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Dead Eye Dick · Aug 17, 2024

A word of caution. Beware of the .22lr. We call it a “trainer rifle” Its an insidious plot to take over Precision Shooting. You will think you are happy with that sweet shooting centerfire. But, that cute little .22 that keeps calling to you with the siren song that it can be a nice quiet little practice rifle. A rifle to shoot when you just don’t want to shoot the big bores.

Beware, it will take over. You’ll have so much fun with the .22 that your centerfire PRS rifle will get lost in the back of the gun safe. You’ll never ever go back. Your life will be lost in the world of rimfire. It swallows you, destroys your relationships, its its, oh the horrors, I can’t describe it. Don’t let it happen, be careful, the addiction will catch you too.

Beware the 22’s are taking over

hafejd30 · Aug 17, 2024

oldrifleman · Aug 17, 2024

JimTN · Aug 17, 2024

Bite your tongue.

Overwatch260 · Aug 17, 2024

Those damn rimfires multiply like rabbits around here

KYAggie · Aug 17, 2024

I have been so tempted, but have resisted thus far and remain happy with my Rossi 16” 62 Pump I’ve had for 44 years. I have three 5000 round boxes of surplus Remington ammo for it I bought from the CMP years ago for $95/5000. I haven’t even finished the first brick of 500 yet between the Rossi and my Ruger 45/22. I can only imagine what would happen if I bought a Rim-X……

MarkCZ · Aug 17, 2024

You are too late. Rimfire got me about 4 years ago.

Franko · Aug 18, 2024

I keep telling myself that shooting is cheaper than Karting and healthier than home distilling but it still manages to do all kinds of damage to my bank account balance.

nockhunter · Aug 18, 2024

I have more 22lr than any other caliber

Mike

D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷ · Aug 18, 2024

Who’s going to post up a halo 22?

Criver600 · Aug 18, 2024

Its bad......

Kadams1563 · Aug 18, 2024

I prefer rimfire PRS to centerfire matches now days lol.

No chasing brass. No reloading. No double ear pro. Relaxed. Full of old farts with lots of wisdom Lmao

LR1845 · Aug 18, 2024

Kadams1563 said:
I prefer rimfire PRS to centerfire matches now days lol.

No chasing brass. No reloading. No double ear pro. Relaxed. Full of old farts with lots of wisdom Lmao

Agree 100% on this....Center fire is like a second job.

D̷e̷v̷i̷l̷D̷o̷c̷A̷Z̷ · Aug 18, 2024

LR1845 said:
Agree 100% on this....Center fire is like a second job.

You get paid at the second job.

Centerfire is like being a divorced dad w real expensive weekends and you still lose.

021411 · Aug 18, 2024

Yup I know the feeling. Started with a B14R and sold it. Bought a RimX and then later added a Curtis rimfire, Vudoo, and a CZ457. Couldn’t help myself and wanted all the top ones in the collection. Now I can talk shit about each one and not be labeled a hater.

Stevenhansell · Aug 18, 2024

Wife was all for it when I started this hobby. Still fully supports it, but I do get the side eye every time a new box shows up. Started. With a B14, then modified it, sold it, now have a RimX.

MadDuner · Aug 18, 2024

Just consider me as one of the “poors”.

GIXXER2000 · Aug 18, 2024

I do not know of what you speak sir!!!

Cody S · Aug 18, 2024

021411 said:
Yup I know the feeling. Started with a B14R and sold it. Bought a RimX and then later added a Curtis rimfire, Vudoo, and a CZ457. Couldn’t help myself and wanted all the top ones in the collection. Now I can talk shit about each one and not be labeled a hater.

which is your favorite action? with my limited funds I could choose one so I went cz 457 threaded and fully customed out. on the hunt for the best chassis now.

jpjulian · Aug 18, 2024

KYAggie said:
I have been so tempted, but have resisted thus far and remain happy with my Rossi 16” 62 Pump I’ve had for 44 years. I have three 5000 round boxes of surplus Remington ammo for it I bought from the CMP years ago for $95/5000. I haven’t even finished the first brick of 500 yet between the Rossi and my Ruger 45/22. I can only imagine what would happen if I bought a Rim-X……

I had 10,000 rounds of that surplus Remington. I wouldn't extract in my M-12, 52D or Rem 512. Too many FTF also in all 3 but mostly the 52D. Sold it off for $10 a brick.

021411 · Aug 18, 2024

Cody S said:
which is your favorite action? with my limited funds I could choose one so I went cz 457 fully customed out. on the hunt for the best chassis now.

The RimX is still my favorite.

