Posted on 05/17/2016 3:08:38 AM PDT by marktwain
You sure you don’t mean the .22LR and not the .22S?
Catalina. Catalina. ....... Catalina.
Nice catch. Pulling that out of cold storage tonight!
One of my top 20 musical passages happens here:
Is this the old loft with the paint peelin’ off it
By the Chinese police where the dogs roll by?
Is this where they keep the philostophers now,
With the rugs and the dust, where the books go to die?
The .22 short was the first round. It was chambered in the Smith & Wesson No. 1 revolver in 1857, and was very popular in the Civil War. The long did not show up until 1871, then the Long Rifle in 1887.
Rifles were chambered in the round fairly early. The 1873 rifle was produced in .22 short. Nearly all .22 rimfire rifles were capable of shooting .22 shorts until the late 1800’s.
With smokeless powder, auto-loading rifles were chambered for shorts exclusively. Many rifles are still chambered for “ .22 short, long, and long rifle”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.22_Short
just testing
Dear Dusty,
re: “They are not pigs!’
Ok, the “geekified-species-nomenclature is ‘collared peccary’.
They squeal like a pig, tear up, root up, and are omnivorous like pigs, and are just as tasty, but not so much bacon-y, like pigs.
Fair enough?
Right at the border point where NM/AZ an Mexico meet, up and to Road Forks NM on Interstate 10, was the best Javelina hunting in the world. I use a custom 6 inch Smolt / Smython 357 magnum with a 2-12X power Burris LER scope....... loved that area for hunting Javelina. Now its a draw. Limited etc.... may try the AZ side this coming season versus the NM side.
Stay Safe !
Nice ....
Very good...... extra care in dressing out, cleaning of course. Great sausage etc..
It went through the skull, through the neck, through the vitals and ended up in the rear thigh, shot front to rear.
I doubt that seriously from a 22 short.
Got my first whitetail deer with a Winchester 74 rifle, .22LR back in the 60’s..... 22 long Rifle is a versatile tool that has a place in everyones hunting arsenal. Cottontails, Squirrels, varmints, pests. I’m a big fan of 22 caliber revolvers as well.... CB caps, 22 short, long, long rifle all will shoot reliably regardless of finicky semi auto pistol style stoppages.
The animals generally weigh less than 40 lbs.
They are not large.
Lot quieter, so as to not offend the nosy neighbors, and with a suppressor, I would imagine one can’t hear a thing.
Yea but still, I know what a 22 short is capable of. When we butchered on the farm, the 22 short was used because we knew it would not travel any further than the brain cavity and possibly endanger people or other animals. Sorry, just don’t believe that bullet did what the story says.
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