The .22 lr

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It's a holdover from when .22 LR was cheap and plentiful. It isn't anymore...start shopping for ammo and you'll probably get over your need to have one around.
 
I think .22 ammo will come back to earth some day. If people would just stop paying scalper prices it would help.

BTW I have enough stockpiled to keep my going quite a while. And I bought it all before the panic.
 
6000 rounds should do it for now. Right now I have a marlin 60, and a heritage RR 22lr/22mag... I honestly cant see myself going through more then 500 or so in the next six months... just not my thing I guess.. I like to feel the soreness when I leave the range... My ak does that for me (specially cause that stock has minimal surface area) And with what people are paying for .22 rounds right now, we might as well be shooting some awesome 7.62 x 39 fun guns... I dunno the .22 for me seems to be something I cant live with, or without.... the cycle continues!
 
I sold my Marlin Model 60 just cuz I never shot it.
The guy I sold it to, loves it.

I still have two 22lr handguns.
 
Most important reason to have 22s: Grandkids.

Spent a great hour or two at the range with an 8 YO grandson on Tue. He was proud as can be at putting almost every shot in a 2" square at 25 feet. He wants to go again.
 
denton said:
Most important reason to have 22s: Grandkids.

Spent a great hour or two at the range with an 8 YO grandson on Tue. He was proud as can be at putting almost every shot in a 2" square at 25 feet. He wants to go again.
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Excellent Denton. I do my part in spreading the joy of shooting as well... We should organize a campaign on this site.... One that would sponsor a shooting trip between an experienced shooter, and someone who has no clue... Hell if the NRA did that maybe they wouldn't even need to spend their time and money lobbying ;)
 
I shoot .22lr at least twice a week, sometimes plinking, sometimes practicing silhouette, and sometimes competing in local br matches. Plinkers are fun, but specialized guns for rimfire competition can be addicting. Rimfire benchrest is not cheap when it comes to the guns or ammo, though.
 
My first rifle was a Ruger 10/22 and I will never part with it. For me .22s are just too much fun to shoot that I couldn't imagine not having one in my collection.
 
There was a time I did not own a 22 rifle. Then one day I decided to buy a 10/22. and rediscovered just how much fun a 22 rifle can be. Then a neighbor gave me a old Marlin bolt action 81 DL which I rebuilt the action and reblued. It was nice owning one bolt action and one semi auto. Then I did a little reading on the Henry HOO1 lever actions. After talking to a few people who owned one and how they enjoyed them I got a little more serious about owning one. Then one day I walked into the gun shop just to look around more than anything. I looked across the counter to the wall rack and there the little Henry was staring me right in the face not 5 feet away. I asked to see it and I was hooked, and I walked out with it. So now I own three 22 rifles all with different actions, and I can't imagine getting rid of any one of them. I enjoy each one for what it brings to the table. My only regret is I wish I'd have done it sooner. With 22 ammo being a little rough to get at this time having two of those rifles( Marlin DL81 and Henry HOO1) being able to shoot 22 shorts, longs, and LR ammo is a plus.
 
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I do really want a bolt action .22 ... so I can shoot my super colibris in a rifle...
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CZ 452/453/455, Weatherby Mark XXII (bolt), Remington 541-S or -T (or the current 547 which is great), Anything Anshutz.... Cooper if you can afford it.
 
Most important reason to have 22s: Grandkids.
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Absolutely!

I rarely sell or trade a gun, and 22s just seem to breed. We take our nine grandkids to the Whittington Center at least once a year. Eight are old enough and safe enough to put on the line with their own gun. I have enough 22 rifles that every kid can shoot his own.
 
It's not that you don't like shooting your .22s, it's that you haven't found the right .22 yet. Keep buying, selling, and trading, as long as you're not losing money on it, eventually the right one will find you.

The right .22 for me is a Henry lever action, got it for $120 lightly used, and a couple dozen bricks of .22 later, it's most definitely no longer "lightly used". Really fun, fairly accurate gun that everybody loves shooting.
 
My S&W M&P15-22 got several .22 rifles out of my safe and in to Gunbroker. One of the better uses for 400ish bucks lately.

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maxyedor said:
It's not that you don't like shooting your .22s, it's that you haven't found the right .22 yet. Keep buying, selling, and trading, as long as you're not losing money on it, eventually the right one will find you.

The right .22 for me is a Henry lever action, got it for $120 lightly used, and a couple dozen bricks of .22 later, it's most definitely no longer "lightly used". Really fun, fairly accurate gun that everybody loves shooting.
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Ive always wanted one of those too.
 
I cut my teeth on a Stevens .22 single shot bolt action. I learned to shoot straight because it didn't have a magazine of any sort. It was generally a one shot and done proposition when hunting squirrels or tweety birds. We didn't have "seasons" back then and any wild animal we saw was liable to have a bullet thrown at it. I think it was a .22 short rifle but don't recall now and I never saw it after my grandfather died back in 1982.
I currently own 17 .22LR firearms if I count conversion kits. They are great for teaching kids and newbies how to shoot and I love walking through the woods shooting pine cones, cans and stumps.
 
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