Have you ever shot long-range with a .22-caliber rifle?If you’re into long range shooting then you understand the many variables that can affect your ability of making an accurate shot from way out there.
Posted on 06/06/2018 9:27:42 AM PDT by w1n1
Have you ever shot long-range with a .22-caliber rifle?
If you’re into long range shooting then you understand the many variables that can affect your ability of making an accurate shot from way out there.
Having an accurate rifle is a must. The best ammunition certainly helps, but you better watch that wind drift. Power drops off quickly and those bullets drop in a hurry.
From 600 yard out with a slight breeze, its not consistently accurate. 22plinkster hit it 4 out of 20 shots.
At 500 yard out with minimal or no wind and with the right setup 22plinkster faired better, (its a 3 second in flight before hitting the target) its the maximum range to consistently hit.
However, its not the max effective range. See the full video footage of .22LR accurate range here. How about you all do you plink with a .22LR?
Lucky works too
I own a Marlin “Golden 39A Mountie.”
Damned fine lever action...
I’ve always wanted a lever action since having toy ones as a boy.
That said, those Cowboy Action shooters who shoot rimfire silhouette do manage to get amazing consistency out of their Marlin 1897s at range, with just tang rear sights and those strange blade/globe combination front sights.
I have a Savage A22 Magnum. It is semi-auto with a ten round rotary magazine and a 4 power scope and bi-pod. To 180 yards with the matched A22 CCI Magnum ammo it is always within 3.5 inches of zero.
Remington Nylon 66.
My favorite rifle.
I used to 308, Then I learned to 6.5 heh.
My modified Ruger 22 can shoot 3/4” 5 shot groups at 100 yards with CC Velocity rounds but under 1 1/2” groups are about 90% consistent. CC Minimags are about 2” groups under the same conditions.
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When I was a teenager I was walking out to our property with a couple friends to go plinking when a Ruffed Grouse flushed from some bushes next to the dirt road. One of my friends had an old beat up lever action 22 and did a hip shot which dropped the bird. A one in a million shot.
“I once shot a Canadian goose...”
That would be a Canada goose. A Canadian goose is very different! 8^)
Great point! Seems like the darn things don’t want to migrate anymore. They have been hanging out with the southern hemisphere geese too much.
Many years ago I shot a stray cat that was terrorizing my cats and in general making a nuisance out of himself. I live in the boonies and someone had set it out to die. It was a 200 yard shot with a scope on a Ruger 10/22. I sighted him in and squeezed the trigger and he jumped about 5 feet in the air and took off running. I thought I had missed him but that evening my mother in law called and asked if I had shot that pest cat that it was dead by her pool house. I had hit him in the kidney area but was aiming for chest area.
.22 LR with a Ruger 10/22 or Ruger Charger is a b*tch on beavers, I have had many 50-100 yard shots with them swimming along in the creek below my house. Damned pest from hell!
Got an old Mossberg 46B bolt, I picked up about 40 years ago. I can consistently kill woodchuck at 250 yds. with a cranked up 3x9 scope.
I’ve limited my Ruger 10/22 to 150 yds. I’m going to give the Ruger the chance to compete with the Mossberg.
Oh yeah. Beavers are Nuisance. My granddaddy used to use dynamite to blow up the dams they would build on the irrigation ditches in the high mountain country of Colorado.
“Bullet begins dropping almost immediately out of the end of the barrel.”
All bullets begin dropping immediately after they leave the barrel.
L
“I own a Marlin “Golden 39A Mountie.”
I had one my Grandfather left me when he passed. My idiot brother stole it and traded it for a bag of pot. I haven’t spoken to him since.
Nor will I ever again.
L
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