chicharrones
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Another fan of shooting .22LR pistols and revolvers here. If I have enough magazines I can definitely get the barrel really warm on an auto pistol. Same thing with my H&R 999 with some speed loaders. heh heh 
Rimfire practice is paying off BIG time
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carbuncle
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I'm going to pick up a .22 this summer for this very reason, glad to hear it works. I need some work on my fundamentals, and nothing stands in for trigger time!
Frozen North
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I also shoot a buckmark ALLOT. I didn't think it was possible to ring the 125 yard gong 8 out of 12 shots, but I do it all the time now. My buckmark has a red dot on it, but shooting at those ranges with 0x optics, I am forced to aim small and HOLD STEADY. When I got back to my centerfires, my groups got allot smaller.
Shooting 100+ yards with a .22 pistol will make your flaws brutally apparent and give you the cheap practice you need to correct it.
I really really like that Buckmark allot. It showed me what a pistol was really capable of without significant operator error.
Shooting 100+ yards with a .22 pistol will make your flaws brutally apparent and give you the cheap practice you need to correct it.
I really really like that Buckmark allot. It showed me what a pistol was really capable of without significant operator error.
NMGonzo
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I have a conversion kit on my 1911.
Trigger time for a fraction of the price on the same frame.
Trigger time for a fraction of the price on the same frame.
doubleh
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I have shot .22 handguns and rifles all my life. I shoot centerfire also but really still enjoy the rimfires the most.
Something I've begun doing this year is shooting CO2 powered BB and pellet pistols. I can sit in the backyard out of the wind and practice my sight picture and trigger control very cheaply and quitely. It has been a big help with my "real gun" shooting as it keeps me from getting rusty between chances to get out to the range or in the boonies.
Something I've begun doing this year is shooting CO2 powered BB and pellet pistols. I can sit in the backyard out of the wind and practice my sight picture and trigger control very cheaply and quitely. It has been a big help with my "real gun" shooting as it keeps me from getting rusty between chances to get out to the range or in the boonies.
oldfool
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another echo here
yeah, I believe in shooting 22s to build skills, hone basic techniques
my woobie flavor happens to be centerfire k-frames, 357s, own three such
which is why I own four "same" (same frame, weight, length, grips, sights) rimfire k-frames
pumping mag loads out of a gun can show you what you are not doing right
but so can pumping out light loads
that gate swings both ways, do both
yeah, I believe in shooting 22s to build skills, hone basic techniques
my woobie flavor happens to be centerfire k-frames, 357s, own three such
which is why I own four "same" (same frame, weight, length, grips, sights) rimfire k-frames
pumping mag loads out of a gun can show you what you are not doing right
but so can pumping out light loads
that gate swings both ways, do both
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CraigC
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If you wanna get good with a 1911, rimfire conversions are invaluable!
Steve CT
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I shoot a bunch of .22 lr as well. I'm a member of a small, local club-25 yd indoor rimfire only about 1/2 mile from home. It's old, very inexpensive, and members have a key to come and go as they please. Very convenient to stop off on the way home from work for a couple hundred rounds. Shooting a Buckmark with a Fastfire and some TacSol goodies, and a Dan Wesson .22 4VH, and a 1911 conversion is on the wish list
I have all kinds of crap hanging out there. I really liked "Hickok45's" youtube videos where he has about 2 dozen gongs, swingers, silhouettes etc.
What I do, because it's VERY cheap, is head off to the metal scrap yard and buy random pieces of metal. I-beams and the rectangular tubes (don't know what they're for) work great because they're nice and thick.
I then "rent" a torch cutter from a buddy and cut out circles, rectangles, squares etc. You just need to make sure that however you cut them the face that you'll be shooting at is flat. If there is any kind of protrusion forward of the shooting surface you WILL get hit with crap, sometimes it hurts.
I got a nice little cut on my neck this afternoon, and it was from these little 4" round targets I bought off ebay a while back. They're circles that are welded to little stands, so when the bullet impacts it splatters in a flat plane, and bounces right off the stand and back at you.
So I'm not going to shoot at these from less than 20 yards or so now!
This was the second time I've been hit with a ricocheted fragment and it broke the skin. It's not a big deal to get a little "thorn scrape" cut on your arm or something, but it's plenty enough to blind you. Wear good glasses, and don't get too close.
SSchmidt
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I agree with you OP, there is nothing quite like shooting a .22! I enjoy my other firearms tremendously, but I always fall back to the Beretta U22 Neos and my Ruger Charger 10/22. Those things are just a blast to shoot.
I want to improve my accuracy as well so I will continue to pour the rounds through these. My wife isn't the most supportive firearm wife (times are tough) but she doesn't mind me shooting .22 because it's so cheap.
I want to improve my accuracy as well so I will continue to pour the rounds through these. My wife isn't the most supportive firearm wife (times are tough) but she doesn't mind me shooting .22 because it's so cheap.
ForumSurfer
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For many people, this is one way 22's increase your ammo budget. A day of shooting becomes a family outing. I've yet to meet anyone who didn't get a smile on their face from shooting reactive targets with 22's.
BCRider
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Smithwess, some of the spatter coming back may well be from the side spatter off the targets hitting bigger stones and whatnot in the area and being reflected back. If you notice you get hit then check the "spatter ditch" along the face of the target for any chance that you have another target stand or some bigger stones or rocks in the line that may be sending stuff back. There's USUALLY a reason since good clean steel faces should not reflect anything back with sifnificant energy in it.
Deaf Smith
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I have a Glock 26 9mm and a AACK .22 unit for the gun.
Now days I hip shoot at 15 feet on IPSC targets and just about never miss the A zone! That is all cause of both my .22 AACK unit and my Laser Glock. That is a air soft Glock turned into a laser pistol.
Like this one!
It's a wise idea to have a .22 that works just like your carry gun. You can get loads of skill with it. Left handed shooting, one handed, hip shooting, shooting moving targets, shooting on the move, etc...
Deaf
Now days I hip shoot at 15 feet on IPSC targets and just about never miss the A zone! That is all cause of both my .22 AACK unit and my Laser Glock. That is a air soft Glock turned into a laser pistol.
Like this one!
It's a wise idea to have a .22 that works just like your carry gun. You can get loads of skill with it. Left handed shooting, one handed, hip shooting, shooting moving targets, shooting on the move, etc...
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