On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:46:17 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 6:43:49 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/8/16 5:06 PM, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:13:15 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 1:21 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 2:16:38 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:

Quiet counts when shooting zombies.

Exactly. Everyone knows a zombie is attracted to noise.

The Walking Dead is entertaining, but there are considerable gaps in
the plot. 3-4 year old gas just seems to happily run. And it took
forever for them to start using suppressed AR's. I'm not sure I've
ever seen a .22 on the show. A suppressed .22 would be a perfect
zombie eliminator.


Yeah, the gas thing usually makes me chuckle. Although, anecdotally,
I have seen gas weed-eaters that were not drained start after about 3
years. They did NOT run happily, though...

Your average .22 doesn't look impressive enough for a
post-apocalyptic
TV show... that's probably why we don't see them. If you look online,
though, you can see a lot of manufacturers that make a .22 in an AR-like
configuration. I've been tempted to buy one. Seems like it would be an
insanely fun (and cheap) plinker.

Absolutely. S&W M&P 15/22. Eats anything thrown at it, tons of fun,
can be made very quiet if that's your thing.


Ahh.. the key to surviving any apocalypse. A gun that doesn't care
what you feed it. That's what I like about my SR9.


The M&P 15-22 is a fine, fun rifle. I had one for about two years. A
silencer and subsonic ammo will fire quietly, as far as the ammo goes,
but the reciprocating parts of the rifle are noisy. I sold mine to buy a
bolt action CZ 455... *very quiet* with the silencer attached.

But slow. A zombie will bite you while cycling the bolt. And 5 rounds won't stop a zombie crew.

They made a very capable suppressed 10/22 (pre 1986). You can keep the
lead flying with one of those.
I doubt there are any transferrable select fire M&P 15-22s

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:14:39 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:46:17 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 6:43:49 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/8/16 5:06 PM, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:13:15 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 1:21 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 2:16:38 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:

Quiet counts when shooting zombies.

Exactly. Everyone knows a zombie is attracted to noise.

The Walking Dead is entertaining, but there are considerable gaps in
the plot. 3-4 year old gas just seems to happily run. And it took
forever for them to start using suppressed AR's. I'm not sure I've
ever seen a .22 on the show. A suppressed .22 would be a perfect
zombie eliminator.


Yeah, the gas thing usually makes me chuckle. Although, anecdotally,
I have seen gas weed-eaters that were not drained start after about 3
years. They did NOT run happily, though...

Your average .22 doesn't look impressive enough for a
post-apocalyptic
TV show... that's probably why we don't see them. If you look online,
though, you can see a lot of manufacturers that make a .22 in an AR-like
configuration. I've been tempted to buy one. Seems like it would be an
insanely fun (and cheap) plinker.

Absolutely. S&W M&P 15/22. Eats anything thrown at it, tons of fun,
can be made very quiet if that's your thing.


Ahh.. the key to surviving any apocalypse. A gun that doesn't care
what you feed it. That's what I like about my SR9.


The M&P 15-22 is a fine, fun rifle. I had one for about two years. A
silencer and subsonic ammo will fire quietly, as far as the ammo goes,
but the reciprocating parts of the rifle are noisy. I sold mine to buy a
bolt action CZ 455... *very quiet* with the silencer attached.

But slow. A zombie will bite you while cycling the bolt. And 5 rounds won't stop a zombie crew.

They made a very capable suppressed 10/22 (pre 1986). You can keep the
lead flying with one of those.
I doubt there are any transferrable select fire M&P 15-22s

They made select fire 10/22s?

The MP 15/22 can keep some lead in the air, and as we all know, semi is more accurate than full-auto. And is less wasteful of ammo in the post-apocalypse. They ain't making more!

On 3/8/2016 8:24 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 8:14:39 PM UTC-5, wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:46:17 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote:

On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 6:43:49 PM UTC-5, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 3/8/16 5:06 PM, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 2:54 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 3:13:15 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:
On 3/8/2016 1:21 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Tuesday, March 8, 2016 at 2:16:38 PM UTC-5, Ryan P. wrote:

Quiet counts when shooting zombies.

Exactly. Everyone knows a zombie is attracted to noise.

The Walking Dead is entertaining, but there are considerable gaps in
the plot. 3-4 year old gas just seems to happily run. And it took
forever for them to start using suppressed AR's. I'm not sure I've
ever seen a .22 on the show. A suppressed .22 would be a perfect
zombie eliminator.


Yeah, the gas thing usually makes me chuckle. Although, anecdotally,
I have seen gas weed-eaters that were not drained start after about 3
years. They did NOT run happily, though...

Your average .22 doesn't look impressive enough for a
post-apocalyptic
TV show... that's probably why we don't see them. If you look online,
though, you can see a lot of manufacturers that make a .22 in an AR-like
configuration. I've been tempted to buy one. Seems like it would be an
insanely fun (and cheap) plinker.

Absolutely. S&W M&P 15/22. Eats anything thrown at it, tons of fun,
can be made very quiet if that's your thing.


Ahh.. the key to surviving any apocalypse. A gun that doesn't care
what you feed it. That's what I like about my SR9.


The M&P 15-22 is a fine, fun rifle. I had one for about two years. A
silencer and subsonic ammo will fire quietly, as far as the ammo goes,
but the reciprocating parts of the rifle are noisy. I sold mine to buy a
bolt action CZ 455... *very quiet* with the silencer attached.

But slow. A zombie will bite you while cycling the bolt. And 5 rounds won't stop a zombie crew.

They made a very capable suppressed 10/22 (pre 1986). You can keep the
lead flying with one of those.
I doubt there are any transferrable select fire M&P 15-22s

They made select fire 10/22s?

The MP 15/22 can keep some lead in the air, and as we all know, semi is more accurate than full-auto. And is less wasteful of ammo in the post-apocalypse. They ain't making more!


There's always the option of reloading the cartridges yourself. I
can't imagine that's particularly fun with .22lr though...

I have a buddy that reloads his wive's .380 cartridges and his .223's.
He made it look pretty simple. But he said it takes practice
to make a consistently reliable round. If you're just learning, you
probably don't want to rely on reloaded rounds in the event of a zombie
hoard attack.

On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:49:32 -0600, "Ryan P."
wrote:

The MP 15/22 can keep some lead in the air, and as we all know, semi is more accurate than full-auto. And is less wasteful of ammo in the post-apocalypse. They ain't making more!


There's always the option of reloading the cartridges yourself. I
can't imagine that's particularly fun with .22lr though...

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Reloading 22LR is impossible as far as I know. The problem is that
the primer is an integral part of the shell case, not removable as it
is with a center fire round.