What do you feed...

[RedneckCatholic]

I have a heritage rough rider I bought to plink around with, mostly paper and tin cans. I have some thought that it would make a good gun for hiking and fishing. I got both the .22 and the .22 WRM cylenders. Aside from putting snake shot as the first under the hammer, and hollowpoints for the rest, I was wondering if anybody here had feed one.

The manual says it will eat .22 cb, short, long and long rifle.

anybody have any experience with this one?

Oh--I bought a brick of remington thunderbolts .22 LR--was that a big mistake, or just a little one?

 

[Shade00]

So it includes .22 LR and .22 mag cylinders? You can fire .22 short (CB and regular), .22 long, and .22 long rilfe out of a .22 LR cylinder. Firing the shorts or longs will require a little extra cleaning of the cylinders, similar to .38 in a .357. DO NOT put anything but .22 mags in a .22 mag cylinder.

 

[Risasi]

I have the same gun. I find I use it mostly for point shooting, and teaching the mechanics firearms control to people new to firearms. And I found I rarely use the magnum cylinder.

Shoot what you bought, buy more, keep shooting. Try to put several thousand rounds through it this year. It will become an extension of your arm, which is good training for other handguns. Plus in the big scheme of things it's cheap fun (c'mon, 3000 rounds is only $120, cheaper than one Saturday night in some places).

CB Aguila caps are great for pest control and shooting frogs/rats at night.

Also, I'd skip the snake shot. We used to use regular lead SP or HP for bull snakes all the time. Just know your backstop.

 

[Piraticalbob]

(Risasi) Also, I'd skip the snake shot. We used to use regular lead SP or HP for bull snakes all the time. Just know your backstop.

What point is there in killing bull snakes? They aren't venomous, and are nearly at the point of qualification for Threatened status on the Endangered Species list.

 

[Risasi]

I doubt they are endangered. There is a point in killing them when they're eating your chicken's eggs.
On my granddad's farm I suppose we could have collected them up and drove them a few miles away to dump them "into the wild"...but we didn't.

If you want to debate that perhaps you should start a thread somewhere other than in the revolvers section?


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Now, back on track. I myself prefer CCI Blazer .22 ammo to the Thunderbolt brand. It seems to shoot more cleanly...

 

[RedneckCatholic]

Thanks!
I don't want to carry it to shoot bull snakes--in my area we have copperheads, cotton mouth and the occasional eastern timber rattler. that covers every single environment I'm likely to use for outdoor rec!

 

[msgttbar]

As a kit gun while wandering the woods, Put in the magnum cylinder and load CCI MaxiMags. For plinking, LR cylinder and any rounds you have on hand. Bulk round buys (cheapest you can find) are no problem. These guns are not finicky. (But they sure are fun to shoot)