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I'm actually embarrased a bit by my favorite pistol. Phoenix Arms 22. Cheap junky piece of zinc with sheet metal mags and too many safety mechanisms (thanks Cali), but that is one loud barking little SOB and perfect for popping critters and snakes when I'm out working around the property. Plus I think they have some ridiculous warranty so if it ever breaks you send it in and they'll give you another one. I have two, a target model and a regular.
My dad has a Phoenix Arms 22 with the longer barrel. It is an odd duck for sure. At our last shooting session it took a while to figure out all the safeties. We thought it was damaged. But finally got it figured out.
 
Don't be embarrassed, I've got one also. It's just as much fun as my high standard s101.
 
1022 rules, I've been building rifles for years. The 1022 is the most rewarding action to dress up. I used a volquartsen carbon barrel on the last one and benched 1/4 groups at 50yrd

And so cost effective. Mine is stock except for the M1 sights. Have never figured out why the stock barrel/action combos are such fickle eaters. Being a builder maybe you can weigh in on that? Everyone I know feeds their 10/22 Federal ammo and won't go near a box of Winchester SuperX. Guess what mine eats? The latter. Must be the middle child of the production run, lol.
 
The 1022 has a large chamber to help with feeding. When a match barrel is used the chamber is tightened. This leads to fickle eaters. The gun will work with the ammo it likes best for the chamber. Mine like Eley match the best but will eat Winchester dynapoint for practice. I find standard velocity ammo the most accurate in my rifles. Yet remember with 22 your slave to the manufacture lot. In shilouette shooting match ammo does best but your practice ammo can fill the bill. Shooter's try everything to find that magic bullet. Try different ammo and find the best and remember what someone else shoots may not be the best for your rifle.
 
And so cost effective. Mine is stock except for the M1 sights. Have never figured out why the stock barrel/action combos are such fickle eaters. Being a builder maybe you can weigh in on that? Everyone I know feeds their 10/22 Federal ammo and won't go near a box of Winchester SuperX. Guess what mine eats? The latter. Must be the middle child of the production run, lol.
Don't have that problem with my Remington Target Master. It will feed anything I put in her :)
 
My sister used to shoot smallbore target rifle. She would go to the gun store and buy Eley based on the lot code. If the lot she was shooting was running low, she'd start a different lot code and test until she had it dialed in with her rifle.

She was at the level that she was shooting one hole groups at 100ft. for 10 or more shots when prone.
 
Wish I would have bought more guns instead of getting married all those years ago,,, would have been cheaper in the long run and I'd still have all that equity, lol.
I have a basic array, but I do quite like my 1911 Kimber with the custom ebonite grips. Makes me smile just to hold it, though I don't tote it around as much as I once did.
I still have the pen too :p
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Chip McCormick: best 1911 magazine ever.
 
I don’t have a 10/22, but I did pick up a Ruger Precision Rimfire last year, and that thing is a tack driver! Out of the box I was shooting one MOA at 50yds with no practice or any previous attempts at precision shooting. I still wouldn’t consider myself a precision shooter by any means, but I am practicing to maybe try my hand at the NRL22 matches my range holds in the future, and the rifle, combined with an inexpensive Vortex Diamondback scope, I am doing decent at 100yds.
 
I don’t have a 10/22, but I did pick up a Ruger Precision Rimfire last year, and that thing is a tack driver! Out of the box I was shooting one MOA at 50yds with no practice or any previous attempts at precision shooting. I still wouldn’t consider myself a precision shooter by any means, but I am practicing to maybe try my hand at the NRL22 matches my range holds in the future, and the rifle, combined with an inexpensive Vortex Diamondback scope, I am doing decent at 100yds.

I wanted to get one of those when it first came out, but due to laws where I live, I couldn't due to the threaded barrel. :(
 
My sister used to shoot smallbore target rifle. She would go to the gun store and buy Eley based on the lot code. If the lot she was shooting was running low, she'd start a different lot code and test until she had it dialed in with her rifle.

She was at the level that she was shooting one hole groups at 100ft. for 10 or more shots when prone.
She also probably sorted that ammo by rim thickness as well, thinner or thicker rims vary the primer content hence ignition time by miniscule amounts and the thickness also translates to miniscule movement if the firearm as the firing pin impacts. Competitive shooting is a serious game of consistency, attention to detail, practice, skill......
 
