Rugers Mark 1 and 2 have been in my family for years... still one of my faves to shoot, target models of course.
The joy of the .22 handgun
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Bullet Bob
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I think I have some .22 handguns, let's see:
S&W Model 18, Roy Fishpaw grips, El Paso Saddlery holster-
Colt OMM -
S&W K frames-
S&W 41-
High Standard Trophy-
Colt New Frontier-
Don't have pictures of the rest. I've always liked .22's, but as I get older and more weenie-like, my love for them has grown even stronger.
S&W Model 18, Roy Fishpaw grips, El Paso Saddlery holster-
Colt OMM -
S&W K frames-
S&W 41-
High Standard Trophy-
Colt New Frontier-
Don't have pictures of the rest. I've always liked .22's, but as I get older and more weenie-like, my love for them has grown even stronger.
DWARREN123
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I have three rimfire handguns and they sure are fun.
Ruger SP-101 22lr
Browning Buckmark 22lr
AMT AutoMag II 22wmr
Ruger SP-101 22lr
Browning Buckmark 22lr
AMT AutoMag II 22wmr
Terrierman
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Nothing beats a BuckMark~!
My Mark II Target beats my buddy's Buckmark like Crazy Horse beat Custer
My Mark II Target beats my buddy's Buckmark like Crazy Horse beat Custer
Vern Humphrey
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My Colt Officer's Model Target will outshoot your Ruger Mark II Target.
edwardyoung
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I agree. I just traded a 44 for two 22's. Nothing better than a Ruger MkII Target.
CajunBass
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My wife and I have four 22 pistols (and three rifles). A Ruger MK II standard, a MK III, 22/45, a Single Six, and a Bersa Firestorm. They get shot a LOT more than our other guns.
I can think of a few more I'd like to have.
I can think of a few more I'd like to have.
Hoploholic
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I think you and I would have no problems being friends.
Nothing spells fun like a simple Camper with a red dot mounted on the top side. The pot guts run in fear at the mere mention of said combination.brownie0486
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I recently picked up a Ruger Standard 22 for a great price that was mint in every respect.
The Mark1 mags fit the original standard by swapping the mag follower button to the other side of the mag.
Some nice 22 being shown here. I'd look for a Woodsman as my next 22 pistol myself as well. I keep my eyes open at the local shop weekly.
Brownie
The Mark1 mags fit the original standard by swapping the mag follower button to the other side of the mag.
Some nice 22 being shown here. I'd look for a Woodsman as my next 22 pistol myself as well. I keep my eyes open at the local shop weekly.
Brownie
ROCKSHUND
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My absolutely most used .22 pistol is my/wife's (I bought it for my wife, but I definitely use it more) Ruger stainless MkII Standard model. It's my version of a farmer's pistol, does it all...small game, pest elimination, euthanizing animals when it must be done, target practice, plinking, and teaching others to shoot.
I also like my MkII Competition Slabside model, it has a Thompson Center 1.5x7 variable power illuminated reticle scope in factory rings. I've embarrassed several rifle shooters when shooting off a rest at 100 yards with it. I am probably going to pull off the scope for awhile, and rediscover its irons.
I'd love to have one of Ruger's Single Six convertible .22/.22mag revolvers, too.
But, please don't laugh at my absolute favorite fun .22 pistol of my lifetime... it was a good Iver Johnson TP-22. Absolutely the most fun for plinking cans, and doubletapping practice, that I've ever owned.
I also have always had a soft spot in my heart for H&R's topbreak model 999.
I am also intrigued by the little Walthers and Sig's, too. I'd like to have another smaller sized .22 auto...what do you all like in that role?
-FNR.
I also like my MkII Competition Slabside model, it has a Thompson Center 1.5x7 variable power illuminated reticle scope in factory rings. I've embarrassed several rifle shooters when shooting off a rest at 100 yards with it. I am probably going to pull off the scope for awhile, and rediscover its irons.
I'd love to have one of Ruger's Single Six convertible .22/.22mag revolvers, too.
But, please don't laugh at my absolute favorite fun .22 pistol of my lifetime... it was a good Iver Johnson TP-22. Absolutely the most fun for plinking cans, and doubletapping practice, that I've ever owned.
I also have always had a soft spot in my heart for H&R's topbreak model 999.
I am also intrigued by the little Walthers and Sig's, too. I'd like to have another smaller sized .22 auto...what do you all like in that role?
-FNR.
Rokman
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I also love .22 pistols. I always carry one to the range to extend my shooting time since ammo is so cheap. Been thinking about buying a Walther P22.
S&W model 41
Ruger MKII slabside
Colt New Frontier 22
S&W model 41
Ruger MKII slabside
Colt New Frontier 22
Erich
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I just picked another one up on Friday . . .
The week before last, I'd made the mistake of stopping in to a gun store near my friend Gil's while on the way over to his house. They had lots of the usual stuff, but nothing too exciting. But way in the back of the furthest case, there was a Beretta 87 BB.
