Oh, The Lowly .22LR

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Yes the .22's song does not get sung nearly enough.
Even though the overall majority of people prefer the 22 long rifle chambering for me I would still prefer one of the older .22's that could be used for shorts,longs,and long rifles.
The rifle makers pretty much started dropping the other chamberings some where around the 80's and only allowing their wares to shoot the long rifle ammo.
Shame really.
You dont see much of the long ammo today but plenty still produce the relatively quiet short.
It's still very deadly on small game and pest species.
Variety is the spice of life.
 
I have a new Henry Lever Action that shoots Shorts and Longs and LR and you're right .... the shorts are super quiet. Great for plinking minus the headsets.
 
The Henry shoots shorts?
That I did not know.
Are the Henry's made here?
Not interested in ANY Chicom anything.
 
Any gun chambered in .22lr should be able to shoot .22 short. They won't cycle most autoloaders but they fire fine. Also, guns that feed from a box mag may have issues with the shorts feeding due to the length, making them essentially a single shot gun.

The best guns to use any type of .22 ammo are manual action guns (lever, bolt, or pump) that feed from a tube magazine. These types are still usually advertised as using shorts longs, and LRs (at least the Marlins with which I'm most familiar are).

Just make sure to clean out the chamber well with a bronze brush after using shorter rounds or the carbon buildup may prevent longer rounds from chambering correctly.
 
a 22 can feed you for a long time if need be,

why i have a few good 22s and more then enough 22lr,

well im just 1 bulk box short of enough ;)

50cal ammo cans full of 22's sure r purty.:rolleyes:
 
"a 22 can feed you for a long time if need be, "


Many years ago, I read the auto-biogrphy of Audie Murphy. He grew up dirt poor in Texas and his father ran out and abondoned the family when he was very little. He put much food on the table with a single shot .22 rifle, including deer that he'd poach with a head shot.

The .22 sure worked for him!
 
All very good points, although regarding defensive purposes I'm not nearly as dismissive of .22 LR now as I would have been some months ago. I've been surprised by the penetration that certain .22 LR loads have been getting in calibrated ballistic gelatin tests even when shot out of handguns--in many cases exceeding the minimum standard of 12" that most people and ammunition manufacturers appear to abide by. While it's still the least desirable caliber for defense per round, the way some people shoot it in comparison to larger (but still common) defensive calibers such as .38 Special might actually make it more ideal for them.

For instance, while my mom is fairly strong for her size and age, and has no trouble handling and pulling the trigger of a medium-frame DA revolver, she is apparently very sensitive to recoil, and with .38 Special struggles to keep her shots even on the paper at 7 yards at any pace faster than slow target shooting. In comparison, with .22 LR she can place 10 shots all within the COM in a few seconds. I didn't time her precisely, but roughly speaking it was "rapid fire" with decent accuracy, and she did it on her very first trip to the range. :D I can't know for sure whether her S&W 617 is truly her best option for defense for now, but I sure feel better about this when I watch her shoot it, as opposed to her closing her eyes and shooting all over the place with .38 Special. :uhoh: She feels A LOT more confident with .22 LR, too, and I think (and certainly hope) that in the vast majority of cases it can get the job done with the right loads.
 
My old 39A also shoots all 3. Think I'm going to go get myself a box of shorts this weekend and see how it does. It's funny, but in all the years I've had this rifle, with the thousands of rounds I've put through it, and countless small animals that I've killed with it, I've never shot anything but LR. Always loved the yellow jackets. One shot kills on squirrels out to 100 yds. Thinking of just using the shorts for the range. No use using LR I guess. But yes, I love the lowly .22. It is the one gun I'd never part with no matter what.
 
I SHOT SOME SHORTS FEW WEEKS BACK,

it was a a 75 yard target, you would here baing-----------------pop. i expected to see lead stuck in the plywood but the little bullet went through it 1/2 in plywood.

had not shot shorts in many years, quiet also
 
I've got a smooth bore 22 rifle made by Winchester MD67 it's either 1934 or 1935. It's the first year they made it. I received a 22LR barrel for my Bond Arms Derringer today, figured it would be a lot cheaper to shoot than 410 or 45 LC.
 
"Henrys are made in Brooklyn NY. Nice rifles for the money."


From the Henry website:

Henry Repeating Arms
59 East 1st Street
Bayonne, NJ 07002
Tele: 201-858-4400
Fax: 201-858-4435


They are wonderful rifles and the company has exemplary customer service.

gd
 
The .22 is great! I can put a piece of lead downrange for pennies! My Henry Golden Boy is my favorite gun for the amount of times I had sheer joy just plinking away. I got an older Glenfield Model 60 and a Ruger Single Six to keep it company. It is the most popular cartridge for a reason. I might have to do some shooting tomorrow to make sure I am not mistaken.
 
The 22LR round is one of the most underrated and discredited. The subsonic version still packs a punch.
The 22LR rifle is still a rifle no matter how you look at it. The inexperienced can use a rifle for home defense.
Take a concrete hammer and a 22 blank. Drive one into concrete and you get the picture.
 
like gdesloge said

mod39, S, L, Lr
mod 883 22 mag
Stevens, forget the mod , my first 22 S,L,LR
old Steven visible loading repeater only good for shorts now days doesn't care for LR
10-22
MKII
MKIII
Nomad

7 reg 22 & 1 Magnum

whole family could feed them self if had too.

KEEP BUYING AMMO WHILE YOU CAN

i try to get 2 bulk boxes a month, been doing that way before oboma.

then again when we would go shoot it was nothing to shoot a bulk box a day, something about a 22 you just want to shoot stuff
 
.22 LR solid bullet from a rifle has something like 12" penetration in ballistic gel.

I put down a skunk that was acting rabid with one .22 round aimed at the spine. That was when I often hunted squirrel and got a average of six using eight rounds taking head shots only, typical range 50 to 75 feet with a Glenfield 99 with a Weaver B4 'scope. Dad cooked them up in squirrel dumplings.

Later with my own kids we would go plinking with .22s at an abandoned rock quarry.

I usually do better with my 7.62 Mosin-Nagant in military matches IF I spend an evening at the range with my .22 Roumanian army training rifle and a box of .22 LR.

A .22 rifle should be the basis of a personal battery. The .22 is very versatile.
 
While I have not made it to retirement yet...
I have noticed that a trip to the range has less center fire, and more rim fire. Yesterday was a good example. 300 rounds of .22 and 50 rounds of 9mm (this between acting as the Safety Officer)
Now when I look at a pistol, one of the questions I ask myself is "does someone make a .22 conversion for this"

I have also noticed that in the last few years, I have had no trouble trading / selling my center fires, but my .22 stay firmly locked in the safe...
 
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