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+--- Thread: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 (/showthread.php?tid=7896)
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - NorthernRaider - 1 December 2015
MIDMO Very nicely done, is it a R10/22 with a choate stock?, it looks so similar to what I had in Kansas
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - Midnitemo - 1 December 2015
It started life as a bog standard 10/22 beech stock that I bought for £320 14 month's ago , it slowly morphed into what you see now , butler creek folder from Ebay for £75 posted(don't seem to be available new anymore) wanted a folder and not a telescopic for ultimate compactness , it has a target hammer for a better trigger pull , an extended/enlarged bolt handle for ease of use and I'm experimenting with my first ever red dot sight(cheap Hawke 1x30 for £18)may upgrade to something a little better soon as I do like the speed of target acquisition and the both eyes open aspect , tis great fun to shoot in action competitions but I think the dot lacks crispness and is a tad to big at range being 4 moa , just waiting on the postie to bring my back up sights which I will co witness with the red dot.....very quick and easy to refit the old stock/scope should I wish to go hunting(less threatening in appearance with the trad stock on)
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - NorthernRaider - 1 December 2015
Truly a great lil ole Carbine, ideal for the UK. Oh and I noticed the good quality ammo, I liked Blazer, Yellow Jacket and Stinger ammos when I had one to play with. If only we had slightly more sensible gun laws in the UK such as de-licencing 22 rimfire.
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - CharlesHarris - 1 December 2015
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - NorthernRaider - 1 December 2015
a 22 is still better than a knife in a fight with more than 6 ft of space between combatants.
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - Pete Grey - 25 January 2018
When I first started shooting in the eighties, I mainly shot full bore police pistol (man size turning targets for those who have never had the pleasure), but to improve my groups on 25 yard static targets I used a Berreta model 76 22LR.
This gun I found out was used by israel’s mossad as an assassination weapon using sub sonic ammunition and a weakened spring for semi auto action, 10 rounds always did the trick.
Using a standard velocity or preferably a hollow point round, one hit would probably stop most intruders, two certainly would, and there’s another eight rounds waiting.
22LR is a viable defensive round in either a rifle or pistol, but with any weapon practice is required.
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - CharlesHarris - 25 January 2018
RE: Rethinking the best home defense weapons: a look at the .22 - Mortblanc - 26 January 2018
Sorry, but I have shot and been shot at as well as hunted for long enough to not consider the 22lr a "viable round" for anything but the smallest game.
Yes it will kill.
No it will not kill reliably. That is the reason the Masad dumped the entire magazine into their victims.
Only time I would consider it was if it was the last damn thing in the house and that has not been the case since I was a kid.