Experienced Rimfire Hunters: complete the sentence

Out to about 50 yards on both squirrels and cottontails. I love stalking cottontails along the field edges at dawn. Thinking back on it, I've never tried a shot beyond 50 yards with a .22lr even on the range. I just never think of the .22lr as anything but a short range cartridge, but I've pretty much been a city boy all my life.

It would depend on what game and what terrain. I mostly use the .22 lr for jacks and ground squirrels. I'd say inside 35 yds.

Fifteen feet or less. Usually it's that really stupid woodchuck trying to dig up under a barn or a rat in a feedbunk. You see it, go get the .22, and then lean around the corner and pop it. Same for squirrel and rabbit.

Fifty yards (we have tall trees around here ) or less, often much less.

"In my experience most small game are taken at less than 35 yards with a rimfire cartridge."

That's all the further I can typically get a shot in the woods. More than that and you are in the fields, which can be 400-500 yards easily for a shot, in which case the rimfire stays home. There aren't a ton of 50-100 yard shots around here. Its either real close or on the other side of the field.

Mostly 15-30 yards with the occassional 40ish yarder. Squirrel with a Marlin mod 60 or S&W 15-22.

For critters I'm hunting to eat, 30 yards max. For varmints or vermin I'm trying to thin out, 100-125 yards if I have a solid rest and no wind.