bought 3 boxes of CCI 22LR ammo today. 375 rounds per box. $23 at Walmart. this stuff is like gold!!! Cheaperthandirt.com has them for $149!!!!!! Im good for an entire year now. I have around 1900 rounds. that's say 20 trips to the gunrange for me.
what is a reasonable quantity of ammo to have on stock? i now have around a year's worth, but I live in NY and CCI 22LR is very hard to find, and NY will start requiring background checks for ammo purchases at the end of the year which may lead many Walmarts to simply stop selling ammo. so yeah, I have like 5 1/2 boxes which is like $132 worth. not too bad. im not a hoarder.
If stored in a cool, dry place, ammunition keeps for decades. Since you like shooting, buying when it's cheap is a wise investment. I have about 500 rounds of 22 and about the same of 9mm plus a few hundred of .45. I wish I'd stocked up on .223 and 7.62x39 before all the anti-gun fever started. Now it's almost impossible to find and expensive when found.
It can kill an elephant if placed right through the eye socket along the optical nerve into the brain, but it's unlikely to kill instantly. More likely to just wound it and it would die of gangrene a few weeks later.
.22LRs are great for plinking and small game hunting. The AR-7 was developed as a compact survival rifle for shooting small game. I used to have one and am sad I still don't have it. http://henryrepeating.com/rifle-survival-ar7.cfm
i forgot. its illegal to hunt deer in my state with a 22. i don't think i can legally hunt anything with a 22. I'll look it up. EDIT Im wrong. its not illegal to hunt with a 22. but i think i can only use it on small game like wabbits and cayote.
Many states have regulations on the type of gun used for big game hunting for the very reasons I mentioned. Sorry, I thought you were just asking a general question, not a regulatory one.
If your house is littered with garbage and boxes that you can't get around in it---then your a horder. You sound more like a prepper. And the prepper guys say to have about 2,000 rounds per gun. I think you baseball bat is about as useful as your .22 for home defence.
You said you don't need a gun for home defence, and that you use a bat. There has already been too much discussion of the merits of .22's as home defense weapons. As with your OP---if you are too skittish about using a shotgun, then the better choices in arms may not be for you. If .22's are "all that" then why are they not used by a single police or military force on the planet as a primary weapon?
.22 isnt bad , but a thick winter jacket can be known to stop the round.... but on the positive side you dont have to worry as much about the round going through the wall and killing your neighbor or family members.
i would not want to be shot with a 22LR even while wearing a thick winter coat. if it can go through 4 sheets of plywood, it will go through a thick coat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbEKKXU4bLo
Agreed on all points. All weapons have advantages and disadvantages which is why I prefer an assortment of weapons to chose from. In the case of home defense, I'd probably pick the baseball bat over the 22, but my first choice is a 12 gauge pump shotgun. - - - Updated - - - Only if you hit the right spot. Most people who die from a .22 die of gangrene weeks later. That's plenty of time for them to beat you to death with a tire iron or baseball bat.
I have a Charter Arms AR-7. I really liked it, but I lost the original stock and barrel. I got some after market ones but the barrel makes the rifle jam on every shot and the stock is a solid bar so the rifle parts don't fit inside anymore.
I guess an old army standard for lethality is supposed to be able to penetrate 1/2in of pine. This video shows that a .22 can penetrate that pine from over 400 yards.
Penetration is only one aspect of lethality. Another is knockdown power. This explains the controversy of when we converted from the .45 to the 9mm. The .45 has superior knockdown power. It's slow, but it's big. Penetration is good for piercing armor and walls, but not as good for knocking someone down. That's why hollow-points are better than FMJ's for killing, but also why FMJ's are required by the Geneva Convention. For home defense, hollow points are the best way to go; great knock-down power but unlikely to go through a wall and kill a family member or a neighbor. Even though I have a .45 as a family heirloom, my preferred hand weapon is a 9mm for a combination of factors; capacity and ease of use. It's knock down power is good, just not as good as a .45's.
