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WTB: Rimfire rifle


bacchus

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Took my son to the range (new albany) for the first time last week and we had a great time. He is fixated on rifles with scopes (probably from battlefield and COD) and I'm considering an inxepensive rifle for X-mas. Anybody looking to get rid of a .22 (LR or mag) or .17hmr? ...or insights on the best place to look?

One thing I can say about the FPS...I didn't have to teach sight picture...just breathing technique and he didn't miss the paper at any range. Good groupings, too. With rented guns.

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If your looking semi auto some good ones are the 10/22, the rem 597 is not bad I have one and love it. The mossberg plinkster had gotten good reviews from member here that have one. If you are going bolt action then I would say buy a savage. I have a .17hmr and would highly suggest one of those over a 22lr.

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When I learned to shoot as a kid we used bolt action .22 LR rifle that also accepted shorts. Reason was a bolt can be single loaded, helps train them to leave the bolt open when not in use to show nothing is chambered and the ability to start with a short and move up to a LR round as we proved responsibility. I was 8 when I got my National 50ft masters badge for several perfect 10 groupings. I really enjoyed learning and that experience has made me a safe firearm handler for life because I learned respect for the gun not macho or TV induced "Rambo" attitude. Train the kid right and make it fun. :-)

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Anything he will shoot. Rugers were nice. I don't care for the new plastic receivers

My 10/22 has the plastic trigger housing, I wasn't fond of it to start either as it didn't have a good feel to it. I spent half the afternoon one day inside that thing with some jewelers files, honing stones and some emery paper. It has got to be 5-10 times better feeling. You get all the darn mold lines and sharp edges off the plastic and then even so slightly refit and debur the internal parts. It's still not a target grade trigger but it is tons better than factory.

Now I don't have to wait 5,000 rounds for it to have that nice broken in feeling.:rolleyes:

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I like my 10/22, but i don't think it's an ideal target rifle. Plenty accurate for me, but I'd have gone bolt action savage if I thought I'd be competing or anything.

And the "plastic" trigger housings are less brittle than the metal ones were. There is a drop test on YouTube that shows the metal one breaking.

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This was my first 22 LR rifle, except mine did not have the accu-trigger.

It is a Savage MKII. I think I paid $125 at Dick's Sporting Goods:

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Then, once i got comforable with shooting in general, I picked up this Marlin 795 semi-auto for $99 at Dick's Sporting Goods:

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