Best .22 Plinking Gun?

[publiuss]

If you can find a good MKII get it. the Browning Buckmark and Ruger MKIII are good too, but I heavily favor the MKII.

 

[camper]

I'd say the Ruger MK II or III series for a pistol and the S&W 617 for a revolver.

 

[4Freedom]

Great suggestions.. I am thinking about getting Brownign Buckmark.. I see one for $369 + $20 shipping + $20 FFL fee.. so total of $409 and this includes 3 mags. Its the new Browning BUckmark Camper with the UPX grips. Well, I know the price is steep, but I jsut cannot find it cheaper anywhere else, the mags alone I see selling for $20, so I think it may be a good deal, since most of the new Brownings only come with one mag. What do you think, am I getting ripped or should I take it? I just want to hurry and get a 22LR already, this is not the gun I will hang on the wall and show to all my friends LOL... Not that I would do that with my best gun anyway, but you catch my drift.

I have been searching for rugers but they seem to be more expensive than the brownings and look not as pretty and I dont care for the real skinny 1911 style grip, it just doesn't feel like a real gun to me. I want a practice gun that feels like a gun, not a pellet gun.

Camper, I will also look into the S&W 617 revolver.. I need a real cheapie, since this is just for plinking, but defiantely want a gun that wont be so inaccurate that I end up thinking I am a worse shooter than I actually am. I had problems with the Ruger 22LR 6 shooter I was using at the range, it was consistently shooting too low and it made me feel awkward having to aim higher than I was suppose to, to hit a target. The gun I am sure was overused and not cleaned enough, but I definately want one that won't shoot like that after only few thousand rounds.

 

[KBT1911]

Ruger mark II for pistol Ruger 10/22 for rifle

 

[4Freedom]

A news update, I just bought a Browning Buckmark Camper with 5.5 inch stainless steel bull barrel. With shipping + FFL + CC fees it came out to around $395. I paid a little more to get the stainless barrel since I hear it is better to have, more durable. Well , I know maybe I paid a bit too much, but I am glad I could just get it already and that it will be shipped to ASAP to an FFL guy, who won't gouge me on things , like sales tax.

Well, that should do me for while, maybe in future I will get a 22LR S&W Revolver. Thanks for all the good advice.

 

[Bullitt196]

I personally love my Buckmark. Accurate and cheap to feed.

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

I have a Walther P22. It is a lot of fun to shoot and eats up Walmart's cheapest with ease. Very rarely do I have a problem with it (about 1 every 250 rounds or so) and this is often due to a combination of cheap ammo and lack of cleaning.

 

[foghornl]

Depends on what you want...

I have both a MKII and a Single-Six...which one goes to the range on any given day depends on the Mood-Of-The-Day.

Have shot both a Browning Buckmark and an OLD Colt Woodsman...both nice guns...although the Woodsman can be hard to find.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I prefer the Buckmark by a wide margin for an under $400 new / under $325 used .22 pistol:

http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/family.asp?webflag_=006B&catalog_=B

 

[BCRider]

A news update, I just bought a Browning Buckmark Camper with 5.5 inch stainless steel bull barrel.

I think you two will be very happy together for many years to come.

I recently got an Iver Johnson clone of the Buckmark for cheap. It's got a couple of "used gun" issues but when it shoots and feeds well, feels great in the hand both for fit and shooting experience and it's a super pleasent gun and balances well....as I'm sure the Buckmark it comes from does as well. Personally I like it better than the Rugers I've shot so far and it's quite possible it'll drive me to obtaining my own Buckmark at some point.

.... and there's an old saying on this and any other forum that goes something like....

THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICTURES ! ! ! ! ! !

Let's get those gun porn pics up soon...

 

[Bullitt196]

Oh, and if you're into 1911's, consider a conversion kit. It's going to be one of my next couple purchases.

 

[BLJimmy]

Gotta agree with the MKII and 617 recommendations. I also have a Walther. It is OK for general plinking. I don't have a 617 (yet) but saw a friend's. It was a 10 shot!

 

[4Freedom]

Let's get those gun porn pics up soon...

Yeah, I haven't put up any pics of my new guns.. Sorry.. Gun porn coming soon.. Have a few of my darlings I need to put up on this site.. Just got Sig P229 Elite, S&W M&P 45 and now Ms. Buckmark on the way.

I have been entirely unimpressed with Ruger handguns all my life until I picked up a Mark II with a 12" bull barrel.

King Ghidora, are you really sure it was the ruger that made it so accurate or was it the fact you were shooting a gun with a 12" barrel? My gosh, I cannot ever think of a time in my life where I will be shooting a 12 inch barrel handgun, at that point I better go the rifle route.


Thanks again for suggestions and its always good to hear more, since I am sure just as with any other gun, one is never just enough, you will always want another one. One day I hope to get .22 with a silencer, but thats the future.

 

[jackstinson]

My Browning BuckMark sees far more range time than all of my many other .22LR pistols and revolvers combined....including the Rugers
The BuckMark is simply a joy to shoot, is accurate, cycles anything I load into it, and fits my hand like a glove.