Posted on 05/13/2019 5:20:09 AM PDT by w1n1
I was going to post something snarky along the lines of “Which is better, a pin hammer or framers hammer?”. Then I noticed the tags.
“Author forgot to mention...shooting a .22LR is just plain fun.”
Now that we can find the rounds again. :-)
That’s it. We have officially run out of things to talk about...
The only things that bounce around inside one's skull are silly notions.
I don’t know about mobsters but do remember when Israeli agents murdered the wrong person in Norway. They meant to kill a terrorist but got the wrong person.
I do remember clearly that the weapon was a model 70 Beretta in .22LR.
Of course your typical gang banger is not going to let you sneak up behind him. Still the .22 is better than most think.
Along with the usual lousy writing, this sets a new standard in lame subject matter.
I didn't intend to imply that the .22 LR was not a useful assassin's weapon. It is. Ruger made an integrally suppressed Mark II for the US Navy.
It's the bullet bouncing around inside one's skull that is silly.
45, 9, 22
Best calibers created.
One stops a bear, one stops a human, one stops a squirrel.
imho
Roger that
Also 22s are almost as successful in stopping attackers with one shot.
Not from physical damage, but psychologically people don’t want to be shot by anything and retreat after being shot
Back before 1970, more murders were committed with the lowly .22, fired from a “Saturday Night Special”, as most people could not afford bigger guns.
The old Walon Jennings song, “Cedartown, Georgia” comes to mind.
“Cedartown, Georgia”
I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia
I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her
She never had much, just a sharecropper’s daughter
But I married her and took her down to New Orleans.
Bought a little house in the South French Quarter
Got a job hookin’ bales, loadin’ them on a steamboat
I give her seven days pay next day I’m broke
When she ain’t a sleepin’ all day she’s a primpin’.
Every evenin’ when the sun goes down
She starts a swarmin’ on Orleans town
Walkin’ into work this mornin’ at daybreak
I caught her with the tall long dandy from canebreak.
She walked right by me and she looked right through me.
I made up my mind what I’m a gonna do
Eased in the pawnshop and bought a little 22.
Watched as the roomclerk gave them a room key
Standin’ outside I could read Room 23.
Tonight I’ll put her on a train for Georgia
Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin’ and a grieving
‘Cause that Cedartown gal ain’t breathing...
What's to argue? Two different calibers for two different purposes. If someone broke into a house and there is a .22LR and 9mm at the homeowner's disposal, which one would a reasonable person grab? The nine, no question.
For an afternoon of plinking? A .22LR is hard to beat.
And when the cop asks you what you’re afraid of, you answer, “Not a goddamned thing!”
Whatever is nearby.
Do you think my WALTHER P22QD could handle 60 grain?
“Penetration is another important factor, the ideal penetration needs to be at least 12 inches. (according to the FBI)”
The FBI was seeking to blame firearms for abysmal tactics in the Miami shootout. This old saw about 12-18 inches never goes away. That is a cop standard that expects routine barrier defeating such as windshields, car doors, dry wall, house doors, etc. Some 125 JHP 357s don’t make the cut even..or only barely.
CCW shootings almost never involve barrier defeating.
The FBI has tainted nearly everything they have ever touched. You can safely ignore this FBI standard. The “FBI standard” gave us the 147gr 9mm subsonic which was one of the worst street performers ever foisted on US cops. The old lead 38 special semi-wadcutter hollow point was far better.
“The .22LR is totally inadequate for self defense.”
Bobby Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, the world record grizzly bear in the 1950s, and tens of thousands of other beg to disagree.
Look into the S&W M&P Shield .380 EZ. Insanely easy to rack the slide.
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