Furthest distance you have grouped your 22lr's???

[ErnieBishop]

How far do you guys shoot your 22 rimfires for group?

[M-Tecs]

200 yards is the furthest but normally 50 and a 100 for rifle. 25 and 50 for handgun unless it scoped than 100.

[GhostHawk]

My shooting buddy and I have shot at 12 gauge hulls on their side at 100y. A miss in any 5 shot string was a loss unless both missed one.

Ruger 10/22's both although mine is older, with the original early 70's walnut.

Both at the time sported pretty large 3x9x40 scopes.

We were talking about trying it again, with live primers, a grain of red dot and flour as a charge.
So basicly reactive targets that really poof if you hit the primer. But we are both getting older so it is probably just talk.

I might be tempted to try it at 50 and then see how moving out to 75 goes.

Personally my longest shot was 185 paced yards to a big Jackrabbit at dusk, and I held for his ear tips and hit him in the eye.
It was early winter, snow on the ground and easy to spot him, took a good rest on a pickup hood.

But then I was young and stupid back then and tried all kinds of stuff.

[TXGunNut]

I generally piddle around at 50 yds with leverguns and 22lr. 100 yds with a 22lr seems to require a better grade of ammo or shooter....in my case probably both!

[captain-03]

We shoot 100 and 200 yrds each month at our local club ... 40 rounds at 100 and 20 at 200 ....

[Outpost75]

Shooting a good .22 match rifle at 200 yards closely simulates firing .30 caliber at 1000 and is great wind doping practice.

[Maximumbob54]

I've done the same thing as Ghosthawk. We would set up 6" and 12" steel plates as far out as 300 yards and be volley firing a bit and listen for that ringing sound. At least half the time you were rewarded with a ping. This was done with a MKII and 10/22 usually from me.

[WILCO]

How far do you guys shoot your 22 rimfires for group?

50ft. to 50yds. is the norm for me.

[osteodoc08]

Farthest for group? 100yds.

Farthest for fun? How far can you see?

[ErnieBishop]

Does anyone here stretch their Ruger Chargers at distance?

[high standard 40]

Farthest for group? 100yds.

Farthest for fun? How far can you see?

This is pretty much the same for me. On a paper target, both rifle and handgun, 100 yards is as far as I've tried. I have shot Smallbore silhouettes with open sights out to 200 yards. Just playing around, handguns with open sights out to 400-500 yards. To reach that kind of distance, you need a good spotter and we were aiming at tree tops to hit ground level targets.....lobbing the bullets in like a mortar shell.

[Artful]

Shooting at steel gong at 300 count?

[blindeye]

I shoot several 10 shot groups with each 22lr ammo choice at 100yds, early in the morning on a day with as little wind as possible to evaluate ammo/rifle grouping. Even though the combination will be used on targets at 200yds. Because at 200yds the grouping is more of a measure of my lack of wind reading ability than potential accuracy.
Since I don't ever shoot targets at a distance shorter than 100 yds, the grouping at shorter distances doesn't matter to me.
I've found that a quick sorting by best grouping at 50 yds, often doesn't show the same results at further distances.
If I only competed at 50yds, then all my shooting would be at that distance.
Vertical spread seems to be a problem with increasing range.
I only shoot 22lr's on paper, since I use cast Boolit centerfire's for (rarely anymore) plinking around.
Just my experience.

[ErnieBishop]

Sure!

Shooting at steel gong at 300 count?

[Bent Ramrod]

I used to shoot my Remington 37 off the bench at 200 yards on those 50-ft NRA targets that come 11 on the paper. With RWS R-50 ammunition, I could sometimes get 5 shots in the black.

It really seemed to like that ammunition.

[Mk42gunner]

I remember shooting my CZ 452 out to 125 yards, but that was more of a curiosity check to see if the rear sight really tracked with the ballistics of high velocity .22LR. It did surprisingly well.

Sadly my eyes need a scope for squirrel hunting now, so it is basically a one range zero these days.

Robert

[Jackpine]

TC Contender 10 inch barrel with iron sights at 200 yards.

Jackpine

[snowwolfe]

50 yards. If I need to shoot at an animal further than that I'll change calibers.

[rosst]

4 inch group at 300 yards yesterday, started at 100, 200, 250 and kept moving back as confidence grew .. . like to go out further but maxed out ( 330yds ) with elevation and canted base n rings.
not for animals tho, for sharpening wind reading / shooting skills . . . R.

[Chill Wills]

Furthest groups?
219 yards (200 meters) on the 22BPCR Rams. In good conditions 2" vertical with Eley black match or red Ten-x in the Ballard. The CPA Stevens likes, among other ammo, Eley Edge, which is priced better than match. Eley Edge will hold a small group on rams as well in that rifle.

And, For longerange creedmoor practice, scaled targets to 300y, 270y, and 240y are about right to duplicate LR wind conditions BUT so far not practical for seeing bullet holes. Painting scaled targets on plastic freezer paper really shows the holes better out there. However, making the targets is just one more step in specialized shooting fun.....

[TXGunNut]

Shooting at steel gong at 300 count?


Hits count, shooting at them sounds like fun. ;-) IF I could hit it I probably wouldn't hear the "ding", lol.

