Greg, around here we refer white tails as overgrown wild goats

Bill, an HMR is pretty good but kind of an "overkill" for small edible game like squirrels and rabbit. I prefer to use my winchester model 74 with a 4x Weaver scope. It's chambered for .22 short only which is pretty quiet in the woods. Less racket than a .22 LR

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Bill, an HMR is pretty good but kind of an "overkill" for small edible game like squirrels and rabbit. I prefer to use my winchester model 74 with a 4x Weaver scope. It's chambered for .22 short only which is pretty quiet in the woods. Less racket than a .22 LR

As a kid, that's all I ever hunted with. Couldn't afford the LR.

John, you think .22LR is rare and expensive, go looking for .22 short!

On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

John, you think .22LR is rare and expensive, go looking for .22 short!

I'm talking 55 years ago!

Now that I can afford it, I can't find .22 anywhere. Don't need it
though.

Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

John, you think .22LR is rare and expensive, go looking for .22 short!

I'm talking 55 years ago!

Now that I can afford it, I can't find .22 anywhere. Don't need it
though.

Opened a drawer where I keep extra gun cleaning stuff the other day, and
there is a partial brick of .22lf. Price tag says $13.95! Guess I have
had it awhile.

On 10/22/14 10:45 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:54:11 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

John, you think .22LR is rare and expensive, go looking for .22 short!

I'm talking 55 years ago!

Now that I can afford it, I can't find .22 anywhere. Don't need it
though.


You mean, you can't find it at walmart. There's plenty of .22LR ammo
around, even decent ammo at 5 cents or less a round. In the last week, I
bought 500 rounds of CCI Mini-Mag 40 grain at 8 cents a round. A few
minutes ago, Cabelas had Mini-Mags at 9 cents a round. Academy had
Federal Champion 40 grain at less than 5 cents a round.

Perhaps you should concentrate on fewer hobbies at one time. Probably
shouldn't be firearms or anything else that requires decent eyesight.


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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:25:00 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

You mean, you can't find it at walmart. There's plenty of .22LR ammo
around, even decent ammo at 5 cents or less a round. In the last week, I
bought 500 rounds of CCI Mini-Mag 40 grain at 8 cents a round. A few
minutes ago, Cabelas had Mini-Mags at 9 cents a round. Academy had
Federal Champion 40 grain at less than 5 cents a round.

I am getting Email ads for .22 too

Herring is a walmart shopper.
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