses.
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That shoulder thing you described is exactly what I have. I got cortisone shots in January that helped, but the pain is back now. I thought it was arthritis/torn rotator stuff too, but xrays and now one mri are showing its otherwise. :(

Luckily I’m a righty so the recoil into the right shoulder doesn’t hurt. But, holding my left arm out for extended periods, like in a rifle stance without a sling or a long trap session with the 30” 1100, does get old and painful really quick :thumbdown:.

I will know more in a couple of weeks I guess. No matter what it is i am going to shoot for as long as I can!

( :thumbup: Also loving that 52, that is a very nice rifle!)

Stay safe.
 
Myself and several shooting friends have developed a habit: "22 Afternoons!" We all shoot our 9mm, 45s, 223s, and 308s in the morning---pack a nice lunch---private club range---then in the afternoons; 22s only---long and short guns very relaxing---even the women in our group really enjoy shooting 22s! Gives me a chance to air-out my old Belgium Browning SA22, my pre-warning Ruger 10-22 Deluxe Sporter and my ever reliable, Nylon 66... Along with my 60s era Walther PP in 22 lr and an old Colt single-action Peacemaker 22 with two cylinders---sometimes even my 80s Swiss SIG P210-2 with it's factory 22 conversion kit... Good times, good food, good people, good shooting---try it sometimes...!
 
Good move on the R55 Benchmark, that is a great rifle. I have two of them, both threaded for suppressors.
Was yours new old stock or second hand?
I am glad I bought extra magazines for mine, because those are hard to get hold of now. It's a shame they stopped making those rifles. I'm going to have to get spare firing pins and extractors made by a gunsmith.
The other thing that is going to be hard to replace is the bolt catch spring. A few years ago I bought spare springs from Numrich but the spring they had listed for that purpose doesn’t fit at all.
 
Love me my 22s. Perhaps my favorite or at least the one I seem to shoot most often is a Mossberg "New Haven" 251C (carbine 18¼" barrel) that was made in the New Haven Plant and so from sometime before the 1963 move to the North Haven Plant.

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It's a tube fed semi-automatic with the tube in the stock.

I also really enjoy my Remington Speedmaster 241 and it's slightly more accurate with its 24" barrel.

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Odd Job said:
Good move on the R55 Benchmark, that is a great rifle. I have two of them, both threaded for suppressors.
Was yours new old stock or second hand?
I am glad I bought extra magazines for mine, because those are hard to get hold of now. It's a shame they stopped making those rifles. I'm going to have to get spare firing pins and extractors made by a gunsmith.
The other thing that is going to be hard to replace is the bolt catch spring. A few years ago I bought spare springs from Numrich but the spring they had listed for that purpose doesn’t fit at all.
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Mine was second hand from the original owner. I bought the first Classic I ever saw in about 2002 and wanted the Benchmark ever since it was introduced. Never got around to getting one until now. It did come with 2 magazines, so I've got a total of 7 between 3 TC's in my household, including 2 in original packaging.

My original one has north of 10k rounds through it and I've yet to replace anything. I've looked and looked for the damage from the notorious "extractor chipping" issue on all 3 but haven't found any. It is a shame they didn't take off better than they did, but at the time 10/22's were $169 new and the Benchmark was more than double that.
 
My original one has north of 10k rounds through it and I've yet to replace anything. I've looked and looked for the damage from the notorious "extractor chipping" issue on all 3 but haven't found any.
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I have one that is over 20k and the other just under that. I had to get spare receiver screws and I have seven 10 round mags that I had cerakoted. Those mags are quite strong, but I had one that split open. They are cast mags and on X-ray you can see voids in the cast on all of them. The split mag I fixed with Loctite 380 (thank you for the suggestion, rcmodel, RIP). Been fine ever since.
The bolt buffers on both guns eventually deteriorated, but that's an easy fix with casting rubber. I have a thread on that here on THR somewhere.

Regarding the price, my first was bought new for £450 here in the UK. That was in 2007. By the time I looked for another one it was 2012 and all we had here was slim pickings second hand. The value of those rifles went up a lot, I had to pay £600 for that, with one mag and no trigger lock, no scope either.
I think a good condition R55 with 3 mags will sell for around £750 now, maybe more.
I've seen only one for sale and it had a non-standard barrel. A bubba job, sadly, or I would have bought it.
 
I bought this one on GunBroker, which after tax and shipping came in at $465 US for the rifle and 2 mags (One 10 and one 5). I believe the fact that Smith & Wesson pulled the plug on TC is likely to cause the prices to drop. It had been years since I'd seen one for under $600US, but none of the recent sales made it to $400. One had actually sold for around $250 with no magazine a few weeks prior.

I'd dropped a couple of the magazines onto concrete years ago and broke the base plates. The 5 round magazine was $10 and the 10 rounder was $15 IIRC, so I didn't bother trying to fix them. Wish I had though. I'm a lot more careful with the ones I have now.
 
My last 3 range trips have been .22 only- they are good for the soul. Need to get a good family pic of all my rim-fire sticks together.....

Gotta sight in my new Mini 30, though (Thanks JwXSpoon!) so some relatively light centerfires are on the menu soon. :)

I was fortunate that most of my joint/foot/neck pain receeded when I fled the shop four years ago. Too many old mechanics I know have fused vertebrae and so far Ive avoided the worst of it.

Heres to feelin better soon my friend!
 
There’s nothing like a little “group therapy;” nice shooting.

I hope you feel better soon
 
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