Gun Owning Smokers

[CptnBlues63]

I have not seen 22 long in over 2 years
22LR is not that hard to find but long and short are hard to find. " i have to order them off the net and pay ridiculous shipping"
I like shooting shorts out of my Remington 121 feildmaster is almost like shooting a pellet guns it is so silent.

LOL - quiet indeed!

Yeah, I picked the Long's up at an auction if I remember correctly and God only knows how long whomever had them before he hung onto them. To be honest, I didn't notice they were longs until I went to shoot them the first time...........LOL Then I was like "Crap!" because they didn't work in the Mark III or the 10/20. Had I noticed at the auction, I wouldn't have bothered buying them. But in the end, they work perfectly in the Single Six so they will still get used.

If I'm remembering correctly, .22 shorts are one of the few subsonic shells right from the factory. If you combined them with a suppressor, they would be almost silent. I watched a video on youtube of a guy shooting a Mark III Hunter with an integral suppressor that was very quiet considering it was shooting LR's. I went looking for it and couldn't find it but did find this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fx3ZiHu7QU

Amazing how quiet it is. At what looks like 50 yards to me, the ding is louder than the shot. Gotta love the military lingo too........."can" "pills" etc........LOL

[Mangyrat]

Here is a video of shorts its not out of a 121 but damn near the same sound.
It like having a suppressed gun but no tax stamp needed.

[CptnBlues63]

[QUOTE=Mangyrat;200647]Here is a video of shorts its not out of a 121 but damn near the same sound.
It like having a suppressed gun but no tax stamp needed.

That is quiet!

And, it's a semi automatic to boot!

[Mangyrat]

Spent the day at the range and had a blast.

The side by side worked out great but i have to do some work on the stock that is cracking.
The new 22 started hitting after 100 rounds of break-in out to 50 yards i was pinging a 8 inch steel target.
re sighted in the wife's 9mm AR build also.
But mostly me and a friend just burnt up a bunch of 45 and 9mm ammo playing with pistols.

[CptnBlues63]

Spent the day at the range and had a blast.

The side by side worked out great but i have to do some work on the stock that is cracking.
The new 22 started hitting after 100 rounds of break-in out to 50 yards i was pinging a 8 inch steel target.
re sighted in the wife's 9mm AR build also.
But mostly me and a friend just burnt up a bunch of 45 and 9mm ammo playing with pistols.

I'm a little jealous. Ok, I lied! I'm a lot jealous! LOL

I could go to the local range but it's outdoors and it is winter. Also, with the snow we have, I'd need a snow mobile to get down there........it's down in a river valley with quite a steep hill. I'm guessing your range isn't covered in snow and subzero temps..........so I'd love to come join you! Some winter days I just take my guns out and look at them and sigh. There is an indoor range I could go to but it's a 2 hour drive away and by the time I do the round trip, eat one meal and pay the cost for a non-member to shoot for the day....well, I'll save my $$$ and put it towards more ammo instead.

On the plus side, I do have to do some work on one rifle! During hunting season I bought some anti-fog lens cleaner and cleaned both lenses on my expensive Swarovski scope. I grabbed my spare rifle and went to clean both lenses on the cheap-ass Bushnell Banner scope I have on it and when I went to clean the Ocular lens the lens came loose and started moving around. Banner replaced it without any hassles so I have to remount it on my rifle. Also, I have another cheap-ass BSA (yep, same guys that manufacture BSA motorcycles) rifle scope I want to put on my Ruger 10/22 It's a ballistic turret scope and if it works properly, I should be able to cap gophers out to 200+ yards with it.............LOL We'll see. After ordering it, I went to mount it on my spare hunting rifle but after looking through it didn't bother. It's a POS that I wouldn't put on anything other than a .22

[Mangyrat]

I have no problem with cheap scope,s.
My eyes are not what they used to be so i tend to go with the cheap ones with thicker cross hairs.

[CptnBlues63]

I have no problem with cheap scope,s.
My eyes are not what they used to be so i tend to go with the cheap ones with thicker cross hairs.

Prior to purchasing the Swarovski about 3 years back, all my scopes were in the $100 range. In fact, I've gotten quite a few deer, elk and one bull moose, with a $100 scope.

I blame my brother for me buy the expensive scope. His sniper rifle (he's a cop and on the tactical squad and has a real nice custom sniper rifle) has a $2500 Nightforce scope on it. After looking through some high-end glass, looking through a $100 scope is kind of disappointing. If you've never used a high-end scope, you never know. But once I did, I couldn't help wanting one.

Like you, my eyes are getting worse with age. 15 or so years back, my eyes were 20/20 Now I wear glasses all day long. My distance vision is still pretty good but everything up close is fuzzy. As more time goes by, I notice my distance vision gets worse too and last year, for the first time ever, I wore my glasses all the time out hunting. Used to be I didn't have to bother. But in 2014 I noticed my eyes were getting sore and I was working harder to focus at distance so last fall I wore them all the time. I will eventually have to get a different pair of glasses for shooting because the lenses in the ones I have are so tiny I can't hold my rifle and aim as I normally do, and look through them. I end up looking over the lens........lol Fortunately, that's not a problem yet. My Swarovski has an excellent optical focus and also it has an objective focus too. But being able to look through my lenses while aiming, especially if I'm going to be looking through the scope for any length of time, would be helpful.

[BowhuntnHoosier]

Here is a video of shorts its not out of a 121 but damn near the same sound.
It like having a suppressed gun but no tax stamp needed.

He has my rifle....I bout one just like that when I was 14 years old from my art teacher at school. Those were the days. Gun buys in the school parking lot, from a teacher no less. lol Great shooting little gun. I will pass it on to my youngest son when my roll is called up yonder.