Did I say how much I like WMR?

[Nath]

All these years I shot varmints with centre fires in hornet,222,30/30, 243, 6.5-55swede, 308 and 357 but I gotta say I love this little rimfire, it does it all for me.
Check this mornings photos.



Two roosters.







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[Merle]

You will eat well tonight!

[Blaine]

Wonderful pictures.
(Who's your photog?)

[2ndovc]

I've become a big fan of the .22 Magnum over the last few years. I bought a CZ 452 that had been marked down to $300 because of a couple scratches in the stock. I got it home and touched it up w/ some stain and it looks just fine. I really like the tangent style rear sight on mine. It actually works too. Set it on 50 or 75 and it's dead on. Mine loves the heavier bullets but shoots them all very well.

jb

[Catshooter]

Lovely pic Nath, thank you for sharing.

How much difference in report with your suppressor? And how far out will you use the WMR on critters?


Cat

[Nath]

Lovely pic Nath, thank you for sharing.

How much difference in report with your suppressor? And how far out will you use the WMR on critters?


Cat

To be honest Cat, the suppressor is on because it makes the rifle aim better off hand.
Just bullet crack with it, without probably between 410&20g for gun noise.

Thanks.

N.

[GunnyMack]

WMR is no slouch! More then enough gun for more then people think. Even LR will take deer-IF you hit em right.

I have a 10/22 mag, put a carbon wrap barrel on it and a hogue over mould stock. My gun likes Winchester 40 gr HPs and FMJs. It doesn't like the 30 or 35 gr stuff. It is very accurate. First animal it took was a crow, about 85 yard shot from bipod, held for its eye and hit it just about right and ruined it's whole day!

[piller]

Hard to argue against successful performance be any cartridge.

[handirifle]

Dang Nath
You are just plain lethal! Nice shooting. I hope you're not "eating crow".

[M. M. Wright]

Nice shootin' Nath. Do I detect a neck shot on one of those ringnecks?

I really like the looks of Jess and she's so small. Is she a good house dog too? We were without a dog about a year ago and the wife bought a pup that was supposed to be small and it is now a nice full size Australian Shepherd. We love him lots but it is so hard to train one with 3 kids in the house.

[Old Savage]

On the moors?

[Griff]

[Catshooter]

In his Leverguns book Paco tells a story of when he cleaned five feral dogs out of a neighbor's chicken coop with five shots from a Smith & Wesson .22 mag. He likes 'em too.


Cat

[Nath]

Nice shootin' Nath. Do I detect a neck shot on one of those ringnecks?

I really like the looks of Jess and she's so small. Is she a good house dog too? We were without a dog about a year ago and the wife bought a pup that was supposed to be small and it is now a nice full size Australian Shepherd. We love him lots but it is so hard to train one with 3 kids in the house.

Yes , both neck shots.
Jess is a good house dog, very clingy to me and my wife.

N.

[Nath]

On the moors?

No sir, farm land, dairy farm.

In his Leverguns book Paco tells a story of when he cleaned five feral dogs out of a neighbor's chicken coop with five shots from a Smith & Wesson .22 mag. He likes 'em too.


Cat

Yes, I know Paco packed a WMR often!

Thanks guys.
Oh, it, the WMR took another tonight!



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[Pitchy]

Great pics and hunting Nath.

[Blaine]

A quick 22 mag side story.
Looking around eastern Kansas farms for good bass ponds. Pulled up to one. An old, old gent came out. We started in on a six-pac that just happened to be laying on the floor of the car, and we commenced to chat. He had a old fashioned smoke house out back, and he had maybe 3 nice deer hanging in there. He never bought meat. When he ran low, he'd go out to the back of his property where the apple trees were with his Mossberg (I think) bolt .22 mag. He said he never had one run off with a head, or neck shot.

[Nath]

A quick 22 mag side story.
Looking around eastern Kansas farms for good bass ponds. Pulled up to one. An old, old gent came out. We started in on a six-pac that just happened to be laying on the floor of the car, and we commenced to chat. He had a old fashioned smoke house out back, and he had maybe 3 nice deer hanging in there. He never bought meat. When he ran low, he'd go out to the back of his property where the apple trees were with his Mossberg (I think) bolt .22 mag. He said he never had one run off with a head, or neck shot.

I can believe that, my rifle despatched a wounded doe a couple of years ago at about forty yard.

N.

[handirifle]

Yea I first tried the 17 HMR and got sick of having to adjust for a 10 mph breeze at 50-60yds. I got the WMR and it just whallops what ever I shoot. Very impressive performance for a rimfire. I sold the 17.

I wonder if Winchester will ever make a 22 WSM, a necked up 17 WSM. I bet that would be a rimfire version of the Hornet. Maybe push a 40gr pill at 26-2700?

