1,000 yard kill with a .22 rf

Tell your friend his tale is stinking up the place. Total BS.

I think somebody added an extra zero to that range among other things.

The title should be enough to convince your friend.....

B.S. beyond being drunker than <deleted>.

And we are quoting from what source?

I read science fiction but that tale requires even more willing suspension of disbelief.

Youd have to aim the rifle up in the air to even get close to that kind of range, and even if you COULD hit a person, it would be like getting hit by a pebble at that point.

Hello friends and neighbors // The rifle was disassembled not destroyed.

I have access to it, make me an offer.

Forget the rifle, I want that special ammo!

Definitely nonsense. even if we assume 1,600fps for the .22LR (beating 40gr CCI HiVel by about 350fps), according to my ballistics calculator the drop on a .22LR round at 1,000yds is around 3,406.95 inches (283.91 feet) and the velocity is 342fps (about the velocity of a paintball) - giving it an energy of about 10 ft/lbs.

Considering this super .22 round went transonic at 100yds, hitting at 1,000yds will be a neat trick, even before you consider the effects of a "hollowpoint filled with liquid mercury" or "sealed with wax" on accuracy and consistency.

you have any idea of the windange on that one? Let alone the drop lol?

^see above post... haha

I was going to say that!!!

I made this shot myself several times when I was in Nam in 1967, I don't know why anyone would not believe it, I was 6yrs. old at the time an as hardcore as John Wayne.
Now please excuse me I have to finish reading my Sgt. Rock comic book.

Well.... let's ask a basic online ballistic calculator just for giggles:

If you take a standard high-velocity .22 LR, call it a 38 gr. bullet at 1,200 fps, and you sight in for 100 yds., the bullet will print over 200 and one half FEET low at 1,000 yds.

Oh, and when it does get there, it will impact with a whopping 25 fpe.

Just for yukks, if there happened to be a 10 mph wind blowing, you'd miss left or right by about 22 feet as well.

But that's in perfect conditions. In the real world your results wouldn't be anywhere near as good!


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ETA, you could compensate for the drop by aiming a little high, of course. Say you sighted in at NINE HUNDRED YARDS, just to be safe. You'd still be 375 inches (31 feet) low by the time it got to 1,000.

W L Johnson said:

I think somebody added an extra zero to that range among other things.

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Maybe two zeros even.

It's a good idea to light that moonshine and see what color flame it burns before ya drink it.

Any chance his name is Tom. & he crossed trained with every special forces unit known to man kind.

I'm wondering why he would only bother to carry 10 rounds of .22LR. Any man macho enough to go into combat with a .22 and take 1000 yard shots can surely lug a brick of 500 with him.

Oh, pshah!
When I was sent to rescue Churchill from the Boers, i used a pocket lee loader to neck .505gibbs down to the 5mm unobtanium rounds Doktor Magento had custom-forged for me on his custom turret-lathe.
The stock broke though, so had to use rawhide to lash the action to my assagai, which frightened way the enemies around me.
At least until i was eaten and killed by lions.

If your friend is buying the account described as authentic, he's too stupid to salvage, so I'd recommend finding another hobby.

200 meters is pushing the limits of the .22 rimfire cartridge.
Five time farther is simply unbelievable.

Can't listen to your buddy whens drunk, Thangs allways get bigger, heavier, longer, ect, ect, ect,

even at 100 yards he's pushing it.

Mercury is one the deadliest substances in nature but takes years kill a person. Putting it in a bullet is senseless and writing such tripe is a sign of an author totally ignorant about guns.

Same with making a 1,000 yard shot at night with a 22.