What can you do with 22lr ammo. A guy I know got shot with the stuff. It just mad him mad.
Kill most anything you want to with it
I bought 6000 rounds as soon as obummer got elected. I have since hired armed guards to watch over it and I insured it with Lloyds of London. I have been thinking about charging admission for people to look at it.
Shot placement is everything... OSS guys used suppressed .22LR Hi-Standard semi-auto handguns to take out sentries in WWII Europe and the Pacific. Those sentries weren’t mad... they were dead.
But other than THAT extreme circumstance :^) - I use it for practice and for teaching newbies (I’m an instructor).
“What can you do with 22lr ammo”
8 yr olds can practice all day with it and it don’t cost nuthin’.
New Shooters can give it a try and not be scared off by the boom. Let’s em get used to it all a step at a time.
Disabled folks, and seniors with infirm hands, can practice the mechanics (and physics) of handgun use, learning technique and method, and gradually move up to a more useful caliber.
The Israeli IDF uses .22’s in urban settings. A shot to the knee or groin area or head does work. They use a Ruger 10/22.
Back in the 1960s, the most common firearm used in murders was the .22 short-long-long rifle.
And just what did Hinkley use on the R Reagan attempt?
Have him get shot in the head next time, and he won’t have time enough to get mad, cuz he will be dead.
During the attempted Reagan assassination there were 6 shots fired from a cheap RG 22, 4 people hit, 3 on the ground and one will never walk again. Start poking holes in somebody and it’s a game changer.
Yeah, he must have been a tough guy. A 22 cannot kill. In the whole history of the round maybe 2 or three people have died from it.
By the way, maybe you could ask Reagan, Bobby Kennedy, or the British politician a week ago what they think about 22s.
Or if you wanna feel extra stupid, go find a farmer or rancher and ask him if a 22 has any use, or if its harmless.
If I shoot you with 13 of them in the brain it will really piss you off.
Different guns digest different brands of ammo differently. My 10-.22 shoots Rem gold the most accurately. The speed of the bullet means nothing if it isn’t accurate. Squirrels, rabbits, even white tails, have succumbed to accurate .22 shooting. The guy you know is very lucky.
I had the honor of serving under a sergeant that had taken 7 rounds from an AK 47. The VC and four of his pals paid dearly for that. Doesn’t make the either round any less deadly.
Most definitely true with regular .22 ammo. Worked in an East TN ER (3rd shift) where a lot of gunshot wounds came in on our shift EVERY Friday night from a certain rural county known for moonshine & cockfighting. Watched a guy walk in ER one night bleeding from the head; his eye was started to swell. After testing, it was determined he was shot with a .22. It entered his skull & bounced around like a pinball; might as well had been a BB. That said, I wonder what the damage would had been if it had been a .22 hollow point?
Then they didn’t shoot him in the right place....
Local guy, really big fella, took a single round to the chest and died.