[jrap]

The furthest I've gone is 100 but my range goes on up to 300. I mostly just plink with a 22

[Artful]

Hits count, shooting at them sounds like fun. ;-) IF I could hit it I probably wouldn't hear the "ding", lol.
Paint the Target and you can see the hits on fresh paint

[LtFrankDrebbin]

Well I found out my 22 is minute of 44gallon drum on a windy day at 300 meters not long ago. Fun! :smile:

bang.............ding [smilie=w:

[ErnieBishop]

You can even see a 10" steel target swing at 500 yards.
Yes, white paint is very helpful in seeing, and sometimes you can hear hits at 500 yards if the wind is very light.


Hits count, shooting at them sounds like fun. ;-) IF I could hit it I probably wouldn't hear the "ding", lol.

[Taylor]

My Remington 513T and Kimber 82G---100 yards.

[ErnieBishop]

You wouldn't think it would make the target swing but it does[smilie=w:
Working on getting drops confirmed at 500 yards not to long ago with my clone Charger 22 LR using Federal Gold Medal Match.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/xphunter_2006/0D69321B-B887-4001-A54B-04D413B6F54A_zps81jndxu9.jpg (http://s76.photobucket.com/user/xphunter_2006/media/0D69321B-B887-4001-A54B-04D413B6F54A_zps81jndxu9.jpg.html)

[SWMO1]

100 yards for groups. A 10" gong at 250 for fun

[Anschutz]

600 Yard .22 LR shooting! World Record Shot!: https://youtu.be/bMun6pVDBzs
Two of my teammates from West Point

[ErnieBishop]

Cool.
Furthest I have shot so far is 500 yards. 7 shots right at 2 MOA. Will do it again in better conditions. I'm glad Miles was there to spot for me.

[BCgunworks]

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/30/9fa1b274a37bb7ed898a69784682d234.jpg

325 yard pdogs with a super munk is a good start. This photo is from WYSHOT 2015 with Steve hugle shooting one of my customs.

[Anschutz]

Very nice. I'd like to scope up my Annie and see what she can do. Furthest I've shot is an a 6x6 gong at 300. Heard two hits out of 40 or so but I could have hit it more. It was also open sighted because it was during a match week.

[Lonegun1894]

My longest hunting shot, back when I was younger and dumber was a later measured 175yards on a coyote with a Ruger Single-Six .22LR when the local game warden bet me $20 I couldn't hit it when I was 15yrs old. I made the hit, but wouldn't try that today. Nowadays I limit my hunting shots with .22LR to 100 yards, but much prefer inside 50 yards. Now against paper, steel plates, water-filled soft drink cans, and such other targets, I regularly shoot out to 200 yards, and a few times a year a friend of mine and I shoot milk jugs out to 500 yards at his place. Now the 500 yard shooting with a .22LR for me is done with a "slightly" modified Ruger 10-22. This rifle has a 20" GM match-grade bull-barrel with match chamber, a 10X mildot scope, bipod, Hogue stock with bedding, and has a 6oz trigger. While we can make regular hits with this rifle and his also out at 500 yards, this is more a matter of reading wind than anything else, and we use it as a training session than a plinking session. ANY mistake you make at that range, means a miss, but it has made us much better shots with our center-fire rifles out to ranges of 1000+ yards.

[Hiwall55]

I put a match on at our local club and we shoot to 200 yards at 22 bpcr targets so I guess that's it.

[w30wcf]

You wouldn't think it would make the target swing but it does[smilie=w:
Working on getting drops confirmed at 500 yards not to long ago with my clone Charger 22 LR using Federal Gold Medal Match.
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4/xphunter_2006/0D69321B-B887-4001-A54B-04D413B6F54A_zps81jndxu9.jpg (http://s76.photobucket.com/user/xphunter_2006/media/0D69321B-B887-4001-A54B-04D413B6F54A_zps81jndxu9.jpg.html)

Ernie,
Nice shooting! The furthest I have ever fired my .22 was on the NRA Highpower Turkey at 421 yards. Once I got sighted in by holding on a rock at the top of the bank at about 11:00 from the target, 5 consecutive shots resulted in 5 hits. :) Turkey body diameter is about 11".

w30wcf

[Chill Wills]

I put a match on at our local club and we shoot to 200 yards at 22 bpcr targets so I guess that's it.


:drinks:

[Huffmanite]

One of best days I've had with my BSA model 12 was when someone had left 6 or so clay pidgeons on our 200 yd berm and there was no wind. Once I'd adjusted my peep sight for 200 yds, lordy it was a lot of clicks for elevation, I averaged 2 or 3 shots per pidgeon to hit it. A few days later at range, a shooting buddy was trying his scoped 22 rifle on a pie plate at 200 yds without much luck. I got my BSA and a box of ammo I use out of my truck and gave it to him to try, saying the sight is set for 200 yds, just center the target. Well, after about 10 rounds, he'd shot a 4" or so group on the pie plate. LOL, took me a few minutes to convince him the BSA wasn't for sale.

[arunninghorsegoeswild]

I posted pictures of groups at 110 yards
I shoot .308 further