.22LR lethality

[billy_56081]

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The Russians are using a 9mm silenced rifle. Appears to be an AK varient.

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn20-e.htm

http://world.guns.ru/sniper/sn72-e.htm

A 50 cal version also.

[Drilling Man]

If anybody has watched the history channel lately, they have a series called The Swamp People. All about some cajun's that aligator hunt. All but one uses a .22lr. The one that don't, uses a .22 mag. All bolt action by the looks of it. Now I would have certainly thought that getting to the brain, as small as it is on a 'gator, would take something bigger that a .22. gypsyman

  Yes i watched it.  Did you notice that when they shot at more than point blank range, they complained the 22lr wasn't power enough for gators?  Did notice that they had a mini 14 for shooting any distance?  Did yoiu notice that they had to shoot some of the gators several times with a 22lr?

  DM

  BTW, i saw them use a chinese copy of the Browning 22 auto, a Marlin 60, and a Handi CF too.

[myronman3]

i will tell y'all something else....my pops used to do all kinds of penetration tests.   one of the things he showed me was the difference between pistols and rifles.  we used bullets in a 22 pistol, wouldnt pentrate a car door.    the rifle sliced through one door and clean out the other using the exact same ammo. 

[mcwoodduck]

If anybody has watched the history channel lately, they have a series called The Swamp People. All about some cajun's that aligator hunt. All but one uses a .22lr. The one that don't, uses a .22 mag. All bolt action by the looks of it. Now I would have certainly thought that getting to the brain, as small as it is on a 'gator, would take something bigger that a .22. gypsyman

That's when they are at the boat.  when in the open swamp the one guy uses a 223.
all the older guys said Hand guns don't kill them well.  Must be a velocity thing.

[Victor3]

 I love my 22's dearly and have more guns chambered in 22LR than any other. Some of the last guns I'd ever sell are my 22's. I'd never want to have to depend on stopping a man in a fight with one though.

 However, a 22 mag in a 2" revolver would be a different story. Even if you miss, the noise and flash will disable an attacker long enough to get away.... If you wear sunglasses and ear plugs. 

[KeepTryin]

I wouldn't want to get shot with anything of course... but a tidbit I remember from my Dad (WW2 vet, depression kid RIP) was "Don't think for a minute a lot of deer didn't get taken in the depression with .22's"

I think those little guns put more than a bit of meat on the table in those days... Out of desperate necessity, of course.

KT

[ruffhunter]

I've taken many, ONE SHOT, coons and groundhogs with only a CB long, minute of back window in town!  All I hear is the firing pin. Most were behind the ear about 10 to 15 feet away. 

[powderman]

I've had hundreds of one shot kills with 22 short HPs on rabbits, squirrels, and ground hogs. POWDERMAN.