Posted on 01/25/2023 3:50:55 AM PST by marktwain
My Dad taught me to shoot on a bolt action single shot .22. I’m still a much better shot with a rifle than a pistol.
Yes and yes. I clean it pretty good with CLP and I use the original 10 round mags. I would estimate that 1 out of 25 rounds jam. I tested various grain loads and it doesn’t seem to make a difference.
I have bolt action Ruger 22LR rifles with threaded barrel for use with the Ruger suppressor. Quiet. Perfect for rabbit hunting.
I use subsonic ammo in a bolt action when using the suppressor. The suppressor isn't slowing the bullet down. It is capturing the high pressure gas progressively and bleeding off the pressure to mute the muzzle blast. The subsonic round doesn't have a supersonic "crack". If you shoot a supersonic round e.g. CCI MiniMag, you still benefit from the reduced muzzle blast through the suppressor, but the bullet will make a supersonic "crack".
That is why I only shoot subsonic from a bolt action. It's frustrating when the semi-auto fails to cycle. My wife has a Ruger Deerfield 44mag rifle. She purchased some "Cowboy Action Shooting" 44mag ammo. It didn't produce enough gas to cycle the action. She fired it. No brass. Cycled the bolt. Out popped the expended brass. It turns out the rifle needs a real 44mag round in the weight range of 200 gr to 240 gr to properly cycle.
An adequately maintained 10/22 should not have problems with jams.
Maybe have a gunsmith look it over.
A friend in grad school in the 1970s told me he made a silencer using a cardboard tube for a .22 rifle and shot an escaped monkey that was bothering the neighbors in Coconut Grove.
“I saw on how to make a silencer with a lawnmower muffler. Wasn’t legal, wasn’t 100% effective, but it was okay for plunking....”
I have seen very high variations in the 60 grain loads, and the slower twist barrel 1 in 16 only marginally stabilizes them.
I have heard the 60 grain load, or equivalent, was used in black ops south of the border...
CCI Velocitor and Aguila Interceptor exist with about 174 foot pounds of energy. Winchester is coming out with a 42 grain load at 1320 fps, with a deep hollowpoint for max expansion, at 165 foot pounds. An ordinary .32 acp has about 123 to 177 foot pounds of energy.
There is a link in the article to an article about reverse paradox tubes.
Bloop tubes are more common. As stated, they extend the length of the barrel so as to extend the sight radius. Not all need a threaded barrel.
The 60 gr load is also used by the IDF to plink “protestors” (with molotovs, walkie-talkies, etc) in a “mostly less than lethal” way, such as at the femur.
PS: I have not tried the 60 gr Aguila SSS from my Taurus 22, but thanks for the reminder. I will do it soon.
It functions perfectly thru my Ruger Standard Model with a 6” barrel, but the slugs keyhole. They randomly hit the paper sideways at 15 yards more or less. Which may or may not be a plus for a defensive 22.
Pretty nasty wound channel I’d guess, because that 60 gr slug is long. Be an interesting test in ballistic gel. See how many hit at what angle at what range out of a pistol, and what they do.
Magazines, too.
Saw it at the shot show.
Probably not in stores yet.
My article hasn't been published in AmmoLand yet.
Oil filters work also.
Never thought of that.
But you’d have to drain it first!.................😜
Unless I’m mistaken, there has never been an instance of participant or fan violence in scholastic shooting. Certainly all the kids I’ve worked with in 4H, etc... were very well mannered.
Did you go out and stalk grizzlys in the blueberry bushes on base?
Oil filters work very well, but sights have to be pretty high to get around them...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.