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The Duramags work very well in the american ranch once you swap the mini 30 magwell for the ar magwell.

A some point I thought about buying a PTR-32. It uses AK mags.

Shot placement on pigs? I’ve seen several deer shot with the .22 mag head or neck. Know if a couple killed with the -17 hmr shot in the ribs, which surprised me even though they were 50-75 lb. One reportedly flinched and went back to eating then fell over. But curious about the .22 and assuming solids?

Had several SKS, a MAK90 couple of AR15 uppers in 7.62x39. Shot up all the cheap stuff I could find when it was really cheap and sold out all connected paraphernalia. Can't knock the round, seemed pretty accurate out of the AR's. The MAK90 was the heaviest of the three, shot the poorest but was reliable. Too many better rounds available on the same basic case presently.

Depends on size. Bigger ones. 100 and 150 plus I'm generally going to put it in the ear socket. Thats usually a subsonic solid.

But years before suppressors and doing lots of hunting I shot probably close to 50 plus with a MK1 bull barrel 5.5 inch ruger. Appx bbl length anyway. Blued old gun but the heavy barrel. Maybe it was a Mk2. Anyway within about 50 yards I would drop a cci mini mag HP into the lungs and they go a ways and die. Just give em a bit of time. Knew a couple older guys talked about their dads shooting deer in the hill country when they first showed up. 22 short or long. Solid. In the lungs. Leave em alone. Roll a cigarette and smoke. Eat an apple or whatever. Then go get em. Its what they had and it worked. Then they stepped up to large rounds like 25-20 and 32-20. I've shot enough in the ribs with a 32-20 to know it kills well enough.

I"ve shot a few in the ribs with a 10-22 suppressed. CCI Subs prefragmented but those can be iffy at times. I've never had an issue but I"ve seen where they barely got a hole into the other lung. They work great on coons and the like though.

I mean after all I've killed deer with 9mm and 380 and no issues out of handguns too. Just prefer a nice close range shot like a bow at an un knowing animal.

Ear socket sounds like the place to be. Lots of times killing is a lot easier than finding and a .22 don’t leave much of a drain hole. If there’s open ground around might not matter. In a southern jungle oh boy. You’ve probably crawled through a few thornyvine thickets youself. But if it works it works. The folk shooting deer in the lung with a 29 gr long had good eyes.