Rifleman 173
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Rob, pick a gun. Any gun, even a 10-22 will work. THINK about what you want to do with it. THINK about the gun's limitations and its strengths. Form your tactics for your gun's strengths and weaknesses. Now THINK about your strengths and weaknesses. Incorporate what you know about yourself into your tactics.
What this all boils down to is knowing yourself, your firearms, practicing A LOT and planning ahead of trouble so that your tactics will work. High capacity magazines, like 50 rounders or 100 rounder drums, can literally make the 10-22 into a fast-firing buzzsaw. Learn to do high speed double-taps and then precision head shots. Put a Tasco scope, a lo-po system (low power 2 X 6) that has an illuminated reticle, on your 10-22 and now you have a lot of accuracy that will let you control out to about 150 yards or so. In the hands of somebody who has practiced a lot with one, a 10-22 can ruin a bad guy's day quicker than many other firearms. Sure, it may not, in some people's opinion, be the best option but it will work when nothing else is available AND if you have practiced with it. Also make sure that you have a cleaning kit for the rifle. And stay away from super fast (zinger type) or super slow (sub-sonic) ammunition because that's specialty stuff that may not properly work in your rifle. You want nice, standard middle-of-the-road ammo that you can buy in bricks (500 round lots or boxes of ammo) for about $10 to $15 each. Now go have some fun.
What this all boils down to is knowing yourself, your firearms, practicing A LOT and planning ahead of trouble so that your tactics will work. High capacity magazines, like 50 rounders or 100 rounder drums, can literally make the 10-22 into a fast-firing buzzsaw. Learn to do high speed double-taps and then precision head shots. Put a Tasco scope, a lo-po system (low power 2 X 6) that has an illuminated reticle, on your 10-22 and now you have a lot of accuracy that will let you control out to about 150 yards or so. In the hands of somebody who has practiced a lot with one, a 10-22 can ruin a bad guy's day quicker than many other firearms. Sure, it may not, in some people's opinion, be the best option but it will work when nothing else is available AND if you have practiced with it. Also make sure that you have a cleaning kit for the rifle. And stay away from super fast (zinger type) or super slow (sub-sonic) ammunition because that's specialty stuff that may not properly work in your rifle. You want nice, standard middle-of-the-road ammo that you can buy in bricks (500 round lots or boxes of ammo) for about $10 to $15 each. Now go have some fun.