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Posted: 4/6/2019 12:15:08 AM EDT

I've had a .22 around in some form or fashion for most of the last 15 years, but because of the other toys in the toybox, I had forgotten how much fun they were until a recent acquisition refreshed my memory. Aside from plinking I started wondering what everyone else uses theirs for.

I've taught 2 of my 3 daughters to shoot on them, and a suppressed .22 typically goes with me camping, hiking, and hunting because why not (a suppressed .22 is appropriate absolutely everywhere). I use mine to get bull frogs at the edges of the lake because my buddies and I love frog legs. If I'm out and see them I'll use it to rid the property of possum and racoon, but I've also used it on squirrel, rabbit, and snakes.

This bronze mark IV 22/45 is the above mentioned recent acquisition.

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Posted: 4/6/2019 12:28:03 AM EDT

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i have a 1987 MKII that i picked up used a couple years ago. It is a blast, great little camping pistol for blasting, it is silly accurate for working on fundamentals, and new shooters. It is a staple imo

my used MkII(200 bucks)

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Posted: 4/6/2019 12:33:49 AM EDT

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Ironically that mark II was my first 22 pistol back when my first daughter was born in 1994. It's what I taught her to shoot on and it was a great gun. I sold it about 3 years ago to make room in the safe and I often wish I hadn't. It's a nice one you have there. I also had those same rubber grips. Thanks for sharing!

Posted: 4/6/2019 12:36:08 AM EDT

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Ironically that mark II was my first 22 pistol back when my first daughter was born in 1994. It's what I taught her to shoot on and it was a great gun. I sold it about 3 years ago to make room in the safe and I often wish I hadn't. It's a nice one you have there. I also had those same rubber grips. Thanks for sharing!

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its so simple and perfect imo.

i do find myself itching for a 22lr host now that i own multiple cans.

Posted: 4/6/2019 12:38:40 AM EDT

[#4]

You absolutely should if you can swing it. These new mark IV lites are one button take down. That was probably the only thing I complained about in the mark II.

Posted: 4/6/2019 12:41:52 AM EDT

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You absolutely should if you can swing it. These new mark IV lites are one button take down. That was probably the only thing I complained about in the mark II.

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i took it apart while having a couple cocktails(right after i bought it of course)....and even while watching a youtube video i could not get the fucking thing back together till the next day hahaha

Posted: 4/6/2019 12:42:19 AM EDT

[#6]

Walther P22 for training my 7yo grandson. Buckmark for making tiny groups.

Posted: 4/6/2019 5:07:38 AM EDT

[#7]

Dispatching coons mostly.

Posted: 4/6/2019 5:16:16 AM EDT

[#8]

Woodsbumming/pot filling.
General funnery

Posted: 4/6/2019 6:48:11 AM EDT

[#9]

one shot practice from low ready (indoor range has a no reloaded ammo policy, and I like when possible to adhere to it) with an Advantage Arms conversion on a G17 lower.... M41 with Vortex Venom for Steel Challenge.... 617 just to keep in practice with a revolver

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:03:08 AM EDT

[#10]

training new shooters

high volume training for me

plinking

making grown ass men giggle. seeing someone who's a lifelong shooter pop off a round suppressed and then laugh is just super worth it.

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:07:16 AM EDT

[#11]

Removing coons and fruit stealing squirrels

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:59:04 AM EDT

[#12]

Love to Squirrel hunt with a .22 handgun. Also Plinking, and serious target shooting, and not serious target shooting, and having fun with the kids and wife. A good .22 handgun is the best!
My 2 favorites are my H&R 999 6 in. and my Ruger MK II 10 in.

Someday Ill think about something as a suppressor host.

Posted: 4/6/2019 9:48:19 AM EDT

[#13]

Snakes and mice see more muzzle then my paper / steel targets do.

Posted: 4/6/2019 6:57:53 PM EDT

[#14]

There are a lot of similarities amongst us all!

