I have a 410 contender pistol...... LOVE IT for bunnies
2 Favorite plinking guns?
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5 year old buck +
Never owned a 22 mag. They make many guns in that caliber anymore? For how much I love rimfires, I don't have any other than 22lr. 22lr is my only 22 cal.
Gene
Yearling... With promise
Henry, Rossi, Kel-tec, Diamondback are the ones I have. I'm sure there are a lot more.
Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
Depends what kind of "plinking" one likes to do. I'm not overly into just making things go bang and throwing lead. If something isn't pretty accurate, its not that interesting to me. I've got pistols and ARs and hardly ever shoot em. An accurate bolt action 22 and an accurate bolt action 223 are tops of the list for me!
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
17hmr hands down my first choice for plinking and small game. Super accurate and effective past 225 yrds
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5 year old buck +
How much does that bullet drop over 225? That's a 22mag necked down?
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I had a 17 HMR and a 22Mag. Both were quite accurate. Both could kill a prairie dog at about 100 yards.....but the bullet drop at any ranges much further out made the round(s) pretty tough to shoot....IMO. Also the 22Mag had more "punch" at 100 yards than the 17HMR. The HMR would kill the dogs....but never any spectacular hits. I prefer the 22 Mag. 225 yards would be a huge stretch.....IMO.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Not sure I guess. I borrowed one from my cousin a few years ago to do some prairie dog hunting. It had a cheapass bsa scope on it. Id range the prairie dogs, turn the dial on top and the dogs died. After the first day they got pretty spooky so most of the shooting was over 200yrds.
S.T.Fanatic
5 year old buck +
Guy I was with had a spotting scope on the target and confirmed I was drilling every one of them. They didnt fly 5 feet in the air like when using a 223 or 250 but i was killing everything i shot at.
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
Ruger 10/22. I like cheap bullets
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
I just ordered some parts. Pretty good chance I'll have a shotgun setup with a thermal soon. I'm thinking this could make for some fun night stalking!
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5 year old buck +
Comes in next week. My new plinker. 50 cal flintlock. Guy built guitars, but built himself a flintlock or two. Coming from texas. patchbox srping might need a bit of work.
Telemark
5 year old buck +
I think this is my next purchase. After weighing all the options, I think the cheap ammo just takes priority over the outlay for the gun. The hardware tends to hold its value, but using the thing is where the costs build up. I definitely need to go the .22 route if I'm going to do any serious plinking.
I'm thinking about a very basic Ruger 10/22 with an aftermarket tacticool stock, a nice red dot sight, and a silencer. Then eventually when I can afford it, either a Browning Buckmark or a Ruger Mark IV, with a red dot sight and threaded to take the same silencer.
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5 year old buck +
Im my early days of hunting, I had a deal with a local dairy farmer. Shoot some woodchucks, get a nuisance permit. This was up in fort ann, NY. Not too farm from sutbborn one or natty bumpo.
I had a garbage can with a hose ans a 12v blower. Fill it up with junk wood leaves n moss, it was a smoke generator. PUmp the smoke in, push the woodchucks out. Did some with 30-30. The most fun was waiting at the other holes with a 20ga shotgun. Made it a rabbit hunt. Shooting just under their feet with 375 H&H or 450 marlin was fun, but expensive.
Pretty sure if AR's weren't a hassle in NY, I'd have one of those 22lr specific ones. Used to dream about buying a rock river national match 223 AR A2 style. Doubt they;ll be hassle free in NY, but if they were would get that and probably get a 450 bushmaster one. Had a 458 socom upper before the safe act n NY came in 2012. Also had a Lancaster arms milled receiver plum laminate custom AK on order too.
I had a garbage can with a hose ans a 12v blower. Fill it up with junk wood leaves n moss, it was a smoke generator. PUmp the smoke in, push the woodchucks out. Did some with 30-30. The most fun was waiting at the other holes with a 20ga shotgun. Made it a rabbit hunt. Shooting just under their feet with 375 H&H or 450 marlin was fun, but expensive.
Pretty sure if AR's weren't a hassle in NY, I'd have one of those 22lr specific ones. Used to dream about buying a rock river national match 223 AR A2 style. Doubt they;ll be hassle free in NY, but if they were would get that and probably get a 450 bushmaster one. Had a 458 socom upper before the safe act n NY came in 2012. Also had a Lancaster arms milled receiver plum laminate custom AK on order too.
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5 year old buck +
Muzzleloader came in Tuesday. Gun is beautiful and well taken care of. Patch box doesn't stay closed though. Looks like he never made a locking mechanism for it. Might just get a nice brass screw and permanently close it. Looking forward to shooting it this weekend.
Foggy47
5 year old buck +
I own three 1894 Marlins. One in 44 Mag and two in 357 Mag. I like the 357's lots more for plinking on steel plates.....and like that the ammo interchanges with my Ruger revolvers. Lever gun fever hit me several years back....and those have become my fav's. Also marlin 22 caliber lever actions......just a joy to shoot them. I put skinner peep sights on all of those guns....and that has been real helpful for my old eyes.
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5 year old buck +
Regreted selling my 357 lever gun. The need for it went away. not too noisy deer hunting. Neighbors woud call cops all the time on me, although legal to hunt as well as safe too. Neighbors saw a coyote with their pet cat in his mouth, they loosened up their view on the matter after that.
