whats the heaviest/largest animal youve ever taken with a 22lr/22 short?

[theotherwaldo]

A crazy heifer that was lining up to stomp my oldest sister. .22lr from a single-shot rifle. While sitting in a defunct '58 Buick, which was my "fort". Aimed for the X-point, hit the inside edge of the right eye.

Then I shook for a while. I was six and that was the only bullet that I had.
And I wasn't supposed to have it.

Then I watched Dad butcher that stupid heifer.

 

[schlockinz]

Dispatched a deer with a .22LR pistol, it was at night when I found it, and I screwed the shot earlier. Used the .22 so not to attract attention, but we wanted to end any suffering ASAP

(it was a liver shot, and the only deer that I've put a poor shot on with a rifle)

 

[Heck]

50 pound hog. put it behind her ear

 

[tju1973]

In the wild, probably a 'yote...on the farm, we routinly dispatched hogs for slaughter with .22s, but that doesn't count...

So yotes-- quite a few coons (big muthers too!) and possums....I know some people have taken deer and whatnot, but I would not hunt deer with them..I would shoot a hurt deer though with one (ie one that was hit buy a car or something)....

 

[jeremy1391]

a huge friggin rooster that decided to take residence in my dads tool shed and it tried to kill my cat!

 

[Peakbagger46]

Six feral cats with six head shots.

 

[federalfarmer]

Nothing.

 

[chevyforlife21]

here in ny we cant hunt with nothin smaller then a 243

 

[KSCCHTrainer]

When I was a kid (many many years ago) and living in Northwest North Dakota, I took a yearling white tail buck with a .22 semi. 3 quick shots to the neck and it was DRT.

We weren't supposed to use anything smaller than .270 then, but the local game warden was our next door neighbor and he knew we were hunting for our own food so he never bothered us. Just to keep him happy, my dad and I always told him when we took one out of season to fill the larder. He came and looked at it and commented on the tight 3 shot group in the neck. The deer was about 50 yards away when I shot it. .22 will take just about any North American food animal if you hit it right.

 

[61chalk]

A kitty kat....caught in my fox trap. One shot to the head with my .22LR.....I was 6' tall at that time, I held the dead kitty by the back feet to the middle of my chest, an its front feet touched the ground. Weighed about 25 to 30lbs. Had the biggest head on a cat that I ever saw, looked like a yellow tabby with a shorter tail. I had a domestic cat that weighed 16 lbs, an this thing made it look small. Man, those kitty's sure do have a lot of blood in there head don't they.

 

[tactikel]

A .22 was routinely used to slaughter cattle in the "stockyards" in Chicago. A guy would sit there with a .22 rifle, press it against the forehead and send the steer to the processing room. If it will kill a 900 lb steer-

 

[nulfisin]

Numerous coyotes

Any shot to the vitals or head does the trick, if you limit your range to about 50 yards.

 

[Dr.Rob]

22 short? A fat suburban squirrel that had chewed its way into the eaves of a house. Marlin 39A, 4x Leupold gold ring, smacked him head on, right in the nose bullet did NOT exit, which surprised me. Thing must have weighed 3 pounds. CCI copper washed HP's are pretty good squirrel bullets.

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

Hunting.... A fat ground hog (glorified rat)

Like was said above, a .22 pistol is often used to slaughter farm animals.

(Unrelated Aside: For all of us who like meat, but do not "Process" your own, be very glad. I have helped with this in the past, still love meat, but I am very glad in the modern world we dont have to do this ourselves; all the time...............pigs are the worst, they are too smart)

 

[jordan1948]

Opposum. Probably only 10lbs at the most but the got THE hardest heads. Shot him 6-7 times in the head and I could see the bullets stickin' in the skull.

(Unrelated Aside: For all of us who like meat, but do not "Process" your own, be very glad. I have helped with this in the past, still love meat, but I am very glad in the modern world we dont have to do this ourselves; all the time...............pigs are the worst, they are too smart)

Worked in a slaughter house for a week.........wasn't the killin' that bothered me it was the smell of the meat saw afterwards goin' through the bones.

 

[Lloyd Smale]

id tell you but the dnr might come knocking on my door. Ill say this much. it weighted about 300 lbs.