The ammo for the WSM seems about the same as the WMR, around here at least.

[Rube Burrows]

I have long been a fan of the .22wmr. My main gun in this caliber is a Remington 597 and while I have seen mixed reviews on the rifle over the years, mine has always done great. Its very accurate and is topped with a Nikon Prostaff with BDC. I have taken lots of small game over the years with it.........not as much as you but I suspect not many have.


Have always wanted to try out a CZ in .22mag.

[Nath]

Yea I first tried the 17 HMR and got sick of having to adjust for a 10 mph breeze at 50-60yds. I got the WMR and it just whallops what ever I shoot. Very impressive performance for a rimfire. I sold the 17.

I wonder if Winchester will ever make a 22 WSM, a necked up 17 WSM. I bet that would be a rimfire version of the Hornet. Maybe push a 40gr pill at 26-2700?

The ammo for the WSM seems about the same as the WMR, around here at least.

I would like to see a .25 WSM with a 60grn bullet doing 1600 or more!

N.

[Merle]

Yea I first tried the 17 HMR and got sick of having to adjust for a 10 mph breeze at 50-60yds. I got the WMR and it just whallops what ever I shoot. Very impressive performance for a rimfire. I sold the 17.

I wonder if Winchester will ever make a 22 WSM, a necked up 17 WSM. I bet that would be a rimfire version of the Hornet. Maybe push a 40gr pill at 26-2700?

The ammo for the WSM seems about the same as the WMR, around here at least.

I would like to see a .25 WSM with a 60grn bullet doing 1600 or more!

N.

Sounds like an old 25-20 to me. And that is reloadable, so how would that work for you?

[Nath]

Yea I first tried the 17 HMR and got sick of having to adjust for a 10 mph breeze at 50-60yds. I got the WMR and it just whallops what ever I shoot. Very impressive performance for a rimfire. I sold the 17.

I wonder if Winchester will ever make a 22 WSM, a necked up 17 WSM. I bet that would be a rimfire version of the Hornet. Maybe push a 40gr pill at 26-2700?

The ammo for the WSM seems about the same as the WMR, around here at least.

I would like to see a .25 WSM with a 60grn bullet doing 1600 or more!

N.

Sounds like an old 25-20 to me. And that is reloadable, so how would that work for you?

Don't ever think I have seen a 25-20 over here, ever

N.

[3leggedturtle]

Nath, like Paco stated, the 22wmr, It performs better than it ballistics show.

[Old Ironsights]

And, 22WMR is still usually available - and no more expensive than .22LR at this juncture.

[GunnyMack]

Years ago had a crippled buck here, hit by a car, tried for a week to catch up with him to end his suffering. Since I'm in a neighborhood I couldn't just grab a gun and shoot him. Finally on CHRISTMAS eve I saw him in the yard, went upstairs and eased a window open, stuck my 10/22 out the window and put 1 standard velocity through his lungs from about 40 yards. If he ran 50 yards it was a long way! When I gutted him in an effort to save some meat, that 22 went through a rib, devastated both lungs and lodged in another rib on the off side. The rimfires can do much more then people think!

[Nath]

Years ago had a crippled buck here, hit by a car, tried for a week to catch up with him to end his suffering. Since I'm in a neighborhood I couldn't just grab a gun and shoot him. Finally on CHRISTMAS eve I saw him in the yard, went upstairs and eased a window open, stuck my 10/22 out the window and put 1 standard velocity through his lungs from about 40 yards. If he ran 50 yards it was a long way! When I gutted him in an effort to save some meat, that 22 went through a rib, devastated both lungs and lodged in another rib on the off side. The rimfires can do much more then people think!

The thing about low velocity is that the bullet don't want to destroy itself!

Thanks for sharing.

[GunnyMack]

As far as rimfires, when I lived at 6200' elevation out in Colorado, we sighted our 22's in at 100 yards. We could grab a brick of 22's, head to a pasture poodle town and shoot from 0-200 with rimfires and anything past with center fires. Heat up your 22-250, swap to your 22!

So much fun watching your shots impact and making corrections for wind to finally hit a prairie rat.

[Ji in Hawaii]

Great shootin' Nate. Wish they'd let us hunt birds here with a rimfire (legally) allot less meat damage than a scatter-gun, and in my opinion just as challenging.

If I can ever afford another gun, and it be a 22 WMR I think I'd settle with a Henry Goldenboy.

[t.r.]

My Marlin has accounted for many groundhogs; 22 MAG is a keeper!

TR

[Nath]

My Marlin has accounted for many groundhogs; 22 MAG is a keeper!

TR

How far away was that target TR?

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