October 20th Texas .22 Magnum Day
Took the Ruger American to the Range this morning. Wind was blowing pretty good but was an almost straight-on headwind and did not give me a real problem. Any inaccuracy I blame on Old Age, not the wind.
I cut the Ruger barrel back to 16 1/2" as I do not care for long barreled rifles. The .22 Magnum cartridges gets almost all of it's power in the first 12" so you really don't lose anything by cutting the barrel back.
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Trying different ammo this morning.
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That's supposed to be 1 1/8" .....
A dangerous man with hacksaw! lol
But they turn out very cool. You got the crown sorted plenty well enough. We have only one .22 WMR rifle, a bolt Marlin with Magazine. It feels pretty good. I bet it will fair lots better than the tube mag version I had prevouis. It would only do about 2-1/2" at 100 yds. even after I glass bedded it. I just figured it had too much hanging off the barrel.
I'm sort of looking for a 10" octagon Contender barrel in .22 WMR, cheap, old school. I figure it could outshoot most rifles, if I could hold it.
I drug out our old .22 WMR
It’s a Marlin model 25. A proper example of a hillbilly truck gun. It sports a fairly decent Nikon scope. We inherited it as-is from Benjamin’s Pap, so it was bestowed to him. We’ll shoot it to see what it will do at 100 yds. If it’s under 2” for at least 3-shots I figure it’s good to go. I had a tube feed that was very testy and might throw 4-5” groups if it wasn’t happy with the ammo.
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I shot mine at 130 yards
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