One thing this thread does, in a peculiar way, is ask a question I have for the heavy bullet .22 guys.... Why ask a cartridge to do something it wasn't designed to do, when you have another cartridge which will do a better job? The reason I was able to buy a pre '64 M70 Swift for $68 was that everyone had gone to the .243. (yes, that's what these were selling for in the mid 60's) For long shots in the wind, .22 can't do the job of 6mm and .25 cal. varment rifles. Same for deer. Once in a while, I think about using a Swift deer hunting. Lots of deer are killed here every year with .223 using what's on sale at Wal Mart. I always end up taking a rifle better suited to the game. Since most of the guys in this post have rooms full of rifles in every kind of cal., why take a marginal cartridge hunting when you have a better one sitting in the rack? If the answer is... I just wanted to, no problem. I do stuff like that all the time! But I wouldn't argue a .22 was better at long range than a larger cal. Bill
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