Someone has a 22 that doesn't shoot so good

[Alan in Vermont]

The club President and I were inspecting the target frames today, trying to determine what needs attention on our fix & cleanup day next Saturday.

At the 100 yd. targets I found 2, 22 rimfire, bullets sticking in the plywood backer. Nothing real noteworthy about that except that the first one I saw got the reaction of "What is that round thing sticking out of the plywood?"

"That" turned out to be a bullet that had gone in backwards, just enough of the nose protruding to let me get onto it with my Leatherman to pull it out.

The second one was about a foot away and imbedded sideways. It came out with just fingernail effort.

It would be nice to know the story behind them but I suspect somebody has a really doggy shooting 22.

[Doc Highwall]

Maybe shooting at a target/can/plastic bottle on the frozen ground and they are ricochets.

[Alan in Vermont]

I thought about that as well. The one that was sideways has a couple dings that look like hits from other bullets after it got stuck but but they are both nice little arcs nipped out of the shape of the bullet, not a smear that would come from hitting something along the way. The one that was backwards has nary a mark on it so I'm quite sure it went in clean.

[uscra112]

Somebody reamed out a .22 short barrel for .22LR?

[DLCTEX]

I once had an old Stevens pump 22 that the barrel was so bad you could hear the bullet flipping through the air when shot. It was gotten in a trade when I was a teenager. I cut it down and made a "Mare's Leg" complete with holster. Still didn't shoot for beans, but was way cool. I traded it for a good 22 rifle.

[Silver Eagle]

Could have been a weakly charged round. I know 22's out of derringers keyhole. But, I doubt you would be finding them at the 100 yd range!

[lylejb]

maybe a 22lr out of a 22 mag?

[country gent]

Wieght the bullets if possible They may be the 60 grn sss from aglia they key hole from alot of 22 rifles. The load is a 22 shortcase with the 60 grn bullet making it a long rifle. From what I have seen the 60 grn heel seated bullet is long for most rimfires rifling rate.

[Ed Barrett]

Could be a "ZIP" gun, barrel made from from a piece of car antenna or tubing. Only thing for sure is something will come out the end when it goes off, which end is also a problem. I won't go into my misspent youth, where I learned about such things.

[x101airborne]

I had a 22 mag that had incredible muzzle wear from careless cleaning with a hard rod. Keyholed at 20 yards. Used a brownells muzzle facing tool and brought it back to shooting well.

[chboats]

Don't know the layout of your range but at our range we see that sort of thing all the time. After rounds pass through a 25 or 50 yard target it might hit someones 100 yard target from two or three benches away.

Carl

[MtGun44]

CB caps?

Bill

[FLINTNFIRE]

I was thinking the CB caps or CB longs , a lot of fun to watch them drop into a target at 50 or more yards .

[FredBuddy]

I cleaned a 22 for a neighbor recently. I don't know how a boolit could have gone down the barrel it was so caked in lead. This doesn't seem like a leading problem, tho.

[runfiverun]

bet it was from the reverse twist gain asperly series.

[wlc]

Were the bullets bigger? Could have been the SSS 60 grainers from Aguila. They are hit and miss on stability out of a normal twist 22 barrel. More miss than hit..

[geargnasher]

My first thought was the Aguila subsonics as well, but that big honkin' torpedo would have been obvious enough to mention in the OP.

My bet is it's a case of "floorboard crown".

Gear

[jabilli]

Could be someone playing Rambo and just spitting out rounds as quickly as possible?