221 Fireball

+1 to Springfields   I have a full size Range Officer and love it. The out-of-the-box accuracy and trigger pull is impressive.

My best friend's son use a .22 Hornet to take a Michigan doe. He made a neck shot at 50 yards and it went right down.   I've taken deer with .221 Fireball and .222, always a neck shot, always dropped in its tracks. Those little varmint rounds are deadly with the right shot placement, but you have to have that perfect shot scenario. That's why my NORMAL deer caliber is a 7/08. With it, I can poke 'em anywhere in the frontal body cavity and it's brown on the ground.

Once had an uncle who did that very thing. Had to call a wrecker. They poured axle lube around his neck and ran an airhose to the nipple and blew him out. He hasn't been right since.   So Todd, you must of found one of the few mortars that OSHA hasn't welded that wire screen across yet. Don't ya hate when that happens?

That hurts my brain. Yep, stay away from Willie's card table!

+1 for H110   I've exclusively used 240 gr. Hornady XTPs for whitetails with outstanding results for the past 20 years!

Cool on how you spell JEEP with the vehicles. :up:

Either the gougers are growing tired or the planets were just all lined up right. I walked into Academy Sports in Mt Juliet the other day at around 11:00am to pick up some barbecue stuff. When I checked out at the register, I was surprized to see a stack of 50 count .22s sitting on the shelf.   "OMIGOD!" I exclaimed to the register girl who kind of looked at me funny. "Is there a limit on those?"   "Two."   I bought the two, CCI std velocity for $3.49 ea.   I did a quick count and there were more than 20 boxes still on the shelf when I walked out, no one around. I scanned the sky in the parking lot to make sure we hadn't been nuked and I missed the big SHTF or something. Didn't see any zombies either, so I drove my happy little self home ... 100 rounds richer :pleased:

  +1 on that TMF!    And they have the tools to stir it ... cell phones that take video, then send it, organize it, and make the news. Our "instant real time" communication is the cause of a lot of nothing being blown out of proportion. Had the dweebs (fatty and skinny wannabe commandos) holding the unslung weapons at the Chipotle did this 20 years ago, it be lucky to make the local news. With everyone armed with cell phones, its a constant good cop/bad cop game and the news agencies don't even have to send a crew out to cover it, it will get sent to them!

  I already did. There's nothing tactful about in-your-face politics. What's going to happen is that we "conservative" gun toters are going to lose out to being able to carry anywhere.   Why is it we have proper gun etiquette at most sanctioned tournaments, that is, a COLD range, no weapons handling without a range officer's permission on the firing line. Seems we're a well disiplined group in our inner "gun" circles, but you get a bunch of yahoos prancing around in the public with ARs, and that should be okay? I don't know what a guy's intention is with a shouldered AR in public, so why would anyone else? If the same group of OCs came waltzing in any of our cold ranges handling weapons, I guarantee they'd be escorted back out.

+1 on the Hi Power, just feels good in my hand ... but I like Greg's pick too, the N-Frame Smiths ... Dirty Harry knew what got the job done :pleased:

A couple bags of Quikrete down those holes should slow 'em down. :pleased:

Wish I had a few million dollars to open a .22 ammo factory. Never thought I'd see the day that the cheapest ammo in the world would become the most expensive (for what it is). Anything over $25 a brick is just wrong. As of lately, I started doing all my "plinking" with my Marlin 1894 and .38 lead semi-wadcutters powder puff reloads.   Cheaper than the new priced .22s. How sad is that? :stunned:

  Patton, there may be one more worse than the PF9, my son bought one of those XDS "slim" .45 single stacks ... OUCH!  He sold it after our first range session with it... LOL.

Can't scientifically prove it but my LCR seems to have less recoil than the heavier Mod 36 I had. Of course the Smith had skinny wood grips and the LCR has some pretty cushy grips, but I wonder if the polymer frame of the LCR doesn't also absorb some of the recoil.   But to debunk my own myth, I had a Kel-Tec 9mm that absolutely hurt to shoot. That grip just pounding the inside of my palm for every shot.   There just are so many variables to felt recoil, not only depending on gun design, but the person holding it and how they hold it. I have a Glock 19 (don't tell my friends) and a Browning Hi-Power and shooting the same ammo, the Hi-Power has more felt recoil than the 19, even though the Browning is heavier.   "...all the science, I don't understand..." - Rocket Man   :pleased:

I'm with Musicman, this is just my "forum jockey's useless opinion" and I'm late at that.  :pleased:  I've always been a snubby fan, but sold my Colt Detective (most inaccurate) for a 36 (prettiest) which I sold for an LCR .38+P (ugliest) but it's light, accurate, and the double action out of the box is smooth as can be. At 13oz, it's a great carry gun and being made of all those fancy named polymers (plastic), I use it for my boat gun too.   I'm a Smith fan for sure, but for a practical carry snubby, I like the Ruger. Depends on what you're looking for. If someone wants a pretty snubby, they should've bought Blackvandriver's fully engraved Smith, now that was a handsome piece!

Always a good time with good folks at MCTS!   :up:

I had one when I was still in the Army in the 70s. Bought it from a LGS for $100. Back in the day ... memories. It was a great shooter and accurate. I so longed for another 6.5 Swede, that I had to buy a CZ mannlicher 550 a few years ago. It's a great shooter too, but it unfortunately cost me a lot more than $100. :pleased:

Waiting for the photo with mud splattered all over it! :pleased:   Nice ride.

  +1 on the great match...and great weather!

Depends if I'm stashing the ammo in "covert" mode or not. :cool:

I like pretzel jars ... and peanut butter jars too. I can get 200 9mms in a JIF jar... :pleased:

The dog was fine, however the owner was quite rattled, with two broken fingers. It was on the news tonight.

You got it! :up:

  That's more like it ... a reasonable price, the way it should be. Patience my friends, patience. :pleased: