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.22 Long Rifle Cartridge, as Introduced and 125 Years Later
Gun Watch ^ | 18 December, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 12/18/2023 3:56:30 AM PST by marktwain

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To: Chainmail

Henry Arms makes it now. According to reviews, it doesn’t have reliability issues anymore .


21 posted on 12/18/2023 6:00:48 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: marktwain

You can plink the day away, and it won’t even cost $20! Who could ask for more?


22 posted on 12/18/2023 6:04:12 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: marktwain

What am I seeing? 555 rounds of Winchester for $24.77? Thirty years ago I could get 500 rounds of Federal in a box for less than $5! Found two of those boxes a few months back in my garage!

And about 350 rounds of Remington in a coffee mug for less than $5! I still drink out of those coffee mugs! Dishwasher has washed off the Remington logo.


23 posted on 12/18/2023 6:25:55 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: marktwain

Love my vintage Mossberg Model 46b’s and M46b’s with tubular magazines. Very accurate and affordable collectables. My oldest are a couple of Spiegel guns a B46M and a single shot 26M that are in my copy of a 1939 Spiegel catalog. These were special editions rifles sold only by Spiegel.


24 posted on 12/18/2023 6:36:09 AM PST by gunsmithkat (There is no such thing as Too Many Guns)
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To: Gaffer

My first gun was a Marlon Model 60. I still have it. I also have a savage bolt action, a Winchester bolt and two Henrylever action .22’s

Sometime this week I’ll be putting some rounds down range with my Tuger Wrangler 22 revolver.


25 posted on 12/18/2023 6:39:36 AM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: AFreeBird

I briefly owned the Henry version but I didn’t like the plastic barrel cover and the fat red plastic front sight. I’m sure that its better than the Charter Arms AR-7 - but the original Costa Mesa Armalite is still the best.


26 posted on 12/18/2023 7:37:14 AM PST by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: marktwain

I wonder how the .22 Magnum cartridge fits in with these. I briefly owned a .22 revolver that could also fire .22 Magnum but you had to swap in a different cylinder.


27 posted on 12/18/2023 7:48:06 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: cyclotic

I plink colibri 22s in my 10 shot 617 revolver all the time


28 posted on 12/18/2023 7:48:52 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: cyclotic; All
I have a Winchester model 61 pump 22 long rifle. I inherited it from my father who bought it new in the late 1950s or early 1960s. It was re blued in the 1970s. I also revised the stock.

I was thinking of buying my wife a Ruger Semi auto 22 pistol. I was looking at one on Saturday. Any advice regarding this firearm would be appreciated.

29 posted on 12/18/2023 7:52:47 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: USS Alaska

Good to know. I have mockingbirds continuously going into blue bird nest boxes I have put up and kill the chicks/eggs.

I might try some of that bird shot. I’m always afraid the .22 LR could pierce the wood nest box.


30 posted on 12/18/2023 8:40:59 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: marktwain

The .22 Long Rifle as introduced by Stevens was uncrimped for several years, until demand for ammo compatible with repeating rifles forced the major makers to start crimping.


31 posted on 12/18/2023 8:41:22 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Prices went stratospheric after the rimfire drought brought to us by Obama and Holder. IIRC, I couldn't find supply for a few years.

Since that one event, I've stocked in more than I'll shoot in my lifetime. But it still makes good trade-bait for when things get tough.

32 posted on 12/18/2023 9:17:25 AM PST by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed because they intend on doing things that you would shoot them for.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Ruger .22 semi pistol-—
Mark 4——
Easiest to clean
All are Fantastic !
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The GP100 10 shot revolver is a Beauty!


33 posted on 12/18/2023 3:22:30 PM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: cyclotic
Tuger Wrangler 22 revolver.

Tell us what you think of the Ruger Wrangler.

I have been seeing mixed impressions.

34 posted on 12/18/2023 3:32:43 PM PST by marktwain
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To: woodbutcher1963
Consider the Kel-tec P17. Very light, about as accurate as a Glock, three sixteen round magazines included with the price, lately, of $179.95. Suppressor ready.

I like mine a lot. However, it is not a target pistol. About 2 inch groups at 50 feet.

35 posted on 12/18/2023 3:36:11 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Like everyone my first gun was a .22. Mossberg 341, and even wit it’s atrocious trigger pull I made it to Expert in NRA’s 50 indoor program. By then I’d saved up enough to switch to a Savage/Anschutz 64.

My favorite .22’s in the safe are Winchester 67’s which are the perfect teaching gun, as well as a plink all afternoon with one box gun. As a kid I wore out the 1973 Gun Digest and lusted after the Weatherby MK XXII. Finally acquired one complete with their funky scope. But my absolute favorite is a 1909 #4 Remington Rolling Block Takedown in .22 Short. An absolute dainty gem of a gun.


36 posted on 12/18/2023 3:44:16 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: woodbutcher1963

If you’re talking about one of the variants of the original Ruger you can’t go wrong. I’ve had several and put many thousand of rounds through them. I have no experience with the SR22 or LCP.


37 posted on 12/18/2023 3:49:53 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: marktwain

It’s just fun.

I’m not a shooting expert that knows more than everyone so I’m not arrogant.

It was relatively cheap and had good reviews. The competition is the Heritage Rough Rider which I’ve heard can be good or bad depending on the gun you have. A buddy owns ten of them. My sons each have rough riders too.

I just wanted to be different.


38 posted on 12/18/2023 3:57:04 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: marktwain

2 in groups at 50 ft...
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That’s pretty good for a .410 ...
But a .22 ?


39 posted on 12/19/2023 8:28:56 AM PST by Big Red Badger (The Truman Show)
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To: Big Red Badger
2 in groups at 50 ft... .

That’s pretty good for a .410 ... But a .22 ?

About 2 1/2 to 3 inch groups at 25 yards is about par for self defense pistols.

It is what is normally expected from a Glock.

The P17 is a semi-auto pistol with a 3.93 inch barrel.

40 posted on 12/19/2023 8:34:16 AM PST by marktwain
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