What's your favorite .22 rifle ??

[dcd_enterprises]

I'm sure to be an odd man out here...I can live with that. I've got a Model 94 Winchester, both if 22 LR and 30/30, but I am still partial to my little ol' Savage Sporter.

[justdoug]

Geeze, how did I over look this one? Boy, I gotta bunch of favorites.
The first .22 I ever shot: Dads Marlin 36
Another favorite: Dads 29th Anniversary Marlin 36
Oh, Dads Winchester 1894 that he almost gave to me until my brother told him how much it was worth.
The first rifle my wife bought fo me - a Savage 64.
The AAA Grade Browning at the local shop -_- $1149
My brothers bolt action Marlin that I shot that Marlboro with.
The pink Crickett that my daugther just got for Christmas and the pink 10/22 that other daugther is about to get.
Then there's my stainless 10/22 - sure is fun.

That too many?

[TheJakster2]

My favorite used to be my Marlin Glenfield Model 25 until my son annexed it. It was very accurate. Been without one for a couple of years until my wife surprised me with a Charles Daly Zastasa for Christmas, haven't had a chance to fire it yet but a couple of people that have one tell me they are very good rifles.

[ThunderStick300MAG]

I'm kinda partial to the Marlin 39 (I own a Mountie), and the Italian Weatherby MKXII Deluxe (SN:09XXX)

[GOGETTER]

Rossi 62 SAC PUMP SS CARBINE. SWEET LITTLE SHOOTER AND FUN TO PLINK WITH. GENO

[BillsVX]

Marlin-Glenfield Model 60, 18 shot, tube fed. Bought mine in 1976. Been a great shooter for a long time. Pretty accurate using the Iron sights. Never could afford a decent scope for it so, I made do with the sights that were on it. They haven't failed me yet.

[Nortranman]

Gotta agree with "Taurus 9MM" and others, I really enjoy my Ruger 10/22.

[James22]

This is my first posting and have really only been shooting for the last two years

#1 Remington MODEL 12 Pump action, tube magazine with Lyman peep site.
It was my Grandfather's I never saw him use it but I do not remember a time when it was not in evidence by the window facing the bird feeder. Looking back I always wondered why my dad had problems keeping squirrels off his feeder but Grandpa never had a squirrel near his I think I know now. It was the second gun my daughter shot she went through over 100+ rounds before I realized it and decided I needed to get her something not so sentimental to shoot

#2 SAVAGE MODEL 1909 Pump action, clip magazine with peep site. It was my Grandfathers when he was a young one. I had never seen it until two years ago. It was as filthy as his Remington was clean. I actually thought he had worn out the rifling in the first six inches of the barrel until I used shooters choice 4 times and removed enough lead to make a bullet or two. The stock was cracked were it goes around the action and triangular piece was gone. Having read one book on gun smithing I felt I could fix it up. Found out that epoxy is great stuff but only if you get rid of all the wood soaked oil. Managed to replace the missing piece with walnut from a tree that my father cut down out of my father in law's back yard 20 years ago. Had to replace more wood on the inside of the stock than the repair outside because it was just too oily. By the time I had a solid stock and had shaped and filed it so the action was solid I was not surprised that the triangular piece had cracked and been lost their is less than a 1/8" of wood in that section. It shoots great but will only be shot occasionally with low velocity amo.

#3 Remington TARGETMASTER MODEL 41 Bolt action open sights. The gun my father-in-law learned to shoot with and the first gun my daughter fired. Great simple gun to teach her how to shoot safely.

#4 SAVAGE MARK II bolt action open sites but ready for a scope. My daughters gun, brand new and has already tasted over 500+ rounds. I got a bolt action because she goes through amo fast. Does anyone think a scope will slow her down and what would be a good scope for her gun?

[Tony Mig]

#1....Thompson Center R-55 Sporter
#2....Ruger 10/22T

[Altrisk]

I have one .22 LR. Here in South Africa it's very difficult to get a license for a .22LR mainly because people used it in the past to shoot all sorts of animals that the little.22 LR did not kill reliably.

I have an Anschutz 1420 sporter that I use with a Nikon Monarch UCC 4-12x40 for silhoette shooting and hunting springhares at night. My best is 18 springhares on one night. The Kalahari is littered with these "small kangaroos" and we give it to the local blacks to eat. (They eat everything!)

This rifle will put 5 shots through one ragged hole at 50 metres and shoots 1/2 MOA groups at 100m (if there is no wind)

As our only .22LR ammo manufacturer closed down last year, I now have to rely on imported ammo. I currently use RWS Geco from germany, but they are not as good as what I was used to. Any suggestions? I can get CCI and Eley here, but its very expensive.

[Tony Mig]

I can get CCI and Eley here, but its very expensive.

They are getting expensive here in the states as well Altrisk....

If you are used to using a good grade of ammo then the CCI Standard Velocity, Green Tag, and Pistol Match perform very well for me. The Eley is real good stuff, but I'd only use it for shooting matches, and use something else for hunting.

.22Lr ammo has been in limited supply lately, many brands have been unavailible for months now, if you can find it, buy as much as you can afford, it might not be there when you go back for more......