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:23:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I use mine to shoot cans, bottles, snakes, etc. Loads of fun to shoot and great for training my boys.

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:40:22 PM EDT

[#16]

I very rarely use mine. I have an SBR 10/22 that is so much (more) fun to shoot. If I’m shooting 22, I’m taking that out.

If I want something lighter, then I grab the 10/22 charger with a brace. This one has a red dot instead of a magnified optic.

Posted: 4/6/2019 7:49:37 PM EDT

[#17]

General shooting. I can burn through a box of 500 rounds without thinking about the $$$$

and I like shooting .22s, I have many

Posted: 4/6/2019 8:28:24 PM EDT

[#18]

Shoot a S&W 17 in bullseye competition ( equally or more accurate than most semiautomatic pistols in my hands) one of several revolvers or .22 auto pistols for steel challenge competition a gun to drop in a pocket when walking the dog. Plain old plinking at the steel target range my club has and more. I shoot more .22 than all other calibers combined

Posted: 4/6/2019 8:54:05 PM EDT

[#19]

Good, general recreational plinking.

Cheap practice of fundamentals.

Posted: 4/7/2019 10:09:04 PM EDT

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Recreational plinking.

Cheap maintainenace of basic skills.

Posted: 4/8/2019 7:33:11 AM EDT

[#21]

Stress relief. Doing a mag dump in .22 is a whole hell of a lot less $$$ than a .45 or 9mm.

Marksmanship practice. Aim small, miss small.

Enjoying a well-built piece of gun machinery. I'm lucky enough to own a Walther GSP, S&W Model 41, Hammerli Intl, Hammerli Trailside & multiple Buckmarks & S&W rimfire wheel guns.

Training new shooters, regardless of sex.

Posted: 4/8/2019 2:44:31 PM EDT

[#22]

Mostly plinking.

Posted: 4/8/2019 10:10:47 PM EDT

[#23]

Plinking, plinking, and more plinking!

Posted: 4/9/2019 9:19:17 AM EDT

[#24]

I have so many .22 handguns now that I might not shoot half of them in a year. I tote along either a 4" High Standard Sentinel or Beretta Model 71 when squirrel hunting.

Posted: 4/10/2019 10:10:40 AM EDT

[#25]

Stemming the incoming tide of zombie soda pop cans with the grandkids. Seeing their young faces light up when they send a soda can flying makes me want to step up to the plate and blast a few more.

Posted: 4/12/2019 10:03:51 AM EDT

[#26]

99.9% of the time it's for punching holes in paper or dinging steel. I have a 4" steel plate that my daughter loves shooting. We will generally go thru a bulk box any time we are on the range. She liked the MKII's but loves the new SR22.

I used to carry a MKII when I was working on our hunting property but since bears and hogs have shown up I now carry a 10MM G20 instead.

Posted: 4/15/2019 9:51:20 PM EDT

[#27]

Plinking

Posted: 4/15/2019 9:58:10 PM EDT

[#28]

I’ve raised six kids around guns. Every one of them sat in my lap shooting 22’s! 10/22’s and my early 80’s fairly rare AMT Lightening.22 Pistol My oldest is now 36yrs old

Today I have a 10/22T and a 22/45 Lite for Me!! Gong to put a Venom dot on the Lite soon. I enjoy shooting steel plates of all sorts at our range

Update: 4/22/19. Just put 200 trouble free rounds of CCI mini mag thru my 22/45 Lite today shooting steel. Love All the TK mods I’ve done!

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Posted: 4/16/2019 2:24:19 PM EDT

[#29]

Plinking, obviously but a .22 with the same or similar manual of arms as your HD or CC piece is a great way to train or practice (or train others) allowing you to concentrate on tactics and hitting targets rather than worrying about recoil or ammo costs.

