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onpoint

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What kind of small game getter(s) have you got?

I just bought a sweet Ruger 10/22 haven't even got my hands on it yet.

For near 30 years I have shot a Marlin model 60 tube feed. It's killed a ton of meat, including beef, hogs, sheep, Etc. Still works well in warm weather but it's slowing down. I tried shooting some hogs with it when it was -30 below. It didn't want to fire. The hammer was as slow as molasses in Jan.

I have always wanted a Browning SA-22 auto bottom eject. Just can't justify the cost. Maybe someday.
 
Back in college at KSU I had a little extra scholarship money and bought a 10/22 Deluxe Sporter my freshman year. This is the upgraded version with Walnut stock, checkering, rubber butt pad, and no barrel band. Nice gun.

A couple years ago my wife (only girlfriend at the time) bought me a CZ 452 American. I love that gun, built almost like a full scale rifle, nice figure in the walnut. Accuracy has been better than the 10/22, but I need to bed it and do a trigger job on it. Most internet experts claim phenomenal accuracy when you find the bullet it likes.
 
This 10/22 is pretty accurate . . .
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I've got a stock 10/22 just the standard model. Haven't even shot it in a couple years. Don't really have a use for a .22 but 10/22's are nice. Have a 10/22 mag too but it also doesn't get much use.
 
10/22s are hard to beat (although I was out plinking with a 1950-vintage Marlin 39A today). That's the second build on my 10/22. First time it had an SS match heavy barrel & Hogue stock. This time I put an aluminum barrel with a steel liner in it, upgraded the trigger & a few other things, incuding bedding the action screw & receiver. Actually, the only original Ruger parts are the receiver, magazines, and bolt which I jeweled. It DOES shoot and it's light as a feather!
 
dad passed away at 94 a few years ago- think he'd smile at me making his old 22 talk- I've got it ranged, sighted in- from 60 to 185 yards
I can drill a jackarabbit anywhere in that range- if I take my time- coyotes in the head they spin and drop- all this fancy setups talk- this an old gun that's probably had a million shells thru it- it still shoots

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I use a Marlin 922 M. It is a 22 magnum that I take with me in the pickup and tractors. It is for what I happen across like skunks, coyotes and what ever. I have a fixed 4 power Nikon scope on it. I would change the five shot clip but other than that it works well.
 
Shadow, Gramps would be proud

Haymaker, great gun I had one a number of years ago myself

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It's a Good Day Shooting 22's

Yes, 22's are great fun. I have a number of them. Two I really like are a Remington Nylon 66 with a Red Dot and a Remington 512 with an old Redfield 4X scope. The 512 will cut ragged holes at 25 yds. with Wolf Match Extra ammo. I use the Nylon 66 for winter rabbits and the 512 for Squirrels and such.

Lock and Load! :D
 
haymaker said:
I use a Marlin 922 M. It is a 22 magnum that I take with me in the pickup and tractors. It is for what I happen across like skunks, coyotes and what ever. I have a fixed 4 power Nikon scope on it. I would change the five shot clip but other than that it works well.
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I also have a 922. It has sent many a varmint home over the years. My favorite is a early 39A with original scope.
 
haymaker said:
I use a Marlin 922 M. It is a 22 magnum that I take with me in the pickup and tractors. It is for what I happen across like skunks, coyotes and what ever. I have a fixed 4 power Nikon scope on it. I would change the five shot clip but other than that it works well.
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I have grandpas 922 m, I love it for yotes out to 100yds. A Ruger 10/22 takes care of the rabbits and squirrels and grandpas mdl 70 22-250 handles the varmits out to around 400yds.:cheers:
 
That scope is a Mueller 8.5-25x50 with mildot reticle. Picks gophers out of the grass quite effectively. I've since installed it in medium mounts versus the high ones in the photo. Building these things has become an addiction . . . I've done half a dozen or so.
 
I have a few, but my favoriate is the Henry Goldenboy Lever Action Rifle.
 
How can one not love a 10/22 ?
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You can't. I painted my sisters house at th age of 12 and I got a single shot 22 for payment--I thought it was a GREAT deal and the first gun I ever bought with my own money was a Remmingtom pump 22--I still have it and shoot it quite a bit.
 
I have 4 or more, but my favorites are a Rem 241 (the Rem version of Browning, much longer barrel) that I grew up with. Many a jack and cottontail when down, some in a reign of slugs as fast as I could pull the trigger. I learned to shot game on the run with the peep sight.
I have a Ruger 77-22 that is as accurate as anything I have ever seen. Agopher got it out the bedroom just this morning. I have a 10-22 also but the trigger must be set at 10#s. Will get that fixed when I retire.
 
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