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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: m25operator on April 27, 2008, 03:35:43 PM
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This link takes you to a forum where a guy decided to test the penetration of a .22 cal LR cartridge at 300 yds. He lays out his test and provides pictures. Rudimentary test but revealing. Enjoy.
http://www.snipershide.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=504301&fpart=1
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Excellent test, now I know I will have to get a 22LR . ;D
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That was awesome! Another reason why the 10/22 is one of the best firearms I have ever owned ;D
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Thank you< Great Post and effort in the wind.
Love my 10/22. Not just a plinker in the right hands. 8)
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thats cooooooool
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I am lucky to have a few hundered acres and a nice deck to shoot from here in Nebraska.
There are two fields in front of my house that seperated by a impassable low maintainace dirt road 220 yards out. I set up a few posts and made a shelf in the side of a cut hill just behind the road.
Several Gatorade bottles, soda cans and beer bottles have met there fate courtesy of my Ruger 10/22. I would also like to add that this was all done with the standard sights no optics! Of course it takes a few spotted shots at first but not bad overall for no optics.
I have used a few standard velocity .22lr cartridges but the CCI Velociraptor seems to work best.
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Yep.. never under-estimate the value of a .22LR. :)
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Make me want to break out my 22s ;D
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I've always heard that sub-sonic 22lr is much more accurate out at the longer ranges. They are supposed to be more stable because they never really break the sound barrier and thus dont have the added turbulance.
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DAMN !!!
I'm a Savage lover, and I love long range shooting, and I love the price of .22 rimfire ammo, and that gun can be bought for less than $400 plus optics.
So many toys ... so few pennies in the toy jar :'(
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Interesting story of how the Israeli Defense Forces have utilized suppressed 10/22s and how lethal they discovered them to be.
http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:eP_KtNnLBZoJ:www.ruger1022.com/docs/israeli_sniper.htm+israeli+22+sniper+rifle&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us
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That was just absoluty impressive.
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SOF has used suppressed 22s before, but I don't know if they still do. I haven't read the post in depth but from what I saw briefly I was very impressed with.
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so is the 10/22 the best way to go? I know I see lots of add on goodies for them. last 22 I had was a marlin mini mag.
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so is the 10/22 the best way to go? I know I see lots of add on goodies for them. last 22 I had was a marlin mini mag.
I'd put my Remington 597 up against any 10/22 any day of the week! And its 100% stock.
If you want the ultimate in accuracy though, you need to stick with a bolt action (I like the semi-auto for shooting squirrels b/c of faster follow up shots). There are many bolt actions to choose from, but the high end models can get pretty pricey - $500 and up. If you look hard enough you can find a nice 597 for under $150.
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I'd put my Remington 597 up against any 10/22 any day of the week! And its 100% stock.
If you want the ultimate in accuracy though, you need to stick with a bolt action (I like the semi-auto for shooting squirrels b/c of faster follow up shots). There are many bolt actions to choose from, but the high end models can get pretty pricey - $500 and up. If you look hard enough you can find a nice 597 for under $150.
I haven't Shot either rifle but I would lean toward the 10/22 due to the after market items available,You can buy "replacement", "Tuned",or "customized"parts for everything but the actual lump of metal that has the Serial number. You can replace the stock and barrel, and replace OR tune the lock as well. And the introduction of the charger opens up matched rifle/ pistol options as well.
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You can actually buy the lump of metal with the serial number on it, I know Volquartsen does, some will take screw on barrels for extra rigidity. So like a 1911, you can start off with nothing and replace everything without a stock part on it.
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So after really looking at used .22s I found a Mossburg 702 in a pawn shop (new) for 117.00 the almost new 10/22 was 175.00 I like the plastic furniture on the mossburg plus it has a floated barrell and great iron sites along with a receiver modeled after the marlin 60. 18.5 barrell semi 10 rd. Anyone have any thoughts on the mossy? and what range should I get out of the 18.5 with decent groups , say 3 inches.
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Got my .22 http://mossberg.com/products/default.asp?id=9§ion=products
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Got my .22 http://mossberg.com/products/default.asp?id=9§ion=products
'Cause squirrel had to die! Na, na, na, na, na...... Goodbye squirrel!
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Actually I dont hunt. I just wanted 1 .
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Actually I dont hunt. I just wanted 1 .
You will be surprised how many you will shoot from the back porch with it!
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SOF has used suppressed 22s before, but I don't know if they still do. I haven't read the post in depth but from what I saw briefly I was very impressed with.
Still. It's where I picked up a tip about putting an o-ring between the barrel and receiver in my 10/22 to make it a bit quieter. I actually used a thin coat of RTV...seems to work well with the AAC Cloak.
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Don't have a 10/22, heck don't even have a 22 rifle. but what i do have is a Savage Stryker 501, scoped and deadly accurate on rest or bipod. Also have 2 mark II's and 2 bull barrel 22/45's. All are really really accurate, especially with a red dot!
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Neon Knight said:
SOF has used suppressed 22s before, but I don't know if they still do. I haven't read the post in depth but from what I saw briefly I was very impressed with.
Still. It's where I picked up a tip about putting an o-ring between the barrel and receiver in my 10/22 to make it a bit quieter. I actually used a thin coat of RTV...seems to work well with the AAC Cloak.
From what I read somewhere there were a lot of camoflouge painted suppressed Ruger 10-22 finger groove sporters in Viet Nam.
They had a bolt hold close device to keep the bolt from cycling. If I remember correctly I think they used an intricately suppressed barrel. I think I read about them in Workman's "Know your Ruger 10-22", but I can't find my book right now to check.
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Mitch Werbell, Founder of Cobray, also introduced suppressed T/C Contenders.
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Wally world has a new rnd Winchester Super X 37 grains @1330 fps makes my KIMBER CONVERISON 100% & cheaper than CCI
$5.97 p/100