I have a suppressed .22 set-up for dispatching pests in my Wife's tomato garden. We live where we can legally do that but she doesn't like loud noises. Nothing like braised rabbit served with fresh tomato salsa

Posted: 4/16/2019 2:29:31 PM EDT

[#30]

Plinking, teaching new shooters, and popping critters around the house.

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Posted: 4/19/2019 3:08:13 AM EDT

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Recreational plinking.

Cheap maintainenace of basic skills.

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Me too. My .22s are my fun guns. The rest i shoot to maintain a proficiency with.

On "fun" thing i do of late is to have my SR22 in a holster as i cut the Back 40 grass. Every pass by the pistol range and i see if i can ring a plate one handed while moving.

I also like to shoot my compact carry guns at stupidly long range.

Posted: 4/19/2019 6:03:50 AM EDT

[#32]

When I used to hunt I carried my Mk1 5.5" bull barrel for squirrel hunting or finishing off a wounded deer. Never used it on a deer. I did head shoot a few squirrels with it.

Did lots of target practice/plinking with it. As someone mentioned in a previous post, they are stupid accurate.

I gave a very old one (looks just like my Mk1 5.5" but does not say Mk1 on it and has wooden thumb rest Ruger grips on it) to my youngest son a few years ago. He was shooting butterflies off flowers at 35 to 40 yds. with it, off hand. I told him not to go home and tell his mom he was shooting butterflies.

Posted: 4/19/2019 7:03:40 AM EDT

[#33]

I used my 6 7/8 slabside competition model MK III in a Steel Challenge match Wednesday and I used my 10" AMT Lightning yesterday for some rodent control.

Posted: 4/19/2019 12:56:24 PM EDT

[#34]

Fun at the range shooting paper and eliminating iguanas.

Posted: 4/19/2019 1:09:53 PM EDT

[#35]

cheap pistol work at the range and taking out squirrels during deer season

Posted: 4/19/2019 3:34:24 PM EDT

[#36]

For making holes in paper, pop cans, dirt clods, the occasional varmint and with conversions, cheap practice.

Posted: 4/19/2019 3:44:14 PM EDT

[#37]

My suppressed mk3 lives in my range bag.

There’s always 500rds in there ready to go.

Sometimes I shoot it, sometimes I don’t for 2-3 months.

Posted: 4/21/2019 8:52:39 PM EDT

[#38]

Fun.

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Posted: 5/28/2019 7:05:47 PM EDT

[#39]

I enjoy shooting steel plates at my range.

Posted: 5/30/2019 4:09:46 PM EDT

[#40]

I use a Mark I and a Buckmark to plink and practice. I've noticed that staying sharp with the .22's really helps when I pick up my center fire handguns. I also use them to shoot with my daughter, she's really taken to handguns since she was 7, and it's a lot of fun for us to take a brick of .22's out on a nice day and ring some steel together.

Posted: 5/30/2019 5:02:26 PM EDT

[#41]

mkiv tactical with rugged oculus. Mostly just plinking/target shooting. I need to either put a red dot on it or change the sights. Compared to my glock which has thin fiber sights , which I would describe as a scapel, , the Ruger sights are more akin to a chainsaw.

Savage b22FVSR and a fixed 4x scope with the oculus. Trying to shoot tight groups at 50 or plinking at 100 is really fun. Taking wind/drop into the equation is challenging and rewarding and something I haven’t a whole lot of experience in. If only I could get the savage to extract. Dont want to ream the chamber because I want to maintain as much accuracy as I can. Going to send it to savage as replacing the extractor and ejector didn’t work. May consider polishing the chamber.

Regardless of what I’m shooting one of my favorite things to do is shoot a target far away like an old paint can with the suppressor on and wait for the delayed “whack” when the bullet impacts.

I’m considering getting back into hunting, small game in particular. If I do the savage and short config oculus will be excellent.

Posted: 5/31/2019 6:37:56 PM EDT

[#42]

Just for enjoyment. I like shooting small bore pistol at either target at the pistol range or reactives like cans when I am in the field.

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