22 pistol that takes ammunition that can still be found relatively cheaply. Instead of letting your shooting skills go too stale, then it’s more than worth the time and investment to get a. These days, even rimfire ammo can often cost an arm and a leg. 22 is a great training tool since the ammunition is so cheap. 22LR pistol is excellent for and one of the reasons that I still love them. That’s something that I often lose sight of in the modern, tactically focused shooting world: anyone can just go to the range or into the woods and plink some targets for fun. It’s a small caliber that doesn’t give much recoil and, in the right firearm, can be a world of fun to shoot. While much of the shooting world is all about tactics, self-defense, and hunting, there’s little that I enjoy more than shooting a. Copying the standard 105-degree grip angle of martial pistols like the M1911, Smith & Wesson soon introduced the Model 41 with much the same theory of use in mind. This concept saw the birth of models as the extremely well-made Colt Ace, which looked and felt like Colt’s M1911 but swapped out. Such a concept allowed for student marksmen to learn proper weapon manipulation and nomenclature while practicing their fundamentals such as grip, sight alignment, and trigger squeeze– all while using cheaper ammo that came without the sometimes discouraging recoil of full-house centerfire loads. Full-on Olympic-level pistols by the likes of Anschutz and Volquartsen carry on this story today.īesides target pistols, by the 1930s the notion of using otherwise full-sized combat guns chambered in the “sub-caliber”. Popular, the Woodsman remained in production for over 50 years and saw such competitors as the Walther Olympia/Sportpistole, High Standard Supermatic, and HD series, with some models running counterweighted barrels up to 10-inches in length. Designed by the famed John Moses Browning to be a target pistol from the outset, the base model ran a fixed 6-inch barrel and had a very sharp grip angle, akin to the Luger, to aid in natural point ability.

22 Short even further back– the first semi-auto pistol chambered for the humble little round to hit the commercial market was the Colt Woodsman in 1915. 22LR rimfire cartridge dates to the 1880s– and its parent.

Today we live in what will certainly be looked upon in the future as a Renaissance period of dependable and feature-rich. That’s largely because of their extreme versatility – manufacturers have been able to create rimfire pistols for a wide variety of needs and experience levels. 22LR rounds are some of the most popular in the world.

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