Posted on 01/24/2020 8:25:24 AM PST by w1n1
Everyone needs a Good .22 rifle - Dotzie was telling me to hurry. Treed at the base of a big white oak, my little mountain cur barked impatiently to inform me there was a squirrel up above that required my undivided attention. Out of breath from hurrying to her side, it took me several minutes to spot the gray squirrel pinned to a limb. Still a little shaky, I pulled a miss on my first shot and the squirrel darted through the upper limbs to begin his high-wire act.
I settled down by the third shot, and after I squeezed the AccuTrigger on the Savage A22, the bushytail tumbled out of the tree. I was happy, and more importantly, Dotzie was happy.
In my misspent youth, I knew an old codger who I thought of as my mentor when it came to rifles. He had survived Korea and a battle that took place in a location now called the Frozen Chosin. He had a house full of guns, and was always shooting, reloading, or doing something with a rifle. I tried to learn as much as I could from him, while staying out of his way at the same time.
"Boy," he told me, "everyone needs a good .22 rifle, if for nothing else than just to shoot." By "just to shoot" he meant target practice, can plinking, hunting small game, pest control, and anything else a body would need a rifle for in a caliber below a .3030. To him, a dependable .22 was a tool much like an axe or a wrench; and when you needed one, it had to work and work well.
Long known for their brand of no-nonsense firearms, Savage Arms (savagearms.com) has returned to the forefront in recent years with high-quality rifles that work well when you need them to. Savage wowed the rimfire world a couple of years ago with the introduction of the A17, the first high-performance semiautomatic rimfire specifically designed for the .17 HMR cartridge.
They followed that success up with the A22 in .22 WMR (Winchester Magnum rimfire). Now, Savage is adding another new model to the A series: the A22 in (you guessed it) .22 Long Rifle. Here are some thoughts on this nifty little rifle, and why I think my old long gun mentor would approve.
Like the A17 and A22 Magnum, this rifle features a thread-in barrel with zero-tolerance head space, much like Savage builds their centerfire rifles. The barrel is "button" rifled and recessed on the business end, which is going to save on accuracy over time by protecting it. This is important if you are as hard on guns as I am, hauling them around in vehicles, getting knocked around while carrying them and the like. Read the rest of Savage 22 long rifle.
I want to know why the author shot the squirrel.
Did he eat it?
I wanna know why he got directly under the tree. Seems like you’d see more from a short distance. You’d have a better shot at a squirrel “pinned to a limb,” anyway.
I have never known a squirrel hunter who did not eat them. Mother used to chicken fry them.
They were OK but I liked chicken better.
Best .22lr rifle is still the Marlin 60.
Best in my opinion is still the Remington Nylon 66.
Probably hard to get paid to write about them, these days. Savage seems to be trying to out 10-22. Ruger. A tough row to hoe.
I want to know why the author shot the squirrel.
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Just a guess as the author didn’t specify. But in my younger
days we went squirrel hunting in the fall for the meat to eat.
We hunted with or without dogs
I think fried squirrel tastes better than fried chicken.
The Ruger 10/22 has outsold them both, combined.
And as far as aftermarket accessories, no other .22 rifle comes close to the 10/22.
Who needs aftermarket accessories when you have a Remington Nylon 66 with a scope?
I love my Marlin 39A lever takedown-that’s the most accurate thing I own. Second best is my Savage BRJ .22 mag- a beautiful and accurate rifle.
“Did he eat it?”
He better damn well have been starving and had to survive.
we own some kemmer stock mountain curs and some ladner yellow blackmouth curs ( ladners are BIG dogs ) we have had the very best fur season this year hate to brag but me dogs are assume. Screw a 22 to hard to aim at night or during the day shooting treed squirrels or raccoon. shotgun all the way a 11-87 is what I lung around to hunt the draws and hills of the Ozarks. I am a professional varmint hunter and work some large farms in the area. We also decoy coyotes with these dogs. For coyotes I change out my barrel and shoot sabots. EVERYONE should own a mountain cur and a 11-87 20 gauge
we shoot so many squirrels out over dogs its unreal. Feed them to the dogs. We eat them ourselves, we also eat raccoon and possum. We kill so many it hard to keep up. We have to freeze them. The farmers that pay me to clean varmints off their land sometimes take some to eat or feed to their dogs. We kill lots of stuff we do not eat. soooo
Who would need replacement parts for a rifle that was discontinued in 1989?
Yes. The Nylon 66 is a fabulous rifle.
I have one in Black that has less than 50 rounds through it and a brown one with thousands run through it and looking at another one in an auction next Saturday that’s still in the factory box.
I gave one to my grandpa several years before he died and my mom is trying to find it for me again. He never shot it.
Another a Iver Johnson Carbine...
Yea mean us hunters...are cruel.
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