My Dad didn't like the idea of a 22LR for some reason and I never got it when I was young.
That's the way it was for me. My dad saw that dangerous for one mile and considered that we live in flat country, unlike the mountains he was raised in. I traded into a 22 at 14 years old. So dad said I could only shoot shorts and since it was a JC Higgins M31 and a semi auto he thought it would only shoot shorts single shot. I never told him it would cycle shorts. The thing is I killed as many squirrel with those shorts as I would have with LR's.
