I don't personally believe in ammo shortages. I carry a .22 around the place as I frequently come across targets of hopportunity.
And I like to shoot. Take an average day with normal aggravations and frustrations, add a .22 revolver and a coon trying to get in the dog food, and you now have an adventure. Hauling brush to the burn pile and attacted by rabbits? Adventure boys, adventure...
Howsoever lilliputian that adventure may be, it beats a day without.
And the youngest son and I are batching it this week as wife/mom is up with the grandkids who are schooling from home. Fried a couple of bunnies for supper last night. Attack rabbit gravy on our biscuits this morning.
Would I carry a .22 revolver for self defense? Not by choice. Think of how silly it sounds. Add in the potential for rimfire primer FTF, and I will always choose a centerfire for self defense.
That said, I'll bet I've run 1500 rounds through my LCR since august, and some of those rounds likely as old as the average poster here. Not a misfire yet, of any sort. If I'm going about my daily adventures here on the place, I consider myself to be adequately armed with a .22
Been carrying various ones for years, BUT my risk level is pretty low. When I go to the Big City (Leesburg, VA) I may swap it out for a .357 or 9.
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I will admit to being occasionally lazy and failing to swap out the .22 before I slip into town. There's a Farm and Fleet, a Menards, and a Walmart all at one intersection just 6 miles from the house.
If I'm puttering around the family's farms in Missouri, I've almost always got a .22 handgun handy. It is pretty nice to have a 10 shot pistol weighing about a pound. You can even forget you've got it handy. Light weight is a good thing. I've got a 617 and a Single Six, too, but they usually get left behind due to the weight difference.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
I live in a very rural area, no confrontations ever, so I don't study the armed self defense stuff. But I had a 33 year veteran of the highway patrol with 2 on-duty shootings under his belt, remark, "don't let anybody kid you about your little .22, it's a fact that 2 or 3 in the face will stop any nonsense, including angel dust". If I lived in Katanga Province, I'd carry something with more authority.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
My putzing around the home woods guns are usually a Ruger LCP 22 or a S&W 34-1 also (if not carrying a rifle).
These days, it’s usually more the 34-1 because I red dotted it and can see and hit stuff really well with it while wearing my glasses - older eyes and all being my current reality.
Yes, I know it looks goofy but being able to hit stuff reliably is not
My putzing around the home woods guns are usually a Ruger LCP 22 or a S&W 34-1 also (if not carrying a rifle).
These days, it’s usually more the 34-1 because I red dotted it and can see and hit stuff really well with it while wearing my glasses - older eyes and all being my current reality.
Yes, I know it looks goofy but being able to hit stuff reliably is not
I mounted Bushnell RSX 100 last night.
Have you rigged up a holster for that contraption? The smaller sight is definitely better.
Why do you carry it for the porpoise. Maybe he has a purpose though. I mean if he lives in a tough neighborhood maybe he needs it. But with respect my SIG P220 doesn't feel very heavy at all. And that's nine rounds of 230 gr HP fury. Can a perp run faster than 950 FPS? Be Well, RZ.
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We had a shooting in Atlanter years ago, a rapist met his end with 9 22 HPs in his body from a ruger mark 1. She told him she had money in the drawer and would give it to him, and she did.
Having seen the underwhelming stopping power of .22 LR on grouse, I think I will pass on carrying one as a primary for self-defense against predatory people until I run out of everything else.
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I admit that there's better guns, but it'll do during my hunting trips now. It's totally reliable with Rem yellowjackets. Usually stuffed in my field jacket pocket when I stop for a burger during a pig hunt. Bob
Of all the gunshot victims I have treated over the years, you tend to run into twice as many people shot with .22's than other cartridges (at least that's how it was when I was a medic). With a couple of exceptions, .22LR is extremely underwhelming.
Don't get me wrong, I'll take a .22LR over no gun, but it's just not a great choice at all. That doesn't make it some kind of sin for carrying one. There are many who carry them for pest control purposes who believe it will do the job of self defense in a pinch...and they're probably right (if employed properly).
Where I live, I fear actual snakes more than the two legged versions; we just don't have much crime round here. I've found myself looking longingly at lightweight 8 shot revolvers for a pocket snake gun. I wish they made a .380 shot cartridge, then I'd just use my little .380.
I admit that there's better guns, but it'll do where I go during my outings now. It's totally reliable with Rem yellowjackets. Usually stuffed in my field jacket pocket when I stop for a burger during a pig hunt. Bob
Green with envy here...
I have a thing for the .22 versions of the classic pocket auto's. Always wished Colt made a .22 version of the 1903.
My putzing around the home woods guns are usually a Ruger LCP 22 or a S&W 34-1 also (if not carrying a rifle).
These days, it’s usually more the 34-1 because I red dotted it and can see and hit stuff really well with it while wearing my glasses - older eyes and all being my current reality.
Yes, I know it looks goofy but being able to hit stuff reliably is not
I mounted Bushnell RSX 100 last night.
Have you rigged up a holster for that contraption? The smaller sight is definitely better.
A rising star in the sky of IPSC! Interesting combination. And good idea for aging eyes like mine.
I admit that there's better guns, but it'll do during my hunting trips now. It's totally reliable with Rem yellowjackets. Usually stuffed in my field jacket pocket when I stop for a burger during a pig hunt. Bob
GREAT! Some people who had feeding problems with the Walther PP 22 lr switched to the PPK. But yellow jackts will do the job even with the heavier slide of the PP.
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