About half the guns I've ever owned at any one time in my life have been .22's.
When I was a teenage without a lot of money, I shot a lot of .22's just because I could do a lot of practice cheap.
When I was a young man and the better half and I were raising a family of three children, I shot a lot of .22's because they were cheap.
When all my kids got to shooting age, they got a new .22 rifle, and the family shot a lot of .22's for practice, because they were cheap to shoot.
When my son went through police academy, he was the best shot in his class because of the heavy practice growing up.
When my daughter became a state parole agent, she was top shot in her group, I'd like to think because of all the junior league practice growing.
Now that my wife and I are both social security retirees, we still shoot a lot of .22's because we like to go to the range twice a week in nice weather, and a bulk box of .22's won't kill the social security check.
Yeah, we do a lot of .22's. Always have, always will. I see way too many of these young guys who go out and buy a center fire pistol as their first gun, and never get to be a really good shot. I can only guess that they lack a father or uncle, or grandfather who would have taken them out as a kid, with a brick of .22's and an afternoon to kill learning the holy trinity of sight picture, breath control, and trigger squeeze. No range session is complete without a .22.
Carl.
