Check this out.

Fifty yards. One hundred and fifty feet.

Targets are US Army fifty foot smallbore practice targets.

The bottom one is a nine shot group. The one round to the left was the very first round fired off of a new trigger I had never used before. The other eight are through the hole to the right, on the bottom target circle. Just under twelve seconds total elapsed time for this group. It would have been under ten, I'm sure, but something happened. Hence the flyer in the other target.

The top target, top hole. Look closely. Not the one in the second ring, but the one halfway off the black circle. What would normally be a very poor shot.

What you see around the hole in the paper is NOT torn paper, fragments of bullet, dirt, grime or grease.

It is a fly.

Or rather, what's left of the fly that landed on the other target while I was shooting the other group. That's why there's only nine rounds in the one group, the fly landed at a different circle on the next paper over halfway through the grouping. I still managed to finish the group in almost no time, popped a fly, and am very happy with the accuracy of the new rifle.

Rimfires CAN be fun and deadly accurate, with the right ammo and know-how. Toldja so!

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Crap. Forgot to attach the picture. Here ya go.

Close range, full auto suppressed .22 with a suppressor firing 1000 rpm, hard to beat as an assassination weapon. Small, concealable, and very quiet. :D

Yea... .22's are much cooler than most people realize, if you build 'em right. Don't need full auto at all. One quick round to the temple. Goes in, doesn't come out. Quiet. Very little identification marks left on the bullet or the casing from the weapon. Very very hard to track down just where it came from, whether the weapon it was fired from or the place it was bought just because there are SO many of them out there. Great assassination weapon. Probably one of the most universal ones available. If that sort of thing was required, legal and recommended, of course. :D

Just check with the Mossad. ;)

Well done. Now, when you can catch a fly in midflight with a set of chopsticks Danielson... :p

Ok so tomorrow is my day off after a super duper shitty weekend of call. Maybe I'll go looking for a new rifle. :D

Hehehe...look here:

gunbroker.com

and just buy one of the 10/22 recievers. There's two available, they run 60 or 70, depending on whether you want the silver or the black.

Otherwise you're just going to buy a complete rifle and throw the stock, trigger group, bolt, barrel and everything else away. All you need is the reciever, and if you want, I'll give you some ideas as to what you should buy to build it. Figure close to a grand if you want the ultimate bad-ass, or you can get by and have a very nice rifle for a few hundred less. :)

Calico machine pistols are .22. Those I understand are awesome weapons. Effective against armor because the rapid firing rate digs holes in the armor.