Neat. I remember when they came out in the mid-'80s - back then I never could see why anyone would want a .22 that was slightly larger than a Walther PP, particularly when Beretta made .380s that were the same size. They sold pretty well for us at the gun store where I worked for a couple of years - I still never got it. Why buy a .22 that cost so much and was just a plinker?
Anyway, something had changed in my head by the time I saw the gun in the store. Wow, did it look nice to me. Turns out it was a NIB gun bought by a collector back in '89 (that's "AU" for you Beretta proof code collectors), and kept in a safe ever since (can you believe people actually do this? I know they do - I used to sell to them - but it just seems nuts! Shoot that gun!). The walnut stocks called to me, the bluing gleamed. I held it for a moment and - ah! - it just felt made for my hand. The store was closing for the evening, though, so I handed it back and went over to Gil's.
I couldn't get the thing out of my head all last week. I had Gil run in and check on it. I did online research and confirmed that it was actually priced pretty cheap for one of these guns (discontinued since '00). And, hey, I've got my 40th birthday coming up in a week - I talked it over with my wife, and she told me to go for it.
So, I brought it home.
I wanted to show off some photos that I took of it Saturday. (Before anyone asks, those are figs from the fig tree that came from the back yard of my great-grandfather's house in Italy - he took a cutting with him to America, and I've got one of the cuttings from it.)
I spent three hours at the range Saturday afternoon - very nice. I was not able to make a one-hole full-mag group, though I came close several times with various ammos. Probably me - the gun certainly groups under 1" at 10 yards, whether DA or SA. The DA is amazingly easy to use (I've been using too many plastic guns lately, and forgot what a real trigger feels like on a semiauto ) and can produce groups just as good as the SA. Off-hand shooting did not produce any close-to-one-holers, but the 8-round mags grouped consistently in small groups less than 1" in diameter total. The gun shot the slower bullets closer to point of aim at 10 yards, but the faster ones were about 2-3" high.
Here are some chrono results from the 3.8" barrel:
CCI Blazer 40 gr. - Mean 1012 fps/extreme spread 25.4 fps/standard deviation 11.95 fps
CCI Velocitor 40 gr. - M 1071/ES 70.17/SD 29.41
PMC Match Pistol 40 gr. - M 844.3/ES 42.89/SD 17.63
Aguila SE Subsonic 40 gr. - M 870.6/ES 45.79/SD 20.49
Aguila SSS 60 gr. - M 697.1/ES 56.01/SD 22.97
Fed Premium Target 40 gr. - M 943.4/ES 16.17/SD 6.00 (!)
Wow, what a lot of fun that gun is to shoot. I only put a couple hundred rounds through it on Saturday, but I foresee a lot more coming down the pike!
The week before last, I'd made the mistake of stopping in to a gun store near my friend Gil's while on the way over to his house. They had lots of the usual stuff, but nothing too exciting. But way in the back of the furthest case, there was a Beretta 87 BB.
Neat. I remember when they came out in the mid-'80s - back then I never could see why anyone would want a .22 that was slightly larger than a Walther PP, particularly when Beretta made .380s that were the same size. They sold pretty well for us at the gun store where I worked for a couple of years - I still never got it. Why buy a .22 that cost so much and was just a plinker?
Anyway, something had changed in my head by the time I saw the gun in the store. Wow, did it look nice to me. Turns out it was a NIB gun bought by a collector back in '89 (that's "AU" for you Beretta proof code collectors), and kept in a safe ever since (can you believe people actually do this? I know they do - I used to sell to them - but it just seems nuts! Shoot that gun!). The walnut stocks called to me, the bluing gleamed. I held it for a moment and - ah! - it just felt made for my hand. The store was closing for the evening, though, so I handed it back and went over to Gil's.
I couldn't get the thing out of my head all last week. I had Gil run in and check on it. I did online research and confirmed that it was actually priced pretty cheap for one of these guns (discontinued since '00). And, hey, I've got my 40th birthday coming up in a week - I talked it over with my wife, and she told me to go for it.
So, I brought it home.
I wanted to show off some photos that I took of it Saturday. (Before anyone asks, those are figs from the fig tree that came from the back yard of my great-grandfather's house in Italy - he took a cutting with him to America, and I've got one of the cuttings from it.)
I spent three hours at the range Saturday afternoon - very nice. I was not able to make a one-hole full-mag group, though I came close several times with various ammos. Probably me - the gun certainly groups under 1" at 10 yards, whether DA or SA. The DA is amazingly easy to use (I've been using too many plastic guns lately, and forgot what a real trigger feels like on a semiauto
) and can produce groups just as good as the SA. Off-hand shooting did not produce any close-to-one-holers, but the 8-round mags grouped consistently in small groups less than 1" in diameter total. The gun shot the slower bullets closer to point of aim at 10 yards, but the faster ones were about 2-3" high.Here are some chrono results from the 3.8" barrel:
CCI Blazer 40 gr. - Mean 1012 fps/extreme spread 25.4 fps/standard deviation 11.95 fps
CCI Velocitor 40 gr. - M 1071/ES 70.17/SD 29.41
PMC Match Pistol 40 gr. - M 844.3/ES 42.89/SD 17.63
Aguila SE Subsonic 40 gr. - M 870.6/ES 45.79/SD 20.49
Aguila SSS 60 gr. - M 697.1/ES 56.01/SD 22.97
Fed Premium Target 40 gr. - M 943.4/ES 16.17/SD 6.00 (!)
