The Shocking Truth About 22 LR Rifles No One Tells You
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The side of an old cardboard box of .22 Long Rifle ammunition. Small black print, easy to miss: range one and one-half miles, be careful.
Almost every American house with a gun in it has a .22 somewhere. Almost nobody who owns one can explain why it jams, why one round in a box of five hundred goes click instead of bang, or why the most accurate .22 ammunition ever made is also the slowest.
An investigation into the rifles Americans actually own and the small cartridge inside them, working through the engineering the box never mentions: why the heeled bullet and its wax coating drag dirt straight into the chamber, why rimfire ignition is the least reliable system in common use and can never be reloaded, what happens to a forty-grain bullet when it falls back through the sound barrier downrange, and how far one of them really travels when it misses.
Covered: the Ruger 10/22 and the Marlin Model 60 and how they ended up in every closet, the CZ 457 and the Savage Mark II against four-thousand-dollar Anschütz and Walther target rifles, the ten-millimeter ten ring at fifty meters, the Stevens patent from 1887 that created the cartridge, the 2013 and 2020 shortages that pushed a twenty-five-dollar brick past a hundred, and the honest limits of the round on game, on an intruder, and through a suppressor.
It ends with what the .22 actually does well, which is not the list most owners would guess.
Prices, availability and ammunition specs change constantly. Suppressor ownership requires federal registration and remains banned in several states, and hunting regulations on rimfire vary by state — check current law where you shoot.
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Music: "The Pyre" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
The Shocking Truth About 22 LR Rifles No One Tells You
Blind & Bank
1,961 views
The side of an old cardboard box of .22 Long Rifle ammunition. Small black print, easy to miss: range one and one-half miles, be careful.
Almost every American house with a gun in it has a .22 somewhere. Almost nobody who owns one can explain why it jams, why one round in a box of five hundred goes click instead of bang, or why the most accurate .22 ammunition ever made is also the slowest.
An investigation into the rifles Americans actually own and the small cartridge inside them, working through the engineering the box never mentions: why the heeled bullet and its wax coating drag dirt straight into the chamber, why rimfire ignition is the least reliable system in common use and can never be reloaded, what happens to a forty-grain bullet when it falls back through the sound barrier downrange, and how far one of them really travels when it misses.
Covered: the Ruger 10/22 and the Marlin Model 60 and how they ended up in every closet, the CZ 457 and the Savage Mark II against four-thousand-dollar Anschütz and Walther target rifles, the ten-millimeter ten ring at fifty meters, the Stevens patent from 1887 that created the cartridge, the 2013 and 2020 shortages that pushed a twenty-five-dollar brick past a hundred, and the honest limits of the round on game, on an intruder, and through a suppressor.
It ends with what the .22 actually does well, which is not the list most owners would guess.
Prices, availability and ammunition specs change constantly. Suppressor ownership requires federal registration and remains banned in several states, and hunting regulations on rimfire vary by state — check current law where you shoot.
No sponsors. No affiliate links. No manufacturer sees a ranking before you do.
Subscribe to Blind & Bank for honest, sponsor-free breakdowns of the guns and gear Americans actually carry, hunt with and defend their homes with.
#22lr #rimfire #rugerten22
Music: "The Pyre" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...