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To an outdoorsman, shooting a .22 is like breathing. Gotta do it.
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I shoot my rimfires more than anything else. Ordered that rifle yesterday in 22 wmr. I'm on the fence about it in 17 hmr or 22lr as well I have it in LR and it's my main pest blaster. I like it a lot.
4 out of 5 Great Lakes prefer Michigan.
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yeah.....
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I hunt a lot with a 22WRM. Many times the MAG has proven to be too powerful. The 22LR seems like the perfect compromise.
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Campfire Tracker
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I too stocked up some years ago on .22 ammo especially when I got a Henry 22 levergun...So fun to shoot and accurate also...
Jayco 👍
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Campfire Tracker
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I hunt a lot with a 22WRM. Many times the MAG has proven to be too powerful. The 22LR seems like the perfect compromise. try out some cci velocitors in that 22lr
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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Charger pre-SBA3 brace with homemade form-1 can His new favorite, the SP101 4" 8-shot
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Campfire Ranger
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Campfire Ranger
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Well, I used to shoot a long rifle. from my cold dead hands
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Sure we have a few rifles and handguns, and we bought ammo when we found some, but the 17 hmr is way more funner innyways. Maybe we should sell a few bricks to pay the mortgage? $175 for a brick of Thunderbolts really make me wonder. Seriously? I have two sealed cases (10k rounds) of T-Bolt I'd sell at that price.
USMC 0351
We know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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In the last year or so, I have purchased a new 22lr Ruger SP 101 and a new Smith and Wesson Model 17. I have throughly enjoyed my pinking sessions with these revolvers and regret that I did not buy them years earlier. My 17 has the safety hole, but it is still one of the best out of the box performing firearms that I have purchased-it is definitely a shooter and a keeper...
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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When the webs were abuzz a few years ago with 17 HMR jabber, bought a $150 Savage, just to see what all the fuss was about. Synthetic, pencil barrel, horrible trigger. Put a 6x18x44 target scope on it and headed for the range. Pretty accurate at 100 yards, bipod and rear bag. No hassle putting five inside an inch at 100.
Ran five thru a guy's chrono at the range, all were a tad faster than the advertised data on the ammo pack.
Probably a fair ground squirrel round, sucked on woodchucks, sold it. Just too used to seeing red mist when killing woodchucks with the 22-250, most likely?
If three or more people think you're a dimwit, chances are at least one of them is right.
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Campfire Ranger
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Sure we have a few rifles and handguns, and we bought ammo when we found some, but the 17 hmr is way more funner innyways. Maybe we should sell a few bricks to pay the mortgage? $175 for a brick of Thunderbolts really make me wonder. Seriously? I have two sealed cases (10k rounds) of T-Bolt I'd sell at that price. I’ll give you $175 for 10k Thunder Bolts.
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Campfire Sage
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Campfire Sage
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I too stocked up some years ago on .22 ammo especially when I got a Henry 22 levergun...So fun to shoot and accurate also...
Jayco 👍 My stocking up on .22 took a few different forms, or rather existed on three levels. Firstly, since the late 1970s, I liked to keep lots of .22 on hand, and would buy a couple of bricks whenever they went on sale locally. This tended to build up over the years, because I accumulated faster than I shot .22 rimfire. Secondly, after the Post-Sandy Hook shortage ended (I was situated okay for that shortage, but not as well as I would have liked had I anticipated it), I started accumulating .22 at a higher rate than I had been in the habit of doing previously, so I'd buy 500 round boxes here and there and stash them away. But as I saw prices really come down, and knowing that a presidential election was coming up, in late 2019 I purchased a 10,000 round case of Remington Thunderbolt to add to my existing stockpile of about 15,000, bringing my total stockpile of .22 rimfire up to about 25,000. If I chose to be frugal with this, and only shot a thousand rounds a year, it would last 25 years. If I wanted to splurge and shoot, say, 2,500 rounds a year (a little over 50 rounds a week), that's ten years of ammo stowed away.
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Campfire Sage
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I have two sealed cases (10k rounds) of T-Bolt I'd sell at that price.
Tempting. I've got most of a case of it. If it goes much higher in price, it would be hard to resist the urge to cash in.
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
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I worked for 9 years at a factory. Every year for Christmas they would give us a $30 gift card to Walmart. The local Walmart was right down the road from the factory. Back then a brick of .22 ammo was about $10.
I'd stop by the Walmart on the way home and covert my gift card into 3 bricks of .22 ammo. It got to be a running joke with the guys I worked with. I'd tell them that .22 ammo was going to be the currency of the new millennia.
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Campfire Sage
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Campfire Sage
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I worked for 9 years at a factory. Every year for Christmas they would give us a $30 gift card to Walmart. The local Walmart was right down the road from the factory. Back then a brick of .22 ammo was about $10.
I'd stop by the Walmart on the way home and covert my gift card into 3 bricks of .22 ammo. It got to be a running joke with the guys I worked with. I'd tell them that .22 ammo was going to be the currency of the new millennia. How much did you ultimately accumulate?
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