Wow, what a lot of fun that gun is to shoot. I only put a couple hundred rounds through it on Saturday, but I foresee a lot more coming down the pike!
JFrame
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Dang -- sorry to come late to this party... It's one of my favorite topics!
I don't have quite the fancy hardware some of you do, but I think they're equally high in the "fun quotient":
S&W 63 Kit Gun
S&W 317 Kit Gun
S&W 22S
Walther TPH
NAA Mini-Revolver
Also had a French MAB semiauto and H&R 999 Sportsman that I let go long ago, much to my present regret...
I don't have quite the fancy hardware some of you do, but I think they're equally high in the "fun quotient":
S&W 63 Kit Gun
S&W 317 Kit Gun
S&W 22S
Walther TPH
NAA Mini-Revolver
Also had a French MAB semiauto and H&R 999 Sportsman that I let go long ago, much to my present regret...
True love is when you find the .22 pistol made for you. Multiples are possible which would make me a polygamist...
Ruger Standard Auto, $25, 1959; sold it like an idiot, but it was followed by various others and I will never be without one again;
Colt Conversion Unit;
S&W M18 (those and beer are the surest indication that God loves us and wants us to be happy);
Colt First Model Woodsman--only gun my father ever wanted to own;
Sheridan Knocabout single shot--$17.95 in 1960;
Olympic Arms Whitney Wolverine--brand new, not sure how it will turn out yet.
Been plinking away with 'em for 47 years now and it's still a blast.
Ruger Standard Auto, $25, 1959; sold it like an idiot, but it was followed by various others and I will never be without one again;
Colt Conversion Unit;
S&W M18 (those and beer are the surest indication that God loves us and wants us to be happy);
Colt First Model Woodsman--only gun my father ever wanted to own;
Sheridan Knocabout single shot--$17.95 in 1960;
Olympic Arms Whitney Wolverine--brand new, not sure how it will turn out yet.
Been plinking away with 'em for 47 years now and it's still a blast.
yhtomit
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High on my list, a Beretta 21A
The local Gander Mountain has two new ones (one in wood grips, one with black metal grips), and one used (in black metal, with a dab of terrible orange paint on the front sightpost), for $250 and $159, respectively. I STRONGLY considered the used one, or even the the black new one -- such a tempting, sweet little gun Literally palm-sized, and I have small hands.
Then I spotted the 18" 870 Magnum Express with 2-round extension, and walked out with a rather larger box than I'd planned on, but ... soon!
timothy
The local Gander Mountain has two new ones (one in wood grips, one with black metal grips), and one used (in black metal, with a dab of terrible orange paint on the front sightpost), for $250 and $159, respectively. I STRONGLY considered the used one, or even the the black new one -- such a tempting, sweet little gun
Literally palm-sized, and I have small hands. Then I spotted the 18" 870 Magnum Express with 2-round extension, and walked out with a rather larger box than I'd planned on, but ... soon!
timothy
TimboKhan
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I too am quite an advocate of .22 pistols. Easily my favorite things to shoot, even if they are not tactical! Anyhoo, I have 2 Mark II's and an H&R Sportsman 999 that I absolutely love. Actually, the Sportsman has been giving me a bunch of problems, but once the kinks are worked out it should be golden. I am also getting ready to buy back a Buckmark from my buddy. Jeez, there are so many .22 pistols/revos out there that I want! Has anyone heard whether or not Olympic is ever gonna release the Whitney Wolvering?
JFrame
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TimboKhan:
"Has anyone heard whether or not Olympic..."
Check two posts above you.
"Has anyone heard whether or not Olympic..."
Check two posts above you.
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BluesBear
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TimboKhan, the Wolverine has been out for over a year now.
There is no shortage of new ones and they shoot really well.
There is no shortage of new ones and they shoot really well.
skeeter1
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.22s
They are the best. This is the Smith & Wesson Model 35 that I've had since 1972. Everyone should have a good .22 in their collection, revolver or auto. I lean toward revolvers, but I certainly wouldn't rule out something like a Ruger MKIII or Browning Buckmark in the future.
They are the best. This is the Smith & Wesson Model 35 that I've had since 1972. Everyone should have a good .22 in their collection, revolver or auto. I lean toward revolvers, but I certainly wouldn't rule out something like a Ruger MKIII or Browning Buckmark in the future.
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Grayrock
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I lucked into a Colt 2nd Series Match Target this spring. Picked it up for 3 bills. Had a reblued pockmarked slide but it shoots like a dream. Definitely not a collector grade- but a great "throw in the truck for the deer lease" plinker. I like it and it fits my hand beautifully.
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