Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Jim Carmichael said a .22 Hornet sufficed for any game

My experience with .22 CB shorts tells me not to bet against Mr. C’s assertion.

Hardin never "touted" the Hornet, So you're just a liar. What he said was that the Hornet sufficed, so the shorty 223, having 50% more energy and range than the Hornet, and 5x as fast a repeat hit, was adequate and guys were foolish to insist upon a 308 as a shtf gun. It's more important to have the option of the .22lr conversion unit, for practice, for handiness with a suppressor mounted and to have the 60 gr Aquila subsonic 22 ammo for removal of scouts, sentries, guard dogs, and for taking of small game.

Carmichael was shooting editor of OutDoor Life Magazine for 20 years. He held several records in both benchrest and NRA bullseye (position) rifle. He also took several record heads of game in N. America and Africa. He said what we need is general -ability MEN ,not general-ability rifle-calibers.

Have at it.

Back in my younger years when I harvested game as needed there were many a whitetail that went in the freezer with the aid of a 22 mag in the ear hole. Not saying it was right but when you're one paycheck away from living under the overpass you do what's necessary to survive. Carmicheal isn't saying it's right,simply saying it can be done.

Good choice, practical?

Hell no!

Capable of making the critter die?

Oh yeah.


Look into the guy who sorta accidently killed an elephant with a 22LR.

He questioned it afterwards, so...
He reproduced the shot.
And killed another.

Odd.............bowhunters shooting under 40m.

Damn near every bowhunter I know judges yardage...........in yards.

Questioning the prolific posters cut n paste.

Foreign Bot

speaks in metric

Noticed that too. Figured Canadian.

LOL

my dad won the Texas championship silhouette match in the 8os with an open sited colt python. last two deer he killed were both shoot offhand with his Weatherby 7mag.

Jim Carmichael, at his age, mat want to be more careful betting the ranch on a fair chase ram or goat with the Hornet. Mountains to climb is his first obstacle, then the fun really starts.

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It's an easy feat to do all the killing with a 22 Hornet. It isn't an easy feat to get into a position to do that killing. I'd bet on Carmichael too.

Some of the best shooting I've ever done at game was offhand. Also, some of the worst shooting I've ever done at game was offhand.

You tell much better stories than Loonie, and your have the benefit of actually being true.

I haven't shot a deer any other way in so long I can't remember the last time I didn't. Course I practice offhand constantly and maintain the ability to hit a 2" target consistently at 50 yards.

scoped, with a good trigger pull, and "earvalve" plugs, that's pretty simple, but quite adequate shooting. for the woods.

And a wheelbarrow.....don't forget the wheelbarrow.

the old man a few years back, he's the guy carrying in church on sunday morning, 81 now.

Handcarts worked pretty well for the Mormons. One time RIP Ford returning half naked and in buckskin from a arduous trek across Texas came across an old guy, a 49er, pushing a hard art across the plains. Dunno if he survived.

I had a Mormon student did the handcart thing over the summer, skirts and bonnets and all. She said they pretended they were Amish

Ain’t no fun unless you get the cshit knocked out of you by a big fire breathing magnum.