KYAggie · Aug 19, 2024

jpjulian said:
I had 10,000 rounds of that surplus Remington. I wouldn't extract in my M-12, 52D or Rem 512. Too many FTF also in all 3 but mostly the 52D. Sold it off for $10 a brick.

Interesting, it’s not given me any issues at all. It even flows through my 10/22 that was picky until I radiused the back bottom of the bolt.

HPIguy · Aug 20, 2024

I have no idea what you're talking about.

Dead Eye Dick · Aug 20, 2024

HPIguy said:
I have no idea what you're talking about.

I’ve been told that, more than once. It’s been a long ride, and now that I’m here, on my little cottage at the lake, I’m not sure I would have changed a bit of it.

oldrifleman · Aug 20, 2024

HPIguy said:
I have no idea what you're talking about.

I love the little pump! That's like the one that was the first 22 I ever shot. I still have a little 9422, 2 kidd supergrades, a little kmber, 52c, 1712, 2X54:18,1727F ect. As was said welcome to the addiction.

HPIguy · Aug 20, 2024

oldrifleman said:
I love the little pump! That's like the one that was the first 22 I ever shot. I still have a little 9422, 2 kidd supergrades, a little kmber, 52c, 1712, 2X54:18,1727F ect. As was said welcome to the addiction.

Thank you! It's a Winchester 62A, turned 70 last year. Fun little plinker for sure. I think @MadDuner has one above as well.

MadDuner · Aug 20, 2024

1929 Remington Model 12

Cody S · Aug 20, 2024

so it begins.

Dead Eye Dick · Aug 20, 2024

Since I started this, I guess I need to go to The Start

My very first rifle, and Ithaca Model 49. Martini action. It was given to me by my mother as sort of a consolation gift after just having lost my dad. He was always a shotgun man, I always wanted to head to the rifle range.

The little rifle is 60 years old this year. So, I got to thinking about it today and grabbed it out of the back of the safe, ran a couple patches down her bore (she was clean) gave the metal and wood some cleaning and oiling.

This evening, after finishing practice with the Vudoo, i grabbed the little Ithaca dropped a round through it. No idea what the sights are set at, missed my 4 inch circle at 75 yards, missed the silhouette, at 100, went back to the circle, got a much steadier hold and nailed that sucker. Still shoots after all these years. (Four inch circle next to KYL rack)

oldrifleman · Aug 20, 2024

Ok, I will follow, my dad always has a couple shotguns and a customized 1903, but I was never ever allowed to touch them. He even once took me to a range to watch he and a buddy shoot ( buddy had a cool AR(back in 66))but still no touchy. So we ended up moving around a bit and once rented a house that had a few guns on the wall. One of them was the little gallery pump rifle. Was not sure it would shoot, but really wanted to try. A buddy had access to some 22 longs and I bartered 10 of them. Once when the parents were away my brother and I grabbed the little gun and went into the back area and loaded it and with great ( well maybe not great) care shot it into a pile of dirt. This was my first rimfire shot. We be moved to south Florida about the time I turned 18 and I drove down to the local Kmart and bought a new marlin 39a. Shot dragon flies in the Everglades, it was a blast and hooked me!

Big Phish · Aug 22, 2024

Only a rimfire could give you more of a challenge.

roostercogburn98 · Aug 22, 2024

I like 22s

Overwatch260 · Aug 22, 2024

A few lesser known oddities that I have acquired over the last couple of years...

Mossberg 43S & No. 43SS
Ranger 101.22 (aka Springfield 87M)
Savage 6S factory peep sight model
Lakefield 90B biathlon trainer

Big Phish · Aug 22, 2024

Came across a Savage/Annie model 10b with a silver leupold bench rest scope in cabelas. Almost took it home.

MarinePMI · Aug 22, 2024

Big Phish said:
Came across a Savage/Annie model 10b with a silver leupold bench rest scope in cabelas. Almost took it home.

Those are some nice rifles...

Dead Eye Dick · Aug 22, 2024

Big Phish said:
Came across a Savage/Annie model 10b with a silver leupold bench rest scope in cabelas. Almost took it home.

I have a good friend who owns one. His health is way past the downside, so he doesn’t shoot anymore. Love to have it, but would prefer it be handed down to his oldest son.

Big Phish · Aug 22, 2024

MarinePMI said:
Those are some nice rifles...

They wanted 1k for it.

Modoc · Aug 22, 2024

A couple from the stable, 1920’s Marlin 39 and a #4 Remington Rolling Block.

The Marlin is my NRA Small Bore Lever Action Silhouette rifle, while the Remington will become my 200m Small Bore Silhouette Rifle once it comes back from getting the barrel re-lined.