[stash247]

Altrisk, Both Wolf, from Germany, and Federal, from here in the US, offer several 'levels of performance' in their ammo, as does Eley.
I know the rifle you are shooting, very well, and if it is torqued (Action, into the stock), consistantly, it is limited only by the ammo, and the shooter, in accuracy.
Tony Mig is telling you straight; GOOD ammo is scarce here, and everywhere, so far as I know, and that drives up the price.
When I buy ammo, I buy a box of this, and a box of that, sometimes five boxes of the same line, but different lots, and do my testing in a large (300+ meters long) aircraft hangar, at night, under artificial light, on the target, and determine the best by group size, out of a rifle that has and will shoot ragged holes, at 100 Yds, under such conditions, a Model 52D action, wearing a barrel 1 1/2" in diameter, full length, and a 2 oz trigger, from Canjar: ammo that won't shoot well in this, just won't shoot!
For my purpose, it is close to the perfect 'screening tool' to weed out what does not work, at acceptable levels.
All shooting is indoors, no 'conditions' to deal with, like wind, changing light, etc, the only variable is the ammo.
If I find a particularly 'Hot Lot', I fire up the Cell, and buy everything in that lot the distributor has; being as I'm shooting at night, I sometimes have to wake someone, at home, to do the deal, but this is how it works, for me!
I spoke of 'levels of performance', earlier.
I'm down to less than a case, of a lot of 711-B Federal, that outshoots their 900, 900-B, and 1000UM ammo, in all of my guns; cost me,I think, about $190 US/ case, and freight; cheap ammo, but a lot of 'possibles', in the results.
At the level you are at, it seems foolish to be limited by ammo. But the best is not always the most expensive, simply 'the best'.
Test it, box at a time, lot at a time, and buy ALL of what works, repeat.

[board917]

I love my J.C. Higgins model 103.13 single shot bolt action that i picked up for $40 and restored.

[sportour]

My Remington Fieldmaster pump which I have had since 1950. I single handedly wiped out a large population of jacks in the So. Cal Mojave when I was a teen with that rifle, topped with a Weaver G4 scope. I now have a newer Bushnell sitting on it. It still looks almost as good as it did the day I found it waiting for me on the front porch and still shoots just as straight. We used to ride our bikes with our rifles gripped on the handlebars up into the Baldwin Hills to hunt rabbits. The only time the police stopped us was to find out where we were going and to tell us where they'd seen rabbits that day. Good rifle, good times.

[mrkirker]

Winchester 52 (or 75, for the field), Ruger 10/22 for plinking.

[McFry]

bolt action synthetic stocked Marlin 925r
Savage 64 autoloader (except for the disassembly)

[tleach]

My current favorite is my Browning Buckmark rifle with bull barrel and red dot scope. Before getting this rifle my favorite was my Winchester 9422 XLR.

Terry,
Albuquerque

[Vincent]

My favorite ones that I own are my SuperStock Ruger 10/22 Twins:





They will both average around .8 MOA @ 100 with Sk Standard Plus on a fairly calm day. They have done this a number of times and with witnesses.
I buily both of them from pieces as neither is the receiver that started in the stock. Both have Green Mountain Heavy Sporter. Great barrels that did not cost a fortune. The blue one was only $73

I built the blue one first and was so surprised how well these barrels and the bedding system I use worked so well together that I went and built the Stainless one a few weeks later to see if I could duplicate it. I was almost exactly the same

These two will not be for sale anytime soon

[Tony Mig]

Hey Vincent....those twins look familar..........I do believe I have seen those rifles somewhere's before......

[ehughes]

Remington Nylon 66....it will always shoot.

also, i love single shots so i gotta pick one of thoose, i hyave a springfield arms single shot bolt......not sure what model, but it is a very accurate gun and has out shot a few rolling blocks

[stash247]

Welcome, Mr Hughes! First post, and already into the meat of the matter!
You will find this an opinianated forum, and an especially opinionated thread!
Rimfire shooters are a resource separate from the real world, as we build and chamber, or rechamber, rifles around ammo we cannot change!
My preference is for single shot, falling block, rifles, because I like the lines and feel of them; most would comment that my barrels are too heavy, and the weight too far forward, up until the time they shoot them, and one ofour club rules involves the right of any shooter, to shoot any rifle, in competition.
I have been beaten, by my own gun, on more than one occasion! Even, with my own ammo! But, I came to fish, not necessarily,to catch!
Half the rifles I shoot against are my creations, And all were done with pride; no secrets, the best stuff going, at the time; I would gladly compete, with any of them.
It boils down to the workman, not the tool!

[ehughes]

I have yet to find a rolling block i'm interested in, but i have four single-shot bolt .22s, 2 .22 autoloaders, and 2 .22 handguns, as well as many other guns, they're just not rimfires

[MLRoll]

I have (2) Kleinguenthers built on the Voere actions, scary accurate.

[UncleFudd]

My all time never-fail, go-to, 22 is still the nylon 66. I bought it new in 1959 at age 16. It has been over my trap line in some of the worst weather and other conditions you can imagine for 7 years. I even ran over it once with my old 53 chev 1/2 ton PU on frozen ground. I now have one for each of my 9 grandkids when they are old enough and I have already given one to my wife and to my Daughter in Law.
I also love my grandpas old model 06 Win which I believe is still one of the most accurate out of the box ever made and right behind is the 62 I picked up at a gun show way back when you could still find a good deal once in a while. $125 and the bluing and wood are still like new.

I have a 1022 with a silencer from AWC in Phx but it was made for me when they were still under Dr Dater in Houston in 78. Believe it or not even with the quiet tube on it, it is one very to extremely accurate gun and it sure works well here in the middle of the 5th largest city in the USA for taking these damned sqeakie squirrels or whatever they are. They are about 1/4 the size but look exactly like a prairie dog. My property is/was full of them until I got out the quiet gun and cleaned them out.
Great thread and very interesting to see what everyone uses and why or how they have come about some of the pea shooters.
UF

[gendoc]

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