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Posted: 10/7/2007 7:01:04 PM EDT
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Ever since I started shooting. I've been shooting .22LR caliber firearms. I started off on a Glenfield-Marlin Model 20 bolt action rifle and a Beretta Model 21. That was when I was five years old. Today, many years later I'm still shooting those two firearms along with many others. Today I shot the following .22LR firearms. Ruger 10/22 Ruger New Model Single Six Ruger Old Model Single Six Ruger MKII Compitiion Target Model Ruger MKII .22/45 Beretta Model 21 Glenfield-Marlin Model 20 Remington Nylon 66 Browning Belgium Semi-Auto 22 Rifle North American Arms .22LR Mini Revolver Smith & Wesson Model 63 Walther PPK That's not counting my .22 Magnum and .17 HMR chambered firearms. Anyways, what I have noticed with this little cartridge is that the lowest of shooters to the highest of shooters own and shot a firearm chambered in it. The cheapest of firearms are chambered in .22LR as are some of the most expensive firearms. More .22LR cartridges are made and sold a year than any other cartridge. I believe that everyone should own a .22LR firearm. It's fun, cheap, and best of all. It's is an all around cartridge. You can take game, defend yourself, train, and plink for little money compared to the cheapest centerfire cartridge. I have seen more .22LR chambered firearms stay on the market than other firearms. Classic designs like the Marlin Model 39 and Browning Semi-Auto 22 are two prime examples. As are other the revolver, pistols, and rifles on the market. That is not counting all of the conversion kits out there for firearms such as AR-15s, Beretta 92/96, CZ-75Bs, 1911-A1s, GLOCK Series Pistols, etc.... The more I see the market, the more I get into .22LRs. There are so many good guns chambered in this little cartridge that I just don't know where to start. In the end, I am saying that the .22LR is all mighty. It is what makes firearms fun. From our youngest moments as children to when we're old and graying. I believe that all of us will still have a .22LR in our hands and more then likely it will be the same .22LR that we had as children. |
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I own more than a few. But I have a confession to make.... Shooting teh .22s just does not "do it" for me. I get bored pretty quick. The exception is shooting .22 Long CBs out of my Dad's Winchester Model 190 at chipmunks. You have to hand cycle the semi auto action, but it's as though the little sligs have a homing device in them - you can't miss. I refinished it a handful of years back. I had the metal powder coated and re-did the stock and cleaned up the crown. Someday my nephew will have it. |
One of my favorite things to do at the range is take 250 yard shots on soda cans with my roomates 10/22T. Figure if I can get that down pat everything else should be gravy.  Personally I have 2 model 60's and a marlin 921? ( tube fed bolt gun) AWESOME for .22 cb shorts. Fits 26 and feeds uber reliably for stealth urban shooting. ( not that I would ever do taht as it would violate city ordinance and I would never knowingly break the law )
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that's all i shot today. just found a marlin papoose in a pawn shop for $90.00 gonna try and haggle that one down to $75.00! |
7M3, Not long ago, I, unfortunately, inherited my Dad's 190. What a sweet shooter it was and will be again soon. Still working on it. He gave me a Win 250 lever for X-Mas one year. That little sucker is a tack driver. I also have 2 10/22's, and a Marlin bolt in long guns as well as an old model single 6, a S&W model 41, several Ruger Marks of various #'s, a Bearcat, a Beretta Model 21, a Hi-Standard Auto and several others. I always keep around 20K .22LR in the safe and enjoy the Hell out of shooting them. Always looking for more, and never sell any. |
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Man, the 'Papoose' was the first firearm I ever owned and paid for myself. I swear I put enough rounds through that thing as a kid to make it a smoothbore. I remember going into Wolfes and thinking... jeeze dad, we're only getting a couple of bricks? That isnt going to last all weekend.  Now that I have small children, I find that I shoot my .22s a lot more. We go out and plink at those little swinging metal targets. TONS of fun with the kidlets for only a little $$$. How can ya beat that? |
Yeah....one day. Gotta get past the election in Michigan or move out of state. I've got to tie up a few loose ends here, so I'm 'stuck' here at least another 18-24 months. |
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Damn hard to hate the .22. I got rid of almost all of mine a few years ago and I already have five more. LOL.... Here is my latest addition. It was a beat up, trashed Colt Huntsman that I've almost completely refurbished...still got a couple parts inbound. Finish is manganese phosphate, grips from Vintage Grips. Springs and other parts from Numrich, Brownell's and Wisner's: 
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Erma EM-1  They were made in West Germany... used to sell new for something like $150. Also Iver Johnson to my knowledge made M1 Carbines in .22LR. But they might have just sold Erma EM-1s under their own name. |
I have found myself gravitating back to .22s as the years go by.....of course, marriage and a couple of kids helped.. ( diapers > 5.56 stash... )Currently I have the following .22s 10/22 Ceiner kit, about to get it's own full time home MkII SIG Mosquito My brother won the rock-paper-scissors contest for Grandpa's mod. 52 Winchester..... 
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