MarinePMI · Aug 22, 2024

I should go dig up some photos of a switch barrel 22 prototype (22WMR/17HMR) I have. It was based off a Marlin 25MN in an aftermarket stock. Neat project, but proved to costly to go into production (considering the candidate rifle's cost). It's one of the more interesting rifles I have. Another being a .17Aguila test rifle (still have a fair amount of that ammo as well). Then there's the 5mm 591 and the prototype/test Aguila ammunition (white box, hand written labels).

Rimfires are indeed a rabbit hole that's easy to fall down.

Overwatch260 · Aug 22, 2024

MarinePMI said:
I should go dig up some photos of a switch barrel 22 prototype (22WMR/17HMR) I have. It was based off a Marlin 25MN in an aftermarket stock. Neat project, but proved to costly to go into production (considering the candidate rifle's cost). It's one of the more interesting rifles I have. Another being a .17Aguila test rifle (still have a fair amount of that ammo as well). Then there's the 5mm 591 and the prototype/test Aguila ammunition (white box, hand written labels).

Rimfires are indeed a rabbit hole that's easy to fall down.

I've been so tempted to find a 5mm 591 just to have one...

How does yours shoot?

Defender32 · Aug 23, 2024

Financially Irresponsible as hell!!! I have no 401K any more..... It more fun to enjoy it now.

MarinePMI · Aug 23, 2024

Overwatch260 said:
I've been so tempted to find a 5mm 591 just to have one... How does yours shoot?

It shoots, meh, okay. For it's day it was accurate (1/2-3/4 MOA), but not by today's standard.

dazzler22 · Aug 23, 2024

love me some 22 shooting

(the trouble is its fun and cheap......)

MarinePMI · Aug 23, 2024

Not sure about fun and cheap...well, the fun part I agree with....

Tweety4600 · Aug 23, 2024

Fun for sure, cheap, ain't quite sure about it

salks · Aug 23, 2024

I really really want to get a rim x build or vudoo .22. Doctors though have assured me that selling another kidney to support my shooting habit would be a bad idea. I don't know

Tweety4600 · Aug 23, 2024

salks said:
I really really want to get a rim x build or vudoo .22. Doctors though have assured me that selling another kidney to support my shooting habit would be a bad idea. I don't know

Relatable

Overwatch260 · Aug 23, 2024

Posted this before on the Rimfire Pic thread but why not one more time... Old school vs new school precision rimfire, 1948 Winchester 52B/Lyman Super Targetspot 15X and Vudoo 360/Razor Gen 2

salks · Aug 23, 2024

Dead Eye Dick said:
You really don't want to know how I got my Vudoo. But if you insist and I'm sure you must, I'll give the highlights. Stroke in the eye. Seeing all kinds of beautiful purples and yellow splotches but vision between the splotches is great.

go to retina doctor. (Quick referral I might add though maybe not so quick considering to the diagnosis). Yep, my left eye is royally screwed, hence the name change to DEAD Eye Dick. Really pissed, really missed all Christmas plans, really fucked up. (but its been a royally fucked up year anyway.). I got two options. One is a shot in my eye every month to relieve the pressure with a solid promise that this is as good as its ever going to get. The shots MAY keep it from getting worse. Or this experimental treatment, of which I might be a candidate with very good results so far. Plus, rather than me pay the retina doctor for the rest of my life, THEY PAY ME . They pay WELL!

Now, like many of us here in the hide, submitting to experimental treatment isn't the hot plan, but considering the alternatives, what really did I have to loose. Oh, did I mention they pay really good money.

Don't know if the treatment has done the trick. My eye pretty much had cleared up in the early part of the treatment, which by the way was a real test of enduring the pain cave, which being a cycling time trialist, being in the pain cave is what I do. Except the day it snowed, the regular doctor who does the iv's was ill and no one else knew how to find. vein. That is when I really felt I was in the experimental mode as they all teach themselves how to stick a needle into someone and actually find a vein. Heck, I had been doing that for years, in the horse business. Damned horses were always getting sick, had to treat them myself. So, its not that hard. But days and weeks later, my blood still stained the floor of the treatment room.

Anyway, long story short, the cash I received paid for the Vudoo and the money I was saving for a B14r and scope went to pay for a mid tier scope.

I do not recommend this method. But it worked for me.

Sooo your saying there is a chance. Just kidding man really hope it works and you feel better.

Hoser · Aug 24, 2024

salks said:
I really really want to get a rim x build or vudoo .22. Doctors though have assured me that selling another kidney to support my shooting habit would be a bad idea. I don't know

Do it. They grow back.

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