Basic .22 Recommendations
 

Would appreciate recommendations for a basic .22 rifle for plinking and teaching kids to shoot. And maybe shooting a few raccoons too. ;) Looking for quality but with reasonable price tag given purpose.

Thanks.

You are going to teach the kids to shoot??? Holy mother of..... You're kidding right?

Tell you what, you send them to me and I'll teach them to shoot, you can teach 'em to argue.....

TS

Owner of "Team Sergeant's Kiddie School of Shooting"

LOL -- NO! Not yet, anyway. But I do want to have a starter gun for them when they are old enough, and it might as well be the one I'm going to buy now if that makes sense.

How soon do I need to get their applications in for this school, anyway? ;)

This will be reciprocal, of course, although I'm not sure you want yours turned into little sophists just now.

You should hear mine negotiate for candy. LMAO

Seriously, any .22 recommendations? I'm buying one and would prefer to get advice now rather than abuse later. :)

Whew! (I thought I was going to have to call Catwomen and appeal to her higher brain functions.)

Don't buy anything yet. Every year the gun makers come out with new guns and some are great. So unless you’re bent on a Ruger 10/22, wait. That’s my advice and worth every penny.

TS

Rifle?

I believe several manufacturers have single-shot .22LR rifles, sized for children (Chipmunk?)

CZ line of .22LR rifles are of excellent value quality vs. price vise, atleast around here.

Pistol wise, when their a bit older, cant go wrong with the Ruger Mk II, been made for over 50 years and during the time i have worked with weapons, have not seen any major problems with them.

My training is a little different, mine don’t negotiate…… :lifter

I believe Tuuka is referring to the "cricket" .22 rifle for children. He can correct me if I'm wrong.

EDITED... I, too, misread your post which asked for a RIFLE recommendation. Pistol stuff deleted. :o

you gotta be kiddin' me...
 

i see abuse and advice in your present and future...

pistol, a Ruger Mark II makes sense....it is versatile and can be used by a beginner and expert alike...rifles...that's a little more tricky...i bought my sons bolt action Marlins....they were a little big for them when purchased, but they can still use them...i still have the Marlin lever action rifle my dad bought for me 41 years ago....there is a rifle called the Chipmunk....it's .22LR, single shot, bolt action....good to learn on, but not versatile for the long run IMNSHO...

damn, that hurts....

but my biggest advice for you is to let someone here know before you sally forth with your 1-man weapons MTT....help is available...for a reasonable fee...

ah, now for that, i can sell you, at a one-time, good-deal price, a used, but very good Sako Finnbear, left-handed action chambered in .338 Winchester Magnum...works like a charm on racoons, coyotes, moose and lawyers....oops...strike that....and any other vermin you might need to rid yourself of... :D

I used to shoot a LE .22, and a Toz .22. The LE is quite heavy for a 22, and the Toz is quite light and nice to shoot.

I prefer the LE myself.

As for pistols, I second (or third? fourth?) the Ruger Mk. II. I've yet to put hand on a bad one.

But for your purposes, RL, I'd recommend a rifle, and a relatively inexpensive one. For such a thing, I'd vote for a Ruger 10/22 (yes, when it comes to .22s is about the only time I'd vote Ruger). It's relatively cheap, accurate, quite customizable (if you get to that point), and readily available... you can find them everywhere. If you and the kids really get into it, you can upgrade to something premium quality. But for a good rifle at a decent price, that's what I'd say.

RL,

Pistol....I would go with the Ruger MK II. (Like the one in the Pic)

Rifle.....I would go with this one Link

I have a Ruger 10/22 and I WOULD recommend it to most shooters but for beginners I recommend a bolt action because it teachs patients and the importance of single round hits. Kids (and some adults) lose sight of this when shooting a semi-auto rifle because of how easy it is to do follow up shots.

Also you might want to pick up an Air Rifle recoil is near the same as the .22 but if the kid starts flinching because of the noise you can put them on the Air Rifle.....same line of thinking as ball and dummy drills.

HTH

I taught my daughter to shoot with a single action Ruger Blackhawk pistol. After the first six rounds she had tight shot groups. I liked the single action pistol because it required her to refocus her effort after every shot and provided a margin of safety that a semi-automatic doesn't for beginners.


Jack Moroney