I'm just about 50/50. With .22lr ammo so hard to get these past few years, I've been able to pick up lightly used rifles at unbelievable prices. Without long shooting ranges in my immediate area, I enjoy the "long range" feel of shooting .22lr at 150 yards.
I probably answered wrong, under 10% of my long guns are rimfires. But shotguns are long guns, but this being in the rifle section I probably should have excluded them. If I had the ratio would have been higher, obviously.
I hear you. Other than a couple suppressed rimfires (a rifle and a pistol), I don't really shoot it much. I've never found almost anything rimfire all that interesting, but the saving grace was it was cheap and available everywhere. In the last few years, those two statements are no longer true. So, meh, I'll shoot up some subsonics through a can-equipped .22 at times for the giggles, but that is about it.
I love rimfire rifles. I shoot in a league, which accounts for about four of them, but the rest are "just because." I can't resist a nice rimfire rifle.
I even bought a CZ Scout and a 10/22 Compact just to try to get my girlfriend a little more interested in shooting. It didn't work. I don't care -- I'll shoot the little beggars myself.
rifles: 6 out of 22, handguns 4 out of 11 for a grand total of 10 out of 33
but it is shifting as for the latest 6 buys, only one was rimfire (the incredible Anschutz 1712 silhouette sporter)
5 of the 10 rimfires are used in competition, the others I almost exclusively use to introduce and to train new shooters, wich means I don't shoot them myself anymore..
I have two Marlin 60's and enjoy both of them. Maybe not quite as much as my AR and PTR 91, but they are still great for training and cheaper to shoot...
Well I'll be - mine works out to 50% long guns and 50% handguns right now.
I do not include shotguns, because there are no rimfire shotguns.
I love .22lr annd I am a rifle person at heart so I'm not surprised by the long guns. The handguns was more a result of a quest for the ultimate all-around .22, which I did not get right on the first try.
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