She also probably sorted that ammo by rim thickness as well, thinner or thicker rims vary the primer content hence ignition time by miniscule amounts and the thickness also translates to miniscule movement if the firearm as the firing pin impacts. Competitive shooting is a serious game of consistency, attention to detail, practice, skill......
Yessir, she did. She had so many brassards on her shooting jacket, the gun club we belonged to nicknamed her "The Little Peacock."
 
Rim checking can sort lo level ammo to some consistency yet good match ammo tends to dis prove that. I spent $85 on a dial indicator rim checker. At the time I was shooting lapua midus +, they rimmed out up to .150 difference yet the ammo one holes and grouped in at 5/8inch at 100 meters. If you feel rimming helps you please keep doing it. To say it's the secret the jury's still out. The manufacturers lots differ.
 
Rim checking can sort lo level ammo to some consistency yet good match ammo tends to dis prove that. I spent $85 on a dial indicator rim checker. At the time I was shooting lapua midus +, they rimmed out up to .150 difference yet the ammo one holes and grouped in at 5/8inch at 100 meters. If you feel rimming helps you please keep doing it. To say it's the secret the jury's still out. The manufacturers lots differ.
I was never one to sort by rim thickness, however I did buy enough ammo from a lot to get me through an entire season of practice and matchs. Over the years I have done a little bit of everything that might improve my scores looking for that extra 10-15 points I was coming up short on my average score. Most of the ammo I used was CCI standard velocity as my High Standard Mod 107 Supermatic Citation, S&W Model 41, and Browning Buckmark Target all really liked it and the groups shot with it versus Eley Match, Wolf and others were just as good whether fired from a Ransom Rest or by hand.
 
I'm a firm believer in CCI standard, I've won matches using it. In my rifles cci falls short at 100 meters yet if I have one to choose for all around CCI standard or green tag wins.
 
It was the HK P7 (PSP variant). I’ve got one. Super nice pistol; maybe my favorite. I’ve also got a couple of P38s that I bought to make U.N.C.L.E. Specials.
Hi Steve. Thank You for the correction. Much obliged. There is a website out there, U.N.C.L.E. Gun .com, or something similar. I haven't been on it in a while, but it is fascinating. the fellow who runs it is a jeweler and makes the parts needed for the P-38 "Special" for both the P-38 and the Mauser pistol used in the very early episodes as well as the famous "Napoleon Solo gun" version of the rifle. For folks who don't know what I'm referring to, it's the version that didn't have the silencer on the rifle barrel and a wooden foregrip, (made from a wooden Mauser pistol handgrip), and was used for Publicity pictures with the late Dr. Robert Vaughn in a tuxedo. Cheers!
 
Hi Steve. Thank You for the correction. Much obliged. There is a website out there, U.N.C.L.E. Gun .com, or something similar. I haven't been on it in a while, but it is fascinating. the fellow who runs it is a jeweler and makes the parts needed for the P-38 "Special" for both the P-38 and the Mauser pistol used in the very early episodes as well as the famous "Napoleon Solo gun" version of the rifle. For folks who don't know what I'm referring to, it's the version that didn't have the silencer on the rifle barrel and a wooden foregrip, (made from a wooden Mauser pistol handgrip), and was used for Publicity pictures with the late Dr. Robert Vaughn in a tuxedo. Cheers!
Yup, Brad Ferguson. He has done a very nice job. He also posts frequently on a Facebook group.
 
Justin -- now you see why I like Air Rifles --- no mess, no smell, no cleanup.
Get them out - shoot them - put them away.

Spend your time shooting (in the backyard too since they are quiet with a suppressor you can buy without a license) and not driving to a site and cleaning when you get home.

I get "trigger time" everyday......
 
Justin -- now you see why I like Air Rifles --- no mess, no smell, no cleanup.
Get them out - shoot them - put them away.

Spend your time shooting (in the backyard too since they are quiet with a suppressor you can buy without a license) and not driving to a site and cleaning when you get home.

I get "trigger time" everyday......
I can shoot my Marauder in the backyard up to 90 times on 1-fill, and nobody even hear me... peace! Love me some air rifle action.

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I took my laptop down the garage today and had target practice out the back door while a meeting was going on.
Got in a quick 30 shots on the Red Wolf and another 20 or so with the Pulsar while attending a half-hour yack session on mute.
 
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