My homemade .22

[Otis Da HousKat]

stopping power.

.22 is a great caliber to learn to shoot with and for small game hunting without the problem of shooting one dollar bills all the time or hitting something you didn't want to a mile away. Unless you're a hick obsessed only with having the biggest guns possible, there is nothing wrong with using .22 for its intended purposes. I'm not saying .22 is the best caliber for every purpose.

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[Harm94]

.22 is a great caliber to learn to shoot with and for small game hunting without the problem of shooting one dollar bills all the time or hitting something you didn't want to a mile away. Unless you're a hick obsessed only with having the biggest guns possible, there is nothing wrong with using .22 for its intended purposes. I'm not saying .22 is the best caliber for every purpose.

Well since you put it that way.

[MaxNikkos]

I use it to shoot birds, rabbits and maybe a small child or two. All jokes aside this does have the power needed to take down small game like the ones mentioned above, minus the small children.

[Deathwish]

And the accuracy to maintain a 10+ foot grouping at 50 yards, mind you.

[zachbutler88]

+ 1000+ fps rifle = broken skin, bleeding wound.


loving awesome

[BladeOfTheHorizon]

You don't have to have actually fired a .22 to know it isn't great.

.22 ricochets inside the braincase

twice the damage of .44 magnum

[MaxNikkos]

And the accuracy to maintain a 10+ foot grouping at 50 yards, mind you.

This, and headshots arent always killshots with .22s, as they can bounce of the thicker bone of the skull whereas if you hit the ribs, they are most likely going to either shatter or move out of the way, leaving a path for the bullet to kill the animal (or small child)

[Otis Da HousKat]

.22 ricochets inside the braincase

twice the damage of .44 magnum

No it doesn't. Stop watching CSI.

[MaxNikkos]

No it doesn't. Stop watching CSI.

Actually it does...

[Otis Da HousKat]

Actually it does...

It doesn't make brain soup or whatever the forget that CSI episode said.

[Tom Gunn]

When a 22. enters the body it has a tendency to fragment, showing up in areas that you never shot at.

[Otis Da HousKat]

When a 22. enters the body it has a tendency to fragment, showing up in areas that you never shot at.

Again, it doesn't make brain soup like BladeOfTheHorizon thinks.

[Harm94]

It just goes through you like every other full metal jacket bullet.

[Tom Gunn]

Again, it doesn't make brain soup like BladeOfTheHorizon thinks.

Wait what? Oh, I was not supporting that.

[Otis Da HousKat]

It just goes through you like every other full metal jacket bullet.

Sometimes. .22 LR doesn't always have the power to create an exit wound which is where this ricochet nonsense comes from. It might bounce once off the inside of your skull, off a rib, or a shoulder blade. It will certainly not ricochet constantly inside your skull turning your brain to mush. Given the same firing conditions a .44 Magnum round will be much more devastating.